WASHINGTON — What has happened to the Democratic Party? Its elites have only one old codger running for the highest office in the land. The Republicans have at least a dozen, and one of them has held the presidency once…
WASHINGTON — Leonard Leo, the founder of the Federalist Society and of various other conservative groups, is sitting on a bundle of money. Moreover, he is giving a lot of it away. He is not giving it to any left-wing…
WASHINGTON — Well, how are things going for Vladimir Putin? He has been showing a KGB sleuth’s cunning at warfare for over a year now, and he has been doing it against an enemy who is outgunned and outnumbered. Oh…
WASHINGTON — I have spent the last three weeks in a very pleasant place, Europe. Not in Moscow, nor in Kyiv, nor even in Paris. Actually, I have been in London — London, the city that never sleeps or, at…
WASHINGTON — I always used to purchase Gillette shaving products. Gillette made products that appealed to me. When I was a boy, Gillette advertised the Friday night boxing matches. That was enough inducement for me. Perhaps Gillette also advertised the…
WASHINGTON — I have not seen Russian President Vladimir Putin passing through the Russian outback with his shirt off lately. Have you? He used to ride around the countryside shirtless and on horseback. I am told he would brag about…
WASHINGTON — Some time ago, I wrote that there was a very easy and suave way to solve the trans guys’ yearning for an opportunity to compete against the girls who now dominate women’s sports. My solution will end the…
WASHINGTON — Last week in this space I wrote about culture and how essential it is to the politics of a nation. If the culture of a country is upbeat, the country will be fine. If the culture of a…
Washington — Do you know that this country was once derided as being the most prudish of all the major countries on earth, even more prudish than the U.K.! For decades, we were laughed at for our prudish ways. Then…
WASHINGTON — Tucker Carlson’s recent travails with the media remind me of the great M. Stanton Evans’ Solomonic judgment regarding Richard Nixon. Said Stan: “I never liked Richard Nixon … until Watergate.” Then he saw the 37th president in a…