Andrew Jackson was the kind of man whose parrot, Poll, felt at home attending his funeral — and also the kind of man whose parrot had to be removed from his funeral because no one could get it to stop…
Conservatives speak of our intellectual inheritance. As a child may receive his grandfather’s pocket watch or the family farm, so all of us have received as our inheritance the literary and historical treasures of the American experience. America’s literary works,…
Harry Truman didn’t like pretension. Competence and honesty coupled with dedication to duty — these he respected. George Marshall, who served him both as Secretary of State and then as Secretary of Defense, commanded his complete respect. He called him…
Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, noteworthy for her calm and collected demeanor, was in rare form after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday. Waters declared in front of the Supreme Court building: “The hell with the Supreme Court….
Okay, now that I have your attention, my provocative title does not in any way absolve President Donald J. Trump and his allies of responsibility for the outrageous actions of the hooligans who broke into the Capitol on January 6…
As the saying goes, “Be careful what you wish for.” For the past several weeks, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and various Democrats have been swept up in the Cancel Culture. They have been busily applauding the tearing down of statues…
Joe Biden called Donald Trump America’s “first” racist president this week. The collective shock of his supporters reflected not that he labeled the president of the United States a racist but that he absolved all of his predecessors from that…
Barbarians Within the Gates The mob succeeded in defacing the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square and spray-painting on St. John’s Church, a structure the mob set fire to several weeks ago, near the White House. The mob failed…
It is one of the most deliberately ignored — if most basic — facts of American history. The Democrats literally began as the Party of Slavery. It fought relentlessly, as historian Bruce Bartlett has detailed in his book Wrong On…