The announcement by the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency that he had reached what the New York Times characterized as “something of a breakthrough” with the Iranian regime is igniting all sorts of speculation in respect of the talks…
Beware of Ron Paul was the word for Governor Romney from Newt Gingrich when the former speaker went on the Sean Hannity radio broadcast Monday. We caught up with it via ABC’s “The Note,” which quoted Mr. Gingrich as warning that the Republican…
Congratulations are in order for the Catholic Church, whose archdioceses in America went to federal court today to challenge the Obama administration on the contraception mandates. Something like a dozen federal lawsuits were filed against the…
As Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is being rowed across the River Styx, let us reflect on the scandal of his final years. It will always be a mark on the administration of President Obama that the Libyan died a free man. He had been convicted in the downing of…
A crescendo is going to start building soon in respect of the centenary of the Federal Reserve. The central bank was created by a law passed just before Christmas of 1913. The official anniversary festivities, if that is the word, will climax in 2014…
Heather Wilson, the five-term veteran of Congress who is seeking the Republican nomination for United States Senate from New Mexico, was last night in New York, where, at a reception in Manhattan, she was endorsed by Governor Christie. She spoke of…
Let us just say at the outset that we neither have nor desire any truck the idea of giving up American citizenship. Those who do it are making a choice that we can’t ever imagine making ourselves, even for the amount of money — $67 million — that…
One of the most memorable moments in our newspaper career was some years ago when we asked our lawyer at the time whether we could destroy a piece of evidence. Actually, it was a photocopy of the evidence. We weren’t asking whether we could destroy…
It turns out that President Obama’s endorsement of same gender marriage coincided with news that President Washington’s letter to the Jews is finally going to go on public display, and it is a fortunate coincidence. The exhibition of Washington’s…
The release of Conrad Black from prison and his return to his home at Canada is wonderful news, long awaited by his wide and diverse circle of friends. The one-time press baron, who had been a founding director of The New York Sun, was released Friday…
To mark the election of Francois Hollande as the second socialist president of France, we went to our closet and retrieved the Motsch Fils. It’s the finest hat we’ve ever owned, a supple brown fedora that is “garanti pur castor,” which is French…
One would think that a man as wealthy, as smart, and as old as Charles Munger would have known better than to suggest that people who buy gold are uncivilized. “Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you’re a Jewish family in Vienna in…
Congressman Ron Paul, in a rare head-to-head broadcast confrontation, went up against the Nobel laureate in economics Paul Krugman in an open debate over monetary policy. It was broadcast on the Bloomberg Television, moderated by Trish Regan. Not to put too fine a point on it, Ron Paul won the exchange, so much so that the cameras and moderators just drifted away from Mr. Krugman without so much as a fare-thee-well and left the field to the hero of the campaign for honest money.
The more we read of the contretemps over the behavior of the Murdoch newspapers in London, the more it looks to us like the real scandal is the behavior of the British government. Feature the finding of the parliamentary panel that has just declared…
Professor Paul Krugman, speaking on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos,” makes his case for risking inflation to defeat 9% unemployment. “You should be willing,” he said, “to take some risks. Compare. You know, people talk, what if we had 4%…
What a remarkable glimpse of the gulf between the administration and Congress over religious freedom is flashing around the internet. It is a Youtube video of the secretary of health and human services, Kathleen Sebelius, at a hearing of the House…
When the Supreme Court sits tomorrow to sort out Arizona’s immigration law the word to listen for is “uniform.” No doubt there will be talk, too, about the part of the Constitution known as the supremacy clause, which establishes the Constitution and…
A year into Chairman Bernanke’s campaign to make the Federal Reserve more transparent it turns out the confusion is greater than ever. This is according to no less a Bernankean institution than the New York Times. It reports in that the bearded…
“Sarkozy Loses” is the headline up on the Drudge Report over a dispatch of France24 with the early results of the first round of voting in the presidential election. It shows the socialist, Francois Holland, at around 29% and President Sarkozy at…
Final polls on the eve of the presidential election at France showed Francois Hollande edging past the more conservative incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy, in the first round of the vote. M. Hollande was pegged at 29% and M. Sarkozy at 26%, followed by the…
The big message from the meeting Friday of the Shadow Open Market Committee is that Congress is wising up to the Federal Reserve. This is implicit in the legislation that was the centerpiece of discussion at the meeting of Fed watchers. The measure…
To those of our readers who want to know why we keep writing about Governor Palin, check this out. It turns out that one of the Secret Service Agents cashiered for consorting with a prostitute at Colombia was once on Mrs. Palin’s security detail. And…
The latest tumult in respect of Congressman Ron Paul concerns the news of his views on recognizing Jerusalem. It turns out that the congressman is all for America recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state. The Web site Business Insider…
No sooner did the special prosecutor at Florida file her charges accusing George Zimmerman of murdering Trayvon Martin than the controversy erupted over whether the bringing of charges is the result of a rush to judgment. Some will say that the idea…
Senator Santorum’s decision to bow out of the Republican primary campaign is a disappointing moment in a quest that we’d have preferred to see taken all the way to the convention. But the New York Times is reporting this morning that “his strong…
The prospect that President Obama is going to make his campaign not only against Governor Romney but against the Supreme Court of the United States is starting to become apparent. Daniel Henninger marked the point in his column last week, and the…
One of the things to think about in respect the current political campaign is the impact that would be felt were the president of America and the prime minister of Israel on the same page. We were put in mind of this by Michael Barbaro’s illuminating…
The man Congressman Ron Paul would install as chairman of the Federal Reserve was, in a little noticed but remarkable moment, invited the other day to address the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It seems the bank wants to hear from its distinguished…
It’s been a long time since we’ve heard a presidential demarche as outrageous as President Obama’s warning to the Supreme Court not to overturn Obamacare. The president made the remarks at a press conference with the leaders of Mexico and Canada. It…
Senator Schumer, questioned Sunday by Savannah Guthrie on Meet the Press, offered an illuminating disquisition on the Obamacare lawsuit now being decided by the Supreme Court. He’s convinced that, despite the hostile questioning of the government’s…
The Wall Street Journal is out with an op-ed piece by the left wing critic of the American Jewish leadership, Peter Beinart, endorsing the idea of school vouchers here at America. It is drawn from Mr. Beinart’s new book on what he perceives to be a…
President Obama is getting razzed for seeming oblivious to the hard-left associations of his new campaign slogan, “Forward,” which was once used by the Marxists, the socialists, and even the communists. Glenn Beck’s Web site, The Blaze, posts an…
By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun
February 27, 2012
The founder of the Vanguard group of mutual funds, John C. Bogle, who says he is a lifelong Republican, is calling on Congress to raise capital gains taxes to the rates that apply to ordinary income. “As a general policy, equalize the taxes, raise the…
President Obama and the press have been all over Rush Limbaugh for the words he used to criticize a Georgetown Law student, Sandra Fluke, who spoke on February 23 at a meeting of the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee. There’s been less…
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
February 15, 2012
The last two weeks have produced an astounding convergence of profound philosophical public controversies in the United States that finally does justify the phrase, much bandied about for some years, “culture wars.” That expression was coined…
By R. EMMETT TYRRELL, Jr., Special to the Sun
January 31, 2012
Ah, yes, Newt Gingrich did in the last days of the Florida primary precisely what I predicted he would do. He hurled wild charges at Mitt Romney that suggested Newt was losing his grip. He charged Romney with lying and falling into the hands of George…
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
January 31, 2012
I cannot have been the only person who found President Obama’s State of the Union message and much of the indulgence of it, even by serious commentators, worrisome. The president was correct that “too many of our institutions have let us down.” He…
Even before polls opened in Florida’s Republican primary, some pundits were trying to explain a potential Newt Gingrich loss there by saying he’d been outspent. Mike Allen’s influential Politico Playbook daily morning email reported Monday, “Newt…
By R. EMMETT TYRRELL, Jr., Special to the Sun
January 25, 2012
How long have I been saying it? At least for 15 years, but in private I have been aware of it longer. Newt Gingrich is conservatism’s Bill Clinton, but without the charm. He has acquired wit but he has all the charm of barbed wire. Newt and Bill are…
By LAWRENCE KUDLOW, Special to the Sun
January 20, 2012
Let me build on Charles Krauthammer’s great Friday column, “The GOP’s Suicide March.” Mr. Krauthammer argues that just as President Obama’s class-warfare, soak-the-rich mantra started lagging in the polls, some Republicans on the campaign trail…
By LAWRENCE KUDLOW, Special to the Sun
January 19, 2012
Might a strong Newt Gingrich debate performance tonight trump the ABC Nightline interview with Newt’s ex-wife Marianne? Remember, the debate comes before Nightline. And the roughly 5 million to 6 million people who watch the debate will be a lot more…
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