
John R. Guardiano
Philip Klein has argued yet again for openly gay military service. “As somebody who doesn’t view gayness as a big deal one way or the other,” Klein wrote yesterday, “I honestly have trouble seeing the problem with allowing gays to openly…
The chattering classes — most of whom have never served in the military, let alone in an infantry or ground combat unit — are determined to force open homosexuality on the U.S. military, and apparently, will make any argument, no…
Today’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” showed that the proponents of open homosexuality in the military are confident, articulate, and on the offensive. Religious believers and cultural traditionalists, by contrast, are nervous (or nonchalant), relatively…
The Massachusetts Senate election is a referendum on the Kennedys, in which proxies for Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Martha Coakley) and President John F. Kennedy (Scott Brown) are squaring off. And this time, at long last, President Kennedy will win….
David Frum says that Republicans nationwide will long argue about the lessons learned from a (now likely) Scott Brown Senate victory in Massachusetts. Agreed — so let me be the second (after Frum) to join the fray. David has it…
President Obama’s speech on his new path forward in Afghanistan has drawn fire from both the Left and the Right, and here’s why: The Left fears that Obama has “escalated the war” indeterminably; the Right fears that he has planned…
Last night, President Obama delivered an historic speech to the nation and to the world on his plans for Afghanistan. Here, in sum, is what the president said: I really don’t want to be commander-in-chief, but I’ll do it if…
As the Ft. Hood massacre and military “diversity” talk clearly shows, ours is a tale of two militaries. One military is battle hardened and forward deployed; the other is soft, bureaucratic and backward. One military champions Theodore Roosevelt’s “manly virtues”;…
The Left has opened up a new front in its ongoing efforts to censor conservative voices and to ban conservative political thought from polite society. Their latest target: Rush Limbaugh, who is now being viciously smeared as a black-hating racist….