John R. Guardiano
One thing that any new Republican majority in Congress will have to resist is the siren song to cut defense spending. Unfortunately, that temptation is real and growing. Which is why three prominent conservative leaders in Washington — the Heritage…
Bob Woodward’s new book, Obama’s Wars, has so many telling and compelling anecdotes. So many freshly reported vignettes that shed new and revealing light on senior-level policy-makers and U.S. wartime decision-making. For this reason, Obama’s Wars is an important book…
Senator John McCain was a profile in courage today for stopping the Senate from mandating that the U.S. military sanction and legitimize open homosexuality within the ranks. It’s important to say this because Sen. McCain is about to be skewered…
“Do you believe in miracles? Yes!” exclaimed Al Michaels in the 1980 Winter Olympics. Michaels was jubilant because the underdog American hockey team had just defeated the heavily favored squad from the Soviet Union. Conservative supporters of Christine O’Donnell feel…
USA Today‘s military beat reporter Jim Michaels has a tremendously important op-ed in yesterday’s newspaper. Michaels explains how, at a crucial juncture in the Iraq war, in 2006, the Big Media consistently misinformed policymakers and the American public about what…
Don’t make excuses for the Journolisters. They subverted journalism and the pursuit of truth for politics and the pursuit of power. John Tabin has entered the fray over Journolist, the now-defunct secret listserve of several hundred liberal journalists, activists and…
I appreciate John Tabin’s thoughts about Journolist, but find his analysis wholly unconvincing. I’m also bothered by what appears to be his desire to give the Journolisters a pass: by putting their efforts in the most innocuous light possible. Of course,…
“It’s Vietnam all over again,” declared noted conservative apostate Bruce Bartlett on his Facebook page. Bartlett’s comment accompanied a link to an opinion piece published in the English newspaper, The Guardian: “Intellectuals with blood on their pens: Afghanistan and Iraq…
You’d think that 20 years after the demise of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, government-run stores would be a thing of the past. But alas, you would be wrong. Ten states — including, Pennsylvania, Idaho,…
Obama’s dismissal of General McChrystal was a serious mistake, as I have argued here at The American Spectator and elsewhere. However, the silver lining in this fiasco has been the promotion of what may well be America’s two greatest living…
