Jeremy Lott

In his speech on Libya Monday evening, President Barack Obama demonstrated why self-congratulation is an awful basis for foreign policy. The stated aim of the address was to tell the American people “what we’ve done [in Libya], what we plan…

These days, countless conservatives have taken to criticizing President Obama over his lack of leadership on Libya. They do have half a point: Obama has dithered and demanded, to no effect. In his defense, however, it’s not clear what a…

Is there a single American Spectator reader/commentator/troll out there who thinks that a Newt Gingrich presidential candidacy would be a good idea? If so, please explain your thinking on this one in comments. As they used to say, this I…

So I’m here in West Virginia watching CNN and the thought occurs to me: Is there a more boring Republican senator than Indiana’s own Richard Lugar? How about all senators? Members of Congress? If readers leave this one hanging, Lugar…

I poked my head into the CPAC presser of the new Tea Party Review right after it started. Took me a second to realize that TPR Vice President William Owens was wrapping up an opening prayer/sales pitch. One contributor to…

At the CPAC pro-life panel, Lifeandmarriage.org’s Erin DeLullo just called for the anti-abortion coalition to go all Club for Growth on Republicans who cross them and fund primary challenges. The audience cheered but the room is maybe half full. Contrast…

“I am a social conservative because I am a Christian. I am a fiscal conservative because I am a Christian. Why are you a conservative?” So asked Eric Metaxas, author of the new bestseller Bonhoeffer biography (disclosure: we share a…

The quote is from RiShawn Biddle, a panelist at the standing room only American Spectator young writers CPAC forum. The message from fellow panelists Tim Carney, Wlady Pleszczynski, and W. James Antle III boils down to, “reporting, reporting, reporting.” Carney…

When tea partiers want to make a point, they don’t do things by halves. Staring right at journalists in a media lounge at CPAC,  there’s a wall high banner with the headline, “Can You Hear Us Now?” It has a…

Rand Paul knows how to work a crowd around. He just got serious cheers at CPAC for this line: “We will have to look long and hard at the military budget” and decent applause while attacking American exceptionalism. Granted, the…