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On Feb. 7, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., with co-sponsors from seven states, introduced HR899 to eliminate the Department of Education. As the one who wrote the first draft of President Reagan's published essay, "Overview of Education Reform Issues," I know of his desire to reverse President Jimmy C

Authorities in Indonesia’s Aceh province imposed the Sharia, or Islamic law, punishment of multiple lashes of a cane against 339 people in 2016, the first full-year of implementation of Aceh’s Sharia’s Criminal Code since it went into effect in September 2015.

Some things never change… In January of 1963, Democrat Governor George Wallace of Alabama famously blocked the door to keep ...

A man who worked at many U.S. Representatives' offices, including Rep. Andre Carson's (D-Indianapolis) was fired amid an investigation by Capitol Police.

Protesters on Friday blocked new Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at a Washington, DC, schoolhouse door — a new low in left-wing “activism.” Some waved Black Lives Matter placards, but the protest w…

Many of my readers have already seen Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov?s videos on ideological subversion, but on the off chance some of you have not, take a gander at this: The stereotype of the…

?Society ? must repose on principles that do not change? – wrote Montesquieu in Book 24 of ?The Spirit of the Laws.? Montesquieu was a French political philosopher whose books were read by Catherine the Great of Russia, banned by Louis XV of France and praised in England. He greatly influenced America?s founders, with Thomas [?]

A German court Friday barred a TV comedian from reciting in full his so-called "defamatory poem" against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan which sparked a diplomatic row last year. In the poem, broadcast in March 2016, satirist Jan Boehmermann accused Erdogan of bestiality and watching

"We Are A Nation of Laws", But "Sanctuary Cities" Are OK? - Helen Raleigh: Right after the 9th Circuit Court ruled against President Trump’s .02/11/2017 6:55:31AM EST.

President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order prohibiting nationals from seven countries roiled by jihadism from entering the United States for three months—and the...

Editor’s Note: We honor our late former colleague, D. Keith Mano, by sharing over the next weeks several of his acclaimed columns, which were published in National Review every fortnight from 1972 to 1989. The following piece was first published in the February 13, 1987, issue, under the headline, “The Federalist Paper​.” You can still get a good education at Columbia – yes, and Soviet fishing trawlers still do fish. Nonetheless, in that maison tolérée of academic leftism, where political truth is found torso-murdered daily, one student publication had a shocking headline – Divest now in the USSR. This at Columbia, where all right-brain functions are lobotomized during freshman week: first major university to divest from South Africa. They call that one student publication The Federalist Paper (after Columbia alumni Hamilton and Jay) and Vol. I, No. I came out last October. Came out written in elegant, witty, temperate diction, with a fine sense of place and moral errand. FP’s molto is Veritas Non Erubiscit (Truth Doesn’t Blush). And, to quote the first Statement of Purpose, “it will not be shouted down.” These seven or eight young men who are reinventing conservatism at 116th Street and Broadway make up an extraordinary and diverse group. Brilliant, as you might suppose. But also mature and remarkably poised. They hold their audience in high and affectionate regard—that poor Columbia student intellectually lung-shot and left for dead by campus radicalism. Moreover, though their mean class level is sophomore-junior, they have considerable journalistic experience. Neil Gorsuch, Dean Pride, and A. Lawrence Levy were all associate editors of another conservative publication, The Morningside Review. “The Review.” Gorsuch said, “is more of a magazine. It addresses national and international issues, and it simply isn’t read on campus. What we’ve done here is try to establish something that has a broader base of interest. More people read The Federalist than ever read The Morningside Review.” Readership matters, of course—so much so that no one on the FP staff will admit to being conservative. This is in part, an honest distancing from Reaganism, Republicanism, Falwell, whatever. In part, too, it is careful policy. “If our first issue had been far right, we might’ve been written off before we got started,” board member P. T. Waters thought. “We try to show that you can be liberal as hell, but still disagree with all those crazy knee-jerk liberals out there.” And Levy took that up: “We’re just trying to be an alternative. At Columbia that usually means you’re right-wing or moderate-to-right, because the mainstream is so far left.” And yet issues one and two belong in a liberal phobia clinic. The Promise of SDI, for instance. Or The ANC is not the only solution. Plus an incisive repudiation of mandatory gay seminars for freshmen. Plus damning information about the Reverend William Starr, leftist Episcopal double agent on campus. Plus a vivid Month in Review short-take section, which imitates NR up front pretty consciously. Like so: CAPITALISM ON THE MOVE During recent Warsaw Pact maneuvers in Czechoslovakia, authorities discovered that four Soviet soldiers traded their tank to a tavern owner for 24 bottles of vodka, seven pounds of herring, and some pickles. The owner dismantled the lank and sold the pieces to a metal-recycling center. At Columbia they give you an equivalency diploma for that kind of reportage. Equivalent to ostracism. Problems of self-definition attend. “We’ve basically been sitting back,” Gorsuch admitted, “and reflecting on what the Left has said and using our month to review it. They choose the issues—South Africa, military recruitment on campus, pornography, SDI. But now I think we have to come out with something.” Waters concurred: “We’d like to change the debate, not just reflect it.” That will be more difficult. These are sharp and idiosyncratic minds from all over America: D.C, Colorado, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. The general atmosphere at FP might be characterized as center to right with a libertarian strain. From that composition, manifestos don’t quickly arise. “Reason why we can be so diverse.” said Gorsuch, “is that there is so much room to the right. It’s not a matter of having to be a conservative 10 be identified with the Right, it’s a matter of being a thinking man or woman.” It’s not a matter of having to be a conservative 10 be identified with the Right, it’s a matter of being a thinking man or woman. Response, so far, has been surprisingly positive. But the staff is vexed by a clause in the paper’s original Statement of Purpose: “FP will dismiss no work based on ideology.” With that generous visa, an energetic radical could subvert from inside. Waters asked, “Will we lose identity if we have leftist, albeit maybe intelligently argued, articles?” I think not. This access clause has lent FP credibility in an antagonistic environment. As long as the editors answer each leftist submission, argument for argument, in that same issue, they will secure nothing but honor from their, uh, liberal attitude. FP has committed itself to allowing opposition spokesmen a fair word. Not the final word. One advertisement aside, FP has received no financial support from the Institute for Educational Affairs (IEA) or any other source. These men know how to make a newspaper—and none of them has been bitten so far. “We spent S400 on that first issue.” Gorsuch said. “We paid for the second issue with advertisements. We are the cheapest publication IEA has come across. Eventually we’d like to get ourselves an office and buy $5,000.00 worth of computer equipment. If we had one Macintosh with a laser printer, we could publish on a much more regular basis.” “We’re looking to set up an endowment—we don’t need a $110,000-a-year operating budget like the Dartmouth Review. If we could have just $10,000 a year income, we could ensure the future of The Federalist.” And Pride said, “A lot of students are coming to Columbia now on the middle of the fence. There’s room for explosive growth.” I’ll let Neil Gorsuch finish. “We’re probably the last of these quote-unquote conservative journals to pop up on campuses. We’re going to be the last of this era and the most important. The place of this university is the nation’s campus debate is as progenitor of liberal causes. It all starts here. And The Federalist can focus and reshape campus debate in America for the next twenty years.” If you have a spare Macintosh, write me care of National Revew, and I’ll send you The Federalist’s address. — D. Keith Mano was a TV screenwriter and author of ten books, including Take 5, recipient of the 1987 Literary Lion award, and columnist at National Review magazine for 17 years.  

A lawless judiciary is running amok as leftists take to the courts to get their way.

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro used age to blow holes in the transgenderism argument during a recent appearance at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. WATCH: https://www.yo

Censorship in public schools, riots at public universities.

A Washington-area gym owner called out Ivanka Trump on Facebook after the president's oldest daughter took a workout class.

Speaking with the Israeli daily newspaper Israel HaYom, President Trump returned to the kind of rhetoric he espoused from the presidential campaign, when he said he would be neutral regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He warned Israel that Israeli settlements “don't help the process.”

PEPPA Pig has come under fire for teasing her dad for being a bit porky. Angry parents are accusing the lead character in the popular children?s TV show of letting kids think it?s OK to…

House Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on the threat of terrorism in U.S. July 14, 2016. Some of the topics discussed were but are not limited to N...

(CNSNews.com) -- As part of his plan to fight crime and violence in the United States, President Donald Trump stressed that the wall along the southern border "will be a big help," and he added that he is implmenting a "zero tolerance police for acts of violence against law enforcement."

Dem Rep Rush: We Haven't Had a President, Including Obama, 'Who Really Cared About' Chicago

If any liberal celebrity or politician tweeted or accomplished the same things, they’d be praised for it. But not Ivanka Trump.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ absurd ruling against President Trump’s immigration and refugee executive order contains a bevy of legal problems. It’s not just a bad political ruling, though it is – it’s bad law. Here are five of the biggest problems with the ruling:

The Democratic Party is employing tactics that the Washington Post says constitute an unprecedented break with Senate tradition to slow walk the confirmations of President Trump's Cabinet nominees. And while those tactics are bolstering the careers of presidential hopefuls such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and placating the party's liberal base, they are setting up vulnerable Democrats for failure in 2018. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a former chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, recently warned his party it needs to take a chill pill because they weren't retaking Congress in 2018. He also emphasized the need for the party to moderate instead of turning more progressive. But instead of heeding that advice, the Democratic Party is hunkering down and stoking the liberal base by opposing Trump on every single action he takes. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is encouraging the filibuster of the president's Supreme Court nominee. That rare move would mark only the second time in modern history that such an attempt has taken place; the first was led by President Obama against Justice Alito in 2006. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has declared that she can't work with Trump.

As the president claimed to be unaware of revelations about the embattled national security adviser, officials were scrambling to contain the fallout.