August 8, 2016

How Trump Can Make Good on His 'Law and Order' Promises

I was thrilled to hear our Republican presidential nominee pronounce himself "the law and order candidate."  Talking about crime is something I've been urging on the GOP for a very long time.  What remains to be seen is whethe...

August 3, 2016

Law and Order and Trump

Donald Trump has taken a stand for "law and order."  He may be the first Republican presidential nominee since Richard Nixon to dare pronounce those words, so thoroughly has the GOP internalized the Democrats' canard that "...

February 27, 2013

Want your Constitution back? Start here.

"While liberals pursue their impossible dream of eliminating murder weapons, we should be setting about the very practical, effectual, and constitutional task of eliminating murderers."  So I wrote in AT on Monday.  And every day's news rei...

February 25, 2013

Defend the Second Amendment by Restoring the Eighth

December 30, 2012.  The headline on Drudge, beneath a picture of redcoats blazing away in a Lexington and Concord re-enactment, reads: "OBAMA TO GO FOR GUNS IN 2013 / 'THERE WILL BE RESISTANCE'." Resistance indeed there will be, and rightly so. ...

August 19, 2012

How about Some Bleeding-Heart Conservatism?

The Democrats' plan to demonize the Romney-Ryan ticket is obvious to everyone.  "Mitt Romney killed my wife."  "Paul Ryan shoves Granny off the cliff."  "We big-hearted Democrats could shower endless benefits on everyone if only those ...

August 1, 2012

The Crime Issue

"Crime is a dangerous, cancerous condition which, if not curbed and beaten down, will soon eat at the very vitals of the country."  -J. Edgar Hoover, to the University of Maryland's class of 1936 [1] "He was carrying a twenty-one-foot tapeworm ...

March 12, 2012

The Real War on Women

The hubbub over contraception has given liberal Democrats a new campaign theme: that Republicans are waging a "war on women."  In response, Republicans should point out the Democrats' complicity in a real war on women -- a war with real pain and...

December 18, 2008

A better way to counter judicial activism

Thinking about crime would have improved the GOP's performance this year -- enough, I believe, to have turned defeat into victory. Actually doing something about crime, beyond the hugely burdensome and only marginally effective things Americans are d...

December 17, 2008

Whatever Happened to the Law and Order Issue?

In the weeks since Americans elected Barack Obama president, conservatives have had a lot to say to one another about the future of our movement and of the Republican Party. While not disparaging the importance of other lessons, I'd like to bring up ...

April 10, 2005

Cutting the Gordian Knot of judicial activism

Constitutional purists 'can't get there from here' — or can we? Legend had it that whoever could untie the Gordian knot would rule Asia. So Alexander the Great thought he would have a go at it. Drawing his sword, he cut the knot apart; tha...