Tom Bethell
Long-time Washington Post reporter David Broder, the so-called “dean” of the DC press corps, died at 81 today from complications relating to diabetes, the Post reports. Broder was working up until the very end, and anybody who covers politics for…
IN THE LAME DUCK CONGRESS, the forces of the left were unable to raise tax rates on “the rich.” They will stay unchanged for two more years. But the left was able to overturn “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the law…
I went to a small anti-Planned Parenthood demonstration in downtown Washington, only four blocks north of the White House. That was on Monday. The next day I went to a dinner on Capitol Hill for the benefit of cigar smokers….
This is a story about cricket and government schools. You may not care much about cricket, but what it tells us about the latest developments in England’s state funded schools may be of interest to all. My source for the…
As this is written at the end of October you know more than I do — about the elections, I mean. So I turn to my old friend Joe Sobran, who died on September 30, age 64. He was the…
Peter Hitchens is Christopher’s brother and works in London for the Mail on Sunday. He is the journalist in England I most enjoy reading and I had arranged to have lunch with him. But I had to call it off…
The evening before I was due to fly to San Francisco, with car rental a priority, my wife discovered that my driver’s license had expired. Brilliant. I flew out from Dulles the next day thinking I might have to cope…
&qu My wife and I sometimes attend a “wild game dinner” on Capitol Hill. It’s a lot of fun. People interested in environmental issues, some of them employed by congressional committees, almost all on the Republican side, discuss the latest…
It’s a good bet right now that Barack Obama will be a one-term president. The enthusiasm that once shielded this hyphenated American has dissipated. His supporters, although still numerous, have discovered that he lacks Bill Clinton’s centrist instincts, and even…
Political newcomer Art Robinson won 79 percent of the vote to win the GOP primary in Oregon’s 4th congressional district. He will face the 12-term incumbent, liberal Democrat Peter DeFazio. DeFazio is a high tax, big-spending progressive. Robinson is a small-government…
