The GOP’s Rush to Suicide

The 2016 presidential primary season has kicked off with a veritable Rainbow Coalition of prospective candidates. Rubio and Cruz are all-in for the GOP, with Fiorina and Carson ...

Ted Cruz’s Lying Circus

It might be a naïveté stemming from my mere 34 years on earth, but is Ted Cruz not the worst charlatan since "€œMan of the People"€ Slick Willie slimed his way into the ...

The Breakers, Palm Beach

Stuck in the Past

I just flew back from Restoration Weekend in Palm Beach, and boy are my arms tired of the old narrative. I was on a panel with James O"€™Keefe and Sonnie Johnson called ...

Governor Ronald Reagan and President Richard Nixon

Goldwater-Rockefeller Redux

“History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” Mark Twain’s insight comes to mind as one observes the panic of Beltway Republicans over the latest polls ...

Chris Christie

Should CPAC Pack it up and Go Home?

Media coverage of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference focused more on who didn’t appear than who did. This suggests that CPAC, as well as the ...

Ronald Reagan

The Winter of Conservative Discontent

As the white flag rises above Republican redoubts, offering a surrender on taxes, the mind goes back to what seemed a worse time for conservatives: December 1964. Barry Goldwater ...

Who’s Afraid of the Fiscal Cliff?

Were the average Republican asked for a succinct statement of his views on taxation, he or she might respond thus: “U.S. tax rates are too high for the world we must ...

Last Hurrah of Nixon’s ‘New Majority’?

Looking back all the way to America’s Civil War, there have been three dominant presidential coalitions. The first was Abraham Lincoln’s. With his war to restore the ...

Michelle Malkin

The Mainstreaming of Michelle Malkin

A recent syndicated column by Michelle Malkin indicates what happens to interesting conservative commentators when they sign on as GOP flacks: They become predictable Republican ...

Mr Donald Trump

Donald Trump, You’re Hired!

Would you vote for The Donald for president? Compared to Obama, anyone with sense would vote for him. Obama is a disaster, like Bush II before him. But what about Trump when ...

Balloon Boy

When a runaway hot-air balloon reported to be carrying a six-year-old boy made headlines last week, many were surprised to find out it had all been a hoax. Admitted the ...

lindsey’s Party

It’s hard to imagine a Republican more useless than South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham. Whether spearheading legislation that would grant amnesty to millions of illegal ...

The White People Party

When Peter Brimelow was still at National Review, he wrote a piece entitled "€œElecting a New People"€ detailing how mass immigration is a disaster for the GOP. He opened ...

A Conservatism That Can Fight Again

As was evident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, it is deja vu, 1961, all over again. We have a young, cool, witty, personable president—and an adoring press ...

Media Discovers Woman Even Dumber Than John McCain

I thought Elizabeth Hasselback, the Republican Party's brain trust on The View, was a little simple. But, intellectually, she towers above the succession of vacuous, narcissistic, ...

Dead Elephants?

For conservatives fretful over the future of the party to which they have given allegiance, How Barack Obama Won: A State by State Guide to the Historic 2008 Election reads like ...


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