McCain-Clinton “€˜08!

Now that Hillary Clinton has mercifully pulled the plug on her presidential campaign, the talking heads are consumed with the idea of her accepting the vice-presidential slot. ...

Liberalism Forbids An Awakening

Liberalism views much of history as a morality play.  The past was very bad.  We are making progress.  The future will be better.  But every new achievement ...

A New History of the American Left

Daniel J. Flynn has written a book for Crown Press, A Conservative History of the American Left, which is intended to be a "€œconservative"€ interpretation of the Left in our ...

Obama the Anointed

Although its their own internecine fight, I have been impressed at the main stream media’s manipulation and outright partisan interference in the Democratic primary. One ...

Is Bush Becoming Irrelevant?

After losing both houses of Congress in the 1994 election, Bill Clinton expostulated: The president of the United States is not irrelevant! On learning his trusted aide from ...

No Man’s Land

A longer version of this article went into the Lancaster Newspapers, for which I"€™m a regular columnist and through which I"€™m now reaching about half a million readers. ...

Pondering the Shape of Things to Come

The realm of prophecy and prediction is a notoriously dangerous territory in which to venture if one takes things too seriously, but I hope you will forgive a light little wander ...

Climate of Here

Is a conservative climate consensus possible? If hard cases make bad law, soft science makes sensible politics even harder. The Climate Wars present legislators on both sides of ...

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 ...

Rand Paul

Where Does Rand Stand?

Starting shortly before noon last Wednesday, the curly-haired and elfin-faced Kentucky Senator Rand Paul spent thirteen hours filibusterin’ Barack Obama and Eric ...


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