With Trump’s Help, Republicans Notch Win in Kansas
Republican House candidate Ron Estes won his special election yesterday for the seat vacated by the new CIA director Mike Pompeo, despite a last-minute surge by his Democratic opponents that…
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Maggie Gallagher
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Maggie Gallagher is a senior fellow at the American Principles Project.
WATCH: Will This Ad Spur a GOP Victory in Kansas?
What’s the matter with Kansas? Republicans are suddenly worried about the special election in Kansas’ 4th congressional district. Ron Estes is running for the seat Mike Pompeo vacated to head…
An Ode to Peggy Noonan, Pulitzer Winner
Ordinarily, I would thank Pulitzer board and congratulate Peggy Noonan on learning that she has been awarded a richly deserved Pulitzer Prize “[f]or rising to the moment with beautifully rendered…
BLM Mob Attacks Conservative Speaker, Shuts Down College Event
Claremont McKenna College was clearly trying to do a lot of things right. They invited Manhattan Institute scholar and journalist Heather Mac Donald to make a substantive case that cops…
Thank God for Justice Neil Gorsuch
As is being widely reported, Neil Gorsuch was confirmed today to the Supreme Court by a 54-45 vote. There are a lot of people to thank for the fact that…
Trump’s Latest Interview Shows Why He Could Be a Great President
Since yesterday, the media, in a tabloid-like rush, has been focusing on the least important part of President Donald Trump’s frank interview with the editors of The New York Times:…
Judge Posner to America: We Rule, You Submit
The majority in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has just rewritten the 1964 Civil Rights Act, ruling that the law’s ban on sex discrimination now means sexual orientation discrimination.…
2 Reasons You Should Blame Liberals for Our “Nuclear” Mess
I listened to Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) explain why he was going to vote against cloture and thus force the Senate to change its rule permitting 41 senators to stop…
We Should Be Praising Mike Pence’s Marriage, Not Mocking It
For the last ten hours, I’ve been fighting off liberals on my Twitter account outraged that Mike Pence tries to protect his marriage by not dining with women alone. They…
To Paul Ryan on Defunding Planned Parenthood: Just Do It.
The Los Angeles Times editorial board offered some friendly political advice to Paul Ryan: “Drop the crusade against Planned Parenthood.” Anytime establishment liberals offer political advice to conservatives, a good…
Trump Taps Religious Liberty Defender for HHS Civil Rights Post
“I could not think of a more dangerous person to head up the Office of Civil Rights at HHS,” JoDee Winterhof, senior vice president of policy and political affairs of…
The GOP’s Healthcare Fail: Where Do We Go From Here?
Paul Ryan has admitted he and the House Republicans failed bigly. He lacks the votes to repeal and replace Obamacare, so House Republicans and President Trump have decided to move on…
Kellyanne Conway Is an Icon
This is the week Kellyanne Conway, a Jersey beauty queen, took Manhattan. She looks at you wide-eyed and laughing from the cover of New York magazine where Olivia Nuzzi points out…
Democrats Desperately Failing to “Bork” Gorsuch
Faced with an eminently qualified, reasonable, fair, and brilliant judge, Democrats are flailing — and failing — in their desperate attempt to “bork” Judge Neil Gorsuch. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) hit…
Will Trump Finally End Common Core? These Activists Hope So…
Last week, The Huffington Post noted that, absent a strong intervention by President Donald Trump himself, his team is taking a pretty lackadaisical attitude to Common Core so far: During the…
Why “The Benedict Option” Is Not Enough to Save Christian Culture
“There is some criticism of me for being alarmist,” author Rod Dreher noted last night at the Union League Club in New York, where hundreds gathered for the launch of…
Thousands of Professors Sign Landmark Statement on Free Speech
Professor Allison Stanger, injured by a mob at Middlebury College who were angry that scholar Charles Murray was allowed to speak, was one of the first to sign on to…
Federal Court Rules Sex Discrimination Not Same as LGBT Discrimination
By a 2-1 margin, a three-judge panel on the 11th Circuit on Friday rejected a security guard’s claim that legal protections against sex discrimination can be stretched to include sexual orientation…
Injured Middlebury Prof. Joins Statement Defending Campus Free Speech
Two Christian Princeton professors, Robert George and Cornel West, men of the right and left respectively, have come together in the wake of the Middlebury mob’s physical assault on two…
South Dakota Fights Back Against LGBT Attacks
Breaking the logjam on conscience protection at the state level, South Dakota passed a law protecting adoption agencies from being shut out because they do not place children in all…
