May 11, 2019

I wish Stephen Moore had taken a leaf out of Adlai Stevenson's book

Well, they got another one.  This time it's Stephen Moore, Trump's nominee for the Federal Reserve Board.  Most fair-minded people would say he is eminently qualified, a serious, accomplished and respected economist whom s...

August 10, 2018

How the Press Lies about Itself

Ever notice how the press smushes stuff together?  If you say something about illegal immigration, like how you don't want it, the media say you're against immigration in general, which is to say "brown people," which is t...

July 14, 2018

Strzok, the FBI, and Bias

Peter Strzok asks us to give him a pass based on the contention that everyone has political beliefs, everyone has biases, and he’s no different, except, okay, as an FBI agent his obligation is to be scrupulous, even fanatical, about not acting ...

May 3, 2018

Did Comey Learn His Monkey Trick from Adam Schiff?

How the heck do they do it, Comey and Schiff?  Each can deliver a string of half-truths, contradictions, outlandish obfuscations, distortions, misrepresentations, and even preposterously self-serving whoppers in a way – and here...

March 29, 2018

How Do You Really Feel about David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez?

A proposed thought experiment for my liberal friends: What if the Parkland students – and the hundreds of thousands of other fired up adolescents who gathered around the nation last weekend – were not on your team?  What if...

March 5, 2018

And the award for Most Insufferable Virtue-Signaling goes to...

It is unclear just when the cosseted, self-referential cohort of Hollywood elite began to believe themselves to be the most compassionate, enlightened people who have ever lived.  When was it, exactly, that they acquired the absolute certai...

March 20, 2017

A Spectator’s Guide to the Gorsuch Hearings

What’s All This Business About Chevron Deference, The Right of Privacy, and… Stare Decisis? Taking in a Supreme Court confirmation hearing can be like watching a Cricket match: There are a lot of people running around purposefully, bu...

November 23, 2015

Donald Trump's Deportation Gambit

Donald Trump has no more idea how he's going to deport twelve million people than John Kennedy knew how he was going to put a manned spacecraft on the moon. But then, Kennedy was a visionary and Trump is an imbecile, right? Also, Kennedy ha...