Author Archives: Bill McCarthy

The Chamber, the Shot, and the Stamp He Wanted on the File

They put a vaccine in monkeys. Then they put Ebola in the air and made [...]

He Wanted the Man. He Didn’t Care Who He Violated Along the Way.

A five-dollar check is not a conspiracy. It is a grocery-money gesture from a person [...]

Bessent Counted the Last Barrels. He Called It a Funeral.

Sunday morning the Treasury secretary put a date on it. About fifteen million barrels of [...]

Is It Really Mercy?

The boast traveling the wires is simple and ugly. More people were put to death [...]

Democrat Primary Candidates Wanted the Stamp. They Don’t Want the General Election Picture.

In the spring they wanted her in the room. They wanted the video, the crowd [...]

Iran Called It Doomsday With a Straight Face

The foreign minister sat for an American Sunday interview and said his country was ready [...]

Politico Sold the Government a Map of Itself

Last February was the first time in the life of the company that the paychecks [...]

They Flunked Reading. So the State Flunked the Test.

New York discovered a large share of would-be teachers could not clear a basic literacy [...]

He Made a Villain List. It’s a Product Catalog.

Bernie Sanders looked at a state dinner and saw ten oligarchs. He posted the scoreboard: [...]

They Built a Second Welfare State. The First One Was Too Legal.

Federal law says illegal aliens do not get full Medicaid. California read that sentence as [...]