It’s a good bet the president didn’t want this December New York Times headline: “Health Care Law Ruled Unconstitutional.”
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The Prosecution of Count Dankula
The problem with defending free speech is that you never get to defend it on exactly the territory you hoped for. Of course, one keeps one’s fingers crossed that the next defense of free speech will be mounted against an attempt to ban Areopagitica or burn all extant copies of A la recherché du temps perdu. ...
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Yes, California Is on the Verge of Banning Some Christian Books, Here’s How
Late last week, I wrote an article that caused a bit of a furious reaction in social-justice Twitter. Activists claimed I was lying, arguing in bad faith, and/or exaggerating the effect of California’s AB 2943, a bill that purports to declare “sexual orientation change efforts” to be an “unlawful business ...
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Media Declares ‘End of Internet as We Know It’ after Net-Neutrality Repeal
Media outlets have raised the alarm about the repeal of net neutrality, which took effect on Monday.
Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai initially introduced the Restoring Internet Freedom Order, which repeals the Obama-era Open Internet Order net-neutrality rules. It was passed by a vote of ...
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America Owes Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein a Debt of Thanks
We live in an era when political role models are hard to find, integrity is at a premium, and it’s exceedingly difficult to find people or institutions who seem willing to put country over party, to set aside the powerful pull of tribalism and self-interest and fulfill their oaths of office. In the aftermath of ...
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Maybe the British Royal Family Isn’t So Silly After All
Like any good American, I have long enjoyed a chuckle at the expense of the British for keeping around an archaic monarchy, even while respecting some of the individual royals, especially Queen Elizabeth. The American popular fascination with the British royals is itself a kind of pining for our own monarchy, and ...
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Building a National American Conservatism
It seems like just yesterday that I undertook my first campaign for public office. I knocked on virtually every door in the small city of West Miami in my bid to be elected to its city commission. It was during that campaign, on the front porches and in the living rooms of the families I would ultimately ...
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Gorsuch Strikes a Blow against the Administrative State
Last week, one week after the first anniversary of Neil Gorsuch's ascension to the Supreme Court, he delivered an opinion that was excellent as it pertained to the case at issue and momentous in its implications pertaining to the institutional tangle known as the administrative state. If he can persuade his ...
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McCabe: Leaking and Lying Obscure the Real Collusion
The Justice Department’s inspector general has referred Andrew McCabe to the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., for a possible false-statements prosecution. It was big news this week. But the story of how the FBI’s former deputy director lied to investigators, repeatedly, is mainly of interest to ...
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Ezra Klein’s Intellectual Demagoguery
Ezra Klein wants you to know that he doesn’t think Sam Harris is a racist. “I’m not here to say you’re racist, I don’t think you are,” Klein explains in a two-hour debate with Harris on the latter’s podcast, Waking Up. “We have not called you one.” No, not at all. Klein is telling the truth ...
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