“You have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk.” That was only part of the recent verbal attack mounted by Nigel Farage of the UK ...
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.” From A Tale of Two Cities, Sydney ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote “that there are no second acts in American lives.” In his particular case poor Scott was right. He died broke and forgotten in his early ...
The Underwear Bomber case indicates that whoever is behind these bomb scares is laughing at our gullibility. How realistic is it that al-Qaida, an organization that allegedly ...
It didn’t take the Israel lobby very long to bring President Obama to heel regarding his prohibition against further illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian ...
In my last piece at Taki’s Magazine, I discussed the unprecedented phenomenon of a few Republican Party pollsters and strategists admitting, most times begrudgingly, that ...
“Sometimes party loyalty asks too much,” said JFK. For Sarah Palin, party loyalty in New York’s 23rd congressional district asks too much. Going rogue, Palin ...
Four decades ago, Lamar Alexander worked in Richard Nixon’s White House. Sen. Alexander today says Barack Obama’s White House reminds him of that place, that time, ...
South Carolina’s Jim DeMint is one of my favorite Republicans. The senator’s unwavering opposition to government spending—from “stimulus” and ...
Joe Wilson knows of what he speaks. South Carolina's Republican Representative is what one of my readers has dubbed deliciously a "subject matter expert" on providing ...
God save me from my friends—I can take care of my enemies. So President Obama must be muttering today. Ten days ago, the president played his ace of trumps. He went ...
What happened to the Age of Obama? Glancing over the New York Times Book Review Sunday, one finds three of the top four non-fiction best-sellers were written by ...
Reports of the death of the Republican Party appear to have been premature. Not since Sen. Bob Griffin derailed LBJ’s scheme to replace Chief Justice Earl Warren with crony ...
I’ve never been a big fan of Sarah Palin not because I ever thought she was exceptionally bad but because she never struck me as exceptional, period. By 2008, George W. ...
Almost begrudgingly, I remain a conservative despite the rampant hypocrisy, ineptness and illogic of many who subscribe to the label. I also remain a conservative because no ...
The health care bill unveiled this week by the House of Representatives (with the full support of the Obama administration) is one of the worst pieces of legislation ever drafted. ...