Newt Gingrich may have unnerved Mitt Romney by saying “Palestinian” is “an invented nationality”. But he spoke the truth. “Palestine” (from the Greek for Philistine, the deadly enemies of ancient Israel) was a creation of the World War I Allies after they severed it from the Ottoman Empire, or Turkey. It was largely empty, and [...]
Politics: Op-Eds
The left and the libertarian portion of the right (a moniker they would strongly contest) agree on several things, but among the most significant is this: that America has become an empire. Not all who espouse this position, of course, think that it is a bad thing. The brilliant Niall Ferguson actively argues for it, [...]
The downgrade is a deep humiliation for the United States. But it’s a debacle for the Democratic Party. They just haven’t yet realized why. This just became the Suze Orman election. You know Suze Orman. She’s that nice, perky lady on CNBC. The one who likes leather and writes all those personal finance books on [...]
The passage of “Cut, Cap and Balance” in the House of Representatives is a game-changer. It is also the ground on which the GOP must stand, fight and win, especially now that a July 18-21 CNN poll shows that two-thirds of Americans support the House’s approach. Cut, Cap and Balance allows the debt limit to [...]
I don’t have a candidate yet. But I have a field. The legacy media – the folks who in 2008 gloated openly about being “in the tank for Obama” while their viewers and readers melted away before our eyes – tells us that the Republican presidential field is horribly weak, unknown, uninspiring. Already, I hear [...]
Named the Sixth Most Interesting Daily Caller Op-Ed of 2011.
If you think the Internet revolution encompasses only areas like business, advertising, publishing and entertainment, you are sorely mistaken. In less than a decade, starting from nearly nothing, left-wing powerhouse MoveOn.org created a force that can put a million volunteers on the ground, can raise $30 million in small donor contributions every cycle (several times [...]
Technological change is accelerating at an accelerating rate. It’s hard for even the greatest technologists to keep up, much less analyze the societal implications of their work. So where are we headed? Here are four of the trends you most need to watch. » Adult stem cells: While all media and political attention seems focused [...]
Many others have said plenty this week about Gerald Ford’s virtues, and about them there is surely much to be said. But perhaps the most significant thing for conservatives to note is that Ford was the last RINO (Republican In Name Only) President; or more precisely, the last President from the Party’s Rockefeller Republican wing. [...]
For most of my life, a small minority of us Republicans (notably Newt Gingrich and Morton Blackwell, plus acolytes such as me) agitated, cajoled and worked for the day when our party would take seriously the “ground war”: not just running high level ad campaigns and hoping that ideas could motivate more people than the [...]
They were America’s forerunners, our Pilgrim and Puritan fathers who championed majority rule, unalienable rights, and rule of law over divine right of kings. They were the ministers and the tradespeople, the lawyers and the doctors, people from every walk of life who dared to declare, fight for, and win their independence from the mighty [...]
Much has been written (including by me) about the perils of the party of Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank and Charlie Rangel capturing the U.S. House of Representatives this November. But the importance of who controls the Senate cannot be overestimated. While House members are elected for two-year terms, senators’ terms are three times as long. [...]
Talk to rank-and-file conservatives anywhere in America on any issue on any day, and their number-one complaint is always this: “the Republicans don’t stand up for themselves the way Democrats do”. They’re right. The Mark Foley case proves it. When the maybe-a-pedophile-maybe-just-a-sicko Foley scandal broke, Speaker Hastert’s troops all went on defense. They explained (convincingly [...]
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