October 12, 2016

For Democrats, Words 'Trump' Deeds

Dimwitted humorless ideologues should never attempt irony.  Of course, the great problem for reasonable people is in figuring out if the ideologues in question are being ironical or dead serious.  A case in point is the lede to an article o...

August 8, 2016

The Paradox of the Gold Star Left

The Democrats' four-day coronation of Hillary Clinton has ended.  It turns out that embracing the hate-filled racists of Black Lives Matter and indulging Barack Obama's fantasies about the sweetness of life under his benign, albeit lawle...

April 8, 2016

Obama rebukes the press

A journalism prize ceremony honoring a New York Times reporter who died in 2008 produced the weirdly incongruous spectacle of Barack Obama rebuking members of the press for trivializing the political process. It was something to see.  His chi...

March 14, 2015

Aggressive Stupidity

Stupidity comes in several forms, of vastly different character, from the innocent to the vile. Let’s start with the innocent. Austin Street in the Queens neighborhood of Forest Hills is narrow and busy, but to the exasperation of those...

November 4, 2012

Questions Are Common; Answers Are Rare

Going into the second presidential debate, many members of the mainstream media had determined that their man would produce a strong comeback performance.  Their reports proclaiming an Obama victory had already been written when Mitt Romney fiel...

August 27, 2012

Aikin, Abortion, and the GOP

A funny thing happened to Joe Biden recently.  There he was, race-baiting merrily, flinging some truly righteous trash, shoveling the outrageous innuendos and implausible smears Democrats make a living trafficking in, and then something happened...

November 1, 2010

None Dare Call Harry On It

Harry Reid tried very hard to cause his own country to lose a war, bending all the powers of his high office to that ignoble end. And it is not an issue that can be raised in his re-election campaign. Harry Reid wanted America to be defeated in Iraq ...

August 29, 2008

The Singular William Jefferson Clinton

The image of Bill Clinton electrifying the crowd at the Democratic National Convention the other night resists facile analysis. Many conservatives have wasted valuable time they could have devoted to serious drinking or playing cards cursing at that ...

January 26, 2008

Irony of Ironies

For connoisseurs of the idiocies and ironies of American politics, the primary season has offered a smorgasbord of delights. The dumbest, sleaziest, most mind-numbing reality show can't compare with this stuff for dumbth, sleaziness and mind-numbingn...

November 2, 2006

Unanswered Questions, Disturbing Thoughts

Bob Herbert was, in a bygone age, tough—minded yet passionate, a doggedly objective reporter who seemed to embody the best traits of those incorruptible newshounds of the silver screen. Once capable of making sharp distinctions, of offering his...

March 14, 2006

Whose Chappaquiddick was Chappaquiddick?

If jesting Pilate would not stay for an answer to his famous question, he owed it to himself to hang around long enough to check out a certain website, where he would surely have discovered what truth isn't. The Huffington Post is the sort of place k...

November 4, 2005

Two men of the cloth

A few years ago, two youngish men in the same business shared an epiphany. In their living rooms a thousand miles apart, they sat and stared at the television. Scrunching up their faces and furrowing their brows, they thought long and hard, straining...

September 2, 2005

The Madness of the Left

A cynic might speculate that the tide must be turning  against the monsters, the jihadist  murderers and other assorted thugs, as Jane Fonda has announced that she's rolling up her sleeves and hitting the road ( with the odious George Gallo...

May 19, 2005

Are liberals begging for it?

The rules of engagement governing the Tower of Babel that passes for political discourse nowadays trace their intellectual roots to World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., although some of the original sophistication has been stripped away. Designed to ...

December 27, 2004

Another stolen election, part two

Politicians—here's a sunburst—— don't always mean what they say. When Democrats insist that they want every vote to be counted, you can, as one of America's most distinguished propagandists has been known to put it, take it to the b...

November 30, 2004

Another stolen election

The web is abuzz with chatter, mostly innumerate and wildly misinformed, about the stolen election. Truly, we have become a global community when an event in Ukraine, where the rightful winner appears to have been cheated, can spark controversy in th...

November 9, 2004

The Democrats' choice

A political axiom holds that you can't beat something with nothing. The Democratic Party, however, keeps trying. In the final days of the 2000 campaign, Democrat operatives and their media accomplices broke the story of George W. Bush's 1976 DUI conv...

October 31, 2004

The biggest story unfit to print

CBS, the network America trusts to deliver Democrat propaganda, defended its decision to run with a story—— one that relied heavily on clumsily forged documents—— intended to discredit President Bush's service in the Air Natio...

October 9, 2004

The answer is not in the stars

'I know it's controversial to say it, but don't think for one second that if George Bush gets re—elected and we have some other conflict in some other theater of the world, we're going to have to reinstitute the draft.' Read the sentence again,...

October 6, 2004

Pundits, spinners, hacks - and logic

The great challenge for the aspiring pundit is to discover something that can be said after the debate that could not have been said before it. Usually—almost invariably—one is reduced to stylistic comments: so—and—so looked t...

September 29, 2004

Bush lied?

In a more rational world, a mass delusion that gripped millions of citizens of the strongest, richest, and most technologically advanced nation would set off alarm bells in the citadels of culture. The guardians —— thinkers, teachers, wri...