Originally posted November 2, 2015. Writing in NRO, John Fund explains that, despite the moving pictures of families with young children trudging across Europe, an estimated 70% of migrants arriving are young men traveling alone. One has to ask, is Europe’s migration crisis a problem of border management, with migrants eventually returning to home countries, […]
Hot Air and Paris’ Huge Carbon Footprint
Despite the grandiose claims coming out of Paris, the political elites who want more control over the private economy in the U.S. and around the world are the last people on earth to save the planet, writes the WSJ. … nothing coming out of a gaggle of governments and the United Nations will save it. […]
Defend Our Capital
Rand Paul has introduced a bill that would legalize concealed carry for residents of D.C., Kevin D. Williamson, writes in NRO. The Defend Our Capital Act seeks to put into law the radical notion that Americans’ federal civil rights, as understood by the Supreme Court, apply in the federal District of Columbia, including their right […]
Obamacare, in Economic Shambles
Originally posted November 10, 2015. Obamacare’s health co-ops—government-sponsored nonprofits that Americans were told would increase competition—are causing the greatest insurance disruption in decades. As the 10 November WSJ notes: The majority of ObamaCare’s insurance co-ops—12 of 23—have now folded, and their $1.24 billion in federal loans has all but vaporized. More will fail, nearly a […]
The Founders Also Fought Jihad
In a letter to John Jay, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, both American diplomats, report on a conversation they had in London with the ambassador from Tripoli regarding piracy by the Barbary States. From the WSJ’s Notable & Quotable: We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of […]
What Is Terrorism?
Senator Ben Sasse recently visited San Bernardino and spoke on the terrorist shootings: We are not at war with terrorism, which is just a tactic. We are not at war with some empty sociological label called extremism. We are not even just at war with ISIS; though we’re obviously at war with ISIS, but there […]
The Jihadist Storm Gathering on Obama’s Watch
In a 23 May 2013 speech, President Obama told listeners at National Defense University that Americans should move past the post-9/11 war footing. He then went on to compare the Islamist terror threat to “many forms of violent extremism in our history.” As the WSJ notes, “Few speeches in presidential history have been repudiated so […]
Why It Pays to Hire an Illegal Immigrant
James Freeman explains in the WSJ that between President Obama’s unlawful executive order and his healthcare plan, businesses have an incentive to hire illegal immigrants over U.S. citizens. As Andy Puzder, CEO of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s burger chains, notes, “… the roughly $3,000-per-employee cost of ObamaCare disappears if a business hires an illegal resident, […]
(Some) Black Lives Matter
About four weeks ago, the Chicago Tribune reported that on 3 November gang members lured a nine-year-old boy from a Chicago park into an alley and shot him point blank as revenge on the boy’s father. One of the three chatted up Tyshawn [Lee], walked with him to the alley and then shot him five […]
Bogus Studies and Climate Dystopia
There is something incongruous, if not ironic, about the large number of world leaders meeting in Paris to fight the notional enemy of climate change in a city that was just recently mortally wounded again by a real enemy—Islamic terrorists. The dominant liberal project of the 21st century endeavors “to persuade people that climate change […]
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