John R. Guardiano
The 2012 election is still 18 months away, which is several lifetimes away, given how fast news moves today. Nonetheless, Fox News last evening sponsored the first GOP presidential debate for the 2012 election. So take these initial results with…
It’s not every day that you see the president of an independent, sovereign country take to the pages of an American newspaper with an op-ed arguing that his government is not collaborating with and protecting terrorists. But then again, I’m…
Well, it took nearly 10 years, but we did it: Our military forces have killed and captured the undisputed leader of a transnational terrorist army committed to our destruction. Yes, Osama bin Laden is dead. Of course, for all practical…
After fumbling a bit re: the Arab Spring (of which he has been unduly skeptical), Charles Krauahammer is back with another truly superb column this morning, one that reveals his greatness as a columnist. Krauthammer hones in on what has…
The elite law firm King & Spalding has ordered one of its top attorneys, former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, to suspend his work on behalf of the Defense of Marriage Act. This in response to political pressure from the…
As the United States works to promote democratization in the Middle East and North Africa, it’s important that we assist and encourage reform-minded political leaders and modernizing institutions there. Such leaders and institutions are not exactly ubiquitous in the region;…
Larry Sabato’s latest analysis of the electoral college map should give jubilant Republicans serious pause, because it suggests that, despite his manifest failures of leadership, Barack Obama is poised to win reelection. And, more ominously for the GOP, the Dems…
The left has a bad political habit of reading its public policy preferences into the Constitution. So, for example, because they think the death penalty is bad, the Constitution must ban capital punishment. Conversely, they think, a right to abortion…
Do the Indian Wars waged on the American frontier in the 19th century have anything to teach us about presidential war making authority? Jim Antle and John Tabin raise that issue in their thoughtful debate about the constitutionality of Obama’s…
Jim Antle references David Horowitz’s remarkable assertion that, his past polemics to the contrary notwithstanding, he (Horowitz) never fully supported a robust and muscular U.S. foreign policy of democracy promotion. “I allowed myself to get swept up in the Bush-led…
