W. James Antle III
A few responses to my recent column on the Chick-fil-A business are worth sharing with the rest of the class. If the owner of Denny’s said he believed African Americans were cursed as the son of Ham I would expect…
It’s become a cliche to say that “racist” has been redefined to mean “anyone winning an argument with a liberal,” but sometimes words are overused for a reason. Jonathan Chait attempts to racialize the “you didn’t build that” controversy, identifying…
My take on the war on Chick-fil-A. In May, much ink was spilled when President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden announced to the world that they now supported gay marriage. Was this an attempt to raise more money…
In the ongoing debate over the meaning of “that,” John O’Sullivan points out the president’s genuinely statist logic: Let us look at the life-span of Obama’s successful businessman: He is not only allowed to “thrive” by “this unbelievable American system,”…
For years, auditing the Federal Reserve was a fringe idea taken up only by Ron Paul. Both the Democratic and Republican wings of the establishment argued that it would compromise the Fed’s independence. Given the economic impact of bad monetary…
If you want a corrective to some of the anti-gun nonsense circulating since the Aurora shootings, there is no better place to start than this well informed piece by Robert VerBruggen. On whether 1990s-style gun control laws would have prevented…
“Here Mike, let me get the light,” I offered absentmindedly, reaching for the switch. It wasn’t my smartest moment, and my friend had a ready response. “Is that what I’ve needed all these years?” he asked sarcastically. “For someone to…
Barack Obama stepped in it with his “you didn’t build that” speech, the subject of my column last week. But now people are claiming that he was taken out of context. One popular reinterpretation is that when Obama says “you…
Any punishment of Penn State handed down by the NCAA was always going to be inadequate. The sports body doesn’t have the authority to deliver what would be justice for Jerry Sandusky’s unspeakable crimes and those involved in the cover-up….
I agree with Reid that foreign policy isn’t going to be the biggest issue in the fall election campaign. I also agree that Obama is stronger with the voters on the issue than Republicans think. Don’t get me wrong, his…
