The Continuing Irrelevance of Hillary Clinton and the DNC
Hillary Clinton was interviewed recently by Christiane Amanpour for the vacuously (and ironically) entitled “Women for Women” summit in New York City. During the colloquy, […]
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The Obamas and the Clinton Road to Perdition
Hillary and Bill Clinton were a proud, progressive power couple who came into big-time state politics on promises of promoting “fairness” and “equality.” It did […]
Elizabeth Warren Is Fighting the Wrong Fight (Part I)
While promoting her new book, This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Senator Elizabeth […]
Trump Critics Exude Desperate Political Nihilism
I am glad that Donald Trump skipped the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday and instead went to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for a rally commemorating his first […]
The President Deserves a Good Solid Pass
The entire focus on President Trump’s first hundred days was just an effort by the media opposition to proclaim his administration a failure. No president […]
Trump Is Bad at Being a Tyrant
Donald Trump is a truly dynamic figure. Many Republicans understood after the disasters of 2008 and 2012 that the party needed someone different. Some of […]
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Ridiculous ‘100 Days’ Report
The Southern Poverty Law Center is at it again. At the hundred-day mark of President Trump’s administration, the center has released a report that purports […]
A Retrospective on Trump’s First 100 Days, Part 1
Author’s note: This article has been prepared in line with the factual standards employed by CNN and Buzzfeed. Any “fake news,” therefore, cannot be present. […]
Judge Orrick’s Nullification of the Rule of Law
Back in March 2016, the Obama Administration threatened to withhold federal education dollars from the state of North Carolina if the state did not repeal […]
How the Obama Precedent Empowered Trump
Donald Trump was elected president by sizing up the Electoral College, and the voting public, and then campaigning accordingly. A number of the things that […]
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a European White House Correspondent
I was fortunate to be among some 50 conservative journalists and writers invited to a private reception and press briefing at the White House on […]
Oilman Rex Tillerson and Ukraine
“Why should U.S. taxpayers be interested in Ukraine?” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was heard, or overheard, to ask at a recent meeting of the […]
The NEH Can’t Be Mended, So End It
My friend Rob Koons is less cynical than I am. He thinks that a “reformed [National Endowment for the Humanities] could be the spear point […]
A Call to Mend, Not End the NEH
In its draft budget, the Trump administration has proposed the abolition of the National Endowment for the Humanities, as part of a dramatic reduction in […]
How Trump’s First Three Months Point the Way to Three Percent Growth
The great nineteenth-century man of letters William Dean Howells once made a remark that I have long cherished as a sort of personal motto: “The […]
Cue the Balloon Pop on Dem Hopes for 2018
If over the past few weeks your only source of news was CNN or MSNBC, you might think that Donald Trump’s presidency is in a […]
Trump Can and Should Troll the Media on Sanctuary Cities
After Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a valiant speech this past week in Nogales, Arizona affirming that the U.S. border should actually be a border, […]
How to Actually Fix SCOTUS
Judge Gorsuch of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has recently been confirmed as Justice Gorsuch of the United States Supreme Court. Since then, there […]
The Agony of Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter was one of the earliest and most outspoken supporters of Donald J. Trump. She stood by him during his earliest campaign “scandals” and […]
Foolish to Choose Morning Joe Crowd Over Bannon and Voters
The empire always strikes back. And permanent Washington wants to retake the power and prestige it lost at the hands of Donald Trump over the […]