Edmund Burke

After booking a cruise with Princess Cruises and paying for it, I learned that $11 a day per person would be added to our stateroom bill for tips. For an 18-day cruise, that adds up to $396 for two of us. I called to object to this and was told I would...

Conservatives are at each other's throats, and here's what's revealing about how divided they are: The critics of John McCain and the critics of Sarah Palin represent entirely different camps. Skeptical social conservatives are precisely the people...

Empieza a gestarse una rebelión entre los conservadores estadounidenses, muchos de ellos influyentes comentaristas que están denunciando la usurpación del Partido Republicano por una mezcla de populistas anti-intelectuales y extremistas políticos. El...

Question: After booking a cruise with Princess Cruises and paying for it, I learned that $11 a day per person would be added to our stateroom bill for tips. For an 18-day cruise, that adds up to $396 for two of us. I called to object to this and was...

John McCain, who is in what Macbeth called "the sear, the yellow leaf" of life, has revived an oldie from seven elections ago with a campaign commercial asserting: "We're worse off than we were four years ago." This, of course, derives from Ronald Reagan'...

Strange, the bits of conversation you'll overhear in passing. Especially as you grow older and hearing begins to fade. This one came from a lady talking about a book she had read about the war in Iraq. She liked it an awful lot. Stayed up reading it...

by John Crewdson Swamp watches the Sunday talk shows, so you can play croquet with the family. The issues this Sunday: "flip-flopping," Phil Gramm's "mental recession," "flip-flopping," timetables for bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq, "flip-flopping,"...

If Eliot Spitzer, New York's soon-to-be ex-governor, hadn't prosecuted prostitution rings, would he have been able to cling to office? One might think so given the prominence in accounts of his downfall of the H-word -- hypocrisy. As the Kansas City Star...

The problem with praising the new season of "The Wire" is twofold: First, dozens of critics (this one included) went on and on last year, pointing out how it's one of the best, if not the best, drama ever brought to life on television. Not much more to...

VICE PRESIDENT Dick Cheney recently attacked my 1972 presidential platform and contended that today's Democratic Party has reverted to the views I advocated in 1972. In a sense, this is a compliment, both to me and the Democratic Party. Cheney intended no...

'EXAMPLE IS THE school of mankind," proclaimed Edmund Burke, the founder of modern conservatism, "and they will learn at no other." Burke was disparaging the folly of the French revolutionaries who believed that man could break the iron chains of history...

SO WHICH will be harder to spot this season — Mark Foley campaign signs or movie ads for "Idiocracy"? If Foley had been as stealthy about messaging teenage pages as 20th Century Fox has been in releasing this dystopian social satire, Foley might...