John R. Guardiano
Jeff Goldberg’s response to my post about gay “marriage equality” is substantive, thoughtful, and engaging, and for that I thank him. Still, Goldberg cannot resist the urge to snidely mock, with unbecoming putdowns, those of us who genuinely think that…
Last night’s “historic” vote for “gay marriage” in New York ought to be a wakeup call to the Republican Party and social and cultural conservatives more generally. We are fighting, I regret to say, a losing battle — and I…
Jim Antle, Joseph Lawler and, in the comments section of my post, Steven Ertelt, the founder and editor of Life News, all make very fair and convincing points about Rudolph Giuliani’s position re: abortion. And, in light of their responses,…
Joseph Lawler references the Washington Post‘s Jonathan Bernstein to argue that the Rudolph Giuliani presidential campaign is “doomed from the start. Why? Because he’s pro-choice.” Only he’s really not, as I argue in a post, “Run, Rudy, Run” on the…
The political cognoscenti are dismissing Rudolph Giuliani’s chances of winning the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, and with good reason: Giuliani, as AmSpec alumnus Philip Klein notes, spent $59 million in 2008 and got all of one delegate. So what could…
As our friend Robert Stacy McCain knows, I vigorously dissented from the media horde’s dogged pursuit of Rep. Anthony Weiner. His online flirtations with women, no matter how tawdry and titillating, are simply not a matter for public consumption, I…
Is anyone surprised that a federal grand jury has handed down a six-count indictment of John Edwards? (Four counts involve illegal payments, one involves conspiracy, and one involves false statements, according to the New York Times.) This infamous ambulance-chasing lawyer…
I’m a conservative, a strong friend and supporter of Israel, and I like the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. But like The Atlantic’s Jeff Goldberg, I was taken aback by Bibi’s statement of disrespect for President Obama. Netanyahu is upset…
“Does the War Powers Act mean anything?” ask two lefty law professors, Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway, in today’s Washington Post. “If nothing happens,” they warn, “history will say that the War Powers Act was condemned to a quiet death…
Obama partisans are quick to credit him for the spectacular SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Fair enough. Obama is the commander-in-chief, and the mission happened on his watch. Never mind that our military and intelligence agencies had been…
