WASHINGTON — “Decency. Decency. Decency,” President Joe Biden responded when a reporter asked him about late President Jimmy Carter’s legacy Sunday hours after the former president passed away. It was a self-serving summation on Biden’s part, as the barely-there chief…
American Spectator Editor Paul Kengor weighs in on the death and legacy of Jimmy Carter in this interview with Tracy Sabol of EWTN News Nightly. Kengor laments the challenge of saying something charitable and positive — at the time of…
Technically, I’m on vacation. But I can’t let 2024 end without just one more installment of the Five Quick Things. So with as little folderol and ado as possible, let’s begin, shall we? 1. The H-1B Thing After last week’s…
In a sign of the times, 2024 whizzed by in the instant it took for a bullet to travel 150 yards from a rooftop through a man’s ear. One can condense the year into that moment. Put it in a…
Former President Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100. As president, Jeane Kirkpatrick brilliantly explained, he was an abysmal failure. On his watch, the economic “misery index” skyrocketed and the geopolitical correlation of forces shifted in the Soviets’ favor….
In March 1976, Time magazine profiled a Democratic governor from Georgia who was making a long-shot bid for the presidency. A former peanut farmer, he was viewed as an oddity in progressive circles. He talked about his relationship with Jesus…
Former president Donald Trump says Elon Musk may serve as the “Secretary of Cost-Cutting,” and Musk foresees a Department of Government Efficiency under his command. The SpaceX boss might dial it back to a previous attempt during the Carter Era. The victor…
The other day, an Ohio University emeritus economics professor and senior fellow at the Independent Institute named Richard Vedder wrote in The American Spectator a thank-you note to Jimmy Carter on his 100th birthday — a thank you for his…
Jimmy Carter today becomes the first American president to live to be 100 years old. Presidential scholars mostly consider Carter to have been a mediocre president. In two of his four presidential years, the unemployment rate averaged above 7 percent,…
