December 26, 2014
10 Moments From 2014 Likely to Influence 2016 Presidential Campaign
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) Amid all the year-end roundups and look-aheads, what were the moments in 2014 likely to have the biggest impact on the 2016 presidential election? Here are my 10 picks: 1....
December 22, 2014
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn has had better luck with 60 Minutes than most politicians, with the possible exception of President Obama. The CBS show did a nice profile on him last night, and a year ago, he scored some success with a...
December 19, 2014
Department of Cyber-Defense
Ok, so it’s not exactly 9/11. Cancelling a lousy movie that was supposed to be released on Christmas Day celebrating the assassination of a two-bit North Korean dictator is not the same thing as the vicious attack that killed 3000...
December 18, 2014
Two Reminders of What Communism Looks Like
“I have seen the future and it is now,” the famous Soviet apologist Lincoln Steffens once wrote about the Russian revolution. He turned out to be wrong, but I betcha most Americans don’t even know who Lincoln Steffens was, let...
December 17, 2014
Pakistani Crack-Pots
When it was announced that the Pakistani Taliban slaughtered a bunch of school kids earlier this week, my mind immediately turned to Adam Lanza. Lanza was the deranged teenager who gunned down 20 young children at Sandy Hook Elementary School...
December 16, 2014
Jeb: Upsides and Downsides
There are plenty of upsides to Jeb Bush running for President. There are also some downsides. The former Florida Governor is plenty conservative, or at least he was plenty conservative back in the day. The Republicans Party has become more...