American politician and actor (1942–2015)
John Fund reports for National Review Online on Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s refreshingly unusual response to Iowa’s corn-fueled politics. For more than 30 years, Iowa’s obsession with its ethanol…
James Antle of the Daily Caller takes aim at those who treat the Iowa caucuses with disdain. Good government types of all political affiliations complain every four years about how…
Following the presidential poll results closely? Former New Hampshire Sen. John Sununu suggests in the latest TIME that you shouldn’t bother. Nothing distracts reporters like the polls. Every cycle, it’s…
Former New York District Attorney — sorry, U.S. Sen. — Fred Thompson offers National Review Online readers some thoughts about the concept of solving the nation’s budget and debt problems…
Here is the his latest take on Newt and Perry. It is impossible to link to his “Goldberg File” but the guys at NR are working on fixing that. If…
Here is a splendid column by Fred Thompson on the enormously expensive bailout of the two federal mortgage biggies. Thompson raises a very good point — if we had stayed…
NC delegates were glad that the Gulf Coast survived Hurricane Gustav and that the convention could begin to make the case last night for the McCain-Palin ticket. They were ready…
With most of North Carolina focused on the Democratic primary, Sen. John McCain picked an interesting time to appear in the Tar Heel State. The Arizona Senator spoke about judicial…
What is ‘Garfield’ without Garfield? It’s a site that discovered that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor…
Poor Hugh Hewitt had claimed it was crucial That we give Mitt our full faith fiducial; But Huck’s current day saints Said of Romney ?He ain?t? — So if not…
Sunken, hollow eyes Vacant much like his campaign Will he blame Jeri?
Fred Thompson’s campaign, Like the Law & Order theme, Simply went “Clunk, clunk.”