Canada Alzheimer’s Society Endorses Euthanasia by Advance Directive

Canada is debating whether to permit euthanasia by advance directive, meaning, allowing people to sign instructions requiring they be killed by...

More Evidence the Guardrails Are Gone

At the end of last month, just as the news of the Ukraine scandal started dominating the news cycle, I argued that we’re seeing evidence that the...

‘Russia’s Middle East Power Play’

Democrats vs. Business, Markets, Reality

Thursday Links

October 17, 1814: the London Beer Flood killed eight people. From 1865: Mark Twain’s proposal for climate control. Inside Notre Dame: a...

Elizabeth Warren and the Black Vote

During the Democratic debate in Detroit, Elizabeth Warren — presumably drawing upon her experience as a woman of color — accused President Trump...

Post-Debate Poll: Biden Has a Ten-Point Lead

In the first poll taken of the Democratic presidential primary since Tuesday night’s debate, former vice president Joe Biden has a substantial...

Beto’s Coming Door to Door for Your Guns

Beto’s worst moment of the night was his inability to answer the question of how he’s going to confiscate guns, since there is no way for the...

How Well Does Biden Know Washington?

In the debate last night, Biden said, “George Washington worried on the first time he spoke after being elected president that what we had to...

Buttigieg on ‘Assault Weapons’

I thought Pete Buttigieg had a pretty good night, but one of his arguments against Beto O’Rourke was clearly wrong. He said, “On guns, we are...

Harris’s Comment on Abortion

Senator Harris had one of the most peculiar riffs on abortion I’ve ever heard from a candidate last night: “Women have been given the...

Buttigieg on the Courts

The mayor mentioned two priorities for the Supreme Court last night: protecting “women’s reproductive freedom” and (in the next breath)...

Today in ‘Total Lack of Surprise’

Donald Trump, who once invented an imaginary friend to lie about his sex life to the New York City tabloid press and then named his youngest son...

Poll: Kentucky Gubernatorial Race Is Tied Three Weeks Out

A new survey from Mason-Dixon shows Kentucky governor Matt Bevin tied with Democratic attorney general Andy Beshear in his race for reelection,...

Hey, Good for You, Chelsea Clinton

Chelsea Clinton declares on The View that she’s not considering running for Congress. Throughout the run-up to the 2016 election, I was a pretty...

Judge Applies Minimal Scrutiny So Harvard Can Keep Discriminating

It took federal judge Allison Burroughs nearly a year to write her decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, but I suspect she knew how...

Sex-Change Regret

In the United Kingdom, where the mainstream media are more honest in their coverage of the transgender movement, stories have been emerging about...

Ten Things That Caught My Eye Today (October 16, 2019)

1. People need to seriously take up the cause of praying for Dr. Leana. First, in thanksgiving that the former president of Planned Parenthood...

Watch: Kat Timpf Says Trump-Ukraine Poll Shows How ‘Partisanship Supersedes Facts’

In a new video for National review, reporter Kat Timpf says that a recent poll showing that just four in ten Republicans believe that President...

Day Nine Shows We Have Much to Be Thankful For, but Miles to Go Before Sleeping

We commenced this 2019 Fall Webathon last week, as usual not knowing what to expect in real terms, confident many would be responsive, hopeful the...

Warren’s Medicare Tax Dodge

The weird thing about Warren’s refusal to just come out and say that her Medicare for All plan involves higher taxes on the middle class is that...

Taxing Churches Is a Terrible Idea

There can be no reward, no benefit, no tax break for anyone or any institution or organization in America that denies the full human rights, and...

Warren Lags in Endorsement Race

Tuesday’s Democratic debate confirmed Elizabeth Warren’s frontrunner status. She’s second to Joe Biden nationwide and leading him narrowly in...

What Kind of ‘Great Operation’ Does North Korea Have in Mind?

Far away from the debate stage in Ohio, North Korean’s regime is making some vague, ominous announcements: “Aides to Kim Jong Un are convinced...

Klobuchar and Buttigieg Stand Out in an Otherwise Dull, Plodding Night

The October Democratic presidential-primary debate finally brought a genuine surprise, in that a pair of second-tier candidates who were in danger...

Ocasio-Cortez Salutes Immigrant-Bashing Denmark

As other socialists have done, congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez points to Denmark as a model country: Thank you everyone for the birthday...

NR Tweets the Democratic Presidential Debate

Ten Things that Caught My Eye Today (October 15, 2019)

1. Reminder: these #Syrian Refugees that Erdogan is repatriating are not really returning home. He wants to resettle them in new communities by...

Get Ready to Meet Tom Steyer, America

The Democratic National Committee has gotten considerable grief for how it has managed and organized the party’s presidential candidate debates...

‘Decline Is a Choice’

“America First” is Donald Trump’s slogan, or one of them. Lindbergh and the pre-war isolationists used it first. Pat Buchanan revived it in the...

Tonight’s Democratic Debate May Be Even Less Consequential Than Usual

Sorry, Democratic presidential candidates, but heading into tonight’s debate, the news cycle is full, between Turkey smashing the Kurds in Syria,...

Socialized Madness

I am not sure I agree with John’s assertion that Joker is “brazenly honest” in its portrayal of mental illness. (Editorial note: “Brazen” in...

The Environmentalist Case for Roundup

Ted Williams makes it over at Slate . He begins by dispelling the notion that the product causes cancer: Numerous scientific bodies have found...

Don’t Subsidize Neighborhoods Because They Were Redlined in the 1930s

Since Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Case for Reparations,” redlining has loomed large in the debate over race in America — larger than you might expect...

Against the De Facto Licensing of Journalists

Senator Blumenthal has a proposal: NEW: Citing threats, violence against journalists, Sen. Richard Blumenthal proposes bill making threatening or...

Greats We Have Known

Martin Bernheimer was one of the most formidable, and best, writers I have ever known. He was also an amazing, unique personality. I have written...

Watch: Kat Timpf Explains Why NYC Food Delivery Regulation Is a ‘Stupid, Tyrannical Idea’

The ‘Mystery’ of the Six-Figure Renter

Silence Would Be Preferable

LeBron James is justly enduring a public-relations disaster because of his comments on the roiling controversies about the NBA’s relationship...

‘Brazen Honesty’?

I appreciate Kevin’s thoughtful response to my review of the new Joker movie. Much of his post highlights areas of disagreement that are, I think,...

What Unites the Right?

In the 1990s, everyone said the same thing about American conservatism: “For decades, the conservative movement was held together by...

Report: Assisted Suicide’s Threat to People with Disabilities

The media often write about assisted suicide as if the only opponents are pro-lifers, religious conservatives, and the Catholic Church. But that...

Louisiana Gubernatorial Race Heads to Runoff

Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards will face Republican businessman Eddie Rispone in a runoff election on November 16 after failing to reach...

Public Officials’ Fixation on College Completion Is Misleading

Government officials love to discover problems that supposedly call for their expertise (and tax money) to solve. Among those alleged problems is...

Rich-Guy Hubris, Part . . . Whatever

Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce, has published a vacuous essay in the New York Times headlined, “We Need a New Capitalism.” Perhaps it...

Calling All Paisans this Columbus Day

Remarkable, isn’t it, that Signor Columbus, an Italian, would discover a continent named for . . . an Italian?! And then think about this: What if...

Hell, Yes, We’re Going to Take Your Churches (and Your Other Non-Profits, Too)

Robert Francis O’Rourke’s pledge last week to end the tax exemption for churches that don’t embrace same-sex marriage isn’t just the cry for...

Religious Liberty, Nondiscrimination, and the Left

Beto O’Rourke’s position on religious liberty isn’t uncommon. During CNN’s Equality Town Hall last week, Don Lemon asked O’Rourke, “Do you...

It Was Your Turn, Sandusky

I’ve probably mentioned before here that I am a big fan of the newspaper comedy The Paper. Part of the story involves a feckless New York City...

Ten Things that Caught My Eye Today (October 14, 2019)

If you’re reading this on Columbus Day, A Year with the Mystics is 40 percent off from the publisher today. (Other books, too.) Use this link and...

Should Sesame Street Be Scaring Kids?

Sesame Street is rightly beloved, but I’m not sure moving into the area of opioid addiction is a good idea. A new green Muppet, Karli, is a...

Monday Links

That time Columbus tricked Jamaicans into providing supplies using knowledge of an upcoming eclipse. Related; Columbus has been cleared of...

How to Handle President Erdogan

Diplomacy is a serious business, as Boris Johnson, prime minister of the U.K., is discovering. As well as trying to convince the EU to either...

Steel Tariffs on Turkey?

Late last week, Donald Trump announced that some American troops would vacate a portion of Northern Syria. While doing so, and acknowledging that...

Joker and Its Enemies

I’m not sure “liked” is the right verb for my reaction to Joker, but it rattled me. It was effective. It stayed with me. It’ll probably be on...