Bruce Walker

Bruce Walker

  • August 5, 2019

    Gallup, Darwinism, and Scientism

    Darwinists are invariably the product of an educational system that has little to do with free thought.

  • July 3, 2019

    Controlling the cost of college

    Like all the Left's absurd giveaway programs, the student loan program is an example of creating problems rather than solving problems.

  • June 26, 2019

    Capitolism: The defining issue of the 2020 elections

    There is a vast chasm in America today — a division not by class, but rather by geography, by physical proximity to power.

  • June 19, 2019

    Democracy is not freedom

    "Democracy" and "freedom" have almost no connection to each other. Hitler came to power by democratic means.

  • May 15, 2019

    The Left's love of hate

    Leftists view "hate" as leftists view everything: it must be something "collective" or "social."

  • April 27, 2019

    Leftist judges cry about gerrymandering in Michigan because it doesn't benefit Democrats

    As always, leftists care not about "fairness," but only about power.

  • March 22, 2019

    Restoring States' Rights to Presidential Elections

    A crucial reform that could be enacted right now, if only conservatives had the guts.

  • February 27, 2019

    Why Does Gallup Hate Reporting Conservatives' Overwhelming National Majority?

    Gallup presents data showing a preponderance of conservative strength...and then uses the titles of its articles announcing the data to downplay the big story.

  • February 26, 2019

    Democrat Hypocrisy and Socialism

    No one really wants socialism — not even Democrats, and especially not the mega-wealthy Democratic Party leadership.

  • February 10, 2019

    The Ku Klux Krats

    The racist antics of Virginia governor Ralph Northam ought not to surprise anyone. The Democratic Party has long been marinated in racist thinking.

  • February 8, 2019

    The Myth of the Media

    The media of today are not about news.

  • February 4, 2019

    Leftism: High on Buzzwords, Low on Thought

    The left has co-opted language so that clear thinking is impossible.

  • January 16, 2019

    The Centennial of Prohibition

    The gold standard when it comes to examples of the futility of statism attempting to eliminate vice.

  • January 15, 2019

    The Conservative Majority and Polls

    Every single major poll in the last fifty years has shown that conservatives outnumber liberals. 

  • January 11, 2019

    Nancy's problem

    Good luck keeping a Democrat House majority in 2020, Nancy.

  • January 2, 2019

    Restore the Founders' Federalism

    Even conservatives often miss what federalism is truly about.

  • December 28, 2018

    Ending Independent Federal Agencies

    Here is a proposal President Trump could put forth that would make a huge difference.

  • December 21, 2018

    Let's get this straight: All totalitarianism is leftist

    Those who seek state power, which is to say leftists, invariably paint their opponents as "Nazis." Wrong.

  • December 8, 2018

    Pseudo-Green Leftism

    Nothing green about it when you look an inch below the surface.

  • November 25, 2018

    All the Pundits Missed These Midterm Races

    If you want to understand what really happened on November 6, you need to understand these races.

  • November 18, 2018

    The Religion of Leftism

    What is the religious dogma of leftism?

  • November 8, 2018

    The political future after 2018

    Democrats needed to do a lot better than they did this Tuesday.

  • October 24, 2018

    Keep an eye on state government races

    These under-the-radar races will tell a lot about how the parties and their leaders impose their will in government over the next ten years.

  • October 20, 2018

    What will life be like after the midterms?

    Imagine what a divided Congress will mean for President Trump's agenda.

  • October 12, 2018

    The men's vote

    Pundits love to go on about the women's vote. Why does no one ever talk about the men's vote?

  • September 19, 2018

    The Shrill Silliness of Feminism

    What sane person believes feminists today?

  • August 19, 2018

    How leftists destroy language, and what it means

    Less language means less thought. That's a perfect recipe for leftism.

  • August 7, 2018

    How to Win a Real Revolution

    "Capitolism" is the heart of all our political problems. It's time for a change.

  • July 29, 2018

    Lawless Washington

    When is the last time any leftist in Washington faced any successful prosecution for political corruption?

  • July 15, 2018

    Defeating leftism is the only victory

    Nothing we can do will survive unless we single out leftism as the root cause of modern misery and end it.

  • July 12, 2018

    Holding the Senate Is the Key

    A president whose party controls the Senate – even if that control is wafer-thin – has a dramatically stronger hand in implementing his agenda.

  • July 5, 2018

    How immigrants do and do not help the world

    There is a grand mythology about how the flood of immigrants from oppressed lands to America has benefited the world.

  • June 15, 2018

    The Right to Discriminate

    The idea that "discrimination" by individuals and businesses is wrong is a leftist myth.

  • May 21, 2018

    Victimhood Addiction

    This particular emotional and cognitive heroin is a habit harder to break than anything we can imagine.

  • May 19, 2018

    The Pox of Multiculturalism

    Multiculturalism is an effort to destroy culture in the name of harmonizing cultures.

  • April 26, 2018

    Love of Money Is the Root of All Evil

    If we want to curtail the viciousness of modern political debate, here is where to start.

  • April 13, 2018

    Please: Not Another Speaker Pelosi

    As the November 2018 midterms approach, Republicans would be wise to make a campaign issue out of one of history's most horrifying House speakers.

  • April 7, 2018

    Where Are Social Conservatives to Go?

    The Democratic Party is anathema to social conservatives. The Republican Party establishment cynically uses them.

  • March 30, 2018

    Justice Stevens Unholsters a Dopey Idea

    Retired Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens has proposed repealing the Second Amendment.  Well, isn't that cute?

  • March 27, 2018

    America Is Still Conservative

    Take it from someone who has been writing about this for eleven years.

  • March 22, 2018

    Fifty Years after the Prague Spring

    The Czechs and the communists showed us how futile it is to cooperate or compromise with evil.

  • March 14, 2018

    The perfect cure for school violence

    The left loves public policy debates that force conservatives to be on the defensive. Why not turn the tables?

  • March 9, 2018

    The Welcome Rebirth of Nationalism

    Nationalism is considered bad because leftists have long associated it with the Nazis.  It is, in fact, a boon to society.

  • March 7, 2018

    The Blessings of Judaism and Christianity

    Leftists would love to delegitimize and destroy the two forces most responsible for the America we know and love.

  • February 26, 2018

    Christophobic Nazism

    "Hitler was a Catholic," you'll hear, therefore Christianity is just as dangerous as atheism.  Where to start?

  • February 23, 2018

    Ending Gerrymandering Is a Good Thing

    Republicans shouldn't do it.  Democrats shouldn't do it.  And ending the practice will benefit Republicans, anyway.

  • February 10, 2018

    The Ignorance of Atheism

    What one sees nowadays is less "atheism" and more "Christophobia."

  • January 25, 2018

    The Narrowing of Language: 'Discrimination'

    Several examples exist of leftists making words' meanings so broad that they become useless.  This is the case with "discrimination," the left's greatest hate object.

  • January 21, 2018

    Shallow Reality in America

    It will take a lot more than fat bank accounts and the latest gadgetry to cure what ails America.

  • November 11, 2017

    The Pox of Materialism

    The modern obsession with "stuff" devours the soul.  When we make stuff the center of our lives, we lose everything.

  • November 5, 2017

    What the Balfour Declaration Means

    The turning point in the struggle for a Jewish state, of which Jews and Christians alike can be proud.

  • November 1, 2017

    Replacing the Ideological Spectrum

    A huge problem in understanding the language of modern politics.

  • October 19, 2017

    The Mythical Far Right

    What leftists want you to think is the far right is actually perhaps the last best hope for Western civilization.

  • October 15, 2017

    The Androgynous Scouts of America

    Rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth leftists destroy another venerable institution.  What will conservatives do about it?

  • September 30, 2017

    Hugh Hefner and Leftist Hypocrisy

    Proof that the left, which claims to feel for the downtrodden, actually has no values.

  • September 21, 2017

    Leftist Global Warming Mythology

    Why does the left love its silly theory of man-made global warming?

  • September 15, 2017

    Fighting Anti-Male Leftism

    Feminism is not about justice, and it is not about equality, and it is not about fairness.

  • September 6, 2017

    Make North Korea a Chinese Protectorate

    America ought to take the position that North Korea is a protectorate of China, recognizing China's right to represent North Korea's interests in global affairs.

  • August 31, 2017

    Remove Monuments to Corrupt Leftists

    Why not replace every FDR statue with a statue of Barry Goldwater?

  • August 25, 2017

    Unite Conservatives, Mr. President

    Considering the huge numbers advantage conservatives have over liberals in America, Trump's strategy to win a second term should be a no-brainer.

  • August 15, 2017

    Pathetic Democrats

    Republicans in Congress may look pretty pathetic to many Americans, but what's even more pathetic is the Democratic Party.

  • August 3, 2017

    What Reagan Could Teach Trump

    If Trump wants to be a successful president, he should learn from one who's been there and done that.

  • July 26, 2017

    Firing Sessions Is a Terrible Idea

    If President Trump fires Attorney General Sessions, conservatives can give him headaches and problems he cannot imagine.

  • July 18, 2017

    The Tyranny of Pseudo-Science

    Why should Trump's EPA stop with scientists' groups examining global warming?  Open up every leftist sacred cow to investigation.

  • July 15, 2017

    Leave the Swamp

    If the federal government were spread around America instead of consolidated in Washington, that alone would solve most of our nation's problems.

  • July 14, 2017

    A Grim Centennial: The Russia That Could Have Been

    July 2017 is the centennial of one of the greatest disasters in modern history: the "July Days."

  • July 8, 2017

    What the Fourth of July Means

    Looking back at our 241st Fourth of July, it's important to be sufficiently knowledgeable to prepare for our 242nd.

  • June 26, 2017

    Note to Democrats: Losing Is Not Winning

    "Moral victories" are still losses if your guy doesn't end up taking the House seat.

  • June 24, 2017

    Not Business, Mr. President, but War

    There is no "art of the deal" when fanatical leftists refuse to negotiate.  It is time for a change in strategy.

  • June 16, 2017

    The Left's Very Dangerous Game

    What will leftists do if their proclaimed assassination fantasies come true and a conservative political leader is killed?

  • June 14, 2017

    Washingtonitis

    What ails our great nation, and how to get started curing it.

  • June 4, 2017

    The legacy of the Six-Day War

    The Six-Day War transformed the relationship between Israel and the world.

  • May 31, 2017

    The Coming Conservative Supreme Court

    If President Trump stays true, the Supreme Court will become a source of conservative revolution.

  • May 29, 2017

    The Need for a Middle America News Network

    Time to fill the gaping hole left by Fox News's drift leftward.  Who has the guts?

  • May 22, 2017

    The Dreary Watergate Trope

    Compared to what Democrats do regularly, Watergate looks like a jaywalking offense.

  • May 5, 2017

    Repeal and Replace the Republican Party

    We've had as our only choices Washington Party A and Washington Party B for long enough.

  • May 3, 2017

    Trump's Safe Republican Congress

    If the president finds it difficult to work with fellow Republicans in Congress, he should think hard about how the joys of dealing with a Democrat majority.

  • April 27, 2017

    How Conservative States Should Handle Academia

    Red states can use the power they have already to break the Orwellian control of academia by the left.

  • April 26, 2017

    What Marine Le Pen Is Really About

    It's not nationalism that led to the horrors of World War II – and the nationalism Marine Le Pen represents could save France.

  • April 15, 2017

    How to Stop Leftists' 'Living Constitution' Lie

    When it comes to the Supreme Court and judicial supremacy, is it time for conservatives to start fighting dirty?

  • April 10, 2017

    Le Pen Could Win

    Marine Le Pen might well be the next president of France.

  • April 8, 2017

    Reopen cases against corrupt leftists

    When government is the enemy of much of the people, then government has no moral ground upon which to exercise its power.

  • April 6, 2017

    Centennial of a Disaster

    How Congress could have prevented World War II, the Holocaust, and the Holodomor.

  • April 1, 2017

    Sessions must defend persecuted conservatives

    The California attorney general's 15 felony counts against an undercover journalist exposing abortion horrors needs a strong response from the Trump administration.

  • March 10, 2017

    We Cannot Be Great without God

    Our problems are not economic.

  • March 1, 2017

    Speak English, Ma!

    The hypocrisy of the left regarding the vital importance of requiring all who remain here permanently to be fluent in English is breathtaking.

  • February 11, 2017

    Radically reform federal courts

    The need to radically reform the federal bench has never been clearer, and nothing is more important.

  • February 6, 2017

    What Roe v. Wade May Bring

    What can a Trump-influenced Supreme Court do to the "emanations and penumbras" of one of the Court's most infamous decisions?

  • February 4, 2017

    Imagine the Power of an Anglo Alliance

    Britain, Canada, Australia, and the United States make up a third of global GDP.  Now three of these nations have conservatives heading their respective governments.

  • February 1, 2017

    Refugees and the Right to Immigrate

    The pathos of leftism has invented for us a new phony moral obligation.

  • January 20, 2017

    Democrats and Gerrymandering: Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind

    With Trump ascendant, the tables have turned on the Democratic Party.

  • January 15, 2017

    The Breathtaking Hypocrisy of Senate Democrats

    Rex Tillerson?  Just take a look at whom Democrat presidents have nominated as secretary of state over the decades.

  • January 11, 2017

    The Party of Old Nepotistic Hacks

    Democrats: A party of dusty dynasties, totally disconnected from ordinary people.

  • January 6, 2017

    The Case for a Big Defense Buildup

    President Trump can solve several problems with one policy: dramatically increase defense expenditures. 

  • January 4, 2017

    The Left's New Soviet Union

    If only leftists had been as incensed by the horrors of the Soviet Union as they now appear to be with Putin's Russia.

  • January 3, 2017

    The Lame Duck Restraint Act

    Americans today see, in the hands of an infantile and dumb man like Barack Obama, just how dangerous the "lame duck" period can be.  Here is what to do about it.

  • January 1, 2017

    How to Get People to Vote

    Here is an electoral college reform that would make our low voter participation stats a thing of the past.

  • December 29, 2016

    Leave the UN

    The organization is a raging failure and an embarrassment.  It deserves a spot atop the dustbin of history.

  • December 28, 2016

    Washington Can't Work

    The first politicians who figure that out and do something about it will become new "Founding Fathers" of a genuinely revived American republic.

  • December 27, 2016

    Republican Senate Prospects in 2018

    Can you imagine nine Senate pickups and a filibuster-proof supermajority?  It's not outside the realm of possibility.

  • December 23, 2016

    The Myth of the Good Old Media

    Donald Trump recently noted that the media had become much worse since Walter Cronkite.  Let's take a look at how terrible the media were in Cronkite's day.

  • December 11, 2016

    How to Help the Democrats Love Federalism

    A few commonsense reforms to bring power back to the states.  Even Democrats in blue state capitols will like these.

  • December 9, 2016

    The Other Israel

    Our attitude toward Taiwan reeks of the same sort of sick double standard we are used to seeing in how nations that ought to know better deal with Israel.

  • December 7, 2016

    The Lessons of Pearl Harbor

    Here is the final, vital lesson of the war begun 75 years ago today.

  • November 29, 2016

    The Real Electoral College Reform

    How to let the states be the states again, instead of succumbing to the tentacles of Washington, D.C.

  • November 26, 2016

    Trump's Response to Hillary's Crimes Portends Disaster

    If he means what everyone interprets him to mean lately, this could turn into a real mess.

  • November 22, 2016

    Why Do We Need NATO?

    With the Cold War decades past, the question needs asking.

  • November 20, 2016

    Trump's victory over political correctness

    A Trump administration centered on accomplishment rather than affirmative-action handouts will be the deathblow against leftism's swollen, rotten fifty-year-old myths.

  • November 16, 2016

    How to Handle Hillary's Crimes

    Will Donald Trump look back on Hillary Clinton's crimes as just water under the bridge?  He must not.

  • November 15, 2016

    How to Reform the Civil Service

    Taking another look at the way hires and fires are done in Big Government.

  • November 9, 2016

    The Trump Landslide

    Presidential landslides traditionally require a ten-point margin of victory in the popular vote, but this year, political traditions don't matter.

  • November 5, 2016

    The Stupidity of Hillary

    The difference between Hill and Bill?  Bill was smart.

  • October 29, 2016

    Crooked Comey

    No matter who wins the election, and no matter how the FBI's new investigation of Hillary Clinton goes, the Bureau has suffered irreperable damage to its reputation.

  • October 24, 2016

    What This Election Means for Feminism

    Hillary as a failed and wildly unpopular president would be final proof that feminism itself is a vile concoction whose sole purpose is to give miserable women an excuse to be miserable.

  • October 21, 2016

    Sad Sack Sanders

    Six months ago, Bernie Sanders was on top of the world.

  • October 19, 2016

    What if There Were a National Conservative Party?

    It's the sort of thing millions of Americans are looking for.

  • October 16, 2016

    Breathtaking Criminality in Washington

    D.C.'s Augean Stables must be cleaned, and that process requires dramatic and serious action.

  • October 10, 2016

    Only One Way for the FBI to Regain Its Lost Reputation

    But do the Bureau's agents have the stones to pull it off?

  • October 7, 2016

    Boycott Leftism

    Here is a war that conservatives can surely and decisively win.

  • October 7, 2016

    Democrats and 'choice': Abortion vs. everything else

    A big, glaring disconnect.

  • October 3, 2016

    The Prospects of a Constitutional Convention

    Yes, it can be done.  And here's what will need to be discussed.

  • September 30, 2016

    The Debate Schedule Helps Trump

    Looking forward, things are only going to get better for The Donald – assuming he takes advantage.

  • September 24, 2016

    How Trump Wins the Debates

    Americans will be watching the presidential debates closely – not for policies or ideas, but for images and demeanor.  So Trump has a natural advantage right out of the gate.

  • September 22, 2016

    The Useless Left

    If the federal government were reduced to the tiny size needed to perform its constitutional purposes, all the perverse silliness that is leftism in America, taken off Washington life support, would become useful or shrivel into a hollow dead husk.

  • September 17, 2016

    The Imploding Leftist Establishment

    Leftism has been on life support for fifty years.  It can't last much longer.

  • September 14, 2016

    Hillary's Health Hypocrisy

    The hypocritical left – as Hillary's girth shows – never practices what it preaches and never leaves us models of good behavior.

  • September 11, 2016

    Republican State Party Power and 2016

    To get a better sense of how the 2012 election will turn out, take a look at how political control of the individual states breaks down.

  • September 9, 2016

    The Battleground Poll and Trump's Path to Victory

    Here is how to get the overwhelming majority of Americans on Election Day.

  • August 29, 2016

    Twenty-Five Years after Balkanization

    Turns out Balkanization is a good thing, and it should be pursued more often.

  • August 25, 2016

    Hillary's Coughing and the Debates

    Here is an issue that could destroy the Clinton campaign.

  • August 22, 2016

    Might Johnson Make the Debates?

    Stranger things have happened.

  • August 19, 2016

    The Most Important Election...Again

    No matter which major party candidate wins, the changes in policy will be more rhetorical than real.

  • August 12, 2016

    The Prospect of a 43-Percent President

    The 2016 election winner might get less than 43% of the vote.  What a sad commentary on the two big parties in America.

  • August 10, 2016

    The Left Has Murdered Art

    The leftist murder of art requires the elimination of every honest perspective; every different school of thought; and, indeed, every variation of any sort from the party line.

  • August 4, 2016

    Bring Us Apart

    The most awful political systems in modern history have proudly proclaimed that all of us now think and work and play and feel as one.  We don't need to be "brought together."

  • August 1, 2016

    Trump Is Right on Russia

    Trump is a realist and a nationalist.  That's what we need.

  • July 28, 2016

    Whither Social Conservatism?

    More than one third of Americans call themselves "social conservatives."  They should not be made by their party – Republican or Democrat – to sit in the back of the bus.

  • July 22, 2016

    Donald Delano Trump

    Does The Donald happen to remind you of another rich New Yorker who won the presidency?

  • July 17, 2016

    The Rage of Failure

    Embittered young Moslems murder innocents throughout the West because that is the only argument they can make for their own society.

  • July 3, 2016

    The Stupidity of the Left

    Leftism is stupid, and its operatives over time become increasingly dumb and ignorant.  We see this everywhere.

  • July 2, 2016

    A Reminder of NATO's Resilience

    Will NATO survive?  It should comfort us to realize that fifty years ago, we were asking the same question.

  • June 30, 2016

    Remembering the end of feminism

    Thirty years ago, to the day, feminism began to die.

  • June 24, 2016

    Seventy-five years after Barbarossa

    Sherman said, "War is Hell."  No war in history shows that more clearly than the four-year war between the two most evil empires in modern history.

  • June 24, 2016

    Trump's Statue of Liberty play

    Donald Trump on June 22 delivered the best line so far in his presidential campaign.

  • June 23, 2016

    Decentralize Sovereignty

    The federal government does too much, and consequently does it badly.

  • June 15, 2016

    The 'Ideology' to Defeat ISIS

    Here is what it's going to take.

  • June 10, 2016

    Could Gary Johnson Win?

    Donald Trump ought to be the first choice of conservatives, but what if Trump continues to make unforced errors and raise genuine questions about his emotional maturity?

  • June 5, 2016

    How the Left Is Destroying Science

    The left has pushed us farther and farther away from science and toward scientism.

  • June 3, 2016

    Replacing National Political Parties

    What we have are Washington Party (A) and Washington Party (B).  What we need is a system that actually represents voters' (and states') interests.

  • May 27, 2016

    The meaning of Memorial Day

    America will celebrate Memorial Day in 2016 with the two presidential candidates, for the first time ever, having never been part of those armed services whose sacrifice we honor on that holiday.

  • May 22, 2016

    Abolish the Department of Justice

    Think it can't be done?  It can – and it needs to be.

  • May 20, 2016

    Hillary's Electoral 'Luck'

    Often the Clintons seem to have almost supernatural "luck" that defies the best house odds in Las Vegas.  The 2016 election is shaping up to be no exception.

  • May 6, 2016

    Conditions for Supporting Trump

    These are the two criteria that make Donald Trump worth voting for.

  • May 4, 2016

    Reforming Republican Nominations

    It's time to take a sledgehammer to the process Republican voters are so disgusted with.

  • May 2, 2016

    Fiorina Can Help Cruz Win

    Carly is a shrewd choice at the perfect time.  

  • May 1, 2016

    The 75th anniversary of Liberation Day in Ethiopia

    The problems of Africa and much of Asia are not the consequence of Italian invaders or British imperialism.

  • April 28, 2016

    That Persistent Conservative Majority

    Polls in even the bluest of the blue states keep bearing it out...over and over and over again.

  • April 22, 2016

    Nationalism versus Federalism

    The presidential campaign so far seems filled with nationalistic appeals, which is dangerous for America.

  • April 20, 2016

    Ben Carson's Bad Idea

    Dr. Carson recently displayed shocking ignorance on the Electoral College.

  • April 13, 2016

    Why Delegate Allocation Might Be Decisive

    This sort of thing hasn't been decisive in a presidential nominating process in a long time...but it sure matters now.

  • April 7, 2016

    Trump and 'Fairness'

    Donald Trump's complaints and threats over being treated "fairly" echo the campaign rhetoric of another presidential candidate.

  • April 6, 2016

    Will state government composition determine how people vote in November?

    There may be a reason to use this criterion as a predictor for who wins on Election Day.

  • April 4, 2016

    Washington Fails at Everything

    Is there a single presidential candidate who wants to get the federal government back to its constitutional role?

  • March 28, 2016

    The Slow Death of the Leftist Establishment

    The inventiveness of free and agile minds has created tools to challenge the bosses of leftism.

  • March 25, 2016

    We Can't Make Deals with Evil

    Note to "deal-making" politicians: We defeat evil only by calling it evil, by never trying to make deals with this evil, and then by utterly vanquishing the evil.

  • March 24, 2016

    Make the Supreme Court an Election Issue

    The Supreme Court seized its power – power that needs to be returned to the people.

  • March 9, 2016

    The Virtues of Brokered Conventions

    Maybe all conventions should be "brokered."

  • March 7, 2016

    The Hope and the Danger of Electing Trump

    If Trump really is a conservative, everything will be great.  But if not...

  • March 1, 2016

    Just How Bad a Candidate Will Hillary Be?

    Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton may be the most pathetic presidential nominee of any major political party in our nation's history.

  • February 23, 2016

    What if Trump Had Run as a Democrat?

    Ironically, he might have had an easier time proving how conservative he is.

  • February 21, 2016

    Countering Sanders's College Scheme

    How to combat the left's narrative on student debt and at the same time wrest some power from Big Academia.

  • February 14, 2016

    Don't Let Obama Fill Scalia's Seat

    Congress has the power here.  If Republicans don't use it, then the party should be finished.

  • February 10, 2016

    Feminist Shtick

    All modern feminism is shtick.  Its proponents only pretend to take it seriously.

  • February 9, 2016

    What if Sanders supporters see a crooked Clinton?

    If Sanders stops being so scrupulous, voters for both Hillary and Sanders himself may stay home in November.

  • February 6, 2016

    Gallup: We Hate to Admit It, but America Is Conservative

    Why would Gallup give such bland titles to its surveys – titles that say nothing of the remarkable fact of conservative domination?

  • February 1, 2016

    How to Put Paid to the Establishment...for Real

    Everyone claims to be running on our behalf against the Establishment.  What if some candidate actually did that?

  • January 27, 2016

    What Does 'Great' Mean, Mr. Trump?

    Some specifics from the Republican frontrunner would be nice.

  • January 23, 2016

    Losing What Reagan Won

    Twenty-five years ago, America had it all.  Here is how we can get it back.

  • January 21, 2016

    Could Sanders Win?

    Stranger things have happened.

  • January 11, 2016

    Nothing to Do with Sex

    Sex is the least of Bill and Hillary's problems.  And voters need to know it.

  • January 4, 2016

    The Murder of History

    We are living in a 1984-style world now, where historical facts that rub against politically correct sentiments are sent down the Memory Hole.

  • January 2, 2016

    The Purpose of Government

    Do even the Republican presidential candidates understand the true purpose of government?

  • December 29, 2015

    What if Hillary Loses Iowa?

    It's not as far-fetched as some might think.

  • December 21, 2015

    The Revolution We Need

    It doesn't start in Washington, D.C.  It starts closer to home.

  • December 18, 2015

    Unemployment and Useful Work

    What good are low unemployment figures if all the work being done is useless?

  • December 16, 2015

    Why Trump Might Win

    Trump in a general election battle with Hillary would have several potentially devastating advantages.

  • November 30, 2015

    De-Bolshevization and the March of the Useful Idiots

    As long as we lack the former, we'll continue to have the latter.

  • November 27, 2015

    Hillary and Misogyny

    Hillary Clinton professes to support women, but she actually supports those who treat women atrociously, from her own husband to the woman-hating "religion of peace."

  • November 21, 2015

    The Purpose of America

    Atheists will not want to read this one.

  • November 18, 2015

    The Diversity of Conservatism

    Diversity in the Republican presidential candidate field is not just skin-deep; it extends to philosophy, too.  Not so much on either front among the Democrats.

  • November 8, 2015

    Seventy-Five Years after Taranto

    A brilliant, game-changing offensive from World War II can teach us a few things about how to handle our enemies today.  

  • November 5, 2015

    How Carson Beats Clinton

    If Ben Carson winds up the Republican nominee, conservatives will have much to celebrate.

  • November 1, 2015

    Fighting the Real Foe

    It's not the Democrats the Republican candidates really need to worry about.  It's the people who own the Democrats.

  • October 31, 2015

    Halloween Then and Now

    People say the age of warnings about poisoned candy and razor blades in apples was inevitable.  That's not true at all.

  • October 24, 2015

    The Ultra-Reactionary Left

    The same party that indulges the impulses that disturbed George Orwell gives us more to worry about every day.

  • October 18, 2015

    Climate Change and Leftist Hypocrisy

    Nothing exposes the cynical hypocrisy of the left more than its jihadist attitude toward the dubious theory of man-made global warming.

  • October 17, 2015

    Making College Affordable

    Republicans can do it...and put Democrats in a tight spot while they're at it.

  • October 14, 2015

    The Party of Washington

    The division in our country is not "Democrat" versus "Republican."  It's Washington versus America.

  • October 7, 2015

    Bernie Sanders's Politics

    Sure, he's a socialist – but what kind?

  • October 4, 2015

    Hatred of the Great Faith

    The murder of Christians in Oregon and the grim silence of Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations are connected in a serious way.

  • September 25, 2015

    To Win, We Must Make Things Clear

    Leftists thrive on obfuscation.  Clarity can beat them.

  • September 24, 2015

    America's Global Purpose

    The founders designed America to be a model, not a refugee camp.

  • September 22, 2015

    Carly the survivor

    Our next president will need to be resilient.

  • September 18, 2015

    Federalism: The Missing Issue

    This is the most important issue for Republican candidates to talk about.  When will they start?

  • September 10, 2015

    Who Is Reagan's Heir?

    There just might be one.

  • September 3, 2015

    Hillary May Just Be Dumb

    Sometimes the simplest explanation – in this case, for Hillary Clinton's floundering campaign – is the best one.

  • September 2, 2015

    Seventy-Five Years after the Destroyer Deal

    How America treats her allies today is a far cry from how things were with Britain during World War II.

  • August 23, 2015

    Hillary Drops Below the Water Line

    How much longer will Democrats put up with this embarrassment?

  • August 21, 2015

    A Willing Suspension of Disbelief

    Leftism is a pathology of mendacity.聽 Mendacity infects every one of their presidential candidates.

  • August 17, 2015

    Carly Is a Winner

    Here is the un-Hillary candidate, and the antidote to Donald Trump.

  • August 11, 2015

    Fifty Years after Watts

    On August 11, 1965, Watts exploded into an orgy of violence and destruction.  How have things gone for black Americans since then?

  • August 2, 2015

    Twenty-Five Years after Desert Storm

    Whatever one may think of the presidency of George H. Bush, his management of Desert Storm was masterful.

  • July 29, 2015

    Why Trust Trump?

    Hillary Clinton knows.

  • July 23, 2015

    Abortionism and the Banality of Evil

    How casually these Planned Parenthood administrators discuss the economic utility of the bodies of those tiny humans they kill!

  • July 21, 2015

    Fighting Supreme Court Arrogance

    If we want a true conservative revolution, it must begin with a rebuke for the Supreme Court.  There is no better time to begin it than now.

  • July 20, 2015

    Obama and Over-Criminalization

    If Barack Obama wants less full prisons, a justice system that doesn't capriciously prosecute conservatives and let liberals skate would be a good place to start.

  • July 15, 2015

    The Anti-Diverse Democrats

    When it comes to diversity, the difference between the Democrat presidential contenders and the Republican ones is shocking.

  • July 13, 2015

    How Trump Could Save America

    Here's the way he could really put his money where his mouth is.  

  • July 10, 2015

    'Never in the Field of Human Conflict...'

    Seventy-five years ago today, one of the most signal battles of our age was fought over the skies of Britain.

  • July 4, 2015

    The Value-Driven Conservatism of July 4

    As conservatives, we hold to our positions not for economic prosperity or physical safety, but for something greater than either.

  • July 1, 2015

    The New <em>Roe v. Wade</em>

    It is extremely likely now that a new "pro-marriage movement" will pop up, much as the pro-life movement did post-Roe.

  • June 24, 2015

    Helping Sanders Stop Hillary

    What's to stop Republican voters from making Hillary's path to the Democratic nomination a little harder?

  • June 17, 2015

    End Civil Service 'Merit' Protection

    Anyone who has ever dealt with government workers knows that the so-called "Merit System" for firing said workers has been a miserable failure.  It's time for a change.

  • June 12, 2015

    Scott Walker and Academic Tenure

    Scott Walker is advocating a reform in Wisconsin that could have more profound an impact on America than anything we have seen in a long time.

  • June 12, 2015

    What if Most Democrats Don't Want Hillary?

    The polls are definitely going in that direction.

  • June 4, 2015

    We Shall Never Surrender

    The 75th anniversary of one of the greatest speeches in the English language reminds us that in our own day, we need another Winston Churchill.

  • May 30, 2015

    Hillary's High Water Mark

    The polls prove it: things are only going to get worse for Mrs. Clinton.

  • May 25, 2015

    What Memorial Day Means

    It's not just the economy, stupid.

  • May 22, 2015

    What to Do about Iran

    It's not as hard as some would have you believe.

  • May 20, 2015

    Changing How We Elect Presidents

    A way to bring state legislatures back into prominence, and to make elections fairer and cheaper.

  • May 18, 2015

    Could a Conservative Democrat Challenge Hillary?

    The more the Clinton campaign flounders, the stronger a conservative Democrat challenger would become.

  • May 16, 2015

    The Real Battle

    The 2016 election is important, but it is nothing compared to this.

  • April 27, 2015

    The Clinton Myth

    The myth of Bill and Hillary as successful political campaigner will be shown in 2016 to be one of the silliest ideas in American political history.

  • April 23, 2015

    Hidden Conservatism and Abortion

    Some Republican 2016 presidential candidates' stand-up responses to reporters on the abortion issue show that America is more conservative than those same reporters give us credit for.

  • April 19, 2015

    When We Lost the Winnable War

    Not only could we have won in Vietnam, but we should have.  And with little to no American bloodshed.

  • April 17, 2015

    Rand Paul's Dumb Idea

    A strangely liberal-sounding "solution" to reform higher education.

  • April 11, 2015

    Make the Leftist Media the 2016 Issue

    Defeat the establishment, and the battle is won.

  • April 8, 2015

    A Scourge of Lawyers Post-Watergate

    Hillary Clinton is Exhibit A in a huge pile of evidence showing how ethics reforms after Watergate failed miserably.  

  • April 5, 2015

    Defending the Right to Discriminate

    The difference between discrimination and bigotry.  

  • April 1, 2015

    Battling the Establishment in the 21st Century

    It's a leftist Establishment now, and the rules have changed.

  • March 29, 2015

    How to Win a Cold War

    Practical advice for our times, because guess what: we're in one.

  • March 26, 2015

    Recalculating Electoral Votes

    The Republican candidate in 2016 could win as many as 351 votes in the Electoral College.

  • March 25, 2015

    The Tipping Point for American Jews?

    Can Obama's disastrous presidency wake up American Jews from their devotion to leftism?

  • March 22, 2015

    The Old, Rich Washington Lawyers' Party

    Compare the top five Democrat presidential candidates to the top five Republican ones.  What do Democrats have to offer?

  • March 16, 2015

    Reclaiming Legislative Power

    Who makes the laws in our federal system today?  

  • March 13, 2015

    Is Scott Walker Unstoppable?

    Polls show increasingly encouraging news for the Wisconsin governor in 2016.

  • March 9, 2015

    Just How Bad a Candidate Would Hillary Be?

    We're talking landslide loss material here.

  • February 27, 2015

    Conservatives and 'Gaffes'

    How should Republicans like Scott Walker respond when rabidly liberal reporters label their plain speaking as "gaffes"?  

  • February 25, 2015

    Will the Left war on Federal Courts?

    It is one thing for leftists to rail against Republicans in Congress or even against Republican governors and attorneys general, but it is quite another thing for leftists to rail against the federal bench. 

  • February 13, 2015

    A Conservative America

    A recent Gallup poll conclusively demonstrates that America is conservative. So why the contrary election results?

  • February 9, 2015

    Scott Walker's Underappreciated Strengths

    And why the media don't get it about them.

  • February 4, 2015

    Might Hillary Stay Out?

    Don't be surprised if risk-averse Mrs. Clinton, approaching 70 years old, decides to sit out 2016 – and leave the Democratic Party in complete disarray.

  • February 3, 2015

    Americans and Washington

    Trust in the government is embarrassingly low.  These are the seeds for a peaceful and constitutional revolution.

  • January 27, 2015

    The danger of RINO presidents

    Decent men sometimes make bad presidents.

  • January 25, 2015

    The War on Jews and Christians

    Historically, how different are Islamic terrorists from Nazis and Communists?

  • January 24, 2015

    The Plutocratic Left

    Leftists – those who claim to crusade against "the rich" – shamelessly lust for lucre.  Look at how the likely Democratic presidential contenders' incomes compare with their Republican counterparts'.

  • January 22, 2015

    The Case for Scott Walker

    If we nominate him, we'll know exactly what we're getting.

  • January 15, 2015

    How to Defeat Radical Islam

    It's time to stop the monsters' prowl.

  • January 7, 2015

    The Political Disaster of RINOs

    Republicans need to moderate ideology and choose, instead, someone who can be elected.  What proof is there of this proposition?

  • January 5, 2015

    The Left and Our Protectors

    Why do leftists so despise law enforcement?

  • January 1, 2015

    Still the Last Best Hope

    America remains, in spite of the left, the Last Best Hope of Man.  Remember that.

  • December 22, 2014

    Cuba before Castro

    What were things really like under Batista?

  • December 12, 2014

    The Danger of Dynasties

    How many more times must we see a Bush or a Clinton on the presidential ticket?

  • December 6, 2014

    The IRS Scandal Is Not Going Away

    The more the media ignores this, the worse it's going to get.

  • December 4, 2014

    Is It Time for an Anti-Federalist Party?

    Americans of all stripes recognize that the federal government is broken.  Here's a message that would resonate with them.

  • November 30, 2014

    The Hidden History of the Winter War

    Here is one of the most misunderstood conflicts of the 20th century.

  • November 19, 2014

    Senate Democrats Face Long Minority

    Democrats face a long minority in the House of Representatives.  The same is true of the Senate.

  • November 14, 2014

    House Democrats Face Long Minority

    Three advantages of the majority suggest that this will be a long winter for Democrats.

  • November 8, 2014

    The State Legislative Landslide

    Surely the only counsel now to Republicans is “be bold.”

  • October 31, 2014

    The Impact of Senate Jungle Elections

    A way to prevent the sort of trickery the left loves to use to win elections it otherwise would lose.

  • October 23, 2014

    Politico's Poll and Conservative Strength

    How would a covertly leftist media treat the uncomfortable fact (and it is a fact) that conservatives overwhelmingly outnumber liberals in America?

  • October 20, 2014

    Below the Top of the Ballot but Important

    There is an entire political battlefield in secondary statewide elective offices – state attorney general, state auditor, secretary of state – that we all ought to care about.

  • October 19, 2014

    State Legislatures and 2014

    No one is going to be talking about state legislative races on the Tuesday evening of this midterm, but the impact on politics and policies could be huge.

  • October 13, 2014

    Obama's Vietnam

    Obama, in his bumbling handling of ISIS, is demonstrating that it is possible to repeat all the mistakes of Vietnam.

  • October 8, 2014

    No to 'Jeb Bush for President'

    But there's still a crucial role for him (and other RINOs) to play.

  • October 6, 2014

    A Culture of Incompetence

    The worship of failure, the culture of incompetence, is deeply rooted in the sort of transcendent nihilism that is the lightless soul of leftism today.

  • September 27, 2014

    Trusted and Mistrusted Governments

    It's not that Americans distrust government in general.  Polls tell us they just distrust a certain kind.

  • September 22, 2014

    The Utter Failure of Obama

    Barack Obama is destined to be the greatest flop in American presidential history.  He is, in every sense of the word, an utter failure.

  • September 21, 2014

    Scotland and Separatism

    Is separatism good or bad?

  • September 18, 2014

    Untrusted Washington

    No administration in Gallup's polling history has had this much distrust from the American people.

  • September 8, 2014

    Gallup, Battleground, and Conservatism

    America remains the most thoroughly and naturally conservative nation in human history.  You don't have to take my word for it.

  • September 7, 2014

    Is Durbin in Danger?

    As Republicans contemplate the possible size of their November victory, outlier races may get interesting.  Take Illinois, for example.

  • August 30, 2014

    The Biggest Issue in 2016

    Voters are going to attach the word "Nixonian" to Obama's administration more and more the closer 2016 gets.  One particular scandal makes this certain.

  • August 25, 2014

    The Case for the Louisiana System

    How many more times must Republicans lose to a leftist Democrat thanks to a third-party spoiler?

  • August 22, 2014

    IRS E-mails: The Perfect Storm

    The federal government is being forced to move forward in revealing a scandal that Americans readily understand, involving an agency Americans fear and despise.

  • August 14, 2014

    A Case for Kurdistan

    Sometimes, in foreign policy, it is possible to simultaneously do the right thing and the smart thing.  Helping bring Kurdistan into this world does both.

  • August 9, 2014

    Running against Washington

    Conservatives ought to create a clear agenda to capitalize on America's broad and deep popular disgust with Washington politics.

  • August 7, 2014

    The Lost Lesson of the Nonaggression Pact

    Seventy-five years ago this month, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia signed a pact of evil called the “nonaggression pact,” the consequence of which remains misunderstood.

  • July 29, 2014

    How Litigating Lost E-mails Works

    It's time for Republicans to do what Democrats did forty years ago this month to Richard Nixon.

  • July 26, 2014

    Our Half-Full Cup

    Conservatives ought not to be overwhelmed by what happens today in our world.  Others have fought these fights before we started – and we should take heart in that.

  • July 24, 2014

    The Birth of Modern Conservatism

    Fifty years ago this month, the battle between leftism and conservatism changed forever.

  • July 17, 2014

    A Senate Contract With America

    No document in modern American political history was kept as completely as the Contract With America.  It's about time we saw another one.

  • July 4, 2014

    Litigating Lost E-mails

    What is the best way to get those elusive communiqués?

  • June 30, 2014

    Conservative Response to Cochran Win

    Here is what conservatives can do to combat another despicable Thad Cochran-style candidacy.

  • June 24, 2014

    Gallup Poll of Trust Shows Conservative America

    An analysis of the polling results of American confidence in different institutions paints a picture even Gallup would rather you didn't see.

  • June 23, 2014

    Hillary is Conservatives' Dream Opponent

    Try to guess whom conservatives should most hope for to receive the presidential nomination for 2016.

  • June 13, 2014

    Why Cantor Lost

    What sort of candidate always wins these upset elections?

  • June 8, 2014

    Our Most Important Issue

    Here we'll find the seed of a true and needed electoral revolution.

  • May 29, 2014

    A Great Reform from the VA Scandal

    Plus a reminder of who benefits most (and best) from the spoils system currently in place.

  • May 27, 2014

    Abortion Polls and Hidden Conservatism

    The results of this particular litmus test may surprise (and dismay) liberals.

  • May 24, 2014

    How China Was Lost

    The question “Who lost China?” has been asked since 1949.  The answer is obvious.

  • May 21, 2014

    The Politico Poll and Conservative Strength

    There is a leftist lie out there that conservatives keep believing.

  • May 11, 2014

    Why Common Core Won't Work

    In short, because America is allergic to it.

  • May 9, 2014

    Benghazi Laying Bare Democrats' Abdication of Duty

    Parallel to the political punishments waiting for these folks is a constitutional crisis that goes to the very heart of our system.

  • May 3, 2014

    What Conservatives Want from Washington

    All we really want from Washington is to leave us alone. 

  • April 28, 2014

    John Paul II and the Spiritual Conquest of Evil

    John Paul II, the Polish Pope, is now a saint – a vital reminder that the key to victory over evil is spiritual goodness.

  • April 19, 2014

    How Hollywood Can Fight Putin

    There is a sharp attack that the American media establishment could take, and whose ripples could sting and harass Russian oligarchs in ways no government action could reach.

  • April 16, 2014

    Stuffism

    Liberals adore this philosophy.  Even too many conservatives are embracing it.

  • April 14, 2014

    The Answer to Our Immigration Problem

    Our nation, uniquely, has always had an immigration problem.  But it's different now from how it was before.

  • April 4, 2014

    Battleground Polls and Conservative Strength

    Liberals will have to try very hard to spin this one.

  • March 31, 2014

    Oliver Stone and 'Jewish Domination'

    Oliver Stone's fantasy about Jews dominating the organs of American culture is not far from the truth – except he's completely missed who is really dominating.

  • March 22, 2014

    The Real Problem in Crimea

    The issue is not so much what happened as it is how it happened.

  • March 19, 2014

    Barry Goldwater versus the RINOs

    Gloomy folks today who mistrust the Republican Party should look back fifty years to March 1964.  Things have been much, much worse.

  • March 15, 2014

    What Jolly's Win May Mean

    The Democrats ought to have won this race – and it looks like they may lose quite a few more.

  • March 9, 2014

    New York Times v. Sullivan: A Really Bad Decision

    Thanks to the Supreme Court, the news media in our country can publish “facts” that are not true, as long as “actual malice” cannot be proven.

  • March 8, 2014

    Why Ukraine Matters

    The gradual re-conquest of the old Soviet empire by a former officer of the Soviet Gestapo ought to worry us a lot.

  • March 5, 2014

    Why Hillary Will Flop

    Hillary is a weak candidate for president, and if she is nominated, she will lose the general election.

  • February 26, 2014

    Our Weimar Republic

    Two of the most notorious changes in the German nation as it moved from Weimar Germany to Nazi Germany bear an eerily similarity to what is now occurring in the USA.

  • February 25, 2014

    How to Handle Voter Fraud

    It is vital not to become demoralized. The demoralization of conservatives is a principal goal of the left. When we get discouraged, they win.

  • February 19, 2014

    The Suicide of Unions

    The power of labor unions, once among the most feared in American politics, has imploded in the last three years.

  • February 15, 2014

    Where the Economy Is Great

    For how long can Democrats defend the vast inequality between Washington and real America if conservatives call them on it?

  • February 12, 2014

    Russia Then and Now

    Few areas of forgotten history are as vital to understanding the world today as the remarkable success of tsarist Russia and the utter destruction of Russian greatness through the malignancy of Marxism in action.

  • February 6, 2014

    The Battle for the Senate

    Republicans have some good prospects this November.

  • February 1, 2014

    The Solid Conservative Majority

    Two polls in January 2014 confirm that America -- and this means not just Flyover Country, but nearly all of America -- is solidly conservative.

  • January 30, 2014

    More States Are Quietly Becoming Republican

    The advantages to gain here are huge, if the party plays its cards right.

  • January 23, 2014

    What Senators Should Be

    Outgoing Senator Tom Coburn calls to mind a class of legislators practically unheard of today. And now he is leaving.

  • January 18, 2014

    Schweitzer for President?

    Do solid conservative Democrats exist anymore? And if so, can one of them cause an upset in the Democratic Party in 2016?

  • January 11, 2014

    How to Do the War on Poverty Right

    Lyndon Johnson's efforts failed spectacularly. But there was a private-sector War on Poverty that worked wonders.

  • January 4, 2014

    Showing How Government Fails

    The impact of government's failure has been hidden from the vast majority of ordinary Americans. That's about to change.

  • January 1, 2014

    Nominating Our Democrat

    Why not try to defeat the left within its own political party?

  • December 21, 2013

    Marxists and Misers

    The two sides of one abominable coin.

  • December 18, 2013

    The Federal Reserve's Century of Failure

    The Federal Reserve's hundredth birthday is coming up. Who will celebrate?

  • December 14, 2013

    How the GOP Can Repeat 1994, Thanks to Harry Reid

    That "nuclear option" cuts both ways, you know.

  • December 11, 2013

    Mandela the Communist

    Maybe Mandela was a "Good Communist." But that is no term of honor.

  • December 6, 2013

    The Best Political Ad for 2014

    It's not about the Democrats' mendacity (though that will work fairly well). It's about something even more damning.

  • November 23, 2013

    ObamaCare Fallout in State Government

    The "ascendant" Democratic Party will very likely find itself in the midst of a civil war going into 2014.

  • November 23, 2013

    The Looming Democrat Disaster

    The second presidential midterm has historically been a disaster for the political party whose man is in the White House. We are almost certain to see the same play out in 2014.

  • November 16, 2013

    Ronald Reagan's Lost Legacy

    The good news? It can be found again.

  • November 10, 2013

    We Are the Majority

    We are, in fact, nearly all of America, like the subjects in the final days of the Evil Empire.

  • November 9, 2013

    The Vital Lesson of Kristallnacht

    A lesson for Jews, for Christians, and for everyone who hates totalitarianism.

  • October 27, 2013

    The Beginning of the End of the Cold War

    Grenada: proof that no empire of leftism is ever truly secure, as long as we keep fighting it.

  • October 26, 2013

    The Right Approach to ObamaCare

    Senator Ted Cruz and Dr. Charles Krauthammer have very different approaches to ObamaCare. Both are right.

  • October 19, 2013

    Recalling the Invasion of Ethiopia

    The Fascists who invaded Ethiopia seventy-five years ago were not the "polar opposites" of the Marxists who ran Russia. Both believed in exactly the same things.

  • October 14, 2013

    Making National Parks into State Parks

    It's easy enough to make sure that the federal government never has to close another park. But it means less power for the left.

  • October 9, 2013

    The Problem, of Course, Is Washington

    We conservatives would be foolish if we failed to note what millions of Americans must be thinking.

  • September 28, 2013

    The Debt Deal We Should Want

    What if we tied federal spending to taxation on federal employees' income?

  • August 25, 2013

    Competing for the Democrat Nomination

    What's to stop a conservative Democrat from mixing things up in the upcoming primaries?

  • August 22, 2013

    Moving American Government Back to America

    There is no reason to have federal political power concentrated in a district about as distant from ordinary America and as unrepresentative of America as possible. Move Congress to America.

  • August 16, 2013

    Why State Government Elections Matter

    The battle for state governments in 2014 may not get as much attention as Senate or House races, but it may be the most important battle of all.

  • August 5, 2013

    Let Them Eat Wind

    Marie Antoinette was reported as saying, "Let them eat cake" in response to reports that Frenchmen had no bread. Likewise, Obama tells Americans who have no jobs, "Let them eat wind."

  • July 24, 2013

    Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton for President

    Expect all the regiments of leftism to line up behind Bill Clinton's wife in 2016. After all, she is just what they want in a woman.

  • July 24, 2013

    Does Europe Need Monarchs?

    Although we Americans have an aversion to kings which dates back to our Revolutionary War, the answer is yes.

  • July 14, 2013

    Our Sure Victory

    When we're tempted to despair at the onslaught of leftism in our lives, we must remember that we're not alone.

  • July 5, 2013

    Civil Liberties and the Civil War

    The idea that the federal government is the best vehicle for protecting civil liberties is a ridiculous myth that dates back to the 1860s.

  • June 29, 2013

    Conservatives Pushing Back

    The Paula Deen incident is showing how to cast off the cultural manacles of the left.

  • June 23, 2013

    The Dull Bland Leftist Media

    Ever wonder why MSNBC's ratings are so low?

  • June 19, 2013

    Leftus Ignoramus

    Leftists seem to harbor a profound ignorance of geography, history, and other hard facts which anyone involved in politics ought to know. How exactly do they get away with it?

  • June 9, 2013

    Recalling Gypsies in the Mineshaft

    If we feel now that we face great evil and that hope has gone, we ought to look back seventy-five years.

  • June 5, 2013

    Why Turkey Matters

    The riots in Turkey can turn our world upside-down fast.

  • June 1, 2013

    The Camelot Fraud

    New revelations about JFK are making him a(n even more) difficult man to admire.

  • May 26, 2013

    How to Use a Midterm Victory

    Should they take back the Senate, Republicans will be able to turn our country around with these three actions.

  • May 21, 2013

    The Case for Impeachment

    Republicans ought now to push the theme that Obama is the Democrats' own Nixon. If they do, then the results of the second midterm of Obama will look much more like 1974 than 1998.

  • May 7, 2013

    Is Cruz Our Best Hope?

    His name is not exactly a household word today, but Ted Cruz could become the most important political leader of the 21st century.

  • May 5, 2013

    The Sovietized American Media

    A calcified leftist media establishment that's looking more and more like the old Soviet propaganda organs.

  • April 22, 2013

    The Tailor Who Sewed the Obama Empty Suit Has Sewn Others

    Not only is Barack Obama an empty suit, but he comes from a long and distinguished line of empty suits.

  • April 8, 2013

    What Will Happen to Europe?

    The prognosis is not good.

  • April 7, 2013

    Combating Cultural Totalitarianism

    Political totalitarians are easy to find. But our most important battle in America at this time is against the cultural ones.

  • March 30, 2013

    Senate Prospects for 2014

    Can the Republicans turn things around in next year's midterms?

  • March 20, 2013

    The Cypriot Domino

    Cypru smay prove the first domino in a collapse of the Eurozone financial system, whose falling pieces will almost surely affect America.

  • March 10, 2013

    Creating Our Counter-Culture

    Think of the genuinely new and interesting culture we conservatives can produce. What's stopping us?

  • March 2, 2013

    Fighting the Real Enemy

    It's not easy, but it beats being a slave. Here's how to get it done.

  • February 21, 2013

    The Case for Carson

    The buzz surrounding Dr. Ben Carson is loud and growing...but is it merited?

  • February 12, 2013

    The Resilient Conservative Majority

    Conservatives not only consistently, but overwhelmingly outnumber liberals in America. So why do liberals have such political success?

  • February 9, 2013

    Confederalism

    When our Constitution was ratified, there was no debate about the purpose of government. It's time for us to remember that purpose.

  • January 22, 2013

    Ending the Filibuster: Be Careful What You Ask For

    Senator Reid may remove a principal means of stopping revolutionary change. He might not like the consequences.

  • December 31, 2012

    Our World Is Full of Cliffs

    And it's not the fiscal one we should worry about.

  • December 21, 2012

    The Piltdown Warning

    Sometimes "settled science" has a way of turning out to be a complete fraud. And no, this is not about global warming -- at least not primarily.

  • December 13, 2012

    Remembering Nanking

    A good time to reflect on what protects us from succumbing to (or ourselves becoming) monsters.

  • December 12, 2012

    Using States to Supplant Cultural Leftism

    We'll never have firm footing from which to win elections if we continue to cede the culture to the left. With Republicans controlling the governments of half the states, we can finally take a stand.

  • December 8, 2012

    Using States to Transform Higher Learning

    Education is modernizing to the point where we can change the world -- and Republican-run states have exactly the means to get the ball rolling.

  • December 1, 2012

    What We Should Care About

    Our battle is not, and must not be, simply a battle for stuff.

  • November 24, 2012

    The Democrats' Big Problem

    We keep hearing that Democrats are running the country now. But the fact is that they're not even close...and it's going to get even worse for them.

  • November 9, 2012

    Our State Government Victory

    Republicans now have, at the state level, the opportunity to demonstrate the superiority of governing from the right. May they take advantage of it.

  • November 2, 2012

    Europe and the Election

    There are many reasons to elect Mitt Romney as our next president. Saving Europe should be pretty high on the list.

  • October 27, 2012

    Marcellus Can Swing Swing States

    The election may well boil down to a handful of swing states -- and the incredible energy reserves in these states may well be what Mitt Romney needs to get them in his corner.

  • October 25, 2012

    What We Should Want

    We all must care who becomes president -- not because of the good he can do, but because of the harm he can cause. This is not how our nation began. It mattered almost nothing because the federal government was distant and limited.

  • October 20, 2012

    Countering the National Popular Vote Initiative

    The siren song of a binding presidential popular vote may be attractive, but it is based on a pernicious fiction.

  • October 8, 2012

    Obama's Rough Road Ahead

    If Obama thought last week's debate was tough, he ain't seen nothing yet.

  • October 2, 2012

    Which Polls Count

    It is very clear that the polls this election year are wildly out of sync. So whom should we trust?

  • October 1, 2012

    The Real Enemy

    Obama, Biden, Reid, and Pelosi are profoundly ignorant and shallow people. In the long run, they are inconsequential. The real enemy is far more sinister.

  • September 27, 2012

    The Sure Cure for Voter Fraud

    There is one sure cure. It sounds draconian and maybe even weird, but it is simple, clear, fair, and pure.

  • September 18, 2012

    Why They Hate Us

    First, we have to admit who "they" are. Then we must acknowledge the incredible and unique achievements of both the United States and Israel.

  • September 12, 2012

    The Tedium of Leftism

    For more than one hundred and fifty years, the dull pedantry of this toxic religion is recited as if it could inspire any free mind or unchained soul to anything but yawns.

  • September 2, 2012

    The Black Vote in 2012

    Republicans are making another pitch to win black votes in 2012. Are we going down the same fruitless path as always?

  • August 29, 2012

    We Will Win

    Leftism is out of ideas. It is sterile, vapid, and boring. How can we lose?

  • August 21, 2012

    The Real Question for Akin

    Hard as it is to swallow, for a good man like Todd Akin, there really is no choice now but to step aside. As a serious Christian, he must know: the greatest sin is pride.

  • August 20, 2012

    Republicans Who Understand Democrats

    Those conservatives who pine for the next Reagan forget that Ronald Reagan was a Democrat most of his life. Both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have a unique understanding of Democrats...and of Democrat voters.

  • August 16, 2012

    What Washington Does Not See

    Wealth in America is becoming like wealth in the Soviet Union, or in any other empire ruled from a distant and indifferent imperial capital with no real interest in its subjects becoming prosperous.

  • August 14, 2012

    Paul Ryan and the Republican Future

    Congressman Paul Ryan, now crown prince of the Republican Party, shows just how close we have come to victory.

  • August 9, 2012

    The Lawyers Party

    There's a vicious cycle in America: politicians make up onerous laws and regulations, and lawyers get rich exploiting them. But the situation is even worse when the politicians are the lawyers -- or in other words, when you have the Democratic Party.

  • August 4, 2012

    Veepstakes: The Case for Jindal

    Executive experience, leadership, health care expertise, and sheer brilliance all recommend Bobby Jindal as a running mate for Mitt.

  • July 31, 2012

    GOP Edge in Swing States

    Almost wholly overlooked in this year's election punditry is a quite possibly decisive advantage which Mitt Romney will have in thirteen extremely important swing states.

  • July 26, 2012

    Conservative Tax Hikes

    Might liberals learn a lesson about vice taxes if conservatives started proposing some of their own?

  • July 19, 2012

    The Marxist Heart of Darkness

    Marxism is neither a science nor a system of belief. It is a rationale for seizing power and terrorizing all those who are not its cadres.

  • July 16, 2012

    Labor Losses Imperil Democrats

    Republicans ought to push the dinosaur of Big Labor as hard as they can.

  • July 14, 2012

    Fighting Voter Fraud

    Many conservatives have viewed the very real problem of voter fraud in America as a guarantee that the left will be able to use this nefarious means to steal crucial elections. How do we fight it?

  • July 10, 2012

    Can Debates Swing the Election?

    Conventional wisdom is that the presidential debates are not that important, but that is not necessarily true. They may prompt a landslide this year.

  • July 3, 2012

    The Naked Left

    Simply put, the left has lost the trust of America.

  • July 2, 2012

    The Supreme Court Is Not Our Friend

    The relationship between conservatives and the Supreme Court is rather like that between Charlie Brown and Lucy Van Pelt in autumn. This is nothing new.

  • June 21, 2012

    Might We See a Landslide?

    Landslides often sneak up on pundits -- and we may be about to see the first presidential one in 28 years.

  • June 13, 2012

    Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Left?

    The left feeds on fear...but why fear it anymore?

  • June 8, 2012

    The Conservative Legacy of Bradbury

    Ray Bradbury's work touched upon one of the most fundamental aspects of conservatism: the written word.

  • June 1, 2012

    What the Jan Karski Gaffe Really Means

    Gerald Ford's "Polish Moment" might have cost him the election. Now, Barack Obama has had his own Polish Moment regarding World War II hero Jan Karski.

  • May 31, 2012

    The Grand Theme of Governing

    How can Republicans clean Democrat clocks all over the country? All it will take is a simple message: Republicans can govern. Democrats can't.

  • May 22, 2012

    Real Hope for Ending Federal Debt

    To say it's growing on trees would not be too far off.

  • May 15, 2012

    Discouraged Democrat Voters May Mean Historic Sweep for GOP

    There is a conservative voting trend building, and its momentum is going to make it truly terrifying for liberals come November.

  • May 7, 2012

    Elizabeth Warren's Whiter Shade of Pale

    Elizabeth Warren was in no sense at all "disadvantaged" to grow up with 1/32 Native American blood in Oklahoma City, where most of her classmates had more tribal blood than she did.

  • April 30, 2012

    How Romney can Supercharge Conservatives

    The scornful treatment of Ann Romney by the media may have touched a deep nerve in the otherwise profoundly sedate Romney. The campaign may reveal this Romney more.

  • April 23, 2012

    The Generic Ballot Bomb

    Presidential match-ups in the polls don't necessarily tell you much this far before an election, but another type of poll question does yield some very important results for Republicans to consider.

  • April 22, 2012

    Five Ways to Save the Earth (and Expose Leftist Hypocrisy)

    Here are "Five Ways to Save the Planet" which we can embrace: the conservative counter-attack.

  • April 20, 2012

    The Generic Ballot Bomb

    If the generic congressional ballot trend continues, we could be looking at a conservative ascendancy the likes of which we've never seen before.

  • April 16, 2012

    The Decline of Greenism

    Americans are waking up to the green con game pushed by prissy and nasty radicals

  • April 10, 2012

    Race, Republicans, and Democrats

    With November 2012 around the corner, it is worth recounting how utterly racist the Democrat Party has been and how hostile to racism the Republican Party has been.

  • April 2, 2012

    ObamaCare and the Supreme Court

    ObamaCare was passed as a vast, ugly pile of glop, and now this notional "reform" may be struck down by a 5-to-4 Supreme Court opinion. But how much confidence can we have in SCOTUS?

  • March 29, 2012

    Watch Wisconsin

    If the left throws every single weapon it can at Wisconsin Republicans and loses, then the left will know that it is vulnerable everywhere to conservatives who do not back down.

  • March 17, 2012

    The Source of American Military Power

    When you feel discouraged by the course of our country, recall that we are protected by the best of the best, who place their bodies between us and evil every day.

  • March 12, 2012

    Gloria Allred Inserts Self into Fluke Controversy

    Publicity hound "femiinist" lawyer can't resist makiing a fool of herself.

  • March 10, 2012

    Stand Up for Rush - and All of Us

    Here is the position conservatives should take against the liberal machine.

  • March 7, 2012

    Will 2012 Be a Republican Year?

    Although most conservatives understand the importance of defeating Obama, it's necessary to keep in mind the rest of the government as well.

  • March 2, 2012

    That Darned Conservative Majority

    That darned conservative majority, whose existence seems to please no one, remains resilient, robust, and very, very real.

  • February 27, 2012

    The Most Important Election of Our Lifetime

    If this is the most important election of our lifetime, then for conservatives like me, it will have been the ninth or tenth such election in recent memory.

  • February 7, 2012

    The Real America

    The media isn't overeager to say so, but conservatives still outnumber liberals in America with breathtaking consistency.

  • February 6, 2012

    If Fox Fails Us

    Rupert Murdoch may be the only one keeping Fox News conservative. But the possible fall of Fox shouldn't worry right-leaning people for a couple of reasons.

  • January 28, 2012

    Contesting Leftists in Democrat Primaries

    Conservatives must not simply surrender the Democratic Party to the left.

  • January 23, 2012

    Gingrich v. Leftism

    Newt Gingrich can beat Obama and add more Republicans to elective office. More importantly, however, he can actually defeat leftism in America.

  • January 11, 2012

    Time for National Right to Work

    Indiana is considering becoming a Right to Work state, which would make it the first state since Oklahoma in 2001 to end coerced unionism. This is a good start.

  • January 7, 2012

    The Left's Heart of Darkness

    We can't go on like this. All we love, all we cherish, all we hope for is spiraling down a long, snaky drain into the leftist heart of darkness.

  • January 6, 2012

    The Heart of the Clause 5 Issue

    On one hand, we have Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio. On the other, we have Barack Obama. Which side is eligible for the White House?

  • December 31, 2011

    Four Brokered Convention Prospects

    With the way Republican candidates for the presidential nomination have risen and fallen, the prospect of Republicans entering their national convention without a candidate actually decided is real. So who should step in?

  • December 27, 2011

    Newt and the Judges

    The left wants America to believe that federal courts protect our rights because through federal courts, the left can cram its radical agenda down our throats. If we do not tame the federal bench, no conservative revolution can ever succeed.

  • December 22, 2011

    The Gingrich-Churchill Comparison

    Newt Gingrich is not our "Next Reagan," the leader for whom we have pined since 1989, but could he be our next Churchill?

  • December 19, 2011

    Did Pelosi Commit Blackmail?

    Surely, compelling someone to drop out of a political race qualifies.

  • December 11, 2011

    The Rich Are Not Conservative

    The latest Gallup Poll confirms what most of us had suspected all along: the rich -- that top one percent, the folks whom radical leftists like OWS rail against -- are not as conservative as the rest of us.

  • December 2, 2011

    The Case for Gingrich

    Gingrich has his flaws, but like it or not, he is a perfect candidate to make Obama sweat.

  • November 25, 2011

    Republican Senate Prospects in 2012

    How do prospects look for Republicans in 2012 and beyond? So far, the tea leaves are encouraging.

  • November 17, 2011

    Even Leftist Pollsters Can't Hide the Conservative Majority

    The Battleground Poll has injected some killer leftist bias into its polling questions, but not even this can tamp down news of the conservative majority in America.

  • November 12, 2011

    Guerrilla Conservatism

    Does "guerrilla conservatism" sound bad? It should not: it is the very foundation of our republic.

  • October 29, 2011

    The Contract with Conservatives

    Why not ask each candidate who wants our vote in a primary or support in a caucus to sign a general document which embraces the salient points of conservatives?

  • October 26, 2011

    No Representation without Taxation

    The dangers of placing power in the hands of those who have no real interest beyond self-interest in the governance of the nation.

  • October 22, 2011

    A Serious Plan for Prosperity and Peace

    Just the royalties from oil and gas taken out of federal lands could, over time, equal $18 trillion, or enough money to pay off the entire national debt without raising taxes at all.

  • October 13, 2011

    Making State Governments Matter

    There's still a lot that can be done through the states, and Republicans are sweeping this crucial venue.

  • October 7, 2011

    Do Dems Dare Dump Barry?

    Democrats face an impossible political situation: smile, nod, and re-nominate Obama for a second term in 2012 or begin to maneuver Obama into walking gracefully away, in hopes, perhaps, of finding a chance to run again in the future.

  • September 30, 2011

    It Is Not the Economy, Stupid

    I pray that we do not surrender to the damnable vice of utter materialism. If we do, nothing can save us.

  • September 27, 2011

    Electoral College Reform to Preserve States' Rights

    State legislatures are currently looking at two different approaches to correcting perceived problems in the election process.

  • September 23, 2011

    How About a Moderate Democrat Challenge to Obama?

    Standing up for working people whose jobs Obama's ideological purists on the radical left destroyed, a moderate challenger could have strong appeal in red-state Democratic primaries, and even some blue states.

  • September 17, 2011

    Perry's Reagan Moment

    Frontal rhetorical attack on dangerous leftist nonsense is the key to conservative victory.

  • September 15, 2011

    The Presidential Qualification Issue

    Marco Rubio is on most short lists for the Republican vice presidential nomination. The principal objection many conservatives have is whether Rubio is constitutionally eligible.

  • September 8, 2011

    Battleground Poll: Is the Conservative Movement Losing Momentum?

    Why has the widely respected bipartisan Battleground Poll shown a downturn in the number of Americans calling themselves conservatives?

  • August 31, 2011

    Federal Fever

    If the body politic is sick, blame federal fever, a delusional ailment causing swelling of the federal element of the Republic.

  • August 29, 2011

    The Ticket Obama Fears Most

    Hitting Obama where it hurts.

  • August 25, 2011

    Moderation Mongers

    The ideological spectrum is simply a convenient invention by those who would lull us into sleep so that they can manacle our hands and feet without a fight.

  • August 21, 2011

    Why Not a Real Party Platform?

    The 1994 Contract With America was brief and direct and persuasive. Why not make the Republican Party Platform of 2012 similar to the Contract With America?

  • August 20, 2011

    Perry Will Win Big

    You read it here first: Rick Perry will amble to the Republican nomination and will win the presidential election easily.

  • August 15, 2011

    Pawlenty for Senate

    An excellent opportunity for the Republican Party: nominate Tim Pawlenty to run in the 2012 Senate race against Amy Klobuchar

  • August 13, 2011

    Un-College Funds

    Soon millions of students will be headed to college at a huge cost to their parents and themselves. Americans are obsessed with college.

  • August 1, 2011

    Lessons from the Berlin Olympics

    Seventy five years ago today, the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games began.

  • July 29, 2011

    The Old Deal

    The left loves to speak of "New," but as Obama's teleprompter-driven debt ceiling addresses to the nation reveal, the left is sterile, tired, and dull.

  • July 23, 2011

    The Way to Win the Debt Ceiling and Budget Battle

    If Obama is winning this game now, why are we still playing?

  • July 17, 2011

    Leftist Mythology of the Spanish Civil War

    According to the left, this was a classic conflict between socialism and fascism. Most of what you know about the Spanish Civil War probably is wrong.

  • July 16, 2011

    Green Living Through Conservatism

    If the left truly cares about preserving the environment, reducing carbon emissions, saving the planet, and all that glop, then it should wholeheartedly embrace conservative social values.

  • July 4, 2011

    Obama and the Second American Revolution

    The dull and heavy hand of central power is crushing our nation. The political war of independence is for the independence of the vital check of sovereign states.

  • July 2, 2011

    Why RINOs But Not DINOs?

    During every presidential election cycle the left inserts its favorite candidate into the Republican nomination fight. Why not reciprocate?

  • June 27, 2011

    When Evils Collide

    Seventy years ago, Hell fought Hell. On June 22, 1941, Hitler abandoned his close alliance with Stalin, and began total war against his erstwhile friend.

  • June 18, 2011

    The Honor of Leftists and Conservatives

    The political news is filled with three personal scandal stories -- all liberal Democrats. Not by accident.

  • June 12, 2011

    The Post-Economic Age

    The Left, grounded in the childish superstitions of Marx, views life as economics.

  • June 11, 2011

    Is Perry the One?

    A candidate who could very quickly and almost bloodlessly win the Republican nomination, and go on to win the presidency.

  • June 7, 2011

    Who Spent the Peace Dividend?

    Maybe a better question is who stole the Peace Dividend.

  • May 30, 2011

    Our Holiday

    The left does not grasp that the men and women who volunteer to place their bodies between us and those who hate us are held in special respect by all the rest of us.

  • May 23, 2011

    Should We Elect Judges?

    Should justice be political? Whether judges should be political or not, they have been since at least the Dred Scott case in 1858.

  • May 19, 2011

    The Real Conservative Majority

    When the Soviet Union fell, it was "discovered" that no one believed in Marxism any longer. When the left falls in America, won't we find out just the same thing?

  • May 7, 2011

    What the Canadian Election Means

    The blizzard of news surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden has focused attention away from the very significant general election in Canada.

  • April 30, 2011

    Santorum 2012?

    How many true conservatives have won in blue states or, in the case of House members, in blue congressional districts?

  • April 29, 2011

    Canadian Showdown

    Next Monday, May 2nd, Canadians are going to the polls for their third general election in five years. The results matter a lot to Americans, and they could bring a surprise.

  • April 8, 2011

    What Wisconsin's Judicial Election Means

    The left has been winning because we have not fought the battles which we must fight. Now, we are fighting back.

  • April 2, 2011

    The Golden Anniversary of a Bad Amendment

    Several of the amendments to the Constitution had dubious value, including one adopted fifty years ago this week.

  • March 26, 2011

    Be Bold!

    The political courage shown by Governor Walker and Republican legislators in Wisconsin should be an object lesson to all conservatives: Be bold!

  • March 12, 2011

    Privatize Education

    Is there harm in the creepy teacher goons of Madison striking? Actually, there may be more harm in them returning to work.

  • February 27, 2011

    End Forced Unionism

    Where would we be without labor unions? We would be much better off.

  • February 19, 2011

    The Bright Line

    We cannot subsist on cynicism. Disdain for RINOs is ultimately a distraction. We must have the Republican Party as a vehicle to recapture our country

  • February 18, 2011

    The Doomed President

    Pundits muse how Obama can save his presidency. He cannot. Obama, politically, is doomed.

  • February 17, 2011

    Alfred E President

    Barack Obama resembles, more and more, the hapless, clueless, sappily cheerful mascot of MAD Magazine, Alfred E. Neuman.

  • February 14, 2011

    Why Worship Democracy?

    What will happen in Egypt? Democracy will prevail. Why are we so happy about that?

  • February 10, 2011

    How Should We Interpret the Constitution?

    Who are the real guardians of our liberties?

  • February 1, 2011

    What Reagan Meant to America

    Seven years ago, when Reagan died, millions of Americans waited for hours to share a brief moment with this greatest of contemporary Americans.

  • January 27, 2011

    Should Military Spending Be Cut?

    In the game of chicken that is national politics, it was sure that the left would pounce upon excessive defense spending as a way of reducing the deficit.

  • January 21, 2011

    The GOP's Great (Lakes) Opportunity

    Now, more than any time in a generation, Republicans can actually implement their agenda, limited only by their political courage.

  • January 19, 2011

    Preserving States' Rights and the Constitution

    The Founding Fathers considered states' rights absolutely indispensable to the purposes of our nation. We can restore that vision.

  • January 17, 2011

    What if Obama isn't an ideologue?

    Might Obama be just another political hack who has conned not only Middle America, but also the few who really believe in Marx?

  • January 8, 2011

    Periodical Perspective

    If we travel back and see the battle of ideas fought seven decades ago, it is clear that the left is immune to truth.

  • December 24, 2010

    A Grim Sesquicentennial

    Was the Civil War really necessary?

  • December 19, 2010

    Academia Is Revolting!

    Over the last century, colleges have devolved from places of serious study and intellectual inquiry into vast, generally malign, priestly castes.

  • December 17, 2010

    Nancy Pelosi: The Girl in the Plastic Bubble

    Being a leftist in America means never needing to actually hear or grasp what conservatives believe.

  • December 10, 2010

    Asclepius Shrugged

    As ObamaCare adds to the financial and regulatory burdens faced by medical doctors, America will find more and more physicians becoming John Galt, M.D.

  • December 9, 2010

    Hanukah in Poland

    Although anti-Semitism among Polish Catholics is very real, this virus has been attacked most passionately by those most Catholic.

  • December 6, 2010

    Politically Incorrect Powerful Women

    Too threatening to the left.

  • November 28, 2010

    Bombs Don't Kill People; Terrorists Do

    The Left's obsession with focusing on dangerous things, rather than dangerous people, is the fatal flaw in airport security.

  • November 26, 2010

    Rubio for President

    Republicans want a candidate in 2012 who is a solid conservative, who can win the election, and who can express conservative values in many ways.

  • November 15, 2010

    Keeping the Lame Duck from Waddling

    The Democrats face their last grasp of legislative power in the lame duck session ahead.

  • November 8, 2010

    Time to Tackle Right to Work

    Time to go for the jugular of the union bosses.

  • November 6, 2010

    The State-Level Tsunami

    The long-term political consequences are profound.

  • October 31, 2010

    The Death of Camelot

    We are no longer awed by glitz.

  • October 28, 2010

    Focus on the Achilles Heel of Public Broadcasting

    Efforts to defund public broadcasting have failed in the past because conservatives have been focusing on the wrong target.

  • October 26, 2010

    Good News for GOP and Great News for Conservatives

    The latest Battleground Poll, the last before the midterm election, has just been released. It has good news for Republicans.

  • October 20, 2010

    Social Justice and Fair Taxes

    There is no justice in social justice.

  • October 14, 2010

    The Death of Government

    When the fundamental duties are simply ignored, it is not so much that we have bad government as that we have no government.

  • October 13, 2010

    A Reform the Tea Party Should Embrace

    A reform that could shape politics for decades to come.

  • October 11, 2010

    Social Justice and Fair Taxes

    Leftists, in tax policy, read fairness only one way: those who earn more pay more. That certainly redistributes wealth, but is it fair?

  • September 30, 2010

    Confidence in Obama Lower Even than in Nixon

    Even during Watergate, the Energy Crisis of 1973, and the recession of the same period, Americans had more confidence in Richard Nixon to handle domestic affairs.

  • September 27, 2010

    Take the Fight to the Democratic Party

    The Tea Party rejects the establishment of both the big political parties. There is no reason why it cannot storm and occupy positions in the Democratic Party.

  • September 21, 2010

    How Bad Is Lisa Murkowski?

    Alaskan voters knew what they were doing when they rejected this incumbent senator.

  • September 17, 2010

    Conservative America Ready to Take Control

    The day after Christine O'Donnell and the Tea Party won the Republican nomination for Joe Biden's old Senate seat, Battleground released its September 2010 poll. The timing is perfect.

  • September 13, 2010

    Tax Me More: A Modest Proposal

    It's time for wealthy liberals to lead by example in making sure that the rich pay their "fair share."

  • September 12, 2010

    The Judeo-Christian Right

    The Christian Right is really the Judeo-Christian Right.

  • September 6, 2010

    The Left Keeps Losing Everywhere

    Not only is the left looking at a big defeat in America in two months, but it has been getting slobber-knocked all over the modern industrialized world.

  • September 4, 2010

    Letting Leftists Limit Language

    Socialists have the intellectual seriousness of the Flat Earth Society. We treat these enemies as if they believed in something.

  • August 31, 2010

    The File Clerks of Racism

    When someone in America is charged with racism today, what does it mean to most Americans? It means nothing morally serious at all.

  • August 23, 2010

    Gallup Ignoring Its Own Big Stories

    The articles which accompany Gallup's polls lately seem calculated to hide the real story.

  • August 20, 2010

    A Coming Landslide?

    The indicators of a political tsunami seem to grow bigger and more persistent each day.

  • August 19, 2010

    The Civility Gap

    One of the unspoken truths of the political and ideological wars which rage around us is the civility gap between the left and conservatives.

  • August 14, 2010

    Making November a Political Victory

    It is not just premature to predict victory in November; it is dumb.

  • August 12, 2010

    President Coburn?

    Conservatives, above all else, do not want to elect as president in 2012 some politician who tells them what they want to hear to win office and then morphs into a big-government moderate.

  • August 7, 2010

    The Hiroshima Question

    Representatives of the American government yesterday attended, for the first time, the Hiroshima Ceremony, which this year marked the 65th anniversary of the use of fission weapons on Japanese cities.

  • August 4, 2010

    The Autumn of the Left

    The number of Americans who embrace the stupendous folly, the conspicuous malice, the selfish childishness, the sneering mendacity which struts around us wearing the label of "liberal" or "progressive" is even smaller than we have suspected.

  • August 2, 2010

    The Conservative Phoenix

    Subtle changes are entering politics. Predictions of doom are premature.

  • July 23, 2010

    Why the Revolution Will Prevail and Why It Will Last

    Why RINOs cannot stop the conservative reforms America needs.

  • July 20, 2010

    Conservatives and Republican Victory

    Republican victory at the polls is only the start of the fight for conservatives.

  • July 15, 2010

    The Key to a Real Revolution

    Opportunities to really implement fundamental change happen rarely, but one such moment is approaching.

  • July 9, 2010

    Boring Barry

    Obama is descending into uninteresting, unhip, and utterly predictable rhetoric. Already we see signs of this slow political death.

  • July 4, 2010

    Our Declaration to the World

    Each July 4th Americans have the chance to celebrate something new in human history, a nation grounded wholly in liberty.

  • July 2, 2010

    Teaching the Pig to Dance

    Fred Thompson's new book, Teaching Pigs to Fly, is an autobiography -- sort of.

  • June 28, 2010

    When Folks Stop Liking Barry

    What could cause it, and what will happen then.

  • June 28, 2010

    Finding Democrats in News Stories

    The establishment leftist media is conspiratorially working against the public interest

  • June 21, 2010

    The Reason for Constitutional Rights

    It is useful to recall the very reason for having constitutional rights: Those rights are intended to protect unpopular people.

  • June 16, 2010

    Barack Obama, Esq.

    President Obama's crisis leadership is like that of trial lawyer.

  • June 11, 2010

    The Year of the Conservative Woman

    Changing the face of American politics.

  • June 5, 2010

    Homo Politicus

    Everything today is political. Our world, more and more, looks like the dying carcass of Soviet Russia.

  • June 2, 2010

    Is the Party Over?

    Do we need political parties? Perhaps a better question might be: Did we ever need political parties?

  • May 31, 2010

    Remembering the Forgotten

    When these men have fallen or when their young bodies have been maimed forever in defense of our safety, the poignant moment of thanks we give inevitably dissolves over the years into an empty, formalistic expression of gratitude.

  • May 28, 2010

    The New Cleaning Ladies of Leftism

    The decline and fall of feminism.

  • May 22, 2010

    Blumenthal and the Liars' Party

    Richard Blumenthal did more than lie about his military service: He lied about lying. This is a special moral pathology of the left.

  • May 17, 2010

    The Left's War on Free Speech

    The left is utterly wedded to thought control. Like all sibling totalitarianisms, the left in America is addicted to power and repelled by truth.

  • May 13, 2010

    The Nebbish Nominee

    Elena Kagan seems a pleasant sort. But she is not in the company of giants.

  • May 10, 2010

    Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat

    Seventy years ago, on May 10, 1940, Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of Great Britain.

  • May 7, 2010

    San Francisco's Unconstitutional Arizona 'Boycott'

    Under our federal system, state governments and their political subdivisions may not impose undue burdens on interstate commerce.

  • May 4, 2010

    More Than Just Government

    We often think our only foe is too much government, but that is a mistake.

  • April 30, 2010

    Obama's Demoralized Left

    The left in America is demoralized. This slide will continue, for several reasons.

  • April 26, 2010

    Rethinking Education

    Maybe less really is more.

  • April 21, 2010

    Big Nature and Tiny Us

    Acolytes of the global warming faith warn us that we appease the wrong gods. Why the intense focus on the dubious and minor problem of man-made global warming?

  • April 15, 2010

    The Battleground Poll and the Hiding Elites

    How and why the media miss the story.

  • April 9, 2010

    The Naked Left

    The left loves to hide.

  • March 31, 2010

    Tea Parties and the Republican Party

    The idea that the two political parties are fundamentally the same is either simple-minded or insincere.

  • March 28, 2010

    Democracy and Freedom

    We often confuse democracy with freedom. The greatest good of government is liberty -- that is what our Declaration of Independence emphatically states.

  • March 24, 2010

    Stupak and His Sheep

    At least Pelosi and Obama can be seen as honestly, horrifically wrong. Some people simply do not grasp the evil of unrestricted abortion.

  • March 21, 2010

    Process Is Liberty

    Process -- adherence to the fundamental rules of representative democracy -- is liberty, and liberty is the only real good democracy offers.

  • March 17, 2010

    Hanks, Hollywood, and History

    Surely even Tom Hanks can grasp the pure evil of Saddam Hussein.

  • March 3, 2010

    How a Nebraska Bill May Pivot the Abortion Debate

    The abortion debate may get an interesting twist soon, courtesy of the nation's only unicameral legislature.

  • February 27, 2010

    Why Not Nominate the Next Reagan in 2012?

    Who would that be?

  • February 26, 2010

    Citizen Cadres of Conservatism

    Our nation is undergoing a quiet, peaceful removal of a ruling class from power. Here is why.

  • February 21, 2010

    The War on Truth

    Has Obama ever seriously searched for truth?

  • February 18, 2010

    What Congress May Look Like in Three Years

    America is overwhelmingly conservative, but that conservative will has long been frustrated. That may be about to change.

  • February 5, 2010

    Sports Heroes and Conservatism

    Why is there such a strong connection between sports' greatness and conservatism?

  • January 18, 2010

    Fabian Conservatism

    Who trusts Republican leaders? Not serious conservatives, who have been burned so many times. The question, though, is what to do?

  • January 15, 2010

    Ideological Rationalization of the Senate

    Many Democrat senators simply do not at all represent what the voters of their states believe or want. An ideological rationalization of the Senate may be on the way.

  • January 12, 2010

    The Second Boston Tea Party?

    The challenge which Republican Scott Brown is making in Massachusetts to win the special Senate election against Democrat Martha Coakley ought not to be a huge surprise.

  • January 6, 2010

    Our Second Civil War

    The 1960s saw a second Civil War rage in the culture -- one whose final outcome has not yet been determined.

  • January 5, 2010

    A Brief 2010 Republican Midterm Platform

    This is what Republicans should do to win in 2010

  • December 18, 2009

    The Battleground Poll and the Battle for America

    There's good news for conservatives in the latest Battleground Poll. The political implications are profound...if the already-energized conservative base takes even more initiative.

  • December 17, 2009

    Obama the America-Denier

    Once nearly all Americans understood, whatever their politics, that America is the hope of the world.

  • December 14, 2009

    Poisoned Wells

    The television program Law & Order recently had a character who connected psychotic murder with people who listen to Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Glenn Beck. The wells of public life have all been poisoned.

  • December 9, 2009

    Climategate and Government-Driven Science

    Scientists were once the ultimate "free marketers." When Einstein proposed his special theory of relativity, he was a clerk in a Swiss patent office.

  • December 7, 2009

    Democrats' War on Home Business

    The Democratic Party has declared war on self-employed Americans, family farms, and home businesses.

  • November 30, 2009

    The Ghost of Lysenko

    The imaginary science of man-made global warning can now be entered into the infamous history of politicized science.

  • November 26, 2009

    Days of Thanksgiving Past

    Thanksgiving 2009 finds many Americans doubting that our republic can survive and wondering whether we truly have that much to be thankful for these days. God forgive our pettiness.

  • November 19, 2009

    Will 2010 Be the Perfect Storm?

    Seven indicators suggest that 2010 will be a very tough year for the Obama administration.

  • November 18, 2009

    Of RINOs, Moderate Democrats, and Men

    All RINOs are not the same, even when they profess almost identical beliefs.

  • November 15, 2009

    The Decline of the Left

    The Republican landslide in Virginia and the stunning upset in New Jersey were not the only bad news for the left in the last few months.

  • November 9, 2009

    Obama's Wall

    Twenty years ago today an architectural monument to human enslavement melted before the eyes of the world.

  • November 3, 2009

    Twenty-Five Years after the Reagan Landslide

    On election Day, 1984 -- twenty five years ago -- many thought that the ideological battle of America was won.

  • October 28, 2009

    Why a Harmer Win Would Be Huge

    A California seat on the House of Representatives is up for grabs on November 3rd, along with New York's 23rd Congressional District race.

  • October 26, 2009

    Hoffman is the Obvious Choice

    Conservatives do not always have obvious choices when deciding whether or not to support a RINO. The situation is entirely different in the 23rd Congressional District of New York in the special election

  • October 22, 2009

    Mass media and private liberty

    It seems hard for us to grasp that once news, entertainment, and education were not utterly bureaucratized.

  • October 19, 2009

    Reading the Electoral Tea Leaves

    Off the national media radar, there are plenty of smaller elections -- special elections for state legislative seats -- which already show serious political problems for the Democrats

  • October 10, 2009

    The Politicization of Peace

    Few spectacles so clearly show the politicization of life than the surreally silly award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama.

  • October 6, 2009

    How Obama Has Failed Black Americans

    Barack Obama is not leading black America into the sweet lands of love and brotherhood promised by Martin Luther King

  • September 28, 2009

    Another Blow to European Leftism

    Yesterday's election in German means that Merkel finally can form a right of center government in Germany

  • September 27, 2009

    The Ugly American

    The Obama Administration has brought the Ugly American back to life.

  • September 20, 2009

    Vietistan

    It looks like Lyndon Baines Obama is about to repeat the mistakes of his Democrat predecessor.

  • September 18, 2009

    Dangers to Democrats of End-Running Cloture

    What goes around, comes around.

  • September 17, 2009

    The Not-So-Silent Majority

    The Silent Majority forty years ago was cowed, afraid, and ashamed. My, how times have changed.

  • September 12, 2009

    Why Obama Could Not Stage a Coup

    We need to fight the very real enemies, not imaginary ones.

  • September 11, 2009

    How Obama Can Make Healthcare Better Without Congress

    President Obama could take action to improve our nation's healthcare system right now, without waiting for congressional approval

  • September 3, 2009

    The Not Ready for Prime Time President

    President Obama seemingly has no clue about what he is doing, and, increasingly, it shows.

  • August 31, 2009

    The Kennedy Legend, RIP

    The last of the Kennedy brothers is dead. It is almost impossible to believe that once John, Bobby, and Teddy were all considered strong, dashing, and charismatic.

  • August 24, 2009

    Infatuation with Crisis

    The slow, ugly death of health care reform reflects the left's deep crush with crises.

  • August 21, 2009

    The Biggest Missing Story in Politics - One Year Update

    The Left is just a small minority of Americans who have insinuated themselves into the chokepoints of information, education, entertainment, and policy in American society.

  • August 10, 2009

    Fighting Back on Federal Judges

    It is as if the Republican establishment simply had not understood that over the last fifty years the Supreme Court, sadly, has become the super-legislature of the nation.

  • August 7, 2009

    Two Hundred Days of Hope and Change

    What is the scorecard so far?

  • August 3, 2009

    Brown Nose Democrats

    There is no excuse for the Blue Dog Democrats who have stopped representing the overwhelming wishes of their constituents for a mess of pottage

  • July 30, 2009

    Work, Jobs, and Worth

    The Left has long confused work, jobs, and worth. The Stimulus Package, the grand catastrophe, was intended to create and preserve jobs that could make America poorer, not richer

  • July 28, 2009

    An Unraveling Presidency

    Obama has descended rapidly from the Magnificent to the Monotonous.

  • July 27, 2009

    The Small Business Solution

    Obama's efforts to "help" the economy are focused almost solely on propping up giant corporations and vast labor unions. Republicans should be staking out the promotion of small business

  • July 26, 2009

    Forty Years After Landing on the Moon

    I rejoice as much as any American in Neil Armstrong's famous first step on our planet's great satellite, but I also know that there is much danger in gigantic communal triumphs.

  • July 22, 2009

    India and Global Warming

    Secretary of State Clinton has gone to India and tried to persuade its leaders to adopt the Leftist dilettante position on carbon emissions.

  • July 20, 2009

    Not Obama's Czars but his Commissars

    Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany both called those vague, undefined figures appointed by the Leader to carry out his intentions "commissars"

  • July 16, 2009

    Albert -- the Not-So Great -- Gore

    Think what you want about George W. Bush, but he did do this: he saved us from a Gore Presidency.

  • July 10, 2009

    The Slave Press

    Why do we have Freedom of the Press? Although this is usually combined with freedom of speech, the two are not the same at all.

  • July 8, 2009

    Palin and Sanford: A Tale of Two Governors

    Mark Sanford and Sarah Palin are both conspicuously religious, both defenders of states' rights, both unabashed conservatives, and both relatively young and attractive

  • July 7, 2009

    The Mousy Squeaks of LAME

    Feminism is most easily understood - at least in my mind - with the acronym for its informal organization, LAME (Ladies Auxiliary of Marxist Envy.)

  • July 3, 2009

    Remembering What the Declaration of Independence is Not

    Sometimes we appreciate what the Declaration of Independence was, but perhaps we need even more to appreciate what it was not.

  • July 1, 2009

    Our Melting President

    When your political opponents are more energized and upset than your political allies, that is a very bad sign.

  • June 30, 2009

    Seventy-Five Years after the Night of the Long Knives

    June 30, 2009 is the seventy-fifth anniversary of a ghastly reminder about the nature of evil in the modern world.

  • June 23, 2009

    Not a Theocracy but a Thugocracy

    The mullahs are vulnerable to the charge of abusing Islam.

  • June 22, 2009

    How about this, President Obama? We win. They Lose.

    President Obama is floundering for the right tactics when what he needs is the right strategy.

  • June 21, 2009

    Wishing Fathers Weren't Vital

    Fathers matter. Often, fathers make all the difference in the lives of children. Fathers, of course, become expendable in this dreary dystopian reality.

  • June 15, 2009

    The Murder of Civil Life

    We no longer have a civil public life. It has been crushed between pinchers of enraged nihilism and fantasy causes. What has happened to Sarah Palin and Carrie Prejean has happened to our whole social fabric.

  • June 9, 2009

    The Collapsing Global Left

    American voters are bombarded by their media with the message that conservatism is dead, but the collapse of the Left proceeds apace elsewhere in the world.

  • June 4, 2009

    The Greatest Problem of the Mainstream Media

    The media -- newspapers, magazines, book publishing, radio, television, and film -- have never at any point in the history of our nation been impartial.

  • May 30, 2009

    Tears of the Goddess of Liberty

    Twenty years ago today, the dream of liberty was crushed in Tiananmen Square.

  • May 28, 2009

    The Liar's Club

    The Left is shrinking honesty into an empty, ignored, and mocked virtue. It was not always so.

  • May 22, 2009

    The Riverdale Plot and Our Dreyfus Moment

    We who take Christianity and Judaism seriously, we who view America and Israel as blessed refuges of those hated for the sake of hate, will never persuade our foes to stop being our foes.

  • May 19, 2009

    Slick Barry

    Beneath the obvous difference, there are some disconcerting similarities between the last two Democrats in the White House.

  • May 14, 2009

    Still the Biggest Missing Story in Politics

    Putting together a conservative majority should not be rocket science.

  • May 12, 2009

    War is Hell

    Sherman was right: War is Hell. The current war against the Judeo-Christian world waged by al-Qaida and other radical Moslems is no different.

  • May 9, 2009

    When Ideology Rules Us

    Justice has become a matter of ideology not law.

  • May 8, 2009

    The Notional Dangers of the Fictional Far Right

    The far right of the liberals' imagination simply does not exist. The platform of the conservative wing of the conservative movement is something altogether different than the labels hurled by liberals.

  • May 4, 2009

    Before the Dawn

    Hope, courage, and honor is contagious, and it does not always come from expected places.

  • May 2, 2009

    Sixty Years after a failed Hope and a realized Dream

    On May 2, 1949, sixty years ago, the State of Israel was admitted to the United Nations. These two creations of post-war mankind were, in many ways, intertwined.

  • April 24, 2009

    Carrie Prejean's Koufax Moment

    What Ms. Prejean, the Miss USA runner up, had was a Koufax Moment or, perhaps, a Myerson Moment.

  • April 22, 2009

    The Next Ice Age

    As Earth Day again brings forth disciples of the religion of inanimate matter, we would do well to examine just how little we know about our world.

  • April 16, 2009

    Where We Must Make a Stand

    The lust for power which is Leftism, however, has no fixed principles.

  • April 3, 2009

    Thirty years after Three Mile Island

    A crisis the left did not waste, but rather exploited to the fullest, happened thirty years ago. Politics and science make a dangerous combination.

  • March 24, 2009

    Seventy Years After Appeasement

    In March 1939, the last vestiges of appeasement died.

  • March 20, 2009

    The Banality of Obama

    The salient fact of the Obama Presidency is its banality. He who promised change has dredged up the failed nostrums of the past as if they were something new and fresh.

  • March 8, 2009

    States' Rights and Our Liberties

    "States' rights" has gotten a bad name.

  • February 24, 2009

    The Coming Battle of Reapportionment and Redistricting

    And what Republicans can do about it.

  • February 11, 2009

    What Michael Steele Should Do

    Tactical victories and cosmetic changes are not enough to make the Republican Party the majority party again..

  • January 23, 2009

    Seduced by Change

    We already live in a world of constant change, and we assume too easily that change is good.

  • January 15, 2009

    The Descent of the Senate

    Once the parent of true greatness, the United States Senate today shames its great figures of the past.

  • January 11, 2009

    Christianity and the Round Planet

    Many people, like me, grew up believing that when Columbus sailed to America in 1492, Christians at the time thought that he would fall off the edge of the world.

  • January 5, 2009

    The Diamond Anniversary of Dehumanization

    Seventy-five years ago this month, one of the most insidious laws in human history came into effect in Nazi Germany.  The innocent sounding name was The Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseased Offspring.

  • January 1, 2009

    Fifty Years of Fidel

    Fifty years ago, the forces of Fidel entered Havana and Batista left. Fifty years ago, freedom left Havana and it has never come back.

  • January 1, 2009

    The Ten Grinchiest Republicans in 2008

    A sorry list, but one worth considering.

  • December 27, 2008

    'Meritalism' not 'Capitalism'

    The Left has edited the political dictionary in a way that determines how we are able to think about politics and ideology.

  • December 23, 2008

    The Light of Hope in Darkness

    Those great evils have this in common: always, the evil hates and persecutes Jews and Christians; always, the evil despises Israel and America.

  • December 15, 2008

    Changing stats on Arctic ice

    Arctic sea ice is alleged to be diminishing due to global warming. Want to see a half million square kilometers of Arctic ice disappear overnight?

  • December 13, 2008

    The Silver Anniversary of Argentina's Democracy

    The resolution of Margaret Thatcher in the Falklands War -- a grittiness which the generals of Argentina did not think soft European democrats could muster -- produced a revolution in Argentine government.

  • December 6, 2008

    Celebrating a quiet victory of democracy

    You won't find anyone in the media celebrating the emergence of a stable democracy when it would bring credit on a liberal bête noir.

  • December 3, 2008

    A Big Georgia Win - A Small Step Back to Conservatism

    There is no good way for the Left to play this vote. Saxby Chambliss is a solid conservative with a 95% rating by the American Conservative Union. Jim Martin is a Leftist Democrat.

  • November 27, 2008

    Thanks for what lasts

    Barack Obama won the presidency promising change. As we enter our national season of Thanksgiving, we should reflect on the goodness of permanence.

  • November 24, 2008

    Mein Kampus

    College has long been bigoted toward conservatives. But levels of indoctrination have reached new hights.

  • November 16, 2008

    Orwell's Children

    Orwell's Children live among us now, not in tiny numbers.

  • November 9, 2008

    What do the election results mean to conservatives?

    The results of the 2008 election mean a lot of things to a lot of different people. What do those results mean to conservatives

  • October 29, 2008

    Negative Liberties and Obama Newspeak

    The 2001 audio tape of Barack Obama describing the Constitution as a document of "negative liberties" reveals an utterly Orwellian Obama. How can liberty be anything other than negative?

  • October 16, 2008

    Conservative Victory in Canada and Lessons for Republicans

    The triumph of Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party in Canada's general election offers some hope for conservatives in the United States.

  • October 13, 2008

    John McCain and the Limbaugh Effect

    A majority of Americans consider themselves conservative. If only John McCain knew....

  • October 1, 2008

    The Unspoken Campaign Message of Obama

    There is a theme to the political campaign of Barack Obama. It can be summed up easily: I will do anything to win.

  • September 30, 2008

    Confronting Evil Then and Now

    The common element in the Munich Accord and the world now is how to confront evil. So far we have not learned much from the experience of 70 years ago today.

  • September 27, 2008

    The Golden Anniversary of de Gaulle's France

    Americans love to hate France. This dislike is reciprocated. Maybe, at times, this all seems like vast pettiness to us, but there are some things to learn from the difficult French leader Charles de Gaulle.

  • September 21, 2008

    Fully invested in your misery

    What was the historic maxim of the Left? "The worse, the better."

  • September 20, 2008

    The Left's Crooked Umpires

    The left has politicized many arenas of life, and in place of impartial professionals, we now have politicized operatives advancing an agenda.

  • September 8, 2008

    Thirty Years after Camp David

    Thirty years ago Jimmy Carter tried to change the world by getting the leaders of nations to agree. The result, in September 1978, was the Camp David Accords. Did it work?

  • September 7, 2008

    The Economic Problem of Sin

    But put faith aside for a moment. Take God out of the picture. Sin is an economic problem.

  • August 31, 2008

    Sarah Works

    The selection of Sarah Palin works, on many levels and in many ways. McCain knew what he was doing when he picked her

  • August 25, 2008

    The Biggest Missing Story in Politics

    It's been hiding in plain sight for years now. Keep it in mind as you watch the Democrats this week.

  • August 24, 2008

    The Rainbow Candidate and the Plain Vanilla Veep

    Has Bob Dole been secretly advising the Obama?

  • August 22, 2008

    Hope

    Take heart. Hope. Think for a moment about why the good guys will win the war against dishonesty, brutality, and power-mongering. The big picture is often hard to see.

  • August 20, 2008

    Forty Years after the Death of a Party

    Forty years ago, in the third week of August 1968, something horrible happened to the American Left and to its host, the Democratic Party.

  • August 15, 2008

    How the East Was Lost

    Ronald Reagan won the Cold War almost without firing a shot. Today, China is a brash, tough power, Russia invading a neighbor, and Moslems believe overwhelmingly that America, the liberator of tens of millions of Moslems from godless Communism, is the "Great Satan." What happened?

  • August 13, 2008

    John Edwards and the Truth Scandal

    The news spinners of the mainstream media have tried to portray the Edwards Affair as a sex scandal. It is not. It is a truth scandal.

  • August 10, 2008

    Replacing the Irreplaceable

    2008 is becoming a year in which we must replace the irreplaceable

  • August 7, 2008

    The Case for Cantor

    Congressman Eric Cantor may very well be the best possible Republican to run with McCain -- for several different reasons.

  • August 4, 2008

    The Death of a Giant

    Alexander Solzhenitsyn is dead. It is a testament to the banality of our times that most people probably do not know what that means.

  • August 4, 2008

    Death of a Giant

    Alexander Solzhenitsyn is dead. It is a testament to the banality of our times that most people probably do not know what that means.

  • August 2, 2008

    Three Ways for McCain to Drill to Victory

    The time has come for serious presidential campaigns to settle into a few, clear themes. Senator McCain has not quite done that yet, but he should soon. Here are three that will win him the presidency:

  • July 18, 2008

    Obama is Just Another Politician

    Barack Obama is just another politician. That is the increasingly obvious fact of the presidential campaign.

  • July 15, 2008

    Stabilizing the Middle East -- then and now

    Fifty years ago today, an American president successfully stood up against the Moslem tide in the Middle East and won a victory. Too bad the event and its lessons have been forgotten.

  • July 15, 2008

    AGW: Short on science, long on religion

    Here is a link to an excellent summary of two important articles from the Global Warming "Denier" camp

  • July 10, 2008

    Obama's Poor English Lesson

    Barack Obama has questioned, implicitly, the value of English as a primary language. At best this is ignorant; at worst, malicious.

  • July 4, 2008

    Declaration of Freedom

    In at least some ways, British North America was increasingly "independent" from Britain. The Declaration of July Fourth was about much more than independence.

  • June 18, 2008

    The Problem with Obama's Father's Day Speech

    Barack Obama's gave carefully calculated political speech on Father's Day made one good point, but left out something important.

  • June 6, 2008

    The Proposition 13 Revolution Turns Thirty

    Thirty years ago, on June 6, 1978, Americans began a political revolution.

  • June 1, 2008

    The New Copperheads

    During the Civil War, when the issues of right and wrong were clear, one of President Lincoln's appointees, General George McClellan, betrayed him.

  • May 17, 2008

    Twilight of the goddesses - The Ragnarok of Feminism

    Feminism has been dying the death of a sick old woman. The real moral battles of feminism were won long ago.

  • May 4, 2008

    The Decline of Leftism in Europe

    In less than a week the major political parties of the Right in Britain and Italy scored unprecedented electoral victories by winning mayoral races in Rome and then in London.

  • April 22, 2008

    Madness and Political Life

    "We have now sunk to a depth where the restatement of the obvious is the duty of intelligent men" Orwell wrote these words, and they are still true today.

  • April 20, 2008

    Ben Stein's Expelled

    Ben Stein's new film, Expelled, should be seen by anyone interested in the new Dark Age of totalitarianism which seems to be creeping through our institutions of communication, information and education

  • April 9, 2008

    Is Obama committed to Israel's survival?

    Is Obama committed to Israel's survival? The question is serious and the answer may be chilling.

  • April 6, 2008

    Who's an Uncle Tom?

    As the Democrats' nomination process descends into the ugly area of racial politics, it may be helpful to explore and to learn about the origin of some of the equally ugly racial mockeries that have become a part of American political life.

  • March 28, 2008

    Some Wicked Friends of Public Schools

    Free education, the provision for the opportunity for universal literacy, is a blessing to any society. But state control of all education, public and private, is not.

  • March 25, 2008

    The religion of eternal racism and eternal sexism

    How many "civil rights" leaders talk as if racism is an immutable, eternal characteristic of American society? How many feminist leaders talk as if sexism is an immutable, eternal characteristic of American society?

  • March 18, 2008

    The New Jimmy Carter

    Thirty two years ago a Democrat politician with very little experience "transcended" politics as usual and was lifted on waves of good will to the White House. It seems to be happening again.

  • March 17, 2008

    The Lawyers' Party

    The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers' Party. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are lawyers. Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama are lawyers. Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate.)

  • February 29, 2008

    Buckley and Reagan: The Qualities of Conservative Greatness

    As conservatives bemoan the apparent descent of conservatism into a swamp, we would do well to remember the two men who most personify conservatism in America.

  • February 23, 2008

    The Misnomer of Conservatism

    As we "conservatives" thrash about trying to find who is a real conservative, we should also seek to find what we mean by conservative.

  • February 3, 2008

    America on Ronald Reagan's Birthday

    The day after Super Tuesday, we celebrate the birthday of Ronald Reagan. If we all agree that Reagan was great, perhaps we should reflect on his birthday why he was so great.

  • January 24, 2008

    Happy Birthday, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy!

    On January 27, 2008, our nation celebrates an important political anniversary. Ten years ago Hillary Clinton (then the First Lady) went on television with Matt Lauer

  • January 14, 2008

    Ron Paul and the Lodestar of Liberty

    Ron Paul is not a nut. But Ron Paul holds the vain hope that American government would return to constitutional law anytime soon, even if he did win the presidency.

  • January 10, 2008

    A Moral Challenge for the Democrats

    There is a difference between Mrs. Bill Clinton and Senator Barack Obama. That difference is not about political ideology. It is not about specific policies. The difference between Clinton and Obama is about ethics and character.

  • January 3, 2008

    Mike Huckabee and Christian Duty

    Mike Huckabee is talking about using the coercive power of government to force other people to pay taxes and to comply with onerous and arbitrary laws to do what Mike thinks, as a Christian, he should be doing.

  • January 1, 2008

    The Conservative Tide in Major Democracies

    In each of four major nations important to us, France, Germany, Canada, and Britain, elections and poll rersults are favorable to conservative political forces.

  • December 9, 2007

    Wrongfully Accused: Jews and Bolshevism

    It has become an article of faith for some people who hate the Judeo-Christian faith to accuse Jews of causing Bolshevism.

  • November 25, 2007

    The Nazis Were Marxists

    The Nazis were Marxists, no matter what our tainted academia and corrupt media wishes us to believe.

  • November 19, 2007

    Christian Opposition to Nazi Anti-Semitism

    Resistance to Nazis did not come from universities or science or art or literature or radio or newspapers, but only from religiously serious people.

  • November 17, 2007

    The Nazis and Christianity

    Christianity had declined severely in Germany at the time the Nazis came to power, which is why the Nazis were able to come to power.

  • November 10, 2007

    The Godless Delusion

    The recent spate of anti-theistic books presents nothing really new. People have been making arguments against the existence of God for a long, long time.