Washington It looks like former Obama Administration National Security Advisor Susan Rice will get a reprieve. With all the hullabaloo from last week’s military action by President Donald Trump in Syria — do we call it Syria’s civil war or…

Bureaucrats braved a bad week. Donald Trump proposes cuts of 29 percent to the State Department, 21 percent to the Departments of Agriculture and Labor, 18 percent to Health and Human Services, and 31 percent to the Environmental Protection Agency…

It’s not conservatism, it’s Trumpism! This may be one of the dumber statements floating around as conventional wisdom on the Right. I just watched Trump’s speech at the Friday morning session of CPAC. What I heard was smash-mouth conservatism. Here…

Nonsense can come from both ends of the political spectrum. As Senate Democrats and left-wing organizations flailingly tried this week to show that Alabama’s U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions is too conservative to be U.S. Attorney General, some conservative groups have…

Washington It has come to my attention that there are still conservatives out there who do not believe President-elect Donald Trump is a conventional conservative or even a conservative of any stripe whatsoever. Of course, I suspected him of being…

I knew Thomas Sowell was getting on in years — so far on in fact as to be 86. But it was still a jolt to read in Tuesday’s TAS that he is retiring from his long-running syndicated column. With…

It is now a year since the leftist Malcolm Turnbull seized the leadership of the Australian Liberal (i.e. conservative) Party and the Prime Ministership of Australia from the genuine conservative Tony Abbott, in a coup as conscienceless as it was stupid,…

Not a lot of fathers are longtime lieutenants in the conservative movement. We held a memorial service on Monday for my father, who died at age 72 of cancer on April 28. Ordinarily I would think it best for a…