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Recently, there has been an interesting string of editorials in the Washington Post. (I’ll limit this to the discussion of unsigned editorials, not op-eds.) .@ejdionne has it exactly backward. This is not a crisis of democracy, it’s a crisis of authority. washingtonpost.com/opinions/ej-di… — James Taranto...

Last Monday I appeared as a guest of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization to give a talk at my alma mater, Hamilton College. AHI is not affiliated with Hamilton. To the contrary, as discussed here before, Hamilton would not allow...

They can sit in the dark for Earth Hour, we'll spend the hour celebrating the modern world, starting 8:30 p.m. local time everywhere

if you are looking for a last minute tax deduction to help starve the beast. No, not LI, donations here are appreciated but are NOT tax deductible. There are many worthy organizations, but let me suggest one you almost certainly have not heard of, The Alexander Hamilton Insitute for the...

This is a follow up to my prior post, Stevie Wonder cancels pro-Israel concert under pressure from U.N., anti-Israel groups and Like Alanis Morissette, Chaka Khan was not intimidated, Friends of IDF event spurned by Stevie Wonder raises more than $14 million: The Friends of the...

But I’m already sizing up Operation Counterweight Senate races for 2014. Don’t look back is my motto. Roll Call has a list of Senate races and assessments.   Do any of them have serious primary challengers?  Lindsay Graham seems like he could be vulnerable in theory,...

Or at least they will be soon, via AP: The Palestinian president cleared the way Wednesday for a possible autopsy on  Yasser Arafat’s remains, following a request from his widow after a Swiss lab  said it found elevated levels of a lethal radioactive isotope on...

The narrative is being set.  Mitt Romney will be the nominee because all other candidate are faltering, and cannot hold up. Who is setting this narrative?  In addition to the usual suspects, add Politico, as in this post by Alexander Burns: Conservatives don’t like him....

Below is the video in which Mitch McConnell sets forth his proposal, and here is the WaPo analysis: McConnell’s proposal would have the effect of forcing Obama and congressional Democrats to take full responsibility for raising the debt limit, and require Democrats to vote on...

John J. “Jack” McConnell, Jr. was confirmed by the U.S. Senate yesterday after a struggle by Sen. Mitch McConnell and other Republican Senators to block the nomination by opposing an unexpected cloture petition filed by Harry Reid. A key group of Republican Senators, led by...