Federal law enforcement, from bad to bad, to bad Bondi
Three pieces on the problems with federal law enforcement, and on why we can say hooray that Wray is leaving, but why we should feel no bond with Bondi. (As […]
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Biden’s terrible pardons, from several angles
Biden twice takes up his pardon pen, and I twice excoriate him, plus add context. (For the full version of each column, please follow the link embedded in each headline.) […]
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Lee Edwards, Clarke Reed: Two legendary GOP builders
Lee Edwards, anti-communist and chronicler (Dec. 16): The night was June 12, 2007, and Lee Edwards was beaming. After years of work, his personal brainchild was coming to fruition: That […]
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Lawmakers are short-changing national defense
(Official Washington Examiner editorial, Dec. 7) The primary responsibility of a national government is to provide for the common defense, but U.S. lawmakers are failing. Facing growing threats from China […]
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Pelosi, and Carolina — two unrelated pieces
Here are two short ones I am just putting together to save space. That time in Rio when Pelosi wasn’t home (Dec. 13): Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi apparently isn’t […]
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Trump knows conservative suckers are born every…..
(Nov. 25) President-elect Donald Trump is not ushering in an administration of conservative populism. He’s pushing a fringe kookery that is marinated as deeply in left-wing shibboleths as it is in right-wing grievances. This should be no surprise: […]
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Democrats should separate culture from compulsion
(Nov. 25) Democratic analysts who say extreme wokeness is killing their party are right, but issue positions aren’t the whole problem. What’s worse is the use of government power to force everyone else to accept left-wing cultural […]
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Whitaker for NATO? Not so fast
(Nov. 21) President-elect Donald Trump may face serious confirmation battles for even some of his nominees who aren’t as high profile as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Pete Hegseth. For […]
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Going the extra mile to justify the Hegseth nomination
(Nov. 20. Note: Since I first wrote this piece, I have leaned ever more strongly against this nomination. What follows, though, is how I first wrote it.) President-elect Donald Trump […]
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Minus the bombast, Musk and Ramaswamy could do well
(Nov. 13) Entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will find it’s not so easy to radically downsize government. Their task, though, will be a worthy one if they take the […]
