Decades of Decadence: How Our Spoiled Elites Blew America’s Inheritance of Liberty, Security, and Prosperity By Marco Rubio (Broadside Books, 223 pages, $32) In 2010, a 39-year-old Marco Rubio (he looked even younger) scored a major electoral upset, unhorsing Florida’s…
Former President Donald Trump did not have a good night Tuesday. As President Joe Biden noted during a Wednesday press briefing, “While the press and pundits are predicting a giant red wave, it didn’t happen.” The fact that Democrats outperformed…
The modern Left has managed to unite two groups historically at crossed swords: Christians and Muslims. Concerned parents of both faiths are now confronting a common enemy — sexual perversity and indoctrination at their children’s schools, with transgender orientation the…
The Red Wave is here, but if you’re a reader of The American Spectator you already know that. You’ve read Josh Hammer’s column here last week, you read my pontifications on it, and you even know what Newt Gingrich had to…
And many think boxing is brutal. OK, it is. But if Monday night’s political theater were a prize fight, the referee would have disqualified one of the participants early on for low blows. If it were a football game, the…
Tampa — With barely two weeks left before Election Day, a new Florida Atlantic University poll shows incumbent Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis with an 11-point lead over his hopeless and hapless Democratic challenger, Charlie Crist. This is the same…
Hurricane Ian was an especially challenging natural phenomenon for hydrological, meteorological, and geographical reasons. Ian was a Category 4 — almost Category 5 — hurricane. That meant wherever it came ashore, it was going to wreck things. It carried storm…
When we (meaning the editors here at The American Spectator and yours truly) were discussing the topic of this column Tuesday afternoon, I groaned at the subject matter below — because there is no emerging unscathed from an attempt to…
It’s no mystery why former Florida Rep. Charlie Crist wants to hold public office. There’s no shortage of people who’ve chosen politics over legitimate work, for which, like Crist, they have neither talent nor stomach. The mystery is why Democrat…
Well, this is amazing. Rep. Charlie Crist, the career politician and one-time Republican who switches parties like other guys switch neckties, is the Democrat nominee for governor against the GOP’s Gov. Ron DeSantis. And Crist has made it abundantly clear…