Decorous panic is a difficult mannerism to master, as Democrats are finding out. Their divorce from President Biden is becoming increasingly likely.The headlines from the <em>New York Times</em>-Siena College poll published this week were deflating: Donald Trump ...
The presidential candidate was a harbinger of the future that became our ghastly present. He carried plastic-tipped White Owl cigars in the breast pocket of his short-sleeved white shirts, greeted individual voters “How you doin’, pardner?” and had a campaign manager with the name ...
WASHINGTON - Rarely has Congress devised anything as aggressively unconstitutional as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Created by the 848-page 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulation legislation, the CFPB is a crystalline illustration of progressivism’s aspirations for an administrative ...
WASHINGTON - This nation is awash with heated and ungenerous judgments about its past and about Americans who lived before we ascended to today’s sunny uplands of enlightenment. So, for your final summer read, try something tonally different: Drew Gilpin Faust’s memoir “Necessary Trouble: ...
WASHINGTON - Try to imagine President Dwight D. Eisenhower - former five-star general, collaborator with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill - brawling with a brand of beer. Try to envision John F. Kennedy campaigning to succeed Eisenhower by suggesting he might appoint to a sensitive ...
WASHINGTON - “Get your ass to Pittsburgh,” barked the man whose hand was on one of the many money spigots that are irrigating the Biden administration’s industrial policy. The barker, as reported by <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>, was Jigar Shah, head of the ...
