Larry O'Connor is Associate Opinion Editor and a columnist for The Washington Times. He's a talk radio host on the Cumulus-owned radio station WMAL AM/FM in Washington D.C. He is also a frequent guest on Fox News.
For a party that claims to want to reach out and appeal to the faith-based voters who abandoned them in 2016 and voted for Donald Trump, the Democrats have done a pretty good job offending and mocking those same Americans for offering prayers to the victims of this week's mass shooting in Broward County, FL. Published February 16, 2018
As amusing as it is to see the whitest looking woman in American continue to claim her Native American heritage, it's important to remember that it is actual Native Americans, actual members of the Cherokee Nation, who are most annoyed at the Massachusetts Senator's appropriation of their heritage and identity. Published February 15, 2018
Former Trump National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn pled guilty to providing false information to FBI agent in December and the more we learn about the events leading up to that plea, the more it stinks to high-heaven. Published February 15, 2018
Former Trump White House official Dr. Sebastian Gorka, says a senior FBI agent told him that the "7th floor of the FBI looks at the Trump White House as the enemy." Published February 15, 2018
Once a self-styled "maverick" Manchin rode into office promising to be his own man and fighting against his own party to defend West Virginians. Today he will cozy up to anyone if it makes for a good photo opportunity and he begs his pals in the senate to not say mean things about him so he can keep his seat and live on his boat on the Potomac. Published February 9, 2018
The honor of which American athlete would carry the American flag for Team USA at the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics came down to a coin flip today in Pyeongchang. And the athlete on the losing end of that flip is not pleased. Published February 9, 2018
Thursday evening Fox News reported that Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) had multiple text message exchanges with a Clinton-linked lobbyist with ties to a Russian oligarch. Published February 9, 2018
The National Weather Service erroneously sent a Tsunami warning causing alarm for thousands who received alerts on their smart phones. Published February 6, 2018
Carter Page, the man at the center of the FISA warrant controversy, appeared on ABC News Tuesday morning. In his interview with former Clinton White House official George Stephanopoulos, Page made a startling claim: Published February 6, 2018
Published February 5, 2018
One of the most offensive aspects of the FISA memo release Friday was the realization that despite dire warnings from Democrats and activist pundits in the media, there appeared to be no overriding national security concern with the information President Trump declassified allowing for the public release of the memo. Published February 5, 2018
Pundits and defenders of the Obama Justice Department took to social media and the airwaves over the weekend to inform the world that Carter Page was the target of a FBI Russian espionage investigation in 2014, but he wasn't. In fact, it appears as though Page was an FBI informant in that case. He helped the federal government put Russian spies in jail. Published February 5, 2018
One of the more disconcerting revelations from the long-anticipated FISA memo released by the House Intelligence Committee Friday was that the FBI had barely begun a verification process of the Russian dossier when they used it to justify a FISA surveillance warrant on Carter Paige. Meanwhile the media refused to publish the dossier allegations because they could not be verified. Published February 5, 2018
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) the Chairman of the Freedom Caucus in the House of Representatives, took to Twitter last night to express the dire stakes in the political chess game surrounding the FISA memo, scheduled to be released today. Published February 2, 2018
With all the drama (real and manufactured) over today's expected release of the FISA memo from the House Intelligence Committee, one important issue appears to be lost in the rhetoric and political manipulation of the narrative. Published February 2, 2018
CNN journalists' heads are collectively exploding over a "report" that states President Trump asked Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein if he was "on my team." Published February 1, 2018
The politics of immigration in the Trump era dictates that the president's plan to secure the American border with a barrier and increased enforcement, restrict family migration to immediate families and reduce overall legal immigration numbers to 500,000 per year must be decried as draconian, hateful and racist. Published February 1, 2018
In early December 2017, Judge Rudolph Contreras was recused from the criminal case involving Gen. Michael Flynn who had pleaded guilty in an arrangement with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Published January 31, 2018
Possibly the most significant statement from President Donald Trump last night in the House Chamber came after his historic State of the Union address. Published January 31, 2018
If there's one thing President Donald Trump excels at as a politician it's his uncanny knack to draw his opponents onto a high-profile, national stage where they reveal their ugliest traits for the world to see. Published January 31, 2018
