The Democratic National Committee has repeatedly had to caution its candidates for high office against vile language, and I am not talking about some dirty-mouthed candidate from some remote congressional seat. Published October 15, 2019
What is going on in the Women's Studies Programs, the Black Studies Programs, the Vegetarian Studies Programs, and all the other non-studies programs that have taken over from the humanities and rendered university life so trivial? Published October 8, 2019
I say Hillary is doing more than mulling over her next run for the presidency. I think she is already planning her next bumper sticker. Published October 1, 2019
The homeless are people who, for whatever reason, have refused to conform to minimum standards of self-restraint or decency. Published September 24, 2019
Recently, Pope Francis gave a press conference while returning to the Vatican from a trip to Mozambique, Madagascar and Mauritius. During his press conference, he, of course, lied. What else does one do at a press conference? Published September 17, 2019
Frankly, the Democrats' obsession with climate change is more than odd. It is delusional. Published September 10, 2019
Recently in Hanover, New Hampshire, former Vice President Joe Biden -- the gaffable Joe Biden -- stitched together a stupendous concatenation of gaffes that ought to put him out of the race for the Democratic nomination. Published September 3, 2019
David Koch, one of the two celebrated Koch brothers known to millions of Americans who follow the news, passed away last Friday. He was 79. Published August 27, 2019
Well, all the palaver about the 50th anniversary of Woodstock has finally shut down. The reminiscences, the brave statements, the claptrap about how beautiful we all were -- it is over. Published August 20, 2019
I was traveling with candidate Trump during the 2016 campaign, and we spent a night at the Trump National Doral Miami. I had to leave early to get back to Washington, and so I took a taxi the next morning from the hotel to the airport. Published August 13, 2019
After a week of watching the Democrats in debate I ask myself, how far to the left are the Democratic presidential candidates going to take their party? Published August 6, 2019
All over America, people longed for Wes Pruden's twice-weekly serving of good sense and good humor. Published July 23, 2019
Apropos of the Saturday Evening Club, I recently heard from the office of the most famous freshman member of Congress. I invited Congressgirl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to be our special guest at a dinner some months ago. Published July 16, 2019
There is the musty smell of a police state here in old London, or should I say an inchoate police state? The present mayor, Sadiq Khan, is of the left and he shares the left's lust for power. Published July 9, 2019
There are a lot of odd stories making the rounds these days. How about the odd stories that E. Jean Carroll has accumulated around her? Unlike any of the other commentators esteeming her of late, I have known her since the early 1960s, when I went to Indiana University with Jean, as she was then called. Published July 2, 2019
What will happen Thursday night if former Vice President Joe Biden pulls his pants down in public on stage when it is finally his time to speak? I am told that he will have one minute to answer the first question, one minute. Moreover, so will all the other candidates. Apparently there will be a plenitude of one-minute answers whizzing through the Miami auditorium. Published June 25, 2019
Last week I suggested that convicted felons would be running for the Democratic presidential nomination this year. Well, now it looks like that will not be the case. Published June 18, 2019
It is increasingly difficult to be a Democratic presidential candidate. Published June 11, 2019
For over two years now a peculiar combination of the media and the Democrats have been goading Donald Trump, always to painful effect — painful for both sides in this vituperative battle; but particularly painful to the media and the Democrats. Not much good has come of it. Published June 4, 2019
Well, the U.K.'s Prime Minister Theresa May has run out of gas. She is going to retire. Now the question is who will replace her. Published May 28, 2019
