The lady has to do better
It is really a shame that Sarah Palin, who reminds me of Donna Reed in "It's a Wonderful Life", has already flubbed her first test in standing up to the left. When a walking human embodiment of sheer vileness ...
It is really a shame that Sarah Palin, who reminds me of Donna Reed in "It's a Wonderful Life", has already flubbed her first test in standing up to the left. When a walking human embodiment of sheer vileness ...
It is fitting that one of the signal events of what will likely become the second Bush recession has been the Federal Reserve's propping up of the Wall Street firm Bear Stearns. For years, Wall Street has opposed any such ...
At least I did until I read this quite terrible argument. Matt’s trying to argue that government will inevitably get larger so we needn’t worry about how much of the economy is swallowed by the ...
As Israel entered the third week of its Gaza blitz, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert regaled a crowd in Ashkelon with an astonishing tale. He had, said Olmert, whistled up George Bush, interrupted him in the middle of a speech ...
“Nothing can come of nothing” Shakespeare’s King Lear said, and it would appear that this truism has finally been recognized by the individuals who put together the current “National Intelligence ...
There have been two intriguing book reviews over last weekend in the establishment press. Both concern the overriding topics of war and peace and the future of America. The first article was in Friday’s New York ...
So what’s a few hundred dead Palestinian children when Tzipi and Ehud have gained eight to ten points in the polls? They were terrorist babies, anyway. So what if the Egyptians and Saudis are ignoring them while spending ...
Perhaps I"m missing something big in the "movement conservative" accounts about what we should be doing to the Russians for their invasion of Georgia. But so far all I"ve encountered is more of the usual ...
As interesting as I find the back and forth among Messrs. Weyrich, Gottfried, and others, I think we’re missing the forest fire for the trees: Recently imposed FCC regulations, which take effect this month, will ...
It’s out of control, all right. Not just the the hijacked governance of the world’s "lone surviving Superpower"—but the entire social and intellectual landscape of America. We are indeed in ...
One of my favorite moments in my long life was election nite 2004, chez Bill Buckley, where I had spent every presidential election since 1972. Henry Kissinger approached me and asked—referring to the magazine Pat ...
While his party moves Right under Obama, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham remains the quintessential big government Republican. Six months into his presidency, the most significant difference between Obama and Bush ...
The most successful anti-immigration parties in Europe are regionalist/secessionist parties. They are "apolitical" because they do not particularly like politics. Their militants, members and voters do not like the ...
A few days ago I was diverted from working on my computer by an exchange on FOX between Bill O"Reilly and someone described as his "ombudswoman." The lady in question pointed out to O"Reilly that he had been ...
"The unexpected gift of the invasion of Iraq has really been more than bin Laden ever dreamed was possible." —Michael Scheuer, former head of the bin Laden tracking unit at the CIA. Professor ...
My post last week opposing "unselfishness" as a modern, secular liberal perversion of Christian ethics provoked quite a bit of comment, on this site and others. One poster, Kari Konkola (see the comments thread ...
"I am going to teach [them] to elect good men."—President Woodrow Wilson, referring to his decision in 1914 to invade Mexico. (Quoted in Peter Smith, Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics of U.S.-Latin American ...
I believe that the Democrats, most likely with Senator Hillary R. Clinton (D-NY) as the nominee, will win. The Republicans, regardless of who they nominate, will lose because of the war in Iraq. Voters want to punish the ...
There is much about last night's result that are dispiriting. Ron Paul had respectable showings in Alaska and Montana, and broke 15% in many of the contests; however, it's difficult not sense that hopes for a real ...
In a review of Jonah Goldberg’s recently published book, Liberal Fascism —the cover alone which caused a minor blogospheric dust-up in the months prior to publication—Matt Yglesias writes on his Atlantic ...
NEW YORK—At an outdoor luncheon party in Sussex celebrating Willy Shawcross’s birthday some years ago, I asked his then 95-year-old father whom did he find the most interesting man at Nuremberg. “Goring,” was ...
Unless I"m mistaken, the liberal-neocon establishment will black out my new book, on the conservative movement, with the same dogged malice it brought to bear against my previous five works, including a tome published ...
Like many a corporate "rebranding" effort, Mitt Romney's political persona has gone through a series of remarkable transformations this past year: he began as a dynamic corporate executive who gave everyone in ...
This past weekend, I was in Alabama at a Mises Institute conference and got to hear Ron Paul speak on his "dealings with Fed Chairmen." All the familiar Paulian themes were sounded and constant throughout was the ...
