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Armada rule
In 1588, Spain sent an armada of powerful warships as part of a campaign to invade the British Isles. The Spanish Armada was well armed and well manned. It should have been able to defeat any naval...
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A magazine in decline
Martin Peretz, longtime owner of The New Republic magazine, dumps on the publication’s current ownership in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal. I once was a faithful reader of TNR, having received a gift...
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Disgrunted Democrats
One thing there aren’t enough of in America today are disgruntled Democrats, disgusted with the policies and behavior of their party leadership and brain trust. This doesn’t mean they should become...
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How it’s done
There’s been some chatter about the vast void between President Obama’s estimate of short-term Keystone XL pipeline employment (2,000 jobs for one or two years) and TransCanada’s estimate of about...
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Will GOP waive the waiver?
If you read nothing else on the infamous Obamacare waiver for Congress members and their staffs, read this op-ed by The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley A. Strassel. There’s been some coverage,...
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Still radical 2
At last count, Bill de Blasio, Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City, enjoyed an enormous lead in pre-election polling over Republican Joseph J. Lhota, 68 percent to 19 percent. The New York...
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Quest for equality
This has been a week for smashing liberal shibbeleths. Writing in The Wall Street Journal Monday, Robert E. Grady observes: Virtually all of the data cited by the left to decry the supposed explosion...
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Recite this law
Tank cars at Texas refinery, 1942 It seems liberals, especially those in the environmental movement, need to be compelled to repeat the Law of Unintended Consequences like a mantra, three times daily....
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Reality of ‘the people’
One of the more tiresome tics exhibited by politicians of every stripe is pandering to the great, wonderful American people. Next time you hear some politician extolling the wisdom of voters or the...
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Racial politics
1812 Cartoon illustrates the original gerrymander, engineered by Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry. Something for Waterbury, which is preparing to figure out how to break the city into five districts...
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What they asked for
It is said that one should beware what he asks for because he might get it. In Friday’s Wall Street Journal, columnist Kimberley A. Strassel offers a breezy yet deeply revealing account of what...
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The narrative vs. the facts
Bret Stephens has a wonderful column in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal indicting the news media for failure to exercise due skepticism in response to lurid stories that feed into the left’s preferred...
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Pump prices rising
Since my wife and I commute a combined total of 78 miles a day, we go through a fair amount of gasoline. So you can imagine how pleased I was to see prices plummet last year to the below-$2-a-gallon...
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Certain outcomes
Words have consequences. Not long ago, Indiana was in the midst of a troubling and deeply embarrassing conflict over religious freedom. Its legislature passed a law that seemed intended to...
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Quest for diversity
I knew it was, bad, but … A Georgetown University professor, John Hasnas, regales Wall Street Journal readers today (Friday) with a disturbing account of the hiring practices in institutions of higher...
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