Patrick Hynes
‘Tis the season for holiday music that intrudes, annoys, and entraps. Like a zombie, “Feliz Navidad” dies every year only to return — everywhere. On the car radio, in the mall, on hold, at your kid’s school (provided they omit…
This article appears in the February 2007 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to our monthly print edition, click here. During the closing weeks of the 2006 election, the mainstream media expected Democrats to win a larger share of…
This article ran in the July/August 2006 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe, click here. BY THE TIME THE PUNDITS HAD PICKED CLEAN the carcass of the 2004 election, the idea that Christian conservatives played a significant role in…
The headlines covering a recent Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll, which was conducted in late June, focused largely on the troubling statistic that revealed 35 percent of respondents would not vote for a Mormon for President of the United States. Religious…
New York Post columnist Ryan Sager is one of the sharpest young minds (with one of the sharpest pens) in the punditocracy. He is also a genuine libertarian who is suspicious of virtually every action take by the government, federal,…
If Al Gore paraded around the National Mall wearing a sandwich board and screaming, “We’re all going to die,” the nation’s opinion leaders would roll their eyes and conclude that the former Vice President’s long slide into insanity was finally…
Students and faculty attending New York’s New School commencement ceremony stood last weekend with their backs facing Senator John McCain and hissed and booed as the senator from Arizona encouraged a revival of civil discourse in our national affairs. These…
I went to the bookstore last week with the intention of buying Kevin Phillips’ ostentatious new title American Theocracy. I was disappointed to learn the book is neither principally nor even predominantly about religion in public life. Phillips dedicated one…
As political experts prognosticate about the coming 2006 off-year elections, one issue is missing from the political skyline. Byron York observed recently in the New Republic, “These days GOP lawmakers are polling behind Democrats on issues like health care, education,…
Recently, upon having the spiritual progenitor of their religion mocked in the public square, thousands of true believers took action. They called out their mockers and brought to heel those who would make light of their religious beliefs and traditions….
