January 24, 2022

Come on, man

Even at his most cogent, Joseph R. Biden is one of the strangest men in American political history. Last week's press conference was but his latest harrowing misadventure.  His staff were doubtless in the wings perspiring through the...

December 9, 2021

Governor Charlie Baker must ride along

Some residents of the Commonwealth have witnessed or seen footage of Massachusetts State Police troopers who have been removed from their posts by the illegal order of the oaf governor, Charlie Baker. If not, the scenario usually plays out this wa...

December 24, 2019

Dingell and civility in politics

John Dingell probably would have laughed at President Donald Trump's allusion that Dingell was perhaps "looking up" at the political scene.  It is no exaggeration to say that of all of the politicians on the scene since 195...

June 26, 2015

You're Out, Barry

Sorry, Mr. President, but as your wife might declare "Let's move!" You must leave the White House immediately because it will soon be razed. Don't protest. It's not really your house as you told that poor LGBT person. Besides, w...

February 14, 2015

A Modest Proposal

It is said that suspended NBC anchorman Brian Williams earns $10 million a year to approve stories for the air on the “NBC Nightly News,” read the script for the program, and introduce pieces by various correspondents during the program. ...

September 30, 2013

I Will Not Comply

Like most members of the Congress that passed it and, undoubtedly, the president of the United States who signed it, I have not read the entirety of the ill-named Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  Yet there is one aspect concerning th...

June 8, 2013

John Dingell: 20,997 Days in Congress, and Counting

A Thousand Days was the poignant title of historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s book about the brief administration of John F. Kennedy.  If a historian were to write such a book about the never-ending congressional career of Rep. John D. Ding...

May 16, 2013

The Burden Is on Us

The Obama administration is drowning in the tsunami of its lawlessness.  As Barack Obama and his ridiculous crew of spokespersons and sycophants continue to lie and misdirect about the growing scandals of the Benghazi massacre; the Internal Reve...

April 26, 2013

Boston Demands That We Know Our Enemy

The Boston Marathon bombing was not a tragedy. The Boston Marathon bombing was another act of war perpetrated against the United States by Islamic jihadists. Two barbarians transformed the finish line of a marathon into a battlefield that shoul...

March 16, 2013

Coolidge: A Politician Uncannily Deserving of Respect

"Debt takes its toll." So begins Coolidge, the magnificent new biography of the 30th president of the United States by bestselling author and free-market journalist Amity Shlaes.  No writer is perhaps better-suited to write a biography of the ...

February 3, 2013

Review: The Caning: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War

A haughty, self-involved United States senator from Massachusetts was recognized on the Senate floor and began to speak... It's not what you think.  This is not a story about Elizabeth Warren in the Senate, nor a review of John Kerry's speech th...

January 16, 2013

Weary of the Spectacle

John Adams unwittingly described life in Barack Obama's America when he said "The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle."  Such weariness extends to Obama's second inauguration. It will be a tragic spectacl...

December 28, 2012

The Ambassador From Massachusetts

Speculation is running wild here in Massachusetts over who will run to replace current U.S. senator John Kerry once his nomination to become U.S. secretary of state is approved without protest by the good ole boys club in the Senate. Names bandi...

November 7, 2012

周慮歳

This is a thank you note to a good man. Thank you for turning aside from a life of ease and security to run for the presidency against an incumbent. Thank you for enduring the slander of you, your family, and your faith perpetrated by a criminally ne...

October 25, 2012

Romnesia

We are all Republicans -- we are all Federalists. A new birth of freedom. My hat is in the ring. The New Deal. The silent majority. The New Frontier. The buck stops here... Romnesia? As he has demonstrated in all other aspects of his presidency, Bara...

October 17, 2012

Journalists as Professionals

Let us benevolently stipulate that journalism is a profession. Is there any other profession that requires such a low level of skill to enter? Journalists fancy themselves the equal of doctors, lawyers, and chief executives. This is evidenced by the...

October 12, 2012

A Rather Special World

Vice President Joe Biden's histrionics during his appearance with Paul Ryan was leftism in microcosm. Most grounded individuals are today wondering what would cause Biden to behave in such an un-statesmanlike fashion.  But is it really so surpri...

October 11, 2012

Biden's Burden

At a critical time for the Democratic Party as presently constituted, the party sees fit to present a fool, following a venerable tradition: "The Democratic Party can always be relied on to make a damn fool of itself at the critical time." - Sen. Ben...

September 14, 2012

A Helpful Suggestion for The Late Show

Poor David Letterman. No matter what he does, from innuendo about Bristol Palin to his own sex scandal, he just can't seem to beat the even less amusing Jay Leno in the competition for pole position in the late night ratings. Have I got an idea for h...

September 11, 2012

Time and Action Do Not Heal All Wounds

To paraphrase the first Republican president, the world will little note nor long remember what the Democrats said at Charlotte last week.  Yet on the eleventh anniversary of the most egregious attack against these United States, we should note ...

August 27, 2012

Neil Armstrong: 'There Was Work to Do'

There is no American civilian more deserving of a state funeral than Neil Alden Armstrong. But to hold one, as some have suggested, would go against the modest ethic that Armstrong demonstrated his entire life. Perhaps the most astonishing thing abou...

August 26, 2012

Review: 2016: Obama's America

At the conclusion of his film 2016: Obama's America, producer and star (or featured narrator, if you will) Dinesh D'Souza asks viewers whether we will pursue the American dream or Barack Obama's dream. That dream, as D'Souza argues, is the defeat of ...

August 13, 2012

The New Generation Offers a Leader

While Paul Ryan has been well-known on the national political scene for quite some time, he is a relatively new face to the public at large. His introduction as the likely 2012 Republican Party vice-presidential nominee on Saturday put me in mind of ...

August 11, 2012

For Us or against Us

A vote for incumbent president Barack Obama in November is a vote against the United States Constitution.  Furthermore, it is a vote for one's own enslavement. No American president has demonstrated such contempt for the Constitution, the concep...

June 30, 2012

Review: The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas

"It's a cliché because it's true" goes a cliché.  Yet as National Review powerhouse and American Enterprise Institute fellow Jonah Goldberg demonstrates in his new book The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas, many of the ...

May 2, 2012

Black Teen Run Off the Liberal Plantation

Do you know the name Jada Williams? You probably know the name Sandra Fluke.  She received a phone call from the incumbent president after the mean old white man on the radio called her a name.  You probably know the name Trayvon Martin....

March 13, 2012

Who Is the Leader of the Free World?

Two heads of state delivered speeches last week in Washington, D.C. They spoke from the same podium on consecutive days. The subject was the right of a sovereign nation to defend itself from a country run by radical Islamic fundamentalists that may s...

March 1, 2012

A Salute to Florence King

"I don't think I'm going to live much longer." In her usual direct manner, 76 year-old Florence King announced that her column, "The Bent Pin," in the March 5, 2012, edition of National Review would be her last. She has been dropping hints several re...

February 10, 2012

Obama's 'accommodation'

Putting aside for a moment the cosmic joke that has become the Obama administration generally, and the latest episode in the saga of his minions eviscerating the Constitution, don't you just love the use of the word "accommodation" to describe Obama'...

February 3, 2012

Don't insult the Edsel by comparing it to the Volt

It is understandable when people, as Rick Moran did in his February 2, 2012, AT blog post, compare boondoggles such as the Chevy Volt to the Edsel. But the Volt is not comparable the Edsel.The Edsel certainly had its problems. Edsel is a bizzarre nam...

January 1, 2012

Constitutional Education at Your Fingertips

It is easy to decry the state of higher education in the United States, an arena in which William Ayers is a decorated figure.  But if you have access to a computer with an internet connection, you can rediscover a lost faith in academia and rea...

December 17, 2011

Review: Throw Them All Out by Peter Schweizer

Want to get rich quick?  Forget those insipid real estate infomercials that air in the dark hours of the early morning; just get yourself elected to Congress! In his new book Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off I...

November 12, 2011

The Rise and Fall of College Football in One Trophy

Since most every move it makes turns into a ham-fisted mess, the administration of the Big Ten Conference could not have realized they were making one of the most ironic statements on the rise and fall of college football in America when they decided...

September 30, 2011

American Citizens and the Drift from First Principles

Earlier this month I was present at a public appearance by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, who had just finished touring a thriving and growing business on the North Shore.  Following his tour, the governor delivered a gracious presentatio...

May 11, 2011

Citizen Cain

Now is the time to test whether the Tea Party means business because, judging by last week's Republican presidential debate, the Tea Party candidate for president in 2012 is self-evident.Herman Cain is the ideal Tea Party candidate.  Herman Cain...

April 19, 2011

Leaving Detroit

If you leave on the freeway well before dawn, when the early morning is dark, the skyline seems as magnificently inspiring as most any other American city -- beckoning the bold and ambitious to follow in the footsteps of the giants who, in the proces...

January 29, 2011

Colonel America

Edmund Morris is a difficult man to characterize.  In one light, Morris is the man who squandered a fortune when, having been named the official biographer of Ronald Reagan, he offered nothing more than Dutch. In another light, Edmund Morris is ...

January 20, 2011

Civility comes to basketball?

Taking my cues in life -- as I always do -- from the arbiters of moral rectitude at CNN and MSNBC, I am, as John King said the other night, "trying to get away from that kind of language." What kind of language? Why, the martial language em...

December 24, 2010

Arlen Specter's Club

Arlen Specter's rabid outburst on the floor of the United States Senate the other day was nothing out of the ordinary for his particular brand of politician. A political opportunist baring his teeth and foaming at the mouth in fury at what he perceiv...

November 20, 2010

George W. Bush: His Own Man

George W. Bush is no Ulysses S. Grant.In introducing his new memoir Decision Points, President Bush reveals his reliance upon the example of one of his predecessors' literary approach. Utilizing George W. Bush's presidential identification process, ...

November 8, 2010

Peace and Quiet for President

This past September, largely ignored amid the tumult of the election season, Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana quietly delivered an address at Hillsdale College. This address was not shown live on the cable nets, although it should have been. It was not rep...

August 30, 2010

The Education of Glenn Beck

Depending on where you get your news, I was one of about 87,000 -- or a number approaching 350,000 -- on the National Mall this past Saturday at Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" event. Despite the scoffing and screaming of the knights of the ...

August 3, 2010

Desperation and the Enemy We Face

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July 27, 2010

Primary Target

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress." - John AdamsIn pundit parlance, Michigan's 6th Congressional District is most assuredly "safe Repu...

June 19, 2010

The Right Hates Soccer? Really?

Scribe Dave Zirin recently published a few thoughts on why right-wingers despise soccer. His rant was published on NPR's website, curiously in the form of "content sharing" with The Nation, for whom Zirin often writes. Our tax dollars ...

June 5, 2010

They called him 'Coach'

His obituaries will document his success as the "Wizard of Westwood," the UCLA coach who won ten national championships in twelve seasons; the coach who masterminded an 88 game winning streak; the coach whose Pyramid of Success is studied b...

May 5, 2010

The Sound of Silence in Tigertown

Ernie Harwell died last night. He was 92. He had been fighting cancer of the bile duct and an inoperable tumor. He had, in his own words, “a grand life.” Recently, when folks about town asked him how he was doing, he would not say di...

April 16, 2010

A conservative challenger in Michigan to a GOP congressman

Of the various tea party rallies today, there is at least one that portends good things for conservative constitutionalism.That happening is in Kalamazoo, where a man named Jack Hoogendyk is announcing his candidacy to challenge Rep. Fred Upton (R) i...

April 4, 2010

Obama's narcissism knows no bounds

Those of us watching the NCAA semifinals hoping to take a few hours away from the never-ending campaign and ever-present image of Barack Obama beamed into our living rooms should have known better.Despite being totally unwilling to release any meanin...

February 13, 2010

Muslim resistance to full body airport scanners

According to the Detroit Free Press, something called the Fiqh Council of North America (ostensibly a group of Islamic scholars) has declared via fatwa that Muslims are prohibited from passing through body scanners at airports. "Fiqh" is a...

January 11, 2010

Eric Holder, Dems Turn Their Bigoted Eyes to You

Because the current administration's existence seems infinite, it is striking to note that not even a calendar year has passed since Attorney General Eric Holder declared the United States "a nation of cowards," and that Americans "sim...

January 8, 2010

An Inconvenient Invoice

Dear Al,I really hate to bother you again. It's been about a year since I last wrote you. As you may recall, I invoiced you for the purchase of a brand new snow blower that I purchased at Sears. I must say I am somewhat surprised I never heard b...

November 23, 2009

A Death in the Family

Ayone who lives in our neighborhood knew when the mail was about to arrive when Marcus was on his route.Marcus has been our regular letter carrier for the last couple of years. Built like a tank, he indeed played some college football at Mississippi ...

November 19, 2009

President Obama at Gettysburg

Today is the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. I thought it might be fun to imagine how Obama would have altered Lincoln's prose for his own purposes had he the chance in 1863.The Executive MansionOffice of the President's Secreta...

November 17, 2009

Steve Schmidt: Sore loser

Steve Schmidt is a loser.That is not a smear but a documented fact. Schmidt managed the McCain for President campaign. McCain, as you will recall, lost to Barack Obama in the 2008 election. Schmidt and his candidate bungled the campaign so badly that...

October 15, 2009

The No Fairness League

"I've said many times before, we're all held to a high standard here. I would not want to see those comments coming from people who are in a responsible position in the NFL -- absolutely not."- Roger Goodell, NFL CommissionerSo says the man...

October 1, 2009

Happy Birthday, Mr. President

Jimmy Carter is 85 today. He is lately much in the news for his observations and commentary on public affairs -- most notably his assertions that criticism of Barack Obama comes from racist impulses, and his never-ending scrutiny of the bad, bad Isra...

September 25, 2009

Irony, thy name is Ayers

William Ayers took note of the throngs of protesters who greeted him at Purdue University last night, saying in essence that the protestors know not what they do and that they protest "a cartoon character, not me," according to the Lafayett...

September 22, 2009

The Few. The Proud. The Ayers Audience at Purdue.

According to this snippet in the Chicago Tribune, fewer than 100 seats will be available to a specially selected group of faculty and students when William Ayers shows up at Purdue University Thursday night. Interim dean of the College of Liberal Art...

September 7, 2009

Ayers to defile Purdue University

William Ayers will appear at Purdue University on September 24th as a panelist about urban schools as part of the first annual Cummings-Perrucci Annual Lecture on Race, Class, and Gender Equality. Ayers will hit the campus in West Lafayette, Ind...

August 17, 2009

Who Does John Dingell Think He Is?

As have his junior colleagues, the dean of the United States House of Representatives has been much in the news lately. Rep. John Dingell was confronted at a recent town hall meeting in Romulus, Michigan, by a number of citizens outraged over his sup...

August 11, 2009

Kenneth Gladney: 21st century Crispus Attucks

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) thugs beat Mr. Gladney during a recent St. Louis town hall meeting. His crime in the eyes of a "service" employee was selling paraphernalia celebrating and advocating freedom. For his transgressi...

August 3, 2009

The Heat is On

August is the best month of the entire year. Congress adjourns for a month-long recess in August and our representatives have the chance to spend the month in their home districts and states, unable to pass legislation. Weather-wise, August means sti...

July 19, 2009

Where is the United Methodist Church on Iran?

"June is Torture Awareness Month," trumpeted the website of the United Methodist Church's General Board of Church and Society all last month. "United Methodists Do Not Torture."United Methodists may not torture, but the tyrannical...

July 16, 2009

A Real Curve for White Sox Fans

So the President of the United States cannot throw a baseball with any sort of velocity or modicum of athletic grace. So what? He is at best an average basketball player, but it's easy to look great when you aren't being guarded.Certainly it would be...

July 16, 2009

Monica Conyers, Shakedown Artist?

"This b***h is a trip."So said Detroit political consultant Sam Riddle -- now under federal indictment for bribery -- about his erstwhile partner in crime, Monica Conyers, wife of Rep. John Conyers. The Detroit Free Press has the indictment...

June 26, 2009

Monica Conyers pleads guilty (updated)

Few "public servants" have been as arrogant and prideful without merit as Monica Conyers, member of the Detroit City Council. Today she has finally reaped a bit of what she sowed by pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery in a ...

June 8, 2009

Ayers and Dohrn on C-SPAN

Many thanks to Peter Barry Chowka for patiently sitting through C-SPAN's airing of William Ayers so the rest of us did not have to subject ourselves to Ayres and his preening nonsense. A few notes on BookTV's format from a former employee of C-S...

May 30, 2009

Judge Sotomayor, Empathize This!

We are told by our betters to accept prima facie Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's quite astonishing statement that the "richness" of her experience and derivative empathy automatically leads to better legal reasoning. Fine, let's acc...

April 4, 2009

Carl Levin and the ruins of Detroit

As Opening Day of the 2009 baseball season is tomorrow, it is fitting to note that no image better illustrates where our once-great nation is heading and why than the decrepit, half-standing former home of the Detroit Tigers, where a Major Leagu...

February 20, 2009

A Nation of Cowards?

Of course, Eric Holder is correct.When it comes to race we Americans are, for the most part, a nation of cowards. This cowardice was on full display during the most recent presidential election and continues today. As they are in so many other areas ...

February 12, 2009

In Detroit, crime pays

In Detroit, crime pays.How else to explain recently released convict and ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick being hired  by Compuware chairman Peter Karmanos, Jr., to a post with the latter's affiliate company in Texas? The company, Covisint, develops ne...

February 7, 2009

The (Peripatetic) One

Does the following remind you of anyone you have come to know?"And not a news cycle rolled around, not an edition went to bed, not a talk show went on the air without President Me getting in his two, or two thousand, cents. He talked and talked....

January 15, 2009

A Great and Good Man bids Adieu

Tonight President George W. Bush bids the nation his official farewell, the final address he will deliver from behind the Resolute desk in the Oval Office. It may be said that no president who has ever sat behind that desk lived up to its name more t...

January 14, 2009

An Inconvenient Invoice

Dear former Vice President Gore:Enclosed please find the original copy of a receipt from Sears for the brand new  Craftsman Snow Thrower 71-88790 purchased today. You may remit payment to the return address provided on the envelope. As they...

January 10, 2009

Get to Work, Big Man

We will not tolerate politicians who are corrupt and break the law. And we promise you we will go after the corrupt politicians on our side first. If we fail to do this, we need you to call us on it. Simply because we are in power does not give us th...

January 4, 2009

The Case for The American Cause

It is no exaggeration to conclude that the political landscape of the United States is one of chaos borne of ignorance and outright disdain for our nation's founding principles and values.Over 60 million people voted for a sloganeering dilettante fro...

December 17, 2008

Fate of the Free Press

Yesterday the Detroit Free Press announced that come next year, the paper will be delivered to home subscribers only three days a week (Thursday, Friday, and Sunday). This, according to the self-congratulatory praise to failure that is editor Paul An...

November 23, 2008

The Obama Hustle

No, that is not the name of a new book by Stanley Kurtz, but it is the name of a dance confected by Detroiter Crystal Smith, who has chartered a bus for Inauguration Day and plans on performing the Obama Hustle in the streets of Washington. That is a...

November 15, 2008

The United Methodist Church vs. George W. Bush

"For most of his presidency, he was beset by critics on all sides. He found himself operating in a perpetual cross fire from congressmen, governors, generals, office seekers, ordinary citizens - all dissatisfied, and many sincerely convinced tha...

November 1, 2008

Notre Dame stands vindicated

Where does the University of Notre Dame go for its apology?As chronicled here  in late 2004, Notre Dame was branded with the scarlet "R" after dismissing head football coach Tyrone Willingham, who is black, before his first and only co...

October 3, 2008

Radio reporter fired for wearing Obama tee-shirt

At least one mainstream media outlet has some semblance of sense. Detroit newsradio station WWJ (950 AM) fired Karen Dinkins Monday after it was discovered that Dinkins covered an Obama rally at the Detroit Public Library the day before...

September 20, 2008

Antiwar protesters: Permission not granted

Friday's online edition of the Lafayette, Indiana Journal and Courier features a story  about an anti-war demonstration that took place on the Memorial Mall at Purdue University during the last couple of days. The American Friends Serv...

September 4, 2008

Just so we're clear

When conservatives and others question the absence of any executive experience of Barack Obama and why it is that a man who has spent just over a hundred days as a United States Senator is so close to the presidency, we are to conclude those doubters...

August 9, 2008

Olympic Pause

Few things used to be as pleasurable as my family sitting down under the golden arches with a double quarter-pounder with cheese, a heap of fries and a giant, icy-cold Coca-Cola. Mix the unmitigated glee of a toddler joining the party, Happy Meal chi...

August 3, 2008

Obama is 'like Reagan'?

A story by Chuck Raasch of Gannett News Service found on the website of the Detroit Free Press is but the latest example of the old media's slow recognition that their guy is slipping.  Mr. Raasch claims that voters waited until t...

July 26, 2008

The Racism Cry Returns

Having begun softly during the primary season, an incessant drumbeat has steadily gained strength and will soon reach its deafening crescendo as we march toward November: If you are white and vote for anyone other than Sen. Barack Obama (Savior-IL) f...

July 19, 2008

Methodists Endorse Bush Library at Southern Methodist University

While the library and public policy institute's eventual at SMU was a foregone conclusion, the result of this vote is a satisfying victory not only for academic inquiry in general and Southern Methodist's resources in general, it is a further re...

July 9, 2008

Obama's string of surprises

Sen. Barack Obama's hubris knows no bounds. He demands that Americans overcome our xenophobic racism to bestow upon him the greatest office in the free world, despite his continued demonstration that he has all the judgment of a high school sophomore...

July 7, 2008

Voice of reason in Detroit

Kudos to Angelica Brown, a recent graduate of Mumford High School in Detroit and current summer apprentice at the Detroit Free Press, not for deciding to vote for John McCain per se, but for having actually done her own research and become an interes...

July 1, 2008

Unfailing class

Making one's way across the country via airplane can be a hectic experience, what with long check-in lines, taking shoes on and off more times than during a visit to Foot Locker, trying to catch connecting flights, delays, sitting on the runway,...

June 24, 2008

Another first for W

If Hillary Clinton made "18 million" cracks in the glass ceiling during her campaign for the presidency, how much glass has George W. Bush shattered during his administration?The latest ceiling that has come crashing down is in the military...

June 17, 2008

Another Obama falsehood

Here is the latest item to add to the ever-growing file labeled "Obama Misstatements, Gaffes and Outright Lies," the latest courtesy of the Detroit Free Press coverage of the  Messiah's tour of Flint and Detroit yesterday:Obama re...

April 2, 2008

Obama's White House court

According to this column in the Indianapolis Star, Sen. Obama isn't thinking about what color the drapes will be in the Oval Office, rather he is pondering whether the basketball court he is going to have constructed inside the White House in 2009...

January 31, 2008

WWJ(ack)D?

The unstated - yet obvious - conclusion the breathless coverage of Sen. Ted Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy conferring their endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama for the presidency is that their endorsement also has the imprimatur of the late John F. Kenned...

November 30, 2007

'You Play to Win the Game'

So said then-New York Jets coach Herman Edwards in a press conference a few years ago. His remark was so sublimely and simplistically apt that is a favorite of cable sports review shows and chat sessions.Yet William Rusher, one of conservatism's grey...

October 20, 2007

Part of the Job of Congressional Staffers

Here in southeastern Michigan, Republican Congressmen Joe Knollenberg and his staff are under the constant harassment of one Bruce Fealk, an individual described by The Hill  as a "MoveOn foot soldier," who is "seeking employment ...

June 2, 2007

Who's Afraid of Brit Hume?

As reported in none other than The New York Times, Sen. Christopher Dodd and Gov. Bill Richardson have declined an invitation to attend and participate in a debate among Democrat presidential hopefuls in September at Detroit. Sen. Dodd and Gov. ...

March 16, 2007

A speech for the Libby pardon

The following is a speech that should be delivered by the President of the United States from the Oval Office and televised live to the nation at 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on a weeknight as soon as possible:Fellow citizens: I have asked for a few ...

February 10, 2007

No need for Air Force Three

Forget Speaker Nancy Pelosi's arrogance in voting to raise the gas tax on Americans five times while she is squired around the Federal City in a government SUV that is exempt from such a tariff. Forget that a single trip on a presidential-like Defens...

February 3, 2007

Academic Separation and Jimmy Carter

Recently, a small band of bishops and clergy of the United Methodist Church began circulating a petition urging Southern Methodist University to reject a proposed plan to affiliate the school with what will be the George W. Bush presidential library....

January 21, 2007

A Mighty Weapon

"Scholarly" is sometimes a term used to describe academic work or even mainstream trade books on history and politics that are boring. But the latest effort from Dr. Douglas Wilson entitled Lincoln's Sword is a scholarly work that illuminat...

June 18, 2006

A Very Dark Horse

With the 2008 presidential primaries well over a year away, John Cox of Illinois is already striding the landscapes of New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina in an effort to generate attention and support for his campaign for the White House. He...

May 30, 2006

Shameful resolutions

You've got to hand it to the anti—war zealots on the left: No matter the venue, no matter the inappropriateness of time and place, they manage to show up and bark at the moon or the sun or anyone who will listen. The weekend before last, the De...

May 7, 2006

Taking care of his own

Obviously, Rep. Patrick Kennedy should resign his seat in the House of Representatives. Regardless of what one may think of the Kennedy clan and the ridiculous cut—and—paste articles that have been flitting about describing Rep. Kennedy's...

March 15, 2006

Russell in Wonderland

"Resolved that the United States Senate does hereby censure George W. Bush, president of the United States, and does condemn his unlawful authorization of wiretaps of Americans within the United States without obtaining the court orders required." ...

January 26, 2006

'The Spirit of Cabal and Intrigue'

We may thank God that the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito for the United States Supreme Court is finally where it belongs — the floor of the United States Senate. Perhaps James Madison and Alexander Hamilton can now stop spinning in their grav...

January 9, 2006

Send in the Clowns

Has there ever been a less—serious group of United States Senators sitting in judgment of a Supreme Court nominee than the Democrat side of the Judiciary Committee as presently constituted? As Congress returns to Washington and the committ...

December 21, 2005

Bring it on

Just so we're clear: The leadership of the Democratic Party believes that when a sitting President of the United States commits perjury, openly admits to suborning perjury and obstructs justice, this does not rise to the level of high crimes and misd...

December 16, 2005

Freedom's Retort

Today is a great day for freedom — in Iraq, the Middle East and around the world. But not for those, within and without, who never wanted this day of democracy to arrive in a place where once stood a brutal tyrant. Those who screamed ...

November 28, 2005

Attorney General for the defense

Really all that anyone needs to know about Ramsey Clark's mindset in dashing off to Iraq to defend Saddam Hussein can be summed up by one sentence written as part of a profile of the former attorney general of the United States of America: 'Aft...

November 16, 2005

Censure Rockefeller – for starters

Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut was the last United States Senator to be  censured by his colleagues. He was so reprimanded in 1967 for using his office to transfer campaign funds for personal use. One would think that a Senator giving an enemy of...

November 3, 2005

O'Connor's Seat

Reaction among Senate Democrats to President George W. Bush's nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the United States Supreme Court has been typically naяve and uninformed. One sentiment in particular is striking. Senators pleading and demanding that ...

October 21, 2005

Decline and fall

The sinister character Noah Cross in the movie Chinatown memorably claimed that 'Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.' Representative John Dingell of Michigan, unfortunately, disproves the maxim. Rep. ...

October 9, 2005

Lincoln's Faith

Much has been made of President George W. Bush's faith and devotion to religion since he declared with simple eloquence that his personal hero was 'Christ' during a Republican primary debate in 2000. The mainstream media lampooned and criticized the ...

August 27, 2005

Camp Arnold

NEW YORK (Nov. 20, 1776) — The grieving mother of an American soldier killed in action during the recent failed defense of Fort Washington is demanding an audience with Gen. George Washington. 'George is the biggest butcher on the face of the...

July 23, 2005

The tender arms of a tyrant

Was your graduation from the sixth grade shown on national television and presided over by the country's president? No? Well, buddy, it's too bad for you that you weren't a friend of Fidel Castro and a citizen of the greatest nation on Earth. From t...

July 12, 2005

Schumer's advice to the President

That stench emanating from the Democratic cloakroom in the Senate is all too familiar to close observers of the national political scene: Charles Schumer of New York has opened his mouth again. Actually, this time, Sen. Schumer penned an op—ed...

June 22, 2005

Apology not accepted

Sen. Richard Durbin took to the floor of the United States Senate late Tuesday afternoon to ostensibly apologize for his offensive, stupid and seditious remarks comparing an American military base to the murderous regimes of the most notorious despot...

April 21, 2005

The importance of being nice to other UN members

It's important to be nice to people, don't you think? Politeness counts for a lot, as does never, ever raising your voice, no matter what. If someone expresses displeasure, that someone should not yell, scream, or put his or her hands on hips in ange...

April 19, 2005

Shall not perish from the earth

There are moments in history when time and circumstance come together in the most appropriate fashion. Such is the case today when President George W. Bush is scheduled to travel to Springfield, Illinois, to participate in the official dedication of ...

April 8, 2005

Schadenfreude

You may know the name Mitch Albom — incredibly successful author of sappy books for self—help section addicts, nationally syndicated radio host, cable sports television personality, and columnist for the Detroit Free Press. Albom has als...

March 30, 2005

He told us so

Though it hardly seems like it, it was not long ago that the best part of every Wednesday — rain or shine, good day or bad — was waiting impatiently for the computer to fire up and browse to the Washington Post or TownHall.com to read the...

March 2, 2005

The undeniable truth of life

Have you ever been in the middle of a sound, warm sleep, completely undisturbed in absolute darkness and comfort? Has anyone ever unexpectedly shone a bright light on you as you slept? How did you react? Were you startled? Did you wake up and stretch...

February 27, 2005

Farewell, Coach Keady

When Purdue head basketball coach Gene Keady coaches his final game after 25 years in charge in West Lafayette, Indiana, it will mark a career's end for one of the most unusual personalities ever to roam the sidelines in college basketball, a man who...

February 16, 2005

The Bandwagon

In the Feb. 15 edition of The American Thinker, Steven M. Warshawsky wrote a thought—provoking piece entitled 'Beware the Condi bandwagon"а that, essentially, warned the gathering numbers of 'Rice for President' supporters that Sec. Rice cannot...

February 9, 2005

The steady climb up Rushmore

Obviously, it is too early to pass final judgment on the presidency of George W. Bush. His second term is not even a month old. Yet in his first four years, events beyond his control, his words, his policies, and his actions in response to these even...

January 30, 2005

A life well lived

Normally I don't like using the first person pronoun in the political screeds that sometimes appear in this space. Today, though, is a significant exception because I would like to tell you about a man who laid down his life so that the brave and jub...

January 26, 2005

A grand old wizard

What do you call a former member of the Ku Klux Klan who tied up the world's oldest deliberative body for 14 hours to oppose the Civil Rights bill of 1964, and voted against the Supreme Court appointments of both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas...

January 25, 2005

Pity Laura Bush

Why is it that leftists are always saying they are 'disturbed,' or 'saddened' or 'distressed?' Nothing seems to pass before the eyes of dyed—in—the—wool liberals without causing some sort of disconcertion. Such is again the case in ...

January 21, 2005

Biden should follow Kerry's example

Although he was unable to figure it out until after the election — and just a day before the second inauguration of President George W. Bush at that — Sen. John Kerry finally hit upon a novel concept Wednesday: meaning what he says and sa...

January 13, 2005

Religion and the presidency

On his website, Andrew Sullivan takes President George W. Bush to task for some comments he made during an interviewаwith the Washington Times, in which the President discussed his reliance on faith in discharging his duties in office. Sullivan cites...

January 11, 2005

Uppity

According to certain self—proclaimed leaders in the House of Representatives, if you are black, hold a political office, and have a healthy respect for carrying out your constitutional duties in spite of what that might mean for the electoral f...

January 5, 2005

An excellent foundation

If public school systems were genuinely interested in improving American history departments that increasingly seem unable to teach students the difference between the Battle of the Bulge and the Battle of Bull Run, while simultaneously diminishing o...

December 3, 2004

Race has nothing to do with Notre Dame football

Tyrone Willingham, who happens to be black, was fired this week from his position as head coach of football at the University of Notre Dame after serving three years of a five—year contract worth $15 million. Willingham, who happens to be blac...

December 1, 2004

Triumph of the American spirit

Are you not inspired and uplifted by the story of Carlos Gutierrez? When Gutierrez was but six years old, he and his family left their home in Havana, Cuba, for a vacation in Miami, unaware that they would never return to their homeland. Fidel Castr...

November 23, 2004

Not Enough

Did you know that before the basketball season, Indiana Pacer Ron Artest changed his jersey number to 91, the same number Dennis Rodman wore for the Chicago Bulls? Last season Artest wore 23, the number Michael Jordan wore for the Bulls. The change w...

November 18, 2004

Ninety miles south of Jesusland

Last week in this space there appeared a suggestion that New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd leave the island of Manhattan and take a tour around the country so that she could try and figure out how the supremely stupid, arrogant, demolisher o...

November 10, 2004

MoDo's excellent adventure

Isn't the op—ed page of the New York Times just the best? The other day, its star columnist, sudden camera—hog, and world's oldest gossipy high schooler, Maureen Dowd, weighed in with her take on the results of the presidential elec...

November 9, 2004

Dream woman

While the Democratic Party continues to try and pick its collective self off of the canvass following the knockout punch delivered on November 2, the finger pointing and expletives are flying and the party is in shambles. For the victors, though...

November 4, 2004

Goodbye to all that

Oddly enough, Sen. John Kerry's classiest move during this presidential campaign came when he finally did the very thing that probably lost him the election — be all things to all people. Kerry kept his commitment to his supporters to make sure...

November 2, 2004

A plea to reasonable Democrats

Sometimes it seems that levelheaded Democrats have gone the way of dinosaurs. Like those vanished creatures, we see the likes of the politically extinct on the History Channel or PBS from time to time. Black—and—white images of Wilson, Ro...

October 23, 2004

Something completely different

When Sen. John Kerry, in his first answer of the final presidential debate, uttered the phrases 'rushed to war,' and 'pushed away alliances,' to a question regarding domestic security, it was easy to imagine millions of viewers clicking over to one o...

October 21, 2004

Al's Legacy

It's difficult to say with certainty what the nation is going to do on November 2. There seems to be a poll that can satisfy any voter no matter his political affiliation, and nobody knows for sure if the states in play are soft red, soft blue, or so...

October 15, 2004

Senator, you're no Dan Quayle

Can you imagine what the reaction would have been if Dan Quayle had ever claimed that electing Bush 41 in 1988 or 1992 would lead to paralyzed Americans getting out of wheelchairs and walking? The media and late—night comics nearly gave themsel...

October 5, 2004

The neo-copperheads

In the face of unexpectedly bloody and costly engagements with enemy forces, the President encountered severe criticism from his Democrat opponents, who wanted "peace" more than they wanted victory. They mocked him as some kind of primitive creature,...

September 30, 2004

Winning time

During his playing days on the court, basketball legend Earvin 'Magic' Johnson relished the last two minutes of big playoff games. Usually, those final moments would see Magic single—handedly taking over the ball game with a tough hoop, a sleig...

September 12, 2004

For the girls

A long time ago, in a galaxy that seems truly far away, a suburban Detroit mother got ready to take her two youngsters — a boy of seven and a girl of five — over to the city. The year was 1980 and the Republican National Convention was be...

September 3, 2004

Follow Through

Things are looking bright for President George W. Bush as the hugely successful Republican National Convention closed with his well—crafted and superbly—delivered speech. Sen. John F. Kerry and his campaign are retreating under the scruti...

August 25, 2004

It's Never Good Enough for the Left

Here in Detroit, a good way to test one's ability to keep his or her blood pressure in check is to tune into WJR radio from 3—6 on weekday afternoons.  Taking the microphone is Mitch Albom, once a great sportswriter, yet better known arou...

August 21, 2004

A Peek into Kerry's Soul

Despite his wish that merely saying it to his supporters in the populace and the sycophants in the media will make it so, Sen. John Kerry's claim that President George W. Bush is behind the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign is false. Anybody who...

August 12, 2004

Reality TV

C—SPAN founder, CEO, and host Brian Lamb has decided to discontinue the hour—long weekly program Booknotes in December, after 15 years and 800 interviews. Our loss is Lamb's gain, as he estimates that he has devoted nearly two years of hi...

August 9, 2004

Politics of Hate

My better half is, to the likely benefit of her health, not a political junkie. She is fairly moderate on the issues and not at all fascinated by the shouting on Hannity or the morons who call C—SPAN every morning, nor does she genuflect at the...

July 30, 2004

Image is Everything

Sen. John F. Kerry delivered another in an expanding line of forgettable speeches last night in Boston. It was boilerplate leftist rhetoric full of buzzwords, insults, lies, myths, and misconceptions, and a boatload of domestic programs and promises ...

July 27, 2004

In a nutshell

In case you were rearranging the sock drawer or doing something similarly productive, here's what happened in Boston last night: When it comes to convention speeches, it's difficult to say that Democrats are inconsistent. During last night's festivit...

July 23, 2004

Fortitude

President George W. Bush has endured an onslaught of attacks from his opponents and critics in the nation's dominant media organs, the likes of which have not been seen since the days of Richard Nixon. Perhaps it is unprecedented. When was the last ...

July 13, 2004

Outside Agitators

Here's a puzzler for you history buffs out there: which prominent elected official wrote the following words in a letter to which civil rights activist from a state other than his own, and when was it written? 'Go home and stay there....We do not nee...

June 30, 2004

Beneath Contempt

There are certain times when it is incumbent upon polite citizens to shed their habit of equanimity, to stop conceding the benefit of the doubt, and to throw off the sometimes confining garments of decorum. This is one such time. According to the Was...

June 25, 2004

The Beginning of the End of the Democratic Party

Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe believes that President George W. Bush sent American troops into battle in Afghanistan at the behest of the Unocal Oil Corporation, so that it would be able to build a pipeline there to carry oil...