Contributor Post Created with Sketch. First President to Let Jay-Z in the White House Somehow Not an Expert on Guns

 

You know that awkward moment when someone asks you if you’ve read a certain book or seen a certain movie and you reflexively say “yes,” even though it’s not true? And then, when there’s a follow-up question, you cop out with something like “Well, it was a long time ago. I don’t remember it very well.”? Yeah. Your president, ladies and gentlemen:

Barack Obama has a well-documented history of shooting, but until now his target list has been confined to election night “hoops” with his basketball buddies, the odd frame of eight-ball pool, and a record number of rounds of golf at Andrews Air Force base.

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Traditional politics says that there is a Right Wing and a Left Wing. Everyone seems to follow this line of thinking. Even Ricochet bills itself as a place of “the Center Right”. But what is the Right? Conventional wisdom says “conservatives”, while the Left is assigned “liberals”. The problem is that this model doesn’t work […]

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Tommy De Seno begins his epic post on the main feed with these words: As the immigration debate heats up, we must remember that America has a culture. Of foremost importance to any immigration policy must be protection of that culture. Preview Open

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Academic elites are getting their knickers in a knot in North Carolina because the new Republican governor says when it comes to higher eduction, the state should focus on careers for graduates and not on academic studies “that have no chance of getting people jobs.”

Gov. Pat McCrory said on Bill Bennett’s radio program that “educational elites” offer courses that have little chance of getting jobs and that this is a problem. To push against this, he told his staff to draft legislation that will allot money to universities “not based on how many butts are in seats but how many of those butts can get jobs.”

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Having a desire to revile, should you persistently restrain it you will sooner or later develop some malady or infirmity. Therefore, having this desire, it is right to give it vent, and there is no harm in so doing. However, most people lack the skill that great reviling requires: 1. YOU MUST KNOW YOURSELF AND […]

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What thinker or leader has influenced you? And why? Is there an author, or a book, that led you to Conservatism? This year I will be writing a series for The College Conservative where I profile Conservatism’s greatest, and explore what they have to teach us as we rebuild a broken and defeated party. I […]

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I usually agree with Bill O’Reilly, though not always, and I usually like his show. However, he is exactly the image that conservatives do not want to present. He comes across as a grouchy old guy, out of touch with exactly the people that conservatives need to win over. Dennis Miller and Adam Carolla are […]

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After reading Mark Cuban’s “Is Your College Going out of Business?,” I’ve been thinking: What is it about the coming collapse of America’s higher education system that someone like Cuban gets, but those who are in it–and the students who are caught in its toils–don’t?

Bain and Co. did a study last year of 1,700 private and public colleges, and found that one-third were on an “unsustainable financial path,” including Princeton, Cornell, and even dear old Hahvad. Another 28 percent are in danger of slipping onto the same path.

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Last weekend I attended the NRI Conservative Summit. As a Marine vet and National Security Policy wonk, I was interested to hear the panel titled “What is a Conservative Foreign Policy?” with Fred Kagan of AEI and National Review’s Andrew McCarthy and John O’Sullivan. I generally agreed with the panel’s comments on specific issues of […]

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This panel discussion was held on Tuesday the 29th at the American Enterprise Institute. Hosted by Marc Thiessen, the panelists were Gen. Michael Hayden, former head of the CIA and NSA, Jose Rodriquez, former CIA clandestine service chief, and John Rizzo, former CIA legal counsel. Their discussion about what the movie got wrong (a lot, […]

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The Chinese have been hacking into the New York Times, according to the New York Times:

Security experts hired by The Times to detect and block the computer attacks gathered digital evidence that Chinese hackers, using methods that some consultants have associated with the Chinese military in the past, breached The Times’s network. They broke into the e-mail accounts of its Shanghai bureau chief, David Barboza, who wrote the reports on Mr. Wen’s relatives, and Jim Yardley, The Times’s South Asia bureau chief in India, who previously worked as bureau chief in Beijing.

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I love to get all Mark Steyn-y and lament the inexorable decline of Western Civilization. I do. But sometimes I think it can be overdone. What specifically brings this to mind is something I read over at Rod Dreher’s excellent blog at The American Conservative. He’s talking about how some people who gave up on […]

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Just today, I put my name on a letter–along with well over 50 other distinguished constitutional law professors–to support the proposition that some of the major gun control initiatives being considered in Washington are constitutionally permissible under the current legal regime established in the 2008 Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller.

The Heller decision speaks, of course, with a split tongue. On the one hand, it makes it clear that a low form of rational basis review is not high enough to meet the constitutional standards for gun regulation. Yet, on the other hand, the case does not make clear just how high the bar should be set before the Second Amendment blocks the passage of regulations on constitutional grounds.

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I don’t now how long this will last, but come this Friday the state of Mississippi will be completely abortion free. “JACKSON, MS, January 28, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mississippi’s last abortion facility received notice on Friday that the state health department intends to revoke its license. If the clinic closes, that would make Mississippi the […]

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Well, spending the morning in a room full of business people learning about the impact of Obamacare on our companies. First speaker from insurance company told us that basically nothing in this presentation is going to be good for us. My intial thought looking around this banquet room was what a waste of resources for […]

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I don’t really know what U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is talking about when he refers to a “100 weapon” and “100 magazine artifact” but I do love how Gayle Trotter, an attorney and an actual elected official in Washington, D.C. (!), explains how his gun-grabbing attempt is sexist and particularly harmful for young mothers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DNvMeT-wRw […]

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