Mitt Romney has gone on record with the crackpot idea that the Russians are America's “number one geopolitical foe.” To my knowledge, no noted Kremlinologists have ...
In introducing his new book, Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America, Paul Gottfried identifies a fundamental divide between neoconservatives and the traditional ...
An essay collection by William F. Buckley, Jr. rests on my nightstand, a constant reminder of a time when conservative voices were intelligent and thoughtful. Not so today. ...
As a white man born and bred in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) who has watched events unfold both in my home country and in the African subcontinent, I look at the United States and ...
Here we go again. Is the Constitution merely a guideline to be consulted by those it purports to regulate, or is it really the supreme law of the land? If it is just a guideline, ...
After winning a war of attrition in the primaries, Mitt Romney is the presumptive Republican nominee for president. He is also a presumptive human being. Whereas questions still ...
A specter is haunting Europe"and pace Marx, it is the specter of monarchy. Whenever a ceremony of any sort is performed for or by a deposed ruling family's members"as has ...
If you are still listening to those in the political class who are falling over each other to condemn leaks from the government to the media, you’d think the leaks had ...
Every time Islam pokes its head out of its towel, I get nostalgic. Oh, women in Egypt were sexually assaulted for protesting sexual assault last week? Ahh, that takes me back to ...
New York Mayor Bloomberg has recommended that a 16-ounce limit be placed on the size of soft drinks sold at city restaurants, movie theaters, stadiums, and arenas. This seemed ...
The Tea Party emerged about a year after I first got interested in libertarian politics, and I was proud to see people protesting against taxation and supporting individual ...
Within days of SEAL Team Six’s killing of Osama on that midnight mission in Pakistan, Defense Secretary Bob Gates, reading all about the raid in the press, went to the White ...
I"m so old, I remember when Ellen DeGeneres was straight; Rosie O"Donnell wasn"t merely straight, she was the "Queen of Nice"; and Joan Rivers would never eat ...
While much of America's media required smelling salts last week to revive itself from being grievously offended by a harmless wisecrack Don Rickles made about Obama, it barely ...
The symbolic thrust of Hustler's crude, much-protested, Photoshopped depiction of Rockefeller Republican S. E. Cupp is commendable: Silence this siren of stupidity. The Hustler ...
Conservatives have long waged a seemingly futile campaign to slim down the federal government. Even "conservative" presidents such as George W. Bush fed the monster. But ...