“He goes down by the Potomac and listens to hymns as the cleansing water of the Potomac goes by, and we’re going to wash all the Sodomites and fornicators out of town!” So shrieked (literally) one James Carville, Bill Clinton’s…
In the first article in this series, I argued that there really is a difference between the Right and the Left when it comes to nasty political rhetoric and using government investigations to attack the other party. The Left gets…
In 1980, when the voters of Arkansas denied Bill Clinton a second term as the state’s governor, he responded by apologizing to the voters for the poor decisions he had made and asking them how he could have done a…
The Washington Post reports that Bill Clinton advised Joe Biden in May to take credit for a decline in inflation should it happen. Events this week confirm 46 heeded the counsel of 42. “I want to say a word about…
Ben Shapiro reflected on the stunning rebuke French President Macron received in the recent parliamentary elections. Macron had won his presidential campaign not so long ago by running as the sane and reasonable centrist in a France increasingly plagued by…
In 2020, despite gaining control of the White House and the Senate, the Democrats suffered a net loss of 13 seats in the House and a comprehensive down ballot drubbing. This was hardly a mandate for radical change. Yet, upon…
P.J. O’Rourke’s full name was Patrick Jake O’Rourke. It was so like P.J. to obscure the coolest middle name out there. Everyone’s world stopped when word got out Tuesday that he had died. He was one of those rare creatures…
Years ago, spying consisted of slipping a small camera into a shoe and a couple of microphones into the vases decorating some secretive office. Sometimes, if the spy was a Russian blonde, letting yourself fall into the trap was a…
It has become commonplace for historians and scholars to compare presidential corruption to Warren Harding, claiming he is the standard to measure dishonesty in the White House. It is repeated on both sides of the political aisle, Republicans as well…
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the sham company Theranos, was found guilty this week in a federal court of multiple acts of fraud. Media coverage of this verdict has seemed glancing and perfunctory, as if it is a story the…