Jack Butler writes for National Review Online about one high-profile Democrat’s interesting turn. The Democrats’ ongoing electoral woes are clearly a serious crisis — for them. And Rahm Emanuel has…
David Harsanyi explains in a New York Post column that the image portrayed by U.S. Sen. Cory Booker — whichever image he has chosen this week — does not necessarily…
Kevin Williamson explains at National Review Online why he thinks gun-rights advocates should dial back their fervor in the wake of the Las Vegas mass shooting. The NRA, which to…
Thomas Donlan‘s latest editorial commentary for Barron’s takes Hillary Clinton and other politicians to task for questioning the latest high-profile trade deal. Hillary Clinton is right: There are a lot…
Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute devotes his latest National Review Online column to the partisans who are trying to take political advantage of the Boston Marathon bombing. Even before…
Bruce Yandle, professor of economics at Clemson, has an enlightening Freeman piece on the ways in which politicians don’t let crises go to waste by exploiting them.
Thousands of blog posts accusing Sarah Palin and the Tea Party of complicity in that nutjob’s shooting spree in Arizona were buzzing around the blogosphere within minutes after the news…
From Hillary Clinton, that fount of wisdom: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an audience Friday “never waste a good crisis,” and highlighted the opportunity of rebuilding economies in a…
This post revisits one of my initial ones from last year concerning the now-dropped allegation of gang rape against Duke’s lacrosse team: [W]here have these demonstrators been? The last year…
It was John Edwards’ theme in 2004, and he’s also using it to describe what was revealed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. But Richard Wagner disagreed, and his op-ed…
Lefty activists and some Democratic politicians aren’t the only ones trying to use Hurricane Katrina to gain political advantage. On Sunday German Chancellor Gerhard Schoeder, in a debate with his…