On January 30, the New York Post took a dig at Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who was accused of "rewriting history" by uttering the following statement about Black History Month: "We know there was slavery that was still tolerated when the nation began. We know that it was ...
Obama's State of the Union speech was a smashing rhetorical success, as the New York Post conceded in its editorial the next morning, because it expressed the movement-conservative truth of "American exceptionalism." The Post quoted Obama's statement about the US being "the first nation ...
It is a world historical event when Jonah Goldberg"one of our most prominent conservative intellectuals, judging by his book sales and his almost daily TV appearances"weighs in on gay marriage. Jonah is not some obscure academic or archivist grinding out research articles on ancient ...
FOX News has been running a series on the conservative movement and recently released a DVD showing what purports to be the definitive picture of the movement's progress. I have a close friend who regrets he couldn"t watch every minute of this treasured series and is ordering the DVD to keep ...
After I recently savaged Rich Lowry's syndicated review of Deirdre McCloskey's book Bourgeois Dignity, Professor McCloskey indicated that I have no right to discuss her work until I"ve read it from cover to cover. I explained to her that I"ve nothing against her work, only Lowry's ...
Each time I doubt that the National Review's mavens could surpass themselves, I discover fresh evidence of their invincible ignorance. Being a man of little faith, I didn"t believe that Rich Lowry could say anything dumber than his 2003 remarks about the Spanish Civil War which revealed he had ...
In The American Conservative's September issue, spirited libertarian journalist and antiwar.com editor Justin Raimondo offers his opinions about how Obama lost the left. Raimondo says much of Obama's support among journalists and intellectuals came from opponents of the Bush Administration's ...
As I waited at the polling booth last Tuesday to vote, I thought about who would run this country if the GOP took back both houses of Congress. In all likelihood it would be the neoconservatives with their usual GOP allies who would be climbing back into the NASCAR of state. In an interview with ...
Controversy recently erupted when Rick Sanchez, whom CNN subsequently sacked, noted that Jews have a disproportionately large influence on the media. Attempts at disproving his assertion have been fitful and unconvincing. But perhaps I"m not being fair to the critics. The facts that Sanchez was ...
Blood was spilled three weeks ago when Christine O"Donnell beat centrist Republican Mike Castle in Delaware's GOP primary. Long suspicious of the Tea Party challenge to Republican regulars, former Bush advisor and current FOX News contributor Karl Rove attacked O"Donnell as someone who says ...
