William Tucker

Even as President Jean Armageddon rushed down the hallway to the Cabinet room, s/he was besieged by aides. “Mizza President, the Governor of Hawaii would like a personal hologram with you.” “Mizza President, the Japanese say they’re going to stay…

Phil Newman was almost out of Boulder and into the foothills when the boys suddenly realized they had forgotten to bring sodas. “Please, Mr. Newman, can we go back. It’s not too late,” they shouted from the back of the…

Samuel Federer waited patiently for the helicopter to arrive. He didn’t mind the diversion. He loved looking out the sheer glass window at the city below and above. Even on the 50th floor, where his ambassador’s suite was located, the…

It is 2065, fifty years after the Obama Administration has set America on a new course. Things are different now. Food is distributed at huge government-run Food Stamp Emporiums that have taken the place of grocery stores since 80 percent…

I generally don’t like to get involved in these “which-sex-is-the-best” debates, but here’s a case where I’ll have to make an exception. Last week the New York Times ran an op-ed entitled, “Men: Who Needs Them?” It was written —…

Last week, Environmental Entrepreneurs, a trade group, announced that wind and solar projects around the country had created 34,409 new jobs around the country in the second quarter of 2012, with high concentrations in California, Michigan, Ohio, Florida, and Colorado….

Three weeks ago, Dan Henninger of the Wall Street Journal wrote about how under the Obama Administration the country is really splitting into two economies, one public, one private. More and more the government is trying to replace private markets…

When Mitt Romney made his remarks about culture accounting for the differing success made by Palestinians and Israelis in cultivating the meager resources of the Eastern Mediterranean, he was immediately pounced upon by the entire liberal world. In response, Romney…

One of the saddest and most tragic spectacles in history is to witness a nation trying to exercise its power long after the economic origins of that power have gone into decline. Think of Austria languishing as the rest of…

Do you remember that thing about how the banks wouldn’t lend to blacks and Hispanics because they were racists? And do you remember how they passed the Community Reinvestment Act so that banks were forced to reduce down payments practically…