Jeremy Lott
LYNDEN, Washington — Eric Posner hates freedom of speech. The University of Chicago law prof made this clear in an article for Slate in 2012 titled “The World Doesn’t Love the First Amendment.” “Americans,” Posner wrote, “need to learn that…
LYNDEN, WashingtonIf after reading this column you are dumb enough to bring up Obamacare to a small businessman, you deserve the rant. Better to learn from my mistake, dear reader, and talk about happier things. Like allergic reactions or the…
To the Obama administration, it must have seemed like a no brainer to add the “We the People” widget to the White House website in September 2011. The forum is supposed to facilitate the right of the people, guaranteed by…
ON A RECENT STARRY SATURDAY NIGHT, your redneck correspondent passed up the chance to see a monster truck rally to go to a friend’s basement and watch two prerecorded hours of the daytime game show Family Feud. The shows had…
In 2003, as part of his campaign for a Senate seat from Illinois that would set him up for his presidential run, Barack Obama fielded questions. “I am pro-choice,” he said, so a local reporter prodded, “In all situations, including…
Candidate Barack Obama presented himself as an agent of hope and change, a dramatic break with the failed policies and cynical politics of a tired, retiring president. That is not, to put it mildly, how things have panned out. Once…
AFTER SEVERAL EXPENSIVE and bothersome tests, modern medical science has determined that I do, in fact, have a heart. Figuring out what went wrong with it is another matter. About two months ago, as the deadline flies, the old ticker…
LYNDEN, Washington — Saturday night, your humble correspondent spent some time at a local Freedom Rally held in the countryside just south of town at a place called Farmer Ben’s. As hundreds of drivers approached the farm from the closest…
THEY WERE WORDS THAT still live in infamy. Mike Huckabee—Baptist minister, former governor of Arkansas, and dark horse candidate for the Republican nomination—was being pressed by a reporter for the New York Times Magazine about the religion of his rival,…
Mitt Romney never once used the word “Mormon” in his commencement address at Liberty University this weekend, but he sure didn’t duck the question. Political reporters took his comments that “marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman”…
