Modern Liberals, Whine Connoisseurs
We now are down to two presidential candidates. One went to the Ivy League and Harvard Law School as a young man. The other spent years of his youth in ...
How McCain Carried Florida
When you look at the electoral map of Florida, something very interesting emerges. As expected, John McCain did well in southeast Florida, which is more heavily populated by moderate Republicans. ...
Advice from Jeane Kirkpatrick
The best advice I ever heard about feminism, balancing a career and family, came from Jeane Kirpatrick to my wife when Jeane was visiting Florida. “A career and ...
“Party of the Rich”
The GOP is the party of the rich, or so goes the conventional wisdom since the days of FDR.
Many Republicans, said Democratic-party chairman Howard Dean recently, “have never made an ...
Man With a Spine of Steel
I remember the first time I met Cap. It was 1992 and I was researching a book on the Reagan Cold War strategy– and I was anxious. Cap was publisher ...
Campus Rads Vs. Our Vets
As college students hit campuses across the nation this week, a new generation of young veterans will step off the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan and onto the ideological battlefield ...
Reagan Vs. Fear
Ronald Reagan was often called the Great Communicator and his considerable skill at speaking is usually regarded as his most important political attribute. But, more important was his raw, pure ...
Kevin Phillips’s Politics of Deceit
Over the course of the first three months of this election year, no book on the Bushes and the Bush presidency has sold more copies than Kevin Phillips’s American Dynasty. ...
Two Hedgehogs in The White House
As President George W. Bush prepares the West for war against Iraq and Ronald Reagan turns 92, this seems a particularly poignant time to reflect on the nature of political ...