As a congressman and now governor, South Carolina’s Mark Sanford has had one primary guiding principle his entire political career—limited government. Not just limited ...
On the eve of the New Year, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, charged with conspiring to sell the Senate seat of Barack Obama, put the ball back squarely in the court of a Democratic Party ...
The Beltway Right is still venting its collective spleen over Bill Kristol's latest Times op-ed in which he argues, rather elliptically, that the conservative movement and GOP ...
When America declared a “war on poverty” in the 1960’s, it was believed that even more assistance by the federal government would lead to eradicating the ...
The ongoing attempt by Europe's present sorry crop of leaders to permit Turkey to join the European Union is almost incomprehensibly irresponsible. Even the briefest examination ...
“All country people hate each other,” wrote William Hazlitt. “There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there is, they will not give it to ...
In my recent piece on the return of the conservative Democrat, I observed, “It remains to be seen whether the Dixiecrat revival will last.” If Glenn Greenwald has his ...
Now that Hillary Clinton has mercifully pulled the plug on her presidential campaign, the talking heads are consumed with the idea of her accepting the vice-presidential slot. ...
Liberalism views much of history as a morality play. The past was very bad. We are making progress. The future will be better. But every new achievement ...
Daniel J. Flynn has written a book for Crown Press, A Conservative History of the American Left, which is intended to be a "conservative" interpretation of the Left in our ...
Although its their own internecine fight, I have been impressed at the main stream media’s manipulation and outright partisan interference in the Democratic primary. One ...
After losing both houses of Congress in the 1994 election, Bill Clinton expostulated: The president of the United States is not irrelevant! On learning his trusted aide from ...
A longer version of this article went into the Lancaster Newspapers, for which I"m a regular columnist and through which I"m now reaching about half a million readers. ...
The realm of prophecy and prediction is a notoriously dangerous territory in which to venture if one takes things too seriously, but I hope you will forgive a light little wander ...
Is a conservative climate consensus possible? If hard cases make bad law, soft science makes sensible politics even harder. The Climate Wars present legislators on both sides of ...
Ooh, that smell! Can"t you smell that smell? Pew! It's the latest report from the Pew Center on the States, and it concludes that America's voter-registration system ...