Obamarama
Hillary must have thrown a lamp at somebody when she got the news that Barack Obama had beaten her to the gate with his announcement of the formation of his ...
Hey, Stupid
“You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If ...
The Unartful Dodger
So, was it a political ploy crafted to raise doubts about George Bush’s terrorism policies just before midterm elections? Or, was Bill Clinton playing the Spiro Agnew role for his ...
The Shoe on the Left Foot Seems to Pinch
Back in 2003, when CBS planned to broadcast a docudrama entitled The Reagans, which smeared Ronald and Nancy Reagan, I wrote a column for National Review Online condemning it. I ...
Dreaming of a White Christmas?
“So what’s the big deal about snow? What’s so wonderful about a White Christmas? Isn’t snow really cold and wet and you have to shovel it and you can slip ...
Shepherding Dinner
Old MacDonald had a farm. And you can bet that his Thanksgiving dinners featured some of the creatures that no longer gobble-gobbled here, moo-mooed there, or oink-oinked anywhere anymore. That’s ...
Ballot Bogeymen
Each fall, as the trees shed their orange and yellow leaves to reveal skeletal limbs and the night creeps earlier into the day, gamboling mischief-makers take to the streets to ...
Dean’S Secret Revealed
MONTPELIER, VT.–What is he hiding? Former Vermont governor Howard Dean has refused to open a mountain of records from his years in office until 2013, long after his presidential election ...
Inside a Christmas Card
Christmas cards. Every year just after Thanksgiving, they start arriving in your mailbox. Unless you’re by misfortune friendless or by bad nature a Scrooge, you send them out yourself to ...
The Big, Ugly Garden
Thanksgiving Day–despite the intrusion of the Macy’s parade and enough football to make Knute Rockne wonder if a little cricket would be a nice change of pace–is a harvest festival. ...