Eric Joyce MP

Eric Joyce’s Hands-On Politics 

On Tuesday February 22nd, police were called to the Strangers"€™ Bar in the House of Commons to remove a man who had allegedly gone berserk, assaulting several others and ...

Attikon Cinema

Charge Them With Corruption!

I was sad to read that the Attikon Cinema on Stadiou Street in central Athens was burned down by anarchist scum pretending to protest against the EU Nazis. The Attikon was built ...

Did ‘The Great Society’ Ruin Society?

“I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I’ll fix it.” Thus did Mitt Romney supposedly commit the gaffe ...

Something’s Rotten in the Republic

If you hang out at dissident-right websites you surely know the Berthold Brecht quote: “Would it not be easier...for the government to dissolve the people and elect ...

Boris Johnson and David Cameron

A Tale of Two Etonians

They are both Conservative politicians and both Etonians of the same vintage, yet they are almost permanently at odds. Would it not be better for the party to have ...

Rick Santorum

Is Obama’s America God’s Country?

The political beliefs of Barack Obama, said Rick Santorum last week, come out of “some phony theology. ... Not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology, but no ...

Having Trouble Maintaining an Election?

Ooh, that smell! Can"€™t you smell that smell? Pew! It's the latest report from the Pew Center on the States, and it concludes that America's voter-registration system ...

The New Blacklist

My days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an end. After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant clamor from the left that to permit me continued access ...

Alex Pareene

Facing Down the Thugs

Call me naïve, but the left's coarse brutishness still shocks me. The only thing that shocks me more is the right's suicidal cowardice. Here’s a sample of the first. The ...

League of Acceptable Nations

In his recent syndicated column "€œA U.N. for the good guys,"€ Jonah Goldberg evokes the mindset of seventeenth-century puritanism. This is entirely understandable. Much of ...

Chris Matthews

Chris Matthews: A Tingle Inside the Skull

I’m notoriously mean-spirited, so please believe me: When I say I think Chris Matthews has a brain tumor, I am trying to be charitable. The MSNBC mouthpiece’s show is called ...

On to Tehran—or Is It Damascus?

Our War Party has been temporarily diverted from its clamor for war on Iran by the insurrection against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. Estimates of the dead since the ...

Why Assad Has Survived

As I watched last week’s Western posturing after the Russo-Chinese veto of the UN Security Council’s resolution against Syria, Captain Renault of Casablanca fame kept coming ...

Nigeria: In Haram’s Way

Most Americans wouldn’t know the difference between Boko Haram and Boca Raton, even though a Congressional report from November fingered the Nigerian jihadist group as an ...

United We Sit on the Couch

So the California regency (er, Eighth Circuit Court) has sided with the homosexual lobby against the majority’s express will. This is no surprise. When judicial autocracy ...

Mitt Romney

The Creepily Normal Mormon

In his new book Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, master social scientist Charles Murray flavors his portrait of the widening gap between the classes with some ...


Sign Up to Receive Our Latest Updates!