Jeremy Lott
LYNDEN, Washington Going on six years ago, I moved back to my adopted hometown, snug up against the Canadian border. I came back after a long spell in the bad Washington — the one with D.C. after it. The Evergreen State…
Donald Trump’s many, many opponents have come forward in the last week to deplore all of the “violence” his words are giving rise to. Candidates and their proxies are charging that Trump “bears responsibility for the culture [of his rallies]…
Odd as this sounds to say out loud, Ted Cruz is a huge fan of “Dictatorships and Double Standards,” and that might be good news for American foreign policy. I should clarify the Texas senator and GOP hopeful is a…
David Ignatius is second generation Democratic Party foreign policy royalty. “My father went to work for Kennedy in 1961, so I am very much part of that world,” the columnist and bestselling novelist said in a recent interview. His father…
Nobody would ever confuse yours truly for a good Christian, and the long services at most black churches fail utterly to move me. Yet if I were anywhere near Charleston, South Carolina, last weekend or next, I would march straight…
Friend and development dude Al Canata was relieved last week to learn I couldn’t make the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual dinner, held tonight at the JW Marriott a couple of blocks from the White House. CEI had broken the previous…
It’s hard to say with precision how much the average American earns in a lifetime, but $1 million is a “not unreasonable number.” So said Andrew Biggs, an economist for the American Enterprise Institute who has done a lot of…
“Everyone knows Custer died at Little Big Horn. What this book presupposes is: maybe he didn’t.” It is a tale told by a madman: Eli Cash in the Wes Anderson movie The Royal Tenenbaums. But the leap that it describes…
I missed Maundy Thursday services this year, which is a shame because of how the events of one day run right into the next in the life of Christ. For Jesus of Nazareth, there was no going to sleep that…
At his first public appearance since his forced resignation, former Oregon governor John Kitzhaber said Sunday he plans to “get my name cleared” and then “reengage in the things I have always been passionate about: education, healthcare.” The man who…
