Morning Jolt: Hillary Clinton's Latest Deception

Making the click-through worthwhile: Kicking off with some gratitude; why I don't believe Hillary Clinton (and you probably won't, either); the Grand Cleansing coming to America's abusive powerful men; and somebody needs to fix a broken record at the New York Times.

First, Some Gratitude

The National Review Institute held its fourth annual William F. Buckley Prize Dinner in New York last night, celebrating great achievements, saluting the history of the magazine and the legacy of our founder, and thanking our generous donors.

The world is a better, freer place thanks to the generosity and dedication of Bruce and Suzie Kovner. The legendary author Tom Wolfe is getting up there in years, but he can still leave an audience roaring in laughter. I was reminded that he had added at least four distinctive phrases to the English lexicon: "radical chic," "the Me Decade," "the right stuff" -- from his 1979 book about the early space program that inspired the film of the same name -- and "good ol' boy." I might throw in a fifth: When I was a kid, "Masters of the Universe" meant He-Man battling Skeletor, but the grownups ...

October 26 2017

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Hillary Clinton's Latest Deception Jim Geraghty Making the click-through worthwhile: Kicking off with some gratitude; why I don't believe Hillary Clinton (and you probably won't, either); the Grand Cleansing coming to America's abusive powerful men; and somebody needs to fix a broken record at the New York Times. First, Some Gratitude The National Review Institute held its fourth annual William F. Buckley Prize Dinner in New York last night, celebrating great achievements, saluting the history of the magazine and the legacy of our founder, and thanking our generous donors. The world is a better, freer place thanks to the generosity and dedication of Bruce and Suzie Kovner. The legendary author Tom Wolfe is getting up there in years, but he can still leave an audience roaring in laughter. I was reminded that he had added at least four distinctive phrases to the English lexicon: "radical chic," "the Me Decade," "the right stuff" -- from his 1979 book about the early space program that inspired the film of the same name -- and "good ol' boy." I might throw in a fifth: When I was a kid, "Masters of the Universe" meant He-Man battling Skeletor, but the grownups ... READ MORE A Farmer's View of NAFTA Blake Hurst In September of 1980, my wife and I attended a farm rally for Ronald Reagan. Our scrapbook from that fall is full of snapshots of our brush with history, faded Polaroids of the future president... The Russia Dossier Story: A Perfect Storm of Clinton Deception, Media Irresponsibility, and... David French The Russia Dossier Story: A Perfect Storm of Clinton Deception, Media Irresponsibility, and... ADVERTISEMENT Professor: 'Mathematics Itself Operates as Whiteness' Katherine Timpf A math-education professor at the University of Illinois wrote about some of the more racist aspects of math in a new anthology for teachers, arguing that "mathematics itself operates as... A School Superintendent Battles Pro-Communists and Pettifoggers William F. Buckley Jr. Editor's Note: As part of our Fall 2017 Webathon, we're sharing some classic pieces by Bill from the early years of National Review. The following piece was first published in our May 23, 1956... The Most Wasteful Health Spending Is Also the Most Popular Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry Editor's note: Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, a conservative writer and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is writing a series of columns on uncomfortable truths about health care in... George Clooney's Latest Oscar Bait Kyle Smith George Clooney received Academy Award nominations in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, and 2012. Now he's in a five-year drought, and he would really like another Oscar nomination this year — which... ADVERTISEMENT Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 Waldo Heinrichs & Marc Gallicchio '[A] stellar and extremely important book. . .thoroughly researched, judicious, and very sobering reminder of the complexity and uncertainty of events surrounding the final acts of World War II.' - Richard Frank, author of Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire and Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle LEARN MORE Battle of Leyte Gulf Top Shots ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 215 Lexington Ave., New York, NY, 10016, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.