I have been waiting for a very long time to write this column, and yet I can’t quite summon up the joy and relief I thought I’d get out of it. We’re speaking, of course, about the long-awaited denouement of…
Maybe you’ve heard of Heidi Przybyla. Maybe you haven’t. She’s a reporter at Politico who the leftists at NBC News, who put her on MSNBC all the time, simply love. Przybyla was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, which is…
There’s an old meme that you’ve surely seen. To paraphrase, it holds that conspiracy nuts are really just six months ahead of everybody else. Then there’s the other meme that asks if you’ve apologized to your conspiracy theorist friends for…
To live in America in the third decade of the 21st century is to experience something similar to that which many, particularly those on the right, warned about not long after the turn of the millennium. Following the jihadist attacks…
I’ll say this upfront: I think it’s most likely that Vladimir Putin, or elements of his regime, had Russian dissident Alexei Navalny killed. Putin is certainly capable of bumping off the political opposition — and with Navalny directly under Putin’s…
As this is a week in which many of us can proclaim our profound, and probably permanent, disgust with the people who claim to be the elites among us, I figured I’d wrap things up with a five-count indictment of…
Chronic readers of this column are surely aware that one of my favorite authors, who also happens to be a personal friend, is Kurt Schlichter. Kurt has written eight novels in his Kelly Turnbull series, and I’m not sure I…
There’s a famous scene in the Humphrey Bogart classic The Caine Mutiny in which Bogart’s character, the unstable and largely incompetent Captain Queeg, appears as a witness against the officers who relieved him as the ship he commanded was at…
It’s the end of another week, one in which the Republican Party was presented with oodles of opportunities to miss opportunities … and took full advantage. One day, some day, the GOP will be led by people who are competent,…
Mitch McConnell has to be finished as the caucus leader for the Republicans in the Senate. Now. He has to resign, and if he won’t, then that caucus needs to get together and force him out. Now. Not next week,…