It seems that I may have to use my rights as a senior blogger to respond to some of the critics of my recently posted remarks on RP. The aforesaid commentary was written several weeks ago and therefore the figures cited for Mike Huckabee are much lower than they would become after his recent surge ...
Although he is identified as a libertarian, anti-war candidate, Paul's appeal is to the Old Right as well. He is a devout Lutheran who opposes abortion and is critical of the sloppy immigration policies of the Bush administration and its Democratic opposition. He also calls himself a Taft ...
A feature article in the Sunday Washington Post (December 9, 2007) by Villanova Associate Professor of History, Robert Maranto, reached me through the kindness of a young colleague, April Kelly-Woessner. April, a diligent researcher, working with her husband Matthew Woessner, provided some of the ...
In what may well be the most self-serving neocon column ever published in the New York Post, LA Times guest columnist Tim Rutten has today attacked CNN as the "corrupt news network," for advancing the fame of its "most popular news-oriented columnist Lou Dobbs." According to Rutten, ...
Recently I encountered a revelation in the New York Post that may startle my readers as much it did me. I discovered in a featured story "U.S. Jew Haters," that a poll recently commissioned and carried out under the auspices of the Anti-Defamation League reveals that our country is awash in ...
The Real Rudy In his New York Times column (November 23, 2007), "conservative" commentator David Brooks complains that his favorite political figure has gone over to the dark forces of the "anti-immigrant movement." Brooks recalls those happier days when Rudy, in an address at the ...
Although I admit to having given my vote last fall to Rick Santorum in his unsuccessful campaign to hold on to his U.S. Senate seat, I have been appalled by his recent harping on the menace of "Islamofascism." Santorum has lent himself to a largely neoconservative-funded campaign, headed by ...
At long last the ADL has pinpointed Ron Paul's "extremist" associations. According to ADL's assistant director of civil rights Steve Freeman, Dr. Paul's campaign was reckless enough to accept the donation of Don Black, the owner of a white supremacist website, Stormfront. The candidate then ...
A Revealing Rally On Saturday November 10, on a visit to my wife's friends in South Philadelphia (near the turf immortalized by Rocky), I attended a Ron Paul rally at Independence Mall. By the time the hurried ...
Although Sid Cundiff in a recent blog praises me as someone who recognizes "shades of grey," I may be losing that capacity when it comes to certain neoconservative journalists. In an article for the Canadian National Post, which was also published on NRO (November 11, 2007), David Frum ...
