August 26, 2023

President Trump is the new Tiananmen ‘Tank Man’

On June 5th, 1989 an iconic photo was taken by CNN in Tiananmen Square of “Tank Man,” a singular Chinese citizen, facing down the Chinese Communist Party’s ruthless imperium. Prior, Tiananmen Square had become an impromptu abatto...

August 21, 2021

Will Afghanistan really change anything for the better?

The thousands of American hostages are now fungible, working parts of the politics surrounding the abject, shameful, ignorant, and ill-advised unilateral overnight abrogation of any and all responsibilities to Afghan allies and the unfortunate Americ...

March 5, 2020

A French Revolution lite

The American Left is going through a "French Revolution lite."  The "Committee of Public Safety" is led by not a single scurrilous, scheming Robespierre, but a legion of would-be commissars who wake up one day feeling ...

December 5, 2019

House Democrats on a suicide mission?

Yesterday and over the last four weeks, Democrat leadership in the House of Representatives seem to be on a suicide mission.  The strategy worked out by the big thinkers in the House over the last month is astonishing in its seemingly self-...

February 25, 2019

The day the Oscars' descent into political madness began

Forty-six years ago, in 1973, Marlon Brando sent Sacheen Littlefeather up on stage at the Oscars to reject his Academy Award Statue for his performance in The Godfather.  Littlefeather, who was born Marie Louise Cruz (not much cac...