February 14, 2015

The Left's War on the Poor

Why does the Left so hate the poor? For all its pious intonations of compassion, its consistent project has been to make their lives immeasurably harder. We could start, of course, with Johnson’s “War on Poverty” that not only en...

December 26, 2013

Liberalism and its Discontents

Last month's solemn 50th year remembrance of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and its confluence with an event of eventual monumental insignificance provides a useful context in which to contemplate the current state of national politics. The one...

January 24, 2012

He's No Damn Good

We live in cynical times.  Ours is an epoch in which, more often than not, values are trumped by political expediency.  It is a time when self-righteousness masquerades as morality.  Those who claim -- and truly believe -- that theirs ...

December 31, 2011

Our Forefathers' Business

As perennial as the season itself, is the annual emergence of the secular left to file lawsuits challenging the presence of Christian symbols, however benign, on public property.  It is, I suppose, a festive tradition for some whose lives are ot...

November 20, 2011

Parallel Universes

Almost nothing unites the commentariat these days.  But if there is a consensus about anything, it is in the almost universal condemnation of our toxic political culture.  We are certainly more polarized than at any time in living memory. T...