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I once did a weekly column for the Washington Post. It appeared on Mondays and was picked up in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Boston, possibly Chicago and I believe Bull Snort, Georgia.
There is a whiff of the absurd about former Secretary of State Jean-Francois Kerry's recent "aggressive yet stealthy mission" to New York City.
Milton Friedman was not only a brilliant economist — a Nobel laureate, in fact — he was also a gifted writer. In his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom, he presciently explained how health care costs were going to leap out of control over the next decades. Sure enough, they did. They multiplied from roughly $1 of every $20 being spent on health care in the 1950s to roughly $1 of every $5 being spent on health care today.
Has it been noted that the country's political disagreements are becoming increasingly violent? About 15 years ago, the "angry Left" appeared on the scene, and its indignant members got a lot of attention from the media.
William Casey was my lawyer. One day, I came into my office and found a large man sitting on my desk. I greeted him amiably, and he greeted me amiably. Yet he was still siting on my desk.
The markets are on edge. Then again, inflation is low; employment is high — historically high in the case of blacks and Latinos — and growth is healthy and looking to become very healthy. Dare we say robust?
There have been some very auspicious developments in human evolutionary studies that ought to allow us a welcome respite from my usual political ramblings in this space.
What passes for the current wisdom today contains a great deal of solemn slop. Yet there are some solemnities in the current wisdom that one assumes are legitimate.
If you followed the soap opera drama that the mainstream media orchestrated against the Trump administration last week, you got your money's worth.
There is a growing debate on the left over whose side to take in the simmering controversy between Monica Lewinsky and former President Bill Clinton or the Clintons, depending on how long Hillary Clinton remains loyal to Bill, or, come to think of it, how long Bill remains loyal to Hillary.
President Donald Trump has had a splendid first year in office. He has the economy moving again, and at a healthy pace, 2.6 percent in the most recent quarter.
It has been at least 10 years since I stopped by American conservatism's largest and gaudiest national jamboree, the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC. I used to attend it annually, but somehow, it lost its allure about 15 years ago, at least for me.
Recently, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in league with a professor at the University of San Diego School of Law made bold to write an essay for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
For years, I have been saying that the Clintons lie when they do not have to, and that they tell a gigantic whopper when a little white lie would be perfectly adequate. This time-honored observation explains many of their past run-ins with the law.
I have never met the pope, but I have followed his activities sedulously, as might be expected of a Roman Catholic. Pope Francis is an agent for change in his 2,000-year-old church, change in what Catholics believe and change in how they worship. Notwithstanding my never having met him, my guess is that he was a bit embarrassed by a decision announced recently by the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, DC. The Episcopalians got the jump on him in the realm of change.
"Scandalous" — that is the name that Fox News Channel has chosen for a multipart documentary it is airing on Sunday evenings. If you missed it this week, watch it in the weeks to come. It promises a lot of har-hars.
As the Democrats grow increasingly ravenous to have a shot at the presidency of Donald Trump, they are beginning to train their guns on the frontrunners for the nomination.
Last week the headlines should have abounded with the year's good news. It was the economy: gross domestic product was up some 3 percent and, for the last quarter, nearly 4 percent; unemployment was down to a 17-year low, with black unemployment at the lowest level since such statistics were compiled.
Of all the Judeo-Christian virtues, the one that utterly baffles me is humility. I mean, what is in it for me?
My friend and colleague Donald Rieck, president of The American Spectator Foundation, died late last week in an automobile accident.
