Category: Interviews

P.J. O’Rourke is not only knowledgable, he’s one of the best writers the Right has ever produced. Additionally, he’s the single best foreign affairs reporter I’ve ever read. Nobody makes another country come alive like P.J. O’Rourke. I can also tell you from personal experience that P.J.’s new book Don’t Vote It Just Encourages the […]

As you may know, GOProud is the only gay conservative organization out there and they’re doing a NYC fund raiser, featuring Ann Coulter, called Homocon. Right Wing News is sponsoring the event. Naturally, this has generated a lot of controversy, so I decided to interview Christopher Barron, the chairman of GOProud, talk about the whole […]

Last week David Limbaugh and I discussed his new book Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama. This week? The interview is live and the timing is fantastic because Limbaugh’s book has hit #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. Enjoy! First […]

Dick Armey & Matt Kibbe from FreedomWorks are out with a new book about the Tea Party movement: Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto. Armey, who’s a former Republican House Majority Leader, is out there making the rounds to promote the book. When I had an opportunity to interview him again (first interview here), […]

Interviewing Matt Lewis About His New Book, “Too Dumb to Fail: How the GOP Betrayed the Reagan Revolution to Win Elections (and How It Can Reclaim Its Conservative Roots)” (Feb 05, 2016) Interviewing Thomas Sowell About His New Book, “Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective” (Oct 20, 2015) A Right Wing News Interview With Donald Trump (Aug 21, […]

Victor Davis Hanson is an extraordinary writer with an encyclopedic knowledge of historical warfare. His columns are magnificent and his books are even better. So, I was pleased to have an opportunity to interview him about his newest book, The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern . What follows is a […]

National Review’s Andrew McCarthy is more familiar with radical Islam than your average person. He had to be. He was the lead attorney on the team that prosecuted Omar Abdel Rahman, the “Blind Sheikh,” way back in 1995. McCarthy and I got together to talk about his new book, “The Grand Jihad: How Islam and […]

Zev Chafets is the author of Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One. Chafets wrote the book with Limbaugh’s cooperation and it gave him a fascinating window into Limbaugh’s world. So, as someone who has been a Rush fan since college, I was really looking forward to talking to Chafets. What follows is a slightly edited […]

Earlier this week, I was pleased to get an opportunity to interview : : Rand Paul,:  the:  Republican:  Party’s:  nominee:  for:  the Senate:  in:  Kentucky.: :  : What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. Enjoy! To begin with, a lot of people assume you and your father have almost identical views. Can you give me a […]

Most people have now seen this video of Democratic Congressman Bob Etheridge going nuts and attacking a college student for asking him a question. Etheridge’s opponent, in the Republican leaning district that he’s represented for more than a decade, is Renee Ellmers. Ellmers is a credible candidate and a solid conservative. Since this incident occurred, […]

Mike Pence has long been one of the fiscally conservative heroes of the House. He’s also worked his way up into a leadership position;:  he’s the Chairman of the House Republican Conference. So, when I had an opportunity to do an interview with him to promote the GOP’s America Speaking Out website, I jumped on […]

Earlier this week, I got together with Eric Singer, head of the Congressional Effect Fund You run a fund that trades stocks only when Congress isn’t in session. Can you talk about why that is? Yes, I call it the Congressional Effect Fund. The reason for that is that stocks do much better when Congress […]

I read and enjoyed Amy Alkon’s book, I See Rude People: One woman’s battle to beat some manners into impolite society. The book was funny, gave me a new way of looking at rudeness, and Amy’s relentless desire to confront the rude was intriguing. In fact, you could say that Amy Alkon is the first […]

Late last week, I got together with Tim Burns, the Republican candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 12th district. You’ll probably be hearing Tim Burns’ name quite a bit over the next month or so because he’s taking on Mark Critz, John Murtha’s former Chief:  of:  Staff, in a battle for “Murtha’s seat” on May 18th. […]

Earlier this week, I got together with ambush interviewer extraordinaire, Jason Mattera: the author of Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation. What follows is the slightly edit transcript of my conversation with Jason. Enjoy! What do you say to the argument that the GOP really doesn’t have a big problem with younger […]

While I was covering CPAC for PJTV, I set up an on camera interview with Ron Paul. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, we weren’t able to actually do the interview. So, when I got back, I pursued an interview with Ron Paul for Right Wing News. I wasn’t sure the interview would happen […]

Former Congressman J.D. Hayworth is taking on John McCain in Arizona’s Republican primary. It’s a close race. According to the latest Rasmussen poll, Hayworth is only down seven points to McCain. What follows is the slightly edited transcript of our conversation from last Friday. Enjoy! Now John McCain supported the bank bailouts via Tarp. Where […]

On Friday of last week, I was pleased to get an opportunity to interview Karl Rove about his new book: Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight. Rove was very gracious during the interview, particularly since I committed one of the cardinal sins of an interviewer: The batteries on my digital […]

Thomas Sowell’s new book is called, Intellectuals and Society and I was pleased to have the opportunity to interview him about the book late last week. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. Enjoy! All right, and right off the bat let me ask you about a quote that showed up at […]

John Yoo has been in the news a lot lately, not just because of his new book, Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush, but because he’s one of the authors of the Bush Administration “torture memos” that were the legal basis for the enhanced interrogation techniques […]

Last week, I got together for my second interview with conservative comedian Evan Sayet (first one here). What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation, most of which centered around liberalism. Now you used to be a writer for Bill Maher. : I’ve heard a few people say, “Gee he used to be much more […]

For those that don’t know, GOProud is a relatively new gay conservative group that broke off from the Log Cabin Republicans. Lately, they’ve been in the news because Liberty University withdrew their co-sponsorship at CPAC over GOProud’s co-sponsorship of the event. Late last week, I interviewed GOProud’s Chairman of the Board, Christopher Barron. What follows […]

When Michael Steele ran for the Senate in 2006, the Rightroots blogger fundraising group that I ran supported him. When he ran for RNC Chair, he was my first choice. Since then, although he has certainly made a few missteps along the way, I’ve remained a strong supporter of Michael Steele and have continued to […]

Christan Marashio runs a popular dating advice blog called “……And THAT’S Why You’re Single.” After reading her blog, I’ve found her writing to be superb and her advice to be generally spot-on. So, I managed to run down Christan for an interview. What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation: …What misconceptions do you […]

While I was at the Freedomworks event in Raleigh last week-end, I got an opportunity to interview former House Majority Leader and Freedomworks Chairman, Dick Armey. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of my interview with him. Should the official Republican Party stay out of primaries? You know, my general attitude is that everybody […]

Late last week, I did an interview with Texas Congressman John Carter. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our interview: There is some concern that the Ethics Committee in the House is brushing aside serious complaints. Do you think they’re doing the type of work they need to be doing to make sure […]