The Wannabe Hamilton
On June 13, the resident conservative (which means additional leftist) on The New York Times’ editorial page, David Brooks, revealed his plan for “national greatness,” which Brooks designates as the “Hamiltonian ...
On June 13, the resident conservative (which means additional leftist) on The New York Times’ editorial page, David Brooks, revealed his plan for “national greatness,” which Brooks designates as the “Hamiltonian ...
Most people, including most of the people paid to write public commentary, are innumerate; and that makes much of what they say ...
The history of libertarianism as a doctrine and an organized political movement is of interest these days on account of all the attention garnered by Rep. Ron Paul, the Texas congressman known as "Dr. No," in his ...
Article IV of the Constitution addresses the obligations of the federal government to the state governments that were being asked to surrender aspects of their sovereignty to form our new Union. "The United States shall ...
HOME A judge smacked down Mayor Michael Bloomberg"s soda ban in New York City. Bloomberg vowed to appeal the decision, calling it "irresponsible not to try to do everything we can to save lives." ... The US ...
The end of this month " September 30, 2010, to be exact " will mark the second anniversary of the death of the best conservative newspaper in America, and one of the best newspapers in the country, period. It was ...
Oh dear! A rift has taken place in Hollywood over the killings that are going on in Gaza as I write; mind you, it is a rare one because lefty Tinseltown speaks with one mind when it comes to politics. Conservative actors ...
In the congressional debates on the 1924 Immigration Act, Rep. William N. Vaile of Colorado, one of the most prominent immigration restrictionists, had this to say: Let me emphasize here that the restrictionists of ...
In backing John Brennan's right to keep his top-secret security clearance, despite his having charged the president with treason, the U.S. intel community has chosen to fight on indefensible terrain. Former Director of ...
As Mitt Romney stumbles his way through the Republican primaries, his candidacy has brought renewed scrutiny of the oft-demonized world of private equity. Before venturing into politics, Romney was one of the founders of ...
The inflation from five to ten in Best Picture Oscar nominees means that to have any hope of keeping them all straight in your head, you"ll need to group them. Fortunately, the Best Picture nods fall into five obvious ...
In the left's ongoing war on the police, their plan to strip cops of qualified immunity is among the most preposterous. The sole objective is to jam up cops and make them more passive. Qualified immunity means a police ...
In the sequel, the monster always comes back stronger than before. After a florid incarnation of the so-called “Arab Spring,” Cairo’s inhabitants have just returned election ballots whose resulting extremist successes ...
“Why, oh why, do the wrong people travel?” sang Noel Coward back in the ’30s. Lucky Sir Noel, he never met the present bunch. Just like the Bolsheviks deemed the aristocracy and the intelligentsia as enemies of the ...
In New York City, an unraveling campaign-finance scandal is leading toward the possible resignation and indictment of John Liu, a former city councilman known to be planning a mayoral run. Liu is caught up in a scandal ...
Dear Delphi, My 63-year-old husband behaved terribly on Christmas Eve. He got a bit drunk and stared"really stared"at my 30-year-old son's cute little 24-year-old girlfriend all night! I can put up with the ...
UNESCO headquarters in Paris are offended by the nudes, and so they have been forced to cover up with a thong. Either the prick has become a disturbance or an iconoclastic Taliban has crept in its direction. The result is ...
Personal experience is no guide to statistical reality, a lesson brought home to me recently once again by a trip to London. When I arrived back home from my trip, a copy of The Spectator was waiting for me, and its cover ...
Our long national nightmare is over. Or is it just starting? I’m writing this at 5 a.m. on the 6th. A few postelection notes; nothing heavy. Angel George Floyd earns his hot wings Thanks to the fentanyl-fueled check ...
Contemporary liberalism claims open-ended tolerance as its guiding principle. The claim is an odd one, since every social order accepts some patterns of conduct but not others. Otherwise it would not be a social order at ...
What are Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping up to? In recent days, Russian tanks, artillery, armor, trucks and troops have been moving by road and rail ever closer to Ukraine, and Moscow is said to be repositioning its 56th ...
Dear Delphi, I have offered my daughter-in-law all sorts of economic bribes: private school for her children, an all-expenses-paid vacation"even a free house"but nothing works. She still will not leave my son. I ...
First lady Michelle Obama said, “Let’s Move!” Who knew Democratic politicians in Wisconsin and Indiana would take her literally? Faced with stifling debt, bloated pensions and intractable government ...
Starting shortly before noon last Wednesday, the curly-haired and elfin-faced Kentucky Senator Rand Paul spent thirteen hours filibusterin’ Barack Obama and Eric Holder’s balls about whether the federal ...
