What the Health of the Body Politic Needs Now
Our body politic operates much like our own bodies, alternating between different levels of awareness and activity as it experiences and responds to stimuli. The […]
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NeverTrump Bait and Switch: They Hate the Ideas, Not the Man
Michael Gerson, President George W. Bush’s head speechwriter, paid me the ultimate writer’s compliment last week: he attacked me in print. I count Michael as […]
Kavanaugh Gets the Call: Get Ready for the Smear
Twelve days ago, Justice Anthony Kennedy stepped down and Monday night the pick to replace him was in. President Trump named D.C. Appeals Court Judge […]
Not Your Father’s Supreme Court
President Trump on Monday announced that he was appointing D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. Not […]
Putin Needs a Deal With Trump
The Russian Federation controls one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world. In fact, Russia’s nonstrategic nuclear weapons arsenal is likely larger and more […]
Putting Crime—and the Left—on Ice
A young man is thrown into a jail cell full of haggard prisoners. They are sitting on benches around a central bucket that serves as […]
Donald Trump Wins Mexico’s Election
The weekend winner of Mexico’s presidential election was the leftist-populist former mayor of Mexico City, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known popularly as AMLO). Some commentators […]
Nominating Amy Barrett Would Be Political Genius
The desperation of the Democrats to stop the apparently inexorable rise of a president they so completely discounted and despised, and assumed they could remove […]
Unaccountable Big Media Personified
As Americans were finalizing their holiday plans on July 3, the New York Times quietly announced that Ali Watkins, the reporter caught up in a […]
Will AMLO Become ‘Bernie Sandinista’?
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico’s new socialist president, promised voters to fight corruption, redistribute wealth and encourage illegal immigration to the United States. North of […]
If We’re Nazis, Expect More Violence
Because of the ever-descending moral and intellectual state of the mainstream news media, there has been no outcry against the leftists who call President Donald […]
Neocons Empower America’s Enemies
Whenever neoconservatives speak about the bounties that endless wars of “liberation” will provide, I am reminded of a Jonah Goldberg column from 2002, expounding upon […]
The Great Junker: Bismarck’s Lessons for Today
We Germans fear God but otherwise nothing else in the world and that fear of God causes us to love peace and cultivate it.” — […]
Trump’s Hawaiian Volcano: The Scott-Free Dread of Korematsu
Does the Supreme Court care whether America is free or slave? That was the question 160 years ago, and it remains the question today. The […]
Obama and Bush Were the Autocrats, Not Trump
The supposed autocrat, President Donald J. Trump, relentlessly has followed the law in seeking to gain approval for his executive order placing a temporary travel […]
De-Magnetizing the Border with an Iron Will and a Silver Tongue
After weeks of snarling, teeth gnashing, and Nazi death camp analogies by the media and punditocracy, President Trump ordered family separation of illegal crossers at […]
Kennedy’s Departure Diminishes Supreme Court … And That’s a Good Thing
Since the Earl Warren era, the Supreme Court has assumed enormous power over our politics, and this has become a significant obstacle to the constitutional […]
Harley-Davidson’s Big, Fat Mistake
Harley-Davidson on Monday announced that it would move production for its European customers overseas, in order to avoid the European Union’s (EU) new import duties. […]
Anthony Kennedy Got Tired of All the Winning
For the longest time, NeverTrump “conservatives” have insisted that the only good thing Donald Trump has done as president is to appoint Neil Gorsuch to […]
Faster Feiler, Faster!
The Feiler Faster Thesis posits that the pace of social change is accelerated by the increasing rapidity of the technology used by journalists to report […]