The Price of Bread

Who would be a politician? It is like living in permanent fear of ambush, with everyone waiting to pounce on the first stupid thing that you say or do. To be a politician, ...

Vietnam War Memorial, Washington D.C.

No Rallying the Troops

There were some 50,000 casualties in the three-day Battle of Gettysburg, more than 8,000 killed, more than 25,000 wounded, many of whom subsequently died, others missing or taken ...

A Woman Should Vote With Her Husband

This election is going to have unprecedented political infidelity. A good 20 percent of husbands for Trump predict their wife won"€™t vote with them. This is wrong for a number ...

Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s Malice in Blunderland

If you want to understand Hillary Clinton's campaign for president, a good place to start is the current libel trial against Rolling Stone for publishing Sabrina Rubin Erdely's ...

St Basil's Cathedral

Let Russia Be Russia

Over the past few months, alleged Russian hackers have revealed that the Clinton camp defrauded the Democratic primary, sold access to the executive branch to state sponsors of ...

Stop the Press!

I hope and pray that October 17, 2016, will be remembered as the day press credibility in America died. The Center for Public Integrity, a liberal nonprofit based in Washington, ...

Star-Spangled Banter

Antonio Cromartie is one of the numerous professional and amateur athletes in America who now refuse to stand during the playing of the national anthem. Cromartie plays for the ...

An Establishment in Panic

Pressed by moderator Chris Wallace as to whether he would accept defeat should Hillary Clinton win the election, Donald Trump replied, “I will tell you at the time. ...

Parliament Without Power

It's important to restrict the power of government"€”any government. In Britain this used to be the task of Parliament, especially the House of Commons. Government was the ...

The Week of Maximum Overdrive

There are less than three weeks left before Election Day and if the next two are anything like this one, we"€™re going to have a heart attack. On Monday, James O"€™Keefe ...

Rigging Elections

Ironically, the most far-reaching scheme to rig this and future American elections isn"€™t being plotted in the Kremlin (as Hillary Clinton and the ruling media warn). Nor is it ...

Is the System Rigged? You Betcha.

“Remember, it’s a rigged system. It’s a rigged election,” said Donald Trump in New Hampshire on Saturday. The stunned recoil in this city suggests this ...

Margaret Thatcher

Speaking of Women

"€œYou write novels. I can"€™t do that. I can only do this sort of thing,"€ she said, meaning her just-published memoirs. Margaret Thatcher knew the potency of flattery, ...

The Golub Gambit

I"€™ve taken a lot of shots at Trump this election season, and there's really no need for me to pile on now. Hell, when your own VP admits that he's ashamed of you, ...

Bill and Hillary Clinton

Sexual Politics

Late last week, the respectable media was shocked, shocked to discover that Donald Trump is a horndog of almost the same caliber as his golf buddy Bill Clinton. One advantage of ...

Acropolis and Parthenon, Athens

Fat Cats Are Wearing Thin

A bunch of charlatans and clowns met in Athens, Greece, at the end of September and, to use an old Greek expression, managed to make a hole in the water. In other words, they ...


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