Deadpool & Wolverine Saves the MCU from Its Doldrums — for Now
The latest Marvel offering is a welcome, if imperfect, rebound for the struggling studio, but can’t rescue the whole franchise on its own.
Enter the WFB Essay Contest Today for a Chance to Be Published on NRO. The Deadline Is Almost Here
National Review Institute is accepting submissions for the William F. Buckley Jr. Essay Contest until Wednesday, July 31.
‘Unexpected’ Like a Bath in Cold Water: German Economy Shrinks
UNEXPECTEDLY There’s that “U” word, and no one is more surprised than Olaf Scholz and his Green cultists. The Germans had such hopes for eking out a teensy gain this quarter. Advertisement Output in Europe’s biggest economy contracted by 0.1 percent compared with the previous three months, federal statistics office Destatis said, after expanding by […]
Flushing Taxpayer Money: Paris’s Socialist Mayor Failed to Clean the Seine for Olympic Swimming
Paris has spent $1.5 billion, more than it spent on any other single project to prepare for the Olympics, for a river that still isn’t safe to swim in.
Taxes and Kids
The purpose of family-centered tax provisions is mostly to benefit children.
Glass Houses: The View Hypes Democrats Calling Republicans ‘Weird’
The Cackling Coven of ABC’s The View largely embraced the new campaign message of Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrats of calling any and everything about Republicans “weird.” They praised how “effective” it supposedly was. But, as co-host Joy Behar warned, it opened them up to people putting them under the magnifying glass; which […]
Election Iranterference: Tehran Working to Stop Trump — By Any Means Necessary
We already know from US intel agencies that Iran had planned to assassinate Donald Trump. That data came in before before the Secret Service allowed a lone nut to get on a roof within 130 yards of Trump and get several shots off, injuring Trump, several others, and killing Corey Comparetore. The July 13 attempt […]
Fireworks: Meet the New Secret Service Boss, Same As the Old Dodgy Boss
Say, remember when Kimberly Cheatle tried dodging questions about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in congressional testimony and ended up resigning? Her replacement, acting director Ronald Rowe, showed up at the Senate today to take questions about the failures that allowed a local nutcase to gain access to a rooftop 130 yards away from […]
Harris Endorses Biden’s Unconstitutional SCOTUS ‘Reforms’
When we first learned that Joe Biden planned to announce ambitious proposals to “reform” the Supreme Court, that idea sounded outlandish even by Biden’s standards. And it was. Now, however, Kamala Harris has hitched her horse to the same unconstitutional wagon, fully endorsing Biden’s proposals and saying that she planned to support them going forward. […]
Mayorkas Runs the Secret Service, and Hates Trump. Hmm.
I never for a moment bought that the Secret Service wanted Trump to get assassinated. Protection is in their blood and ingrained in their souls. But their boss, Alejandro Mayorkas? I suspect that he would be quite happy to see Donald Trump murdered, which may explain why Trump’s Secret Service team was under-resourced and unable […]