By: Staff – newsmax.com – December 28, 2018 The partial U.S. government shutdown is likely to continue well into 2019 after House Republicans said Thursday they didn’t plan any votes this week and President Donald Trump said most federal employees losing pay because of the closure are Democrats. There was no sign of any progress toward a plan to fund...

By: Peter Canellos – politico.com – December 25, 2018 The new Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic “On the Basis of Sex” begins grandly, with an all-male chorus singing “Ten Thousand Men of Harvard,” the university’s storied—and flagrantly sexist—fight song. The men sing in that peculiarly reverential tone used for a collegiate alma mater, their creamy tenors caressing every syllable. On the...

By: Andrew C. McCarthy – nationalreview.com – December 22, 2018 Unlike my colleagues, I’ve been a bemused spectator during this week’s Syria follies. As readers of these columns know (see, e.g., here, here, here, here, and here), I believe the United States has less interest in Syria than in the persistence of drought in Burkina Faso. That is why I...

By: Michael Dorstewitz – newsmax.com – December 23, 2018 Opinions vary over how serious a prolonged government shutdown would be. The confusion and misinformation over the shutdown has been rampant. Here are nine myths that have been promoted over the years regarding the possible coming shutdown. Myth 1: It is a Shutdown: If the deadline is missed, the lights of government...

By: Joel B. Pollak – breitbart.com – December 25, 2018 The Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its worst day of Christmas Eve trading ever, falling over 640 points. Analysts blamed Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin for announcing Sunday evening on Twitter that he had “convened individual calls with the CEOs of the nation’s six largest banks” and that he...

By: Cal Thomas – townhall.com – December 20, 2018 Republicans and conservatives dating back at least to Richard Nixon have used the slogan “tough on crime” and its corollary “lock ’em up and throw away the key” as electoral red meat. The problem is what to do when inmates are released with few skills, fewer job prospects and a bleak...

By: RedState – countable.us – December 20, 2018 The last few days have brought twisting news concerning Friday’s federal budget deadline and President Trump’s softline stance on a $5 billion dollar wall appropriation (here, here, and here). But meanwhile, the citizenry is pitching in to get the wall built their own way: a four-day-old GoFundMe campaign created by a triple-amputee...

By: Kevin D. Williamson – nationalreview.com – December 20, 2018 The Trump administration is committing billions of dollars to help Mexico engage in “institutional reform” to help stanch the flow of illegal immigrants from Central America into Mexico. Mexican interior secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero tells the Associated Press that Mexico is sealing off its southern border, and that the laxity...

By: Jordain Carney – thehill.com – December 20, 2018 GOP senators emerged from the closed-door meeting in visible disbelief that President Trump is refusing to sign a seven-week stopgap measure to fund the government that cleared the chamber by a voice vote less than 24 hours ago. Senate GOP leadership appeared confident on Wednesday that Trump would sign the stopgap,...

By: Victor Davis Hanson – nationalreview.com – December 18, 2018 The University’s Scylla and Charybdis The great culture wars on the campuses of the 1980s were largely lost by traditionalists. And the question then became not if but when the liberal arts would die off as a result. What is strange nearly 40 years later is that the apparent outrage...