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If You Doubt Hillary Is the Candidate of Yesterday, Remember Her Iraq War Vote
Jonah Goldberg 7 hours ago

The Editors 3 hours ago
Hillary's Authentic Inauthenticity
Charles Krauthammer 15 hours ago
See Hillary ride in a van! Watch her meet everyday Americans! Witness her ordering a burrito bowl at Chipotle! Which she did wearing shades, as did her chief aide Huma Abedin, yielding security-camera pictures that made them look (to borrow
Maggie Gallagher 3 hours ago
Senator Marco Rubio, one of our most attractive and charismatic leaders in the rising generation, just announced he’s running for president. So naturally he’s being peppered with the one question uppermost in the minds of American voters: What
David Harsanyi 7 hours ago
Senator Marco Rubio announced his candidacy for president of the United States at the Freedom Tower in Miami on Monday, highlighting his family’s hardscrabble immigrant roots and embracing traditional values but also vowing to usher in a “new American
Michael Barone 7 hours ago

Presidents are inevitably shaped by the circumstances in which they campaign for — and come into — office. In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt called for “bold, persistent experimentation” and followed through once in office. Had Roosevelt run in another year, or had
Five Hillary-at-Chipotle Think Pieces That Maybe Read Too Much Into Hillary at Chipotle
Katherine Timpf 16 hours ago

Hillary Clinton’s Chipotle trip has inspired a tidal wave of think pieces exploring every detail and possible interpretation of the presumptive nominee’s fast-casual lunch. Here are five in particular that put way, way more thought into someone eating
Hillary at Chipotle
Kevin D. Williamson 19 hours ago

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s immigrant grandparents turn out not to have been immigrants, just as Elizabeth Warren’s Indian ancestors turn out not to have been Indians, though Mrs. Clinton was one-quarter truthful about her ancestry, which is a hell
John Fund 3 hours ago

This year’s first big confrontation between the GOP establishment and the party’s restless grassroots will be held this summer in an Illinois special-election primary. The smart money is betting on the establishment’s choice, but dissatisfaction with attempts
Mona Charen 7 hours ago

Two relatively recent photos of Barack Obama with foreign leaders reveal much about his deep-dyed leftism. The first features President Obama and democratically-elected prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of one of America’s most loyal friends. Obama looks strained. His
Robert Bryce 3 hours ago

It’s a manifesto smackdown, a fight among the members of the green Left for the intellectual and moral high ground. It’s also a fight that reflects the growing schism within American environmentalism. On one side are the pro-energy,
Krauthammer's Take: 'Al-Qaeda Probably Stronger than It's Ever Been'
NR Staff 12 hours ago

THE CORNER: Last week the vice president dismissed critics of American policy in the Middle East, those who were saying the Islamic State was on the rise and Iraq was falling to sectarian violence.
Hillary's Authentic Inauthenticity
Charles Krauthammer 15 hours ago
See Hillary ride in a van! Watch her meet everyday Americans! Witness her ordering a burrito bowl at Chipotle! Which she did wearing shades, as did her chief aide Huma Abedin, yielding security-camera pictures that made them look (to borrow
If You Doubt Hillary Is the Candidate of Yesterday, Remember Her Iraq War Vote
Jonah Goldberg 7 hours ago
So far, of the declared candidates for president, the only one who voted for the Iraq War is the Democrat. I recently made that observation on Twitter and the response was instructive. I will refrain from reprinting the more piquant
The Editors 3 hours ago
Class warriors on the left argue that the United States should be more like Sweden, and we agree: Senate Republicans should move forward with a plan to repeal the inheritance tax, which the House passed Thursday. #ad#Sweden had an
Maggie Gallagher 3 hours ago

Senator Marco Rubio, one of our most attractive and charismatic leaders in the rising generation, just announced he’s running for president. So naturally he’s being peppered with the one question uppermost in the minds of American voters: What
David Harsanyi 7 hours ago

Senator Marco Rubio announced his candidacy for president of the United States at the Freedom Tower in Miami on Monday, highlighting his family’s hardscrabble immigrant roots and embracing traditional values but also vowing to usher in a “new American
Michael Barone 7 hours ago
Presidents are inevitably shaped by the circumstances in which they campaign for — and come into — office. In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt called for “bold, persistent experimentation” and followed through once in office. Had Roosevelt run in another year, or had
Five Hillary-at-Chipotle Think Pieces That Maybe Read Too Much Into Hillary at Chipotle

Katherine Timpf 16 hours ago
Hillary Clinton’s Chipotle trip has inspired a tidal wave of think pieces exploring every detail and possible interpretation of the presumptive nominee’s fast-casual lunch. Here are five in particular that put way, way more thought into someone eating
Hillary at Chipotle

Kevin D. Williamson 19 hours ago
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s immigrant grandparents turn out not to have been immigrants, just as Elizabeth Warren’s Indian ancestors turn out not to have been Indians, though Mrs. Clinton was one-quarter truthful about her ancestry, which is a hell
John Fund 3 hours ago

This year’s first big confrontation between the GOP establishment and the party’s restless grassroots will be held this summer in an Illinois special-election primary. The smart money is betting on the establishment’s choice, but dissatisfaction with attempts
Mona Charen 7 hours ago

Two relatively recent photos of Barack Obama with foreign leaders reveal much about his deep-dyed leftism. The first features President Obama and democratically-elected prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of one of America’s most loyal friends. Obama looks strained. His
Robert Bryce 3 hours ago

It’s a manifesto smackdown, a fight among the members of the green Left for the intellectual and moral high ground. It’s also a fight that reflects the growing schism within American environmentalism. On one side are the pro-energy,
Krauthammer's Take: 'Al-Qaeda Probably Stronger than It's Ever Been'
NR Staff 12 hours ago

THE CORNER: Last week the vice president dismissed critics of American policy in the Middle East, those who were saying the Islamic State was on the rise and Iraq was falling to sectarian violence.
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Today’s Big Fight in the Big Easy
Another round in the immigration courtroom battle happens today.
Hans A. von Spakovsky 7 hours ago
Today, April 17, the immigration lawsuit filed by 26 states against the administration goes to the next level. The Fifth Circuit will hear oral arguments on the government’s request for an emergency stay of the injunction issued on February 16 by Judge
Defending Abortion by Dismemberment Isn’t Easy

Ian Tuttle 12 hours ago
Give Dahlia Lithwick credit: She abides by her convictions — namely, her conviction that killing a living unborn child by dismembering it in the womb should be legal. That is her argument today at Slate, where she opines that the
Death as a Taxable Event

Rich Lowry 7 hours ago
Prepare for the rise of the landed nobility. Democracy as we’ve known it was nice while it lasted, but House Republicans have signaled the beginning of its end with a vote to repeal the estate tax. #ad#Or so
How Obamacare Neglects the Poor

Vann Ellison 3 hours ago
The Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that states were allowed to decide for themselves whether or not to expand Medicaid under Obamacare. The question of expanding Medicaid in Florida has been a long-running political fight between the GOP-led state house and
Senator Sessions Is Right on Immigration

The Editors April 16, 2015
Writing last week in the Washington Post, Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) suggested: “It is time for an honest discussion of immigration.” This week, the New York Times editorial board proved him right. Relying on a rebuttal from the libertarian
Is Race Following Gender in Becoming a ‘Fluid’ Identity Construct?

Victor Davis Hanson April 16, 2015
Not long ago, the New York Times uncovered the artifact that Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush had once listed himself as “Hispanic” on a Florida voter-registration form. #ad#Bush is married to a Mexican American. He lived for a number
Poisoning the Immigration Debate
Mark Krikorian April 16, 2015

It’s hard to take New York Times editorials seriously, given their parodic parochialism and cluelessness. Rebutting one feels almost like writing a non-ironic letter to the editor of The Onion. Its commentary on immigration is probably worse than on
Sarah Silverman Admits She Made Up a Wage-Gap Story, Then Calls Critics ‘Maniacs’ Sarah Silverman Admits She Made Up Wage-Gap Story
Katherine Timpf April 15, 2015

Comedian Sarah Silverman admitted that a story she told about wage discrimination (in which she even went so far as to call out a specific employer by name) was a lie — and then said people who might consider her lie
Don't Go to Pot
NR Interview April 16, 2015

The “effort to legalize marijuana needs to be addressed head on,” former “drug czar” and secretary of education William J. Bennett and Robert A. White, a former assistant U.S. attorney in New Jersey, write in Going to Pot: Why
The curious case of the missing fatwa, &c. Impromptus: The curious case of the missing fatwa, &c.
Jay Nordlinger April 16, 2015

Obama and Khamenei; Bill and Hill; Cotton and Lincoln; renditions of our national anthem; and more
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David Harsanyi 7 hours ago
Senator Marco Rubio announced his candidacy for president of the United States at the Freedom Tower in Miami on Monday, highlighting his family’s hardscrabble immigrant roots and embracing traditional values but also vowing to usher in a “new American
Michael Barone 7 hours ago
Presidents are inevitably shaped by the circumstances in which they campaign for — and come into — office. In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt called for “bold, persistent experimentation” and followed through once in office. Had Roosevelt run in another year, or had
If You Doubt Hillary Is the Candidate of Yesterday, Remember Her Iraq War Vote

Jonah Goldberg 7 hours ago
So far, of the declared candidates for president, the only one who voted for the Iraq War is the Democrat. I recently made that observation on Twitter and the response was instructive. I will refrain from reprinting the more piquant
Hillary's 'Scooby' Tour Is Giving Sarah Palin Ideas . . .

Joel Gehrke 14 hours ago
Sarah Palin suggested today that Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign kickoff is an imitation of the bus tour that the former vice presidential candidate conducted while mulling a bid of her own before the 2012 election cycle. “This Hillary Scooby-Doo Tour
Hillary's Authentic Inauthenticity

Charles Krauthammer 15 hours ago
See Hillary ride in a van! Watch her meet everyday Americans! Witness her ordering a burrito bowl at Chipotle! Which she did wearing shades, as did her chief aide Huma Abedin, yielding security-camera pictures that made them look (to borrow
Five Hillary-at-Chipotle Think Pieces That Maybe Read Too Much Into Hillary at Chipotle

Katherine Timpf 16 hours ago
Hillary Clinton’s Chipotle trip has inspired a tidal wave of think pieces exploring every detail and possible interpretation of the presumptive nominee’s fast-casual lunch. Here are five in particular that put way, way more thought into someone eating
Hillary at Chipotle
Kevin D. Williamson 19 hours ago

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s immigrant grandparents turn out not to have been immigrants, just as Elizabeth Warren’s Indian ancestors turn out not to have been Indians, though Mrs. Clinton was one-quarter truthful about her ancestry, which is a hell
Cruz, Paul, and Rubio All Boast Pro-Growth Agendas
David McIntosh April 16, 2015

The year 2016 is shaping up to be a great one for Republicans. For the first time in 15 years the party is fielding several candidates who can lead the party and the country into the future. They will define the principles
Cruz, Paul, and Rubio Get Qualified Thumbs-Up from Club for Growth
Brendan Bordelon April 16, 2015

As the 2016 presidential-primary season kicks off, a vast array of GOP candidates and a newly assertive Republican electorate have economic conservatives feeling spoiled for choice. That’s the message, at least, conveyed by the Club for Growth’s new “white
Hillary's Attempt at an Elizabeth Warren Impression Isn't Going Well Hillary’s Elizabeth Warren Impression Isn’t Going Well
Charles C. W. Cooke April 15, 2015

The early days of American political campaigns are always marked by a certain pantomime absurdity, but one could be forgiven nevertheless for wondering whether Hillary Clinton’s confused, staccato launch has been especially daffy. For an event that has been
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HIllary Hits the Road

Lincoln’s Assassination

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Defending America

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Wonky Town: The Rubio Bump
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The Khamenei Fatwa Hoax Is Absurd on its Face
Andrew C. McCarthy 16 hours ago
THE CORNER: The fatwa does not exist. Yet, with a dearth of tire-kicking that is remarkable even by the lowly standards of our Obama-friendly media, it has repeatedly been cited by top administration officials, including the president, Secretary of State
Should Christians Vote for Hillary Clinton?

David French April 15, 2015
THE CORNER: Clinton was a dishonest first lady, a middling senator, and a failed secretary of state. That is hardly the resume of a commander-in-chief. Clinton’s record should dismay Americans of all faiths, or no faith at all.
Romancing Raúl

Ian Tuttle 17 hours ago
THE CORNER: Given the plight of Antúnez and other Cuban dissidents, it is fittingly ironic that the following, titled “ Cuba’s Evolutionary,” should appear today.
Krauthammer's Take: 'Al-Qaeda Probably Stronger than It's Ever Been'

NR Staff 12 hours ago
THE CORNER: Last week the vice president dismissed critics of American policy in the Middle East, those who were saying the Islamic State was on the rise and Iraq was falling to sectarian violence.
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Michael Barone
@michaelbarone

Presidents are inevitably shaped by the circumstances in which they campaign for — and come into — office. In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt called for “bold, persistent experimentation” and followed through once ...
Mona Charen
@monachareneppc

Two relatively recent photos of Barack Obama with foreign leaders reveal much about his deep-dyed leftism. The first features President Obama and democratically-elected prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of one ...
Charles Krauthammer
@krauthhammer

Hillary's Authentic Inauthenticity

See Hillary ride in a van! Watch her meet everyday Americans! Witness her ordering a burrito bowl at Chipotle! Which she did wearing shades, as did her chief aide Huma ...
George Will
@georgewillf

The ‘Sustainability’ Craze Is Nothing but an Empty Pose

Syracuse University alumni are new additions to the lengthening list of persons who can stop contributing to their alma maters. The university has succumbed — after, one suspects, not much ...
Dennis Prager
@dennisprager

Hillary Clinton’s Candidacy Is Depressing

Hillary Clinton has announced that she is running to be the next President of the United States. What her likely nomination says about the Democratic party and tens of millions ...
Thomas Sowell
@thomassowell

Don’t Let Science Be Settled with Political Intimidation

How long will this country remain free? Probably only as long as the American people value their freedom enough to defend it. But how many people today can stop looking ...
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A Place for Conscience
Kevin D. Williamson -238583 seconds ago

They call themselves the “New Civil Rights Movement.” In reality, that’s not a movement, but a group blog edited by David Badash, father of the Great Nationwide Kiss-In, a gay-rights protest. But the name speaks to an ambition, and
Jeb, Scott, and the Rest
Ramesh Ponnuru -238578 seconds ago

As of late March, Jeb Bush and Scott Walker were tied in national polls of Republicans (judging from the averages at RealClearPolitics). They are neck-and-neck in New Hampshire; Walker leads in Iowa and Bush in South Carolina. It’s a
Betting on India’s Economy
Sadanand Dhume -238580 seconds ago

With China slowing, Brazil stagnating, and Russia tanking, India has once again emerged as a bright economic spot in the developing world. A business-friendly new Indian government, a windfall from lower global oil prices, and robust new growth figures have
The Anti-Scold
Charles C. W. Cooke -238582 seconds ago

The renegade British television presenter Jeremy Clarkson has been fired from his wildly popular automotive show, Top Gear, and his fans are not happy. A petition, hosted by Change.org, attracted more than a million signatures in under two weeks,
Another Win for Right-To-Work
John J. Miller -238584 seconds ago

When Badger Meter ordered $2.5 million in equipment last summer to start a new line of water-meter products, CEO Rich Meeusen had to pick its destination: Mexico or Milwaukee? “We were on the fence about where to go,” says Meeusen, who
Upper Crust
Florence King -238589 seconds ago

After more than two centuries as one of New York’s founding clans, the Roosevelts discovered that their family tree had so many branches that a woman could marry within the fold without changing her maiden name. Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt
Terror in Plain Sight
Ross Douthat -238594 seconds ago

The modern horror movie was born in the darkness of the 1970s, and no matter how many incarnations it goes through — sincere and ironic, restrained and gore-addled — it keeps circling back to the same places, tropes, images, and