As always, when conservative insurgencies fall short, as happened with Doug Hoffman’s monthlong quest to win in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, the establishments of both national parties fail to comprehend the meaning of it all. Forget that ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: In his new book, Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America (ISI Books), Craig Shirley provides the first inside look at the historic 1980 election, a race that even as late as election day was judged ...
In the annals of Washington scandals, “debategate” in 1983 may have set some sort of record for flare followed by fizzle. It looked to some reporters, for a brief moment, like it could topple a CIA director, a White House chief of staff and maybe even ...
During his presidency, Lyndon Johnson notoriously said of an international ally that he was a “sonofabitch, but he’s our sonofabitch.” LBJ, no sentimentalist or stylist, nonetheless often had a way with words. His public attitude might also be ...
So suspicious was Patrick Henry in 1787 of the Constitutional Convention convening in Philadelphia, he refused to attend, saying he “smelt a rat.” Henry was not alone. George Mason, the father of the Bill of Rights, left in a huff, when the assembled ...
Last Monday, former Bush White House aide Peter Wehner made a startling statement in an op-ed in The Washington Post. He said that while “The GOP is in bad shape; conservatism is not.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Conservatism has been ...
As the Beach Boys once sang, today is the day for heroes and villains. The heroes are those brave and honorable 133 House Republicans who stood on principle, up to enormous pressure and scathing criticism and voted against the monstrous attempt by ...
In the early days of the first Reagan Administration, an issue before the Cabinet was a financial crisis at the International Monetary Fund. They had come to Washington, hat in hand, asking for $4 billion dollars to replace that which had been lost due ...
When he was running for President in 1952, an excited supporter told Governor Adlai Stevenson, “All the intelligent people are voting for you” to which Stevenson quipped, “Yes Ma’am, but I need a majority.” Stevenson was hammered in two elections by ...
Every four years, the sun dawns over the “silly season” of pre-convention blather in Washington, centered mostly, on which of the prospective candidates for the vice presidential slot seemingly makes the most sense. Inevitably, the conversations are ...
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