TWENTY YEARS AGO liberals thought they knew how to make a country rich: self-government, public education, and loads of World Bank infrastructure grants. Free-market conservatives also had a simple nostrum. “Privatize, privatize, privatize,” said Milton Friedman. Today they both know…
12 June 2013 Reginald Wormwood, Esq. Wormwood Consulting, Inc. 1600 K Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 AS YOU’RE in Washington, you have a special mission to the liars. You know that, of course, and rightly complain of an embarrassment of…
After the last couple of elections, it’s become clear that the greatest challenge for conservatives is taking back the culture. One of the greatest obstacles to this lies in our universities, which have been taken over by their politically correct…
So why did he kill all those soldiers about to be shipped out to the Middle East? “We the mujahideen are imperfect Muslims trying to establish the perfect religion in the land of the supreme God.” Your typical workplace accident,…
No one seems to be connecting the shutdown of embassies with Obama’s birthday. I predict that, in the future, we will celebrate Obama Day as Brits do the Queen’s birthday, with public celebrations and the closure of public buildings. At…
The Zimmerman case underlines what many experts have been saying for some time: America’s system of criminal justice is seriously broken. We have a list of federal crimes so vast in number that it can’t be counted. We’ve also departed…
Here’s what’s frustrating about the GOP talks on immigration. They’re taking the present regime as the base point, and negotiating from there. But the base point — the 1965 Immigration Act — has not only harmed the party but also…
There are two strands of conservative thought on gay marriage. The first, and loudest, is the natural rights argument that it should never receive legal recognition in any jurisdiction. The second, to which I subscribe, is federalism: let each state…
Fans of Jim Bowman’s film reviews who are in the DC area, or will be visiting, are encouraged to attend his film festival. Six films, on a Wednesday or Tuesday evening this summer. Free movie, pizza and talk by Jim….
If immigration reform passes, in the 1,000 page bill now before Congress, get ready for a one-party state. Red states will turn purple, purple states will turn blue, and federal politics will resemble the single-hued state politics of California. Oh,…