Jeremy Lott

When President Bush called for the expansion of volunteerism via the USA Freedom Corps (a bloated version of President Clinton’s AmeriCorps) in his State of the Union address, liberal commentators gave him a collective, if somewhat grudging, pat on the back. David Broder, so-called dean of the Washington press corps, called national volunteer service “an […]

In April of 1996, arrested Oregon murder suspect Conan Hale asked to see a priest for the purpose of confessing his sins. Father Timothy Mockaitis, who was serving at St. Paul’s Parish in Eugene, heard Hale’s confession, granted conditional absolution, and then departed. What would normally be a mundane occurrence — a priest hearing a […]

When it was announced earlier this month, MSNBC’s decision to drag talk-show host Phil Donahue out of the mothballs and set him up against Fox golden boy Bill O’Reilly met with what could charitably be called a less-than-enthusiastic reception. Phil Rosenthal, television writer for the Chicago Sun-Times, noted that the cable network was taking a […]

The recent announcement that television talk-show host Bill O’Reilly is going to be launching a new radio program on May 8 left media watchers with one burning question: What in the world is he thinking? O’Reilly already makes a reported $4 million a year from his nightly television program, The O’Reilly Factor, on the Fox […]

Brief history lesson: Ann Coulter, the notorious bomb-throwing lawyer/pundit, wrote a post-September 11 column for National Review Online in which she cautioned restraint in the coming months. No, wait a second, that’s not right. Coulter took a somewhat stronger line on what she desired of America’s collective response. We had been “invaded by a fanatical […]

Brief history lesson: Ann Coulter, the notorious bomb-throwing lawyer/pundit, wrote a post-September 11 column for National Review Online in which she cautioned restraint in the coming months. No, wait a second, that’s not right. Coulter took a somewhat stronger line on what she desired of America’s collective response. We had been “invaded by a fanatical […]

SHOULD I FIRE MYSELF?” is the head to Rich Lowry’s response to my recentarticle on The American Prospect Online [“That’s Rich: National Review‘s editor suggests nuking Mecca. We’re not kidding,” 3.11.02]. It’s followed by “WHY I WON’T,” an apologia for his earlier comments on nuclear war. Lowry calls my piece “sloppy” and a “cheap shot” […]

When speechwriter David Frum, author of the “axis of evil” line in President Bush’s first State of the Union Address (well, half of it), announced last week that he was departing the White House, the press began to circle. Frum’s wife Danielle Crittenden had written an e-mail expressing “wifely pride” in her husband’s coinage and […]