Matthew Continetti
Matthew Continetti is editor in chief of the Washington Free Beacon. Prior to joining the Beacon, he was opinion editor of the Weekly Standard, where he remains a contributing editor. The author of The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine (Doubleday, 2006) and The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star (Sentinel, 2009), Continetti’s articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post. A 2003 graduate of Columbia University, where he majored in history, Continetti lives in McLean, Virginia. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Events are turning me into a radical skeptic. I no longer believe what I read, unless what I am reading is an empirically verifiable account of the past. I no longer have confidence in polls, because it has become impossible ... -
This One Tweet May Lead to Donald Trump’s Impeachment
Twitter helped make Donald Trump president. It may also lead to his impeachment. The president values Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram as ways to bypass a hostile media and express his thoughts directly and authentically. But there is a difference between ... -
The Shows of Yesteryear
This morning I drove to work listening to the new Beatles Channel on Sirius XM. When I arrived at the office I read articles about the fortieth anniversary of Star Wars, and about its eighth sequel, which premieres in December, ... -
Trump’s Brand Is Crisis
You hear it all the time: President Trump hasn’t been tested, hasn’t faced a real crisis. The events of the last few weeks, however, have made me want to turn that formulation around. Trump doesn’t face crises ... -
The Democrats’ First 100 Days
Let’s reverse angle. The president’s first 100 days in office have been analyzed, dissected, evaluated. Not much left to say about them. What about the opposition? What do the Democrats have to show for these first months of the ... -
Trump Blows Up Obama’s Foreign Policy Straw Men
President Trump did more than retaliate for Bashar al-Assad’s illegal and inhumane use of nerve agents against civilians when he ordered the launch of 59 Tomahawk missiles to destroy al-Shayrat airbase in Syria. He also detonated a few shibboleths of ... -
The Movie Man
What is a conservative? Hard to say these days, especially when discussing politics. But the mission of a cultural conservative endures: to save the best that has been thought, said, written, composed, photographed. And made into motion pictures. By this ... -
The ISIS Endgame
The Islamic Caliphate announced in 2014 by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of ISIS, is approaching the end of its short and terrible life. Iraqi forces, supported by Americans, have reclaimed the eastern half of Mosul and are retaking the western ... -
The New Nationalism in America
Decades of intellectual and political activity preceded the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review in 1955. A little less than a decade later, National Review publisher William Rusher helped orchestrate Barry Goldwater’s presidential nomination. ... -
Nobody Knows Anything
‘Republicans seized her microphone,” writes the New York Times. “And gave her a megaphone.” Who’s she? Elizabeth Warren, the overrated Democratic senator from Massachusetts. The other night Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell rebuked her for impugning colleague Jeff Sessions. ... -
The Democrats Retreat from Reality
‘Retreat” is an appropriate description of what took place in Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, this week. Senate Democrats took a break from not confirming President Trump’s cabinet to visit this historic city in a state the president won ... -
The Return of ‘Street Corner Conservatism’
Richard Nixon was plotting his 1968 presidential campaign when he received a letter from a high-school English teacher in Pennsylvania. The correspondent, a young man named William F. Gavin, wasn’t certain Nixon would run. But he sure wanted him to. “... -
Donald Trump’s Team of Outsiders
Democrats and the media are confused about the meaning of Donald Trump’s pledge to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C. The president-elect’s critics say his appointment of wealthy Republicans to cabinet positions is hypocritical and reveals him ... -
The Trump Revolution
Donald Trump’s election as the 45th president of the United States is the most significant political event to happen in my lifetime. In some respects Trump’s victory is more remarkable than Ronald Reagan’s in 1980, eight months before ... -
Justice Thomas Speaks
Clarence Thomas needs to speak more. Not for his benefit. For America’s. This is the justice’s twenty-fifth year on the Supreme Court. He is famously reticent. Not only on the bench, where in February he shocked the media ... -
The Growth Imperative
Unprecedented. Incredible. Never seen anything like it. These words have been uttered often about the 2016 presidential campaign. Donald Trump, it is said, is a unique figure. He’s leading a populist movement unlike any America has experienced. His scorched-earth, apocalyptic ... -
The Politics of Dissociation
‘Besieged Globalists Ponder What Went Wrong,” read the headline in the New York Times. What’s a “globalist”? They are, according to the Times, the “advocates of a more densely enmeshed world,” “concerned internationalists,” “humanitarians, leaders of nongovernmental organizations, donors, ... -
If They're Not Paying Attention, the Left Could Be Surprised In November
‘This shouldn’t be close, but it’s close,” President Obama told the audience at a fundraiser this week in New York. “The presidential race, we should win. But Donald Trump got the nomination, so weird stuff happens.” How weird? ... -
Conservatism Trumps Populism
Senator Rob Portman of Ohio is not exactly Mr. Personality. He’s not a culture warrior or a populist firebrand. He’s a soft-spoken wonky Baby Boomer interested in budgets, finance, and taxes. He won’t be seen with Donald ... -
Seven Books Every Conservative Should Read
I spent some time this summer with high-school and college students, teaching courses in the foundations of liberalism and in the intellectual history of postwar American conservatism. It was great fun. The classes were lively, welcoming, and intellectually curious, and ... -
The Fractured Republicans
The Republicans arriving in Cleveland this weekend will be part of something extraordinary. They will witness not only the nomination of Donald Trump for president but the reconfiguration of the GOP and the American conservative movement. They will legitimize their ... -
The Empty Chair
‘If you keep on blocking judges from getting on the bench, then courts cannot issue decisions,” President Obama said Thursday, in response to deadlock in the Supreme Court over his use of executive authority to liberalize immigration laws. The president ... -
Why Republicans Should Be Worried
Around this time in 2012, I believed Mitt Romney had a good chance of beating President Obama. I was not alone. The thinking went like this: Obama was unpopular. The economy was sluggish. The Democrats had been drubbed in the previous ... -
The Democratic Party Civil War
A few months ago a Democratic strategist and I were watching cable news. CNN had a story on the Republican primary fight between Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, and Marco Rubio. “The GOP house is on fire,” the strategist ... -
White Lies Matter
How bad is Hillary Clinton’s image? This bad: Fifty-six percent of Americans view her unfavorably, according to the Huffington Post pollster trend. One-third of New York Democratic primary voters say she is neither honest nor trustworthy. Her image, writes ... -
Bernie Sanders Smears Israel
Can he take a mulligan? Bernie Sanders’s interview with the editorial board of the New York Daily News revealed a candidate more interested in platitudes and dreams than in specifics and realities. He couldn’t even explain how his ... -
President Obama Is a Political Narcissist
Russia announces the withdrawal of its forces from Syria. The decision is a surprise — President Obama is shocked. This is a feeling he experiences often. He was astonished when Vladimir Putin intervened in the Syrian conflict in 2015. He was startled ... -
John Kerry’s Ridiculous Trip to Hollywood
Oh, to have been at John Kerry’s meeting Tuesday with a dozen Hollywood executives at Universal Studios. To have sat in one of the cushy leather chairs beneath a vintage poster for The Phantom of the Opera, sipping bottled ... -
The Night Fox News Hosted Two Undercard Debates
Thursday’s Republican presidential debate on Fox News Channel was serious, substantive, and filled with thoughtful policy statements from major candidates. Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz delivered solid performances. Yet there was something missing: the Republican ... -
It’s Donald Trump’s Race to Lose
The Fox Business debate made clear that the Republican primary is Donald Trump’s race to lose. It’s not only that Trump continues his months-long polling lead and the debate won’t do anything to change that. It’s ... -
Rahm Emanuel’s Cuban Vacation
No doubt you, too, spent the holidays relishing the humiliation of Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, the overrated and obnoxious Democratic party hack who, finally, is teetering on the brink of political oblivion. How the former ballet dancer and Sarah Lawrence ... -
A Donald Trump Nomination Would Fundamentally Change the GOP
The speed with which prominent Republican officials and conservative spokesmen condemned Donald Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States revealed the true stakes in the 2016 election. The future of the GOP as we know it is ... -
The Only Thing We Can Predict in Politics Is That We’ll Be Surprised
Target: Paris. More than 130 die in a terrorist attack on a Friday night in November. No one sees it coming. Global panic ensues. Suddenly the nation debates the future of the Syrian refugee program. Terrorism jumps to the front of ... -
Mizzou and the Master of Our Universe
Ironic his name is Wolfe. The incidents surrounding University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe’s resignation following protests of racial insensitivity on campus might as well be plot points in a novel by Tom Wolfe. They are certainly as funny. ... -
Paul Ryan’s Impact on the GOP Is Only Beginning
Rumble in the Jungle this was not. On one side: Paul Ryan, who said he’d run for speaker of the House only if Republicans were unified, open to reforms, and respectful of his family life. On the other: the ... -
How to Confront Vladimir Putin
From Sweden in the Baltic to Tartus in the Mediterranean, Russian forces are on the offensive. The consensus among U.S. officials not beholden to the White House is that Mitt Romney was right. Vladimir Putin’s Russia is the ... -
Why Republicans Hate Political Consultants
One day after Scott Walker dropped out of the presidential race, the Politico headline read: “Walker’s campaign manager unloads.” The same day, the Washington Post had an article, “Inside the collapse of Scott Walker’s presidential bid,” that also ... -
An Anti-American White House
This week President Obama won the 34th vote in support of his nuclear deal with Iran. The vote, from Senator Barbara Mikulski, guarantees that the deal will survive a rejection by Congress. The fact that the deal will be made ... -
Obama's Big Plans Don't End With His Presidency
The closest I’ve ever come to glimpsing hell was on Monday, when I read an article in the New York Times headlined, “With High-Profile Help, Obama Plots Life After Presidency.” Reporters Michael D. Shear and Gardiner Harris reveal the “... -
Revenge of the Radical Middle
Two decades ago, in the spring of 1996, Newsweek magazine described a group of voters it called the “radical middle.” Formerly known as the Silent Majority, then the Reagan Democrats, these voters had supported Ross Perot in 1992, and were hoping the ... -
Hillary’s E-mails Indict the Self-Regarding Culture of Washington
So she doesn’t know how to use a fax machine. Big whoop. If there is a “smoking gun” in the 3,000 pages of Hillary Clinton e-mails released by the State Department this week, it’s not in her technological ineptitude, ... -
Former Israeli Ambassador’s Memoir Condemns Obama’s Foreign Policy
By the summer of 2013, President Obama had convinced several key Israelis that he wasn’t bluffing about using force against the Iranian nuclear program. Then he failed to enforce his red line against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad—and the Israelis ... -
Hillary’s Press Problem
There it was — the classic Hillary charm. Close to a month had passed since the Democratic frontrunner answered questions from the press. So this week, when reporters were invited to gawk at the spectacle of Clinton sitting with “everyday Iowans,” ... -
One Genuine Power Couple: Clinton and Romney
Hillary Clinton is moving so quickly to the left that it’s hard to keep up. Her aides are telling the New York Times she wants to “topple” the One Percent, she’s pledging solidarity with union bosses over lunch ... -
Tear Down These Tariffs
Now she knows how I feel. In a statement posted to her campaign website, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts laments that the Obama administration has kept secret the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership — TPP for short — the decade-in-the-making free trade ... -
Benghazi, Bergdahl, and the Bomb
President Obama strode to the lectern in the Rose Garden Thursday to announce a “historic” agreement between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The preliminary deal made in Lausanne, Switzerland, the president said, “cuts off every pathway ... -
James Burnham: A Visionary Like No Other
Editor’s Note: The following article is adapted from one that ran in the March 23, 2015, issue of NR. One evening in February 1963, inside Firestone Library on the campus of Princeton University, the Christian Gauss Seminar in Criticism was called to ... -
Corker's Folly
You’re a member of Congress. You’re angry because President Obama has cut you out of negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. Like the overwhelming majority of Americans, you believe any deal this White House and this president strikes ... -
Why Netanyahu's Speech Matters
The emerging nuclear deal with Iran is indefensible. The White House knows it. That is why President Obama does not want to subject an agreement to congressional approval, why critics of the deal are dismissed as warmongers, and why the ... -
Don’t Authorize Obama’s War
The authorization for the use of military force against the Islamic State that the Obama administration sent Congress this week is not worthy of the name. Its language is far more about what the president won’t do against the ...
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Liberals Shun Washington Attorney Representing Jared and Ivanka
Jamie Gorelick is a Democratic super-lawyer and former Clinton Justice Department official who made millions of dollars underwriting subprime mortgages at Fannie Mae before leaving the taxpayer-backed mortgage securities firm in 2003. Now she is a partner at WilmerHale, where lawyers ... -
The Irreplaceable William F. Buckley Jr.
In 2008 I applied for a journalism fellowship from the Phillips Foundation. The process included an in-person interview with a panel of judges. One of them was the original “Prince of Darkness,” Robert D. Novak. The great reporter examined my ré... -
Nation on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The man can’t help himself. I’m speaking of course of our president, Donald Trump, whose talents at marketing and publicity brought him wealth and fame and, at the age of 70, the highest political office in the nation. Aggressive, ... -
The Never-Ending 2016 Election
I thought she’d disappear. I thought if Donald Trump became president Hillary Clinton would recognize her error, would spend more time in the woods. Maybe she’d give some thought to why she lost: How she blindly followed Barack ... -
The Professional Class Strikes Back
Notes from realignment: A solid Republican district becomes the site of a Democratic resurgence. In the first round of a special election a thirty-something unknown outperforms Hillary Clinton’s 2016 margin. A runoff looms, but the lesson to draw from this ... -
The Yasser Arafat of the Democratic Party
The late terrorist Yasser Arafat (1929-2004) was famous for saying one thing to American media and the opposite to Palestinian audiences. To U.S. presidents and chief diplomatic correspondents he would profess his desire for peace and for a two-state ... -
Freedom Is Eating Steak Well Done with Ketchup
There really was a liberal media bubble, Nate Silver reports, and the only thing wrong with his assertion is that it’s in the past tense. The lack of diversity among journalistic ranks — even the sort of racial and sexual ... -
Trump’s Choice: Mattis or Mulvaney
Ten percent. Sounds at first like a significant increase. Whether it truly is, however, depends on context. To what shall we compare this number? And does it address our needs? The answer is no. For we are speaking of America’... -
Who Rules the United States?
Donald Trump was elected president last November by winning 306 electoral votes. He pledged to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C., to overturn the system of politics that had left the nation’s capital and major financial and tech centers ... -
Trump Short Circuits Washington
‘What happened to the honeymoon?” Charles Krauthammer asked last month. The opposition has long granted presidents time to form their administrations, to announce their signature initiatives. Donald Trump’s honeymoon lasted all of 10 days — from his surprise November 8 election to ... -
The Delusional Democrats of 2017
Democrats have been in power for so long that they’ve forgotten how to oppose. Their party has been on a roll since 2005, when the botched Social Security reform, the slow bleed of the Iraq war, and Hurricane Katrina sent ... -
The Voice of Trump
The backlash that greeted Donald Trump’s nomination of Andrew Puzder for labor secretary took many Republicans by surprise. Puzder, a fast-food executive, is well liked by Wall Street for his opposition to minimum-wage increases and burdensome regulations. But his ... -
Trump Takes Charge
The liberal hysteria over Donald Trump’s election as president extends to coverage of his transition. “Firings and Discord Put Trump Transition Team in a State of Disarray,” says the New York Times. “Intraparty fratricide looms over the GOP,” says ... -
The Next Republican Agenda
One of the most important speeches of the 2016 election was delivered in Utah in June to an audience of ultra-rich Republicans that included Mitt Romney. The speaker was Edward Conard, who joined Bain Capital after graduating from Harvard Business School ... -
Crisis of the Conservative Intellectual
A few years before he became president, Ronald Reagan appeared on Firing Line. The topic of the January 13, 1978, episode of William F. Buckley Jr.’s long-running debate show was the treaties by which the United States relinquished the Panama Canal ... -
The Guns of October
The land of Syria is a hellscape. A desert ruin, a blasted place where fundamentalists clash with fascists as major powers — America, Russia, Turkey, Israel — drop bombs. After a U.S.-brokered cease-fire collapsed in recriminations, Washington responded by saying ... -
Make Black Helicopters Great Again
‘He has been a creature of light at a time when the world has been darkening,” says David Ignatius. Jesus? Try again. Ignatius is talking about President Obama. About his “sterling assets,” his “idealism,” his “moral clarity,” his “calm intellect,” ... -
The Great Boor of the Galaxy
Get a Star Trek fan talking — and believe me, we love to talk — and inevitably you will hear about the television and movie franchise’s optimistic portrayal of the future. The twenty-third century depicted in the series is a liberal ... -
Donald Trump Unraveled
‘I think I unraveled her.” That is Trump adviser Michael Cohen describing his encounter Wednesday with CNN anchor Brianna Keilar. What an unraveling looks like to Trump world: When Keilar pointed out that Donald Trump is losing to Hillary Clinton, ... -
The Hillary Mystique
The weakest part of the 2016 Democratic National Convention was the speech delivered by the party’s nominee for president. Four nights of impressive stagecraft and at times moving rhetoric preceded Hillary Clinton’s paint-by-numbers, plodding address. It lacked the passion ... -
Obama’s For-Profit Government Industry
Got an email from Marty Nesbitt a few minutes ago. He’s a Chicago businessman and, in the words of the Tribune, the “first friend” to President Obama. Since 2014 he has served as the chairman of the Barack Obama Foundation, ... -
The Self-Immolation of the Republican Party
The Darwin Awards is a popular website that “commemorates individuals who protect our gene pool by making the ultimate sacrifice of their own lives. Darwin Award winners eliminate themselves in an extraordinarily idiotic manner, thereby improving our species’ chances of ... -
Katie Couric Is a Liberal Hack, Site Claims
Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon had a great story Wednesday. You can read it here. He obtained audio that proves the filmmaker of Katie Couric’s latest politicized documentary, Under the Gun, deceptively edited an interview with gun-rights ... -
Hillary’s Two-Front War
Until this week I hadn’t noticed the similarities between Hillary Clinton and Colonel-General Helmuth Johann Ludwig von Moltke of the German Empire. The comparison is apt. Both leaders spent years planning a rapid and decisive assault against their opponents. ... -
What Does John Kasich Think He’s Doing?
When John Kasich departs this earthly vale of tears, he ought to donate his brain to science. It could teach us a lot about irrational thinking. The Ohio governor has won a single state: his own. He has 143 delegates. That ... -
How to Dump Trump
‘Sir, with all due respect, that’s the argument of a five-year-old,” Anderson Cooper told Donald Trump the other day. That’s an insult to kindergarteners. The tykes in Mrs. Cummings’ morning class have more self-discipline than the Republican frontrunner. ... -
Of Course Ted Cruz Would Make a Better President Than Donald Trump
Ted Cruz spent the CNN debate Thursday drawing policy contrasts between himself and Republican front-runner Donald Trump. On ISIS, trade, and immigration, Cruz said Trump speaks to voters’ concerns but doesn’t have solutions that address the problems America confronts. ... -
The Bernie Insurgency
You listen to Bernie Sanders and hear something familiar. The party establishment has been corrupted by big money. It hasn’t achieved the promises it has made to voters. International trade has been a corrupt bargain for American workers. America ... -
Paul Ryan Goes on Offense
Paul Ryan enters his first full year as speaker of the House with a unified caucus, an ambitious agenda, and an audacious goal: Go on offense against President Obama and the Democratic party, while laying the predicate for unified Republican ... -
The Lamest Duck
President Obama spent the week defending his proposals to curb gun violence, culminating in a CNN town hall. Think about that. What else happened during the last few days that might warrant a presidential town hall? Oh, nothing much: Iranian ... -
The Star Wars Symphony
In February 1977, George Lucas screened a rough cut of Star Wars for friends. Among the guests were filmmakers Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, Matthew Robbins and Hal Barwood, Brian DePalma, and Steven Spielberg — the so-called movie brats. They were not ... -
Mark Zuckerberg’s Self-Congratulatory Generosity
Anyone who spends time on social media will have encountered one of those posts in which the writer uses a life cycle event to expound on how wonderful his family and, by extension, he is. The occasion of a spouse’... -
How Hillary Clinton Became Obama’s Political Prisoner
They’re not kidding when they say it’s difficult to hold the White House for three terms in a row. So much depends on the incumbent: Is he deemed a success or a failure? Is he loved or derided? ... -
How to Beat Hillary Clinton
One year until Election Day. Where things stand: The Republican race is in turmoil while the Democratic nomination is all but assured. The FBI alone can stop Hillary Clinton from appearing on your ballot next November. But that is unlikely ... -
The Obama Intifada
More than 30 dead in Israel as Palestinians armed with knives attack innocents. What’s responsible? A campaign of incitement, which slanderously accuses Jews of intruding on the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and murdering Arab children in cold blood. And who ... -
The Coming Defeat of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, established in 1949, has 28 members devoted to the idea of collective security. Prediction: By the time President Obama leaves office in 2017, the NATO pledge of mutual defense in response to aggression will have been exposed as ... -
If Hillary’s Confidence Isn’t Cracking, It Should Be
In early July, during another rough patch for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Dan Pfeiffer took to CNN to reassure his party. Pfeiffer used to be President Obama’s top communications aide. The title of his op-ed was “Stop the ... -
Obama Trades Real Security for Spin to Secure His Legacy
The anniversary of the U.S. war against the Islamic State passed with little notice. It was August 7 of last year that President Obama authorized the first airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq, a campaign he expanded a month later to ... -
The New York Times Gets Money in Politics All Wrong
‘Fewer than 400 families are responsible for almost half the money raised in the 2016 presidential campaign, a concentration of political donors that is unprecedented in the modern era,” the New York Times breathlessly reported last Sunday. The popularity of so-called Super ... -
When It Comes to Iran, the Obama Administration’s Willful Blindness Is Astounding
The last week has provided a sad but worthwhile opportunity to assess the global elite, the heads of state and government, the bankers and journalists and celebrities, as they worked overtime to preserve a veneer of progress and stability. From ... -
Karma Chameleon-in-Chief
I’m a man without convictionI’m a man who doesn’t knowHow to sell a contradictionYou come and go, you come and go.—Culture Club Hillary Clinton is a woman without conviction, a woman who doesn’t know. She ... -
Bernie Sanders’ Fossil Socialism
Picturesque: a large, celebratory crowd listens to inspiring oratory near the shore of Lake Champlain. The speaker is Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, announcing his candidacy for president of the United States. It’s a fiery, detailed, leftwing speech — about what ... -
Newborn Terror
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from The Dadly Virtues: Adventures From the Worst Job You’ll Ever Love, edited by Jonathan V. Last and published by the Templeton Press. Ever since my son was born ten months ... -
The Appalling Mr. Zarif
Not since Baryshnikov has a foreigner so captivated a New York audience. “A Conversation with H.E. DR. Mohammad Javad Zarif, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran” played the other day at NYU. The show ran for just 90 ... -
The Fable of the Bees
A beautiful day: warm, sunny. A garden in bloom filled with the laughter of children. Frolic beneath the whitewashed façade of a stately and classic old house. A friendly man in dress shirt and trousers reads aloud. Then: screams. ... -
James Baker’s Zombie Foreign Policy
Jeb Bush is cleaning up a mess he helped create. It’s a distraction from what he’d rather be doing, which is building an “aura of inevitability” around his soon-to-be presidential campaign. He’s spent the past week distancing ... -
Let Us Now Praise Famous Women
The critic James Wolcott is peeved. “Mitt Romney’s fateful decision this January not to pursue the presidency for a third futile time deprives those of us in the bleachers of a rare-ish opportunity to watch a representative of the 1 ... -
I Don't Love Spock
“I loved Spock,” said President Obama, reacting to the death of actor Leonard Nimoy. Why? Because Spock reminds him of himself. The galaxy’s most famous Vulcan, the president wrote, was “Cool, logical, big-eared, and level headed, the center of ... -
The Bill, Hillary, Chelsea, and His Royal Highness King Salman of Saudi Arabia Clinton Foundation
The Wall Street Journal reported this past week that the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation has quietly dropped its ban on foreign contributions and is accepting donations from the governments of “the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Australia, ... -
The Granny State
And I had thought that Hillary Clinton was having trouble developing her message. In a single tweet this week she may have revealed the slogan for her 2016 campaign. Jumping on gaffes by Chris Christie and Rand Paul, Clinton wrote: “The ...