Ditto for families that prefer to rely on Aunt Bee. Families where one parent stays home with young children - the arrangement that a majority of Americans, and a slightly larger majority of parents, prefer - would get nothing from the proposal, except, possibly, higher taxes. Warren’s idea discriminates in favor of one type of arrangement for child care: commercial day care. Need more be said? Anyway, it’s about day care, and we say it’s a lousy idea that is nothing more than a “parent trap.” From the editorial: The president isn’t acting unilaterally because he can’t go to Congress, but because he has done so and he did not fully get what he wanted.ģ. We believe there is a crisis at the border, but obviously nothing of this nature, as witnessed by the years-long attempt by the president to get Congress to fund his border wall, including the latest drawn-out political confrontation and negotiation. The laws that the president will use were clearly written with some dire national-security event in mind that would make it impossible for the president to go to Congress with the necessary dispatch. Even if the president technically has this authority, using it explicitly to bypass the congressional spending power is an abuse of it. We oppose the president’s decision to declare an emergency and repurpose billions of dollars of defense spending to the border, purportedly to support the military, not because we are confident it will be ultimately blocked by the courts, but regardless of whether it will ultimately be blocked by the courts. As for the use of emergency powers to fund the border wall, we find it to be a bad idea. RELATED: Jeff’s writing for NR diminished after 2000, but there are some pieces, including some grabbed from the bound volumes from years prior, that you can find and read at Jeff’s author-archive page.Ģ.
Checking the boxes on intellectual litmus tests was never his thing.
Ideologically, Jeff was a fan of Richard Nixon and his attempts to broaden the Republican and conservative coalitions along what Nixon called “new majority lines.” Watergate derailed that strategy, but Jeff was always alert for opportunities to resurrect it. Sparks could fly - Jeff was a bonny fighter, and his editorial prose showed it - but he guaranteed that the wheels would spin. editorial:Īt NR he was WFB’s indispensable right hand, ready to put together a magazine or run an editorial conference on the not-infrequent occasions when No. Former senior editor Jeff Hart, who began writing for NR in 1962, passed away this week. Enjoy them all.Īnd, if you are interested in Big Orson’s 1938 radio play, you can listen to it here.ġ. There are mucho links about all this below. The back-pedaling that commenced this week has been a thing to enjoy, drop by precious drop, assuming it comes in drop form.īy the way: Charles Barkley’s take has helped burst a dam (aside: Shaq’s laugh is infectious). They cast the attack on Smollet (his cuts made him look like he was hit by a kindergartener) as typical of one that would be made by a white, racist, Trump-loving, murderous America. Jussie Smollet.įrom the moment the now-arrested actor announced his accusation, NR - led by Kyle Smith - has been all over its dubiousness and all over the immediate fawning reaction of the Left.
The latest of this species of hoax concerns Mr. Well, it was fiction - it just wasn’t the crux of a novel.īetween then and now scads of hoaxes, many done for money (Bernie Madoff) but many also perpetrated for the sake of victim creation, have been dumped on America’s head. Tawana Brawley’s infamous late 1980s hoax (the uproar it created brought Al Sharpton to never-ending national attention) wasn’t fiction. Death, more criminality, and community asunder-tearing ensued from the hoax.īut that was fiction. In movies and books, you have Mayella Ewell in To Kill a Mockingbird, who contrived a rape and accused an innocent man in an affair that consumed the people of Maycomb, Ala. Maybe the classic hoax perpetrated on a dupable public happened in 1938, when Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre troupe performed the radio version of H. Our culture and history is strewn with examples - fictional, real, and nefarious - of hoaxes, including some that consume the attention of the Nation and the sanctimony of its Current Wisdom Czars.