Michael Walsh is a journalist, author and screenwriter. He has worked for the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner and Time Magazine. He is also the author of eleven books, including the novels As Time Goes By, And All the Saints, Hostile Intent and Early Warning. Under the name "David Kahane," he wrote Rules for Radical Conservatives. He lives in rural Connecticut.
Psst, have you heard the news? The Global War on Terror is finito.So an unnamed senior State Department official recently told a National Journal writer: “The war on terror is over. Now that we have killed most of al...
April 26, 2012 12:00 AM
After a string of anti-war, anti-military (and arguably anti-American) war movies, Hollywood finally gets it right. The Navy SEAL drama “Act of Valor” opens tomorrow in theaters nationwide.Starring active-duty members...
February 23, 2012 12:00 AMThere’s a reason New York City has not been hit by radical Muslim terrorists since Sept. 11, 2001, and its name is the New York City Police Department. Closely watching wannabe jihadis not only at home but across the...
February 20, 2012 12:00 AM‘Contempt of Congress” is a pretty strong term, and one with tangible legal consequences, but how else to describe Attorney General Eric Holder’s continuing obstructionism in the burgeoning Fast and Furious scandal?It’s...
February 16, 2012 12:00 AM
Mitt Romney’s twin wins over the weekend in the Maine caucuses and the Conservative Political Action Conference’s annual straw poll leave the GOP presidential-nomination race right where it’s been all along — in trouble...
February 13, 2012 12:00 AM
A specter is haunting America — the specter of violence that challenges the notion of civil discourse and threatens our democracy. Embodied by the Occupy Wall Street rabble and its imitators, and shamefully abetted by...
February 11, 2012 12:00 AMWhen the abortion wars flared up last week, partisans of both sides rushed to the barricades — but the real lesson may be for the countless Americans in the middle.A private charity devoted to breast-cancer research,...
February 06, 2012 12:00 AMToday’s Capitol Hill hearing on the “Fast and Furious” mess promises drama that may well rival the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings or gangland chieftain Frank Costello’s memorable 1951 testimony in front of Sen. Estes...
February 02, 2012 12:00 AM
It’s not the crime, it’s the coverup, goes the old Washington cliché. In the case of the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal, it’s both. As Attorney General Eric Holder gets ready to face more congressional grilling...
January 30, 2012 12:00 AM
There’s nothing about rutabagas in the Constitution, but that isn’t stopping the Department of Agriculture from trying to shove them down your kids’ throats. Under new school-lunch standards unveiled by First Lady...
January 26, 2012 12:00 AM
Friday’s ruling by the Department of Health and Human Services proved yet again that ObamaCare’s critics are right. It’s a breathtaking attack not only on the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious freedom, but also...
January 23, 2012 12:00 AMRecent months have seen a former Marine from Indiana, a Tea Party activist from California and a nurse from Tennessee all arrested and charged in New York City for possession of firearms they had legal permits to carry...
January 16, 2012 12:00 AMLost in the weekend’s back-to-back debates in New Hampshire was this illuminating remark by Democratic strategist Donna Brazile after Saturday night’s soporific contest in Manchester: “Mitt Romney won tonight because no...
January 09, 2012 12:00 AM
With all eyes on the Republicans and their presidential-nomination donnybrook, behind the scenes President Obama is still busy with the “fundamental transformation” of the US that he promised during the 2008 campaign....
January 08, 2012 12:00 AM
Forget Mitt Romney’s whisper-close eight-vote margin of victory over Rick Santorum in Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses. The real tally stands at Romney, 25 percent, not-Romney, 75 percent. That’s not good news for Mitt — or for...
January 05, 2012 12:00 AM
So we’ve had the sound (an endless series of Republican debates) and the fury (Newt Gingrich’s petty foot-stomping over his rough treatment by his main rival, Mitt Romney). Tonight, we get the significance. If the Iowa...
January 03, 2012 12:00 AM
As if further proof were needed of the fecklessness of Western civilization when confronting savagery, consider the destruction of the Institut d’Egypte in Cairo this month. Once again, the world watched helplessly...
December 29, 2011 12:00 AM
The hit TV quiz program “Who Wants To Be the Next President?” is done for this year, but don’t worry. Right after New Year’s, we’re getting a new, improved reality show: “Last Comic Standing: The Race for the White...
December 23, 2011 12:00 AM
It’s getting to look a lot like Christmas. President Obama is parading around in his Santa outfit as a “tax cutter” and champion of the middle class, and the seasonably spirited Senate on Saturday passed a package of...
December 19, 2011 12:00 AMIf you want to buy over-the-counter cold medicine at your local drugstore, chances are you have to show a photo ID to do it. Same if you want to get on a plane, rent a car or open a bank account. So why not to vote? But...
December 15, 2011 12:00 AMOn New Year’s Day, in addition to a hangover, America will wake up in the pale winter light to one grim consequence of the Bush administration’s never-requited desire to be loved by the left: the traditional 100-watt...
December 12, 2011 12:00 AM
For the sake of argument, let’s assume that everything Attorney General Eric Holder told the House Judiciary Committee yesterday was true. That the answer to several questions about who ordered Fast and Furious — the...
December 09, 2011 12:00 AM
It was all a lie. The angry denials, the high dudgeon, the how-dare-you accuse-us bleating emanating from Eric Holder’s Justice Department these last nine months.Operation Fast and Furious — the “botched” gun-tracking...
December 05, 2011 12:00 AM
‘Yes, many of our men have grown rich in politics. I’ve made a big fortune out of the game, and I’m gettin’ richer every day . . . there’s an honest graft, and I’m an example of how it works. I might sum up the whole...
December 01, 2011 12:00 AM
President Obama has said that one quality he prizes highly in his judicial appointments is empathy. “We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom,” he told a...
November 28, 2011 12:00 AMThe least impressive thing about last night’s sterling Republican foreign-policy debate from venerable Constitution Hall in Washington DC was the overproduced opening, as CNN’s Wolf Blitzer introduced the candidates as...
November 23, 2011 12:00 AMUnless a miracle happens today, the so-called super committee (otherwise known as the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction) will end in ignominious failure. It’s yet another blow to responsible representative...
November 21, 2011 12:00 AMWell-heeled public-employee unions and die-hard Democrats are pressing their bid to undo Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s pro-taxpayer reforms, part of a conflict playing out in “blue” states across America. Passed this...
November 17, 2011 12:00 AM
The long-running farce known as Silvio Berlusconi’s Italian government came to an end over the weekend. But the fall of the prime minister better known for his “bunga-bunga” parties than for his statesmanship wasn’t...
November 15, 2011 12:00 AMBy now it’s clear that the Obama administration’s “solution” to the long-simmering Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal is as easy as one, two, three. One, scapegoating. Two, stonewalling. Three, blaming Bush.F&F, of...
November 12, 2011 12:00 AM
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