“A note on character in politics” by James Piereson | The New Criterion
I learned a lot from this essay by James Piereson on Machiavelli and contemporary political discourse. It’s part of a cycle of essays on President Trunp and whether or not…
Mitt Romney: ‘Ready For My Close-up, Mr. DeMille’
This will hopefully be my last word on Mr. Romney for a while, but I think it’s a good one. My column today at Real Clear Politics focuses on Mitt’s…
The long, lingering death of Never Trump
As I had hoped, the Never Trump swan song of Willard Mitt Romney has energized the conservative base like nothing since Election Night 2016. The latest evidence is a sweet…
The truth about Syria that the MSM doesn’t want you to know
In addition to the delightful headline, there is much to appreciate in the substance of “The Blob is Lying About Trump’s Sudden Syria Withdrawal.” This essay by Mark Perry was…
Just because it’s on Fox doesn’t mean it isn’t fake
Sadly, more and more of the news coverage on Fox News is slanted against President Trump and conservatives. Fox Business is usually much better, but even there you should not…
Zinke will stand his ground as enviro wolves circle him
Ryan Zinke resigned as secretary of the interior at the end of 2018 due to, as I wrote at the time, the well-funded attacks on his character that came from…
Bonus: Why We Needed Trump (and not Romney!)
Friends, in honor of Mitt Romney exposing himself (ewww!) as a complete fraud (again!), I am offering two complimentary columns I wrote about Romney that are included in my “Why…
John Nolte savages Romney as ‘an idiot, a moron, a stupe, a sleazy stooge’
Rounding out today’s best responses to turncoat freshman senator Romney is the inestimable John Nolte of Breitbart, who summed it up nicely in his headline: “Mitt Romney Is an Idiot.”…
A real Republican schools Romney from the Virgin Islands!
Here’s a delightful story about a rising star in the Republican Party who is trying to rouse the GOP to excise the cancer known as Mitt Romney before it metastasizes…
Highly recommended: A Romney takedown by IBD
I’m still fuming over Mitt Romney’s craven betrayal of his president and his party on New Year’s Day. The 2012 GOP standard bearer wrote an op-ed in the Trump-hating Washington…