Thanksgiving is four days behind us, which means the leftovers have either been eaten or are ready for the trash. Fifty-three days from now, when Barack Obama finally relinquishes the presidency, he will leave a whole table full of leftovers…

Mike Pence’s trip to the theater didn’t end as badly as Lincoln’s, but it is not hard to imagine the entitled actors shouting “Sic semper tyrannis!” at him. They are in a secessionist mood. Hollywood liberals are now entertaining fantasies…

I’ve not had a lot of use for Mike Pence since Donald Trump chose the Indiana governor to be his running mate. The Hoosier who describes himself as a “Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order,” never seemed…

“Did you work on that a long time?” That Reaganesque rejoinder from Mike Pence — one of many — effectively put Tim Kaine in his place during a debate that exposed the depths of the Hillary campaign’s demagogic cheapness. Pence looked like a…

Here is a sad but true confession. With every single political candidate, no matter the political party, I have to ask myself, “Do I believe in my heart that the candidate is a racist?”  The process is remarkably consistent, election…

I’ll say this for Mike Pence. He was the voice of reason tonight after a crowd in Reno, Nevada saw fit to boo a mother whose son is currently serving in the U.S. Air Force when she questioned Pence about…

Amity Shlaes, as usual, has gotten it right. Ms. Shlaes is author of a terrific book I read several years back titled The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression and is now a presidential scholar at King’s…

As many longtime readers of AmSpec know, this magazine originated in Indiana where it raised hell from the Heartland for twenty years before moving on to Washington and raising even more hell — ask Bill and Hillary. Thus today and…

Cleveland Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence drew cheers for his speech Wednesday, but when the third night of the Republican National Convention was over, the topic that dominated conversation was the churlish performance of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. The…

One reason John Kasich was unacceptable to many conservatives as this year’s GOP standard bearer involves his acquiescence in Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid. Many believe that, as Governor of Ohio, he has squandered the hard won 2012 Supreme Court victory…