Mad Dogs & Englishmen -- Episode 236: Crass Majoritarianism

The Obama’s Administration’s FISA Abuse Is a Massive Scandal

By David Harsanyi

Perhaps if Democrats would momentarily shelve their obsession with Donald Trump, they’d comprehend the staggering abuse of power they’re defending these days. Because much of Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing with DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz was jaw-dropping. Horowitz’s ... Read More

NR PLUS Law & the Courts

The Obama’s Administration’s FISA Abuse Is a Massive Scandal

By David Harsanyi

Perhaps if Democrats would momentarily shelve their obsession with Donald Trump, they’d comprehend the staggering abuse of power they’re defending these days. Because much of Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing with DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz was jaw-dropping. Horowitz’s ... Read More

White House

The Damning Inspector General’s Report

By Conrad Black

It is hard to believe that the run-up to the presidential-election year has plumbed such a depth of farcical degradation. It must be that Trump’s influence has contributed to unserious responses, but he can’t be blamed for the unutterable nonsense of his opponents and the straight men of the political class ... Read More

White House

The Damning Inspector General’s Report

By Conrad Black

It is hard to believe that the run-up to the presidential-election year has plumbed such a depth of farcical degradation. It must be that Trump’s influence has contributed to unserious responses, but he can’t be blamed for the unutterable nonsense of his opponents and the straight men of the political class ... Read More

Video

AOC’s District Poll Numbers Are Bad

According to a Quinnipiac poll, 36 percent of respondents had an unfavorable view of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Read More

Video

AOC’s District Poll Numbers Are Bad

According to a Quinnipiac poll, 36 percent of respondents had an unfavorable view of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Read More

Film & TV

The Shocking Right-Wing Tinge of Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood

By Kyle Smith

Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood is steeped in an element critics love: It celebrates movies, thus validating the lives of those who spend inordinate amounts of time watching them. So many critics love this aspect of Tarantino’s latest that they missed an equally important factor: It ... Read More

Film & TV

The Shocking Right-Wing Tinge of Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood

By Kyle Smith

Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood is steeped in an element critics love: It celebrates movies, thus validating the lives of those who spend inordinate amounts of time watching them. So many critics love this aspect of Tarantino’s latest that they missed an equally important factor: It ... Read More

Elections

Diversity Panic Hits the Democratic Field

By Jonah Goldberg

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An Asian guy, two black guys, three white women (one of whom spent much of her life claiming to be Native American), a Pacific Islander woman, a gay guy, a Hispanic guy, two elderly Caucasian Jews (one a billionaire, the other a socialist), a self-styled Irishman, and a ... Read More

Elections

Diversity Panic Hits the Democratic Field

By Jonah Goldberg

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An Asian guy, two black guys, three white women (one of whom spent much of her life claiming to be Native American), a Pacific Islander woman, a gay guy, a Hispanic guy, two elderly Caucasian Jews (one a billionaire, the other a socialist), a self-styled Irishman, and a ... Read More

White House

The House Impeachment Hearings Failed to Move Public Opinion

By Jim Geraghty

Right now, in the FiveThirtyEight aggregation of polls about impeachment, 47.3 percent of respondents support the removal of President Trump from office, and 45.9 percent oppose his removal. That's about where the numbers have been since early October. Support for removal has gone as high as 48.4 percent and as ... Read More

White House

The House Impeachment Hearings Failed to Move Public Opinion

By Jim Geraghty

Right now, in the FiveThirtyEight aggregation of polls about impeachment, 47.3 percent of respondents support the removal of President Trump from office, and 45.9 percent oppose his removal. That's about where the numbers have been since early October. Support for removal has gone as high as 48.4 percent and as ... Read More

World

The U.K. Elections Were the Real Second Referendum

By The Editors

In the end, it wasn’t close at all. Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party met a fate to which it has been accustomed for most of the last half-century. Once again, the British roundly rejected socialism. Boris Johnson and his conservatives will form the next British government. This was no slight rejection. Labour ... Read More

World

The U.K. Elections Were the Real Second Referendum

By The Editors

In the end, it wasn’t close at all. Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party met a fate to which it has been accustomed for most of the last half-century. Once again, the British roundly rejected socialism. Boris Johnson and his conservatives will form the next British government. This was no slight rejection. Labour ... Read More

World

Well . . . .

By Andrew Stuttaford

So much for my prophecies of doom. Britain's Conservatives won, and they won with a very healthy parliamentary majority, breaking through Labour’s “red wall” across the industrial (and post-industrial) Midlands and the North. The BBC: Leave-voting former mining towns like Workington, which was seen as ... Read More

World

Well . . . .

By Andrew Stuttaford

So much for my prophecies of doom. Britain's Conservatives won, and they won with a very healthy parliamentary majority, breaking through Labour’s “red wall” across the industrial (and post-industrial) Midlands and the North. The BBC: Leave-voting former mining towns like Workington, which was seen as ... Read More

World

Conservatives Set to Win British Elections by Wide Margin, Exit Poll Shows

By Zachary Evans

Conservatives are expected to take a wide majority of the vote in the British national elections, according to an exit poll conducted for the BBC, ITV, and Sky News. The exit poll predicts Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Tories will win 368 seats in Parliament, an increase of 50 from the 2017 election. The ... Read More

World

Conservatives Set to Win British Elections by Wide Margin, Exit Poll Shows

By Zachary Evans

Conservatives are expected to take a wide majority of the vote in the British national elections, according to an exit poll conducted for the BBC, ITV, and Sky News. The exit poll predicts Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Tories will win 368 seats in Parliament, an increase of 50 from the 2017 election. The ... Read More

Politics & Policy

Democrats Aren’t Interested in Talking about Trump’s ‘Crimes’ Anymore

By David Harsanyi

The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake points out that Republicans have adopted a new line of defense during the impeachment hearings: Unlike former president Bill Clinton, the GOP argues, Donald Trump won't be cited for an actual crime. A number of Democrats made a big show of offering their colleagues a civics ... Read More

Politics & Policy

Democrats Aren’t Interested in Talking about Trump’s ‘Crimes’ Anymore

By David Harsanyi

The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake points out that Republicans have adopted a new line of defense during the impeachment hearings: Unlike former president Bill Clinton, the GOP argues, Donald Trump won't be cited for an actual crime. A number of Democrats made a big show of offering their colleagues a civics ... Read More

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