R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

When a health crisis becomes an economic crisis, closing down America has to end

Americans in massive numbers have lost their jobs, their religious freedom, their freedom of movement and their freedom of association. They have even lost their sense of security. Do you feel secure with the street crawling with people wearing masks?

April 21, 2020

Hypocritical media and Democrats have made Trump most maligned president in history

The New York Times is accusing President Trump of wasting as much as six weeks before taking action against the coronavirus. If anyone dawdled it was Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. She allowed the likes of Adam Schiff to conjure up conspiracies.

April 14, 2020

John Durham’s investigation into 2016 election irregularities needs resolution

If you were reading The Wall Street Journal late last week, you might have noticed a story about a federal prosecutor John Durham from Connecticut. He is the man that Attorney General William Barr tapped a year ago to look into irregularities allegedly committed surrounding the 2016 election, possibly by high-ranking officials in our intelligence community.

April 7, 2020

Fox News’ ‘The Five’ forgets importance of reading during COVID-19 confinement

That five of our stellar Fox performers would not suggest reading books during this dreadful period is very disheartening. I am sure it was an oversight.

March 31, 2020

Trump must continue to remind America that ‘we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem’

America is not a hospital ward. America is a vast country with the most successful economy ever. It is a capitalist economy. From time to time it is hit by unforeseen misfortunes. This time it was hit by an unforeseen virus, but the economy must go on.

March 24, 2020

Millennial author Charlotte Alter writes a dreadful, My-Generation-obsessed book

The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America" from author Charlotte Alter takes its dreadful title from a dreadful speech given back in 2008 by presidential candidate Barack Obama, titled, dreadfully enough, "The Ones We've Been Waiting For."

March 17, 2020

Only morons would vote for crazy Bernie Sanders’ utopian socialism

The forces of militant ignorance are in motion again. They are marching with Crazy Bernie Sanders and his spendthrift wife. They are marching with Congressgirl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the former bartendress.

March 10, 2020

Liberals persist in lecturing, mocking and lying to conservatives

The left-wingers regularly lecture us, mock us and, of course, lie to us. Their behavior, however, rarely ever stings, because long ago we saw through their hysteria.

March 3, 2020

Leftist levels of crazy: James Carville, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders

Poor old James Carville is in the dumps. He doubts that Crazy Bernie can beat President Trump in November. He appeared on MSNBC last week and said that anyone who thought Bernie would turn out more voters and in sufficient numbers to beat Mr. Trump was "a fool." Well, on that point he might be right.

February 25, 2020

Margaret Thatcher was hated by liberals, socialists and even a few moderates

I am rounding the last turn of Charles Moore's magisterial biography of Margaret Thatcher. It is no sprint. It is not even a distances race. It is a marathon of a literary work, three volumes, thick volumes. Yet, as I have said, it is a masterpiece.

February 18, 2020

With luck, Joe Biden will get the presidential nomination and Republicans will rejoice

Of course, my favorite Democratic candidate is Joe Biden. He is 77 and consults a plastic surgeon almost as frequently as Mrs. Pelosi. Rush Limbaugh calls him plugs because of his hair treatments.

February 11, 2020

Mitt Romney voting with the Democrats to upset impeachment proceedings was despicable

If there is one senator who deserves an award for his performance, say, Jackass of the Year, it is Sen. Mitt Romney of the great state of Utah. His attempt to throw a monkey wrench into the proceedings by voting with the Democrats on late Friday afternoon was despicable.

February 4, 2020

Judicial swamp looking to stymie the ‘Trump Revolution’

What Mr. Trump has dubbed the swamp is erupting with more poison. Just the other day we learned that the Committee on Codes of Conduct of the U.S. Judicial Conference is planning to bar judges from belonging to the Federalist Society.

January 28, 2020

A good week for Queen Elizabeth II and a bad week for Harvey Weinstein and Michael Avenatti

Last week was a good week for Queen Elizabeth II. At 93 years of age, she once again asserted her authority and looked, by the way, terrific. Good show, your highness. However, last week was a bad week for Harvey Weinstein and Michael Avenatti.

January 21, 2020

Why the liberal media love for Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden?

I see that the mainstream media is promoting the candidacies of Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden at the expense of the 13 other admitted Democratic candidates and the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Democrats who feel in their heart of hearts that they should be president.

January 14, 2020

Attorney General William Barr, ‘Adult of the Year’

The Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly A. Strassel has just conferred her "Adult of the Year Award" on a man who deserves it, Attorney General William Barr. And Ms. Strassel writes with sufficient distance from the swamp to be taken seriously.

January 7, 2020

Merry Christmas, 2019

What do you make of it? Merry Christmas greetings have been assaulting me from every corner.

December 24, 2019

The election of Boris Johnson is a harbinger for Donald Trump in 2020

The British election last Thursday was a stupendous victory for Boris Johnson and the good sense of the British people. He will be the Brits' prime minister for the next five years, and they will prosper in freedom.

December 17, 2019

The Democratic Party: Foul-mouthed tough guys and gals

Watch out, Mr. President! You are about to be confronted in the next election by the party of tough guys and, I would assume, tough gals, too.

December 10, 2019

Toward faith and good lifestyle choices

Do you spend much time reading the Journal of the American Medical Association? I must say I do not. Perhaps that is because I exercise regularly, eat nutritious meals, avoid drinking to excess, put in a 40-hour week — well, actually a bit more than that, but I enjoy my work.

December 3, 2019