John P. Wiles

The incoherent State of the Union address this week only reinforced what is becoming painfully obvious to any observer–President Obama’s proposals are more confusing than clarifying, they pretend to do something big…

“This is just un-American! This is not the way things should be in my country.”

I took careful note of these words, as I sat in a bar and listened to a friend venting about his struggle. It was the week between…

Fair or not, voters have distaste and distrust this year for any candidate running under the “progressive” banner that was so wildly popular just last year.

“I essentially believe that ‘progressive’ is the

Anyone but Bush. This was a popular and oft-repeated phrase during the twilight of our 43rd president’s first term. People incensed by the war in Iraq, people offended at the idea of a plain-talking Texan representing…

It was bad enough last month watching Washington politicians merrily flying off to the U.N. climate change Conference of Parties in Copenhagen (or COP-15 for short), ostensibly to draft a global warming treaty,…

For the past year, Republicans have been criticizing Barack Obama for out of control spending. So they must be pleased that they have forced him, in his State of the Union address, to concede the point by proposing a…

Nearly 65 years after his famous grandfather was first asked to run as a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representative from that state’s 12th district, 30-year old Christopher Cox has put his hat in the ring…

Because Hannah Giles (the femme fatale of the ACORN sting) is my daughter, as soon as the news of her ACORN companion James O’Keefe’s arrest in the Big Easy hit the fan, our phone lines lit up like a Christmas Tree with…

Meg Whitman is running for the California governorship. Obviously, Whitman very much wants Californians to cast a vote for her this year. And then, apparently, she wants to stop Californians from casting a vote on…

If someone asks me to briefly describe the philosophical difference between the liberal-left Democrats and the conservative Republicans, I simply point out that the Dems believe in the politics of envy while the GOP b