Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. This man began life as an illiterate slave — nearly all slave owners prevented slaves from learning to read — and rose from slavery to become, along with Abraham Lincoln, the greatest orator of his time, and one of the wisest and most eloquent writers in American history.

Health authorities and policymakers squandered public trust by lying to the American people.

By: David Zimmermann & Audrey Fahlberg – nationalreview.com – October 3, 2023 The House narrowly voted Tuesday afternoon to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.), with Democrats joining a small group of Republican rebels to vacate the speaker’s chair for the first time in history. The vote passed 216-210 with the support of Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, who introduced...

By: Dan McLaughlin – nationalreview.com – October 2, 2023 The past month has not exactly been the finest hour for Congress. Sure, the institution itself has clanked along and somehow managed to avert a government shutdown. But its members have showcased a really astonishing variety of failures to conform to the most basic standards of behavior. These people seemingly don’t...

By: Andy Kessler – wsj.com – October 1, 2023 I first got to know author Michael Lewis, then of “Liar’s Poker” fame, when in the mid-1990s I took him around Silicon Valley in an old beat-up convertible. I told stories and showed him where the first integrated circuit and microprocessor were invented, plus Xerox Parc and its beanbag chairs, Hewlett...

By: Andrew Stuttaford – nationalreview.com – September 28, 2023 A hamstrung green economy would mean a worse future The industrial revolution is not yet canceled, but it has become “problematic.” When delegates arrived in Glasgow, Scotland, for Conference of the Parties 26, the 2021 edition of the U.N.’s climate jamboree, Britain’s then–prime minister, Boris Johnson, welcomed them with a speech in...

Will Nikki Haley break out of the primary pack, and is this Ron DeSantis’ last chance? Wednesday’s debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library may be the most important debate of the 2023 Republican presidential nomination process.

By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – September 27, 2023 On the menu today: There is another Trumpless Republican presidential debate tonight, and you’re forgiven if you’re less than trembling with excitement and anticipation. The program begins at 9 p.m. Eastern, airing on Fox News Channel and Fox Business, as well as a Spanish-language feed airing on Univision. I think the world...

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – September 25, 2023 There are bad vice-presidential picks, and then there’s Kamala Harris. In different circumstances, she might have been a run-of-the-mill, underwhelming choice, but present circumstances have made Biden’s choice much more momentous. In fact, it ranks as the worst VP pick in half a century, and easily one of the worst picks...

The left and its comrades in the MSM and judiciary have been dismissing all evidence of significant election fraud, coming up with excuse after excuse to justify every single anomaly, even though there are hundreds of them. Despite the fact the anomalies in 2020 and 2022 all went against Republicans, favoring Democrats, which violates the law of large numbers, they...