The Obama Administration Is Pretending We’re A Nation Without Borders
The crisis on the border is no longer in the shadows. In broad daylight on Monday planes from Texas landed in San Diego and were met by buses, all transporting more illegal immigrants into the United...
View ArticleAmerica’s Foreign Policy Must Be Sustainable In Public Opinion, Too
As 2016 looms, the cadres of experts who would staff a Republican administration continue to wrestle with the lessons of recent history for our current foreign policy challenges. Dozens of articles...
View ArticleThree Reasons Douthat Is Right (And Posner Is Wrong) On Impeachment
In a recent column, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat explained the thinking behind the White House’s recent warnings that a Republican Congress will impeach President Obama. Douthat linked the...
View ArticleBobby Jindal Pwns Other Governors On Common Core
This morning, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is set to announce he’s suing the federal government over Common Core. He’s already embroiled in three Louisiana lawsuits over Common Core, and recently...
View ArticleMike Pence Makes A Change, Rejects Federal Preschool Power Grab
Fort Wayne, Ind. — The Federalist has hammered Indiana Gov. Mike Pence for caving on Medicaid and Common Core, which can seem a little mean if one thinks it’s okay to ignore present poor judgment on...
View ArticleThree Lies About Obamacare Jonathan Gruber Accidentally Revealed
For all the hand-wringing over economist Jonathan Gruber’s comments about “the stupidity of the American voter,” there’s been less outrage over the official obfuscation of Obamacare that his comments...
View ArticleA Lay Person’s Guide To The States’ Immigration Lawsuit Against DHS
Led by Texas Attorney General and soon-to-be-governor Greg Abbott, 17 states have sued the United States and the Department of Homeland Security because of the Obama administration’s immigration...
View ArticleWe Live In The Age Of The Bully
If there was any doubt that the Age of the Bully was truly upon us, the news of this past week should dispel it. The psychotic dictatorship of North Korea—a militarized basket-case pariah nation that...
View ArticleProgressivism or Judicial Review: Choose One
On any given day a list of Big Progressivism’s most dangerous enemies would include the usual politically-incorrect suspects: entrepreneurs, independent thinkers, devout Christians, and trigger-word...
View ArticleObama Keeps Bowing In The Middle East
At the World Economic Forum last week, Secretary of State John Kerry argued that while extremists may cite Islam as a justification for terrorism, the world should refrain from using the term “Islamic...
View ArticleHow The Iran Bill Weakens Senate Oversight While Trying To Preserve It
What profits it a man to gain the world but lose his soul? About the same as it profits the Senate to gain a chance to advise the president on his nuclear agreement with Iran, but surrender its...
View ArticleDear Marco Rubio: Lots Of Things Are More Important Than ‘Safety’
Marco Rubio’s campaign webpage prominently features this assertion: “nothing matters if we aren’t safe.” Nothing? Maybe I’m being oversensitive to this kind of appeal, and I realize it’s just...
View ArticleThe First Principle Of U.S. Foreign Policy
What is the first principle of American foreign policy? This seems like rather an important question as we approach the selection of another commander in chief in an era of growing global instability,...
View ArticleThe GOP Is Incoherent On Iraq Because Democracies Can’t Wage War
The ongoing debate among GOP candidates about whether we should have invaded Iraq in 2003 and what we should do about ISIS underscores a rather uncomfortable reality: it is nearly impossible for a...
View ArticleSanctuary Cities Represent The Worst Kind Of Liberal Lawlessness
So let me get this straight: America is thrown into an overwrought political debate about the Confederate battle flag—a relic that has absolutely nothing to do with the shooting in Charleston—but is...
View ArticleHow The Iraq War Led To Obama’s Iran Deal
When the British surrendered at Yorktown almost 234 years ago, Lord Cornwallis’s band played a tune called “The World Turned Upside Down.” With news of the U.S. nuclear agreement with Iran some 34...
View ArticleVoters Turn To Trump Because They Have No Confidence In Government
As we pick apart the candidates’ performances Wednesday night in the GOP primary debate, at least some Republicans must be wondering why, with so many experienced officeholders in the race, they cannot...
View ArticleCourt Restrains The Puddle Police—For Now
The Environmental Protection Agency is encroaching on private land through the Clean Water Act, but several states are fighting back, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has issued a...
View ArticleDaniel Drezner On ISIS, Putin, And The American Erosion Of Trust
Daniel Drezner, international politics professor at Tufts University and a regular contributor to the Washington Post, discussed Obama’s strategy against Syria and ISIS, the American erosion of trust...
View ArticleOlivier Knox on Paris, Obama’s Press Relationships and Gifts from Saudi Kings
Olivier Knox, chief Washington correspondent for Yahoo News, was born to a French mother and an American father and has been a reporter in both America and France, giving him a unique perspective when...
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