Here’s one major reason the Syria debate is so dispiriting: We’ve got a president few appear able to trust. Nobody in this, the fifth year of the Obama era, can assume Barack Obama necessarily means a word he says. He…
A news story out of New Mexico reminds us how hard it has lately become to be an American: a traditional American, I should say, concerned with trivial stuff like conscience and faith and personal integrity. New Mexico’s Supreme Court…
The world was never in better shape than when the British Empire was in full flower. So on from one abiding truth to another: Things never go well unless and until the good guys and the top dogs are one…
Donna Brazile, the Democrats’ all-purpose spokeswoman for civil rights, was at it again the other day, flaying “Republicans” for conspiring to suppress the voting rights of black and minorities. “Republicans,” as she put it in a USA Today column, “are…
Wendy Davis as governor of Texas? Wait; just a bit out of breath here; ribcage aches from too much, unduly prolonged, laughter. Wendy Davis as replacement for Rick Perry? There I go again. I will attempt some solemnity concerning my…
I’ve decided—and it wasn’t much of a decision: more a “duh” moment—that arguments over the legacy of former President George W. Bush will cease, oh, around the time we get an accurate count of all those angels said to be…
DALLAS — Absence, they say, makes the heart grow fonder. Maybe not outright, rapturously smitten but anyway fond; and fonder and fonder still, it may prove, as the calendar puts distance between the present day and the presidency of George…
While presiding over a war someone else had started, George W. Bush received abuse and vilification unprecedented for a U.S. president. He still does, as a matter of fact, if you troll news sites featuring stories on the Boston atrocity…
THE HEAT’S ON my friends. Gotta change that GOP. Change it how? You know by now, surely, with all the talk afloat in the land since the last time America voted. Gotta gag, not to mention tie up (and maybe…
