By: Christian Schneider – nationalreview.com – November 10, 2022 Bidding farewell to Beto, Abrams, Crist — really, you can go now. Texas has around 250 miles of border wall with Mexico, but it seems like the state’s most impenetrable barrier is the one keeping Beto O’Rourke out of statewide office. Even though Republicans performed well below expectations on Tuesday night,...

By: Megan McArdle – washingtonpost.com – November 9, 2022 But politics can’t all be reckless cynicism — that’s how you get Trump. As I and other critics pointed out at the time, screaming that Trump poses an existential threat to American democracy falls rather flat if you’re also helping Trumpist candidates get closer to positions of power, where they might be able...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – November 9, 2022 Though the results are split, Republicans are dismayed, and they should be—at themselves. Some 70% of voters Tuesday said they’re unhappy with the state of the nation. With an unpopular President, 8% inflation, falling real incomes, rising crime, and chaos at the border, the GOP should have coasted at least...

By: Jason L. Riley – wsj.com – November 8, 2022 One reason Republicans were projected to make big gains on Election Day is that GOP candidates have highlighted crime, which has risen nationally in recent years and in some big cities has hit elevations not seen since the early 1990s. For anyone paying attention, however, the writing has been on...

After the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade leaked on May 3rd, news reports blamed abortion-related violence over the summer on pro-life supporters.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan could never have imagined how far down America might define deviancy when he penned his seminal essay Defining Deviancy Down.

Roe v. Wade has been overturned! In deciding the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the US Supreme Court ruled that there is no constitutional right to abortion. Now, it’s up to states to decide their own abortion laws. Now that Roe is overturned, pregnancy resource centers will continue doing what they have been doing for years—supporting women and...

US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hit the airwaves to connect the recent assault on Paul Pelosi with “fascism” and “white nationalism.”

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – October 31, 2022 Emily Oster, writing at the Atlantic, asks whether we can all just forgive and forget about what we said and did to one another during the Covid-19 pandemic. On the question of masks, school closings, and the efficacy of this or that vaccine, some people got it right, and some...

A new peer-reviewed study has revealed the true extent of efforts to promote life-altering “gender transition” surgeries to children, with a staggering increase in “top surgeries” altering children’s chest areas over the last several years.