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  • Progressives Warn That John Fetterman Suffers from Acute Pro-Israel-itis

    05/02/2025 11:40:36 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 13 replies
    NRO ^ | 2 May 2025 | Noah Rothman
    New York Magazine’s Ben Terris saved the most important part of his extensive profile of Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman for last: “I didn’t find any indication that the stroke had left him cognitively impaired,” he wrote in its concluding paragraphs. That is not the impression that a reader would have gathered from the worried former Fetterman staffers, jilted progressive activists, and anecdotes detailing the senator’s declining mental health that preceded this observation. The piece paints a portrait of a broken man, a shadow of his former self, plagued by depression and demented episodes. None of that was especially apparent to...
  • Trump Tests the True Limits of Presidential Power

    04/15/2025 4:04:31 AM PDT · by karpov · 40 replies
    National Review ^ | April 15, 2025 | Jeffrey Blehar
    ... In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Garcia to America from El Salvador so that his claims can be adjudicated. (He currently sits there under an agreement negotiated by the Trump administration with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele for the use of his notoriously brutal mega-prisons to house potential deportees.) This weekend the Trump administration refused, claiming, on stunningly disingenuous logic, that because Garcia had been dumped quickly into El Salvador he was now beyond American jurisdiction. (“He is detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador.”) Why not...
  • Mark Steyn’s Reversal of Fortune: A torturous decade-plus-long court case comes closer to a fair resolution

    03/28/2025 8:56:02 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 17 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 03/28/2025 | Rael Jean Isaac
    What a difference a year makes. A year ago, Michael Mann was riding high after winning his 12-year-old lawsuit against journalist and pundit Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg over comments sharply critical of Mann’s famed “hockey stick” graph. That graph purported to demonstrate a sharp rise in global temperature following industrialization, supposedly caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The offending comments were by Steyn in a National Review blog post and by Simberg in a Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) blog post. Mann brought suit against all four, but in 2021 National Review and CEI won “summary judgment” (a peculiar term...
  • The Signal App Is Not Authorized for Classified Communications

    03/28/2025 8:02:32 AM PDT · by Mariner · 133 replies
    National Review ^ | March 27th, 2025 | By Andrew C. McCarthy
    What’s a good analogy for Signal, the commercial, publicly available encryption app?Have you ever watched a public hearing of the Senate or House Intelligence Committee? It happens almost every time: A witness from one of our intelligence agencies is asked a question that, whether the interrogating lawmaker realizes it or not, calls for an answer that includes national defense information — in the main, classified intelligence.... So what happens next is a commonplace: The agency official will tell the panel that he or she cannot answer the question in public, but may be willing to address the matter in the...
  • Ukraine Is Not the Problem

    02/20/2025 7:07:42 AM PST · by karpov · 73 replies
    National Review ^ | February 20, 2025 | The Editors
    Predictably enough, the Ukrainian government has objected to its exclusion from the peace talks Trump administration officials held with their Russian counterparts this week in Riyadh and, for its trouble, is getting slammed by what is supposed to be its ally, the United States. In breathtaking remarks to reporters, President Trump poured contempt on Ukraine for its frustration. “But today I heard, ‘Oh, well, we weren’t invited.’ Well, you’ve been there for three years,” Trump said of Russia’s second invasion of Ukraine. “You should’ve ended it in three years. You should have never started it. You could have made a...
  • Andrew McCarthy is out with his 3rd of 7 consecutive articles criticizing AG Bondi and her efforts to depoliticize the DOJ.

    02/17/2025 12:54:39 PM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 47 replies
    Julie Kelly on Twitter X ^ | February 17, 2025 | Julie Kelly
    Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2 Andrew McCarthy is out with his 3rd of 7 consecutive articles criticizing AG Bondi and her efforts to depoliticize the DOJ. In today's installment, McCarthy describes Bondi's "Weaponization Working Group" as "Orwellian." McCarthy blasts Bondi for naming names in her working group memo--Jack Smith and Leticia James specifically--and says that's not how law enforcement works. He even condemns Bondi for naming James in a civil suit brought against New York for refusing to enforce federal immigration law.
  • Three Activists Charged with Burning-Cross KKK Hoax to Benefit Black Mayoral Candidate

    11/15/2024 4:16:22 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 21 replies
    National Review ^ | 14 Nov, 2024 | Ryan Mills
    Local news outlets in Colorado Springs received a shocking email in late April of last year: A photo and video of a burning cross and a campaign sign of mayoral candidate Yemi Mobolade, a native of Nigeria, defaced with the N-word in red spray paint. “What has this city come to?!” read the email, signed only by “Citizens of Colorado Springs.” This, according to the email, was “another one of their tactics to keep Yemi out.” The writer then opined on who was likely behind the racist message: supporters of Mobolade’s opponent, center-right Republican Wayne Williams. “Candidate Wayne Williams is...
  • Leftists cry ‘Islamophobia’ over satirical cartoon depicting Rashida Tlaib with exploding pager

    09/25/2024 2:42:15 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 35 replies
    BPR ^ | September 21, 2024 | Chris Donaldson
    Leftists are losing their minds over a cartoon depicting “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) with an exploding pager, howling “Islamophobia” over the satirical depiction of the virulently antisemitic lawmaker. In what is being described as an “ingenious” operation attributed to Israeli intelligence, the pagers belonging to members of the Hezbollah terror organization were remotely detonated after a message was sent to the devices which aren’t as easily trackable as cellphones, causing a major disruption to the network that left hundreds badly wounded and reportedly claimed at least 20 lives. The cartoon which portrays the Muslim Michigan bomb thrower sitting...
  • Pennsylvania Democrat Bob Casey Runs an Ad Boasting He ‘Bucked Biden’ and ‘Sided with Trump’

    10/18/2024 7:17:00 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 26 replies
    National Review ^ | 10/18/2024 | Jim Geraghty
    A new ad for Pennsylvania Democratic senator Bob Casey features a married couple with different politics but who find common ground on the incumbent senator. "On politics, we just don’t agree — except for Bob Casey. He’s independent. That’s right! Casey’s leading the effort to stop corporate greed-flation and price gouging. Casey bucked Biden to protect fracking and he sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China to stop them from cheating." First, don’t buy the spin that Bob Casey is some independent maverick; he voted with the Biden administration’s position 98.5 percent of the time. Second,...
  • Schadenfreude for National Review’s ‘Canceled’ Editor-in-Chief

    09/24/2024 2:43:12 PM PDT · by Angelino97 · 37 replies
    Chronicles ^ | September 23, 2024 | Paul Gottfried
    It seems that Rich Lowry, editor-in-chief of National Review, has been canceled from two speaking engagements. One was at Indiana State University and the other at the Badger Institute, which Lowry describes as “a right-of-center institute in Wisconsin.” This was in response to Lowry appearance on the Megyn Kelly Show where, apparently, he committed a disastrous speaking error when explaining the Haitian migrant problem in Springfield, Ohio. From Lowry’s account, it would seem that he slurred the word “migrant” in pronouncing the phrase “Haitian migrants,” and it sounded to his listeners that he was engaging in a racial insult. Retribution...
  • Cornell hate prof is a stain on the academy — and there are hundreds just like him

    09/17/2024 7:14:05 AM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 9 replies
    The remarkable thing about Russell Rickford is that there is nothing extraordinary about him. The Cornell University prof gained notoriety in the immediate aftermath of Oct. 7 by declaring that he found the terror attack “exhilarating.” Afterward, Rickford apologized for his “horrible choice of words.” After the controversy over his warm words for Oct. 7, Rickford took a “voluntary leave” and is now back in the classroom. What’s outrageous isn’t that he hasn’t been disciplined by the school, but that he fits in so seamlessly. If Rickford, a history professor, went somewhere else to ply his wares, he’d in all...
  • Rich Lowry Says He Didn’t Say the Racial Slur You Heard Him Say on ‘Megyn Kelly’ | Video

    09/17/2024 1:11:32 AM PDT · by wardaddy · 66 replies
    Yahoo News ^ | 9-16-24 | Harris
    Folks online are calling out National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry after he seemingly used a racist slur while discussing the Republican-launched anti-Haitian rhetoric that migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating domesticated animals.
  • Richard Nixon: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    08/12/2024 11:39:30 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 16 replies
    nationalview ^ | 08.11.2024 | Jack Butler
    Fifty years after he resigned the presidency, Richard Nixon is back. At least, some people on the right would like us to believe that he is and that it’s time for conservatives to embrace his legacy wholeheartedly and to reject the stale leftist narratives about Watergate (among other things) that have sullied his reputation. It is necessary to reject the standard left-wing gloss on Nixon. But doing so hardly absolves Nixon of his sins. From a conservative perspective, there was good to the man and his presidency, but also bad — and ugly. Conservatives will only learn the right lessons...
  • Kamala Harris’s Stock Is Overvalued

    07/29/2024 10:25:05 AM PDT · by conservative98 · 35 replies
    NR ^ | July 26, 2024 1:52 PM | NOAH ROTHMAN
    A crash is coming. We find ourselves deep into the irrational-exuberance phase of Kamala Harris’s surprise ascension to her role as presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. All of five full days have elapsed since Joe Biden was dragged unwillingly to the conclusion most Americans came to well over a year ago. Already, Harris’s political star is said by her allies to have eclipsed even Barack Obama’s. “I covered the Clinton campaign, the Women’s March, the anti-Trump resistance, the wave of women in the 2018 midterms,” TIME Magazine correspondent Charlotte Alter asserted, “and the momentum for Harris over the last five days...
  • Biden calls Obama ‘puppet master’ as the White House slips into chaos. *YT vid at link

    07/20/2024 12:30:26 PM PDT · by know.your.why · 32 replies
    Fox News ^ | 07/20/2024
    National Review editor Rich Lowry reacts to the report that 34 Democratic lawmakers are calling for President Biden to exit the race on ‘Fox & Friends Weekend.’ #foxnews
  • The Left has been salivating over this moment for years (remember 2017's "Shakespeare In The Park"?)

    07/13/2024 6:17:35 PM PDT · by martin_fierro · 35 replies
    National Review ^ | 6/9/17 (republished by me) | Kyle Smith
    "har-dee-har-har! just a fictionalization!"
  • The Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump

    07/13/2024 9:42:31 PM PDT · by jeannineinsd · 143 replies
    National Review ^ | 7/13/2024 | The Editors
    The nation escaped an unspeakable tragedy that would have been profoundly destabilizing for the country by perhaps a few centimeters. As it is, what happened in Butler, Pa., is godawful enough. A gunman tried to assassinate former president Donald Trump and grazed his ear with a bullet, while killing one rally-goer and seriously injuring others. This was a heinous act of violence and an attack on American democracy. Trump’s reaction was truly extraordinary and will long be remembered. After Secret Service officers threw themselves on the former president and then picked him up to begin to take him to safety,...
  • Trump May Have Done Too Much Winning Tonight

    06/27/2024 9:05:15 PM PDT · by JOHN ADAMS · 131 replies
    National Review ^ | June 28, 2024 | Michael Brendan Doughterty
    Right now, MSNBC and CNN post-debate panels are openly talking about options for pressuring Biden to withdraw, or party officials conspiring to replace him at the convention anyway. I truly believe that convention drama is usually energizing for a party, not demoralizing. And the selection between Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom would allow Democrats to feel like the party of the future again, rather than a party litigating a recent past that voters hated. If Biden’s bad performance really does lead to his departure from the race, Republicans will miss him.
  • Nikki Haley is still the strongest VP pick

    06/25/2024 2:17:51 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 141 replies
    The Express ^ | JUN 25, 2024 | Rich Lowry
    As far as we know, Nikki Haley isn’t on the short list, nor on the long list. There’s no indication that she’s being considered as Donald Trump’s VP pick, and Trump forcefully smacked down a report in Axios that the campaign was looking at her. She’d still probably be the choice who, more than any other possible pick, would help Trump win in November. By conventional rules, the former South Carolina governor getting the nod would be so obvious as to be completely unremarkable — she’s the runner-up in the nomination fight; she represents a different faction of the party;...
  • Pence rebukes Trump — without mentioning him — on Dobbs anniversary

    06/24/2024 4:23:04 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 26 replies
    Politico ^ | 06/24/2024 04:13 PM EDT | KIERRA FRAZIER
    The former vice president condemned Trump’s positioning on abortion in an op-ed (for the National Review), even as he didn’t mention his one-time boss by name. "We must work to advance the sanctity of life at every level, state and federal," Pence said. | Morry Gash/AP By KIERRA FRAZIER 06/24/2024 04:13 PM EDT Former Vice President Mike Pence revived his call for a nationwide abortion ban on Monday — the two-year anniversary of the landmark Dobbs decision — taking an implicit shot at former President Donald Trump in the process. In an op-ed in the conservative magazine National Review, Pence...