Tag: Commentary

Beltway Confidential

Byron York: The #NeverTrump party’s desperate scenarios

Byron York · June 2, 2016 1:07 am

Old issues have been replaced by a different kind of barking or braying: angry rhetoric, nostalgia for imagined pasts and litanies of laughably unrealistic policies. (AP Photo)

The dogs that didn’t bark in 2016

Michael Barone · June 1, 2016 9:24 pm

Lawsuit alleges the magazine defamed her when it published a later-retracted article of an alleged gang-rape. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Beltway Confidential

Lawyers for ‘Jackie’ tacitly admit she invented her pretend rapist

Ashe Schow · June 1, 2016 6:34 pm

Dawn presented a list of Dos and Do Nots for being a feminist. The Dos include being "respectful of all people and their own decisions, as long as they earn your respect." (Wikimedia Commons)

Beltway Confidential

How one mother urged her daughters not to be —˜that’ kind of feminist

Ashe Schow · June 1, 2016 4:25 pm

Baylor University provided an "inadequate" response to campus sexual assault accusations, a report stated. (Wikipedia)

Beltway Confidential

Yet another example of why colleges shouldn’t adjudicate campus sexual assault

Ashe Schow · June 1, 2016 1:38 pm

Is this the dawn of bake-me-a-cake libertarianism?

Timothy P. Carney · June 1, 2016 5:02 am

Sen. Elizabeth Warren isn't just a hypocrite; she has built her career on lies. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The biggest hypocrite: Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren

Lisa Boothe · June 1, 2016 4:04 am

Russia's best option has long been to borrow from other countries and use their warm water ports to extend its global reach. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service, File)

National Security

Russian ports and NATO

Rep Joe Pitts · June 1, 2016 4:03 am

As in recent years, Congress will again prevent the Air Force’s attempt to retire the A-10 attack aircraft, pictured above, to pay for more F-35s, despite the fact that congressional budgeteers have given the Air Force no choice. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

National Security

When it comes to budgets, the Air Force keeps losing

rick-berger, Mackenzie Eaglen · June 1, 2016 4:01 am

That Roman Polanski (center) elicits sympathy is a sign of cultural rot.(AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, file)

Some child rapists are more equal than others

Washington Examiner · June 1, 2016 4:01 am

Major super PACs have spent more than $40 million to attack Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Steve Nesius)

Beltway Confidential

Anti-Trump super PAC spending passes new milestone

Jason Russell · May 31, 2016 8:47 pm

The male student would eventually tell Washington State University officials that he felt "really uncomfortable" and "kept trying to leave" after the intercourse, but that Rose tried to make him stay. (iStock photo)

Beltway Confidential

Now a woman has been expelled for allegedly sexually assaulting a man

Ashe Schow · May 31, 2016 4:58 pm