Year: 2016

My old friends Dennis Prager, Bill Bennett and Rush Limbaugh, among many others, seem to have made a transition. It’s not enough to vote for Trump. No, even reluctant supporters must now talk themselves into believing that conservative “principles” require a vote for Trump. Like John C. Calhoun, who discovered that slavery was not only not wrong, […]

There was a time when one of the worst sins you could commit on the American Right was to buy into “false moral equivalence.” During the Cold War, this usually meant saying that we were no better than the Soviet Union. For example, Democratic Sen. William J. Fulbright — Bill Clinton’s mentor — said of […]

Are you as sick as I am of seeing the tedious finger-pointing between never-Trumpers and certain Republicans who have decided — many reluctantly — to vote for Donald Trump? I assume that most people on both sides are in good faith and are doing what they believe is in the nation’s best interests. I wish […]

At the very start of the NBC forum on national security affairs, Matt Lauer asked Hillary Clinton what were the qualities she thinks are most important in a commander in chief. She cited steadiness, willingness to listen to others and to evaluate what they say, temperament and judgment as key. Then, she proceeded to flunk […]

I listen to Jay Severin at the Blaze Radio Network from time to time, although not as often as I used to. Back in the old (or at least older) days, Jay had his own show broadcast here in New England.   One of the catch phrases he used, when a college kid called into […]

Last week, I wrote about how our standard of living has grown much faster in recent decades than most people realize. Official statistics show that average income has doubled since the 1970s and research by economist William Nordhaus shows that the reality is even more positive. Our living standards today may be four to eight […]