Liberty
Illiberal democracy panned
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online focuses on the rush to tyranny among some supposedly liberal politicians. There are two rules for illiberal democracy. The first rule is that during…
El Paso
city in and county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States
Liberty
Assessing the media response to the latest mass shootings
Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon explores media reaction to the latest mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. Journalists tend to get especially animated when reporting on and pontificating…
Law & Public Safety
Supreme Court’s next gun cases could yield interesting results
Kevin Daley of the Daily Caller looks ahead to the U.S. Supreme Court’s next cases involving gun regulations. The Supreme Court will confront a range of gun rights cases in…
Law & Public Safety
National Review editor urges FBI to take on white supremacists
Rich Lowry writes at National Review Online that the nation’s top law enforcement agency should focus attention on violent white supremacists. At some point in the late 1960s, you could…
Liberty
Blaming Trump for mass shootings
John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist focuses on politicians and pundits who blame the president for mass shootings. Two mass shootings in 24 hours. Three in the space of a…
Liberty
Free-speech restrictions more dangerous than crazy speech
John Fund of National Review Online urges policymakers not to go overboard in attempts to combat hateful speech. As horrifying as the killings by the El Paso and Dayton shooters…
Elections & Public Integrity
Beto and ‘white privilege’
John Hirschauer writes for National Review Online about lower-tier Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke. Robert Francis O’Rourke is white. If it’s any consolation, he’s very sorry about that. “Beto” has…
Elections & Public Integrity
Beto’s history of failing upward
Michael Kruse writes for Politico about a peculiar feature of former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke‘s Democratic presidential bid. Celebrating defeat is unusual for a politician, and doing so makes O’Rourke…
Liberty
Conservatives and cities
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online explains why conservatives should not simply write off America’s largest cities as too liberal. Conservatives do not do well in the cities. We assume,…
Liberty
Progressives’ caste system
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online ponders progressives’ attitude toward rules and regulations. Progressives conceive of themselves as a caste apart, a special and specialized group of enlightened men and…
Transportation
Charlotte – San Jose, CA flights to return in 2017
The good: From May 5th to August 21st, American Airlines will be offering a nonstop service between Charlotte (CLT) and San Jose, CA (SJC). The flight to California leaves Charlotte…
Liberty
Texas gets it. Why can’t we?
Talk about jobs, and everyone is, including Don Carrington this morning with a CJ report on public sector v private sector jobs in North Carolina. No matter how you count…