Three Martini Lunch: Voting against the U.N.

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January 6, 2017 9:08 PM

Today’s Martinis: A bipartisan House vote slams UN’s resolution against Israel and the Obama administration, a battle over top Pentagon appointments, and Matthew Dowd may challenge Texas Senator Ted Cruz. Discuss this podcast at Ricochet.

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Religion

A Liberal Law Professor Explains Why the Equality Act Would ‘Crush’ Religious Dissenters

By John McCormack

Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia, has been a longtime supporter of same-sex marriage. What’s made him unusual is that in recent years he’s been trying to make the case to liberals that “same-sex marriage and religious liberty can co-exist.” In 2017 he co-authored an article ... Read More

Elections

Bill de Blasio, the Sponge of Woke Platitudes

By Jonah Goldberg

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Video

Attorney General William Barr Makes First Ruling Against Asylum Seekers

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Culture

Cold Brew’s Insidious Hegemony

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Soon, many parts of the United States will be unbearably hot. Texans and Arizonans will be able to bake cookies on their car dashboards; the garbage on the streets of New York will be especially pungent; Washington will not only figuratively be a swamp. And all across America, coffee consumers will turn their ... Read More

National Security & Defense

The Warmonger Canard

By Matthew Continetti

Whatever the opposite of a rush to war is — a crawl to peace, maybe — America is in the middle of one. Since May 5, when John Bolton announced the accelerated deployment of the Abraham Lincoln carrier group to the Persian Gulf in response to intelligence of a possible Iranian attack, the press has been aflame ... Read More

Politics & Policy

In Missouri, Another Supermajority Passes Another Heartbeat Bill

By David French

The momentum for heartbeat bills is not slowing down. After a House of Representatives vote this afternoon, Missouri is now set to be the sixth state this year to pass either a heartbeat bill or even stricter legislation in a direct frontal assault on Roe. And once again, the law passed through the legislature by ... Read More

Immigration

The Merit of Merit-Based Immigration

By Kevin D. Williamson

Having chain-migrated his way into the White House and a little bit of political power, Donald Trump’s son-in-law is shopping around an immigration plan. And if you can get past the hilarious juxtaposition of the words “merit-based” and “Jared Kushner,” it’s a pretty good one. As things stand, the ... Read More

Elections

Should We Be Worried About Candidates Accepting Donations from ‘Russophiles’?

By Jim Geraghty

An odd turn of affairs: The RNC touted a Daily Beast story that reported “Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination is being underwritten by some of the nation’s leading Russophiles.” Not donations from Russians, mind you, but a couple thousand dollars in donations ... Read More

NR Webathon

We’ve Had Bill Barr’s Back

By Rich Lowry

One of the more dismaying features of the national political debate lately is how casually and cynically Attorney General Bill Barr has been smeared. He is routinely compared to Roy Cohn on a cable-TV program that prides itself on assembling the most thoughtful and plugged-in political analysts and ... Read More

Film & TV

Game of Thrones: A Father’s Legacy Endures

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Warning! If you don't want to read any spoilers from last night's series finale of Game of Thrones, stop reading. Right now. There is a lot to unpack about the Thrones finale, and I fully understand many of the criticisms I read on Twitter and elsewhere. Yes, the show was compressed. Yes, there were moments ... Read More