Ratcliffe Falls to Intelligence Agency Imperialism
President Trump’s withdrawal of the nomination of U.S. Representative John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) to be director of national intelligence on Friday is the latest of his […]
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Trump Single-Handedly Changes the Political Calculus
The two greatest political controversies in the western world in the last several years—the attempt to delegitimize President Trump and the question of Britain’s relations […]
The War on The Obvious
When was the last time you were called racist? If a supporter of President Trump, it’s a safe bet the gross epithet is regularly seared […]
Don’t Kill Whitey
In the cult classic “Black Sheep,” the lead character, played by the late Chris Farley, takes the stage before a raucous audience at a Rock […]
T’was a Nice Republic, While It Lasted
On or around 9 a.m. EST, on July 24, 2019, as a gentle breeze wafted over the gingerly groomed Kentucky bluegrass grounds of the National […]
Putin’s Patsies
A patsy is somebody easily manipulated. A pushover. A chump. A sucker. Look up “patsy” in the dictionary and you should find pictures of Hillary […]
Stepping Over Mueller’s Cadaver
There are few hoaxes in the history of journalism as disgraceful as Russiagate, and few events underscore the media’s shame quite like its tragic, unintentionally […]
Menacing Invective Against Trump Creates Dangerous Climate
Former vice president and current presidential candidate Joe Biden has bragged on two occasions that he would like to beat up President Donald Trump. In […]
Confessions of a Recovering Neoconservative
The realignment of the political Right has prompted a public confessional of sorts, a raw acknowledgement that millions of us were led astray by Republiican […]
Donald Trump at the Overton Window
I shall leave it to the theologians to decide whether it is providential or merely coincidental that it was this very week in 1729, on […]
How to Tell If a Trump Supporter Is Racist
Every non-liberal leftist—that is, nearly every Democrat running for president, New York Times and Washington Post columnist, CNN and MSNBC host, and your left-wing brother-in-law—labels every […]
Democrats’ Attack Machine Revs Up Against Ratcliffe
Twenty minutes before President Trump announced Sunday afternoon on Twitter that Representative John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) would be his choice to replace Dan Coats as the […]
Fiscal Conservatism, R.I.P.
The drama over congressional testimony from Special Counsel Robert Mueller this week obscured other important legislation before Congress—like the mammoth $2 trillion, two-year budget deal […]
Robert Mueller Can’t Recall
Even I, as someone who has been blue in the face shrieking that the Mueller inquiry would be an unutterable fiasco since the day it […]
Covenants Without the Sword
Conor Friedersdorf fancies himself The Atlantic’s resident ethnic White Knight, galloping in to the aid of minorities terrorized by the handful of genuinely conservative pundits […]
Mueller Trips Over His Own Feet
Do you remember when the great Willie Mays fell down chasing a fly ball during the 1973 World Series? Here was Mays, one of the […]
The Day #TheResistance’s Dream Died
It wasn’t supposed to end this way. Donald Trump, not Robert Mueller, was supposed to be broken and vanquished at the hands of his political […]
Don’t Let Mueller Fool You
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday gave a performance in front of the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees that Fox News anchor Chris Wallace […]
Focus on the White House, Not the House, in 2020
Although we have many reasons to be optimistic about the 2020 election, there is one particular battle in which we would be wise instead to […]
The ‘Marlene Effect’: Why Our Reasonable Neighbors Are Blind to the Deep State
In an essay that I published recently at The American Mind, I argue that we need a conservative revolution to reclaim our constitutional republic. Exposing […]