Tom Donelson
June 20th, 2010
One has to love the Drudge Report for only Matt Drudge reports the news that others ignore, and who can’t but love those headlines? The Drudge Report headline, “Aussie Scientist: Homo Sapiens Extinct Within 100 years;...
May 26th, 2010
Blogger Ann Althouse observed, "A love of autocracy often lurks beneath the liberal veneer. There's this idea that the right answers are known and the people are just too deluded and distorted to see what they are and to...
May 9th, 2010
Where to go from here on Immigration? Of the present economic versus security debate, the late Richard Nadler wrote, “The days of the “open border” are grinding to a close. But the nature of the border control that...
April 20th, 2010
What is happening with job creation? The Heritage Foundation's James Sherk observed recently, “While layoffs increased during this recession, they are not the primary cause of the nearly 10 percent unemployment rate. The...
March 25th, 2010
Marxism as a serious political ideology is dead. Communism as a serious political ideology is dead. No one really truly practices or even believes in communism, even the Chinese have long abandoned Marxism as an economic...
March 22nd, 2010
This is a letter I sent out regarding the health care bill vote:To my fellow conservatives,
March 3rd, 2010
What does the Arizona Tea Party's failure to endorse JD Hayworth or any candidates for the Republican primary mean? For one, it means that JD Hayworth will not get the bump that he desired from the Tea Party, but it is also...
January 26th, 2010
With the release of the Heritage Foundation 2010 Index of Economic Freedom world wide, two things pop up. First thing that sticks out is how the United States has lost ground in protecting economic freedom and has even...
June 17th, 2010
It is a policy of this administration to “never let a crisis go to waste,” and the Obama “Oil Spill” speech was a classic Obama performance in which he went from let's plug that hole to let's save the planet.
May 24th, 2010
After the Munich agreement, when the French and British surrendered the Sudetenland to the Germans, the French alliances in Central Europe dissipated. The French had set up a series of alliances within Central Europe...
May 7th, 2010
The Immigration issue brings out the worst in the political process and choices before us are difficult and fraught with political risk for all. The Arizona passage of SB 1070 has put the issue front and center. I won’t go...
April 18th, 2010
Here is a stat for consideration; United States growth between 2002 and 2007 surpassed the entire size of China. While China is being touted as the new economic giant and their “percentage” of growth rate is higher, this...
March 24th, 2010
With victory on health care in hand, the Obama administration begins to move toward other targets including cap and trade, union card checking, as well immigration reform. But there is theme that is starting to coming up;...
March 9th, 2010
(The late Richard Nadler was a close friend and mentor to me and others including John Berlau of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review. His death last summer left a void in the...
February 10th, 2010
A few years back in National Review, Harvard Scholar Leon Steinmetz revisited a curious debate among leaders of the French Revolution. Many of these revolutionaries asserted that France held too many people for the...
January 25th, 2010
Living in Iowa, I am at ground zero of American presidential aspirations. Iowa caucus is the first step in the Presidential nomination process and it is the Iowa Caucus that shrinks the presidential field (even though it...