The easiest way into America
There has been no shortage of coverage of the 10 million-plus illegal aliens who have stormed our borders, the 5…
Weathering the storm: on the ground in hurricane-ravaged Florida
Fort Lauderdale, Florida I’ve lived in seven US states and five countries, but when I arrived in St. Petersburg, Florida…
Vance proved he has what it takes to lead the GOP
The media told us that Trump made a colossal blunder in picking JD Vance, the childless cat lady hater and…
It’s not too late for the press to start doing their jobs
One night last week I got a robocall asking me to participate in a candidate town hall. “If you’d like…
The joy of watching terrible athletes compete at the Olympics
When I was sixteen, my dad took me along to a conference he attended in Calgary just days after the…
The Trump-Harris unpopularity contest
Now that the Democrats have toppled the president in a bloodless coup, the bases of the Republican and Democratic parties…
Republicans are embracing the left’s victim culture over antisemitism
For years, Republicans have claimed that theirs is the party of free speech. They have correctly amplified instances of the…
Newsom’s diversity pick is a depressing sign of the times
California governor Gavin Newsom’s recent appointment of Laphonza Butler, a black lesbian, to the late Senator Dianne Feinstein’s seat generated…
A month in the Baltics
On Joe Biden’s first day in Lithuania, he skipped the opening dinner of world leaders at the NATO summit and…
Escaping the city in Argentina
Planning a foreign trip is a bit like watching a trailer for a film. The research is a preview of…
In praise of cruises
While many travel addicts went into hibernation during the pandemic, as public health scolds around the world turned our joyful…
Trump’s ultra-MAGA crew needs a reality check
In 2020, Democrats made a pragmatic if uninspiring choice in nominating Joe Biden. If this month’s Conservative Political Action Conference…
Should I have had a sensitivity reader review my book?
Reason magazine reported last summer on the rise of sensitivity readers, and publishers have made headlines for their plans to…
Kamala Harris’s top ten word salads
No assessment of Vice President Kamala Harris’s first two years in office would be complete without her word salads and…
Halfway through Harris: our remarkable VP
John Nance Garner, a Texan who served as Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s vice president for eight years, famously quipped that the…
How DeSantis can de-program the blue states
Four years ago this week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis presciently warned in his first inaugural address that big-spending, high-taxing states were…
Why are we ignoring the GOP’s popular vote win?
The midterm bloodbath conservatives were salivating for devolved into, at best, a red tide. The Democrats held the Senate and…
My travels in DeSantisland
Long before he became a darling of the right and the left’s second favorite villain, Ronald Dion DeSantis was just…
Our leaders will learn nothing from these elections
Elections are an opportunity for us to deliver messages to political leaders most of us will never meet. We can’t…
What I learned making calls for Democrats and Republicans
I’m a registered Republican in Florida yet the only email offer I received to be a campaign volunteer this season…
How Democrats’ open border policies alienated Hispanics
Remember the outrage when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent 50 Venezuelan asylum seekers to Martha’s Vineyard? Apparently Florida Hispanics, many…
Why are Democrats more focused on rape and incest than inflation?
Amid 40-year-high inflation, dwindling investment portfolios, and 20-year high mortgage rates, the Democratic Party appears most concerned with protecting the…
Why does the media never call world leaders ‘far left’?
Italy is about to have its first female leader and the American left is furious. Giorgia Meloni grew up in…