January 22, 2012

For Romney, Gray Skies in the Sunshine State?

Mitt Romney - the old reliable - returned to form in South Carolina on Saturday, capturing just 27.8% of the Republican vote.  Or is Vapid Mitt the captive of the quarter to third of the GOP electorate that is oh-so comfortably moderate?  G...

March 20, 2011

DC Metro Subway: Spring Breakers Beware

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April 17, 2010

Trailing Rubio badly, Crist mulls independent bid

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March 3, 2010

China: Dominance or be Damned?

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June 2, 2008

For Liberals, Soldiers are Victims

Not surprisingly, something went unnoticed in the establishment media's coverage of Barack Obama's latest gaffe. What got the play was that Senator Obama had a great-uncle, not an uncle, who was involved, in some way or another, in the liberatio...

April 15, 2008

The Postmodern Campaign

The mask of Serene Connectedness to All has fallen from Senator Obama's  face, revealing a garden variety mountebank and snob.  How else to explain saying that in troubled times small town Pennsylvanians cling to religion and guns like grun...

April 8, 2008

Modern China Strikes Ancient Tibet

No one knows for certain how many Tibetans were killed in Lhasa, Tibet's capital, by Chinese troops in mid-March.  The Chinese claim twenty-odd Tibetans were killed.  Other reports, second and third hand, claim the death toll was as high as...

March 30, 2008

Another Unconservative Moment from John McCain

John McCain's unconservativism was on display this past Wednesday in Los Angeles.  Perhaps not in all ways, but in one telling way.  Before a gathering of the World Affairs Council, the Arizona senator outlined his thinking on national secu...

March 19, 2008

The Real Agenda of Black Liberation Theology

Now, suddenly, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright is misunderstood.  Suddenly, so-called black liberation theology is misunderstood.  Wright's successor at Trinity United Church of Christ, the Reverend Otis Moss III, won't bow to the wishes of ...

March 12, 2008

Is Hillary McCain's Fifth Column?

No one doubts that Hillary Clinton is playing for all the marbles this year.  But what if she fails to undercut Barak Obama's lead and loses her party's nomination?  And what if the Illinois senator goes on to capture the presidency this No...

December 24, 2007

Europe's Empty Cathedrals

Does freedom require religion as religion requires freedom, and what do Europe's empty cathedrals have to do with the question?  Mitt Romney thinks that freedom requires religion, and said so plainly in his much discussed speech about his faith ...

November 27, 2007

When Politicians Decide Healthcare

If you need a good idea of what government-run healthcare would mean to you and your family, look no further than Medicare, or the wrangling taking place in Washington surrounding Medicare funding.With much of the media focused on the Democrats' effo...

October 22, 2007

The Failed Party

The Democratic Party hasn't just taken over the title of The Stupid Party, as Professor James W. Ceaser characterizes it in his much-admired article of the same name in The Weekly Standard. Professor Ceaser insightfully argues that today's Democratic...

September 10, 2007

Senator Tom Harkin, School Nutritionist

The latest newsworthy assault by the Nanny State on freedom and federalism is Senate Bill 771, or The Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act of 2007.    Actually, call it a renewed assault.  The legislation's ch...

September 9, 2007

Richardson's Ploy to Lead the Surrender Party

In a gambit to end-run Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards, Governor Bill Richardson (D-NM) is calling for a complete withdrawal of American troops from Iraq—and quickly.  Richardson, trailing in his party’s presidential s...

August 13, 2007

Democrats Abandoning the Middle?

Will the Democrats abandon the middle in next year's election?  That's the question posed in an op-ed in Friday's Wall Street Journal.  But how can the Democrats abandon what they haven't occupied since, oh, the Kennedy Administration?...

November 26, 2006

The Party of McClellan or McGovern?

It's easy to say what the Democrats won't be in 2008.  They won't be the Party of Franklin Roosevelt or Harry Truman or John Kennedy.  They won't even turn to Woodrow Wilson for inspiration.  None of these presidents truly capture who ...

October 12, 2006

Mexico Needs Reform, Not Mass Emigration

Every pair of feet that cross the Rio Grande is a testament to the utter failure of the Mexican government.  It has failed to provide economic opportunity to millions of its people.  And those people are doing what comes naturally to the wr...