Morning Jolt: Beto O’Rourke Is More of a Slacker than a Saint

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March 15 2019

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Beto O'Rourke Is More of a Slacker than a Saint Jim Geraghty Before I go any further, this is it — your last chance to register for the National Review Institute Ideas Summit, like a spring concert festival for conservatives, libertarians, populists, Republicans, Trump fans, Trump critics from the Right. And what a lineup: Pompeo, DeVos, Pai, Hassett, Rollins, Rubio, Crenshaw, Bruce, Buckley, Carlson, Carolla, Continetti, Leo, Yoo — and that's beyond the whole NR gang. Extra-big Morning Jolt today, just too much to cover: a ... Read More ADVERTISEMENT Top Stories Don't Break Up Big Tech Rich Lowry Warren's proposal to rein in tech is formulated without taking any account of the interests of consumers, who are the ones who made tech companies so large. China's Insidious Institutes Rachelle Peterson The Chinese government uses Confucius Institutes on American college campuses to enforce control and suppress dissent. Armed Man Chased, Fired On New Zealand Mosque Shooter Jack Crowe The unnamed man went home to retrieve his gun when the shooting broke out before returning to the Linwood mosque to engage the shooter. ADVERTISEMENT Orson Welles: Artist and Political Prophet Armond White Director Mark Cousins makes connections that emphasize the visual intent and virtuosity that stemmed from both Welles's pictorial training and innate talent. The College-Admissions Scandal Is Made for Our Populist Moment Jonah Goldberg You're never going to create a system where some parents won't do anything and everything to help their kids. All you can do is create a system that makes it more difficult to cheat. Gavin Newsom's Death-Penalty Overreach The Editors The reprieve power that Newsom wields is intended as a final check against injustice, not to nullify laws that the governor happens not to like. Emergency-Declaration Rebuke Splits Senate GOP John McCormack On Thursday afternoon, twelve Republican senators — nearly a fifth of the GOP caucus — joined Senate Democrats to pass a resolution terminating the national emergency declared by President Trump last month in an effort to unilaterally appropriate funds for construction of his long-promised border wall. The 59–41 vote was a rare bipartisan rebuke of Trump, who will now issue the first veto of his presidency in order to preserve the emergency declaration. AOC Mocks 'Thoughts and Prayers' After New Zealand Mosque Shooting, Says It's an 'NRA... Jack Crowe AOC suggested the phrase "thoughts and prayers" was devised by the NRA to distract from the issue of gun violence. ADVERTISEMENT What NR is Reading Saints and Sinners in the Cristero War: Stories of Martyrdom from Mexico Msgr. James T. Murphy "Very few Americans, including those of Mexican ancestry, know anything about the brutal modern persecution of the Church in Mexico. This is a most welcome and thorough account...of this very cruel oppression of the Church. It's a stirring wake-up call." — James V. Schall, S. J., Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University LEARN MORE Photo Essays Cat Yoga Albino Animals ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.