Andy Crawford
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U.K. Says Fox News Isn’t Fair and Balanced
While student protesters on college campuses may not think so, the First Amendment is a beautiful, precious, and rare thing. Look no further than one of our closest allies, the United Kingdom. This week, the U.K broadcasting regulation office, Ofcom, ruled that Fox News broadcasts violated laws regarding impartiality. The ruling stems from episodes of Hannity and Tucker Carlson Tonight earlier… → Read More
Obama Calls GOP Attempts to Repeal Obamacare “Aggravating”
In a speech in New York City on Wednesday, Barack Obama admitted his aggravation with the GOP’s continued attempts to repeal Obamacare, the former president’s signature legislative achievement. “Those of you who live in countries that already have universal health care are trying to figure out what’s the controversy here,” Obama told his audience at the Gates Foundation event. “It is… → Read More
Press Release: Fed Is Bullish On Economic Outlook
The Federal Reserve released a statement on Wednesday forecasting good news for the economy. “Information received since...July indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been rising moderately so far this year,” the Fed’s statement said. “Job gains have remained solid in recent months, and the unemployment rate has stayed low.” The statement also… → Read More
REVEALED: Obama Lectured Trump on Politics in Oval Office Letter
One of my favorite presidential traditions is how each president leaves a personal letter to their successor on the Resolute Desk on Inauguration Day. It punctuates the peaceful transfer of power, which is one of the most remarkable and precious rituals in our constitutional republic. So, I was excited this weekend when CNN obtained a copy of the letter President Obama left for President Trump.… → Read More
France to End Fossil Fueled Cars By 2040 – I Bet My Hoverboard They Won’t
It’s 2017. According to the 1989 classic, Back to the Future II, we should have flying cars by now - or at least hoverboards. And don't forget power laces, which should be equipped on every pair of Nikes. To borrow from another sci-fi classic, Star Trek, we should be emerging from the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s, and working closer toward speed of light travel. According to a 2007 NBC News… → Read More
John Adams’ Rays of Ravishing Light and Glory
Independence Day is filled with lots of familiar and fun sights and rituals. Having a picnic, shooting off fireworks, attending a parade, and going out on the lake are the kinds of things every proud American does to celebrate over the course of the long weekend. What the vast majority of Americans don’t know, however, is that they are celebrating our independence exactly how one founding father… → Read More
Free Speech is Dead in Germany
German authorities raided homes across the Reich, cracking down on dissidents the government claims are advocating fringe opinions contrary to the political establishment in Berlin. “The still high incidence of punishable hate posting shows a need for police action,” a German police chief said in statement. “Our free society must not allow a climate of fear, threat, criminal violence and… → Read More
Christians in a Post-Christian Nation – The Benedict Option
American Orthodox Christians are besieged. We are inhabiting an increasingly secular society in which atheism is at record levels. The Sexual Revolution has culminated in rampant divorce, millions of aborted children, and pervasive consumption of pornography. The LGBT movement has succeeded in winning the acceptance of mainstream society, and is seeking to cast conservative Christians out of… → Read More
Marco Rubio Used to Believe in Small Government – What Changed?
An effort to guarantee paid leave for new parents is gaining steam among the right. Ivanka Trump, who has made the issue her pet project within her father’s administration, expressed her support on Twitter for a study by the AEI-Brookings Project on Paid Family Leave. The study was conducted by a working group of academics representing both ends of the political spectrum. Paid family leave has… → Read More
What Obama’s Paris Climate Accord Could Teach Donald Trump
President Trump dismantled yet another part of President Obama’s legacy this week, by removing the United States from the Paris climate accord. Obama’s legacy, largely consisting of executive overreach, cut corners, and half fixes, is once again proving easy to erase. When the Paris climate agreement was signed at the United Nations in April 2016, the Obama Administration heralded it as “the… → Read More
Republicans are Encouraging J.D. Vance to Run for Senate – They Should Think Again
J.D. Vance is being floated as a potential Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Ohio. This is according to BuzzFeed, citing several anonymous sources with knowledge of the effort by donors and strategists to recruit the best-selling author. Vance became a star last year upon the publication of his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. The book recounts his childhood in a family plagued with divorce,… → Read More
Democrats Reject Democrat Joe Lieberman for FBI
Joe Lieberman emerged as the leading candidate to replace James Comey as FBI Director on Thursday, and Democrats wasted no time voicing their strong opposition. I wrote last week about how important it is that Comey’s replacement be someone who could attract strong bipartisan support in the Senate. As a benchmark, I noted that H.R. McMaster by a vote of 86-10 to replace Michael Flynn as National… → Read More
Donald Trump Invented Keynesian Economics
If you haven’t heard, President Trump has coined a new phrase in economics: prime the pump. In a recent interview with The Economist, Trump defended increasing the federal deficit to justify his proposed tax cuts. “t’s called priming the pump. You know, if you don’t do that, you’re never going to bring your taxes down,” Trump explained. He went on to recount how he invented the expression,… → Read More
Report: Megyn Kelly Lands Interview With Vladimir Putin
Megyn Kelly will interview Vladimir Putin in June, according to a report by Page Six. NBC News released a statement: Megyn Kelly of NBC News will moderate the plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on stage with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin. The conversation will cover a wide range of global political and economic topics, including international trade… → Read More
BREAKING: White House Says It Has No Intention to Leave NAFTA “At This Time”
Despite earlier reports that the Trump Administration was considering an imminent withdrawal from NAFTA, the White House released a statement that it has no intention to take such a step “at this time.” Politico, citing two anonymous White House sources, reported earlier today that America was on the verge of withdrawing from the North American Free Trade Agreement. According to the report, a… → Read More
Audit Finds University President Janet Napolitano Has Secret Surplus, Raises Tuition Anyway
University of California President and former Obama Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, is facing criticism from the results of a state audit released on Tuesday. According to the audit, Napolitano and her colleagues accumulated a surplus of $175 million dollars that they failed to report to the California legislature or Board of Regents. The news of this undisclosed surplus comes… → Read More
Developing: Senate Judiciary Chairman Expects Another SCOTUS Vacancy “This Summer”
Conservatives who celebrated Neil Gorsuch taking the bench this week may have even better news coming this summer. Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told his native Muscatine Journal that he “would expect [another SCOTUS] retirement this summer.” Rumors have circulated for months that another Justice may be ready to retire. Eighty-one year-old Anthony Kennedy is… → Read More
Ben Sasse: The Leader We Need, But Not The One We Deserve
Senator Ben Sasse continues to be the leader we need, but not the one we deserve in Washington. In a clip of a talk posted on Facebook, Sasse explains why the decentralization of power away from Washington to state and local governments is a good thing: VIDEO Why can’t more people in Washington talk this way? Sasse touched upon perhaps the issue most responsible for the bipartisan… → Read More
Elena Kagan: The One Liberal Happy to See Neil Gorsuch Take the Oath
On Monday, Neil Gorsuch was sworn in as the 113th Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He took the oath during a small White House ceremony in which Justice Anthony Kennedy administered the oath to his former clerk. It was an unequivocal triumph for the Right. Gorsuch is a bonafide rock star among legal conservatives, many of whom thought the Supreme Court would take a significant lurch… → Read More
Bored with Local Governance, the Cambridge City Council Aims to Impeach Trump
Cambridge, Massachusetts is most widely known as the home of two of America's greatest academic institutions: Harvard and MIT. What most Americans may not know is that the city is currently challenged by a large homeless population, which has plagued the greater Boston area more and more over the last several years. There are not enough shelters for hundreds of homeless individuals and families… → Read More