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  • R. Emmett Tyrrell: There's a reason people are already talking 2016

    R. Emmett Tyrrell

    Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

    WASHINGTON -- It has happened again! Our gaffe-prone president has filed another blunder on his presidential record. At the dedication of George W. Bush's presidential library he invoked history with his usual mastery of detail. He placed President John F. Kennedy in Air Force One, "On the...

  • Remember when anger was cool?

    R. Emmett Tyrrell

    Published: Wed, Apr 24, 2013

    WASHINGTON -- It has come to my attention that there is a new derogatory term in American politics. It is "Angry White Male." Moreover, I am apparently a member of this low-down grouping of Americanos. According to Wikipedia, "the free encyclopedia," the term delineates a male who is...

  • The Iron Lady and the Blonde

    R. Emmett Tyrrell

    Published: Tue, Apr 9, 2013

    WASHINGTON -- On the occasion of Lady Thatcher's death, there is widespread admiration and even applause for her premiership, but surely there ought to be gratitude too. After all, without her -- and without President Ronald Reagan -- the poor would be much poorer and without hope of bettering...

  • R. Emmett Tyrrell: Newsflash: Democrats don't want what's best for Republicans

    R. Emmett Tyrrell

    Published: Wed, Mar 27, 2013

    WASHINGTON -- The American left cares so much for humanity that it even expends copious draughts of compassion toward us, toward you and me, toward suave, degage conservatives. The left's members really fret over how elements of the "extreme right" are undermining the Republican Party,...

  • The mayor who would be despot

    R. Emmett Tyrrell

    Published: Wed, Mar 20, 2013

    WASHINGTON -- Apparently New York City's Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg whiles away his last hours in the mayor's palace daydreaming. He has been mayor for almost three terms and though his mayorship may not have been as heroic or even as effective as that of Mayor Rudy Giuliani, it has at least...

  • R. Emmett Tyrrell: Obama's 'partisan message management' is catching up to him

    R. Emmett Tyrrell

    Published: Wed, Mar 6, 2013

    WASHINGTON -- I do not know about you, but to me this sequestration imbroglio is getting interesting. Last week, I wrote of my surprise that a basic untruth was being repeated over and over again by the White House, to wit, that the Republicans were responsible for the monstrosity of...

  • R. Emmett Tyrrell: Calvin Coolidge was no joke

    R. Emmett Tyrrell

    Updated: Wed, Feb 20, 2013

    WASHINGTON -- I am indebted to Amity Shlaes for gently correcting a joke of mine that dates back to July 8, 1972. On that date in the New York Times, I joshed that President Calvin Coolidge "probably spent more time napping than any president in the nation's history" and therefore was a...

  • R. Emmett Tyrrell: Sam Tanenhaus' problem continues

    R. Emmett Tyrrell

    Published: Wed, Feb 13, 2013

    WASHINGTON -- It has happened again. Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the New York Times Book Review referred to by Paul Krugman the other day as "a long-time conservative," has essayed in the New Republic the modern conservative movement, and traced us all back to John C. Calhoun. I suppose our...

  • Lessons from the ancient Mayans

    R. Emmett Tyrrell

    Published: Wed, Jan 30, 2013

    SANTO TOMAS DE CASTILLA, Guatemala -- Where is that, you ask? Generally this column comes to you from Washington, D.C. or New York City. Occasionally it comes from London or Paris. Today it carries the dateline of a seaport in Guatemala, and if it were written a day ago or two days hence it...

  • Emmett Tyrrell: Chuck Hagel is good for Obama, but what about America?

    Emmett Tyrrell

    Updated: Wed, Jan 16, 2013

    WASHINGTON -- Former senator Chuck Hagel is a suave, energetic, spirited fellow. He is intelligent, and from his early youth apparently patriotic and undoubtedly courageous. He showed that in Vietnam. Hagel has been a Republican senator and an accomplished businessman. Now he is President Barack...


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