“He has such an early-morning face and such a palpable
desire to please that to bait him would be like kicking a
puppy.”— Liberal columnist Mary McGrory of Ron
Ziegler, 1969
In the beginning, the press loved Ron Ziegler.
As the young Nixon aide...
Until recently, if a pregnant woman wanted to determine the
genetic health of her baby, she had to endure a series of crude and
invasive tests. Early in her second trimester, she would be given a
blood test called the triple screen, which measures levels...
The Obama administration’s attacks on the Constitution have been
aggressive and unrelenting. They have been complemented by
consistent disdain, from Democratic Party elected officials, for
the notion that there are any limits of any sort on the power of...
President Obama offers only weasel words to explain deaths in
Libya and IRS abuses. He’s the master of verbal evasion. House
Republicans need to replace debate with action to hold the
president accountable on these issues.
To get to the bottom of wh...
Back in the days when we had them, declarations of war were
short, simple, and clear. By contrast, the “Authorization for the
Use of Military Force” (from here on AUMF) cobbled together by
Congress and signed by President Bush after 9/11 reads more li...
WASHINGTON —Where are we now in this morass of Obama
Administration scandals? We have the Associated Press imbroglio. We
have the Benghazi imbroglio. We have the IRS imbroglio. Well, a
synonym for imbroglio is confusion, and in all the above cases
repla...
There is a scene in Ang Lee’s Civil War film Ride with the
Devil, based on Ozark novelist’s Daniel Woodrell’s
book, where a pack of rebel soldiers are asked why they are
fighting jayhawkers along the Missouri-Kansas border instead of
battling Yanke...
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...
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...
In January,
Rush Limbaugh warned that there was “an effort under way to
normalize pedophilia,” and was ridiculed by liberals (including
CNN’s Soledad
O’Brien) for saying so. But now liberals have joined a crusade
that, if successf...
