We’ve discussed this here before:  the NRA looks for candidates who maintain senior status, which means that the organization is heavily pro-incumbent, provided the candidates they endorse have a stable record on protecting gun ownership. Which raises the question, why is the NRA supporting those whose records on gun rights are not terribly impressive, when many of the groups members are strong constitutional advocates, and as such, are far more

Some of the National Review writers are clearly more willing to look reality in the face than others.  Like Kevin Williamson, for example: I will confess to a little despair over the relatively mild reception that has greeted the evidence, now conclusive and irrefutable, that the Internal Revenue Service, under the direction of senior leaders affiliated with the Democratic party, was used as a political weapon from at least 2010

.. but since when does the private religious beliefs of business owners become a litmus test for business? First they lost their television show. Now the Benham brothers say they are losing their business. SunTrust Banks is cutting ties with would-be reality stars David and Jason Benham after liberal activists attacked them for their conservative views on abortion and gay marriage, The Daily Caller has learned. In a statement provided

Thus reinforcing yet again that the contemporary academy — less a space for intellectual exploration than it is an increasingly leftist-dominated Petri dish for social engineering gambits, grievance politics, and inane departments handing out inane degrees that leave graduates in crushing debt and with no hope for finding a job — is actually taking already brainwashed kids and making them even dumber young adults.  Campus Reform: Students at the University

“… Young Brazilians want to learn English. Elderly Americans living in retirement homes just want someone to talk to. Why not connect them?” h/t David Thompson

Boehner, McConnell and the boys are nothing if not fearless — when it comes to attacking the conservative base they rely on for power and all the fruits of corporatism and crony capitalism that come along with such power.  But when it comes to the Obama administration?  Well, they’re as gutless now as they’ve ever been.  Eli Lake, the Daily Beast: Last Wednesday, as the House was preparing for its

Like a dream come true, this must have seemed. The back story: In this corner, standing 6’7″ tall and weighing 215 lbs., undefeated WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, who has won 31 consecutive decisions by knockout. His opponent: Charlie Zelenoff, a YouTube troll who boasts about his boxing skills and has allegedly been harassing Wilder and his family for three years. You can already guess how this is going to

Oh for fuck’s sake: It looks like these teachers haven’t read this Princeton student’s account of his own “privilege.” That, or they didn’t want to become confused with the facts. Teachers Diana Reeves and Rosemary Colt held a session titled “Examining White Privilege and Building Foundations for Social Justice Thinking in the Elementary Classroom” at the 2014 White Privilege Conference in Madison, Wisconsin. It seems they wanted attendees to find

Racism: is there anything it can’t do? On the 60th anniversary of the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that led to school desegregation in the U.S., State Education Commissioner John King on Wednesday spoke about the struggles that minorities and low-income students still face in the nation’s educational system. In his remarks at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany, King said racial and socioeconomic