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From the petty -- such as his buttinsky remarks regarding Britain and the EU, to the tragic -- his failure to support the 2009 Iranian revolution -- Barack O...

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President Ronald Reagan describes his vision of a "shining city upon a hill" that was imagined by early pilgrim John Winthrop and continued with current pres...

Good news, disgruntled Americans: As you ponder whether to vote for one of the two most-disliked, dishonest, and morally corrupt politicians ever to run for president — Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton — you just might have a third option. His name is Gary Johnson. He’s a popular two-term former governor of New Mexico. He’s the likely Libertarian party nominee. And he’s set to be on the ballot in the vast majority of states. Moreover, the short case for him is pretty compelling. Johnson is a self-made man, starting a handyman business in college that grew into a 1,000-employee construction firm. He ran for governor as a fiscal conservative in a blue state, won handily, and can now boast that he cut taxes, vetoed hundreds of bills, presided over significant job growth, balanced the state budget, and created a substantial reserve fund. He won reelection in a rout. #ad#Johnson is an extraordinarily strong gun-rights advocate, and he favors free trade, but he’s far too committed to relatively open borders — advocating a “simpler and more efficient” process for entering the country. He calls himself pro-choice, but he’s well to the right of Hillary Clinton — supporting late-term abortion bans, parental-notification laws, and opposing public funding for abortion — and he’s indicated that he’d appoint judges “who will interpret the Constitution according to its original meaning.” He also believes Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided because it “expanded the reach of the Federal government into areas of society never envisioned in the Constitution.” In the past, Johnson has indicated that he’d rather leave abortion policy to the states. Being generous, one could even call him a sort of peaceful Teddy Roosevelt: an adventurer politician. He’s run dozens of triathlons, he’s climbed the highest mountain on all seven continents (including Mount Everest), and he built his house with his own hands. So, on balance, Gary Johnson for president, right? So, on balance, Gary Johnson for president, right? Not so fast. This being 2016, the world has gone mad, and there are no easy choices left. Johnson is a Libertarian, and that means he’s for drug legalization. That’s not necessarily disqualifying. After all, his views are similar to those of the founder of National Review, William F. Buckley Jr., and are shared by a number of conservatives. Johnson, however, is an actual drug user — boasting recently that he’d just consumed “Cheeba Chews,” a form of “marijuana-infused taffy.” (To be fair, he claims that he does not drink alcohol.) But that’s not all, not by a long shot. In 2014, Johnson became a “pot entrepreneur.” He was named the CEO of Cannibas Sativa. The company’s intended products included medicinal oils and — get this — a “cough drop–like” pot candy. Johnson of course tried and endorsed the product, asking, “Why would anybody ever smoke marijuana given this as an alternative?” #share#But let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and presume for the moment that he would not, in fact, transform the Cabinet into a highbrow version of Obama’s legendary “Choom Gang.” Are there any other reasons to worry about Gary Johnson? As a two-term governor and self-made millionaire, Johnson has serious credentials. Oddly, when it comes to religious liberty and the rights of conscience, he may not be libertarian enough. In the Libertarian party’s presidential debate, he offered a bizarre and rambling defense of forcing a Jewish baker to bake a Nazi wedding cake — in the name of ending religious discrimination. He also briefly endorsed, then walked back, using state power to ban the burqa in the United States. (On the bright side, he did indicate that he understood the political nature of sharia law and its incompatibility with American conceptions of liberty.) Regarding national defense, he’s not as extreme as some libertarians — some go so far as to view the rise of jihad as fundamentally America’s fault — but he does believe that American military interventions have made the terrorist problem “worse.” I’ve often wondered how a self-defense oriented libertarian would alter American policy once they received a full and complete national-security briefing. Libertarian purists would likely be surprised at the military aggression of a libertarian president. If Johnson were ever elected, we’d get to find out. #related#Unless and until there is another viable third-party alternative, now is the time for the Libertarian party candidate to make a serious case to the American public. As a two-term governor and self-made millionaire, Johnson has serious credentials. And he has more executive experience than either Clinton or Trump. I’d rather see Rand Paul as the libertarian alternative — he could at least get on the presidential debate stage, he’s pro-life, and he has far-more-developed and realistic policy goals. But Johnson is likely his party’s choice. Make your argument, governor. You can make the case for liberty to a nation embracing authoritarianism. You won’t win, but you can matter. This is your moment. — David French is a staff writer at National Review, and an attorney.

Will leftists ever get tired of trying to make white Americans feel guilty about the past?

A couple whose string of trendy vegan restaurants in California is popular with the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow, Beyoncé, Emma Stone, and Woody Harrelson are under attack after it was discovered they've been eating meat for months, the Guardian reports.

If Paul Ryan does not want to do the work of unifying the party he has a simple choice: he should recuse himself from chairing the convention.

Several Latino groups organized against Clinton's event.

Congratulations, liberals of the Washington press corps and elite organizations: You’re a bunch of suckers. We all know this because the Obama White House just told us so. In an astounding New York…

The Obama administration cooked up a phony story to sell Americans on the Iranian nuke deal, lying that US officials were dealing with “moderates” in the Islamic theocracy who could be trusted to k…

The left has concocted a lucrative category of politically correct victims: ‘‘climate refugees.” It’s the new Green racket. US taxpayers will now be forking over untold billions to ease the pain al…

In this fourth segment of his Basics of Islam series, Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer discusses the verses of the Qur'an that command Muslims to commit a...

A couple of leftists have created a Super PAC that has the sole purpose of discouraging white males from running for office. The PAC, called the Can You Not PAC, describes itself as "a political action project that aims to dis/empower and dis/incline people in positions of privilege, specifically straight white men, from ambitions of running for office in progressive urban districts."

The principle that every person in the United States is entitled by right to due process of law, is so firmly embedded in the legal and cultural fabric of our society, that it hardly bears reminding. Yet, if you happen to be a male student at any college or university that receives federal funds, and an allegation of sexual misconduct has been leveled against you, you quickly realize that due process is a luxury you no longer enjoy.

The universities themselves will tell you. Sign the petition here: https://www.change.org/p/universities-suspend-social-justice-in-universities?lang=en-GB Li...

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who was never a factor in the 2016 presidential race, prompted a flurry of immediate responses on Thursday when he blasted those in the GOP who don’t support Donald Trump, telling them to leave the party.

It was almost as if Donald Trump wanted to give Republican voters one last look at what they would be getting if they chose to nominate him as the head of their party—as if he wanted to show officeholders who would endorse him exactly what they'd have to explain and rationalize over the next six months, wanted to remind conservatives that he doesn't share their worldview and is willing to advance the policies of the radical left if it'll help him win, and wanted to make clear to his boosters in the media that they really would have to defend statements so absurd that the only proper response is laughter. It'd be one more week of crazy before Trump completed his conquest of the conservative party. The week began with the news that a New York judge had allowed a lawsuit alleging fraud against Trump University to proceed to trial. The same day, a California judge cleared the way for a similar lawsuit to go ahead there, setting the first hearing on July 18—the first day of the Republican convention. It continued with Trump announcing, after his five-state northeast sweep, that he intended to campaign for president on a message borrowed, in part, from Bernie Sanders, the nation's leading socialist. As the campaign moved to Indiana, Trump touted the endorsement of tough guy boxer Mike Tyson, who was convicted in 1992 of a rape in Indianapolis and whom Trump had defended at the time. Next Trump declared a core economic principle of his adopted party was no longer operative: You can throw free trade out the window.

It’s hardly any wonder that Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes has a mind meld with his boss, the president. According to a David Samuels New York Times Magazine article to be published Sunday and already posted to the website, Rhodes, like Barack Obama, is contemptuous of the American foreign-policy establishment. What Obama calls the Washington playbook dictating the sorts of responses available to American policymakers, Rhodes calls the Blob. The Blob includes editors and reporters at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, etc. It also encompasses, according to Rhodes, Obama's former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, and the administration's first defense secretary Robert Gates. Presumably Leon Panetta, former Pentagon chief and CIA director, who goes on the record to criticize Rhodes and the president, is also part of the Blob, alongside other Iraq-war promoters from both parties who now whine incessantly about the collapse of the American security order in Europe and the Middle East. In other words, the emotion driving the administration's foreign policy is contempt—contempt for allies, colleagues, and the generations of American policymakers who built the post-WWII international order, ensuring relative global stability, and peace and prosperity at home.

Usually, the admission of another rich child of privilege to the selective liberal finishing school known as Harvard is a non-story. But in the case of Malia Obama, it provides yet another example of the cynical elitism of modern liberals.

The conservative GOP is routed. Its troops are scattered and leaderless, and in full retreat. It?s every man for himself. Reince Priebus has kissed the ring of Donald Trump, and the RNC is no…

A great many African-Americans of the civil rights era supported strong punishments against the criminals wreaking havoc in their neighborhoods, as ‘The Black Silent Majority’ shows.

The administration released a long-awaited final version of a sweeping new rule.

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry told CNN Thursday he will support Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee and will do everything he can do to help him get elected.

"Save your vote for the general election, okay? Forget this one. The primary is gone," Trump said.

“The permitting system gives us access to eagles and eagle mortalities that we wouldn’t otherwise have,” an unnamed source told ABC News. “It’s a great mechanism for us to work proactively to prevent eagle deaths.”