The Spectacle
- British PM May Unloads on Kerry’s Israel Speech
- AAARGH!!!
- Taking the Left Exit
- Small Biz Owners Look Forward to Trump Era
- It Is Both, Mr. Secretary Kerry
- Explaining Obama
- Happy Retirement Dr. Sowell!
- Nine Problems with Westworld (So Far)
- Rogue One: The Force Within and a Christmas Message
- Public Pension Defenders Make Naughty List A Who’s Who of Conservative Organizations
- Biden: Hillary Never Figured Out Vision for Campaign
- A Note About Aleppo
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The Audacity of Denial
“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan,” said John F. Kennedy. The self-serving behavior of Democratic pols since Hillary’s loss adds credence to that observation. Look at how they eagerly explain the defeat away as a failure peculiar to Hillary. She “didn’t know why” she was running, says Joe Biden. They console […]
Christian Trumpkins: A New Model for Evangelical Political Involvement?
White evangelicals voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump. That set off much breast-beating on the religious left as well as among some conservative “Never-Trump” Christians. Whatever the wisdom of casting a vote for The Donald, the willingness of serious believers to look beyond their faith in voting for president is a healthy political development. American religious […]
Trump Nixes Pet Projects of Liberal and Conservative Elites
Editor’s Note: William Murchison is off this week. The following column is by Michael Barone. It’s been a tough year for political elites, here and around the world, what with the passage of Brexit in June in Britain, the repudiation of Colombia’s Nobel Peace Prize recipient in the October FARC referendum and the defeat of […]
Perfidious Obama’s Last Betrayal
My college roommate Ed Atkins and I were commissioned second lieutenants in the US Air Force the day before we graduated in June 1970. My eyes were lousy and Ed’s weren’t, so our paths diverged. I went to law school and he went to flight school, the lucky dog. After all, the mission of the […]
Stanford Rape Judge Demonstrates Need for Judicial Independence
When Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky sentenced Brock Turner, a Stanford freshman convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster, to six months in jail, three years’ probation and lifetime sex-offender registration in June, it was a national story. Legal insiders knew Turner would serve three months — not six — […]
Quitters Never Win
Legendary football coach Vince Lombardi once quipped, “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” Some current football players, however, are betting otherwise, and their actions speak volumes about our modern time. Outside of opening presents on Christmas morning and the ball dropping in Time Square on New Year’s Eve, nothing says the holiday season more […]
This Christmas Season Was Different
Washington I noticed portents that this Christmas season would be different around Thanksgiving time. I noticed it when people unbidden would wish me “Happy Thanksgiving.” There seemed to be a note of exultancy in their greeting. Not everyone would say “Happy Thanksgiving,” but enough did that it got me to wondering. Was this Thanksgiving different, […]
Robert Reich Plots to Help Trump
It was a simple Facebook post. And former Clinton Secretary of Labor Robert Reich got right to the point as headlined here in Mediaite: Former Secretary of Labor Proposes ‘Freedom Concert’ To Overshadow Inauguration The former Secretary’s post (full disclosure: Mr. Reich and I have been occasional sparring partners on CNN) read as follows: Robert […]
Rex Tillerson: The Next George Shultz?
Over the past several weeks, President-elect Trump’s selection of Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State has brought much rebuke from the left for his dealings in Russia and close relationship with President Putin. Notwithstanding the other 100 plus leaders Mr. Tillerson has met with during his esteemed professional career, Tillerson would complement President-elect […]
Our Most Misunderstood President
Herbert Hoover: A Life By Glen Jeansonne (New American Library, 455 pages, $28) Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, may be, in common public perception, the most inaccurately characterized man in the history of the republic. He’s way down on the list of esteemed presidents, because of circumstances almost certainly beyond anyone’s […]