In considering President Biden’s proposed OSHA vaccine mandate, it should be possible to distinguish intention from mode of action. I think it’s very important that more people get vaccinated against Covid-19. And while it seems to me that offering people some financial or other enticement for getting vaccinated would be a better way to help

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his administration’s efforts to increase vaccinations from the White House in Washington, D.C., September 9, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) On the menu today: In the aftermath of President Biden’s fuming speech drafting America’s employers into becoming the enforcers of vaccine mandates, it is worth pointing out that SARS-CoV-2 is extremely

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Delta variant and his administration’s efforts to increase vaccinations from the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., September 9, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) President Biden has a dilemma. He was elected on a promise to “shut down the virus,” but eight months into his presidency,

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki attends a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., August 30, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday that the Department of Labor may compel large employers to enforce COVID-19 vaccine mandates on their employees. During a press briefing, a reporter asked how

David Chipman testifies during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, September 25, 2019. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Joe Biden’s bad summer gets worse. Per Politico, the president is planning to withdraw his nominee to head up the ATF, David Chipman: The White House is planning to withdraw David Chipman’s nomination to lead the Bureau of Alcohol,

Florida governor Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign rally at Pensacola International Airport in Pensacola, Fla., October 23, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) The latest skirmish in the blue media vs. red state wars started when Florida governor Ron DeSantis had the temerity to suggest that vaccination against COVID-19 should be a personal choice. As I wrote

President Joe Biden speaks during a briefing in Hillsborough Township, N.J., September 7, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) And do it now. Mr. President, tear down this travel ban. Seriously, tear it down. Nix it. End it. Bring it to a close. Relegate it to history. Send it six feet under. Arrange its termination. Dispatch it. Dispose

(artisteer/Getty Images) Recent bail reform efforts in Houston that allow more suspects accused of low-level crimes to get out of jail without posting a cash bond have resulted in increased recidivism and more violent crime, a new Harris County District Attorney’s Office analysis found. In addition, the 64-page report released last Thursday, found that even

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem speaks at the North Carolina GOP convention in Greenville, North Carolina, June 5, 2021. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) South Dakota governor Kristi Noem signed an executive order on Tuesday to prevent abortions from being performed via telemedicine in her state. The order prohibits dispensation of abortion-inducing medication via telemedicine, delivery, or mail

President Joe Biden delivers remarks during his tour of a neighborhood impacted by Hurricane Ida, in Manville, N.J., September 7, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) President Biden was heckled over the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan during a visit to Manville, N.J., on Tuesday to survey damage from the remnants of Hurricane Ida. “My best friend died in

Alphonso David, then the Human Rights Campaign President, speaks at CNN town hall in 2019. (CNN/via YouTube) The president of the Human Rights Campaign was fired on Monday for aiding former Democratic New York Governor Cuomo in navigating his sexual harassment scandal. The boards of directors for the Human Rights Campaign and its affiliated non-profit

Demonstrators at a Planned Parenthood rally at the State Capitol in Austin, Texas, April 5, 2017. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/Reuters) The Portland City Council is set to vote Wednesday on a proposal to ban trading goods and services with Texas and to prohibit state-employee business travel to the Lone Star State over its new law that prohibits

Afghan resistance fighters in the Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan, September 4, 2021. (Reuters) The Taliban claimed on Monday that they had taken control of Panjshir province, the last area of Afghanistan not under their control, despite assurances by the representatives of the opposition forces that the resistance still had control over strategic positions and would continue

Ranking Member Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) questions Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett during her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., October 14, 2020. (Bonnie Cash/Pool via Reuters) 2016—Over the public dissenting votes of ten of its judges, the Ninth Circuit issues an order declining to grant rehearing en banc of a divided panel decision

(Benoit Tessier/Reuters) The barrage of criticism directed at podcast host Joe Rogan for touting the possible COVID treatment has been ill-informed and unwarranted. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I’ ve always been skeptical of the censorship of scientists and others who have differing views on COVID. The three primary signers of the Great Barrington Declaration opposing lockdowns

Sen. Bill Cassidy talks with reporters as he leaves the Capitol after the first day of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, in Washington, D.C., February 9, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla/Reuters) Senator Bill Cassidy (R., La.) said the Supreme Court could yet strike down the new Texas law prohibiting abortions upon detection of a fetal

Then-President Donald Trump applauds U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett after she took her oath of office to serve on the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., October 26, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) The daily dramas of that era will fade away in time; the administration’s lasting mark is elsewhere. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE S hould

The Supreme Court Building in Washington D.C., August 5, 2021 (Brent Buterbaugh/National Review) At New York magazine, Jonathan Chait argues that I, among others, am a hypocrite for being less bothered by Texas’s end-run around the abortion-policy constraints contained with Roe v. Wade and its descendants than by Joe Biden’s decision to renew the CDC’s

Pro-life activists outside the Supreme Court in Washington June 26, 2014. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) For conservatives, saving unborn children should be a matter of principle, not tactical politics. The Wall Street Journal’s editors have posted an uncharacteristically weak editorial on the Supreme Court’s refusal to block Texas’s fetal-heartbeat law from going into effect. The Journal’s editors

A student wearing a protective mask attends class on the first day of school amid the coronavirus pandemic at St. Lawrence Catholic School in North Miami Beach, Fla. August 18, 2021. (Marco Bello/Reuters) Its refusal to give kids access to COVID vaccines is unconscionable. During the past week, 200,000 American children under age 12 tested

( No-Mad/Getty Images) Paul Matzko, the editor for technology and innovation at Libertarianism.org, has responded to an essay I wrote for the latest magazine issue of The American Conservative. I’ll just share a few quick thoughts. The central aim of my original essay was to challenge the assertion that today’s attempts to re-think or amend

The World Trade Center in New York City burns early on September 11, 2001. (Jeff Christensen/Reuters) President Biden issued an executive order on Friday directing the Department of Justice to conduct a “declassification review” of documents concerning the FBI investigation of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The order requires Attorney General Merrick Garland to

President Joe Biden delivers remarks from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, D.C., September 2, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Several federal agencies are facing court challenges to their creative reinterpretations of the law. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Biden administration is facing two new lawsuits challenging its reinterpretation of federal

Anti-abortion marchers rally at the Supreme Court during the 46th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., January 18, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) With Texas’s victory for life yesterday, we have witnessed a true brilliancy and should savor the moment. For those who don’t play chess, a “brilliancy,” as defined by Grandmaster Kavalek, is “a moment

Abortion supporters and pro-life advocates demonstrate on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, Washington, D.C., January 24, 2011. (Jim Young/Reuters) Last night, the Supreme Court denied the request by Texas abortion clinics for emergency relief against the Texas Heartbeat Act. Even though the Left’s hysteria machine was immediately cranked to

(Brendan McDermid/Reuters) The dire warnings of the Social Security and Medicare trustees should give Democrats pause on their reckless fiscal agenda. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O n a week when Americans were distracted by the calamity in Afghanistan, landfall of the powerful Hurricane Ida, and the ongoing Delta surge, one could be forgiven for missing news

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., March 18, 2021. (Susan Walsh/Reuters) At a White House COVID Response Team briefing on Tuesday, CDC director Rochelle Walensky strongly encouraged unvaccinated Americans to refrain from traveling during the Labor Day holiday weekend. “First and foremost, if you are unvaccinated, we would recommend not

Pro-life and pro-choice demonstrators outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., March 4, 2020 (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Abortion-rights advocates are outraged at this tiny preview of a United States where courts are no longer de-facto defenders of unlimited abortion. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A bortion-rights supporters are outraged today over the fact that the Texas Heartbeat

Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C. (crbellette/Getty Images) The Fed should not have a climate policy, but it’s 2021, and so the central bank has been edging towards having one. CNBC (from March): The Federal Reserve has taken another step forward in efforts to ensure that the financial system is protected against climate risks. As

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R. Calif.,) holds a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., August 24, 2021. Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy vowed to use the power of a future Republican-dominated Congress to penalize tech companies that fulfill the January 6 committee’s requests for private user data. If it consolidates control of