Michael Walsh

“Devlin,” the anonymous, alienated agent of the Central Security Service who takes on all America’s enemies, both foreign and domestic, is back in my new thriller, Shock Warning, out this week. (The Kindle edition will be released on Oct. 4)

This is the first chapter of my first novel, Exchange Alley, originally published by Warner Books in 1997 and now available on Kindle for the introductory price of just 99 cents. It introduces the main character, Frankie Byrne, and presents

My first novel, Exchange Alley, is now up on Kindle and can be yours for the special introductory price of just 99 cents. Such a deal — especially when used paperback copies are being offered on Amazon for up to

Brad Thor’s new thriller, The Athena Project, may at first glance seem so far-fetched — the U.S. government is training a cadre of smokin’ hot, kick-ass female Delta Force ops; yeah, right — that you might be tempted to dismiss

Otherwise known as “political correctness.” Not just Geert Wilders is on trial in the Netherlands for the crime of “hate speech” — [youtube N6zzdNRysgs&feature nolink] — we all are: To quote Wilders: All there is to say has been said.

Dick Blumenthal is a nasty piece of work, the NPR-voiced Attorney General of Connecticut and “Vietnam veteran” who thought he was going to waltz into the U.S. Senate by default. But a funny thing happened on the way to the

To say I’m extremely flattered by El Rushbo’s very kind endorsement would be an understatement: [youtube rr3WdwiiaVY&feature nolink] You can get the first book in the series, Hostile Intent, on Amazon or at any Barnes & Noble or other fine

This week, after three years of writing satirically about Hollywood and politics as “David Kahane” on National Review Online, I published Rules for Radical Conservatives, from which this excerpt is taken: Look, I have to admit there’s nothing wrong with

Look, I have to admit there’s nothing wrong with either the conservative or Republican base. Frankly, you guys terrify us, you and your damn fascist Tea Parties. Is there anything more frightening than seas of grandmothers waving American flags and

So my agent called me the other day and said she’s putting me up for the newest James Bond movie and would I come up with a “take” so I can go in and pitch. Of course I said sure,

One of the greatest battles in Marine Corps history, and one of greatest examples of gallantry and bravery in military history, period. [youtube qd8LDdbfIFY&feature nolink] Long past time these warriors, patriots and fathers got their due from the country they

He was the quintessential Timesman back in the days when that meant something. A New England neighbor, I used to see him at the train station, impeccably dressed for his foray down to New York City, tie perfectly knotted, silver

Custer at the Little Bighorn, the Kennedy Assassination, the Titanic: some disasters linger in the mind and the memory, coloring the way we look at the world, but bringing the dead past back to vivid life. [youtube M81lDelpSrE&feature nolink] So

From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel comes this revealing little window into the Democrat-Union-Media Complex: Organized labor is hatching a plan to use prominent Democratic officials and TV ads to pummel Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker over the O’Donnell Park garage accident

Tammany Hall, the greatest criminal organization of its age, spanning the era from Aaron Burr to Boss Tweed to Boss Croker and Charlie Murphy, was the perfect marriage of Democrat Party politics and organized crime. Though thought dead and buried

Those of you who wish to understand the criminal organization masquerading as a political party — that would be the Democrats — need only to remember one thing: the very first Democrat vice-president, Aaron Burr, shot and killed one of

Today is the 223rd birthday of the Constitution of the United States of America. And do we ever need her, now more than ever. The Bill of Rights came along two years later, but now’s a good a time as

It is only right and just to let the Majarushi have the last word on today’s Topic A — last night’s Delaware primary between Christine O’Donnell and Mike Castle, and the emerging schism between the Washington establishment and the heartland

From Sarah Ricard, Digital Content Manager of the Dennis Miller Show, who writes: The Dennis Miller Show is now accepting submissions for its “Time Capsule Accountability Project.” Tired of certain celebrities and politicians making outlandish, baseless claims (Al Gore, we’re

After years of being thought of mainly as the dedicatee of Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, as well as the famous author’s third wife (and, oddly enough, his third consecutive wife from St. Louis), Martha Gellhorn has begun

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Despite the abject failure of leadership at the top, the Navy and Marines still know how to fight and win. From the U.S. Naval Institute blog, here’s an eyewitness account of the takedown of some Somali pirates by Capt. Alexander

Amazingly, he did it all without a TelePrompter: [youtube x7OCgMPX2mE&feature nolink] Do you think they’re still listening?

Never heard of Mark Kellogg? Well, you should: he was the New York Herald reporter who perished with Custer and the Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. He deserves to be honored in the same breath with

My former Time colleague, Neil Leifer, took this iconographic image of Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston on May 25, 1965, in the immediate aftermath of the “phantom punch” that ended Liston’s reign as heavyweight champ and, effectively, his career: Liston

Writing in the New Criterion this month, Andrew McCarthy reviews Radical by Nicholas von Hoffman, a new book about the great devil of modern times, the Capone gang member, Marxist community organizer, agitator and social destabilizer — and Obama’s spiritual

Even the children: [youtube kG08B7OyFGc&feature nolink] Ha ha.

… can we blame this nut on Al Gore? [youtube 1iVUEuWDOo4 nolink] An excerpt from his manifesto: 1. The Discovery Channel and it’s affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs at prime time slots based on Daniel Quinn’s “My Ishmael”

Calm, cool, collected, and just slightly irascible, Eric Sevareid was the uncle who cuffed your ear instead of giving you a nickel. That was because he’d earned his bona fides the hard way: as one of Edward R. Murrow’s boys,

In this, Chapter 29, Devlin uses advanced technology to track down and confront the Iranian terrorist who’s directing the Bombay-style assault on Manhattan. New York City Arash Kohanloo had spent a great deal of time in New York, especially for

This chapter from my new novel, Early Warning, was written well before the Times Square bomber made his abortive attempt to bring fiction to life. Remember: everything in it is not only possible but, on some level, probable. Times Square

In this, Chapter 29, Devlin uses advanced technology to track down and confront the Iranian terrorist who’s directing the Bombay-style assault on Manhattan. New York City Arash Kohanloo had spent a great deal of time in New York, especially for

[youtube lrI7dVj90zs nolink] Fondly remembered, lovingly written. Be sure to check it out: We were listening to the game on the radio. Nearly everyone was rooting for the Giants. But things looked beyond bleak when Thomson came to bat in

This chapter from my new novel, Early Warning, was written well before the Times Square bomber made his abortive attempt to bring fiction to life. Remember: everything in it is not only possible but, on some level, probable. Times Square

While researching my first novel, Exchange Alley, I spent several weeks at the National Archives, working with the JFK Assassination Records Collection material, which was then housed there. I went through the FBI reports, the CIA reports, the taped conversations

That’s us on the left, as seen by NASA’s deep-space Messenger: