Douglas MacKinnon is a conservative political commentator, columnist, and author. A former White House and Pentagon official, he has written extensively on politics and culture for numerous publications. He contributed occasional pieces to The Weekly Standard covering politics, publishing, and personal essays.
The other day, I happened to click on to Amazon and read their top 100 best-selling books for that hour. As I read the list, I was shocked to note—fully understanding that as a conservative, time has passed me by—that 5 of the top 100 books had the f-word in the title.
“Words matter."
BACK IN NOVEMBER 1999, I wrote a column for the San Francisco Examiner in which I basically guaranteed that Hillary Clinton would not run for the Senate in New York. I laid out a very clever rationale for why she would not enter the race, the main thrust being that her candidacy was really just a…