Roger L. Simon Commentary Feed

Commentary I’m almost embarrassed to quote journalist H.L. Mencken’s famous remark once again: “When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.” But how could one think otherwise when confronted by the news […]

Commentary It’s hard to say when halftime actually is for Election 2024—when did this all start?—but I’m going to go ahead and weigh in anyway. After all, it’s football season. At the start, it has to be said that this election […]

Commentary I woke up earlier this week to two depressing articles that, on the surface, seem unrelated but are actually connected. They both speak to the existence of a war on marriage in our culture that will destroy the fabric of our […]

Commentary After having been bandied about for some time, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has finally directed a House committee to open an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Some things are obvious, including the hoary […]

Commentary Myriad posters on X, formerly Twitter, late on Sept. 10 noted (36-year-old!) Novak Djokovic’s 24th Grand Slam championship. Extending his own men’s record—Margaret Court won as many when tennis was as Tiddlywinks to […]

Commentary If we can’t put him in prison for crimes against humanity, as some would argue, it’s high time to make Dr. Anthony Fauci go away. Considering his love affair with the media and vice-versa, this won’t be easy, even in the […]

Commentary Tennis fanatic that I am, I stayed up late on Aug. 28 to watch my hero Novak Djokovic play his first-round match in the U.S. Open, even though I knew the result would be a foregone conclusion. Along the way, however, I would […]

Commentary One of the true glimmers of hope in these gloomy times is the spontaneous pro-Donald Trump movement among black people. We don’t know how big it is, but it’s there and it’s growing. Watching social media videos of […]

Commentary It’s obvious who won the first Republican presidential debate—former President Donald J. Trump in a landslide. As of 7 a.m. Washington time on Aug. 24, Tucker Carlson’s interview with President Trump on X, formerly known […]

Commentary I reached out to Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy about the debate preparation memo before we all learned that Ron DeSantis had distanced himself from it, claiming “I haven’t read it. … It’s just […]

Commentary The big buzz on X (né Twitter) on the evening of Aug. 18—other than complaints that Elon Musk’s newly appointed CEO is taking the site back to square one in free speech suppression—and elsewhere in the media, for that […]

Commentary I had interviewed Tennessee’s Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti before and learned several things—among them that states’ attorneys general are known as “Generals,” as in General Skrmetti, and that Tennessee’s […]