Speaking on Fox News Channel’s The Five, pundit Greg Gutfeld said that “gay marriage, in my opinion, is a conservative idea.” He noted that the left “generally hates traditions” and is all about “breaking with…
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David Axelrod: Red Diaper Baby?
Several times I’ve written for The American Spectator on the person of David Axelrod, the figure most responsible for giving America two terms of Barack Obama. My first piece was a cover feature for the…
The Serious Side of Funny Man Stan Evans
Stanton Evans joked about his “Law of Inadequate Paranoia” at the Thirty Fifth Annual The Pumpkin Papers Irregulars dinner on October 31, 2012. He said, “No matter how bad you think something is, when you…
Stan Evans, Scholar-Comedian of the Conservative Movement, passes at 80
M. Stanton Evans, the author of the Sharon Statement elucidating the guiding principles of Young Americans for Freedom, has passed away at 80. He leaves behind 10 books and 10,000 jokes. “When Stan’s own dad…
When Communists Murdered a Priest
Editor’s note: The original piece was published at The American Spectator. It was October 19, 1984—30 years ago this week. A gentle, courageous, and genuinely holy priest, Jerzy Popieluszko, age 37, found himself in a…
Checkmating History
Perhaps chess champions who escaped from the old Soviet Union can give us better history lessons than academic historians. “Sometimes I joke that if guys like Barack Obama and David Cameron had been in power…
‘They Left the Vivid Air Signed with Their Honor’
There’s a famous photograph of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower talking with the men of the 101st Airborne Division in the hours before D-Day. Eisenhower had already set in motion the vast machinery of the greatest invasion…
Is Education A Social Issue?
Why don’t “conservatives” in Congress have more success in fighting the government education monolith?
Lessons from America’s Sweetheart
I was dismayed by the sparse reaction to the loss of this woman who lived a great American life.
Big Brother @ Georgetown
One-time Democratic presidential candidates lamented the growth of the national security state in a forum held last month at Georgetown.