By: Wilfred Reilly – nationalreview.com – May 10, 2023 It tracks closely with the broader narrative underlying the entire Black Lives Matter movement. DURING a street-canvassing job in college, I was once involved in a fight with Chicago’s Michigan Avenue Tin Man. While setting up positions for the guys on an outdoor sales/fundraising team, as a “field manager” back in...

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – May 8, 2023 There’s a school of thought that believes that every instrument that makes a sound is a dog whistle. The MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan provided a remarkably telling example of this perspective a week or so ago when he objected to Bill Maher’s talking about the problem of murders in Chicago in...

President Joe Biden was born on Nov. 20, 1942. That has been a well-known fact, or at least a widely available fact, since Biden entered national politics a half-century ago. The fact that Biden is 80 years old now, that he will be 82 when the next presidential term begins, and that he will be 86 when that term ends...

By: Gage Klipper – dailycaller.com – May 8, 2023 Last week the Biden administration scrambled to prepare for the new influx of migrants after Title 42 expires this Thursday. Title 42 was enacted in the early days of the pandemic under Trump and allowed Border Patrol agents to turn away migrants on the basis that they might be infected with...

By: David French – nytimes.com – May 7, 2023 On April 25, the far-right network Newsmax hosted a fascinating and revealing conversation about Tucker Carlson with Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, one of America’s leading Christian conservative advocacy organizations. Perkins scorned Fox News’s decision to fire Carlson, and — incredibly — also attacked Fox’s decision to fire Bill O’Reilly....

By: Becket Adams – nationalreview.com – May 7, 2023 On the last Saturday in April, before a rapt crowd of cheering journalists and B-list celebrities, President Biden declared the American press an indispensable institution, necessary to the very survival of the republic. “The free press is a pillar — maybe the pillar — of a free society, not the enemy,”...

Reports of the death of the Republican Party continue to be premature. You’ve heard the litany, often from reporters and commentators who never liked Republicans and, lately, from others who can’t stomach former President Donald Trump.

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – May 7, 2023 Anyone who lives in a major urban area routinely encounters someone like Jordan Neely — a mentally ill person who needs help, isn’t getting it, and, at best, lives at the margins and, at worst, is a threat to himself and everyone around him. Neely was a product of our urban...

By: Tommy Tuberville – wsj.com – May 4, 2023 Contrast that with China’s military surge. The Pentagon’s most recent China Military Power report shows that China’s army, navy and space assets are accelerating at a pace one American four-star admiral called “breathtaking.” China already has the largest navy in the world and it’s getting larger. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s office...

A bill that would require display of the Ten Commandments in all public classrooms appears on track to be heard by the Texas House.