A Clusterf%$# of American Proportions
We Americans like big things. The Big Mac, the big car, the big house. For their part, American leaders tend to love big foreign policy […]
The Media
Look Upon the Media’s ‘Life of the Mind’
Every word she writes is a lie,” Mary McCarthy once said of Lillian Hellman, “including ‘and’ and ‘the.’” This wisecrack got her sued by the […]
The Rise of People Who Actually Say Things
Over the past two weeks, Senators Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) have both announced they will run for president in 2020. These announcements […]
The Sun Also Pounces
Like an ex-journalist and current lush from Pamplona who thinks no one knows he’s loaded because he guzzles vodka—we’ll call him Ernie—the legacy media is […]
But, Seriously . . . Learn to Code
This has been a week of massive layoffs at the online magazines of our era, Huffington Post and BuzzFeed. Having evolved from mere opinion journals, […]
A Better Guide than Elite Opinion Is Public Revulsion at It
Some expert in Bayesian probability ought to come up with an algorithm that would enable us to determine which of the multifarious daily outrages are […]
Auditing Our Auditors
The Roman satirist Juvenal, in a famous passage, asked, “Who will watch the watchmen?” That problem of policing the police has troubled Western thinkers from […]
Who Am I to Judge? (Except Kids in MAGA Hats)
At the outset of his papacy, Pope Francis was asked about a suspected gay lobby in the priesthood and he famously said, “Who am I […]
What the Covington High Schoolers Taught America
What is the real lesson of the Covington Catholic School incident last week at the Lincoln Memorial? Decent Americans are rightly appalled at the deliberate […]
Should the FBI Run the Country?
Since the media would doubtless answer that loaded question, “It depends on the president,” let us imagine the following scenario. Return to 2008, when candidate […]
#Quityerbitchin: My Day at the Women’s March
Imagine my surprise when I showed up to participate in my local Women’s March, only to find the streets empty and a lone dog sniffing […]
Giving Pelosi a Taste of Her Own Medicine
Oh, boy. The look on Representative Adam Schiff’s face was priceless as the California Democrat disembarked the Air Force bus on Thursday. A few days […]
Walls Are Closing in on the FBI—and Its Media Accomplices
Those of us who have closely followed the unfolding scandal at the Justice Department— particularly how the FBI abused its power not only to spy […]
The New York Times Proves There’s No Russia Collusion
The New York Times wants you to believe that President Trump “colluded” with Russian intelligence to swing the 2016 presidential election in his favor. A […]
Boy George: NeverTrump Columnist Becomes an Obama Groupie
No European nation,” writes George Will in a recent column, “was as enchanted as Germany was by Barack Obama’s studied elegance and none is more […]
The Media’s Trump-Russia Death Spasms
This week’s confirmation hearings for William Barr, the former U.S. attorney general nominated by President Trump to serve in that post once again, are expected […]
Do the Math: Trump’s Wall Is $25 Billion, Illegals Cost $165 Billion
Scott Adams, the creator of the popular cartoon “Dilbert,” transformed himself into a persona non grata in 2016 by exposing how Donald Trump manipulated the […]
Unfit Media Prejudged Trump’s Oval Office Speech
Long before Americans tuned in for President Trump’s Oval Office address on border security, liberal journalists already had their attack plan in place. They didn’t […]
Mitch McConnell’s Complicity with Democrats
The partial government shutdown is well into its second week. And given the mix of Democrat enthusiasm and complete Republican apathy, it looks like it […]
‘Mars’ Lays Leftist Fearmongering on a Whole New World
If you haven’t watched, you would think the National Geographic Channel’s cable series “Mars,” would be a straightforward dramatization of human colonization of the Red […]