As London reels from the beheading of a British soldier, 1,200
miles away in Stockholm, Muslims, er,
youths have been rioting in the streets of Stockholm and
elsewhere in Sweden for the past four nights.
News outlets such as Reuters are
focusing o...
So Quin Hillyer is throwing
his hat into the ring and is running for Congress.
I have enjoyed Quin’s contributions to The American
Spectator whether the subject be politics or sport. Quin
and I have had a couple of spirited disagreements, but w...
In my
initial reaction to the terrorist attack yesterday in London
was not to be surprised if the perpetrators were British born. One
of the two men responsible for murdering British soldier Lee Rigby
yesterday has been
identified as Michael Abdebolajo....
Lois Lerner, the official at the center of the IRS scandal, has
been put on administrative leave.
The Washington Post is reporting:
Lois Lerner, the director of the tax-exempt organizations
division at the Internal Revenue Service, has been placed on
a...
That was the takeaway from a discussion of his new book The
End Is Near, and It’s Going to Be Awesome. In it, the
National Review ace noted at Thursday’s event hosted by
the Cato Institute that fiscal crisis is inevitable as a matter of
simple arithme...
Let’s see if you have the same reaction as I did to this section
of President Obama’s speech on drones today:
We will never erase the evil that lies in the hearts of some
human beings, nor stamp out every danger to our open society. What
we c...
“I was right and he was wrong.”
In many ways, that was the lesson of Donald Rumsfeld’s event at
The Heritage Foundation called Rumsfeld’s Rules: Leadership
Lessons in Business, Politics, War and Life, based on his new
book of the s...
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on H.R. 1797, the
“District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,”
which aims to ban abortions after 20 weeks – the accepted time when
pain is felt by the baby.
The bill, which was sponsor...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is making moves to advance his
filibuster reform plan for executive branch nominees, despite his
January promise to leave the filibuster alone during this
Congress.
On Wednesday, Reid refused to pledge not to exercise the...
OK, so that’s a paraphrase. Here’s what the New York mayoral
candidate actually said, on WNYC this morning: “It is what it
is.…People may decide they want to come forward and say, here’s
another email that I got or another photo. Bu...
