Actually, 2018 Was a Pretty Good Year
The year 2018 will be deplored by pundits as a bad year of more unpredictable Donald Trump, headlined by wild stock market gyrations, the melodramas […]
The Media
The Shutdown Proves How Redundant Government Is
The D.C. media complex is not happy with the partial shutdown of the federal government. The government shutdown drags into the New Year, they tell […]
The Left Will Make 2019 a Dark Year
I rarely make predictions—whether of election results or anything else. My policy has always been to say what I believe should be done, not what […]
Too Perfect: Journalists Dropping the Ball to End 2018
This is almost too good to be true: Several American journalists will be in Times Square on Monday night to drop the New Year’s Eve […]
New Year’s Eve: Marxism-Lennonism Revisited
The New Year’s Eve celebration at Times Square will again this year feature John Lennon’s song “Imagine.” We thought this article, first published in 2017, would […]
The Beauty of Bre Payton
It would have been easy to resent Bre Payton. Blessed with rare natural beauty—she was even more stunning in person than she was in photos […]
Snowflakes or Mistletoe?
Baby, it’s cold everywhere these days, outside and inside. The #MeToo movement has put flirting and romance into a deep freeze. Men across the country […]
The President’s Enemies and Their Confected Drama
It is astonishing to see the ferocity, and breathless, stertorous rage of the Trump-hating media over Michael Cohen’s flip. Because the whole issue is such […]
Merry Christmas—We’re All Gonna Die (Again)!
One of the less salubrious effects of the anti-social network is how everything and anything is deemed the end of the world and, logically, the […]
The Neverending, Mysterious Saga of Michael Flynn
Certainly, no one should defend a top-ranking federal employee’s lying to federal investigators or to his superiors in the Trump Administration, if that is what […]
In Defense of Philip Anschutz
The late William F. Buckley, Jr., published a book several decades ago titled Gratitude, in which, while making a case for mandatory community service, he […]
RINO Droppings: The Legacy of California’s Girlyman Gov
Tani Cantil-Sakauye, chief justice of the California Supreme Court, is giving up her Republican Party registration. The cause, she explained, was the confirmation hearings for […]
The Mental State of the Ruling Class
In some ways, Todd Henderson is living the dream. He has worked as an engineer, a management consultant, a practicing lawyer, and ended up as […]
Two More Good Reasons to Shut Down Mueller’s Probe
Two events this week could provide acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker enough reason to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller: The egregious case against General Michael […]
Free the Kidnapped Canadians in Communist China
Last week, we discussed the national security threat to the United States and her siblings in the family of free nations that is posed by […]
Ballot Fraud, American-Style . . . And Its Bitter Harvests
America’s electoral obsession isn’t Russian meddling anymore. It’s ballot-harvesting, a long-disputed practice implicated in fraud that’s come to the fore with the nationwide embrace of […]
Selling Political Canned Tuna to Voters Who Don’t Own Can Openers
This is not another opinion column picking on Millennials. I promise. This is, rather, an exhortation to Millennials—to all Americans, really—to think hard and think […]
President Trump’s Missed Opportunities
Almost two years into Donald Trump’s presidency, it is time to take stock not only of his many successes, but also of the times when […]
Does ‘Make X Great Again’ Ever Happen in History?
The short answer: Sometimes. Here’s one example. By 527 A.D., the Eastern Roman Empire at Constantinople seemed fated to collapse like the West had a […]
Leftist Grinches See Red over the White House Christmas Display
Last year I wrote that good taste had returned to the White House in the aesthetic arrangement of Christmas decorations. This year, with the theme […]