“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...
Earlier today, when House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) allowed IRS scoundrel Lois
Lerner to stop testifying after she “took the Fifth,” I said that
Issa had made a mistake.
He should have made her stay...
I first found out about today’s terrorist attack in London via
Ross’ post.
My first thought is that this isn’t the first act of Islamic
terrorism in Britain and it won’t be the last.
It has been widely reported that the man...
For the University of Mobile’s Center for Leadership, I put the
current media-chilling narrative in
broader perspective.
But now it’s not just freedom of the press that
seems threatened by a government that some people fe...
Members of both parties expressed a strong interest in
protecting constitutional rights while prosecuting the war on
terror at a House
Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday.
The sparsely attended event touched on fundamental issues of
liberty and security...
A key development today in the evolving story of America’s
overseas targeted killing program. The White House has officially
acknowledged the killing of four of its own citizens with unmanned
aerial systems, popularly known as drones. The New Y...
