By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Barack Obama is really just one of the guys. He wants to take away Joe Sixpack’s guns, but he wants everybody to know that he’s a shooter and intends to keep his own shootin’ iron. Published January 29, 2013
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Wars are won despite the generals. Every historian knows that. Combat is no place for a woman. Every grunt knows that. So do most women. Only generals are confused. Published January 25, 2013
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
The "old" Hillary Rodham Clinton emerged yesterday in the congressional hearings about what happened in Benghazi, and it's the Hillary image that's likely to last. Published January 24, 2013
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Nobody wants rain on Inauguration Day. For the partisans among us — and that includes approximately half of us, give or take a few hundred thousand — it’s a day for celebration of the nation and its history, the continuity of its institutions, and the promise of the future. Published January 22, 2013
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Like rekindled romances, presidential inaugurations are rarely much fun the second time around. Been there, done that, the bloom is off the rose, familiarity breeds boredom, et al. Barack Obama can't believe that deja vu comes even unto him. Published January 18, 2013
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Barack Obama is laying out a revolutionary agenda for his second term, and he’s calling up his heaviest artillery to enforce the transformative presidency delayed in the first. The campaign to confirm Chuck Hagel will be no campaign for the fainthearted summer soldiers who know only small-caliber combat. Published January 15, 2013
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Code Red: Washington put on full terror alert. The terror of horrific testosterone threatens to paralyze the nation's capital. Published January 11, 2013
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
If Barack Obama wants a fight over his appointment of Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense, the Republicans have a constitutional responsibility to give him one. Published January 8, 2013
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
John A. Boehner thinks there’s too much of Barack Obama in Washington. Most of the Democrats think there’s a surplus of impertinent Republicans. Chris Christie says it’s Congress that turned Washington rancid. Everybody agrees something is rotten on the Potomac. Published January 4, 2013
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Californians take pride in the notion that everything in America starts here — the music, the clothes, the food, the fun and games of the celebrity culture. Now California is showing the nation something else, a view from the bottom of the fiscal cliff. Life from Gruesome Gulch, you might say. Published January 1, 2013
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
“What we must have is a national debate about guns.” So goes the media cliche of the moment. Everybody on the left is saying it, but nobody there means a word of it. All these wayward worthies really want is an opportunity to put piety on parade (and take your guns). Published December 28, 2012
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
The strip malls and the Main Streets fall silent. The ringing cash registers and the happy cries of children are but ghostly echoes across silent streets. But the Christ child born in a manger 2,000 years ago lives, liberating the hearts of sinners and transforming the lives of the wicked. Published December 25, 2012
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
There’s no mystery about why Hillary Rodham Clinton spends so much time on airplanes to dreary places that everybody else avoids like the plague (or the stomach flu). The climate anywhere is better than in the comfortable ineptitude of Foggy Bottom. Published December 21, 2012
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Being a man is not even the proper 21st-century response to crisis. We’re all modern here, so we must emulate frightened, hysterical old women like Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City, who thinks he knows how to silence the guns. Published December 18, 2012
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Barack Obama says he’s a Christian. Good for him (and for the Gospel). But rarely has a Christian paid such obeisance to another faith and ideology. The president’s bow and scrape to Islam knows no end. That’s not so good. Published December 14, 2012
