Patrick Hynes
I’ll admit it. I’m a man of ample carriage. At this time every two years I and my fellow political hacks tend to, how shall I say this, bulk up? Sure, after the election we’ll hop back on the treadmill…
What accounts for President George W. Bush’s recent and durable rise in the polls? Some argue the president is doing exceptionally well among female voters. Still others notice he’s doing better among blacks than he did in 2000. Of course,…
John Kerry’s campaign for President has drastically mismanaged the controversy surrounding his record in Vietnam and may be sowing the seeds of his own electoral destruction, according to political and communications experts. We asked several experts to take off their…
Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry by John E. O’Neill and Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. (Regnery Publishing, 256 pages, $27.95) During the better part of the last three years we have endured an endless series…
If the New York Times and NPR have their way, Christians may soon long for the days of hungry lions and syphilitic Roman emperors. The Scylla and Charybdis of respectable opinion have all but begged the Internal Revenue Service to…
Thus far, President George W. Bush’s re-election campaign has spent around $70 million on advertising. The campaign has run some pretty ads, most of which tried to paint John Kerry into a corner as a tergiversant. The result? When you…
As Americans begin already to sicken of the 38th presidential contest between a Republican and a Democrat, a historical review of the first 37 is a delightful distraction. In two separate volumes, Grand Old Party: A History of the Republicans…
When the media have bothered to cover John Kerry’s “Benedict Arnold companies” hypocrisy at all, they have tended only to discuss the outsourcing and off-shoring of HJ Heinz & Co., a firm with which he has only a tangential relationship…
In the heat of the 2000 election, Vice President Al Gore ridiculously remarked that the characters in the movie Love Story were based on him and his wife Tipper. The comment was patently untrue and, given Gore’s earlier whopper about…
As I stood in line at the airport, I realized I still had time to buy something to read before boarding. I gazed at all the racks of thrillers, legal thrillers, and police procedurals with interchangeable, nondescript titles like Split…
