The Campaign To Take Down Steve Bannon
When conservatives were afraid President Reagan would get rolled by the Soviets at Reykjavik, they sent in old Reagan friend and aide Lyn Nofziger to try to talk some sense into him. Don’t worry,...
View ArticleMedia Hypes Rudy Giuliani ‘Terrorist’ Link
As former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is reportedly being considered for the role of Secretary of State in a Donald Trump administration, red flags concerning his business dealings have started...
View ArticleDonald Trump Wants A Few Good Men
Regular readers will know my affinity for the movie A Few Good Men, which is a sort of simplistic microcosm of the dichotomy between a civilian versus a martial worldview. These opposing positions are...
View ArticleWhat Music Taught Me About Political Journalism
There’s nothing more emotionally exhausting, but also rewarding, than wading through old keepsakes. A few weeks ago, I wrote about rummaging through some old boxes and finding the first “book” I ever...
View ArticleShould You Be Afraid Of President Trump?
One can argue that the most important moment in American democracy happened when President John Adams (having pushed through his “midnight appointments”) snuck out of town on the eve of Thomas...
View ArticleThe Brilliance Of Donald Trump’s Deal With Carrier
The announcement that Donald Trump has already saved roughly 1,000 Carrier jobs from being moved from Indiana to Mexico struck me as probably bad policy and bad precedent, but definitely brilliant...
View ArticleIs The ‘Truth’ Just A Matter Of Perspective?
'Everybody has a way of interpreting them to be the truth, or not truth'
View ArticleThe Alt-Right And Radical Islam: Homegrown Radicals
The other day, “Alt-Right” leader Richard Spencer spoke at Texas A&M University, and I went on CNN to discuss his seductive message. What I had to say boiled down to this: First, Spencer is...
View ArticleWhy The Worst Get On Top
I just stumbled across a post that Roger Kimball wrote back in May, titled “How Hayek Predicted Trump With His ‘Why the Worst Get on Top.” Kimball was referring to a chapter in the 1944 classic The...
View ArticleTwitter Is Where Journalists Betray Liberal Media Bias
Should they be held to a different standard there?
View Article2016 Bids Farewell To The 1980s
As 2016 grinds to a close, everything seems to be changing. It’s fair to say that many of the trends we are witnessing have been a long time coming. But they seem to have come to a head this year....
View Article2016: Year Of The Man?
If 1992 was considered the “Year of the Woman,” maybe we should consider 2016 to be the “Year of the Man.” Or, at the very least, the year the empire struck back. Much has been written this year about...
View ArticleJoe Scarborough Is Right About Trump Derangement Syndrome
While I was out over the Christmas holiday, Joe Scarborough became embroiled in a Twitter battle over whether he had “partied” with Donald Trump on New Year’s Eve. While relitigating the details of the...
View ArticleTrumpian Leadership: For The First Time In A Long Time, Republicans Fall In Line
'I think he deserves a lot of the credit'
View ArticleGoodbye To the Daily Caller
Almost six years ago, I awoke bleary-eyed the morning after the Super Bowl to a cryptic e-mail from a journalist friend asking me, “What are you going to do now?” I scurried to figure out what had...
View ArticleDoes President-Elect Trump Deserve A Honeymoon?
Having never supported Trump in the primary or General Election, I am trying to keep an open mind about his impending presidency. Some people grow into the job and accept the awesome responsibility...
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