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I have experienced defeat in presidential politics many times. Actually, I expect most Americans have. You win some, and you lose some.
Luigi Barzini, my old pal and the author of so many fine books all written from his aerie above Rome — his finest of which, "The Italians," he wrote in English — once jolted me by saying, "You Americans talk too much."
On the Russia-Trump imbroglio, let us be clear. We are now months into it. A dozen or so culprits have been fingered, some being actually quite amusing.
I have recently been reminded of one of my earliest conclusions about the American Left. I arrived at that conclusion when it was relatively civilized. In those days, we called it American liberalism, but even then it was fla fla.
I have returned! From Europe, that is, and I hope I met with no Russian agents while there. The soi-disant liberals are in a snit about the Russians.
Do I detect a note of desperation in some of my fellow Americans' discussions on how to treat terrorism, specifically the terrorist group the Islamic State group?
Have you followed the drift of the mainstream media as to what provoked James T. Hodgkinson to attempt the massacre of the Republican House baseball team as it practiced in Alexandria, Virginia, last week?
I shall not beat around the bush. As readers of this column perhaps suspect, I have admired former FBI Director James Comey for most of his public career, beginning in 2013. That he is a friend of former FBI Director Robert Mueller makes me admire him even more. Mueller is a man of integrity and discretion. He would not befriend a man of dubious character.
I shall be honest with you. Let me be frank: I am worried about the Clintons.
Last weekend, while visiting the New Jersey shore, I heard an astonishing number of vacationing Americans — all well-intentioned, to be sure — greet their fellow vacationers with a cheerful "have a happy Memorial Day." That cannot be right.
A major threat to the predominance of the Kultursmog in these United States passed away last week, but he succeeded in what he set out to do, namely, damaging the Left in America beyond any hope of recovery.
While contemplating the Democrats' agitated preoccupation with the allegations of Russia's intrusion into our 2016 presidential election, many thoughts occur.
Already, the wits of the Left have employed references to oral sex and even incest in joking about our president. I cannot recall any other president suffering such public ribaldry — even President Abraham Lincoln, and he had among his critics that forerunner of the modern American entertainment industry, John Wilkes Booth.
Well, she did not show up. I am talking about Ann Coulter, the svelte conservative firebrand who was invited to speak at the University of California, Berkeley, and, inadvertently, to show the assembled coeds how a stylish blond dresses.
We call it Kultursmog, "it" being that collection of attitudes, ideas, tastes and personages that are polluted by the politics of the left and predominate on both coasts. And who are we?
There is hope! I am speaking of the envisioned memorial of Dwight D. Eisenhower here in Washington, D.C. Admittedly, its design by the crank architect, Frank Gehry, has been pretty much accepted by the memorial commission, and the chairman of the House committee that has control of the funding, Ken Calvert, seems to be going along.
It looks like former President Obama's national security adviser Susan Rice will get a reprieve. With all the hullabaloo from President Donald Trump's military action last week in Syria's ... do we call it Syria's civil war or a massacre?
Have you been keeping up with the news from Washington, DC? If you have, doubtless you know that there are congressional investigations of Russian interference with our recent presidential election.
The trials of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch before the Senate Judiciary Committee, as he is almost certainly en route to his place on the Supreme Court, reveal one of my favorite findings regarding modern politics, to wit: The Democrats are the extremists; the Republicans are mainstream.
What are more important to the health of an intellectual movement: writers and academics, or investors and philanthropists?
