John R. Guardiano
Re: federal funding of Planned Parenthoood and abortion, I know that Joseph Lawler never expected better of Scott Brown, but I did. And I suspect that many Massachusetts voters did as well. Sure, I understand that Brown faces reelection next…
This morning I was a guest on the Joy Cardin show, which is broadcast on Wisconsin Public Radio. The topic: Libya. My sparring partner: Alan Kuperman, an associate professor of public affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public…
“My Twitter feed is full of Righties divided about war in Libya, but Lefties are oddly quiet,” tweeted GOP political consultant Joe Henke. The Left has been quiet, even as allied military operations against Libya commence. Why? One obvious explanation…
One of the more sadly amusing spectacles of the American-European-Arab dance over Libya is the complete and utter role-reversal that has taken place. Indeed, the Europeans are leading; the Americans are following; and the Arabs are applauding — publicly! French…
President Obama’s not the only one who believes that “words matter.” So, too, does Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi. That’s why he’s blithely ignored his own ceasefire and, in clear defiance of President Obama and the “international community” continued his assault…
I’m glad that President Obama finally and belatedly has acceded to the urgent pleas of our British, French, Libyan and Arab allies, all of whom have been urging the United States to stop Gaddafi’s mercenary army from crushing the rebel…
I like Fox News, which aims to be fair and balanced. But even Fox isn’t immune to the biases of the legacy media and the left-wing blogosphere. Tonight, for instance, on the “Fox Report,” Shepard Smith declared: New outrage in…
Imagine, if you will, that Roe v. Wade had never been decided by the Supreme Court. Abortion policy thus is set by all 50 sovereign American states. Wisconsin’s newly elected Democratic governor and legislature have just passed modest and incremental…
As I explained yesterday here at the American Spectator, Justice Alito’s dissenting opinion in Snyder v. Phelps, the military funeral picketing case, has a lot more force of law than one might expect, given that Alito was a minority of…
Jim Antle and John Tabin provide a good summary overview of the Supreme Court’s 8-1 decision in Snyder v. Phelps. At issue is whether protesters have a Constitutional right to picket military funerals. As you would imagine, most military service…
