Jon Swift

One of my favorite bloggers and frequent commenters has suffered a terrible loss . Fair and balanced commentary from a modest and reasonable conservative.

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2009/03/sometimes-there-are-no-words.html

Ever since Sarah Palin revealed that her unmarried teenage daughter Bristol was pregnant, conservatives have been struggling with what liberals see as a contradiction between our fierce oppositi...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-bristol-palin-is-different.html

Rod Dreher was shocked by the story of a Texas man whose wife and children were slaughtered by his daughter and her friends. But he wasn't shocked by the brutal murder itself. Murders happen ...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2009/03/rod-dreher-finds-subtle-nuances-in-mass.html

The other day a shocking picture emerged when Michelle Obama went to a soup kitchen in Washington, DC. It wasn't a picture of her bulging biceps , which were mercifully covered, so David Brooks ...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2009/03/lets-make-poverty-less-enticing.html

National Review, which did such a wonderful job identifying hidden conservative messages in rock songs a few years ago, has now come up with a list of the Best Con servative Mov ies . Although ...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2009/03/10-best-conservative-movies.html

I have often said that if you want to see what conservatives will be saying tomorrow today this modest blog is the place to go. WABC radio host and former vigilante (in a good way) Curtis Sliwa ...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2009/02/swift-reactions-10-curtis-sliwa-gives.html

After President Obama's doom and gloom speech last night, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal 's response was as inspiring as the feel-good movie of the year, Slumdog Millionaire , about a plucky ...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2009/02/bobby-jindal-americas-slumdog.html

Anyone who is aware of all Internet traditions knows that February 3 is the day when we celebrate the blogosphere's greatest (and, so far, only) holiday, Blogroll Amnesty Day , a day when we sal...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2009/01/blogroll-amnesty-day-redux.html

When Barack Obama won the election by appealing to voters' hopes, Republicans were surprised that it actually worked. There didn't seem to be that much to be hopeful for, especially with Obama a...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2009/01/rush-limbaugh-gives-republicans-hope.html

Some, like Pia Zadora and Milli Vanilli , achieve recognition in their lifetimes, while others, like President Bush and, apparently, this modest blogger, will only be judged by history when "we...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2009/01/swift-reads-4-weblog-awards-discoveries.html

As I recently predicted , in few months, with the benefit of hindsight, historians will look back on the Bush presidency as an unalloyed success and consider President Bush to be one of our grea...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2009/01/president-bushs-legacy-one-of-our.html

Sixth place. Sixth place! Have I not done enough for you people? Have I not done enough reporting for you, at least by Michelle Malkin's standards ? Are my posts not long enough? Have I not po...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2009/01/epic-fail.html

According to the New York Times , an aide to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is questioning the credentials of Caroline Kennedy to replace Hillary Clinton as Senator from New York if she...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2009/01/kennedy-for-new-york-senate.html

Although I made some eerily prescient predictions for 2007 and 2006 , I never got around to foretelling what 2008 had in store for us. Considering how spot-on my election coverage was, especia...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2009/01/jon-swifts-predictions-for-2009.html

The nominations for the 2008 Weblog Awards have just been released, and I am proud and humble to discover that this modest blog is among the nominees this year for Best Humor Blog . This is the...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2008/12/jon-swift-nominated-for-2008-weblog.html

Last year my compilation of what bloggers chose as their own best posts of the year proved so popular, at least with the participating bloggers' mothers, that I have decided to make it an annua...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2008/12/best-blog-posts-of-2008-chosen-by.html

Last year I identified an important new school of film criticism, which I called “derrièrism ,” since all schools of film criticism are supposed to have French names. Derrièrists are insp...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2008/12/triumph-of-derrirism.html

The Big Three automakers are in Washington this week, hats in hand, looking for a handout. Washington has already bailed out some of our largest banks. But they are not the only ones suffering ...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2008/12/conservatives-need-bailout.html

Police in Valley Stream, New York, are reviewing videotapes to attempt to identify exuberant Black Friday shoppers who trampled to death a Wal-Mart worker who made the tragic mistake of gett...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2008/11/president-bush-should-pardon-wal-mart.html

This year as President Bush pardoned two turkeys, who surprisingly had nothing to do with the Savings and Loan scandals of the 1980s, he remarked that it was his “last Thanksgiving as Presid...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2008/11/let-us-remember-true-meaning-of.html

President-elect Barack Obama’s honeymoon abruptly ended yesterday when he insulted Fox News, Nancy Reagan and dogs at his first post-election press conference . Conservatives, who had generou...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2008/11/obamas-disastrous-gaffe-laden-press.html

Isn’t this a great country? This year’s presidential election proves that anything is possible in America, even a scary black man being elected President of the United States. Whether Obama...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2008/11/electing-scary-black-man-president-isnt.html

The pundits have gotten everything wrong this election year, from prematurely writing John McCain’s political obituary to declaring Hillary Clinton the Democrat nominee to celebrating Fred Tho...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2008/11/why-mccain-will-win.html

You would think that my piece “Great Moments in Election-Year Blogging ,” which brought well-deserved attention to the underreported stories on Obama in the conservative blogosphere, would ...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2008/10/swift-reactions-9-in-which-ann-althouse.html

No matter what happens in this year’s election , the conservative blogosphere deserves to win a collective Pulitzer Prize for its election-year coverage. While the mainstream media has given A...

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2008/10/great-moments-in-election-year-blogging.html