Diary

Butterworth’s has been profiled more often than the new Pope

You can see how wrecked the place is, and how temporarily low the de jure population – but the clean-up and rebuilding are well under way

The American people are tired of having the wool pulled over their eyes by Democrats

We invite everybody over that doesn’t have a place to go

Everyone always laments that politics is a tough old game, but no one ever thinks of the journalists

The Notre Dame stadium exudes love and respect! Just look at it! What that stadium says about the infinite dignity of man!

A new holiday was born

When I went to West Maui four days after the fire, many people told me, ‘You’re the first person who has anything to do with the government who has shown up’

Authenticity is a subtle thing. American authenticity, subtler still

There is no proposition that carries a higher risk and lower reward than the family portrait

Apparently an acquaintance has dubbed me the ‘Kremlinologist of the right’

‘The best room I was in the whole week was probably the first car of Amtrak’

On the road to recovery

Engaging in debate with me, I think, is not something that the other candidates will relish