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NRO: How Often Is One State Decisive in the Electoral College?

NRO: Rethinking President Grant (Part Two)

NRO: Rethinking President Grant (Part One)

NRO: Why It Matters If Amy Klobuchar Is An Abusive Boss

NRO: Frank Robinson, R.I.P.

NRO: The Federal Diner: The Case Against a National Minimum Wage

NRO: Why We Panic about Immigration

NRO: Would It Make Sense For Larry Hogan to Primary Trump?

NRO: Why Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Get So Much Attention From The Right?

NRO: Boycotts Are Not the Free Market

NRO: Whom Do You Want on Your Side When Trump Is Gone?

NRO: How the Polls Broke at the End

NRO: History Doesn't Favor Republicans Recovering the House under Trump

NRO: 2018: Normalcy's Revenge

NRO: Breaking Down the Polls at the End

NRO: How Are the Senate Races Breaking Now?

NRO: How Will the Governors' Races Break?

NRO: How Will the Senate Races Break?

NRO Editors Podcast: Episode 113: Special Episode - All About Baseball

NRO: America's Biggest Battle, 100 Years On

NRO: In Evaluating Credibility, the Signs Point in Brett Kavanaugh's Favor

NRO: The Afghanistan War at 17

NRO: Constitutional Originalism Requires Birthright Citizenship

NRO: The Bernie Sanders Big Brother Act of 2018

NRO: In Replacing John McCain, Doug Ducey Should Look to the Future

NRO Editors Podcast: Episode 106: Pervasive Corruption

NRO: Aretha Franklin, an American Original

NRO: Understanding Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 73 Years Later

NRO: Trump Goes Nuclear again on Twitter, but Who Believes Him Now?

NRO: Democratic Desperation on Kavanaugh is Showing

NRO: Judge Kavanaugh on Lying To Federal Agents

NRO: Judge Kavanaugh on Battered Women

LA Times: Revenge for Merrick Garland? Democrats don't have history on their side

NRO: Brett Kavanaugh Should Get a Vote Before the Midterm Elections

I'm quoted in this CBS News commentary by Michael Graham:

"Brett Kavanaugh is basically John Roberts 2.0, a product of the Bush Administration and the conservative legal elite," says Dan McLaughlin of the conservative "National Review."

"He's not the most populist choice, or the most politically provocative. But he's a serious movement conservative, brilliant, universally well-liked, experienced, and independent-minded, and a devoted critic of the administrative state."

"If you're a Federalist Society conservative who wants to win the long-term arguments about how law is made, Brett Kavanaugh is a great choice," McLaughlin said.

and this Caleb Howe piece from before the choice (I guessed wrong, predicting Judge Raymond Kethledge) - my preferred picks:

"Amy Coney Barrett and Am[u]l Thapar. Trump dipped into the traditional elite Beltway movement conservative high priesthood for Gorsuch, to great effect, and its candidates (Kavanaugh and Kethledge) are highly qualified and solidly conservative. But this time, he needs more than just another smart white man in a dark suit. Barrett and Thapar are DC outsider picks but both brilliant and highly conservative, Thapar as a veteran trial judge, Barrett as a distinguished academic. Barrett would provoke the most outlandish response, and be the best choice for energizing Republicans heading into the midterms."

NRO: Early Thoughts on The Supreme Court and the Midterms

NRO: Trump's Revised Travel Ban Survives

NRO: Don't Throw the Republicans Out: A Response to George Will

NRO: Businesses Still Don't Know The Rules For Moral Judgment

NRO: The Quiet Republican Check on Trump

NRO: Romans 13 and the Thorny Moral Questions Posed by Illegal Immigration

NRO: The FBI Inspector General Report Directly Criticized President Obama

NRO: The Supreme Court's Narrow Decision on Purging Voter Rolls

NRO: Masterpiece Cakeshop Ruling Is a Win for Religious Freedom, But . . .

NRO: Reunions and the Power of Nostalgia

NRO: The Missouri GOP Just Held One of Its Own Accountable

NRO: The NFL's Anthem-Protest Rule Is Not a Threat to Free Speech

NRO: The Scarlet Letter Is Back. It Never Really Went Away.

NRO: How Many Murders Is a National Crisis?

NRO: The Christian America Paradox

NRO: Jeff Sessions Is Doing More Than Thoughts and Prayers

NBC Think: Why The Royals Matter, and Why The U.S. Needs Its Own

NRO: The Unfixable Tragedy of Gaza

NRO: Kirsten Gillibrand's Empty Gender Rhetoric

NY POST: The misery of the Mets fan (in this morning's paper)

NRO: Eric Schneiderman Goes Down

NRO: Ronan Farrow's Moment

NRO: Repeal The Logan Act

NRO: The End of an Era at RedState

NRO: Maybe the British Royal Family Isn't So Silly After All

NRO: RIP Barbara Bush, 1925-2018

NRO: Donald Trump At War: A Conventional American Response to Syria

NRO: Paul Ryan's Missed Opportunities on Spending

NRO: Why Failed National Political Candidates Should Go Home

NRO: How Never Trump Can Avoid Delusion

NRO: Realism, Not Delusion, about Trump and the Conservative Movement

NRO: There's No Ban on Studying Gun Violence

NRO: The Supreme Court Proves It Didn't Mean What It Said in King v. Burwell

NRO: How a Pro-Life Democrat Drew an Illinois Nazi as His Opponent

NRO: Wakanda Has the Right's Foreign-Policy Debate

NRO Podcast: Parkland Shooting, Jared Kushner Loses His Clearance, etc.

NRO: Let's Have Some Common Sense on Arming Teachers

NRO: A More Modest Proposal on Young Men and Guns

NRO: Let the Kids Talk - but That's Not the End of Any Debate

NRO Editors Podcast: Episode 77: Another Horror (post-Parkland)

NRO: Hypocrisy Is Better Than Its Opposite

NRO: Treason, Trump, and the Democrats

NRO: Is Trump Serious About "Treasonous" Democrats?

NRO: How Congress Can Protect the Mueller Investigation from Trump

NRO: Quick Thoughts on The Nunes Memo

NRO: Chaiters Gonna Chait

NRO: Trey Gowdy Is Retiring. What Does It Mean? Six Takeaways.

NRO: State of The Union: Five Things Trump Should Say Tonight

NRO: The State of Our Union Wants To Be Normal

NRO: Trump's First Year: The Ominous Signs Ahead

NRO: Trump's First Year: The Bad News

NRO: Trump's First Year: First, the Good News

NRO: Chuck Schumer Doesn't Want An Immigration Deal

NRO: Baseball's Steroids Problem Is A Barry Bonds Problem

NRO: Monopoly: The All-American Board Game

NRO Editors Podcast: Of Holes and Houses

NRO: GOP Business Tax Cuts Force Other Countries to Compete

NRO Editors Podcast: Episode 66: The Pretender to the CFPB

NRO: James O'Keefe Shoots at the Washington Post and Misses

NRO: Save the Crusader

My half-doomed effort to save the Holy Cross College mascot.

NRO: Roy Moore Is Not the Cure for Judicial Supremacy

NRO: Roy Halladay Shows Why Leaders Matter

NRO: Tim Kaine Is Wrong about America and Slavery

LA Times: Yes, radical Islamic terrorism is different

NRO: Trump Adviser Pleads Guilty to Lying about Seeking Hillary Emails from Russia

NRO: What The Paul Manafort Indictment Means

NRO: New Russian Nuclear Scandal Raises New Questions About Clinton Foundation

NRO: How Not to Marginalize the Alt-Right

NRO Editors Podcast: Episode 60: A Corker of a Week

NRO: Flag Protests and the Power of Symbols

NRO: Harvey Weinstein and The Wages of The "Nuts and Sluts" Defense

NRO: The Bump Stock Debate Illustrates Two Competing Models of Political Strategy

NRO Political Beats: talking Tom Petty just after his death.

NRO: Bobby Jindal for HHS

NRO: Trump Charges Into The Democrats' Trap on Puerto Rico

NRO: A Bogus Health-Care Number from the Center for American Progress

NRO: Eric Schneiderman Needs to Recuse Himself from Trump Investigations

NRO: Hurricane Irma Should Teach Us Caution About Predictions

NRO: Republicans Should Kill This Bad Tax Reform Idea

NRO: Do Liberal Writers Really Believe In An Obligation To Oppose Everything Trump Does?

NRO: The Editors Podcast, on Hurricane Harvey and other topics.

NRO: WaPo and The Hill Publish 'Troll Poll' about Postponing the 2020 Election

NR: The Pocketbook Party: Republicans should focus on the cost of living

NRO: Dunkirk Is A Horror Movie

NRO: How Republicans Went Wrong on Health Care

NRO: Military Fitness Is A Military Decision

NRO: Anti-Radical Muslims Need to Organize and Draw Lines

Also up at Fox Nation.

NRO: It's Not Treason, But It's Not Defensible, Either

NRO: Religious Liberty, Trump Win Important Victories at the Supreme Court

NRO: In a Bad District for Trump, Karen Handel Persisted

NRO: We Should Have Heeded This Warning From Ronald Reagan

LA Times: Who's to blame for political violence?

My take on the Steve Scalise shooting.

NRO: Yes, The Attorney General Can Have Privileged Conversations With The President

Over at NRO, I'm on a podcast with David French (recorded Friday) talking Trump and Comey.

NRO: Comey Wasn't Investigating Trump - But Look Who Said He Was

NRO: Jim Comey Backs Up Trump's Story, But It's Not All Good News for Trump

NRO: A Myopic View Of Robert E. Lee

NRO: Fighting Isn't Bryce Harper's Job

NRO: Trump's Problem Isn't How He Talks but What He Says

NRO: "Never Trump," Winning, and the Duty to Argue in Good Faith

NRO: Supreme Court Strikes Down Majority-Minority Districts for Being Majority-Minority

NRO: Here's How Congress Can Fix the Way We Investigate Presidents

Also published at CNBC.

LA Times: In hate-crime prosecutions, thoughts shouldn't matter

NRO: Anti-Anti-Anti-Anti-Trump

NRO: Acting FBI Director Shoots Down Media, Trump Narratives

NRO: Republicans Should Want The Russia 2016 Story Out In The Open

NRO: Will Slow Staffing Cause Trump and Sessions to Side with Obama against the Little Sisters of the Poor?

NRO: ESPN Layoffs Should Be a Wake-Up Call about Politicizing Sports

NRO: Democrats to Pro-Lifers: You Are Unwanted and May Be Discarded

NRO: Repeal and Piecemeal: A Better Obamacare Strategy

NRO: Sean Spicer Steps in a Hitler Mess

NRO: Gorsuch Opponents Fall Back on the Last Refuge of Scoundrels

NRO: Chuck Schumer's Made-Up 60-Vote Standard

NRO: No, Trump Isn't Under Criminal Investigation by the FBI

NRO: Hate Crimes Hoaxes Strike Again, Anti-Semitic Bomb Threats Edition

NRO: It Doesn't Matter That Garland Didn't Get a Hearing

NRO: The Garland Precedent Should Not Stop Gorsuch