October 25, 2023

Hamas and the Politics of Hell

A profound irony of Israel’s latest grim suffering is that the knife- and gun-wielding Palestinian (Hamas-sponsored) terrorists and their leftist cheerleaders in the American academy reveal a deplorable collusion between what ordinarily would b...

October 23, 2020

Joe Biden and the coal miners: Apex of hypocrisy

Just how much of a leftist is Joe Biden? Remarks that Biden made in December 2019 about the flexible abilities of coal miners are a revelatory starting point.  Campaigning in New Hampshire, the former vice president argued with consid...

May 12, 2019

Someone explain to Alexandria how rich people get rich

The first-term Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's ambitiously socialist Green New Deal to decarbonize the U.S. economy and create jobs isn't a metaphor for money — although it will require all of yours and much more just to attemp...

November 2, 2012

Lies, Damned Lies, and Goddamned Lies

Campaigning in Iowa, October 24, 2012, President Barack Obama said, in front of God and everybody, that he's no flip-flopper: "There's no more serious issue on a presidential campaign than trust. Trust matters. ... You know that I say what I mean and...

April 2, 2011

Simon & Schuster's Revenge

In 1993, thirty-three-year-old Barack Obama stiffed Poseidon Press, then an imprint of Simon & Schuster -- producing absolutely nothing for the publisher that in November 1990 had given the new graduate of Harvard Law School a $125,000 advance to...