by | Nov 9, 2024

Those who wish to govern must sacrifice their freedom. It is not only the grinding demands of a campaign, with its enormous demands on the body and the spirit as well as on the finances. It is, when the campaign…

by | May 21, 2023

Maybe I missed something in ghostwriting class, but I always thought the ghostwriter’s job was to remain as ghostly as possible. The book, I thought, should be the author’s — his or her life, thoughts, ideas, and, as far as…

by | Feb 13, 2023

WASHINGTON — There is a phenomenon that has been creeping across America for at least the past 30 years that I have yet to comment on. Social scientists, however, have been writing about it for a long time. It is…

by | Oct 25, 2022

Rush lives. In a wonderful, newly published tribute to the late Rush Limbaugh, his wife, Kathryn Adams Limbaugh, and Rush’s brother, David Limbaugh, have gathered Rush’s friends and colleagues — and not least, transcripts of Rush’s words of wisdom —…

by | Mar 31, 2022

Regular listeners of Rush Limbaugh’s marvelous three-hour radio tour de force, which I imagine is a group of alumni coinciding greatly with the readers of The American Spectator, will no doubt remember one of Limbaugh’s famous sayings. “I’m the mayor…

by | Feb 17, 2022

A year has passed. That would be a year since Rush Limbaugh headed for the pearly gates on February 17, 2021, following a valiant fight against lung cancer. He has, as has been said by others, returned his “talent on…

by | Jan 11, 2022

There he goes again. The state of the Republican base is the fault of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and, oh yes, Donald Trump. So says Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, the Trump-hating member of the infamous January 6…

by | Dec 30, 2021

As the commissioned pitchman for the year almost past, I find “2021, even better than 2020” as the most captivating slogan for my client not in violation of hangups over truth in advertising. The Oxford English Dictionary named “vax” and…

by | Dec 16, 2021

Back there in the mists of time, April 22, 2014 to be precise, I wrote a column in this space that was titled: The New American Fascism In which I cited some twenty incidents of leftists shutting down or attempting…

by | Dec 14, 2021

Washington — He is alive! Norman Podhoretz is alive, and he agreed to an interview with the Wall Street Journal’s very perceptive Barton Swaim this weekend. He says that many of his peers are now deceased but not him, and…

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