WASHINGTON — Tucker Carlson’s recent travails with the media remind me of the great M. Stanton Evans’ Solomonic judgment regarding Richard Nixon. Said Stan: “I never liked Richard Nixon … until Watergate.” Then he saw the 37th president in a…
WASHINGTON — I am about to put the finishing touches on my memoir. The book will be about 400 pages in length, but I had a lot to reveal. I spent some time dilating on my adventures with the world…
WASHINGTON — Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s suave minister of foreign affairs, was recently asked by one of Russia’s ubiquitous billionaires: whom does President Vladimir Putin seek advice from on the Ukraine war? He responded that Putin has only three advisers, though…
WASHINGTON — The busybodies of the World Health Organization are at it again. As if they have not caused enough acidosis and paranoia in the country with their insistence that we all wear masks to thwart COVID-19, they are now…
WASHINGTON — I have of late been searching vigorously through my morning newspapers for the causes of and cures for inflation. It seems to me that most people whom I know are well aware of what causes inflation and what…
WASHINGTON — In the course of my lifelong study of political science and related perfidies, I have noted that many political leaders of high achievement have an extraordinary aptitude for ambiguity, not to say dishonesty. The best example of this…
WASHINGTON — With all the talk about the discovery of mass burial graves in faraway Ukraine, there is little thought of such graves being discovered here in America. Yet in recent weeks, archeologists have found their own mass grave in…
WASHINGTON — This past week, my matutinal readings of the obituaries in the morning newspapers were particularly rewarding. Truth be known, the first thing I turn to in the morning newspaper is generally the obituaries. They are so lively and…
WASHINGTON — I have long held that when the Left gains control of an entity — whether it be a city, a university, or even a simple educational project — it loses all awareness of what the initial purpose of…
WASHINGTON — Politicians are rarely competent writers. In fact, they are rarely writers. That is why they have speechwriters. John F. Kennedy was supposed to be a great writer. He actually won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in…