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April 2016

April 04, 2016

Leftists go from frightening to frightened

When someone chalked "vote for Trump" messages on the sidewalk, students at Emory University protested, saying seeing...

March 2016

March 17, 2016

Provocateurs, protests, and mass arrests

It's the oldest trick in the radical handbook: Provoke your political opponents to violence as...

March 07, 2016

Making America great again through vocation

Mark Hemingway excoriates the left's denigration of work and says that the lack of respect...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

Democrats too are voting with their middle fingers

Just as grassroots Republicans are voting for Donald Trump as a defiant protest against their...

February 25, 2016

Unappeasable

In a column about whether the president should replace Antonin Scalia (worth reading on that...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

How socialism is working out

As socialism comes back in vogue in the United States, voters have overwhelmingly repudiated it...

November 2015

November 09, 2015

Why the left doesn’t believe in free speech

Michael Barone has a fascinating column, excerpted after the jump, about how leftists, on campuses...

October 2015

October 30, 2015

Is Bernie Sanders creating a true leftist movement?

Left-leaning columnist Harold Meyerson is excited at the prospect of Bernie Sanders, the socialist presidential...

May 2015

May 11, 2015

Freedom reconsidered

Now that the truths that were foundational to the American republic--that there is a Creator...

May 07, 2015

Corporate America’s alliance with cultural left

Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal says that corporate America is foolish to ally with leftists in...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

Greeks reject austerity

The economy of Greece has been a basket case, with a national debt that is...

November 2014

November 19, 2014

The tea party of the left

According to Dana Milbank, a tea party of the left is emerging, with liberal purists...

April 2014

April 11, 2014

LBJ is back in favor

How the left hated Lyndon Baines Johnson back when I was in college! "Hey, hey,...

February 2013

February 07, 2013

The new left’s doctrine of “repressive tolerance”

It has long been observed that advocates of tolerance can be quite intolerant when it...

March 2012

March 15, 2012

Banning Dante

One of the greatest works of literature ever written, Dante's Divine Comedy, is attracting the...

January 2012

January 31, 2012

When leftists want civilians to be like the military

Civilian society is not supposed to be like the military, though making it that way...

January 30, 2012

Saul Alinsky’s rules for radicals

Back when Barack Obama was first running for president, I was among those worried about...

November 2011

November 09, 2011

The Occupy ideology

I went into Washington yesterday and stumbled upon the Occupy D.C. folks. They were in...

October 2011

October 18, 2011

What does Occupy Wall Street want?

Some of the demands of the Occupy Wall Street protesters: Demands posted in OWS’s name...

October 03, 2011

A tea party of the left

Since the middle of September, some 1000 protesters have been demonstrating on Wall Street, denouncing...

September 2010

September 22, 2010

Ordinary people

The media, the intellectual establishment of both the left and the right, and other members...

June 2010

June 07, 2010

The leftist/Islamist alliance

Dennis Mitzner tries to explain the odd alliance between the hard-core left and Islamic jihadists...

December 2009

December 18, 2009

And now, tea parties of the left

From Dana Milbank, who covers politics for the Washington Post: Tea parties -- they aren't...