Gov. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.) speaks during CPAC in Orlando, Fla., February 26, 2021. (Joe Skipper/Reuters) Ron DeSantis has all the right enemies — we’ve established that much. Lucky for the Florida governor, ever-more ridiculous people alleging ever-more ridiculous things continue to assail him, sending his stock soaring ever-higher. This time it’s Joy Reid of

Then-Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. speaks during the school’s commencement ceremony in Lynchburg, Va., May 11, 2019. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) Liberty University is suing its former president, Jerry Falwell Jr., for $10 million, alleging he hid misconduct from the university board. The complaint says Falwell “fashioned a deceitful scheme to manipulate the Executive Committee of

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) gives an interview in Laredo, Texas, October 9, 2019. (Veronica Cardenas/Reuters) Representative Henry Cuellar (D., Texas) is urging President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to visit the southern border as conditions there continue to deteriorate. Prominent Democrats, like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), have stressed that “we’re on

Matt Feeney: Setting up a years long, quasi-therapeutic process in which admissions goads young people into laying bare their vulnerable selves — a process that conceals a high-value transaction in which colleges use their massive leverage to mold those selves to their liking — is reprehensible. It is a terrible thing to do. It renders

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on Russia in the East Room at the White House, April 15, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) President Biden on Friday signed an emergency determination to speed the processing of prospective refugees, but will retain the Trump administration’s refugee cap of 15,000-per-year, backtracking on an earlier pledge to raise the cap and

U.S. Chamber of Commerce building in Washington, D.C. (tupungato/Getty Images) Welcome to the Capital Note, a newsletter about business, finance, and economics. On the menu today: the Chamber of Commerce’s hedge, pruned, Coinbase, crytoptimists, combining the essence of two old crises to make a new one, and inflation. To sign up for the Capital Note, follow

A healthcare worker administers a shot of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination site operated by SOMOS Community Care in Manhattan, N.Y., January 29, 2021. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Some good news on vaccinations: 80 percent of people over the age of 65 who live in the United States have now received at least one dose

Dr. Anthony Fauci attends a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine the COVID-19 response on Capitol Hill, March 18, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker/Pool via Reuters) There is, if you’re looking for it, an abundance of good news in our fight against COVID-19. As John mentioned, 80 percent of people over the age of

(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The bill doesn’t have the votes to pass Congress now, but will Democrats successfully pressure the Supreme Court to avoid rulings that enrage progressives? In October 2020, shortly before the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, a Siena/New York Times survey asked likely voters: “If Amy Coney Barrett

U.S. Marines with Task Force Southwest in Bost Kalay, Afghanistan, March 17, 2018. (Sergeant Sean J. Berry/USMC) Well, well, well. Just hours after Joe Biden finally announced his big decision on Afghanistan, and minutes before sanctions on Russia were updated, news outlets are reporting that U.S. intel has low confidence in the story that Russia

U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) hold a news conference for their proposed “Green New Deal” to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in 10 years, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. February 7, 2019. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) In an article titled “We Are Living in a Climate Emergency, and We’re Going

Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran who resigned from the Brooklyn Center police force, poses for a booking photograph at Hennepin County Jail for fatally shooting Daunte Wright in Minneapolis, Minn., April 14, 2021. (Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office/Handout via Reuters ) Kim Potter, the officer who killed Daunte Wright by shooting him with a firearm when

(Sviatlana Lazarenka/Getty Images) The recently released Consumer Price Index numbers should be seen as a harbinger of what’s to come. On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the month of March. Prices increased by 0.6 percent since February, the largest monthly increase since August 2012. On a year-over-year

Vanita Gupta speaks during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Policing Practices and Law Enforcement Accountability in Washington, DC, June 10, 2020. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via Reuters) Five Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee — Senators Cornyn, Grassley, Tillis, Cruz, and Hawley — sent a letter today to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Acting SEC

President Joe Biden announces executive actions on gun violence prevention in the Rose Garden at the White House, April 8, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The misguided campaign to clamp down on homemade firearms presents a slippery slope. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE S ince before the United States existed as an independent nation, Americans have been making firearms

Students walk across the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. (Jupiterimages/Getty Images) The administration at Cornell University has gone absolutely mad with its “antiracism” crusade. Critical race theory education becomes mandatory, and it even appears to think it can compel people to accept the curriculum. Law professor Bill Jacobson is speaking out against this

An pro-life marcher during the 46th annual March for Life at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., January 18, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The Associated Press reports this morning that President Joe Biden and his administration have begun the process of undoing a Trump-administration rule that had defunded abortion providers through the Title X family planning

A teacher, wearing a protecive face mask, teaches to schoolchildren in France. April 2, 2021. (Stephane Mahe/Reuters) The way we train teachers (most of them, anyway), has long been a problem. Writers including Rita Kramer, Thomas Sowell, and Heather Mac Donald have argued that what students learn in the education-school courses they must take to

(Kuzma/iStock/Getty Images Plus) I recently looked at Senate Bill 140, Montana’s new law eliminating the state’s Judicial Nominating Commission — an unelected body that severely limited the governor’s options to fill state court vacancies. The law is being challenged in the Montana supreme court by activists, former state legislators, and Montana’s League of Women Voters

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin sits in front of a picture of George Floyd displayed during Chauvin’s trial in Minneapolis on March 29 in this courtroom sketch. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters) The Chauvin defense called its big witness Tuesday afternoon, retired federal and state law-enforcement officer Barry Brodd, an expert in police training and the use

President Franklin Roosevelt delivers a fireside chat from the White House, 1933 (National Archives) FDR’s Court-packing scheme, wrote the Democrat-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee in 1937, “is a measure which should be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be presented to the free representatives of the free people of America.” Today, modern progressives,

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Satya Narayana Nadella speaks at a live Microsoft event in the Manhattan, N.Y., October 26, 2016. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Welcome to the Capital Note, a newsletter about business, finance, and economics. On the menu today: the history of Nuance’s Dragon brand, J&J vaccine halted, Jack Ma capitulates, and W. Brian Arthur

Vaccine vials in front of the Johnson & Johnson logo, February 9, 2021 (Dado Ruvic/Reuters) The White House downplayed the significance of a temporary halt in the distribution of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccines at federal vaccination sites Tuesday morning, just hours after the CDC and FDA announced the move. “This announcement will not

President Joe Biden speaks at a virtual CEO Summit on Semiconductor and Supply Chain Resilience from the Roosevelt Room at the White House, April 12, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Biden’s tax proposal could make the rate on corporations as high as 59.1 percent. Joe Biden’s recently proposed “infrastructure plan” is a $2-trillion-dollar liberal wish list designed

A family of migrants cross the Rio Bravo River to turn themselves in to U.S Border Patrol agents to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, March 30, 2021. (Edgard Garrido/Reuters) There seems to be disagreement about the nature of the problem at our southern border. Much of the commentary has

Voters at a polling place at John Jay College in New York, November 6, 2012. (Chip East/Reuters) Democrats have internalized the results of years of push-polling that shows an overwhelming majority of Americans sharing their vision for the future. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE L iberal writers spend an inordinate amount of time convincing themselves that the

Then-President Donald Trump talks with reporters next to then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Roy Blunt as he arrives for a closed Senate Republican policy lunch on Capitol Hill, March 26, 2019. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) When Donald Trump unloaded on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell over the weekend, it harkened back to the glory days

A demonstrator confronts police during a protest after police allegedly shot and killed a man in Brooklyn Center, Minn., April 11, 2021. (Nick Pfosi/Reuters) The Derek Chauvin murder trial is winding down amid more unrest. This morning, Judge Peter Cahill refused a defense motion to sequester the jury. The request came as Minneapolis is again

Senator Josh Hawley, (R., Mo.) speaks at a hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., March 25, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker/Reuters) Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) has unveiled a proposal to enhance federal anti-trust laws, sharing the initiative with Axios on Monday. “This country and this government shouldn’t be run by a few mega-corporations,” Hawley said

(Ting Shen/Reuters) They had one job. A recently released watchdog report underscores how the Environmental Protection Agency may be ignoring core responsibilities, even as it pursues ever-expanding regulatory schemes that go well beyond its ambit. The inspector-general report determined the EPA has failed to adequately monitor about half of the country’s nonoperational hazardous-waste storage sites,