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Mercurial Newt and the GOP Nomination: Has His Time Come?

By Brian Birdnow (Dec 12, 2011)

The latest news cycles have brought tidings of foreboding for Newt Gingrich, the erstwhile Speaker of the House and now the great non-Mitt Romney hope in the Republican... more

On Credentials, Nepotism, & Chelsea Clinton

By Brian Birdnow (Nov 22, 2011)

Last Monday, November 14th, the National Broadcasting Corporation announced that have hired the estimable Chelsea Clinton as a full-time special correspondent for NBC News. ... more

Occupy Wall Street: Liberalism’s Continuing War With Normalcy

By Brian Birdnow (Oct 27, 2011)

The Occupy Wall Street movement, and its host of copycat imitators around the country have garnered much attention recently. They have been largely lauded by the mainstream... more

Kathleen Parker's 9/11 Hysteria

By Brian Birdnow (Sep 17, 2011)

Kathleen Parker is a proud member of a very select club. She is, in fact, a charter member of a cabal that might be called, for lack of a better term, “Self-Professed... more

The New Image of Dick Cheney

By Brian Birdnow (Sep 03, 2011)

This week marks the debut of former Vice-President Dick Cheney’s memoir entitled In My Time. Cheney has helped pump up interest in his volume, promising that it will stir up... more

Gutting the Military, Indeed!

By Brian Birdnow (Jul 30, 2011)

This past Monday, (July 25th) in these same pages, the estimable Lurita Doan outlined the Obama Administration’s intention to reduce defense expenditures by nearly one... more

On Calling A Spade, A Spade

By Brian Birdnow (Jun 27, 2011)

Buried in the back pages of the American newspapers this past Friday were two news items of great interest to those who believe that we should take seriously the Islamic... more

Britain Is Working? David Brooks and Toryite Blather at the New York Times

By Brian Birdnow (Jun 01, 2011)

Last week David Brooks, the faux-conservative columnist at the New York Times penned a column extolling the British national political system. The piece, written to coincide... more

Britain Is Working? David Brooks and Toryite Blather at the New York Times

By Brian Birdnow (May 29, 2011)

Last week David Brooks, the faux-conservative columnist at the New York Times penned a column extolling the British national political system. The piece, written to coincide... more

Quest 2012: Obama And His Challengers

By Brian Birdnow (Apr 30, 2011)

The most recent polls show President Obama leading all of his potential GOP opponents and, in fact easily defeating most of them in hypothetical 2012 elections. The common... more

Politicians, Media & “Kinetic Military Actions”: Libya In Historical Perspective

By Brian Birdnow (Mar 28, 2011)

Last week the Obama Administration, increasingly ceding American foreign policy to the “world community”, initiated military actions against Libya, for a host of stated but... more

New York’s Publicity Hound Mayor

By Brian Birdnow (Feb 10, 2011)

In a press conference last week New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg congratulated himself on having masterminded a sting operation wherein he sent undercover NYC agents to a gun... more

A Very Modest Proposal: A Tax on Liberalism

By Brian Birdnow (Jan 10, 2011)

The New Year, 2011, opened last week and in Washington D.C. the Republican Party celebrated the beginning of the new annum and the new decade by watching John Boehner, one... more