R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

TYRRELL: Higher spending deadlier than ‘fiscal cliff’

William McGurn, the esteemed Wall Street Journal columnist and soon-to-be editor of the editorial page of the New York Post, has made an interesting observation about the fabulous Bush tax cuts that are about to lapse.

December 12, 2012

TYRRELL: Good Samaritan meets ‘Obama Man’

Jeffrey Hillman shambles along the streets of New York City looking quite unkempt, drab and hopeless. He panhandles sometimes and mutters to himself. Frankly, he looks a wreck and apparently often is in need of a pair of shoes.

December 5, 2012

TYRRELL: Republicans, Democrats and Grover

What is a Republican elected official? A Republican elected official is one who says, "I won't raise my constituents' taxes." Asked to elaborate, the Republican elected official explains, "I will keep taxes down to allow the economy to grow and to throw off ever more tax revenue." The Republican believes that the way to pay for government is to let the economy roar -- and to keep spending reasonable.

November 28, 2012

TYRRELL: Sex and the general

Sex remains the surest prop for all that is funny — and sad. In the first instance, we often call the result ribaldry. In the second instance, it is always called tragedy.

November 14, 2012

TYRRELL: The election … of 2014

Jimmy Carter is redeemed. The grinning dunce of yesteryear, who grew into the anile doddering figure of today lecturing the civilized on all manner of statecraft, has been replaced by the saturnine gaunt prophet, Barack Obama. His sorry performance these past four years he lays to the administration of George W. Bush. The next four years will be a replay of the last four years, and an even graver crisis will confront us then with the domestic economy in a funk and foreign potentates all laughing at us.

November 7, 2012

TYRRELL: Au revoir, Mr. President

Reviewing the past few months of this tumultuous presidential campaign, I see the debates as having a wondrous salience. The first was the most momentous since Nixon versus Kennedy, though that 1960 confrontation was mostly a matter of cosmetics.

October 31, 2012

TYRRELL: Obama sings the ballot box blues

This election is not turning out the way President Obama had expected. Perhaps that is why he has looked so uncomfortable in his three debates with the suddenly debonair Mitt Romney.

October 24, 2012

TYRRELL: Keep free speech free

I am grateful to George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley for pointing out that a growing number of world leaders find the First Amendment's right of free speech to be an inconvenience.

October 17, 2012

TYRRELL: Beholding the essential Obama

Well, apparently, I am not crazy after all. The polls have caught up with me, and they -- after the debate -- are coming around to my point of view. Mitt Romney is ahead in the race for the White House, and, let me add, he probably will be residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in 2013.

October 10, 2012

TYRRELL: Kudos to Columbus

Autumn in New York -- that sounds like the title of a song. In fact, it sounds like the first line of a song, and so it is. Autumn is a lovely time of year in many places, but for me, my favorite place at this time of year is New York City.

October 3, 2012

TYRRELL: More reasons for Obama to go

Now that Mitt Romney has revealed the details of his tax returns, it is high time that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reveal the details of his relationship with the cow that was linked to him in a world exclusive right here in this very column last month.

September 26, 2012

TYRRELL: Close down those embassies

Allow me to offer a suggestion as to how our government might avoid the slaughter of our personnel by mobs in diplomatic installations around the Islamic world.

September 19, 2012

TYRRELL: Obama’s polls tax credibility

Nuts. The Democratic National Convention is over. Watching Bill Clinton, Jean-Francois Kerry, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and all the other preposterosities -- not least being the widely underdepreciated Sandra Fluke -- I fell under a spell.

September 12, 2012

TYRRELL: Dimness of the Democrats

At this Democratic National Convention I am particularly interested in the crowds on the floor. Who cares about what Bill Clinton says? He does not mean it anyway. In the 1990s, he governed like a Republican after saying that "the age of big government is over." Incidentally, he governed pretty well.

September 5, 2012

TYRRELL: Who speaks for reform in Islam?

How little we know about holy Islam. When those poor wretches who were imprisoned at Abu Ghraib were pictured for all the world to see naked with underpants on their heads, we were told that the naked male Islamic body must never be seen in public.

August 29, 2012

TYRRELL: Obama’s looking for the moron vote

It has been a very rough patch for Our President, and I do believe it is going to get rougher still. Do not be surprised as the month goes on and August runs into September, that his campaign budget becomes tighter. President Obama is spending more money than he is raising. It will get worse.

August 22, 2012

TYRRELL: Harry Reid’s cow and Joe Biden’s parrot

Aweek passes, and thus far Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has yet to tell us whether he is or is not having sexual relations with a cow. As was reported in this column last week, based on sources in the field, Mr. Reid has been involved with the cow for at least three months, possibly more.

August 15, 2012

TYRRELL: Of Democrats and distractions

Now it can be told. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, despite his lofty position in the U.S. Senate and despite being married to a very nice woman, has been having sex with a cow for at least three months, maybe more.

August 8, 2012

TYRRELL: Invasion of the left-wing body snatchers

Milton Friedman, the great economist, was one of a handful of intellectuals whose work forms the foundation for the modern conservative movement. He has been dead since 2006, but this week would be his centennial. He lived a long and prodigious life.

August 1, 2012

TYRRELL: Forget the creep

What does James Holmes, the Colorado accused killer, have in common with Jared Loughner, Andres Behring Breivik, Seung-Hui Cho, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris? They all linked to the massacre of innocent people on a massive scale. Yet they have something else in common. They are all nobodies or losers, as the phrase has it.

July 25, 2012