“Thinking about the Unthinkable” is the title of a once famous 1962 book by Herman Kahn imagining scenarios for an all-out nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia. Perhaps it helped to prevent a nuclear war from occurring. “Thinking the…
Pennsylvania is seriously in play. Yes, it is my home state and I live here. But the repeated presence of former President Trump — not only is he returning to Butler, the site of his almost-assassination, in the energy-rich west….
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret Service has become “the face of incompetence,” House Oversight Chair James Comer told U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle as she testified Monday before his committee. The day did not go well for Cheatle, who…
What a lousy movie it would make! Some slightly-built small-town 20-year-old, known to his schoolmates as a nerd and a loner who was rejected for membership in the school rifle club because he was a bad shot, manages, in the…
March 30, 1981 seemed like it would be a routine day for President Ronald Reagan. That afternoon he was speaking to a friendly crowd at the AFL-CIO convention in the International Ballroom at the Washington Hilton Hotel. He had no…
At 6:11 pm on Sunday, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire from the roof of a manufacturing plant outside of the Butler Farm Show grounds where Trump’s rally was held. He killed one rally attendee and seriously injured two others…
I mentioned in Sunday’s special-edition Five Quick Things column that my novel King of the Jungle, which The American Spectator subscribers got to read in serial form earlier this spring before it was published (you can still do that, if…
One is tempted to say Donald J. Trump became the 47th President of the United States at 18:11 EDT on 13 July 2024. The image of him fist-pumping the air in bloodied defiance after the failed assassination attempt in Butler,…
That’s my hometown: Butler, Pennsylvania. That’s where former President Donald Trump, consistently leading Joe Biden in the polls since about October, and particularly increasing that lead lately, was shot this Saturday, July 13, 2024. I wasn’t there, but I almost…
