Though I once checked email in a room where others watched Elf (2003), I have otherwise not seen a Will Ferrell performance since his 2000 turn as George W. Bush (“Strategery!”) on Saturday Night Live. Those wishing to relitigate the merits of Anchorman (2004) or Step Brothers (2008) will need to look elsewhere. What I […]
Imagine a neighborhood restaurant that hires an up-and-coming star chef, but then doesn’t get her the ingredients she needs, lets the other kitchen staff hassle her, barely mentions her in the restaurant’s own advertising, and does little to protect her when the rest of the staff starts taking swings at her. What would you call […]
There are two big points to make about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) suggestion that “Woke 1 was crazy.” The first is that “Woke 1” inexorably suggests Woke 2 is on the way or already here. As with software, later versions of woke will be more sophisticated, but unlike software updates, the advances of woke will […]
The United Nations‘s continued ties to terrorism in Gaza should be more than enough proof that the organization is a net negative for the world. As part of the most recent “ceasefire” that Hamas will inevitably break at some point, the terrorist organization released hostages Romi Goren, Emily Damari, and Doron Steinbrecher. Those three told […]
President Donald Trump promised he would put an end to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies in his pre-inauguration rally last Sunday. “We’re going to stop the destructive and divisive diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates all across the government and private sector and return our country to the merit system,” Trump said. Trump then signed an […]
The new chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is committed to uncovering the truth behind a mystery that has befuddled the U.S. intelligence community since 2016. Rep. Rick Crawford (R-AR) is an Army veteran who recently replaced Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) as chairman of the intelligence committee. He will now lead House […]
When an Alabama court last year ruled against an in vitro fertilization clinic that carelessly allowed the destruction of frozen embryos, it set off a media feeding frenzy that ended in President Donald Trump taking a maximalist pro-IVF position. One Catholic leader is trying to steer public officials in a different direction. “In a misguided […]
President Donald Trump just signed an executive order banning federal telework, while Republicans in Congress have turned federal telework into a political target, claiming it wastes taxpayer dollars, undermines productivity, and leaves government office buildings vacant. A Jan. 15 House oversight committee hearing, accompanied by a 41-page report ominously titled “The Lights Are On, But Everyone Is at Home,” argued that telework arrangements […]
Voters sent a clear message to Washington in November: They’re tired of bloated federal bureaucracies that have lost sight of their mission. They want new leaders in Washington focused on American greatness and serving the people who put them there. For America’s veterans, President Donald Trump’s second administration couldn’t come quickly enough. For the last […]
A few days before November’s presidential election, Ann Selzer, then considered the gold standard of polling in politics, released a highly anticipated poll for the Des Moines Register on where the presidential race stood in Iowa. While the poll came from a state not expected to have a decisive role in the outcome of the […]
The 119th Congress is one of the most diverse delegations in the history of the U.S. One-quarter of the members are people of color, and it represents the first time two black women have simultaneously served in the U.S. Senate. This delegation will also see the first Korean American in the Senate, among other firsts. The breadth […]
Tuesday marked 15 years since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The decision affirmed that people in the United States don’t lose their First Amendment right to speak about candidates merely by organizing into corporations or unions. The ruling sparked intense controversy, with critics predicting it would corrupt U.S. democracy […]
The portrait of President Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered for the first time as the 47th president. It’s a choice Democrats are poorly positioned to criticize, even though the seventh president owned slaves and ordered the Southeastern […]
When Marco Rubio was announced as President Donald Trump’s secretary of state, it turned more than a few heads. A faction of the MAGA movement was enraged that Trump had appointed someone they considered to be a neoconservative to the most important foreign policy post in his Cabinet, with some questioning whether the 47th president […]
The prosecution of some protesters who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was obsessive and political. Some pardons of nonviolent offenders were justified and, indeed, were needed to undo the damage their hounding has done to the First Amendment. However, President Donald Trump went much too far in issuing a blanket pardon to […]
