Trust No One, Especially Adam Schiff
Adam Schiff has been in government his entire life. The ranking Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has worked as a prosecutor, […]
Trump White House
Cheatin’ Hillary’s Crooked Enablers
You don’t need to master some secret art of literary exegesis to see that the terse four-page Nunes memo—released Friday, despite unprecedented establishment apoplexy over […]
Nefarious or ‘Nothing Burger’? Our Oligarchy on the Nunes Memo
If you aren’t yet persuaded of the existence of a ruling class oligarchy in the United States today, the reactions to the release of the […]
Trump’s DACA Proposal Is the ‘Worst Deal in the History of Deals’
President Trump last week proposed terms for a deal on DACA. Days later Trump reiterated his plan in his State of the Union address, calling […]
NeverTrump “Conservative” Michael Medved: A Look Back
Now that Donald Trump has had what is, by many accounts, an astonishingly successful first year—according to the Heritage Foundation, at any rate, an even […]
Be Grateful Trump Broke the Overton Window
On the eve of the first anniversary President Trump’s Inauguration, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said something remarkable. It points to why many of […]
Making America America Again
If it wasn’t clear to some observers before, President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday should have made plain the meaning of his […]
Trump’s Generosity Reveals Democrats’ Hard Heartedness
The immigration issue is mostly presented in the mainstream media as a story of big-hearted humanitarians versus mean bigots. Immigration restrictionists, by enacting the policies […]
“Semper Petulant”
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.—Proverbs 14:6 The congressional Democrats’ group sulk during the 2018 […]
Johnson Widens his Probe
For most of last week, Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisc), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security committee, was mocked for talking to the press about a […]
Night of the Living Dead
Looking at the Democrats Tuesday night I thought of zombies. No living man or woman could have sat motionless through words to which no living, […]
NASA’s Safety Bureaucracy Tips the Scales Against Private Space
In the past two weeks, two separate reports have come out suggesting that the commercial manned capsules SpaceX and Boeing are building to ferry astronauts […]
The Warmbiers and the Crutches: Bearing Powerful Witness
In our hyper-cynical age, it’s very easy to dismiss political theater as naked manipulation. It becomes much harder to do that when you’re weeping. Between […]
Trump Restores the ‘We’
In The Meaning of Conservatism and several other books, the English philosopher Roger Scruton argues for the importance of the first-person plural—the “We” that binds […]
Three 2018 SOTU Drinking Games
It’s a national tradition almost as venerable as televised State of the Union addresses themselves, to honor the occasion with drinking games. Generally a charming […]
Manhattan’s Shithole Museum
When Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, known for his quirky sense of humor, his bad taste and his sculpture of Pope John Paul II crushed by […]
ICE Troubles With Terrorism
An audit by the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is facing a variety of challenges, particularly with […]
America Needs a New National Security Act
Congress passed the National Security Act of 1947 in response to the rise of Communism and the Soviet Union’s growing global threat. In general, the […]
Deep Staters’ “House of Cards” Delusion
I’m rather late to the party, but I’ve just finished binge watching the first five seasons of House of Cards, thanks to a “smart TV” […]
NeverTrump Pundits Sing Hillary’s Tune
If you need an example of what The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway described as “panic and fear out there in official D.C. in response to dramatic […]