Quin Hillyer

After about an hour of studying last night’s budget deal, I find it right on the borderline between (A) awful-tasting medicine we still need to take for our health and (B) a cure that is worse than the disease. But…

I usually don’t like to go on rumors, but when time is of the essence, you go with what you have. Here I explain why a fiscal cliff deal that lifts the spending cuts is worse than no deal at…

MOBILE, Ala. — Like a wedding cake with its top layer removed, the house next door to my friend Eddie Curran’s abode now sits with its entire top half shorn off entirely. Nearly half the shorn-off roof, along with big…

Sometimes it’s easy to strive too hard to find new meanings in the old familiar Christmas story. The symbology is in some senses profound but also so obvious, and in some ways so simple, that it can seem hackneyed, especially…

I just heard some sirens outside of my offie, and I figured it must be the end of the world finally coming. I’ve been to Chitzen Itza (sp?), and I was impressed that those Mayans were mighty smart people. So…

There are all sorts of things that need saying about the (misnamed) “Fiscal Cliff” negotiations, and about Barack Obama’s perfidy pertaining thereto. There was an interesting column to be written about former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue’s Solomonic but not-entirely-honest report…

It is now crystal-clear that Barack Obama is not dealing in good faith. I explain it at CFIF. Here’s part of it: I cannot name a single important instance in which President Obama actually gave any substantive ground to Republicans,…

Before he was elected to the House, I was writing about Tim Scott, now the Senator-designee for South Carolina. Here is his great story of how Chick-fil-A changed his life. Young Mr. Scott did, however, hold down a part-time job taking tickets…

Having just finished a remarkably good biography of Ben Franklin (by H.W. Brands), I had two different columns out this week about different things we can learn from him these days. The first, for CFIF, noted his insightful thoughts on…

REPUBLICANS AND CONSERVATIVES in the 2012 elections got less bang for the buck, and for their time and effort, than they have ever achieved in living memory. Their failure to defeat a severely weakened Barack Obama and their loss of…