Comprehensive Immigration Reform?
Conservative efforts at health-care reform are, for the moment, a shambles. Conservative efforts at tax reform are foundering as well, though their pr...
Screen Time vs. Face Time
On August 6, will you and your folks be observing American Family Day around a dinner table, at a neighborhood pool, or on a walk in the park? If so,...
The Trump Budget
Remember President Trump's "terrible" budget cuts? "Promises Little but Pain," warned The New York Times. "Harsh and shortsighted," cried The Washin...
Contract With Republicans
In 1994, after 40 years in the wilderness, Republicans swept both houses of Congress, running on Newt Gingrich’s “Contract With America,” in which the...
America and Optimism
“The present is getting better. The future, not at all.” So begins a recent New York Times article about a Pew study that shows the public adopting a...
ABC Calls ADF a Hate Group
Senator James Lankford (R-OK) sent a letter to the president of ABC News, James Goldston, Monday expressing “serious concern” over an ABC article that...
Trump announces ban on transgender people in U.S. military
Trump bans transgender troops President Trump announced that transgender troops would not be allowed to serve in the military on July 26, reversing t...
A Life Unworthy?
So I just saw Dunkirk. For a review of it as a movie, see Jonathan Leaf’s lovely essay over at SCENES. Leaf says: “This is surely the best Hollywood...
Bipartisan Dishonesty
The story of health care policy this week, this month and for the last decade (at least) has been a tale of partisan folly. But fear not, this isn't a...
The Left’s Hamburger Problem
Josh Barro & Democrats’ ‘Hamburger Problem’: Liberal Judgment Guarantees Political Failure Progressives have a problem: They ladle unto every deci...
Trump Speech and Universalism
Before I address the text of Donald Trump’s speech yesterday in Poland, it’s worth pulling up two quotes from our two previous presidents. These quote...
The Left’s Freakout to Trump Speech
Western values, Judeo-Christian at base but also to some degree influenced by Greco-Roman views on philosophy and politics, are under threat from with...