If anyone ever wondered about the consequences of electing grossly incompetent Democrat leaders to office, one need not look any further than Washington, D.C. Along with Democrat-run New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis, our nation’s capital has declined…
Washington, D.C. — “I’m going to need to see some identification,” a National Guardsman told me as I pulled up to a downtown security checkpoint. I fumbled for my wallet and produced an expired, chipped driver’s license that has earned…
One of the things that bothered me most about the Obama presidency was the hero-worship of him by the left and, if you will pardon the redundancy, the media. Actually, hero-worship isn’t quite strong enough. After all, magazines printed images…
“USS Big Government,” editorial cartoon by Patrick Cross for The American Spectator, December 28, 2020.
The theological banter with Giovanni was not on Christmas Eve but on the day before. Christmas Eve this year in Washington, D.C., was warm and too damp for tennis, but the day before was cold and sunny; his suggestion was…
Friday An astonishing night. I’m in D.C. at my apartment at the Watergate. This afternoon Bob, my pal and driver, my caregiver, and a woman friend of college age went out to Oxford, Maryland. It’s a super-cute pre-Revolutionary village in…
In June 2020, a two-block section of 16th Street where it meets H Street (NW) at the north end of the park in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., was named Black Lives Matter Plaza, the words themselves painted…
There are only hours to go before election day, and businesses in most major cities are boarding up in expectation of protests, riots, and God knows what else. This weekend, I passed through Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Minneapolis. It’s the…
“This is your country,” Oumi says, “tell me what’s going on.” “It’s your country too, sweetie.” She finds herself under curfew, short hours at the store where she works, her customers telling her they missed her because they came too…
