June 29, 2025

‘A Very Consequential Two Weeks’

Success in Iran and the Supreme Court have cleared the road for the rest of Donald Trump's agenda.

June 22, 2025

Distilling the Week

Focusing on the Iran conflict, on President Trump’s foreign policy, the pushback from COVID tyranny, and the Supreme Court’s ruling on deference to experts. 

June 15, 2025

Peering Through the Fog of War

The Israelis pulled off the most brilliant offensive in modern military history; the President orchestrated a genius misdirection; Iran’s regime is on its back feet from which it will not recover.

June 8, 2025

Anatomy of A(nother) Blood Libel

Major media is acting hand in glove with Hamas to broadcast fake Gaza atrocity stories and enflame antisemitism. 

June 1, 2025

It’s Graduation Time Again

In recent years, graduations have become stages for performative, divisive screeds at a largely captive audience.

May 25, 2025

The Western Media’s Role in Genocide, Assassinations, and the Near Destruction of the U.S.

The mainstream press here and abroad is guided by anti-truth, antisemitic, anti-white, and anti-western civilization animus.

May 11, 2025

Trump’s Necessary Foreign and Domestic Revolution

It’s a fool’s game to try to predict President Trump’s audacious new moves. 

May 4, 2025

COVID-19 on My Mind

The most outrageous tyrannies under the guise of preventing the spread of the disease appears to have been in Democrat-run jurisdictions and in response to major Democrat supporters.

April 27, 2025

Judge Not

Judges play stupid games and win stupid prizes. 

April 20, 2025

Is it Time to Ignore the Judiciary?

The broad scope and speed of the administration’s actions have knocked the sense out of the media, the Democrats, and the judiciary. They cannot seem to process the swift and expansive range of change without making themselves look ridiculous. 

April 13, 2025

Bringing Immigration Policy into Focus

Immigration control is a key feature of the MAGA initiatives: closing the border, removing illegal immigrants, keeping non-citizens from voting and stopping federal funding from supporting illegal immigration. 

April 6, 2025

The Fruits of Trump’s Audacious Policies

The Trump Administration prevails against both trade barriers internationally and out-of-control courts at home. 

March 30, 2025

Nearing the Final Battle Against the Deep State

The campaign to wrest control of the state from the hands of the deep state bureaucracy rolls on. 

March 23, 2025

Righteous Attacks Bringing the Left to Heel

Well, it went around... and now here it comes. 

March 16, 2025

Do We Have 677 Unelected Presidents?

The curtain must fall on the notion that hundreds of unelected district court judges should be permitted to act as Chief Executive.

March 9, 2025

Scandals, the Bubblegum Pink Resistance, and Lawfare

Not a bad week for the Administration which has, inter alia, gelded his domestic opposition, the UN, WHO, and the WEF, forced Trudeau into retirement, and exposed the EU as a collection of toothless poseurs. 

March 2, 2025

Zelensky’s Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad, No Good Day

A clear-eyed, masterful negotiator looked at the field, came up with what he believes is the best available deal for his client (us) and the world and a posturing midget egged on by arrogant armchair warriors failed to grab it.

February 23, 2025

President Trump of the 30 (and a Couple) Days

It’s been an exhausting four weeks for anyone watching the administration’s effort to reshape, modernize, and clean up the federal government. 

February 16, 2025

Week Four: No Rest for the Grifters

The creation of the Department of Government Efficiency has exposed the often-archaic bookkeeping and computer systems and the enormous waste and grifting in the operation of the federal government. 

February 9, 2025

The Musk-eteers Reveal You’ve Been Living in a Simulated Reality

Over the past two weeks Elon Musk and his cadre of young computer geniuses have cracked the code. 

February 2, 2025

Trump’s Second Week: A Turning Point in American Governance

For the Democrats, Trump's second week has been worse than they ever imagined. For the rest of us, it has been better than we ever hoped. 

January 26, 2025

A Breathtaking First Week

President Trump gets a thing or two done. 

January 19, 2025

Biden: After I’m Gone, I Don’t Care What Happens

Biden has made it clear that he’s perfectly happy to see the country weak and bankrupt and the Constitution torched when he leaves office. 

January 12, 2025

A DEI Green New Deal Hydrogen Bomb

The people holding elective office have demonstrated indifference and incompetence to the citizens of California. 

January 5, 2025

The First Week of 2025

The first week of 2025 is a reminder that while the country and the world face peril, we are on the cusp of a revolution in the West.

December 29, 2024

The Capital is Like Brigadoon

This week the same press which has consistently lied about Trump confected a split between the DOGE team and Trump.

December 22, 2024

Trump and Musk Demolish the Obama Hallucinatory Permission Structure

The big story this week is how X (formerly Twitter) worked to dramatically change the American legislative process.  

December 15, 2024

Of Drones, Druze, and Pardons

A bad week for drone sales, the Alawites, and Nancy Pelosi. 

December 8, 2024

A Tale of Two Parties

While Biden disgraces the presidency, Donald Trump is treated as acting had of state. 

December 1, 2024

Criminal Law Should Be Inelastic

Criminal law should be clear so that those covered by it can understand what is permitted and what is prohibited. 

November 24, 2024

It’s a Mad Mad Mad World

After Hamas raped, tortured, burned, kidnapped, and murdered innocent Israelis on October 7, it is astonishing to see how so much of the world has blamed the victims.

November 17, 2024

May the Force Be With Us

Trump and his cabinet nominess will move the country from an administrative state to the sort of republic the Founders envisioned.

November 10, 2024

How Badly Harris Lost and Why

Around the world, even before he’s sworn into office, the Trump win is having significant impact. 

November 3, 2024

Will it Really be a Cliffhanger?

It's wise to just vote and ignore the polls and pundits, many of whom are dealing from the bottom of the deck and bluffing. 

October 27, 2024

No Ring of Fire and No Endorsements

A rough week for the enemies of the West: Iran, Harris, LAT, and WaPo all feel the lash. 

October 20, 2024

Beginning of the end of the Obama-Biden Democratic Party

Harris and Walz have made a thing of “turning the page,” but the page that must be turned is the one they are on.

October 13, 2024

Harris-Walz Burlesque

The old comic-book sea horse ads were better fakes than the Harris-Walz team is churning out.

October 6, 2024

Heroes and Zeroes

The week began with what is absurdly called a “debate” and ended with a clear example of the grit, decency, and inventiveness of ordinary people and the sloth, idiocy, and incompetence of our government.

September 29, 2024

Israel Stops Taking Counsel from the Angel of Death

Israel's taming of Hezb'allah puts paid to the idiotic Obama, Biden/Harris notion that appeasing the master of Middle East terrorism, Iran, and forcing Israel to ever more concessions is the pathway to peace.

September 22, 2024

A Week to Remember

Some weeks there’s not much of great importance. Others, like this week, there is almost too much to absorb.

September 15, 2024

An Unserious Debate in Which Trump got the Strongest Play

The cats laugh last. 

September 8, 2024

Guess Who’s Not Going to Jail Before the Election?

The bogus judicial cases against Donald Trump have become so tangled that they're starting to interfere with each other. 

September 1, 2024

CNN, Washington Post: A Modern Press Gang

Stories of the week: Tonga drag show, Walz loves Tater Tots, and the Arlington Cemetary hoax. 

August 25, 2024

Fear and Trembling in the Deep State

On Friday, we faced yet another black swan event. We’ve had an attempted Trump assassination, the surprise coup against President Biden, and now Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s, defection and joining up with Donald Trump.

August 18, 2024

Two Heroes and a Marxist Airhead

Another week of contrasts between the American Giant and the Virtual Candidate. 

August 11, 2024

Calling Your Tongue Your Own

Are runamok UK censors laying down the blueprint for a Harris/Walz administration crackdown?

August 4, 2024

The Etch A Sketch Nominee and the Mullahs’ Nightmare

The Democrats think they will pitch a fast one, less than 100 days before the election coronating a radical, not very smart candidate as a substitute for a clearly demented president.

July 28, 2024

Media’s Version of Harris is Unburdened by History

Once again, the Democrats are offering up a woman candidate for president. And once again, it is an unlikable candidate who owes her career to a far more skillful male politician.

July 21, 2024

What a Week!

The attempted assassination bears a resemblance to the Crowdstrike outage in that it underscores the growing incompetence, lack of resilience, and poor preparation that marks so much of modern life. 

July 14, 2024

DC Back Stories: Seth Rich and George Clooney

There's much more than meets the eye in both the Seth Rich and George Clooney stories. 

July 7, 2024

Joe: Take the Damn Cognitive Test

Joe Biden continues to climb the ladder to oblivion.

June 30, 2024

What Now that the Gaslighting is Over?

In the famous psychological drama, Gaslight, it took a Scotland Yard detective to prove the heroine had been driven half-mad by a gaslighting husband. All it took us to see how we had been deceived was a CNN debate.

June 23, 2024

Will the Supreme Court Affect the Debate?

This week, the Supreme Court issued two opinions that do not bode well for the outcome of the NY case brought by Alvin Bragg.

June 16, 2024

Be Prepared for Chaos

The Democrats, deep state, and their media enablers are all in rough shape and have no other way out but to fall back on their usual criminal methods of retaining power.

June 9, 2024

A Daring Rescue and a Surprise from the Ninth Circuit

Four innocent hostages brought home, and a legal blow against presumptuous government action.

June 2, 2024

The Trumped Up Conviction and its Consequences

The conviction of Trump is as futile for the Democrats as it is dangerous for the country. 

May 26, 2024

Punked

This week, a lot of people and institutions got “punked,” that is, humiliated, by their own actions. 

May 19, 2024

Camp of the Dumbbells

Neither the Biden administration nor the EU seems interested in the large and growing antipathy to open borders. And both will regret ignoring it.

May 12, 2024

Biden and His ‘Ironclad’ Support of Israel

While Israel fights for its life, the Biden adminstration plays bureaucratic games. 

May 5, 2024

Camp Intifada: Students for Theocratic Authoritarianism

The Administration’s failure to act on the side of Western civilization is seriously damaging President Biden’s reelection prospects and the prospects for the Democratic party itself. 

April 28, 2024

Was it all that Baby Proofing?

A generation of reckless, entitled, ill-educated brats has stampeded American universities off a high place into the sea. 

April 21, 2024

Chicago is the DNC’s Kind of Town?

This year, it’s not just the pro-Hamas wing that will be protesting, but Black Chicagoans opposed to the Democrats’ open-border policies.

April 14, 2024

Autophagia at Berkeley

When you sup with the Devil, you must bring a long spoon.

April 7, 2024

Moral Midgets Cook Up a War Crime

It doesn’t take a genius to see the that Democrats are using the World Central Kitchen incident to play to that significant portion of their base which has revealed itself as deeply antisemitic.

March 31, 2024

Happy Trans Day of Visibility

To the President who claims he is a Catholic in good standing, Easter is just another day to poke his fingers in your eyes.

March 24, 2024

Domination Through Chaos and Fear

Eroding trust in rational systems and behaviors creates radicals, and radicalization empowers the worst elements of a society.

March 17, 2024

Mendacity and Corruption in the Judiciary

Something is seriously wrong with American law schools and disciplinary outfits which are supposed to monitor corrupt conduct of practitioners. 

March 10, 2024

We Could Use a Man like Calvin Coolidge Again

If Javier Milei can pull Argentina out of the red, we can do it here. 

March 3, 2024

Checkmating DoJ and Jack Smith

The higher courts are finally stepping in to limit the legal overreach evident in both the J6 cases and Jack Smith's jihad against President Trump.

February 25, 2024

Russian Follies: The Sequel

The Russian sequel is looking more and more like a comic production. 

February 18, 2024

Has Our Government Erased the First Amendment?

There are several cases now pending in the Supreme Court questioning whether the government can censor internet communications through proxies what it cannot do directly.

February 11, 2024

Double Exposure

The revelations of UNRWA's perfidy and Joe Biden's decrepitude mark an inflection point in relations between the elites and the public.

February 4, 2024

The Democrats Create an Alice in the Looking Glass World

The past week has involved a chaotic, topsy-turvy, irrational series of policies, events, and outcomes. 

January 28, 2024

Biden, the Border, and Tik Tok Too

President Biden is in a pickle of his own making, and his efforts to deal with it are as idiotic and destructive as his open borders policy has been.

January 21, 2024

Our Weird Passivity Toward Iran’s Aggression

The Administration has backed off its historic mission of protecting freedom of navigation in the Red Sea. Instead, it keeps choosing appeasement.

January 14, 2024

Past Time to Undo Obama’s 'Fundamental Transformation'

Two decades of Obama policies have led to wars in the Middle East, the destruction of our educational systems, the danger to our lives from poor management, and a substantially weakened military capability. 

January 7, 2024

Higher Education: DEI and Cargo Cultism

DEI is not and cannot make high-performing professionals out of people without the abilities to perform such tasks, and the overloaded DEI staffs and remedial teachers are not magicians who can do this. 

December 31, 2023

Happy New Year, Anyway

While it seems unlikely that 2024 will be better than this one has been, there are some reasons for optimism. 

December 24, 2023

Jack (Smith) Not So Nimble

Those hoping that lawfare would give President Biden his best chance at reelection and pinned their hopes on Merrick Garland and Jack Smith making the magic happen, this has been a no good, awful, terrible week.

December 17, 2023

Farhi -- A Flicker of Light in the Post’s Darkness

The White House so far does not seem to be buying into the temper tantrums on the highways, the obnoxious behavior at so many colleges and universities, and the puerile nonsense of unsigned petitions and vigils by those ashamed to show their faces or reveal their names.

December 10, 2023

Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest

The national revolt against educational malpractice hits the universities -- big time. 

December 3, 2023

Winkin', Blinken, and Nod

While the UN, UNRWA, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken seek to subvert Israel, the Arab states quietly encourage Israel's evisceration of Hamas.

November 26, 2023

Manipulating with Lies and Manufactured Sob Stories

The "free press" can fairly be characterized as outright liars and enablers of Hamas. 

November 19, 2023

So -- It Wasn’t the Sidewalk After All

This conflagration has exposed as rotten a lot of stupid notions and will lead to the demise of things like “open borders, identity politics, corruption power hungry bureaucrats, Gramscian culture.”

November 12, 2023

The West Gelds Itself

From the halls of Ivy to the Fourth Estate, once-respected institutions are revealing themselves to be at the forefront of efforts to upend the mores and conduct which make ours a civilized society worth defending against barbarism. 

November 5, 2023

Higher Ed: Now it’s Just Loco

It took decades for this cancer to infect our colleges and universities. It will take time to eradicate it.

October 22, 2023

Open Sources Demolish the Legacy Media

Thanks to the ever-expanding Infowave, the media's Blood Libel against Israel has crashed and burned. 

October 15, 2023

Time for Wokesters to Stick a Sock in It

The Woke Left cheers as Hamas commits war crimes and shields themselves with civilian bodies.

October 8, 2023

Hillary Drops the Veil on Her Party’s Totalitarianism

There’s nothing new and nothing funny about the totalitarian impulse on the Left. 

October 1, 2023

Biden Selling out the U.S.

Joe Biden, his family, and his administration have all been involved in cutting deals against American interests with China, Ukraine, Russia, and most flagrantly of all, Iran.

September 24, 2023

Now They’re Just Poking Their Fingers in Our Eyes

Every time they think, it weakens the nation. 

September 17, 2023

To Market, to Market

Desperate left-wing pols turn to old Soviet tactics to solve the problems they themselves created. 

September 10, 2023

If it Saves One Life and Other Meretricious Lies

It’s not unusual that power-mad politicians justify depriving us of liberty using the appeal to emotion: “If it saves one life.” 

September 3, 2023

Law and Order: The Post-Constitutional Episode

The media and the judiciary double down on the hoax prosecutions of Donald Trump and the J6 protestors. 

August 27, 2023

Quit Aiming for the Ankles

But the government’s use of its powers to beset us on a daily basis and make life more expensive, less efficient, and dreary is evident every day.

August 20, 2023

Green Policies and Government Incompetence Led to the Tragedy of the Maui Fire

The citizens of Hawaii, a solidly Democratic one-party state, are learning what those of similarly governed urban centers are learning: elect incompetents who forget their first duty is to protect their constituents and you will suffer. 

August 13, 2023

The Weaponization of Justice

The lawfare waged against former President Trump and the Department of Justice’s pussyfooting around the Biden bribery  took this week’s center stage. 

August 6, 2023

The Machinery of Government is Coated with Gunk

It’s beginning to look as if Barack Obama knew of Hunter’s corruption and the danger it posed to national security and did nothing about it.

July 30, 2023

DOJ’s Dirty Deeds

It has been a week of scandalous doings under Attorney General Merrick Garland’s watch. 

July 23, 2023

‘Thorny Questions’: How the Democrats and Media Enablers Censor News

Democrats in Congress and their legacy media enablers dropped their veils this week, revealing how dear they hold their desire and capacity to censor truth. 

July 16, 2023

Tucker Carlson Helps Cull the Republican Presidential Field

If you find the presidential debate format a rather meaningless exercise, you will be astonished at what one-on-one interviews by a skilled interrogator can accomplish.

July 9, 2023

Judge Doughty and Biden’s Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth’

This week, Judge Terry A. Doughty detailed the government’s manipulation of social media and enjoined government agencies, officers, and employees from continuing these practices 

July 2, 2023

Trump’s Greatest Triumph: A Court That Follows the Constitution

Donald Trump's steadfastness regarding Supreme Court appointments has accomplished more in one week that movement conservatives did in fifty years. 

June 25, 2023

Wilmington: The Next Netflix Series?

More compelling than The Godfather, more sordid than Dallas, more asinine than The Simpsons.

June 18, 2023

It’s Not Just the FBI: The IRS goes into ‘Beast Mode’

Every federal employee with a badge and gun seems to think he’s a law onto himself. 

June 11, 2023

Same Plot, Different Actors

Just as Hollywood seems stuck on the notion of releasing new versions of once-popular films using new actors, the corrupt Department of Justice seems to be using the same tattered playbook once again in the preposterous and ill-considered indictment of President Trump. Only if you saw the originals, you know the plot tricks this time.

May 21, 2023

A Cabal of Sociopaths

The continued life of this Constitutional Republic is in grave danger from the cabal of sociopaths in critical positions of power. 

May 14, 2023

The Counterattack of Reason

This week marked the beginning of the end for some nutty thinking and policies.

May 7, 2023

(Don’t) Take the F Train

Another act to subdue an aggressive mentally ill man leads to another George Floyd media-leftist whitewash of the perpetrator and this time, I think it will not work.

April 30, 2023

Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace

The forces determined to monopolize the public square through censorship, lies, and social pressure have devastated universities and scholarship, allowed a corrupt public health bureaucracy to ravage our lives, and stuck us with the most incompetent and corrupt leadership in our history. 

April 23, 2023

Erasing Women

There is a concerted attack by the culture warriors to erase women, denigrate them, and allow them only symbolic powers.

April 16, 2023

Can a Discriminatory View of Legal Standing Stand?

The climate change fairytale has lasted long enough -- forty or fifty years -- with no sound empirical backing. 

April 9, 2023

A Hiccup in the Prosecution of the J6 Defendants

The U.S.  Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia may well have torched the outrageous overcharging of hundreds of people who peacefully walked through the Capitol, a public building, on January 6, 2021. 

April 2, 2023

Yes, We Have Gone Bananas

The two big stories this week illustrate the corruption of the legal system and of the Democratic party which controls key portions of it. 

March 26, 2023

The Public Health Establishment That Flew Too Near to the Sun

The public health establishment, like Icarus on wax wings (in their case, lies, power grabs, political manipulation, rich economic reward) flew too close to the sun and melted their means of staying aloft. 

March 19, 2023

You Can Bank on it: A Cheat Sheet on the SVB Collapse

...and the man behind the curtain in the SVB saga is none other than... Joe Biden.

March 12, 2023

This Great Stage of Fools

Democrat lies about the GOP go back a long, long way.

March 5, 2023

Trials and Tribulations

In which it is revealed how the Dems, when it comes to crime, can't help but repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot. 

February 26, 2023

The Duke is in the Altogether

Daily life in the 21st century continues to outcrazy the satirists. 

February 19, 2023

Eating Their Own in the Golden State

Can the pencil-neck vote outweigh the DEI Left on behalf of Adam Schiff?

February 12, 2023

‘Shaddup,’ the Government Said

If you’ve ever wondered why you can’t find common factual ground with liberal friends, the reason may be that not only have private outfits worked successfully to censor news, but government agencies as well.

February 5, 2023

Balloons and Hot Air

Biden, his administration, and the entire U.S. military and political establishment humiliated by a balloon.

January 29, 2023

Straight Talk on the Latest Riots

Police misconduct once again acts as an excuse for organized violence by leftists across the country.

January 22, 2023

The War on Competence

The Left has replaced the class-war game with a war on competence and achievement, hiding beyond claims of racial and sexual equity.

January 15, 2023

The Corvette Files

The Deep State tries to climb out from under Biden's pile of top-secret documents. 

January 8, 2023

The Long Fight for the House Speakership

The extended House speakership debate may at last result in Congress more skillfully playing the role designed for it in the Constitution. 

December 18, 2022

Deep State Suspicions

Isn't it a sad thing that the Deep State can't even keep its secrets anymore?

December 11, 2022

Raiding Arizona

If people think we cannot determine our fate through elections, they will stop bothering to vote and such widespread disaffection would not bode well for a continuation of the American experiment in representative government. 

December 4, 2022

The Media Undertakers Must be Getting Exhausted

Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi just opened up another crack in the door revealing how the FBI and DNC manipulated Twitter in the runup to the election. 

November 27, 2022

Elon Musk-eteer

Elon sneezes, and the Left catches pneumonia. 

November 20, 2022

Congressional Hearings -- Do Them Right or Not at All

Despite Kevin McCarthy's uniparty aspirations, a Republican House must begin investigating the Biden administration.

November 13, 2022

Arizona on my Mind

Arizona once again leads in sloppy election handling. One can blame incompetence, but as these sloppy procedures seem to always favor the Left there’s reason for suspicion.

November 6, 2022

Red Wave on the Sunset

It really does look like there will be a red tsunami at the polls, even accounting for the Democrats well-known election tricks.

October 30, 2022

What's Behind the Seth Rich Coverup?

Why is the FBI trying so hard to keep what has been in its possession for over four years a secret?

October 23, 2022

Ol’ Man River is Not Rolling Along

Even the great Mississippi has had it with Biden's presidency. 

October 16, 2022

Score One for True the Vote

Those paranoid election deniers True the Vote uncover a snake pit of Chinese electoral manipulation ignored by the FBI, the media, and everybody else. 

October 9, 2022

The Constitution is Color-Blind

The Biden administration's policies on race are another example of the Democrats destroying the country while claiming to fix it.

October 2, 2022

The Weekly Whodunnit

What happened to cause leaks in Russia’s Nord Stream 1 and 2, designed to send gas to Germany? The speculation runs from rational to delusional.

September 25, 2022

Xi Whiz

Aren’t we lucky that both the mainstream and social media blocked the news about Hunter’s laptop? 

September 18, 2022

The FBI: Disturbing the Peace and Creating Inter-Party War

The FBI was taken aback when Judge Aileen Cannon in Florida threw a wrench into the agency’s very obvious plan to affect the midterms with lies. 

September 11, 2022

The DoJ Argues that the Intelligence Community Overrides the Judiciary

This week's DoJ actions reveal the weakness of the grounds for a search and seizure of materials at the home Donald J. Trump, the overreach of the warrant, and the expansive search itself. 

September 4, 2022

Laboring Through Bilge on Labor Day

The beauty of our federal system is that it can throw some roadblocks into the march toward fascism. 

August 28, 2022

Conventional Wisdom is an Oxymoron

Things that have become conventional wisdom are so often proven dead wrong that we are wise to put “no” in front of anything that is bruited endlessly by the media and advanced by Democrat leaders.

August 21, 2022

D.C. Lawyer of the Year: Natasha Taylor-Smith

Amid Stalinist show trials and a complete collapse of the justice system, one young woman alone acts for justice.

August 14, 2022

Panic at the Top

We may someday look back and mark the Wuhan flu as the beginning of the end for this country's elites. 

August 7, 2022

Winners and Losers in my Constitution Bee

If adults held a Constitution Bee, the winner this week would be Florida governor Ron DeSantis and the loser would be White House Spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre.

July 31, 2022

Naming Things

Naming things is not insignificant in everyday life. How you call something shapes the meaning in your mind and manipulates your point of view.

July 24, 2022

Academia Neglects Its Most Important Function: A Free Marketplace of Ideas

Academia in this country has entered a dark age, neglecting ts true function: A place for the sifting and winnowing of ideas.

July 17, 2022

Don’t Bang on My Teakettle

The state of the world is disturbing enough that we don’t need more things to get disturbed about.

July 10, 2022

Anatomy of a Really Vile Bit of Propaganda

It’s good to be a news editor -- you can retire at your desk and keep your salary and paycheck.

July 3, 2022

A SCOTUS Guide for the Perplexed

Are you onboard with a country and its economy ruled by unelected bureaucrats given the green light to do so by unelected judges? 

June 26, 2022

Perspectives on the Dobbs Decision Overruling Roe v. Wade

Dobbs signals a significant retreat from the days when the Supreme Court creatively crafted imaginary rights to strip the states of their constitutional role. 

June 19, 2022

Russia’s Ukrainian Invasion May End the Monomaniacal Focus on Carbon Emissions

Every now and then droplets of reality splash on the noggins of the world’s big thinkers. 

June 12, 2022

The Democrats: 'A Criminal Organization'

Democratic leaders are encouraging lawless, threatening behavior against Supreme Court Justices and their attorney general refuses to enforce the law against such behavior.

June 5, 2022

The Structural Legal Rot Runs Deep

Left-wing rot goes to the very heart of our legal system.

May 29, 2022

Something About School Shootings

These events only fuel the efforts of demagogues to use them for other sleazy political purposes.

May 22, 2022

CNN's Eye is on the Sparrow

Once again, Democrat wrongdoing is being tried before partisan judges and juries in the capital.

May 15, 2022

The Internal Revenue (Election Rigging) Service

While the IRS makes it harder for you to get your refunds, Black Lives Matter and the Zuckerbergs are allowed to buy elections.

May 8, 2022

The Roe Demonstrators: Where Did They Get That Idea?

Every kid on the playgrounds knew that if you showed fear before bullies, they’d be stealing your lunch money next. 

May 1, 2022

A Government Disinformation Board? You Don’t say!

Everything is hunky-dory in the world of Biden and Pelosi, so there’s now an opportunity to deal with less critical matters, like restricting free speech.

April 24, 2022

What a Week This Has Been

It seems that on multiple occasions this past week sanity prevailed over nuttiness.

April 17, 2022

I’m a Proud Member of the Rebel Alliance

The internet for a while provided a freer exchange of facts and viewpoints, but then outfits like Facebook and Twitter captured most of the traffic while Google manipulated the searches

April 10, 2022

I Learn Something New Every Day

Between rabid foxes and COVID, life is getting more dangerous for congressional Democrats.

April 3, 2022

Trump’s Greatest Gambit?

What hath Brandon wrought?

March 27, 2022

Even Republican Presidents Would Seem to Have a Right to Free Speech

The Supreme Court deals the congressional enemies of Donald Trump a setback.

March 20, 2022

The New York Times Signals the End of Biden's Road

This certainly would be a convenient time to give Joe Biden the hook as he’s so far underwater he’s dragging the whole party down with him.

March 13, 2022

Awash In a Sea of Stupid

It’s a weird feeling, watching the globe-wide death of reason and the herdlike behavior of virtue-signaling nincompoops.

March 6, 2022

Ukraine: What do I Know?

The Ukraine situation is both more complex and fluid than many think.

February 27, 2022

Ukraine to Putin: Never Again

It is heartening to see the great attachment to country and bravery of the Ukrainian military, political, and civilian forces. 

February 20, 2022

What Rough Beast Slouches Toward Munich?

If the countries that make up NATO already told a neighboring country they would not admit Ukraine to its rolls, it should drop the idea of breaking the agreement.

February 13, 2022

Sometimes a Not-Great Notion

The not-so-great notion in recent years has been that of the ruling elites of the western nations now heading for political suicide.

February 6, 2022

Avenatti and the Media Swindlers

If you want to feed on fake news, be bombarded by endless praiseful coverage of scoundrels whose fame is undeserved, and listen to just plain idiocy, keep watching television news.

January 30, 2022

The Democrats Make Their Own Racism Explicit

Too often, Republicans have lacked the spine to call the Democrats out on their racialist policies. This time, Congressman Clyburn has made the job easier.

January 23, 2022

The 1/6 Select Committee Witch Hunt

The Select Committee set up by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to investigate the January 6 riot is acting as a judicial branch with no constitutional limits whatsoever.

January 23, 2022

Punishing a Dem who criticizes border chaos?

If my suspicions are warranted, the FBI and Department of Justice are firing a warning shot at any Democrat in Congress who steps out of line.

January 9, 2022

The Supreme Court and Congress Humiliate Themselves

Supreme Court buffoonery and Pelosi psychodrama this week.

January 2, 2022

2021 is Over at Last. Thank Goodness

There are a few loose ends that need clearing up as the dreadful year of 2021 drops off into memory.

December 26, 2021

West Virginia Leads the Nation

It looks like Joe Manchin left some coal in Biden's stocking.

December 19, 2021

We Need a Political Climate Change

Once again, the crazy greens have overridden public needs, along with the bureaucrats of the Biden administration.

December 12, 2021

They Hate Us, They Really Hate Us

As it did in the Kyle Rittenhouse case, the major media relentlessly trumpeted a false story, this time about Jussie Smollett. 

December 5, 2021

Nothing is Anybody’s Fault

This week we have more evidence that nothing is anybody’s fault, ranging from poor victim Alec Baldwin to tribune of the people Stacey Abrams to crusaders for justice Chesa Boudin and John Chisholm. 

November 28, 2021

Who Nu?

One more week in the long punchline.

November 21, 2021

Heroes and Zeros: The Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict

The Left may choose to live in a postlegal, post-rational world where ill-educated, propagandized mobs rule, but the rest of us do not.

November 14, 2021

All He Had Was a Handgun

The Rittenhouse trial exposes, once again, the mendacity, malevolence, and stupidity of the media and the Left as a whole.

November 7, 2021

Hillary’s Russian Dossier and Other Legal and Media Travesties

The Steele Dossier indictment and the Kyle Rittenhouse trial expose two distinct facets of institutional corruption.

October 31, 2021

Something Big is Coming

Are we looking at a major shift in America’s political tectonic plates?

October 24, 2021

The Teachers Union's Fumbled Play

Merrick Garland's botched effort to turn the FBI loose on parents of schoolchildren has led the educational establishment to back off. But it is enough?

October 17, 2021

School Boards and Idiots

Mark Twain famously said, “In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” 

October 10, 2021

Green Policies Return the World to Coal

Energy supply and Taiwan -- two more challenges for Biden to bungle.

October 3, 2021

Life in Centrifugal USA

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

September 26, 2021

Why Your Otherwise Smart Friends Think Stupid Things

How the media creates an alternate reality for the benefit of the Left, the Democrats, and Joe Biden.

September 19, 2021

Dirty Deeds Done Not Cheap

Perkins Coie reaches the end of its string.

September 12, 2021

Joe Tries to Deflect

The horror of 9/11 in which thousands lost their lives at the hands of jihadists is gradually being erased by the same nitwit culture that tied our hands in waging battle against such evil and turned our military into some sort of therapeutic social work task force.

September 5, 2021

Second Thoughts: Dems Have A Few

Both Biden and Newsom are prime examples of what you get when you vote for unintelligent and incompetent leaders. 

August 29, 2021

Biden’s Botched Bug Out

There still are men in America. There still are honorable people in America. But darned if you can find them in official Washington.

August 22, 2021

The Drooling Class

The world's dumbest administration outdoes itself.

August 15, 2021

Reality Bites Biden’s Policies

The pterodactyls are coming home to roost.

August 11, 2021

Latest developments in the prosecution of January 6 defendants

Prosecutors in the cases against the January 6 demonstrators are starting to run into some judicial pushback.

August 8, 2021

Maskless in Washington

After a brief respite, the Capitol and surrounding areas are playing the mask game again. Count me out.

August 1, 2021

The Three Horsemen of the Bidenapocalypse

Catering to the party’s far left has poised the Democrats over a cliff from which I see no soft landing.

July 25, 2021

Pride and the Fall of Anthony Fauci

It has become increasingly clear that the virus originated in the Wuhan Chinese virology lab, and that media darling Fauci bears some significant responsibility. 

July 18, 2021

Ten (Plus One) Signs that the Age of Biden is Upon Us

By their fruits ye shall know them.

July 11, 2021

You are Now in the Totalitarian Zone

Good news on CFR and voting reform, bad news on media lying and Congress' own private Gestapo. 

July 4, 2021

It’s Independence, not In Dependence, Day

The insistence on blocking out alternative political and scientific views instead of letting them out in the open to be debated and tested, is killing us and our hard-won liberty this year.

June 27, 2021

Where in the World is Dong Jingwei?

The disappearance of Chinese vice-minister of State Security Dong Jingwei is the most fascinating report of the week.

June 20, 2021

There’s Nothing New About the Effort to Propagandize the Military

The Left is using Critical Race Theory to undermine the U.S. military -- but Americans are fighting back.

June 6, 2021

The End of the Wuhan Scamarama

It’s not only that the emails prove what we all knew -- Dr. Fauci is a phony -- it’s the enormous national security failure and coverup that should concern us.

May 30, 2021

Harry, Formerly Known as Prince

Can the Left make things even crazier? Just wait and see. 

May 23, 2021

Democrat Projectionists

Whatever Democrats accuse their opponents of doing, it is they, in fact, who are doing it.

May 16, 2021

A Legal System Corrupted

Three incidents this week confirm that something is seriously amiss with our legal system.

May 9, 2021

Grandpa Knew Best

You have to have spent a lot of time in school to be as dumb as the experts on everything including economics, energy policy, and even vote fraud.

May 2, 2021

The Never-ending Hunt for a Trump Crime

If you are not yet concerned about the FBI’s counterintelligence operations, incompetency and KGB-type operations, you just aren’t paying attention.

April 25, 2021

Chauvin Trial: The Scottsboro Case in Whiteface

Convictions clearly handed down in an atmosphere of extreme racial prejudice

April 18, 2021

Can’t Stand Cant

The country is drowning in hypocritical, sanctimonious blather so common to our public and private educational institutions, the media, politicians, interest groups and corporations.

April 11, 2021

Another, Clearer Take on the Chauvin Trial

Minneapolis continues to fumble the George Floyd case. 

April 4, 2021

What’s More American than Coke and Baseball?

American corporations cloaked in virtuous anti-racism throw in with partisan power efforts to weaken election integrity. 

March 28, 2021

The January 6 Prosecutions Hit a Speed Bump

Democrat hopes for show trials a la Stalin's Great Purge are beginning to fade. 

March 21, 2021

The Battle of Burbank

Some welcome gleams of light in a seemingly dark scene.

March 14, 2021

Varieties of Legal Corruption

Legal actions against the January 6 "conspirators" seem over the top, and some judges are looking askance at the antics of law enforcement.

March 7, 2021

The Rise and Fall of Andrew Cuomo

Not only did the policy Cuomo forced result in a great many  unnecessary deaths, as well, his administration went to  great efforts to cover up the consequence of his negligence and perfidy. 

February 28, 2021

Not a Rose Garland

The Merrick Garland nomination is all the evidence anyone needs of Democrat obsessiveness, incompetence, and hypocrisy.

February 21, 2021

Fantastical Energy

Energy issues are the kind of thing that causes significant numbers of people escape into fantasy worlds rather than consider reality. 

February 14, 2021

The 'Insurrection Hallucination' and How We Got There

From Avenatti to Cuomo, from the Lincoln Project to the impeachment, Democrat and media lies are being unmasked, as Impeachment Two ends not with a bang but a whimper.

February 7, 2021

Rigging the Election for China and Profit

How Big Tech, BLM, organized labor and big business, particularly the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, colluded to defeat Donald J. Trump’s reelection. 

January 31, 2021

You Will Be Made to Believe Implausible Things

War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength, and Biden is President.

January 24, 2021

Back to the Obama’s Failed Policies and Blinkered Personnel

Biden sends the message that by executive fiat and personnel choices he plans to double down on policies that will undo Trump’s achievements and weaken our nation. 

January 17, 2021

Pelosi’s Third Impeachment Folly

Time to put away childish things and concentrate on devising strategies and mobilizing to carry them out.

January 10, 2021

The Night of the Tech Long Knives

The Lords of Silicon Valley make their move.

January 3, 2021

Biden's Wet Squib

A perfect ending to a rotten year in which after riots and a rapidly spreading Chinese virus, we got a highly suspicious election in which the apparent winners were a crook demonstrably suffering from dementia and an unprincipled leftist.

December 27, 2020

The Lockdown Christmas

It's always nice to end a bad year with a bombing.

December 20, 2020

2020: The Year of the Big Fraud

In 2020 the endemic fraud underlying most of our institutions became undeniable. What will the response be in 2021? 

December 13, 2020

Frauds: The Election, Media, Congressional Dems, and the FBI

The rot has spread to every last apple in the barrel. 

December 6, 2020

Election Fraud, Political Corruption, and its Consequences

The scope of fraud in this election is breathtaking.

November 29, 2020

Disenfranchising the Nonexistent and Illegal Voters

A large number of election challenges are being litigated around the country.  Here's a close look at the most significant ones.

November 22, 2020

A Very Unsettling Thanksgiving

When the going gets tough, the tough celebrate Thanksgiving.

November 15, 2020

What’s Kraken?

There is a great deal of evidence of regular old-timey ballot stuffing and standard election fraud, but computer and internet generated mischief has the potential to far exceed that.

November 8, 2020

Another Cliffhanger

On Saturday, the major networks announced Biden-Harris were the winners. Apparently, they are under the impression that they decide election results. They don’t.

November 1, 2020

Will Halloween Last for Weeks?

In a few days we will have our national election and those who don’t think they’ll like the results are preparing mayhem again. 

October 25, 2020

The Miniaturization of Media Dinosaurs

If you like getting deceptively edited interviews  and unverified news from “Meet the Press” and “60 Minutes,” by all means continue watching these programs.

October 18, 2020

Hunter Becomes the Hunted

Hunter and Joe hear the sound of many approaching footsteps. 

October 11, 2020

Lift up the Rocks and See the Snakes

...but don't get too close. Leftist bites can be serious. 

October 4, 2020

The Democrats' Long Temper Tantrum Will Reelect Trump

Between the debate and the President's COVID diagnosis, "heating up" is not quite the term for this year's election.

September 27, 2020

Courting Trouble

As usual, in part because of persistent judicial overreach and in part because the Democrats’ desire to keep getting in Court what they cannot win at the ballot box, the courts are the main focus of attention this week.

September 20, 2020

Cut the Chaff

The dogs bark, the Trump caravan moves on.

September 13, 2020

A Message from Mother Earth to Nancy Pelosi

California gets a failing report from the lady in charge.

September 6, 2020

Anatomy of A(nother) Fake Scandal

With nothing but a demented, weak candidate at the top of their ticket and no agenda any normal voter could support, this -- well-orchestrated scandals based on pure fakery -- is what they are left with.

August 30, 2020

Is Feudalism Our Future?

There are robber barons in our future if we don't choose to act. 

August 23, 2020

The DNC Tsunami of Schmaltz and Mendacity

How the DNC circus was laughed out of town.

August 16, 2020

Some Matters Domestic and Foreign

A week of victories for Orange Man. 

August 9, 2020

A Solution for This Week’s Mystery Announcement

Trump's war against international money laundering is yet another achievement for which he gets no credit. 

August 2, 2020

It’s August: Rest, Fall will be Even Crazier

If you had any doubt that the Democrats know they have a losing candidate at the head of their ticket, their conduct the past week is the tell.

July 26, 2020

Beam Me Up, Please

Too many people are willing to live in a contrafactual and contralegal world. 

July 19, 2020

As if 2020 Wasn’t Contentious Enough

Just when you've had it with BLM and COVID-19, here comes this year's Supreme Court hearings.

July 12, 2020

Stay Angry, Not Dispirited

Like baboons showing their rears to zoogoers, the election of President Trump caused the rotting institutions of America to reveal their least attractive features.

July 5, 2020

A Night at Mt. Rushmore

To those of us steaming as we watch Democrat governors and mayors, media, major corporations, and educational institutions fold in the face of the regressive psychology of these mobs, it is cheering to see a president standing firm. 

June 28, 2020

March of the Credentialed Morons

This week, the American left continued its long march into irelevance unchecked by understanding, common sense, or a grasp of history.

June 21, 2020

What My Neighborhood Needs: Fewer Virtue Signaling Lawn Signs

The response to the Minneapolis murder has revealed a country run by an ethically vacant, morally violent elite. 

June 14, 2020

The Goth ISIS Utopia and Other Leftist Nonsense

The left everywhere, from college campuses and newsrooms, to corporate headquarters and city councils, has gone stark, raving mad. 

June 7, 2020

Just Like That, Gun Control Support and COVID-19 Died This Week

Despite the best efforts of the left and their media fellow travelers, America is once again on a roll.

May 31, 2020

Cracking Down on Misfits’ Crime Sprees and Big Tech

How much longer can this glorification of the left, intolerance toward those who decry it, and support for the weak Democratic politicians who condone if not promote lawlessness continue? 

May 24, 2020

Death, Politics and the Nursing Homes

Memorial Day will be particularly hard for the many friends and family members of those killed in nursing homes and assisted living residences due to outrageously misguided gubernatorial dictates.

May 17, 2020

Mitigating Tyranny: Lockdowns and Flynn

The lockdown rebellions and the sudden upending of the Flynn case are rebukes to the authoritarian tendencies of the usual left-wing suspects.

May 10, 2020

January 5, 2017: A Day that Should Live in Infamy

The Russian collusion hoax comes to a climax, not with a bang, but with a mushroom cloud. 

May 3, 2020

Help, Officer... I'm Being Murdered by an Unmasked Gunman

What began as a short-term admonition to wash our hands frequently and use social distancing to flatten the curve became, in the hands of too many politicians, a right to rule, picking those who could live and those who would die, a made-to-order graft opportunity. 

April 26, 2020

Virus Strikes Media Dumb

We're shocked -- shocked -- to learn that the media is ignoring a lot of important news this week in order to indulge in anti-Trump fantasies. 

April 19, 2020

Trump: What’s up, Doc?

Though the Usual Supects may disagree, it's time to reopen the country.

April 12, 2020

It’s a Wuhan Virus Easter

We will soon  get back to our regular programming, including the likelihood that those in the intelligence community who misused their positions and broke the law to spy on their political opponents will finally be brought to justice.

April 5, 2020

Bet Your Life -- Vote for Democrats

The actions of some elected Democratic officials doubtless contributed greatly to the spread of the disease. 

March 29, 2020

Numerators and Denominators in the Coronavirus Saga

As the data on the coronavirus comes in, we have reason to be more optimistic that the death rate will be lower, the extreme efforts to control its spread should soon be relaxed, and that efficacious treatments are already underway. 

March 22, 2020

Life in the Time of Wuhan

Crises have a way of sorting out the good people, ideas, and institutions from the bad, and as the Wuhan virus spreads throughout the world, the sorting process is made easier. 

March 15, 2020

Trump's Ultrasonic Whistle Exposes Vermin Infestation

The coronavirus outbreak has turned a bright light on the failures of corrupt, hidebound bureaucracies both here and overseas. 

March 8, 2020

Playing Judge Reggie Walton (Again)

Judge Reggie Walton has bungled his Mueller Report decision as clearly as he did the Scooter Libby verdict. 

March 1, 2020

Coronavirus: When All Else Fails, Try Reason

The coronavirus is yet another excuse for the Democrats and the media to manufacture angst.

February 23, 2020

The Democrats' Russian Roulette

The Democrats are spinning the barrel and placing the gun to their heads in suggesting that the Russians are backing the president's re-election. 

February 16, 2020

DC Law

The week that the D.C. establishment and the law collided.

February 9, 2020

The Democrats: A Corrupt, Insane Posse Masquerading as a Political Party

The week the Democrats went over the cliff. 

February 2, 2020

The Democrats May Have Lost...but They're Still Smarter than You

The Dems get a Lemon for a consolation prize.

January 26, 2020

The Democrats' Cognitive Disorder

The week that raised the question of which was more odious — the Democrats' impeachment effort or Chinese bat soup? 

January 19, 2020

The Trump Grabbed Schrodinger's Pussy Theory

The Dems' impeachment effort begins to fade into the quantum wilderness. 

January 12, 2020

Trump Is Toto

Donald Trump has singlehandedly overturned forty years of delusion regarding the Middle East.

January 5, 2020

Double Exposure: The Dems Coddling of Criminals and Iranian Terrorists

The President has the magical power, it seems, to get idiots and criminals to expose themselves.

December 29, 2019

New Year Ahead: Nothing Will Help Them

The pit gets deeper, so the Dems hand out bigger shovels.

December 22, 2019

Congressional Follies: Trump Is Still Your President

The Democrats and their Corrupt Journalist Corps never saw any of this coming.

December 15, 2019

Ode to the Constitution and the Common Man

If the Democratic members of Congress were wiser, they'd see the tsunami coming.

December 8, 2019

Trumping a Low Pair

The Dems paint themselves into a corner, then open another bucket. 

December 1, 2019

Waiting for Horowitz

Yep — the walls are closing in, all right. 

November 17, 2019

Revolt of the Ukraine Desk Bureaucrats

The State Department hacks fail to lay a glove on the President. 

November 10, 2019

Impeachment Mashup

The Democrat impeachment effort becomes more convoluted even as it becomes dumber. 

November 3, 2019

Schiff's Impeachment Train to Nowhere

The "evidence" Schiff has elicited is as weak as his party's candidates to replace Trump.

October 28, 2019

Was it Trump's magic wand that turned the Washington Post into a laughingstock?

What makes a supposedly respected newspaper write the kinds of al-Baghdadi headlines it couldn't stop writing?

October 27, 2019

What Would Pierre Delecto Do?

The ground continues shifting under the Deep State. 

October 20, 2019

Seeing Some Trees in the Forest of Babble

The attacks on Donald Trump continue failing one by one...and 2020 looms ever closer. 

October 13, 2019

Producers of the Flailing Impeachment Inquiry

Believing Adam Schiff’s lies and calling for an “impeachment inquiry” has to be one of the worst blunders of Speaker Pelosi’s career. 

October 6, 2019

Mr. Trump Goes to Washington

Democratic efforts to keep Trump from disrupting their sweet deal only result in self-exposing their corruption and disdain for due process.

September 29, 2019

Adam Schiff's Impeachment Fun Playhouse

The political and media elites cannot fathom that their globalist worldviews were wrong and that Trump was right.

September 22, 2019

Schiff Shafts Biden

Adam Schiff channels Wile E. Coyote regarding the Trump/Ukraine "scandal." 

September 15, 2019

America's Exclusive, Math-Challenged Party

Do the Democrats actually want to lose?

September 8, 2019

The Political Consultants Assisted Suicide Center

Political consultants burn through billions of dollars and have no idea what they're doing except to enrich themselves.

September 1, 2019

Coming Legal Attractions

A lot of people have a lot of ‘splainin to do and in the coming weeks.

August 25, 2019

Political Forecast: Stormy Weather Ahead

As the summer days wane, there's going to be no end to the political heat waves.

August 18, 2019

Epstein and the Public Loss of Faith

While fascination with Epstein garnered media attention, other developments seem to me to be of far greater significance. 

August 11, 2019

Knives, Rifles, and a Suicide

When the going gets tough, the Dems get crazier.

August 4, 2019

Can We Please Have Something Normal?

The Democratic party's usual spiels — Russian collusion and racism — don't seem to be working.

July 28, 2019

Impeachment Dreams Die; Wall gets Built

A week the President could only have dreamed of.

July 21, 2019

Mogadishu Mon Amour

Omar entered the country illegally, hates it, works against its best interests, and ignores all its laws. She hopes to admit millions more like her.

July 14, 2019

It's Not Really a Climate Thing: It's about Control

It's always about control, and the Left thinks it should control all the levers. 

July 7, 2019

How Many Divisions Does Chief Justice Roberts Have?

The citizenship question offers a perfect opportunity for President Trump to stand up to a runaway court system.

June 30, 2019

Babble: The 'Debates' and the SCOTUS

The Democratic debate and the recent SCOTUS decisions: the ride gets wilder. 

June 23, 2019

Presidential Tweets and a SCOTUS Sneak Peek

President Trump decides to terrorize the Democratic candidates while the Supreme Court strikes fear into the administrative state.

June 16, 2019

When and Why Golden Geese Take Wing

Capital is attracted to and invested in those places where the laws are fair, where they protect people and property, and where government overreach and exorbitant taxes are in check.

June 9, 2019

Arrogant Conceit and Pratfalls

A week when the proud were brought low and the foolish struck dumb.

June 2, 2019

A Made Man (Mueller) Unmakes Himself

The Democrats hoped they could use the special counsel and his biased staff to do the work for them in their drive to impeach a president whose only failing was beating their candidate.

May 26, 2019

Sweet and Seemly it Still Is to Die for One's Country

Wilfred Owen's bitter screed on war might have been appropriate for his time, but it is monstrously off the mark today.

May 19, 2019

The College Board: Dumbing Down America

The College Board is attempting an end run around a feared SCOTUS ruling banning racial discrimination in college admissions. 

May 12, 2019

Rebellion is Bursting out All Over

Why were so many officials so determined to keep Donald Trump from the White House and to oust him once he won the election?

May 5, 2019

Tragedy Tomorrow, Comedy Tonight

Attorney General William Barr is about to join the handful of patriot heroes in the long-running collusion saga.

April 28, 2019

Biden: The Democrats’ Flavor of the Week

The Democrats’ great white (straight male) hope could well prove this year’s hill for them to die on.

April 21, 2019

Things the Media Ignored in the Mueller Report

Was the entire $30-million hoax of an investigation intended not only to undermine the legitimacy of Trump's victory over Hillary, but to cover up Obama's intelligence failures?

April 14, 2019

Trump’s Rebel Alliance Attacks the Left’s Death Star

The Swamp's mighty Death Star crumbles, the leftist elites wail in despair... and it's only the beginning. 

April 7, 2019

Mueller Express Fails to Deliver, Democrats Head for the Abyss

The Mueller Report is even worse for the Democrats than it first appeared. 

March 10, 2019

Democrats Working for Trump's Re-Election

The Democrats are banking on their new intersectional coalition. If that means ignoring, downplaying, or outright lying about anti-Semitism, they're willing to do it.

March 3, 2019

The Political Suicide Hotline: Ringing Nonstop

The Democrats' race to the cliff edge picks up speed. 

February 24, 2019

High Ties and Misdemeanors

The defamation campaign against the president continues with the thoroughly debunked tale of assault on Jussie Smollett.

February 17, 2019

Trump as Hercules Cleaning Out the Augean Stables

Like Hercules, Trump defeated the Queen of the Amazons. This week, he's going on to clean out the Augean Stables. 

February 10, 2019

Virginia: When Identity Groups Collide

He who lives by PC will die by PC.

February 3, 2019

Virginia Governor Northam's Samba

As attention was drawn to Ralph Northam due to his abortion stance, the racial fault lines in his state came into full focus, despite the media's best efforts to hide them.

January 27, 2019

No MAGA Hats in the Opinion Workers Union Hall

From the Lincoln Memorial incident to the Roger Stone arrest to the wall shutdown, left-wing Democrats are overstepping themselves.

January 20, 2019

The Tables Turn on Pelosi and the Media

This week, Nancy Pelosi learned a lesson about presidential power, and the media were gut-checked by the special prosecutor.

January 13, 2019

There Is a Pony in the Mueller Heap of Dung

It is increasingly obvious that the Mueller investigation has turned up no evidence of any Trump-Russia collaboration.

January 6, 2019

Democrats Hoist with Their Own Petard

Come one, come all to the Romney-Pelosi-Ocasio Cortez congressional circus!

December 30, 2018

Intersectionality at the Crossroads

As the facts behind the Women's Marches become more widely known, their organizers and the press are covered in shame and deservedly losing traction.

December 26, 2018

Oleg Atbashian's Hotel USSR

Oleg Atbashian, creator of the fabulous satire site The Peoples Cube.com, has written an illustrated autobiographical book about his life in the USSR, before he was able to immigrate to the U.S.

December 23, 2018

About Face... Spin!

A week's worth of spinning, largely related to Donald J. Trump. 

December 16, 2018

Washington’s Growing Product Line: Confected Felonies

All the wheels are starting to come off.

December 9, 2018

So Much Irony it’s Mag[a]netic

While the Mueller investigation winds down with no evidence of collusion, Hillary and her friends seem to be not so lucky. 

December 2, 2018

Another Turbulent Week with Some Big Mysteries

As the "collusion" fiasco continues to collapse, Mueller, Comey, and the Deep State they represent are growing more desperate. 

November 18, 2018

Then They Came for the White Women

The left's identity politics campaign is beginning to fall apart. So they're instead turning on white women.

November 11, 2018

It’s Not Quite Kristallnacht, but It’s Not The Fourth of July Either

Crooked election overseers in Florida and Arizona are trying to overturn the midterm election results.

November 4, 2018

Tuesday Will Tell: Blue Wave or Red Tsunami?

As the 2018 race enters the last lap, the wheels are coming off for the Democrats. 

October 28, 2018

Crazy Haters and the Twisted Press

The meme about toning down political speech is one the press likes as a means of silencing the critics of its own partisan, slipshod work and the policies and character of its darlings on the left.

October 21, 2018

DNC: 'Top Sekret Plan for Midterms'

The real goods on the Dem agenda, straight from Whole Foods. 

October 14, 2018

Turkish Taffy

In the Khashoggi affair, we are seeing lots of evidence of a press, in particular the Washington Post, that is terminally credulous and uninterested in the background and motives of its sources. 

October 7, 2018

Seedpods from the Garden of Stupid

A bad day for Blasey Ford, Feinstein, Schumer, Jackson Lee...and the Maenads.

September 30, 2018

Life in a Gynocracy

False rape claims are placing us at peril of witch hunts and then, in time, against all who will not bow to leftist rule.

September 23, 2018

Is This Ford an Edsel?

Between Rosenstein and Blasey Ford, the "Resistance" appears dead set on jumping every last shark in every last ocean.

September 16, 2018

Democrats: 'Let's Do the Time Warp Again'

The Democrats are reprising the demagogic lies and smear tactics that once worked for them but now are failing for anyone with a memory longer than a week or two. 

September 9, 2018

Rough Beasts Slouching toward the White House

The Democrats' clown show is fantasy. Fortunately, most people care more about reality than fantasy.

September 2, 2018

Two Funerals and a Missing Cardinal

As the Mueller juggernaut keeps dropping bolts and rumbling to a final crash, we were temporarily distracted by the funerals of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, and the "Maverick" senator from Arizona.

August 26, 2018

Inside the Democrats' Café California

They have to find the passage back to the place they were before.

August 19, 2018

The Story of Ohr and More

With both the Manafort and Ohr cases, the "Russian collusion" fantasy is approaching its moment of truth. 

August 12, 2018

Exposed: the Deep State's Authorship and Publication of the Dossier

The Steele Dossier -- the gift that keeps on giving.

August 5, 2018

Three-Card Mueller

The public has been led to believe that the entire years-long Mueller investigation was into Trump's "collusion" with Russians. But dealer Mueller knows otherwise. 

July 29, 2018

Old Prosecutors Speaking Frankly

Some wise old legal pros discuss the demented antics of Mueller, Comey, and company. 

July 27, 2018

Trey Gowdy wants specifics from DOJ on the indictment of 12 Russians

Could be embarrassing and discrediting to Mueller.

July 22, 2018

To Democrats, the World Is Altgeld Gardens

In a sense, the Democrats' hysterical claims about Russia and Trump are of a piece with their unending agitation for division on a local level. 

July 15, 2018

The Donald Does Europe

Democrats and anti-Trumpers think it’s perfectly fine for European leaders to put their own national interests first while criticizing the President for promoting and defending ours. 

July 8, 2018

Exalted Righteousness, Tawdry Methods Lead to Walk Away

The growing #WalkAway movement, in which lifelong Democrats publicly announce they are walking away from the party, shows the Democrats supposed wrong about "the ignorance and gullibility of the unenlightened."

July 1, 2018

Is Trump the Most Fun President Ever?

Bit by bit Donald Trump is dismantling the left's power, supply train, and prestige. 

June 24, 2018

Kidtrina

Like the coverage of Katrina, the media handling of Kidtrina is short on fact but high on partisan emotionalism.

June 17, 2018

Trampling Out the Vintage Where the Sour Grapes Are Stored

Trump is evolving an entirely new approach to foreign policy, something only a real estate magnate could actually pull off.

June 10, 2018

Secrets Travel Fast in DC

How long can the Deep State continue leaking before it capsizes? 

June 3, 2018

Disney/ABC Should Merge with Starbucks and the NFL

On the one hand, in popular culture we get nothng but craziness. Whereas in politics we get... more craziness. 

May 27, 2018

The Great Unmasking

The worm has turned, the hunter has been captured by the game, and the last has become first. And it's all just begun.

May 20, 2018

H.A.L.P.E.R. Spells Game Up for Obama's Spies

We now have an imaginary crime – collusion – with imaginary evidence and even imaginary defendants. 

May 15, 2018

The Office of Net Assessment paid Stefan Halper...why?

The country deserves an explanation.

May 13, 2018

The 'Election Collusion' Was between Our Intelligence Community and Britain

Willingly or otherwise, British intelligence played a huge role in the swamp's secret campaign against Trump. 

May 6, 2018

Judge Ellis Wants to See Mueller's Hunting License

Whom the gods would destroy...

April 29, 2018

Losing Patience with the Rollup of the Rogue Ruling Class

Seeing the criminal justice system misused as a vicious political weapon inspires depths of distrust that only the enemies of a democratic state could hope to accomplish.

April 22, 2018

The Discreet Charm of the First Amendment

The Democrats are trying to delegitimize a most consequential president by stoking irrational fears of racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, and the like, along with perfervid and baseless claims of Russian interference. 

April 15, 2018

Trump's Red Line

"Putin's president" sends the Russians running for cover in Syria. 

April 8, 2018

Springing Forward

Bad news for the Resistance on the budget, immigration, the bogus FISA warrant, and the Clintons. 

April 1, 2018

Faithless in Holy Week

Why are large numbers of Americans losing faith in our institutions and the people who have been running them -- particularly law enforcement?  

March 27, 2018

Too many questionable decisions in the FBI's handling of Islamist informants

It becomes ever clearer why the FBI must be stripped of any counter-intelligence function.

March 25, 2018

Mainly McCabe

It's clear that the FBI, NSA, and CIA were operating in the Soviet style – appropriating to themselves the right to run the government. 

March 18, 2018

If You Are a Fed Official, Perjury Is 'Lacking Candor'

The iceberg hits.  Watch the crew start to panic.

March 11, 2018

Amulets, White Noise, and Trump Reality

The dogs whimper, and the caravan goes into overdrive.

March 4, 2018

Zhee Whiz

The internal contradictions of the victimization and oppression industry are becoming increasingly evident.

February 25, 2018

Exposing the Deep Rot in the Deep State

The corruption that led to the Parkland school shooting is only one example of the Deep State rot afflicting the entire country.

February 18, 2018

The Mueller Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Moves On

The indictments are idiotic.  They would never have been issued by a prosecutor – only by a special counsel looking as if he's doing something. 

February 13, 2018

The Great Flynn Case Mystery

I have been wondering why Special Counsel Robert Mueller postponed the sentencing of Michael Flynn shortly after Judge Rudolph Contreras was (without explanation) recused from hearing the Flynn case and Judge Emmet G. Sullivan took over.  Here’s my supposition.

February 11, 2018

A Night at the Crying in Our Beer Salon

...and the walls come tumbling down.

February 4, 2018

The 'Constitutional Crisis' the Fourth Estate Birthed

Wheels within wheels within wheels within....

January 28, 2018

Toilets: The FBI, Department of Justice and the Guggenheim

From what we are seeing in the publicly released communications of some of the participants, it is not far-fetched to consider that sedition charges may be in the works.

January 21, 2018

Wasting Away in Chuckschumerland

With the DACA shutdown, Chuck Schumer, whose surname is "a nickname from Middle Low German 'good-for-nothing,' 'vagabond,'" revealed how aptly he is named.

January 14, 2018

Confusing Dossier Chaff with Wheat

With this week's release of the inspector general's preliminary report, we may finally get some clarity on the Steele dossier.

January 7, 2018

Hellzapoppin: FBI, DOJ, and Clinton Share the Hot Seat

The bigger the laughs, the longer the jail sentences. 

December 31, 2017

Looks like a Happy New Year for the Forces of Freedom

No president in recent memory has had such a consequential first year, and certainly none had the pathetic dossier and corrupt FBI and DOJ officials to contend with at the same time.

December 24, 2017

The Democrats' Hard Candy Christmas

Now that the tax bill is done and our military operations against ISIS are proving successful, among other things, the counter-offensive against the corrupt Deep State is taking place. 

December 17, 2017

Midnight at the Democracy Dies in Darkness Café

...and the coffee was pretty bad, too.

December 10, 2017

Trump's Decidedly Not Hitler

Trump is cutting off his opponents' funding, exposing their idiocy, and destroying their political clout. 

December 3, 2017

Feminism, the Fake Indian, the Tragic State of the FBI, and the Flynn Flam

One sad week for the neo-feminists, the media, and #NeverTrump conservatives.

November 19, 2017

A Fair Hearing by a Jury of His Pervs

The past week has witnessed a string of self-inflicted wounds by the Democrats, ranging from the Roy Moore witch hunt to the effective end of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

November 12, 2017

You Have to Hand It to Hillary – the Girl Can Smear

As regards the dossier debacle, it's a disgrace and an embarrassment that our top legal officials and intelligence operations could be so stupid or corrupt.

November 5, 2017

Why Is the Mueller Investigation like the Schleswig-Holstein Question?

The Democrats toss Hillary on top of the rolling Russian collusion investigation grenade. 

October 29, 2017

Implausible Deniability

The Fusion GPS fake dossier case may well lead to the first mass perp-walk in history. 

October 23, 2017

Rosenstein's way to bury Uranium One before the election?

Did Rod Rosenstein concoct a scheme to let Uranium One's briber, Vadim Mirkerin, off the hook?  Andrew McCarthy seems to think so.

October 22, 2017

Secrets and Lies: Three Russian Stories

If the liberal elite collapses without anybody in the media hearing it, does it make a sound? 

October 15, 2017

Take Back Your Diamonds, Take Back Your Pearls, What Makes You Think I Was One of Weinstein's Girls?

What rough beast is slouching into the DNC headquarters waiting to be born, now that the old order has lost its patina?

October 8, 2017

Take Back Your Brains

With the news growing weirder every day, we have more reason than ever to take back our brains and critically analyze what we are told is happening and why. 

October 1, 2017

Everything (That's Not Sexism) Is Racism

The Democrats' divisive identity politics strategy served them well for a while, but no longer.

September 24, 2017

It Was the Deep State that Colluded with the Russians, Not Trump

As the Obama/Lynch/Comey effort to destroy Donald Trump's presidency unravels, Robert Mueller is growing more desperate.

September 17, 2017

Hillary, America's Miss Havisham

Even as Hillary continues to make herself the object of derision, facts hidden before the election bring to light her corruption.

September 10, 2017

Hurricanes Irma and Trump

Cuba and the GOP are unprepared and hit hard.

September 3, 2017

Toxic Femininity Hides Jealousy and Corruption

The "toxic" men of Houston expose "feminist" hustlers such as Lynn Yaeger and Linda Sarsour for what they are. 

August 27, 2017

Crying Wolf in a Crowded Theater

The right to free speech is being eroded, particularly against those who depart from the leftist groupthink shared by most of the media. 

August 20, 2017

Terry and the (Antifa) Bandits Will Inherit the Wind

It seems clear that the Democrats would happily destroy the country rather than accept losing it at the ballot box.

August 13, 2017

Women's Week: Equal Opportunity (Even for Corruption)

This week, the myth that participation of women automatically raises the moral tone collided with reality – big time.

August 6, 2017

A Consequential President in the Time of Pygmies

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

July 30, 2017

'Collusion' Collapses: Dem Congressional Espionage Ring Takes Center Ring

While the press has been promoting a ridiculous and ass-backwards Russian collusion story, it has been sitting on a far bigger story.

July 16, 2017

The Russian Collusion Story: The Acme of Fake News

You'll just have to work harder in the face of such ignorance and bias to find out what you need to know.

July 9, 2017

Trump Grinds the G20, the Bureaucratic Underground, and CNN into Hamburger

This is what "winning" looks like.

July 2, 2017

Like Haman Being Hanged on the Scaffold He Built for Mordechai

Federal investigators are themselves under investigation, and the press is forced to recant the lies it has been publishing about the Trump administration.

June 25, 2017

The DNC Scams the Suckers and Contradicts the Feds on 'Hacking'

Ossoff, antifa, Russian hacking – the Democrats' booby traps keep blowing up in their faces. 

June 18, 2017

How the Deep State Built Its Field of Dreams

Illegal leaks and misreadings of the law are the only fuel keeping the "Russian collusion" bonfire burning.

June 12, 2017

Comey and Mueller have a history as a Deep State tag team

Much worse than a conflict of interest.

June 11, 2017

Comey Unmasked

Knowing that the underlying case was garbage, Comey forced the hand of the attorney general and then the acting attorney general to recuse themselves and let his good friend go after the administration, hoping for a process crime witch hunt.

June 4, 2017

Drawing Back the Curtain on the World's Political Classes

Neither President Donald Trump nor his Secretary of State is confused about the nation he represents nor stupid enough to believe he represents Paris rather than Pittsburgh.

May 28, 2017

Democrats and Islamists Share the Edge of the Cliff

The Democrats who imagined themselves to be the vanguard of an inevitable march of history have reached the edge of the cliff. 

May 21, 2017

The Democrats Do the Hokey-Pokey

The Democrats reveal a two left feet problem.

May 14, 2017

Russian Hacking and Collusion: Put the Cards on the Table

If this is Watergate, it’s not because this president is trying to cover up any wrongdoing on his part.  Rather, Comey and others at the FBI are trying to cover up theirs. 

May 7, 2017

Hillary: The Girl Can’t Take It

Comey remains as head of the FBI, while Hillary resides in fantasyland along with her die-hard fans.

April 30, 2017

Smashing the Patriarchy (and Asian Salad)

The scary story/victimology parade goes on without missing a beat. 

April 23, 2017

So Much Marching Going On

It’s hard for me to understand how great satire sites like The Onion can continue to find readers when reality is more absurd than even the creative geniuses there can fathom.

April 16, 2017

In Her Majesty’s Disservice

The rapidly unfolding Trump wiretapping story promises to be far more explosive than Watergate.

April 10, 2017

She's always true to the Democrats in her fashion

Clarice Feldman takes down the much vaunted Robin Givhan for making herself the queen of fashion hypocrisy.

April 9, 2017

Abu Ivanka and the Democrats’ Terrible, Horrible, No-Good Week

The president’s detractors are riding the loop-the-loop this week. 

April 2, 2017

Russia? No, the Pony in the Manure Is the Corruption of our Intelligence Officials

The "Russian collusion" morass gets deeper -- but it's not Trump or his adminstration that's sinking. 

March 26, 2017

Obama Did Wiretap Trump: It’s Like Putting Together a Russian Nesting Doll

The most historically outrageous misuse of the people and institutions of government for partisan advantage.

March 19, 2017

President Trump’s Week: Wiretaps, Media, and Judicial Skullduggery

The dogs bark, but the Trump caravan moves on.

March 12, 2017

DC Secrets and Lies

Watching the Democrats get hoisted on their own petard – over and over and over again. 

March 5, 2017

Trump: A Master Tactician Serves Filet After the Russian Soufflé Collapses

The Democratic/media lynch mob marches off the cliff while Trump looks on.

February 26, 2017

Slime and the Slimers

There are lots of people who rightly fearthat  their rice bowls are going to be smashed by President Trump and his war against the anti-democratic administrative state.  They are trying to delegitimize those who support Trump one at a time.

February 19, 2017

Moon Wars

The press just mooned the wrong president.

February 15, 2017

How Trump won the presidency

Have I ever got a new book for you!  

February 12, 2017

Troops Await Deployment Orders from Ninth Circuit

The 9th Circuit is out to shoot itself in the foot again – and it's all Trump's fault.

February 5, 2017

The Press Eunuchs Rattling Their Cups

Two weeks of media wailing in high falsetto.

January 29, 2017

Reaping the Whirlwind

“They who have sown the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.” 

January 22, 2017

Requiem for a Lightweight

After a long ceremonial day, Donald Trump began signing executive orders undoing Obama’s legacy in much the same way Egyptians chiseled Akhenaton’s name off obelisks and temples.

January 15, 2017

The Trump Dossier Puts the Deep State in Deep Doo-Doo

The intelligence community's clown car gets a flat.

January 8, 2017

Making (Me and) America Sick Again

The present administration has been able to keep the opposition off balance by throwing so many balls into the air at once.  Now they’re about to see how it works on them.

January 1, 2017

Obama: A Political Corpse

Obama’s political death is spurring him and his administration to deny it by undertaking a series of ever more outrageous acts to preserve what he considers his "legacy."

December 25, 2016

Miracle on East 42nd Street

It’s time for the feckless Jewish Democrats to wake up, though it seems they have been terminally hoodwinked.

December 18, 2016

All the News the Editors See Fit to Print

We have lost the ability to forensically analyze the news; we have become passive consumers and got what we deserved: propaganda. 

December 11, 2016

Big, Very Rich and Dangerous: Time to Rein in Private Charitable Foundations

If it’s not too presumptuous, I’d like to add one more item to President-elect Trump’s agenda: a substantial rewrite of the laws respecting our tax-exempt sector, reining in private foundations.

December 4, 2016

I’m Fighting the Left’s Culture War One Bagel at a Time

Keep this stuff up and someday there won’t be a Democratic Party.

December 4, 2016

The new age of propaganda

A must-see ten minute video by Sharyl Attkisson.

November 20, 2016

Let’s Talk Turkey: Free Speech in an Autocratic Era

The holiday that always keeps advice columnists working overtime is likely to be the scene of even more angst this year.

November 13, 2016

CTRL-L: The Left Loses Its Unremitting Fight for Control

This week, the left – its propagandizing press, pollsters, and university leftist monoculture – suffered a long deserved and punishing blow.

November 8, 2016

Scooter Libby reinstated to the bar

A “terrible blow” to FBI director James Comey, who was neck-deep in the railroading of Scooter Libby.

November 6, 2016

Drums Along the Potomac

Is a counter-coup by NYC police, the FBI, and the intelligence community now being carried out against the Clintons? 

October 30, 2016

The Clintons: Making Politics Sexy Again

Hillary starts going under.  The iceberg moves on.

October 23, 2016

The Incestuous Left and Those Who Provide Cover for them

Election 2016 clearly demonstrates that the media is no longer a gatekeeper deciding what we are allowed to know, 

October 16, 2016

Man the Vote: It’s the Least You Can Do for Your Country

If only men voted, Trump would already have won.

October 9, 2016

The Republican White Togas at Work for the Queen of Sleaze

Are Americans so addlepated as to pick an incompetent, thoroughly corrupt globalist over an often-vulgar man who loves his country and has accomplished a great deal? 

October 2, 2016

The Fracas From Caracas

With this week’s stupid Machado distraction out of the way, let me highlight just a few of the reasons why voters have every reason to treat the political elite with contempt.

September 25, 2016

The Mark of Soros: Charlotte, North Carolina

The streets of Charlotte blaze while Hillary whimpers over her podium height. 

September 18, 2016

Technology Breaches the Media Maginot Line

How many times does the mainstream media expect to be scooped by amateurs with iPhones and internet connections before they recognize they can no longer protect the high priests from the deplorables?

September 11, 2016

It’s Debatable

Hillary performed poorly in last week's presidential forum, and the reactions by her media enablers indicate they know that and are trying to muzzle the debate moderators.

September 4, 2016

Maybe Hillary Should Have Studied Jiu-Jitsu instead of Yoga

This week, Trump showed that he was vastly more clever than Hillary in the art of diplomacy. 

August 28, 2016

Hillary Gets (More Than) a Little Help from Her Media Friends

Ruth Marcus is easily exposed as a partisan spinster in a quick check of  a comparison of her treatment of Hillary Clinton and former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell.

August 21, 2016

Don’t Be like the Man Who Married His Mother-in-Law

Dismount from your high horses and vote for Trump or marry an insufferable, dishonest, and authoritarian mother-in-law. 

August 14, 2016

Robin Hood in Reverse: The Clinton Foundation under Fed Scrutiny

What possesses powerful, wealthy, and educated persons to prey on the most desperately poor humans on Earth as they posture as "philanthropists"?

August 9, 2016

Today's big story--Orlando shooter's father endorses Hillary

Was it campaign sabotage or idiocy?

August 7, 2016

The Press and Pollsters Are Putting Too Much Cornstarch in the Cherry Pie

The recent coverage of the election by the major media suggests that they are panicking and throwing in as much as they can to make Hillary look as if she were a far better candidate – or at least Trump a far weaker one – than is the case.

August 1, 2016

Who is Khizr Khan, the father of a fallen US soldier?

He's looking increasingly like a plant to me – a Muslim Cindy Sheehan playing on people's sympathies to foster a Democratic Party political agenda.

July 31, 2016

Bridging Troubled Waters: The Estrogen Convention

 A look behind the curtain of the 2016 Democratic Convention that not even Wikileaks can give you.

July 24, 2016

It Was a 'Dark and Stormy Night' (for Cruz, the Media, and Hillary)

This is not the campaign cakewalk to the White House Hillary imagined.

July 3, 2016

Maybe It's Time to Stop 'Thinking about Tomorrow'

When the FBI can ban newsmen from documenting what occurs in public, we are in a strange new place. 

June 28, 2016

The McDonnell case: Another study in criminal law as Democrat partisan warfare

Comes on the heels of the reversed prosecutions of then-senator Ted Stevens, Governor Rick Perry, House majority leader Tom DeLay, and the IRS war on Obama’s opponents, and persecution of supporters of Scott Walker.

June 26, 2016

On Brexit: Just Call Me Cassandra

The EU’s fate is far from clear. I certainly think it will fare worse than the UK, which will long outlive it. 

June 19, 2016

A Modest Proposal for Improving U.S. Intelligence Operations

The government is unable to offer us any significant protection no matter how many clues they are given. So what’s the answer?

June 13, 2016

Why Omar Mateen’s obvious danger signs were missed and he was allowed to purchase weapons

His DHS-contractor employer couldn't fire him, and the FBI investigations had to be closed.  Guess why...

June 12, 2016

Brexit and DCexit: British and U.S. Voters Put a Halt to Elitism?

Our bureaucratic elite, just as enamored of its own right to rule as the EU bureaucracy, is no more transparent or accountable to us than the EU is to Britons.

June 5, 2016

America’s Biggest Losers: The Right’s Commentariat

The right’s commentariat failed over the past eight years to convince voters of their positions and are now doubling down with no real economic consequences to themselves.

May 22, 2016

A Part-time Law Lecturer vs. the Constitution

Watching this administration in action one wonders what, if anything,Obama understands about the Constitution at all. 

May 15, 2016

Never Say Never and Obama’s Waterloo

Ridicule is a proper response to attorney general’s equating public schools’ blocking self-identifying boys from using girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms to segregation of blacks.

May 15, 2016

States fighting Obama adminstration bathroom bullying

The issue is catching fire

May 10, 2016

The greatest NY Times correction in years

Breathtakikng.  And utterly hilarious.

May 8, 2016

An Epiphany on the Road to Tehran

If you thought there had ever been any rational debate on the president’s vainglorious plan even within the Administration to reorient the Middle East, David Samuels's article should put that notion to rest.

May 7, 2016

Worried about high unfavorability ratings for Trump?

Since 1984, the candidate with the higher strong unfavorable rating usually has won

May 1, 2016

Pundit of the Week: Rich Danker

As coarse as he seems to coastal pundits and as frightening a prospect as he is to the professional political consultant class, Trump is striking a chord with the voters.

April 24, 2016

Smug’s The Word

Why has the chattering class adopted such a distasteful view of their fellows?

April 17, 2016

When You’ve Lost Your Leverage (Saudis On The Ropes)

What was the actual role of the Saudis in the 9/11 attacks?

April 10, 2016

The War On Women Moves to Restrooms

It doesn’t take a genius to realize that allowing men who decide they really want to be women to use women’s restrooms is a dangerous idea.

April 3, 2016

If This Is Tuesday It Must Be Wisconsin

Are the Trump verbal gaffes worse than those Obama made and were spackled over by the press?

March 27, 2016

Havana Obama and the Soppy Greeting Card War

Is it any wonder that citizens in the U.S. and Western Europe are increasingly viewing their political leaders with disdain and are seeking to oust them?

March 20, 2016

The He-Man Trump Haters Club

The He-Man gang which ignored the tea party and the left’s baseless attacks on it has been working overtime to stop its base from falling for Trump. 

March 13, 2016

Trump Storm Troopers Mob Sanders Rally: Force Cancellation

You can be sure this week’s lefty trope that Trump and his people are violent and encourage more violence will be played out.

March 13, 2016

Clarice Feldman reports on the DC GOP Primary

Mysterious

March 6, 2016

Dynasty 2016 Episode 2: Romney v. Trump

From its inception -- for good reason -- Americans rejected rule by dynastic families, and it doesn’t look like we’ve changed our minds about that.

February 29, 2016

Trump Being Targeted for not Repudiating a Non-endorsement

David Duke denies ever endorsing Trump.  So in effect Trump's being smeared for not repudiating a non-endorsement.

February 28, 2016

Cage Match USA: The State of the Election

It’s time to stop the cage match tactics and bear down on the hard slog to the White House against the Democratic candidates. 

February 21, 2016

Good Fences

The immigration crises both here and in Europe have underscored growing anger at the arrogance and incompetence of unelected bureaucrats and their rules.

February 14, 2016

Nipping at the Heels of the Administrative State

Without some fundamental changes we will remain serfs under the power of unelected officials and bureaucrats.

February 7, 2016

You Cannot Support Israel’s Existence (and Ours) and Vote Democratic This Election

The administration’s foreign and domestic policies render ourselves and our allies increasingly powerless to combat Islamic terrorism, and neither of the Democratic candidates is likely to alter that.

January 31, 2016

Nobody Knows: The State of the Primaries and the Nation

It is increasingly difficult to predict the outcome of this year’s primaries. It seems to be an anything can happen year.

January 24, 2016

A Soft Civil War

As the first primaries bear down on us, the GOP and conservatives are collapsing into a state of civil war. 

January 17, 2016

'Peddling Fiction' Or Repealing Math?

Amid all the factors behind the tailspin of our and the world’s economies it is obvious that the grand progressive schemes based on ignoring reality play a critical part

January 10, 2016

The President Who Fell From Grace

The News Year’s Eve savagery brought home for all to see the absurdity of allowing in hordes of young men from a culture which is antithetical to modern Western civilization.

January 3, 2016

Trumping Hillary

Perhaps it wasn’t such a great idea for Hillary to try to reprise the tired, ridiculous War on Women campaign theme.

December 27, 2015

Some Post-Christmas Thoughts

It’s not just interparty squabbles that fill the Internet right now but impassioned supporters of one view or candidate inside the parties as well.

December 20, 2015

The American Dream: Look for it in Jackson Hole, China

Urban planners assiduously work with equally biased political elites to make life in America's cities increasingly impossible.

December 13, 2015

Funny...I don't think the New York Times has covered this

Who matters, and who doesn't, in the world of the New York Times.

December 13, 2015

Obama Is Not Who We Are

“Not who we are” is likely to be used even more to delegitimize his opponents as his term in office runs down, his popularity sinks and he becomes ever more desperate to stifle mounting criticism.

December 6, 2015

Rebuking Obama's Folly

It took real chutzpah to insist the climate was the big threat to the world where just days before scores of French citizens had been slaughtered by jihadis. 

December 4, 2015

Hillary: Max is a mitzvah

Email reveals Hillary's embrace of an an article that suggests that American conservatives, Zionists, and the Israel government were behind the Internet video that was falsely linked by Clinton and Barack Obama to the Benghazi attack.

November 22, 2015

A Busy Week for CDC (Center for Dumb Control)

An urgent health alert -- the mind you save may be your own.

November 15, 2015

Banquet of Consequences

This week Europe’s leaders and America’s academics are being served a banquet set in motion by self-destructive governance and even more stupid supporters of these policies and their architects.  

November 8, 2015

Fools Rush In (When will They Ever Learn?)

Black man escapes plantation -- media hood up and ride.

November 1, 2015

CNBC: Media Matter Less

This week, CNBC’s wretched conduct of the Republican debate hurt the pocketbook of their parent company Comcast and gave the entire media a long-deserved black eye.

October 25, 2015

Do Hillary's Lies Matter?

We’ve grown accustomed to public officials lying to us, but the fabric of society requires we maintain a reasonable level of trust in those we’ve elected.

October 18, 2015

The Democrats Cross Epees

The Democrat field consists of a weird old socialist who wants to give away your money and a woman who’s increasingly being exposed as indifferent to both truth and protecting national security.

October 11, 2015

The Journalists' Handbook: How to Write any Story Without Working At It

Make-believe narrative over fact has become the standard for political reportage from our honest and impartial media.  

October 4, 2015

No Coherent Identityitis

In the way that the media frames mass shootings as a sort of ghoulish entertainment and ignores far more serious events, you might have missed the connection between the shootings in Oregon and Obama’s conduct this week. 

September 27, 2015

How Long Before Hillary Garbed in a Bathrobe Starts Wandering the Streets of Chappaqua?

Hillary don't know nuttin'. Unnastand? She don't know nuttin'. 

September 20, 2015

Pulling Our Strings and Poking Us in the Eyes: The Ahmed Mohamed Fairy Tale

Voter ignorance contributes to the ease with which the media manipulates public opinion into believing things which are not so.

September 19, 2015

General Dahl in Wonderland: no jail for Bergdahl 'appropriate'

Incomprehensible, a blow to military discipline and troop cohesion

September 13, 2015

Bag This Tax

Washington's plastic bag tax did little to clean up litter and nothng to clean up the Anacostia River -- but it did teach kids how to milk cows. 

September 6, 2015

Western Civilization: The Final Frontier?

What is particularly appalling about the ill-informed Western elites is how their policies are practically ensuring the end of Western Civilization. 

August 30, 2015

Obama, Bush, Clinton: Secret Agents

Why are so many American politicians working for the other team? 

August 25, 2015

Where did 'political correctness' originate?

A new book by Michael Walsh explores the beginnings of modern leftism.

August 16, 2015

You <em>Don't</em> Have (Hillary's) Mail

It's really starting to look as if the "smartest woman in the world" has outsmarted herself.

August 9, 2015

Faith v. Facts on Planned Parenthood

Instead of papering over the truth, real journalists might investigate whether the organization’s fight against the ban on partial birth abortions wasn’t motivated by the bottom line. 

August 2, 2015

Why the Democrats Should Dump Hillary and Nominate Trump

The one-two punch of Donald Trump and Planned Parenthood may well put Hillary on the ropes. 

July 26, 2015

Three for the Money: Carly, Walker, and Cruz

This week, Fiorina, Walker, and Cruz capitalized on the public’s disdain for the policies of an unpopular president and the strong desire of voters for a return to more sensible, practical policies and forthrightness. 

July 19, 2015

Tyrants and Snowflakes

Across the country, speech is being censored, ostensibly to protect the tender sensibilities of snowflakes -- those infantile sad sacks who need protection from normal debate and such thoughts as have not before penetrated the bubbles they inhabit. 

July 12, 2015

Obama's Killing the Left: Let's Help Him

If you’re of a conspiratorial mindset you might conclude that Obama’s a deep undercover conservative who decided that only by making crystal clear the idiocies of the liberal elite would people finally reject them for good. 

July 5, 2015

The Penumbra School of Law

A confused, ignorant, and corrupt society requires a confused, ignorant, and corrupt legal system.

July 3, 2015

Hillary's classified document abuse far worse than what got John Deutch fired as CIA head and General Petraeus to enter a plea deal

Of course, it might be all about yoga.  After all, Clinton has been very flexible with the truth.

June 14, 2015

Self-Invention Jumps the Shark

Ludicrous self-inventions are increasing, with people adopting fake identities to take advantage of the benefits of belonging to groups considered society’s victims.

June 7, 2015

Jenn[d]er and Other Confusions

Monty Python's People's Front of Judea would fit rght into the world of 2015. 

May 31, 2015

Why Can't Republican Presidential Debates be More Like the NCAA Playoffs?

The GOP presidential bench is too good and needs to be whittled down for us to make the best choice. It’s truly an embarrassment of riches.

May 17, 2015

Fly Specks on the Debate Commission Table

I had a weird dream in which I was a fly on the wall of the Commission on Presidential Debates as they tried to figure out who could moderate the next presidential debates

May 10, 2015

Can We Talk?

For the American left, free speech is absolute -- except when it isn't.

May 3, 2015

The Great American Traveling Riot Circus

In the United States for the past few years, inner city riots seem to be playing the same role as the Roman arena entertainments.

April 26, 2015

The Clintons' Little Tin Box

Will the corruption engulfing the Clinton Foundation knock Hillary out of the presidential contest? 

April 19, 2015

The Loretta Lynch Race Game

There is nothing in Loretta Lynch's testimony or record that indicates she’d behave any differently than has Eric Holder, whose inaction has permitted the most lawless behavior.

April 17, 2015

Lerner walks on contempt charges

Hoping Congress doesn't plan to throw in the towel just because she's not being held in contempt.

April 12, 2015

Call Her Madame Ka-Ching

Is it any surprise that Hillary's campaign plans what is essentially a listening tour route to the White House? There are too many skeletons in her closet to allow even a peek into it through a keyhole.

April 7, 2015

New revelation helps exonerate Scooter Libby

Well past time for the Valerie Plame fairy-tale to be given a decent burial.

April 5, 2015

Moral Bullies and the Laws That Enable Them

Our concept of what constitutes a public accommodation has, like so many other policies, laws, and regulations, seriously diminished our constitutional freedoms in the wake of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. They need to be pared back

April 1, 2015

Don't dissemble to Prof. Jacobson

The Virginia Bar Association has created a mess for itself.

March 29, 2015

Obama's One Fine Mess of Potage

The deceit and lawlessness of Obama and those around him and the consequences have never been clearer than they were this week.

March 22, 2015

Old Dogs Doing Old Tricks

In their zeal for power there is no question that the Democrats are willing to gin up a race war. In much the same way, the administration has targeted Israel and Netanyahu with agitprop and a lazy, credulous and partisan press plays ball. 

March 15, 2015

A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the White House

The Clintons tend to be characters in a stock play that we’ve seen over and again for decades. The only question this time around is will there be a new ending?

March 8, 2015

Benghazibabeatclintonemaildotcom

The chickens come home to roost for Hillary. The vultures are right behind.

March 1, 2015

Bibi Selassie: Dotted Points of Light

The Lion of Judah spoke the last word on aggression.

February 22, 2015

Officer Krupke and the Obama Foreign Policy

The Obama administration thinks that murderous savages drunk on public headchopping, cannibalism, enslavement of others and burying children alive, is “just a question of misunderstood”. 

February 15, 2015

The Media Questionator and My ISIS Airlift Strategy

The next time Scott Walker is asked about evolution, he should answer that punctuated equilibrium is supported by the scientific record, then ask whether Hillary Clinton believes in the science of ultrasound.

February 15, 2015

Theories of race guilt refuted, in one easy lesson

If you ever needed a reminder of why it is ridiculous to judge people by their presumed ancestors…

February 8, 2015

Cognitive Dissidents

TV (and, of course, cable) news is not well suited to cover topics more complicated than weather, sports, and traffic. More complicated stories -- which is to say the really important things we need to know -- cannot easily be reported in pictures

February 5, 2015

Brian Williams should resign for 'conflating'

Actually, it's a lie.  About his Iraq War coverage.  And his network has repeated it for years.

February 1, 2015

The Administration's Epidemic Speech Tic

Why would the administration think calling terrorists ‘insurgents’ could disguise the true nature of their acts? What distinguishes them from ‘terrorists’ attacking civilians, our troops, our contractors, our interests and allies in particularly brutal fashion?

January 25, 2015

Obama's Glozell Diplomacy

The week’s events which saw our thin-skinned puerile president fighting a childish war with Congress and Israel. But none of this seems to have kept Obama from his most important responsibilities on YouTube.

January 18, 2015

No Room for Parody

The Obama administration is a joke -- but we'll laugh in better times.

January 11, 2015

Je Suis Sick and Tired of Cant

Every time there is an outrage committed by Islamists the administration and its accomplices rush to the microphones to make sure we do not call the enemy by its name, a strategy for losers.

January 4, 2015

2014: The Year of Peak Stupidity

At some point you have to stop defending cowardly behavior as high-minded civilized turn-the-other-cheek behavior, and start telling the unvarnished truth about the attacks and attackers.

December 28, 2014

For the Media, the Climate of Hate is Always on the Right

The media have proven to be terrible weather forecasters, always finding the climate of hate on the right, and never seeing it on the left of the political map.

December 21, 2014

Naomi Feil: the Spirit of Hanukkah and Christmas in America

Millions of your countrymen and women day after day with no publicity or personal gain, eschewing mindless  raptures of righteousness, give love and hope to others.

December 14, 2014

Clarice's College Guide

At our school we teach how to lie, bully and master the art of self-aggrandizing arrogance while cleaning up on outside consultancies, made possible by our minimal teaching requirements.

December 7, 2014

The Million Man Cigarette and Salt March

It was a very bad week for the decaf pumpkin spice latte media crowd.

November 23, 2014

Revenge of the Ditz Lord

Obama's immigration speech was a bit of a bluff, designed to show he retains some relevance when, in fact, he has little.

November 16, 2014

Smug Filled Rooms

The only “stupid” people involved in the ObamaCare fiasco were the Democrats who -- without a single Republican vote -- twisted parliamentary procedure to pass it into law.

November 9, 2014

She Wore Pink Sneakers

Triumphalism may be unseemly, but it's still lots of fun.

November 2, 2014

Trading Places: It's Time to Trim the Debate Moderators' Role

Republicans continuing to allow Democratic operatives posing as newsmen and women to act as moderators in candidate debates is one of the most inexplicably stupid blunders of all.

October 26, 2014

Serfin' USA

It would be a good idea to pay more attention to wiping out America’s rampant vote fraud, clearly a Democrat plan to secure a permanent majority of rent seekers.

October 20, 2014

Crowd walks out as Obama addresses campaign rally in deep blue Maryland

There is no recovery possible from boring.   Once you are tuned-out, you have lost the possibility of revival.

October 19, 2014

Obama: Our House is Your House

Get ready to deal with more cholera, TB, AIDS, and neglected tropical diseases, coming to hospitals near you.

October 12, 2014

The Emperor of Plagues

A good thing we're not as foolish and childish as people in ancient times, isn't it?

October 5, 2014

New Year 5775: Obama undoes the New Deal and Great Society

So blinkered have anti-Israel Jews become that they ignore the danger that their one, true guiding lights -- Barack Obama and his party -- have created for their country, their coreligionists abroad, and themselves.

September 28, 2014

Jihadis and Warmunists: Brothers Under the Skin

Climate change advocates and Jihadi terrorists have much more in common than is apparent at first glance.

September 21, 2014

Gird Your Loins, it's the War on Women (Again)

The big target of Democratic emotional appeals is women voters. How can conservatives counter these efforts?

September 16, 2014

DoT's equivalent of Michelle's Starvation Diet for School Kids

In NYC and Washington, DC where traffic is already unbearable they are making it near-impossible.

September 14, 2014

Crazy Things Progressives Believe

Poor Obama -- still working on President Cheney's mistakes.

September 7, 2014

'Progressive Moral Depravity': A Confederacy of Dunces

Feminists believe they have more to gain by playing footsie with leftist politicians than they do by actually defending women.

September 7, 2014

Easy Meat Multiculturalism

An outstanding treatise on the Islamists and sex slavery in Great Britain.

August 24, 2014

Depends on the Meaning of ISIS

The Foley execution may turn out to be just as convoluted, perplexing, and damaging as Benghazi.

August 20, 2014

Ferguson Facts Slowly Emerging

We are seeing two sides to this story, not because of any great work by the media, which once again shamefully played into the "It's Always Selma" fairytale of the race hustlers.

August 17, 2014

Ferguson, Missouri, to Gaza, Damascus and Sinjar

In the Middle East, Hamas and ISIS share much with the rioters in Missouri.

August 11, 2014

The terrorists to our south

It's less costly to be on the good side of the bad guys than to be on the bad side of the good guys, after six years of Obama global retreat

August 10, 2014

'Yazidi is Kurdish for 'Unarmed Israeli'

The left, which viewed everything that happened  in Iraq while Bush was president as an unspeakably shocking outrage, has been quite still on the Lord of the Flies atmosphere occasioned by our premature withdrawal from there.

August 3, 2014

Three Ninnies and a Jackass: This Week in Gaza

Where would we be without smart leaders like Kerry, Obama, Pelosi, Hillary et al to guide us through the tortuous, rocky shoals of a contentious world?

July 27, 2014

Providence is Not Just a City in Rhode Island

The murder of three young men set in motion something that may have saved Israel unthinkable disaster.

July 25, 2014

Exposing the lies of Obamacare architect

You will rarely see a liar exposed so well.

July 22, 2014

Save the Middle Eastern Christians and Europe at the Same Time

As European nations have depopulation problems, Middle East Christians are being perscuted.

July 20, 2014

Jew-seeking Missiles, the Secure Border, and Other Nonsense

There must be some virus rapidly spreading across the globe that paralyzes brain cells creating a world gone mad.

July 18, 2014

Time for Univ. of Wisconsin alums to zip up your wallets

Grades will be given out by race and ethnicity in new "diversity" plan

July 13, 2014

Ignorance is Strength, War is Peace

Though the news of the world seems grim, there are small rays of intelligence starting to beam through the dopiness.

July 6, 2014

Let's Build a Stairway to Alberta

When votes are in public on the floor of the Congress, Democrats pay lip service to religious freedom, hoping the faceless bureaucrats will achieve their goal of forcing citizens to forego their religious scruples and bend to the will of the state.

July 5, 2014

Blowback from Obama's Border Madness

Look who just blocked the shipment of illegal alien children

June 29, 2014

Shifting Sands

The president’s petulance, disrespect for the coequal branches of government, and boundless view of his powers adds to the kinds of uncertainty and stasis that is so harmful to our economic and political life.

June 23, 2014

Apparently, we're all dead

According to prophets of climate doom in the New York Times and PBS in 1986.

June 22, 2014

The Good News Democrats

'If they want us to work at uncovering political corruption, then they should damned well just elect Republicans. That’s when we really get to work!'

June 15, 2014

Silver Linings

There's always one if you look closely enough. Maybe two.

June 1, 2014

Race Matters

New attempts to square the affirmative action circle in education cheat students, parents, and society as a whole.

May 25, 2014

Memorial Day: Obama and the Faculty Windbags' Waterloo

Every revelation of the shortcomings at the VA only reinforces the impossibility of extending the federal government further into every aspect of American life.

May 18, 2014

Corporate Money in Politics: Who's Complaining?

As long as the federal government intrudes ever more substantially into the economic life of this country, corporations have no choice but to get involved and contribute to parties and candidates‘ campaigns.

May 11, 2014

Time to Mount the Academic Ramparts, Clean House, and Free the Serfs

On America's campuses, all that is not permitted is forbidden.

May 9, 2014

A Dear John letter you want to read

Not what you might expect

May 9, 2014

Cotton stands tall, takes down Dem hypocrisy

Rep. Tom Cotton busts Democrats on phony outrage. Must see TV.

May 4, 2014

'A Vocal Segment of the Right'

The legacy media arises as one to defend their messiah.

May 4, 2014

It's time to Isolate and Target Obama's BFF Al Sharpton

. It's time to, in Saul Alinsky's words, "isolate and target" him, and here's the ammunition to do so.

April 27, 2014

Cliven Bundy Delenda Est

The effort to tag sympathetic ordinary people at odds with big government and the Democrats as racist, sexist, or homophobic continues.

April 20, 2014

Death, Taxes, and Anti-Semitism

Does anyone suppose that Democrats -- the chief American statists, class warriors, multiculturalists, and internationalists -- are any different than their European counterparts?

April 13, 2014

Democrat Center Folds

Any shred of intelligent Republican opposition can take advantage of the far left sweep of the Democratic Party party to exploit the serious differences between its voting blocs -- blacks, Jews, women, unions, and environmentalists.

April 6, 2014

State of Disunion

If you like your peace, you can keep your peace.

March 30, 2014

Bridge(gate)ing the Democrats' Culture of Corruption

In the spirit of this year's Olympics, the Democrats go for the Gold, Silver, and Bronze for abject corruption.  

March 23, 2014

Pikes, Pickets, and Scams

From green energy to 'rape culture', government finds endless methods of robbing us, harassing us, and making us look stupid.

March 16, 2014

Calling a Spade a 'Garden Implement' Doesn't Make it a Hoe

In ways large and small, we are increasingly skittish about calling things by their right names.

March 9, 2014

Well, I'll Cry Tomorrow: Medea, Debo Get No R-S-P-E-C-T

A rough week for Barry, Harry, Medea, and the American left as a whole -- not to mention the Moslem Brotherhood.

March 2, 2014

Uncontested and Contested Arrivals

To top off the Obama administration's worst week in foreign policy, both the Benghazi and IRS scandals have risen from the tomb and are even now shambling toward the White House.

February 23, 2014

Drag a Hundred Dollar Bill through a School of Journalism

Somebody needs to tell the FCC: you don't buy a cow when the milk is free.

February 16, 2014

There Oughta Be a Law(yer)

The courts, it appears, are getting a little tired of the antics of Sultan Obama in regard to the letter of the law. When will the rest of the country catch up?

February 9, 2014

Demonomics

For the airheads on the left, the devastating CBO report spelled out a wonderful new world of possibilities for American workers at the bottom rungs.

February 2, 2014

The State of the Static Union (and Universalist Claptrap)

When Vladimir Putin is a better defender of the West than Barack Obama -- or any other Western leader -- we're in bad shape.

February 2, 2014

It's ime to ignore anything the MSM says about Republican Candidates

Time and again, the media run with poorly sourced, inaccurate, unchecked claims against Republican front runners and send the white toga crowd fleeing.

January 26, 2014

Liberals Who Love Obama, a 501(c)(4) for the Age Of Gangsterism

'I'm Nicky and he's Vito. We're wit' de IRS.'

January 19, 2014

Drugs R Us

Not even Joseph Heller could have imagined the demented convolutions involving the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal.

January 16, 2014

You Can Keep Your Light Bulbs, Congress Has Seen the Light

The Omnibus budget bill is not as bad as it could be.

January 12, 2014

Bridging the Obamacare, IRS, and Benghazi Scandal Gap

Using the IRS to squelch your political opposition is a bigger offense than that which Christie is being charged with, though you wouldn't know it by looking at mainstream media.

January 11, 2014

Proof that the Plame case was a hoax

CIA official's John Rizzo's revelations in new book establish beyond peradventure of doubt that the Plame case was a hoax

January 5, 2014

2014: Let's Change the Climate

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at Australian climate scientist Chris Turney and Barack Obama, whose signature legislation is proving a rolling, unending debacle.

December 31, 2013

Obamacare propaganda retort

A brilliant fisking of a story planted by the White House

December 29, 2013

Duck, Duck: A&E Fails to Kill Its Own Golden Goose and Some Parrots Get Caught

How many of us are availing ourselves of the incredible information resources opened up by the Infowave and how many are simply opening their homes to an endless stream of pabulum and propaganda?

December 22, 2013

Advertising in the Age of Obama

Incompetent president? Collapsing economy? No health care? Don't worry -- Pajama Boy is here!

December 8, 2013

Obama Stars in The No-Name Law That Sank His Party

As a friend said: 'Once the employer mandate kicks in they'll be hunting Democrats with dogs in this country.'

December 1, 2013

Let's Talk Turkey

Obama sends his cult members out to pester relatives about ObamaCare over Thanksgiving dinner. Just wait until Christmas.

November 24, 2013

Reid Drops Nuclear Bomb and His Party Will Rue its Fallout

Harry's kicking over the table may have won him this game, but it will hurt him -- and the Democrats -- in the long run.

November 17, 2013

'Racist' President Says Now You can Keep Your 'Substandard Insurance'

The president's tardy apology for creating chaos in one-sixth of the U.S. economy is as effective as the Syrian Al-Qaeda members who videoed an apology for beheading the wrong guy.

November 10, 2013

Feminists and 'Moral Panic'

Today ordinary men and women and the country as a whole are the victims of upper class women seeking power by means of a mendacious and destructive ideology.

November 3, 2013

The Silence of the Left

The press and the public figures who promoted ObamaCare are lying low as the tsunami of voter rage builds.

November 1, 2013

Another -- really bizarre -- Obamacare quirk

The geniuses who designed the law must have a cruel sense of humor

October 27, 2013

Give us Your Young, Uninsured (and Dying to be Rooked)

They passed it, and here's what's in it.

October 20, 2013

Conventional Unwisdom

Disinformation is inevitable from American media as it is currently structured.

October 13, 2013

Government 404 Error

Smaller government? Please try again at a later time.

October 6, 2013

When Mettle Meets the Toads

Two battles were joined this week. In both cases, free men who refused to be cowed struck back at overreaching tyrants.

September 29, 2013

Persian Hokm, Obama -- J Street Hokum

The diplomatic and domestic game being played by Rouhani and Obama is Persian-American applesauce in which Obama is giving Iran the right to call the trump card and make the first move.

September 22, 2013

One Weird Trick to Expose the Truth About ObamaCare

ObamaCare is the Democrats' baby and remains so because the party's leaders refuse to acknowledge the need to substantially amend it. So let them choke on it.

September 15, 2013

Hillary! Because What Difference Does it Make?

It's time to review the record of a woman whose life is marked by deceit and professional failure and ask about the sanity and judgment of her ardent supporters.

September 9, 2013

The remarkable Mrs. Allen West

I've been a long time supporter of Allen West. Now, for the first time, I have the privilege of learning what his wife's views are

September 8, 2013

Operation Cockamamie: The Damascus Follies

Looking over the week's crazy developments, I can see only one coherent strand in Obama's foreign policy: he wants to make sure that John Kerry and Hillary Clinton will never be elected president.

September 8, 2013

Obama Copies Animal House's Greatest Speech

A brilliant AT reader nails it

September 1, 2013

Mythy Memories of the March that Was

Colorblindness was an admirable goal in the 1960s, but nowadays it threatens an entire, lucrative, industry

August 25, 2013

ObamaCare: When Socialist Theory Meets Practice

Should the Republicans sit on their hands and let this misbegotten law crash on the shoals and take down the party that wrote and enacted it?

August 18, 2013

Obama Flouts the Law

Are Constitutional checks and balances adequate to deal with a president such at this?

August 11, 2013

Demagogic Writers and the People Who Love Them

American Betrayal: a perfect example of how not to write historical analysis.

July 21, 2013

Putin and Obama: Brothers in Tyranny

The U.S. administration that uses every possible nonviolent means of undercutting its opponents condemns the Russian administration that uses every violent means.

July 14, 2013

Impeach Attorney General Holder - for Justice's Sake

This week, I am grateful I am not a civics teacher. The entire legal and constitutional framework under which we believe we live seemed to have been turned upside-down.

July 7, 2013

White House Down: Obama Version

The walls are starting to close in on Mr. Barack H. Obama.

July 1, 2013

The miniscule upside

The mind boggling idiocy of President Obama's War on Coal

July 1, 2013

More academic perfidy

What good can this possibly serve?

June 30, 2013

Another Race-based Show Trial Turns Into Farce

'Crump' is the sound you hear when a bogus case hits the wall.

June 24, 2013

A dangerous head of the FBI?

Beltway beatification underway for a man with a scary record.

June 23, 2013

Puttin' On the Ritz

Dancing on the edge of the abyss.

June 17, 2013

Senator Cornyn (finally) comes clean

It's hard to fight the monumental corruption of this Administration when your own skirts are unclean.

June 16, 2013

Obama is Abrading the Social Fabric

This administration is doing its level best to undermine the system of checks and balances.

June 16, 2013

God Save the Queen

The British monarch takes an indirect swipe at Israel-bashing academics.

June 9, 2013

Scandalzapoppin

Step right up, for your daily scandal! IRS scandals, Justice scandals, spying scandals, White House scandals, media scandals... Just take your pick, we're giving 'em away!

June 6, 2013

Repeal the wheel!

Instead of quarreling endlessly over minutiae of this dangerous device vs. that unacceptable pollutant, here's a modest proposal that can curtail all industrial sins in a single stroke

June 2, 2013

Bipartisan Tango and Lawless Justice

The IRS scandal? George Bush's fault! Note: Revised and expanded version.

May 26, 2013

The Media's Yellow Submarine

Obama learns the old, old lesson: when you sup with the Devil, use a long spoon.

May 19, 2013

Capital Powerball: Scandals Grease Washington's Wheels

The vultures are starting to circle....

May 16, 2013

IRS seizes 60 million medical records without a warrant

A class action suit alleges "that some 60 million medical records from 10 million patients were stolen by 15 IRS agents."

May 12, 2013

Benghazi Coverup Uncovered

The dam has finally burst on the Benghazi scandal. Obama and Hillary had better both hold on tight.

May 5, 2013

Dancing with Obama

Lately, the media's dancing partner has two left feet.

April 28, 2013

The Brothers Tsarnaev and the Danger Whose Name we Dare not Speak

The unfolding story surrounding the Marathon bombing has revealed more about the administration's incompetence, mendacity, and corruption than Obama can strictly afford.

April 21, 2013

I Know why the Lame Duck Squawks

Barack Obama has just suffered the worst week of his career. Let's hope it's the first of many.

April 14, 2013

Boola, Boola, Save Your Moolah

The universities may be intent on diving headfirst into oblivion, but there's no reason why alumni ought to follow them.

April 9, 2013

Corrupt federal prosecutors escape even a slap on the hand

Professional misconduct that destroyed a man's career and enabled the Senate to pass Obamacare escapes any punishment.

April 9, 2013

Attention GOP Leadership! Start here

A painless way to handle sequester costs

April 8, 2013

Crabzilla

There's nothing for which you can't blame carbon dioxide

April 7, 2013

J-O-B-S

The economy continues its slow collapse while the pols look on. And who's to blame for it all? Why, the "professional right," thanks very much.

March 31, 2013

We're Doomed, Send Money Fast!

Count President Obama as one of the masters of the art of diverting attention from facts, crying doom and grabbing yet more money from our pockets to enrich his buddies, increase his power and further impoverish us.

March 30, 2013

A Komodo Dragon in Thailand and some Badgers in Singapore

At the moment the Bangkok metropolitan area is home to fourteen million people. It's a major force finance and business in this part of the world yet remains as exotic and lively as ever.

March 24, 2013

The Wine, Women and Song Foundation

I have watched over the years how publicly unaccountable foundations have amassed billions of dollars, tax free, and spend it on dangerous, leftwing, often anti-American and anti-Israeli outfits, conferences and promoters.

March 23, 2013

Ho Chi Minh (Saigon): Where Everyone Knows Bill Clinton's Name

March 17, 2013

'Reactionary Liberalism' Backfires

Wile E. Coyote (and crew) race off the cliff. Gravity kicks in. Audience laughs.

March 16, 2013

The Mekong River: Calling into Question the Germ Theory of Disease

Clarice Feldman explores The Mekong Delta,

March 10, 2013

End the Madness at the EEOC

The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) has put the nation's private employers between the regulatory rock and the legal hard place as regards criminal background checks.

March 9, 2013

Tet, the Year of the Snake

Clarice Feldman lands at Danang, Viet Nam just in time for the lunar new year.

March 3, 2013

Who're you going to Trust: The Stock Market or the Media Innumerates?

Obama tried to bluff while holding a pitifully bad hand. ...and now he doesn't want to pay up.

March 2, 2013

On a Not Very Slow Boat to (Indo) China

Hong Kong Harbor to Halong Bay -- Southeast Asia's Waterworld

February 24, 2013

The Bating Game: Obama Doubles Down

With the connivance of the press, Obama is trying to scare the public about the effects of the necessary Sequestration cuts while proposing yet another expensive, pointless program.

February 3, 2013

Our Foreign Policy Establishment: Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places

Like the addlepated women who write love letters to an imprisoned murderer, the U.S. foreign policy establishment repeatedly acts as though the power of their love and financial generosity will turn foreign thugs into responsible democratic leaders

January 27, 2013

The Administration 's New Fronts in the War on Women

This week, the administration that rode to a second term decrying a fictitious war on women by the opposition, opened real fronts on the war on women, perpetuating feminism's worst inconsistencies

January 20, 2013

The Democracy Initiative: a Coup in Plain Sight

The left is preparing its next step in the grand transformation of the United States into their dream collectivist utopia. And what are conservatives doing in response? Nada.

January 13, 2013

America: The Kardashian Years

Facts -- they just don't matter like they used to. Neither does the Constitution, if you listen to Joe Biden, Governor Cuomo, and other politicians grabbing the microphones to take advantage of the low information voters' short attention span.

January 8, 2013

Environmentalism, the Ultimate Luxury Good

"Environmentalism criminalizes life and legalizes it on its terms."

January 7, 2013

Inside the Ringling Brothers court case

Ringling Bros. case gives us an eye opening look at the "animal rights" lobby.

January 6, 2013

The Democrats' War on Science Aids Our Enemies

It's an article of faith among Democrats that Republicans are unscientific boobs stupidly opposing such established verities as anthropogenic global warming. Of course, this is nonsense.

January 5, 2013

Oops!

The leading opponent of genetically modified food admits he's been wrong for two decades.

December 23, 2012

Two Christmas Gifts: Hope and Love

The power of hope and love is stronger than all the tragedy we've been handed this Christmas season.

December 16, 2012

Newtown: Just Leave Us to Grieve in Peace

Let's have a decent silence to contemplate the eternal nature of evil and the tragic loss we all feel.

December 14, 2012

Government Grossly Exaggerate​d in Case Against Pollard

New details on the notorious espionage case.

December 9, 2012

Slouching Toward Damascus

A quick review of the state of matters in the Middle East shows that the Arab Spring has been a gigantic flop, a diplomatic Solyndra in which for ill-considered ideological reasons we poured a lot into a cause that was hopeless from the outset.

December 2, 2012

Cliff Dwellers

We unfortunately are getting used to living at the edge of a steep cliff, going about our everyday business pretending the fatal drop to the abyss doesn't exist.

November 18, 2012

The Gingerbread Man

Do you remember the tale of "The Gingerbread Man"? Some parallels are coming up when it comes to the fiasco in Benghazi.

November 11, 2012

The Disappointment of Living in an Electoral Republic

It's sad to contemplate the possibility that the party that wins a close election is the one who is better at rounding up the most homeless, senile, or otherwise completely ignorant people and herd them to the polls and tell them how to vote

November 9, 2012

Did mishandling of the military ballots cost Romney the election? (update: a hoax)

The tardy delivery of the ballots caused them to be returned too late to be counted but these hundreds of thousands of ballots seem p

November 4, 2012

A President without Shame

Vote like your life depends on it on Tuesday, because it probably does.

November 2, 2012

Benghazi Timeline: More Lies Exposed

More shocking details of the Administration's mishandling and mendacity about the attacks on our consulate in Benghazi

October 30, 2012

'Courage was Lacking for Benghazi'

With all the technology and military capability we had in theater, for our leadership to have deliberately ignored the pleas for assistance is not only incomprehensible, it is un-American.

October 28, 2012

Stand Down Obama and Biden, Stand Down

The latest news coming out about the murder of our Ambassador and three other brave Americans in Ben Ghazi is so horrifying and shocking I can take no pleasure in writing about it.

October 28, 2012

Issa Benghazi Transcript

An online link to a complete transcript of Congressman Darrell Issa's Benghazi hearings.

October 21, 2012

The 'War on Women' Backfires

One of the intriguing aspects of this election is how the Democrats' shameless and clueless appeal to women is ending with the vaporization of the historic "gender gap" among voters.

October 16, 2012

AEI Analyzes Polls of Jewish Voters, Finds Dip in Support for Obama

The dip could be meaningful in several swing states

October 15, 2012

How Close is the Obama Administration with Israel?

In the vice-presidential debate, Joe Biden indicated the administration had close ties with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. A video from the Israeli Prime Minister calls that into question.

October 14, 2012

Deliverance with Better Teeth, Clothes, and Haircuts

The incestuous relationship between the media and the Democrats is of such long standing that you could say the Capitol is like Deliverance with better clothes and haircuts.

October 12, 2012

We Have Video of the Benghazi Attacks

New insight into the final hour of the attack on our soil.

October 7, 2012

The Master Debater Part II

Wednesday the public got to see the president as I have always seen him -- a lazy, superficial thinker who is over his head as Chief Executive.

September 30, 2012

On the Road to Benghazi

Let's review the sad history of an Obama foreign policy initiative which resulted in the murder of our Ambassador and three other Americans.

September 23, 2012

Free Barack: Elect Romney

It is increasingly obvious that Obama wants to get out of the White House. It's time to free Barack.

September 16, 2012

The White House and Press Create a Fairy Tale Version of History

Watching the Middle East doings this week with any degree of care, news consumers can see quite clearly how mendacious officials, media and our enemies have created a false storyline about the uprisings in Cairo and Libya

September 16, 2012

'Why Barack Obama Should Resign'

Instapundit asks Obama to do the right thing.

September 15, 2012

Oh, the delicious irony!

It's like Inspector Javert getting caught stealing a loaf a bread.

September 10, 2012

Canada Suspends All Diplomatic Relations with Iran

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government in Canada is showing the Obama administration what international leadership looks like.

September 9, 2012

Obama and the DNC Running on Empty

The once mainstream media is increasingly despondent as its power to shape opinions and influence this election diminishes.

September 9, 2012

Obama's Failure On Freeing US Hostage

Utterly inadequate efforts to free a US hostage in Cuba

September 2, 2012

Media Madness, and the Reckoning

Last week a line was crossed, and full blown insanity manifested itself in the formerly-mainstream media.

August 26, 2012

Sleeping with the Enemy in the 'War On Women'

As this year's flailing campaign matches his amateurish handling of the presidency, Democratic women are manning their enemy's ramparts while preposterously claiming it is the Republicans who are waging a "war on women."

August 19, 2012

The Defiant Ones

This week we saw one of the neatest political plays ever.

August 12, 2012

Paul Ryan and the Triumph of Math

"Obama's most horrifying nightmare" brought to life

August 5, 2012

Tea Party Unbound

When the public is angry and organized against the ruling classes and the media ignores the phenomenon, the rebellion does not die.

August 2, 2012

Italians hold moment of silence for Israeli athletes murdered in Munich

Happened Sunday, but went unreported until today

August 1, 2012

House to Take action on Ecuador

Time to stand up to abuses

July 29, 2012

Wile E. Coyote Joins Obama Campaign Team

Obama campaign creating jobs for Acme Products, as exploding cigar sales... explode.

July 27, 2012

What's really behind education's reading and math wars?

"a public illusion on what is being promised and what is coming to the schools and classrooms that are this country's future."

July 22, 2012

'You Didn't Build That.' Boston Globing for Obama

The President in his ill-considered Elizabeth Warren-like claptrap revealed he is utterly divorced from the majority of Americans.

July 18, 2012

The Prisoner of Castro

An American being held in Cuban prisons as a hostage to Castro's demands for more concessions from a spineless administration

July 15, 2012

My Problem Is I'm Too Good

Obama reminds me of a dear, now deceased, relative who used to say, "My problem is I'm too good," without realizing the humor of that self-evaluation.

June 29, 2012

Obamacare: 'Things are now up for Grabs'

Did you really ever think Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and Barack Obama could outsmart and outplay Justice Roberts?

June 24, 2012

Obama and the Kingdom of the Concrete Skull

Imagine being so down and out that you have to deter people from talking about the economy with the news that you are an accessory to murder.

June 23, 2012

Lone prof fights Obama Library at Univ of Chicago

The university has a long standing policy of not taking political positions, and siting the institution there would inevitably clash with that policy.

June 17, 2012

Holder's Just-Us Department under Fire

Whether he resigns or is removed or spends the rest of this year responding to Congressional inquiries, Attorney general Holder has treated the Department of Justice as a partisan arm of the Obama Administration.

June 10, 2012

The Wintour of Our Discontent

The entire week was full of signs of a campaign on the rocks

June 3, 2012

Seventy-Six Trombones and 8.2% Unemployment

This week the economic news is so grim even the media's usual qualifier "unexpected" is meaningless.

May 27, 2012

The Bane in Bain is Really Just a Feign

"There's no point in beating the drum for a sideshow when the clowns have the center ring."

May 21, 2012

Wayback Feature Unravels the Obama Bio Lie

Oops, that agency has been modifying Obama's biography for years, and only deep sized the Kenya birth reference after he announced his presidential run.

May 21, 2012

More on the Kenyan Cherokee

Believe it or not, Breitbart has dug up evidence that like his pal, Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama has claimed Cherokee heritage and has done so, as she has, with no proof whatsoever

May 20, 2012

How to Write Democrat Autobiographies (or Naked Came the Kenyan Cherokee)

Maybe it was just a dream, but I feel certain that I recently read an essay with the above title, authored by Barack H. Obama and Elizabeth Warren.

May 14, 2012

How to get the Washington Post's attention

The Washington Post will not publish a correction on the Romney bullying story; they will not report the Rev Wright bribery. Maybe there will be consequences

May 13, 2012

Attack of the Tea Party Zombies

Readers who heed what the media says would have thought the tea party bitter clingers were dead, so this week's election results must have seemed to them like the attack of the zombies.

May 11, 2012

White House Gets West Virginia Message: Coal is Back!

Nothing like losing over 40% of the primary vote to a jailed felon to clear the mind on energy.

May 6, 2012

Clueless: Kim Kardashian and Elizabeth Warren

Exposing the rot undermining big media and big academe this week.

April 29, 2012

Acme Sharpened Pikes Report to Stockholders

This Report highlights for our stockholders some of the events taking place in Washington DC and the consequences of those developments on our profit picture this year.

April 22, 2012

This Week's Exploding Cigar: Obama, the Dog Eater

Obama's crack campaign staff has -- with the aid of their media lapdogs -- set up a series of diversions, each of which is exploding in Obama's face like Wile E. Coyote's Acme exploding cigars.

April 15, 2012

'A Struggle Ensued': Lynch Mob Justice In Florida

An innocent man has been railroaded by the press and the race baiters, aided by an unethical, irresponsible special prosecutor and a racialist President and Attorney General

April 8, 2012

Izzy, Esther, and Me: Memories of I.F. and Esther Stone

I can say that, Soviet spy or not, I.F. Stone and his lovely wife Esther were my neighbors from 1976 to their deaths, and they were lively, interesting, and very nice neighbors.

April 1, 2012

Capitol Follies

Congress has lost any right to be considered a respected, coequal branch of the government.

March 30, 2012

The high cost of China's low prices

Defense procurement from China? Seriously?

March 29, 2012

Power and Willpower In the American Future

No, the United States is not destined to decline, as Mark Steyn and so many others believe these days.

March 26, 2012

Obama and the Hoodie

How classy is this?

March 25, 2012

The Incredible Pliability of Fact and Statistics

This week's report is about energy and the crazy things the President, Democrats, media, college students, and professors believe about energy.

March 18, 2012

'The Blacks: A Clown Show' (Revisited as an American Tragedy)

In 1961 a play titled "The Blacks : A Clown Show" by the French petty criminal and homosexual prostitute Jean Genet, was the avant garde sensation of New York.

March 11, 2012

The Book of Obama: The Ganza Megillah

The story of Purim is found in the Book of Esther, a long, detailed story known as the "Megillah." In Yiddish, the term "Ganza Megillah" has a number of meanings -- usually a long story.

March 4, 2012

The Bell Tolls for Breitbart

The untimely death of the conservative media genius, Andrew Breitbart, came during a week where the lesson he taught us about media manipulation of the voters in support of leftwing Democratic goals was yet again manifest.

February 26, 2012

Road to Road Island

This week the White House website announced that the Vice President was traveling to "Road Island," an error typical of the many risible illiteracies that regularly appear there

February 19, 2012

Leni Riefenstahl: Congratulations on the HHS Regulations

A memo to our president from Leni.

February 12, 2012

Won't You Come Home Bill Daley?

How the geniuses in the White House got themselves into a damaging battle against religious liberty.

February 5, 2012

We're All Nonprofit Now

I have been watching over the years as non-profit foundations enormously have increased their assets and sway over the political and cultural life of America (essentially on our dime) with no real oversight or controls.

February 3, 2012

Major Party Shift Among Jewish Voters

"Jews are the only religious group analyzed in which the percentage who identify themselves as Republican (as opposed to leaning toward the GOP) has risen significantly"

January 29, 2012

The Debate Show

For months now we've been watching a series of kick lines fatuously called debates.

January 22, 2012

Newt's Third Law

Isaac Newton's Third Law is familiar to most of us. Simply put: " To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." This week Newt Gingrich showed that the laws of motion are equally applicable to media manipulation

January 15, 2012

Voguing for Obama

Quentin Crisp's take on fashion and fashionistas comes to mind whenever I read Style section writers like Robin Givhan ogling the First Lady's clothing choices: "Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are."

January 8, 2012

How To Win Power by Selling Out Your Own Union

The story of how a once powerful institution's leaders repeatedly sold out its members as the nation drifted from large scale industrial production of power and goods to being a producer of private and public services

January 5, 2012

Obama's bogus recess appointment

Useful information.

January 1, 2012

Two Silly Notions: Biofuel Mandates as Carbon Neutral and Rhino Horn Medicine

I don't know why it is so, but it seems as if the folly of others causes so much suffering in Africa, a place which could do without extra disadvantage.

December 18, 2011

The Days are Long but the Years Are Short

It is the time of year to savor life's happiest moments: family, friends, celebrations, rituals, and seeing people you consider corrupt get theirs.

December 11, 2011

Attorney General Milo Minderbinder

It is a true pity that Joseph Heller, author of Catch 22, is no longer with us. He deserved the chance to observe his character Milo Minderbinder, come to life

December 4, 2011

Scenes of the Occupation

When I read that $1 million in stimulus funds had been given out to the author of an online soap opera called "Diary of a Single Mom," every greedy bone in my body started tingling like Chris Matthews' leg used to at the sight of Barack Obama.

November 27, 2011

Real Life K.O.'s Zorba and His EU Friends

In Nikos Kazanzakis' Zorba the Greek we see both Kazanzakis' disdain for capitalists and a description of the Greek ethos which is proving that country's economic downfall

November 20, 2011

Secrets of the American Nomenklatura

Tuck enough money in Obama's fundraising g-string, and like casting crumbs on the water, lots of bread will come floating back your way.

November 13, 2011

Living in Omelasville

Obama may not create a classless society, but he sure has created a classless administration. In better times, the miscreants would fall on their swords, slit their wrists in hot baths or be displayed hanging from gibbets on town walls.

November 6, 2011

Razing Cain

Those who discount the anti-Cain hype have history on their side.

October 30, 2011

Self-Reliance for Dunces

The light breaks through in even the darkest cave sometimes even without any effort on our part.

October 23, 2011

Karma

It's been a terrible, horrible, awful, no-good karma week for the White House.

October 16, 2011

Bored Housewives of Pennsylvania Avenue

Too many First Spouses -- seemingly all of the Democratic persuasion, beginning with Hillary -- have determined to use their position for self-aggrandizement and political ends

October 9, 2011

Steve Jobs and the Adullamites Who Occupy Wall Street

The goal of these folks (besides getting others to give them the wherewithal, like blankets and food, to carry on) is unclear.

October 2, 2011

Science, Lies, and Videotape

It's been brutal lately for climate change advocates.

September 25, 2011

Solyndra: Obama's Marble Boat

Just as Cixi's marble boat impoverished China and placed it at risk, the foolish actions of this administration impoverish us and place us at risk. But the optics!

September 18, 2011

Hall of the Blue Dog

There's a secret hall at the Smithsoniam they are adding to record the passing of moderate Democrats from the American political scene and remind museum goers who these people were and what they represented.

September 11, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: Ten Years After 9/11

Quickly the fear and outrage we felt was considered by the elite to be too dangerous to acknowledge or validate. They consider the rest of us moronic murderers it would seem.

September 4, 2011

Obama's Road to Bali

A stupid miscalculation was the Obama finale for August, but September is bringing him fresh agita

August 28, 2011

Will the Democrats Trump Trumka

Things rarely turn out the way I would have imagined them to, and President Obama and the Democrats might soon find that to be true of Richard Trumka. I sure did.

August 21, 2011

Rime of the Ancient Democrat

Like Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, Democrats can only stand on deck with that Obama albatross around their neck, watching both the White House and the Senate slip from their grasp.

August 14, 2011

Obamamandias

In ancient times, a leader who failed as greatly as Obama has was simply erased from the history of his people. Craftsmen were engaged by his successors in power to chisel his name off of all the temples, (stone) archives, and monuments.

August 7, 2011

Raging At The Dying Of Their Light

The elite liberal of a certain age is experiencing a major life crisis as the march of history leaves them as but rather laughable footnotes.

July 31, 2011

Coin of the Realm

As long as there are constitutional law professors we'll never be short of laughter

July 24, 2011

The Budget Talks: Edge of the Rim of the Cusp

This fight is long overdue in a nation which has been ideologically rather evenly divided for some time and is just now awakening to the reality that the baby cannot be split in half.

July 17, 2011

President Demands 'Massive, Job-killing Tax Increases' and Dares Republicans to Call His Bluff

This was the kind of week where any self-respecting 2008 Obama supporter should have been in his garage scraping off that old Hope and Change.

July 10, 2011

Progressive Unemployment

Obama's initiatives have increased unemployment, will continue to do so, and must be reversed if we are ever to get back on track.

July 3, 2011

The Community Organizer Who Would be King

We've reached a turning point in this presidency where Obama's (and Michelle's) delusions of grandeur have become objects of ridicule

June 26, 2011

Fast and Furious Fiasco: Time to Abolish the ATF

Voltaire observed "It's a good thing to kill an admiral now and then to encourage the others."

June 19, 2011

Happy Father's Day

I hope all you dads are having a great day. But if it's less than perfect, remember it could be worse. You could be Anthony Weiner's dad listening to his resignation speech in which he thanks you and his mom for instilling in him "the values that carried me so far."

June 12, 2011

The Flasher and the Journalist Flash Mobs

For those of us who think the mainstream media is so ludicrous it deserves to be unemployed, this week was fabulous.

June 5, 2011

You Did Not Learn All You Needed to Know in Kindergarten

Combining willful blindness with feelings of moral superiority.

May 29, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: The Quest for the Great Pizza

A woman and her mission.

May 22, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: Obama and the 'Teutonic Shift' in the Middle East

One wonders if this is finally the week that the scales fall from the eyes of those Jews who voted for and supported Obama.

May 15, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: Waiting for Moammar

Guess who showed up on the other side of the Ouija board.

May 8, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: About Abbottabad

It should have been a great week for the White House.

May 1, 2011

Trump and the Hunt for Red Obama

The astounding gullibility of the liberals on display this week.

April 24, 2011

Psst -- The Holder Tapes

I'm letting you in on a secret. No President since Nixon -- until now -- has had secretly taped conversations in the Oval Office.

April 17, 2011

Did We Hitch Our Wagon to a (Death) Star?

Obama misjudges the inexorable and sometimes brutal laws of economics

April 10, 2011

The Story of O (Icarus, not Pegasus)

The president has over flown his carefully constructed, made up persona, and his wax wings are melting and with them his party's hold on the voters.

April 3, 2011

The Unified Theory of Obama

At last! An explanation for the many mysteries of Barack Obama.

April 3, 2011

Code Pink reappears

Hugo Chavez's Code Pink Pals vanished as the President expanded the war in Afghanistan and bombed Libya. So what are they up to?

March 29, 2011

Hitchens: The Iraq Effect

Funny how it takes Christopher hitchens to acknowledge that none of the change in the Middle East would have been possible without President Bush's decision to invade Iraq

March 28, 2011

More on the U.S. military Japanese Aid Work

Effort is now shifting from one of aiding survival to one of rebuilding.

March 27, 2011

Ishtar II: The Audacity of the Artless War

If Hollywood did remakes of box office flops, it might look a lot like what is going on in our nation's capital.

March 20, 2011

The Fukushima 50 and the White House Cipher

This was a week of enormous contrasts, in which we saw colossal courage and integrity and bravery on the part of U.S. troops and ordinary Japanese, and cowardice and childishness in the White House.

March 13, 2011

The Chic of Araby

Not since the 1978 FBI Abscam sting when FBI agents posing as a fictional sheikh and his associates, has Washington D.C. been so entertained by make believe Arabs exposing corruption by those who think they are smarter than we are.

March 6, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: Picture This

Why, in a land full of boundless opportunities, the poor stay poor.

March 4, 2011

A Tutorial on Polls

Everything you always wanted to know, but were afraid to ask: weighting of samples, framing and sequencing of questions, and other factors.

February 27, 2011

The Fierce Moral Urgency of WTF

Unfortunately for the Obamas, we are less distracted by the shiny objects the White House dangles before us these days

February 21, 2011

Obama airbrushing history

White House statement on Obama's involvement in Wisconsin protests doesn't match what the president said earlier.

February 20, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: The Gift of Words

I think if there is a heaven, a special place must be found there where the best teachers in the world have thrones of glory.

February 16, 2011

Lax IRS Misspends Billions Each Year. Billions

By 2014 could result in $65 billion being given away to unqualified recipients who don't even pay taxes

February 13, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: Arianna for President

If we insist on having egotistical self-aggrandizers for president, at least let's have one who understands how to read a balance sheet

February 6, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: The Incredible Lightness of Obama

A little like Honduras before him, Hosni Mubarak outsmarted and outplayed the community organizer.

February 1, 2011

Administration itself sank ObamaCare

Incompetence or worse.

January 30, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: She Wouldn't Harm a Fly

Frances Fox Piven: still advocating violent social upheaval.

January 23, 2011

Allegory of the Cave of the Mama Grizzly

Sarah Palin and the media puppeteers.

January 16, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: Another Memo from Leni Riefenstahl

Advice to the presidential couple from the master of propaganda.

January 14, 2011

Afghans in Kabul Demonstrate Against Iran

Mullahs not too popular. Video

January 12, 2011

Sarah Palin speaks

Some necessary media slapdown.

January 11, 2011

Loughner's Grudge Against Giffords Dates From 2007

Predates Palin and health care reform.

January 10, 2011

ETA Basque terror group announces 'ceasefire'

Skepticism justifiable.

January 9, 2011

Clarice's Pieces: Be Scientific (Skeptical) about Scientific Research

David Suzuki said, "Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism." His observation is proven right every single day.

January 8, 2011

Saddam's WMD stockpile raided by Al Qaeda on 2003

Bush vindicated by... The Guardian

December 26, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Kentucky McConnell and the Temple of Pork

Don't believe the hype about Obama as the "comeback kid" and the "most productive lame duck Congress ever."

December 19, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: This (Class) War Is Lost

Rev. Senator Harry Reid famously said before the Bush surge in Iraq, "This war is lost." It wasn't, but the Democrats' favorite war is now.

December 17, 2010

Michelle Obama, food dictator

A new video

December 13, 2010

Jikileaks

J Street is the fake Israeli advocacy group which is anti-Israel and close to Obama. Someone is posting documents on a website called Jikileaks

December 13, 2010

Virginia AG Cuccinelli's press conference (updated)

This afternoon Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli held a press conference to explain his view of the ObamaCare constitutional case

December 12, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: The Incredible Shrinking President

What's the theme here? No bread and no circuses?

December 6, 2010

Israel's 'delegitimization' a threat to her security

And the evolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict into a religious war.

December 5, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Some Things about Politics I Don't Understand

I have lived in Washington for over forty years, but there are some things I will never understand.

November 28, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: A Very American Thanksgiving

Community organizers, like most Democrat candidates, gain power by dividing people.

November 22, 2010

Ozone Day Musings

The fantastical predictions on the disappearing ozone layer which proved wrong

November 21, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: God Bless Barack Obama

I suppose that heading is a bit startling coming from me this fall Sunday, but I mean it.

November 16, 2010

I bet you're wrong, Roger Ebert

I will offer Ebert a $100 bet to be paid to his favorite charity if he can prove this allegation is credible

November 14, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Restoring American Stature Abroad

The man we were told by his supporters would restore American stature abroad has diminished our standing and his in one stroke.

November 14, 2010

Confrontation In Costa Rica

Once again, the leftist thugs of Central America test our mettle and prove the impotence of international organizations.

November 13, 2010

Just about anything is 'Fair Game' - except the truth

New movie about the Valerie Plame affair doesn't even mention the man who really outed her.

November 11, 2010

Big redistricting problems for Dems in 2012

GOP gains in battleground states at the local level will give them the edge when new district lines are drawn next year.

November 7, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Glib Pasha Gets His Just Desserts

Not since the peregrinations of Jean Duc de Berry have we seen such lavish travels.

November 4, 2010

Reports of our death were greatly exaggerated

A smartypants New York Times editor looks awfully foolish.

November 3, 2010

Obama India trip to cost taxpayers $200 million a day

What kind of a "Passage to India" is that?

November 1, 2010

The Five Stages of Democratic Grief

First two stages already visible

October 31, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: The Philosophical Pragmatist's Passage to India

The Tuesday midterms look as though they will prove as historic as the election of a chief executive with no prior executive experience, no significant accomplishments to speak of, and no personal history that can be independently verified.

October 26, 2010

New book captures Iraq combat experience

The book confronts the appalling difficulty of fighting an enemy to whom human life is no concern at all and to whom the opportunity to prove this every day is a boasted military advantage.

October 24, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Fox and Hens (A Terrible Week for the Media)

As we draw nearer to the midterm elections and what still promises to be a crushing defeat for the Democrats, the Democrats themselves refuse to campaign on the issues.

October 21, 2010

Allen West leads in Florida slugfest

West a slight favorite if turnout differential holds.

October 20, 2010

Smartypants AP reporter not so smart

And AP covers-up without acknowledging error

October 19, 2010

Judge could rule on VA's challenge to ObamaCare by year's end

First in a series of a dozen or more state challenges to Obamacare.

October 19, 2010

CIA Sues Ishmael Jones: His Response

Ishmael Jones, former CIA employee and author (and AT contributor), has been sued by the CIA which claims he published his book without authorization

October 18, 2010

'Fault Lines'

"The Tea Party is about to deliver a blow that, if Obama is rational, ought to rock his foundations. We'll see then who is in touch with the real world."

October 17, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Bang the Drum Loudly

In Chicago, Michelle Obama managed to break the law by campaigning in a polling place where she'd gone to vote early in an outfit so fashion-forward it looked like Halloween had come early.

October 15, 2010

Start the day right

More informative than Krugman and won't interfere with your digestion like Friedman does.

October 10, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Lean Forward

As one wag said, it seems like just yesterday Obama crowds were swooning; now they are simply sickened.

October 6, 2010

Able Danger Back in the News

Sometimes stuff swept under the carpet makes its way out no matter how hard the broom is wielded

October 3, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Chum for Chumps

The odious Brown supporter and mistress of the legal female victim genre, Gloria Allred, leaped into action this week, attacking Meg Whitman.

September 30, 2010

ObamaCare Chickens Coming Home to Roost

Workers to lose healthcare coverage thanks to ObamaCare.

September 26, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Make Way for Hillary?

Obama, Pelosi, and Reid shoved the hated ObamaCare legislation through the world's greatest deliberative body, and we are seeing the results.

September 25, 2010

Which 'Malik Shabazz' visited the White House?

The White House swears it wasn't the head of the New Black Panther party but someone else with the same name.

September 24, 2010

Ecuador:An Attempted International Ripoff Dissolves in Farce

And the good guys might win.

September 24, 2010

William Ayers denied academic honorific

The unreconstructed terrorist's book dedication to RFK's assassin comes back to haunt him.

September 21, 2010

Progressive jihad against Israel

A network of hate.

September 21, 2010

Jesse Jackson Jr's Blagojevich Story Doesn't Match His Fundraiser's

Someone -- I suspect the prosecution -- seems to building a pyre under Jackson in preparation for the Blagojevich re-trial.

September 20, 2010

'Islamaphobia' another political tool

The Arab world is in agreement with those who think the Cordoba Mosque ought not to be built at ground zero and by a vast majority see Americans as tolerant

September 19, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: I Told You So

Democrats are watching the guillotines being rolled up to the polling places...

September 19, 2010

The 'Lombardi Rule' is in effect

"The object is to win fairly, by the rules - but to win."

September 18, 2010

DoJ investigates itself

Multiple witnesses will testify to the Obama administration's hostility to the equal enforcement of our civil rights laws.

September 17, 2010

Lobbyist singing to the feds

Trouble for a number of Democrats in the House.

September 15, 2010

Jonah Goldberg on last night's primary results

Did the tea party make a mistake in Delaware?

September 15, 2010

Eleanor Holmes Norton on Tape Strong arming a Lobbyist for $$$

Big Government has a revealing tape of Eleanor Holmes Norton soliciting funds from a lobbyist in which she improperly notes his contributions to other committee members and hints at her power to give or deny favors.

September 14, 2010

DOJ's IG dong a Programmatic Review of the Civil Rights Division

Tick, tick, tick...

September 14, 2010

Look at Obama spend your money. See him spend. Spend. Spend. Spend.

Barack Obama is to publish a children's book, featuring his daughters on the cover.

September 12, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Democratic Party Death Panels

The past week began (for me) on a bright note and only got better. The New York Times announced that the Democrats have instituted internal death panels.

September 6, 2010

Final Jeopardy: The answer is zero

The question might surprise you.

September 5, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: The Summer of Recovery Ends, Epic Fail Fall Begins

Summer began on such a hopeful note...

September 5, 2010

Michelle's No Fat Kid Program Has a Problem

A certain inconsistency.

September 5, 2010

ETA No Violence Pledge Suspect Says Barcepundit

What do they mean by saying they will "halt offensive operations?"

September 5, 2010

Green Money Laundering

The eco-mafia moves in

September 2, 2010

The Make Believe Mosque and Info On Rauf's Funders

It would appear a number of tax exempt foundations have joined the UN and a couple of governments to fund a nonexistent mosque.

September 1, 2010

Administration Tries and Fails To Pull a Fast One (Drilling Moratorium)

Having been enjoined from trying to halt oil drilling based on inadequate scientific basis, the Administration's Secretary Salazar, tried to pull a fast one by simply issuing another moratorium.

August 31, 2010

Jay Cost: It was Healthcare that Did in the Dems

Perceptive Jay Cost writes persuasively on Real Clear Politics that the process and passage of healthcare legislation is what has turned the tide against House Democrats

August 29, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Reach Out

A week of controversy and "outreach" as seen (and overheard) by Clarice Feldman.

August 29, 2010

Cordoba Mosque Developer Tax Deadbeat

'El-Gamal's company, 45 Park Place Partners, failed to pay its half-yearly bills in January and July, according to the city Finance Department." totaling more than $220,000.

August 29, 2010

NYT's Zernike: Tea Party = racist

Not bothering to conceal her bias.

August 29, 2010

Latest Development in Wuterich (Haditha) Case

Disgraceful ginned-up prosecution of Marines fighting in Iraq may be on its last legs.

August 28, 2010

Cordoba Mosque Developer's Run-ins with Cops and Money Problems

Assault?

August 27, 2010

A "Perfect Storm' in the Middle East

'We have an ideological wave from below with a powerful and potentially nuclear-armed sponsor on top.'

August 27, 2010

Last Refuge of a Liberal

A measure of the corruption of liberal thought

August 27, 2010

It's the Oiks versus the People

You know who the oiks are, even if you do not recognize the word.

August 26, 2010

US Soldier at Fort Hood in Uniform Attacks Service as Islamophobic

Isn't there a rule against military service members making political statements while in uniform?

August 25, 2010

The Imam's Wife Joins the Taxpayer Paid Free Ride

What is wrong at the Department of State?

August 25, 2010

Why is CBO's Job Saved Model Like Ed McMahon's Ads?

Like the Publisher's Clearing House ads telling viewers they "may have" won millions.

August 25, 2010

'Anti-Muslim' attacker works for Pro Cordoba Mosque Group

You cannot make this stuff up.

August 24, 2010

Obama is Dukakis, not Carter

Saved from disaster once, not this time around.

August 24, 2010

Christopher Hitchens: Let's Make Tolerance a Two Way Street

A suggestion for Imam Rauf

August 22, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

The week began for Obama with him basking in the love of his invited guests at a White House Iftar dinner and ended with his party in disarray.

August 22, 2010

Are you a member of the political class?

More accurately, the government class.

August 21, 2010

Pew: Jews Leaving Dems

It turns out the Obamessiah really can pull off a miracle

August 19, 2010

The Wall Street Journal Calls on Patrick Fitzgerald to Resign

An "unaccountable federal prosecutor run amok"

August 18, 2010

Let's Just Appreciate the Great Obama Presidency

A tongue in cheek appreciation

August 18, 2010

Giant Obamacare Loophole

A large Obamacare loophole which could undo the entire scheme of forcing young healthy citizens to subsidize the health care of everyone else

August 18, 2010

Some deluge

Who should be more embarrassed -- the Democrat activists, or the naive journalists who cheered them on?

August 17, 2010

Judge grants stay on overturning CA gay marriage

Temporarily puts a hold on gay marriages in the state.

August 16, 2010

DoJ finally drops 6 year investigation of Tom DeLay

"No charges" will be filed. How generous of them.

August 16, 2010

Holding Islam to Account

Never in American history has the gap been greater

August 15, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Requiem for a Heavyweight

This was a week with a focus on congressional corruption, real and imagined.

August 13, 2010

Another Dem boondoggle on life support

Best of all: look who the big losers are.

August 13, 2010

ACORN loses its funding ban appeal.

A preposterous lower court decision overturned.

August 11, 2010

President Obama: Brought to you by GE

More Obama hypocrisy

August 9, 2010

Congress just as wasteful on travel expenses as Obamas

Well, that's a relief. For a minute I thought the Democrats might act like responsible adults governing in the midst of a horrific economic downturn.

August 9, 2010

AIDS and PC, a fatal combination

Endangering lives

August 8, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: From Cordoba to Marbella

The no-good, horrible, terrible week for the credentialed morons.

August 8, 2010

AFL-CIO Employees Demand Administration Remove DHS Immigration Heads

A stunning development.

August 8, 2010

Follow your money

Two expenditures by the administration sure to raise hackles.

August 5, 2010

Obama's August Surprise?

Another redistribution of assets coming?

August 2, 2010

The Aristocrat Party

Even the generally clueless Boston Globe is catching on

August 2, 2010

It's official: Maxine Waters faces ethics charges

Formal charges have been filed against Congresswoman Maxine Waters by the House Ethics Committee

August 1, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Long Hot Summer

What really seems to have motivated Judge Bolton was cowardice.

July 31, 2010

AZ immigration appeal scheduled for week of November 1

Just in time for mid terms.

July 30, 2010

Secure Communities

Why does the federal government cooperate with some states and communities identifying illegal immigrants, and not Arizona, the state so demonstrably overrun by illegal aliens

July 29, 2010

Some Dem and Administration Operatives on Journolist

Despite Ezra Klein's assurance that politicos would be banned from the list.

July 29, 2010

Neither Roosevelt nor Reagan

How Obama blew his lead and devastated his party

July 26, 2010

Now You See Her, Now You Don't

Shirley Sherrod a no show on Sunday gab shows.

July 26, 2010

Why has Jesse Jackson, Jr. escaped prosecution in Blago case?

Jackson's friends tried to buy the senate seat from Blago.

July 25, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Know When to Hold 'Em

Obama still doesn't know when to hold or fold his race cards. Neither does the NAACP. They've been bluffing dummies so long they think they can get away with it forever. And they are wrong.

July 25, 2010

Obama Admin Approved Lockerbie Bomber Release

Some folks in Scotland are angry enough to leak to the Guardian what many of us already suspected

July 24, 2010

The real loss to the media in the JournoList scandal

No more pretense about being "objective."

July 24, 2010

New additions make for 107 Journolist names

Drip, drip, drip

July 23, 2010

More Journolist Members Identified

Drip, drip, drip...

July 23, 2010

Dem Senator turns on the diversity shakedown

Political opportunist reads the tea (party) leaves. A sign that the race card has played out.

July 22, 2010

Using the Internet to make Anti-Semitism Respectable

The MSM uses internet sites to drive anti-semitism.

July 21, 2010

Known Journolisters

Known members of the Journolist

July 19, 2010

IG Report: Obama policies responsible for job losses

In a hurry to close dealerships, the administration made the jobs situation worse.

July 18, 2010

Clarice's Pieces July 18, 2010

A field guide to the public idiocy of the past week.

July 18, 2010

DoE Suspends Funds to CRU Crew

Climategate whitewash fails to convince US Dept of Energy that all is well.

July 17, 2010

Renee Ellmers: RX for No. Carolina's 2d District?

One of the most obnoxious phonies in Congress is running into every Democrat's nightmare in the Tar Heel State.

July 17, 2010

WaPo will publish classified info on Monday

They'll break state secrets before the New York Times?

July 16, 2010

DC spies sentenced today

Spies for Cuba head for the Graybar Hotel.

July 14, 2010

Guess who's coming to drill

As the Administration's stunts cause drilling rigs to leave the Gulf for Africa and elsewhere, guess who moves in.

July 11, 2010

Clarice's Pieces

I know that it's hard for non-lawyers to comprehend the nuanced and complicated issues which face the Attorney General and his aides, so I'm taking time this week to do just that.

July 7, 2010

Spy swap

The UK's Daily Mail suggests that the Russians are offering to swap spies

July 6, 2010

DoJ: Az Law Will Create Too Much Work for Us (Updated)

The Department of Justice reportedly plans to challenge Arizona's law on illegal aliens on the preposterous grounds that it will create too much work for our underperforming federal enforcement agencies

July 4, 2010

Clarice's Pieces: Independence Day

Liberated carbon, uterus envy, and other absurdities of the week, chronicled by Clarice Feldman.

July 1, 2010

Too brilliant to fail?

Pundits who think Obama "brilliant" can't figure out what went wrong.

June 30, 2010

Reporter, Consultant, Housewife, Spy

The Russian spy ring just uncovered broke a lot of the rules and made some very interesting friends in high places.

June 29, 2010

Kos Pollster Fired for Faking Data

Daily Kos is certainly one of the most popular left blog sites, so it is with interest that we learn that its pollster upon whom so much of its stories were based, was just making it up

June 28, 2010

US Arrests 10 Deep Cover Russian Espionage Agents

Charged with conspiring to act as unlawful agents of the Russian Federation within the United States.

June 27, 2010

Clarice's Pieces

A field guide to this week's idiots.

June 26, 2010

Civil Rights Division Attorney Talks: Time to Remove Holder from Office

A shocking tale of justice denied by the man who resigned rather than ignore a subpoena from the Civil Rights Commission.

June 26, 2010

Iran cancels Gaza Blockade- Breaking Ship

They decide that cowardice is the better part of valor.

June 26, 2010

Barone: In Black and White terms, Obama's in Terrible Shape

Michael Barone explains why the Dems are in even worse shape heading into the 2010 elections than it may at first appear from polling data

June 26, 2010

Another blot on U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald

Abuse of the law.

June 23, 2010

Israeli Planes Reportedly Spotted in Saudi Arabia

What's the code name for this operation? Here we Qom?

June 21, 2010

Hamas Losing Gaza Flotilla Stunt

Hamas could lose this propaganda fight.

June 21, 2010

No Leak Prosecutions in five years (2005-2009)

So much for the consequences of splashing secrets over the front pages of newspapers.

June 20, 2010

Clarice's Pieces

A field guide to this week's idiots.

June 20, 2010

U.S. Taxpayers and Soros Underwrite Those who Honor Turkey

The Wilson Center spits in the eye of Israel.

June 19, 2010

Left wing US PR firm and the Gaza flotilla

Disturbing ties.

June 18, 2010

An apt metaphor for the entire government effort to clean up the oil spill

The Coast Guard halted barges ordered out by Gov. Jindal to vacuum up the oil because they lacked the proper number of life vests.

June 17, 2010

Steyn: The Lesson of a Jewish Cemetery

Steyn at his best.

June 16, 2010

GOP and Diversity: A New Life for the Grand Old Party

GOP women candidates are very diverse but not by artifice or rule.

June 16, 2010

Backstabbing (Israel) 101

The Obama administration is encouraging a UN-led assault on Israel.

June 14, 2010

Make room under the bus for Eric Holder

Classic 101 Boobery

June 14, 2010

Obama's other energy disaster

Shutting down the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal project could end up costing taxpayers $50 billion.

June 13, 2010

Clarice's Pieces

Clarice Feldman on selected events of the week.

June 13, 2010

Who supports the Israeli blockade of Gaza?

If you guessed the White House or Europe you lose.

June 13, 2010

Citizens to FTC: No way!

The people still support a free press.

June 12, 2010

Some encouraging news about Israel

Unexpected good news for a country that could use some: "short of a geopolitical game changer"

June 10, 2010

Wharton school blasts a hole in AGW

Models must match experimental data

June 10, 2010

Conrad Black on Turkey

A unique view of the consequences of Turkey's radicalization.

June 9, 2010

Our Alien president

Not from Mars - but he might as well be.

June 7, 2010

Reuters Photocropping for Jihadis

Reuters is up to its old anti-Israel tricks

June 6, 2010

Hamas Helen and Hearst

Our gal Helen's anti-Israeli remarks were not her only signs of support for the Palestinian terrorists. She actively raised money for those who funded the Gaza flotilla:

June 6, 2010

Obama: I can handle this

"Our ability to manage large systems and to execute, I think, has been made clear over the last couple of years"

June 6, 2010

Pre-War Shipments from Iraq to Syria

Obama's designee for Director of National Intelligence, Gen. James Clapper, earlier intimated that he believed Saddam Hussein had shipped his weapons to Syria

May 26, 2010

Why border security matters

While the administration treats as ill-informed racism the border states pleas for federal security, the threats occasioned by an unsecured border grow.

May 26, 2010

Dems miscalculate on immigration issue

The voters disagree with the Democrats on immigration.

May 25, 2010

Kagan's 'judicial hero' has some bizarre ideas about the law

An Israeli judge who serves as Kagan's role model has made up powers for the courts dangerous to liberty.

May 25, 2010

'Little noticed' provisions of ObamaCare

Not by the citizens whose vehement objections they dismissed as racist and ill-informed.

May 24, 2010

Obamacare: More devils in the details

How do you define "affordable?"

May 21, 2010

Culture of corruption, indeed

A reminder of how Joe Sestak won his race for Congress.

May 21, 2010

Congressman McClintock Answers President Calderon

Saying what many of us feel. Congressman McClintock (R-Ca), responds to the outrageous address to Congress yesterday by Mexican President Calderon.

May 20, 2010

The Case of the Muzzled Mole

Is prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald Protecting Obama in the Blagojevich case?

May 20, 2010

Spot the offensive picture

Which is it?

May 19, 2010

The Administration's Re-Bombing Program

An Al Qaeda thug is caught by us in 2007, released by this Administration in 2009 and goes on to kill 166 more people and planned a huge bombing at the upcoming World Cup.

May 19, 2010

Phony Marine at Phony Vietnam Blumenthal's Presser

One of the merry band of brother "Marines" at the presser of Connecticut Democrat Senatorial candidate Blumenthal evidently is a phony soldier.

May 19, 2010

'The Nation' Magazine in death spiral

Asking writers to beg for donations.

May 18, 2010

Debunking Liberal Cant

Washington Post's blather about Republican partisanship exposed

May 17, 2010

Speechless about our apology to the Chinese for protecting the border

Apologizing for upholding the law to a lawless regime.

May 14, 2010

You Cut

Congressman Cantor has started You Cut, a program which allows each of us to vote for which federal program we most want to cut funding.

May 13, 2010

Compare and contrast: Russia vs Obama on terrorists

While Attorney General Holder debates whether it's improper to offer Krispy Kreme doughnuts to terrorists while reading them their Miranda rights, Russia is taking more immediate measures to deal with terrorism

May 13, 2010

Interpol helping Iran to track dissidents here

Doing the regime's dirty work for them.

May 13, 2010

GOP moves to block taxpayer funds from IMF Greek bailout

A fine issue to run on in November.

May 9, 2010

Graduation Agonistes

A leftist commencement speaker gets booed at a major university.

May 9, 2010

The Holder (Miranda) Backstroke

The unrealistic treatment of terror suspects as criminals was wrong, and Holder's actions, if not his words, now admit it.

May 7, 2010

MSNBC's Contessa Brewer and media madness

Lileks deconstructs her wish that Shahzad would have turned out not to be a Muslim.

May 7, 2010

Al Sharpton's idea of 'social justice'

Somehow, methinks the Rev. Sharpton doesn't want everybody equal with him.

May 7, 2010

Barbara Boxer -- Too Stupid for California?

In a stunning development the LA Times has declined to endorse Barbara (Senator, not ma'am, please) Boxer for re-election on the ground that she's failed to exhibit intellectual leadership.

May 7, 2010

Allen West K.O.'s MSNBC Nitwit

MSNBC, still promoting the now thoroughly discredited tea party = racist lie, tries to undercut Republican candidate for Congress Allen West and gets knocked out in the process.

May 6, 2010

Women's equity in science

Eliminating "gender bias" in research and teaching.

May 6, 2010

Is the end near for the European Monetary Union?

The exposure of France and Germany to Greece's debt and the weakening of the Euro may doom the EMU.

May 6, 2010

Nashville devastation downplayed by media

Maybe we need Sean Penn to boat around down there to get someone to pay attention.

May 6, 2010

A Real Leak of CIA Identities

Under the media radar but of far greater significance than the Plame case

May 6, 2010

Obama to freeze funds for terrorism screening program

In a bit of remarkably bad timing and worse sense, the administration plans to cut a visa program designed to screen out entry to terrorists

May 3, 2010

Palestinians Show How to Indoctrinate Children into a Culture of Violence

How can you make peace?

May 2, 2010

Smaller than expected crowds for pro-illegal immigration protests

AZ law not much of a catalyst.

May 2, 2010

Oil Disaster: All Hands Not On Deck -- Why?

May 1, 2010

Some truths about illegal immigrants

Not all are hard working, innocent victims.

April 30, 2010

DOJ Subpoenas NYT's Risen re CIA Leaks

Who embarrassed the Agency?

April 30, 2010

Arizona says Adios to 'Ethnic Studies'

Arizona is at the forefront again. This time, it's banning ethnic studies at state-funded institutions.

April 30, 2010

How much is too much, Barry?

A short video tribute to the president's stupidity.

April 30, 2010

'Leaks are always bad news.'

Valerie Plame should know...

April 29, 2010

Dems dealing from a weak hand on insurance mandate

Is the mandate a tax? Or a regulation of commerce?

April 29, 2010

The facts on illegal immigration

As the rhetoric on illegal aliens residing in the U.S. heats up, it would be nice to have some reliable facts with which to work. Here is a good source.

April 28, 2010

Majority of AZ Latinos support immigration bill - Rasmussen

Not what the left wanted to hear.

April 28, 2010

More Fannie Mae Hijinks Exposed

The tentacles of Fannie Mae extend to the carbon credit scam.

April 27, 2010

Communist spies reported to be spilling their guts

Whose names are being named?

April 25, 2010

ADL is speaking against Obama? Which Day Was That?

I have long taken issue with ADL [Anti-Defamation League] leader Abe Foxman's undiluted support for Obama, so was surprised to read that he supposedly has become critical of Obama.

April 23, 2010

Dr. Ivins Not responsible for Anthrax Attacks

Another investigation trying too hard to find a domestic perp of a heinous terror attack.

April 23, 2010

Time to put Holder and Perrelli under oath in Black Panther whitewash

Yes, it was a political decision to halt the prosecution.

April 22, 2010

South Korea believes North Korea torpedoed its ship

"Certain" NoKo involvement.

April 22, 2010

Corporate cronyism or gangster government? You decide

More fallout from Indymac collapse.

April 22, 2010

Blagojevich Trial Nears: Can Obama Be Implicated?

Will President Obama have to testify under oath about the appointment of his Senate successor?

April 21, 2010

Gangster government: The continuing series

However you call it, it's not American.

April 19, 2010

The Clinton-Llorens Tegucigalpa Tango Siniestra

US Ambassador to Honduras Hugo Llorens continues to undermine democracy in Honduras

April 18, 2010

It's just not cricket

EU strikes again.

April 18, 2010

GWO?

Banning the use of the word, Islamist, Obama has turned this into the Global War on ?

April 14, 2010

Is the CIA working with the NYT to harm our troops in Afghanistan?

Big Journalism reports the New York Times is about to out the Department of Defense's covert agents in Afghanistan, putting them and our troops in great danger.

April 13, 2010

Ooops! Congress loses health care plan under Obamacare?

Maybe if they had read it before voting on it, this wouldn't have happened.

April 13, 2010

Dept of Justice Appeals Injunction Preventing Cut Off of Funds to Acorn

The Department of Justice has appealed the ruling of a district court judge who first granted ACORN a preliminary injunction against cutting off funds to that organization

April 12, 2010

Correction

We regret that we were misled by a newspaper's reporting.

April 10, 2010

White House says visas for Israeli scientists not denied

"This smacks of damage control."

April 8, 2010

US Refuses Visas to all Israeli Nuclear Scientists

In a new and ridiculous policy, the US is denying Israeli scientists who work at the Dimona reactor site an opportunity to refresh their knowedge

April 7, 2010

Fanning the Flames of Poppycock

Fighting back against a hypocritical Democrat.

April 7, 2010

More feminist nonsense from Duke

A silly policy regarding "non-consensual" sex.

April 6, 2010

Nyet to 'Net Neutrality'

The prestigious U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled for Comcast and against the FCC's effort to impose "net neutrality" on broadband providers

April 6, 2010

A real 'outing' of a CIA Operative by Obama administration

Where's the outrage?

April 5, 2010

The Democrats' Risky Business

The motive for the slander of Tea Partiers demonstrating at the Capitol is clear in today's Rasmussen report.

April 5, 2010

Something's Rotten in Caracas

Hugo Chavez arrests the former Chief Justice of Venezuela who has been supporting an inconvenient investigation.

April 4, 2010

The Man in the Watchtower

Who was this person?

April 4, 2010

Another view of the Iraq election

"Remarkably successful."

April 2, 2010

New conservative 527 group has raised $30 million

Could be a big player as mid terms approach.

April 2, 2010

Mandate's constitutionality the key

If the mandate isn't legal, the rest of Obamacare can't be either.

April 2, 2010

Bureau Of Labor Statistics Dance of the Seven Veils

Is the BLS cooking the books?

March 30, 2010

What if the Palestinians in Jerusalem were settlers?

Tenuous connections at best.

March 30, 2010

Huge Gap in Support for Israel Between Democrats and Republicans

The latest Zogby poll finds that there is a significant divide, with Republicans being far more supportive of Israel that Democrats are

March 29, 2010

Obama: His word is as good as (Fool's) Gold

How many promises has Obama actually broken?

March 29, 2010

Time for apologies to Tea Partiers

False charges of racist behavior.

March 20, 2010

SCOTUS may yet intervene on Slaughter rule

Do the two bills - the original senate bill passed last December and the bill being considered by the House - really carry the exact same language as required by the Constitution?

March 19, 2010

GAO Contradicts White House on Intelligence Oversight

"Several misstatements of law and fact" in its March 15 letter opposing legislation to enhance the role of the Government Accountability Office in intelligence oversight."

March 19, 2010

Ben Nelson's Back Up Bribe

New VA hospital in Nebraska reverses decision of the Veterans Administration.

March 18, 2010

Right and left join hands against Obamacare

Strange bedfelllows.

March 18, 2010

The Administration's Manufactured, Trumped Up Fight With Israel

Elliott Abrams reveals the utterly fraudulent nature of the Administration's fight with Israel

March 17, 2010

Lawsuit readied challenging constitutionality of Demon Pass by Landmark Foundation

Also, can't miss TV; Obama interviewed on Fox News

March 17, 2010

Iraq election results

Maliki has a narrow lead but is not assured of returning as prime minister.

March 17, 2010

Republican Congressmen to force vote on Slaughter rule tomorrow morning

Connie Hair emails that "The vote being forced by House Republicans on whether or not Congress can use the "Slaughter Rule" will take place now TOMORROW MORNING

March 16, 2010

Princeton Prof gives Obama straight A's

Whatever class he's teaching, I want to sign up. He'd recommend me for a Rhodes Scholarship with those standards.

March 16, 2010

Israeli report details Hamas inhumane behavior

Using children as human shields and mosques as command centers seems to go unnoticed by the moral preeners in the west.

March 15, 2010

Slaughter Rule Unconstitutional

Wavering Congressmen have to weigh whether it's worth losing re-election to enact in an unconstitutional manner a law that may very will be declared null in the end.

March 15, 2010

Fauxmentum and the latest swing district polls

An air of fauxmentum in the Democrat camp as results from a swing district poll should be giving a lot of Nancy's troops heartburn

March 15, 2010

The real story behind that 'reconciliation bill'

Just a "shell game."

March 14, 2010

Yoo Hoo, Abe (Foxman)

Is the head of the Anti-Defamation League beginning to awaken from his slumber?

March 14, 2010

A 'Back-Door' public option?

Some of the bill's language suggests it.

March 13, 2010

Levin on Representative Slaughter - and the Slaughter Rule

A brilliant exposition of what's at stake.

March 13, 2010

The Miss America President

The rest is just marketing

March 12, 2010

Senator Sessions Calls Holder's Breach 'Extremely Serious'

Goes to the heart of the AG's responsibilities in matters of national security

March 11, 2010

Was Massa right about a conspiracy?

The timeline of the ethics complaint against him suggests they didn't start the investigation in earnest until after he was a firm "no" on reform.

March 11, 2010

NY state seeks to ban salt use by chefs

Obamacare isn't even passed yet and already we see what's in store for us.

March 11, 2010

Update on ACORN RICO suit while Obama administration shuts down criminal probe

ACORN barred from any election activities in Ohio.

March 11, 2010

Obama's physician cousin angrily denounces health care reform

I guess that White House Thanksgiving dinner is out of the question.

March 10, 2010

Holder's Hidden Friend of Court Briefs

AG Eric Holder expressed views on detainees in amici (friends of court) briefs he signed on to that he was obligated to inform Congress about but failed to.

March 10, 2010

Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Overreach: Airline Delays

Hoping no doubt to curry favor with passengers beset by lengthy delays Administration bureaucrats set unconscionably high fines for delays. As a result airlines will simply cancel delayed flights

March 10, 2010

Saddam was ready to purchase nuke package from A.Q. Khan

Would have had the bomb in three years.

March 10, 2010

Rove on the Crazy Witch Hunt of Patrick Fitzgerald

In his new book, Karl Rove shows how bizarre the witch hunt against him and Scooter Libby was.

March 9, 2010

'Demonizing lawyers with impunity'

A double standard for Liz Cheney's critics.

March 8, 2010

Rep. Massa and the Chicago Boys (updated)

Being driven out of office over opposition to Obamacare?

March 6, 2010

The Two Universes of Paul Krugman

Do you find yourself surrounded by people who still believe what Paul Krugman writes?

March 6, 2010

Charitable Money Laundering For Democrats: The Tides Foundation

Time to demand an IRS investigation.

March 5, 2010

NoKo army running out of food (updated)

Troops ordered to sleep in the afternoon to save energy.

March 3, 2010

How the Congressional Democrats Doom Obama to One Term

The unintended consequences of liberalism turn on the Democrats.

March 3, 2010

CO2 emissions: Push coming to shove

Both Democrats and Republicans in the House are fighting back against EPA attempts to regulate CO2 emissions.

March 3, 2010

Congressman Massa will not seek re-election (updated)

Coicidence?

March 2, 2010

Slate blogger Mickey Kaus to challenge Boxer

Moderate Dem seeks to topple liberal icon in primary.

March 2, 2010

ACORN in the news

Myths reported by journos willing to fudge and more.

March 2, 2010

Dubai Killing: Curiouser and curiouser

The Dubai assassination case is looking more like Murder on the Orient Express than some streamlined "Mossad" operation as first claimed.

March 2, 2010

The Right to Bear Arms Apparently Extends to Chicago

Did the Supreme Court signal today that it would extend the Second Amendment's Right to Bear Arms to the states through the Due Process (Fourteenth Amendment) and overturn a city wide ban on gun possession

March 2, 2010

Rangel steps down as Ways and Means chair

Even Pelosi couldn't save the crook.

February 28, 2010

Green jobs baloney

It's nonsense to say we can create enough green jobs to improve unemployment.

February 28, 2010

Unions Toll Bell for Card Check

The unions are receiving very poor returns on their major ($400 million) investment in Obama

February 27, 2010

The lie at the heart of ObamaCare

Debunked in the Atlantic.

February 24, 2010

Supreme Court Loosens Miranda Restrictions

A limit to the right to remain silent.

February 24, 2010

The Party of 'After You, Alphonse'

Is there no trust?

February 21, 2010

A reminder of how grateful we should be to our Iraq veterans

A powerful article from an Iraq hero.

February 20, 2010

Jay Bybee and John Yoo cleared

Friday night (the traditional time to bury news), the Department of Justice finally released the report clearing former Department of Justice counsel of wrongdoing on the much hyped "torture memos."

February 18, 2010

Was the Hamas Dubai hit red on red?

Two Palestinians arrested for the assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh

February 9, 2010

Another bogus prosecution of our soldiers nixed

An alleged terrorist mastermind who claimed that he was assaulted by the military following his capture last year.

February 8, 2010

Memorandum from Totus to Palin's Hand

Crib notes?

February 8, 2010

America, the ungovernable?

If Obama can't do it, no one can say the libs.

February 8, 2010

Will no one rid us of this meddlesome AGW nonsense?

Someone please drive a stake through the heart of this idiocy.

February 8, 2010

The Tangled Web Behind AGW

A vast army of people with substantial monetary interests.

February 7, 2010

Obama's biggest and latest whopper

A woman who was buried wearing an Obama T-Shirt had health insurance despite the president's claims to the contrary.

February 7, 2010

Robert Kennedy's fantastically stupid weather predictions

Snowstorms and bitter cold in DC make Kennedy out to be a laughingstock.

February 6, 2010

Spain experiencing debt implosion

The socialist's overspending has the country on the ropes.

February 5, 2010

The Joke's on Patches

Patrick ("Patches") Kennedy, the last Kennedy in Congress, took a swipe at Scott Brown yesterday.

February 5, 2010

Not all Euro-elites are anti-Israel

A Catalonian journalist highlights the unfair criticisms of Israel in Europe.

February 3, 2010

Underpants bomber fibs from administration

The trick about propaganda is to catch you when you are not fully awake and clear minded.

February 3, 2010

House Dem chairmen seek to block new EPA regs on CO2

"No confidence" in EPA.

February 3, 2010

President Obama, Meet Attorney General Holder

Either Eric Holder is acting in direct contravention of the wishes of his boss, or his boss was just making up nonsense when he was asked about how enemy combatants would be treated.

January 31, 2010

More scientific frippery from the IPCC

Would you believe publishing anecdotal "evidence" from mountain guides as scientific proof of retreating ice?

January 31, 2010

Taliban leader connected to CIA attack in Pakistan is dead

The strike occurred on January 14

January 31, 2010

The climate change bandwagon rolls along

The IMF gets into the act.

January 30, 2010

KSM trial on the move

Reversing course on a bad idea in the first place.

January 30, 2010

Friday night news dump; Bybee, Yoo cleared by Justice Department

Hoping no one will notice.

January 29, 2010

Reining in Eric Holder

Responding to public disapproval?

January 29, 2010

Obama - playing us for suckers on nuclear power

Saying one thing and doing another is getting to be a habit with the president.

January 29, 2010

Foreign contributions to Obama campaign should be investigated

If he's so concerned that the Citizens United decision will lead to foreign campaign donations, why not look into what went on in his campaign of 2008?

January 28, 2010

Alito's 'Not true' was correct

Blithering ignorance or demagoguery..tough call.

January 28, 2010

Chris Matthews Forgets Obama is Black

MSNBC's cast of characters defies rational explanation.

January 28, 2010

Impeach Eric Holder?

Now there's a rational legal argument to remove from office and further mischief the man who made the decision to try the underpants bomber in civilizn court.

January 27, 2010

Jews leaving Dems: ADL's Foxman Alarmed

Notice is finally taken that Jews are growing increasingly disenchanted with the Democratic Party

January 27, 2010

'Free Gaza' movement and the 54 Democrats who support it

Urging Israel to "open its borders."

January 26, 2010

Are class action suits unconstitutional?

A good argument that legislative relief would be better.

January 26, 2010

More healthcare shennanigans

Heritage's blog is reporting that it looks like Congress wants to exclude itself and federal employees (along with unionized workers) from the tax on health care benefits.

January 26, 2010

Equivalent of one-third of Spanish GDP in Non-performing Loans

The extent to which the economies around the world are in trouble is being underreported.

January 26, 2010

Everything old is new again

The return of ethnic quotas in med school

January 24, 2010

DoJ hires bloggers as propagandists and sock puppets

Making anonymous comments on websites with stories critical of Holder, the DoJ, and Obama.

January 24, 2010

Obama Astroturf Popping Up All Over

Numerous instances of pro-Obama astroturfed letters to editors all over the country under multiple names.

January 24, 2010

ACLU Rethinks Free Speech

The ACLU which has long opposed restrictions on free speech in campaign finance laws is rethinking its position now that the U.S. Supreme Court adopted that position itself

January 22, 2010

Schumer hurt by Supreme Court campaign finance ruling

Special interest money in jeopardy.

January 21, 2010

Winging it on terrorism - Part II

It's DNI Blair's turn to reveal how clueless he is about protocols for handling terrorists - and the White House effort to get him to retract his statement.

January 21, 2010

No one in charge at Justice

Apparently, no one in our government knows what we should do with a terrorist once we catch one except give him a lawyer and read him his rights.

January 20, 2010

Brown strategist: national security the sleeper issue of the campaign (updated)

Room under the bus for Holder and Napolitano?

January 20, 2010

Winging it on Terrorism

You will not believe who made the decision to treat the underwear bomber as a criminal and give him Miranda rights.

January 19, 2010

Another Obama blunder unraveling

A potential humiliation for Eric Holder.

January 18, 2010

Recall effort underway in New Jersey for Menendez

The Secretary of State in the Garden State declares her own state constitution, "unconstitutional."

January 18, 2010

Dem Mayor of Quincy, MA endorses Scott Brown

A startling endorsement from the mayor of the seventh largest city in Massachusetts

January 14, 2010

DoJ is out of control: New Black Panther case

Department is still stalling on subpoenas.

January 12, 2010

EU Carbon Swap market riddled with fraud

At least 6 billion euros lost.

January 11, 2010

Rasmussen on MA senate race: Still Coakley's to lose

Low turnout will favor Brown.

January 11, 2010

When it comes to the IPCC, follow the money - if you can.

The word "bizarre" doesn't even begin to describe it.

January 10, 2010

Iceland to walk away from $5 billion foreign debt

A new definition of "debt forgiveness."

January 9, 2010

Paul Kirk Threatens Constitutional Crisis if Scott Brown Wins (updated)

Not happy with having played games to fill Ted Kennedy's seat , Pauk Kirk is now threatening to remain in the Senate after the health care vote if Scott Brown, the Republican challenger wins.

January 8, 2010

Petition to recall LA Senator Mary Landrieu

Volunteers needed at "MoveonMary.com."

January 8, 2010

How the Dems Alienate Voters

You don't need to be a political scientist to understand

January 8, 2010

Climategate or Pressgate?

The AP isn't the only news outlet that has shamelessly skewed coverage of climategate.

January 8, 2010

DoJ Civil Rights Division sues New Jersey

The division is interfering in testing for police officers again.

January 7, 2010

Appeals court denies challenge to existing habeas corpus rules

A victory for common sense law.

January 7, 2010

DoJ Civil Rights Division lawyers sanctioned

An unprecedented action.

January 6, 2010

Mayor Rahmbo?

Is the president's chief of staff really looking to unseat Mayor Daley of Chicago?

January 5, 2010

The CIA takes on global warming

Like they've got nothing better to do?

January 5, 2010

Massachusetts Earthquake Rumblings?

Thinking the unthinkable: a Republican might win Ted Kennedy's Senate seat

January 4, 2010

Obama's 'can't do style'

Presidents typically face a steep learning curve during their first year, but this is ridiculous.

January 4, 2010

NPR using your tax dollars to insult you

An outrageous "Learn to Speak Tea Bag" video.

January 4, 2010

Hockey stick Mann's New Year's Surprise

An effort to collect data on misuse of federal funds in his operation in an effort to mount a Federal False Claims Act suit

January 2, 2010

Obama briefed on terror threat at Christmas 3 days before attack

Non-specific reports but was anything done about it?

January 2, 2010

Was there a second arrest in the Christmas day attack?

At first denied by authorities, there appears to be a second figure being held on "immigration" charges.

January 1, 2010

Update on the Federal Judge's decision to throw out charges against Blackwater defendants

The judge blasted prosecutors for withholding "substantial exculpatory evidence."

January 1, 2010

Anthrax case falls apart

Yet another chapter of your FBI in Peace and War beng off base.

December 31, 2009

Charges against Blackwater guards thrown out

The government improperly gathered evidence against the guards.

December 30, 2009

'Secondhand Hate'

Opposing is not good enough. Hate is what drives liberal opposition.

December 30, 2009

They can't paper this one over

Obama owns this intel failure of enormous proportions.

December 29, 2009

Napolitano in context

She caimed her words were taken out of context. In reality, the context makes her look worse.

December 28, 2009

DOJ Voting rights chief fired. Prosecuted New Black Panthers

He was under subpoena to testify in front of the Civil Rights Commission on the matter.

December 28, 2009

Two airplane bomb plotters released from GItmo

Yes, but at least everyone likes us now.

December 27, 2009

How did the bomber get a visa when he's on the terror watch list?

Government knew for two years he had terror ties.

December 26, 2009

Looks like something big is up in Israel

The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced a call up to all top Israeli diplomats serving around the world to return home for talks.

December 26, 2009

Dear Hillary, Return to your Office!

Go home, Hillary. There's more to this job than glad handing.

December 26, 2009

What About Holding People Accountable?

The U.S. Transportation Safety Administration has responded to the aborted bombing of a NW Airlines plane in Detroit with its usual inanity

December 23, 2009

Court battle begins over Nelson Medicare goody in Obamacare

Seven states' attorneys are filing suit on constitutionality of Nelson's Medicare grab.

December 23, 2009

Legislating discrimination

Racial politics in everything from medical education to drug labeling.

December 23, 2009

New delay in moving Gitmo detainees

The best laid plans...

December 23, 2009

Does the Reid bill unconstitutionally turn private health insurers into public utilities?

Excellent argument by a University of Chicago law professor.

December 23, 2009

J Street and its Saudi friends

The interrelationships between Soros-funded J Street Project, James Zogby and the Saudis, in their effort to destroy Israel.

December 23, 2009

Five reasons why containing a nuclear Iran won't work

Iran is not the Soviet Union.

December 20, 2009

Did FBI leaker target Rep. Harman?

Government wiretaps leaked to a blogger.

December 19, 2009

Tales of the Stim bill

Only North Dakota and Washington DC have seen a net job creation since the stim bill was passed.

December 18, 2009

Reid's Manager's Amendment posted, Dems get 60 votes

For readers who might be interested, the long awaited Reid Manager's Amendment is now posted online

December 17, 2009

Obama goes from one disaster in DC to another in Copenhagen

The president flies off to a conference that is off the rails, leaving behind chaos in the senate.

December 16, 2009

Russians drop another Climategate bombshell

Russians claim CRU tampered with their data.

December 13, 2009

An Iranian military ultimatum to the regime?

A letter being circulated by Iranian human rights groups contains a warning from Iran's military to stop oppressing the protestors.

December 11, 2009

Health care reform by hook or by crook

Will the House accept anything the senate passes?

December 11, 2009

Krauthammer: Green is the new red

The columnist accuses the administration of undemocratic means to achieve their green goals.

December 11, 2009

When the UN's involved: Follow the Money

And if you follow the money on the Copenhagen conference it leads right to the pockets of the head of the chairman of tne U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

December 9, 2009

Double standard for a Dem

Boy, that is some double standard! Tiger Woods should protest.

December 9, 2009

230 physicists, including a Nobel Laureate, sign petition on Climategate

Asking for the society to rescind 2007 global warming statement until a review of the data can be undertaken.

December 8, 2009

Is the Holder DoJ imploding?

Resignations over Holder's refusal to allow his attorneys to respond to Civil Rights Commission subpoenas over the New Black Panther party case.

December 6, 2009

Members of American Physical Society takes a stand against scientific fraud

A call for transparency and truth.

December 4, 2009

AGW not stopped yet

Climategate is huge but the AGW wagon trundles on

December 3, 2009

'Welcome to the Piltdown Institute of Mann-Made Global Warming'

As skepticism grows, some warming advocates are losing it.

December 3, 2009

Pervasive impact of GHG scam

The worse the scientific evidence gets, the more onerous the restrictions on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.

December 3, 2009

CRU scandal investigation broadens

It will examine the reliability of the data.

December 3, 2009

CRU's Phil Jones thrown under the bus

Penn State's Michael Mann, of hockey stick fame, is putting space between himself and Phil Jones of the CRU.

December 1, 2009

NY Times Science blogger: CRU emails show smug groupthink and hype

Another warming enthusiast hit over the head by reality.

December 1, 2009

Reconciliation fandango on ObamaCare

Senator Harry Reid is setting the stage for getting ObamaCare passed on only 50 votes as a reconciliation bill.

November 29, 2009

The warmist PR con job

It's almost a left wing harmonic convergence on global warming fraud.

November 24, 2009

Monbiot: Phil Jones should resign

Even climate hysterics like the far left columnist are unsettled by Climategate.

November 24, 2009

Violating the principle of science as 'social contract'

When trust is gone, the contract with society is broken.

November 24, 2009

CRU emails spur lawsuit

The Competitiveness Enterprise Institute sues NASA and Goddard Space Center for withheld information.

November 23, 2009

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer notes CRU hack

A turning point in the debate.

November 23, 2009

ACORN dumps documents; Breitbart has them and will release

ACORN fills a dumpster with evidence.

November 22, 2009

Warming's 'Pentagon Papers' continues to unravel the fraud.

Drip....drip....drip....

November 22, 2009

Today's Media Ethics Award goes to...

Congratulations to the Washington Post for violating the first rule of media honesty.

November 21, 2009

The FBI in peace and war

Just what have they learned from the 9/11 attacks?

November 20, 2009

Scientific scandal appears to rock climate change promoters

If the emails are accurate, it will show that even some leading scientists are not immune to fraud in the global warming debate.

November 20, 2009

Breitbart: Investigate Acorn or else (updated)

The most recent ACORN tape of the L.A. ACORN office is far from the last tape sting Andrew Breitbart has

November 19, 2009

Holder's two-tiered system of justice

The most cogent explanation yet for Attorney General Holder's decision to try the 9/11 co-conspirators in a civil trial in New York.

November 17, 2009

About that Holder rationale for trying KSM in New York...

Taking Holder's excuse to its logical extreme.

November 17, 2009

Obama made up his mind on KSM trial in NY 6 months ago

Pure politics

November 17, 2009

In NJ Republicans picked up Asian votes

Fed up with high taxes and low growth

November 15, 2009

DeMint and Honduran Democracy 1 - Obama Administration 0

In a victory for democracy in Honduras and common sense in foreign affairs, the Administration has backed off its insistence that Zelaya be returned to power

November 14, 2009

More on the post-election ballot question in NY 23

Curious that Owens had already filed a challenge on election night so that if he was behind, Hoffman would not have been seated in time to vote against health care reform.

November 13, 2009

Disbelief in response to news of KSM's upcoming trial in New York

They're going to do WHAT with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?

November 12, 2009

Hasan emails with radical cleric should have been a tip off

Why this wasn't grounds for suspicion is a mystery.

November 12, 2009

Shock! Recanvassing shows NY 23 race not over - sort of

Hoffman narrowing the gap in post-election canvas but will it be enough?

November 11, 2009

Bush starting to look better already

Nine some months out of office, and the miserable job Obama is doing has started to rehabilitate the reputation of George W. Bush.

November 10, 2009

Kelo Karma

The outrageous abuse of eminent domain permitted by the Kelo Decision has resulted in disaster for the presumptive beneficiaries

November 10, 2009

A Warning on Government Health Care From Peter Bocking

Amazing how the human race adapts to the most cruel afflictions.That is why the "death panels" are so obscene

November 9, 2009

Tim McGirk who concocted the Haditha massacre is back

Seems like just yesterday Tim McGirk was making up lies about the "Haditha massacre" . Well, he's baaaaack!

November 9, 2009

Casey's 'concern' (updated)

It's apparent to me that The Army's chief of staff cares more about himself and his career than he does for the men and women under his care.

November 7, 2009

Videos of Ft. Hood Shooter at Israeli Ambassador Address to Homeland Security Policy Institute

Disturbing 2009 video from the online archives of C-SPAN

November 7, 2009

Maybe if we apologized with greater deference

This is not Backwardistan where even rumors of a blasphemous cartoon draw bloodthirsty throngs into the streets.

November 7, 2009

Obama snubs Ft. Hood to relax at Camp David (updated)

That Dancing with the Indians conference must have really worn the poor guy out so much he can't spare time to comfort the survivors of the jihadi Major's massacre.

November 5, 2009

Unions big losers in this election

The centerpiece of the SEIU head Andy Stern's agenda is dead

November 5, 2009

Our clueless C in C

Linda Chavez calls it "Obama's pet goat moment."

November 3, 2009

Operation Orchard: a real life thriller

A spellbinding account of the Israeli operation which destroyed the Al Kibar nuclear reactor in Syria, an operation the Syrians never protested and the Israelis never claimed credit for.

November 2, 2009

A new (terrible) paradigm for America

A thoughtful article on statism worth reading

November 2, 2009

Confusion or worse

A disconcerting confusion in the Obama Administration's national security secrecy rulings

November 1, 2009

How fast has Obama Fallen? This fast!

I don't remember ever seeing anything like this.

October 31, 2009

The nameless leaker Richard Armitage

Isn't it great when the press has got your back?

October 31, 2009

Somali Pirates Learning from Mark Steyn?

It's harmonic convergence for statist thuggery.

October 31, 2009

Now what?

The best analysis of the legislative prospects for Obamacare.

October 30, 2009

Catholic Bishops call for unprecedented opposition to ObamaCare plan

Why it's different and what it means for ObamaCare.

October 30, 2009

Obama ditching the First Amendment to curry Moslem favor

How the Administration's cave in to the Moslem members of the United Nations (and other statements and writings of its officials) is a real and present danger

October 28, 2009

The Senator and the spies

Fidel Castro has some powerful friends in DC

October 27, 2009

The whiff of fascism becomes a stench

Only nine months into the Obama administration, and the odors are already strong.

October 25, 2009

Teaching teachers

The Obama cabinet is beyond parody.

October 23, 2009

The Revolution is On! Palin Endorses Hoffman

In New York's 23rd District where the Republican establishment is supporting Dede Scozzafava

October 20, 2009

Imitation, the Sincerest Form of Flattery

You might think AIPAC stands for the American Israel Political Action Committee and you'd be half right.

October 14, 2009

Making things worse in Pakistan

Richard Holbrooke, the White house czar dealing with Afghanistan and Pakistan, is flaming out.

October 13, 2009

What ever happened to mens rea?

Mens rea, the concept of criminal intent, was until fairly recently an essential part of criminal law, precluding the conviction of those who had inadvertently committed a crime without intention to do so

October 9, 2009

Steal this!

A Canadian study shows that people who buy green products tend to lie and steal more than those who don't

October 8, 2009

Leading Human Rights Advocates Cover for Obama's Real Politik

Human rights advocates on campus turn a blind eye when it is politically convenient for Obama:

October 8, 2009

The money man behind attacks on Palin (with correction)

Meet Stewart A, Resnick: Vicious Pistachio Man.

October 8, 2009

Ambassador Oren: The Goldstone Report Justifies Israel's Destruction

The UN's Goldstone Report is a justification for the annihilation of a UN member state.

October 6, 2009

Who to Believe: Obama or the Iranians?

A very wide variance between the Administration's view of what happened in Geneva and what it's "negotitaing partner" Iran said went on.

October 6, 2009

Republican Small-bill health care proposal

Simple and cheap health care reform.

October 4, 2009

America's Standing Abroad: 'A Political Puzzle'

It was an article of faith among the left that President Bush had damaged our standing abroad and cost us the good will of the world

October 2, 2009

Of Thee I Sing 1776

A new website well worth checking out.

October 1, 2009

ACORN documents uncovered

"Take power" in Oklahoma?

September 29, 2009

Courage, Dan (updated)

Dan Rather's lawsuit dismissed out of hand

September 25, 2009

Congressional Research Service: Zelaya's Ouster Legal Under Law of Honduras

Once again the facts trip up the Administration.

September 25, 2009

The Kerry-Kennedy bridge to nowhere

What is it about Democrats and their penchant for using our money to build modern pyramids to each other?

September 24, 2009

Administration giving $400K to Qaddafi Family Foundations

The Administration has notified Congress that the Department of State intends to give $400K to Foundations run by members of the Qaddafi family including the son who escorted the freed Lockerbie bomber back to a hero's welcome in Libya

September 23, 2009

IRS severs ties with ACORN

IRS catches on to corruption.

September 23, 2009

ACORN sues Giles, O'Keefe and Breitbart

Discovery should be interesting. Plus an update: Barney Frank changes position.

September 22, 2009

Ledeen: It's Virtually Over for Iran's Mullahs

Another Wrong Call by Obama

September 21, 2009

ACORN the landlord

A $50 million portfolio of properties in one city alone.

September 19, 2009

Holder throwing in the towel on CIA investigation?

This only makes him seem more incompetent.

September 18, 2009

Barack & ACORN Tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G

The two decade relationship between the president and the criminal enterprise.

September 18, 2009

ACORN in the courts

A threatened suit by ACORN against O'Keefe and Giles would be a major mistake for the organization.

September 17, 2009

The Kamikaze media

No longer the dinosaur media, it's the kamikaze media, an industry so desirous of promoting Obama and his leftist agenda that is has shredded utterly its credibility and utility

September 16, 2009

Feldman's Law

As the Democrat's position grows increasingly weak, the probability of a charge of racism increases

September 16, 2009

Race card losing its effectiveness (updated)

The latest Rasmussen poll suggests that is the case

September 15, 2009

Spotlight on IRS/ACORN ties

Congressional Republicans doing their job.

September 14, 2009

ACORN Back for more federal $$, but Senate votes to block funding

ACORN just filed applications seeking $6 million more in federal funds.

September 13, 2009

A tale of two rallies

Media pretends a Potemkin presidential event in Minneapolis is comparable to spontaneous gathering of hundreds of thousands in DC.

September 13, 2009

Time for IRS to review all ACORN-prepared tax filings

The IRS routinely seeks and gets harsh prison sentences for tax preparers who knowingly file false returns

September 12, 2009

Another Mystery for NYT Readers

In what is becoming a pattern, the NYT is deliberately keeping bad news from its readers re-creating the old Soviet-stle airbrushed news

September 11, 2009

Keeping Andrew Sullivan on the team

Remember this whenever you see Andrew glossing over Obama's many imperfections.

September 10, 2009

ACORN nabbed in sting operation (includes video)

ACORN prepping two people posing as a pimp and a prostitute how to lie to the IRS to obtain public housing

September 10, 2009

ELF Institutes it's own 'Fairness Doctrine'

Waiting for Obama to shut up the opposition is evidently too tiresome for eco terrorists Earth Liberation Front (ELF) in Washington State

September 9, 2009

Czar Dish

Van Jones will not be the only White House czar forced from office.

September 9, 2009

Paglia:The Democratic Brain Has Marinated in Cliches so Long It is Pickled

Camille Paglia argues that it may be too late for Obama to salvage his standing and win a second term of office

September 7, 2009

Free speech in Canada again

Some wonderful news from Canada.

September 6, 2009

Shipping News (Updated)

A few weeks ago appeared an odd report of a Russian ship which apparently had been hijacked after picking up "timber "in Finland...

September 6, 2009

Obama knew about Lockerbie Bomber Transfer

It seems that Obama is not going to get away with blaming the Brits for releasing the Lockerbie bomber.

September 5, 2009

Yale Law School and Why Van Jones went There

Yale law school had ruined more good minds than crack...

September 5, 2009

Labor Polls Poorly

Mickey Kaus highlights a poll that has to be depressing news for unions this Labor Day weekend:

September 1, 2009

Mothers Don't Let Your Sons Grow Up To Be Blue Devils

Duke university has now instituted a policy for handling rape charges manifestly unfair to the accused.

August 31, 2009

Unintended consequences

This year's stupidest move by the Democrats?

August 30, 2009

AQ Khan ordered freed of all restrictions

The ball is in Obama's court now. He talked tough about Pakistan during the campaign.

August 26, 2009

No Myth: Illegal Immigrants Covered under Obamacare

Ask the Congressional Research Service.

August 25, 2009

Cheney was right; Obama's wrong

I've begun re-stocking my emergency food supplies as I live in D.C. and I simply have no faith in this Administration's ability to defend the nation any longer.

August 25, 2009

Nixon White House redux

The man behind the Glenn Beck boycott is a White House official -- and the press yawns:

August 21, 2009

Let Them Eat Arugula (Updated)

Like a child who wandered into an adult cocktail party and tried to seem precocious by mouthing clichés he doesn't really understand, Obama once again made a fool of himself

August 11, 2009

Obama's Tone Deafness

The president has a problem.

August 11, 2009

Are We Paying to Defame Palin?

Jesse Griffin, an Alaskan blogger who's been defaming Palin, seems to have some interesting links to parties receiving stimulus funds.

August 10, 2009

Guess who beat up Gladney?

Not just a rank-and-file union thug.

August 10, 2009

Americans know who their friends are

Despite all the ridiculous posturing and advances to the Middle Eastern dictators by this administration, Americans aren't buying.

August 10, 2009

Obama's way with words

Another of those Obama fumbles (or was he just being candid?)

August 9, 2009

Defending Palin's 'Death Panel' remark

Palin's right to be worried.

August 6, 2009

Don't Know Much About Arithmetic

Proof of our genius President's math abilities

July 31, 2009

Is DoJ Complicit in Election Crimes?

If Eric Holder does not act, it is time to demand a serious independent investigation of the matter. And once again how about the "speaking truth to power" press departs the Obama shrine and gets to work?

July 29, 2009

Special Prosecutor in Stevens Case Wins Important Ruling

A special prosecutor in Washington, D.C., was granted authority Tuesday to compel testimony from the Justice Department team that took Sen. Ted Stevens to trial.

July 27, 2009

Just how smart is Obama?

Just how smart is the President? . I say: let's look at the evidence.

July 27, 2009

Cambridge cops speak out on Gates and Obama (video)

One black woman cop says she supported and voted for Obama but will not do so again

July 25, 2009

About that charity you run, Professor Gates

Does the president have yet another close associate with tax problems?

July 24, 2009

IDF prepares for Life without US Defense Assistance

It could simply be prudent planning, a test of the new President's will, or a sign of genuine concern about the intent of the new Administration

July 23, 2009

Time: Cheney and Bush Fight Over Pardoning Scooter Libby

Time magazine has a long, detailed piece on the dispute between the former president and his vice president over pardoning Scooter Libby and why Cheney believes the failure to do so will diminish the Bush legacy

July 22, 2009

Will someone please teach AP how to Google!

Of course it might be harder to smear Sarah Palin.

July 19, 2009

Recycling Old Lies

With their trajectory heading further downward, the Democrats have reached into their bag of tricks and are recycling old lies.

July 18, 2009

A Paktika Province Fourth of July

A beautiful tribute to two young Americans killed there on the Fourth of July while we, safe at home, were celebrating our independence.

July 16, 2009

Obama's Head Full of Academic Yada Yada

Obama is a symbol of everything wrong in higher education today.

July 16, 2009

Human Rights Watch Trolling for Saudi Bucks

The notoriously anti-Israeli Human Rights Watch was, indeed, trolling for Saudi dollars to fund its work

July 14, 2009

Obama said he would, but now he won't

Obama was lying again.

July 12, 2009

Dems Lied About Warrantless Surveillance Program and Smeared Gonzales

Reckless and dishonest Congressional Democrats falsely described the program, tarred President Bush and vilified the truthful Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

July 10, 2009

P.U. To Pew (and the NYT)

Pew is at it again, protecting the public from its own "ignorance" with ginned-up surveys.

July 8, 2009

America Souring on Hope and Change

As if we were speaking another language, the Democrats are ignoring all the signs that they are overstepping in expanding the federal government and spending like there's no tomorrow

July 8, 2009

The NeoCon Role in the Iran Revolt

The mad mullahs seem to believe that the neocons greenlighted Obama's effort to overthrown their regime. In a strange way, they may be right.

July 7, 2009

Ex-Contractor with Ties to Murtha Indicted

The Hill reports that an informer contractor linked to Murtha has been indicted in the continuing probe.

July 5, 2009

Larry Franklin speaks

Larry Franklin, the only person convicted in the ridiculous AIPAC case (he pleaded guilty), is now free to and does speak

July 5, 2009

Saudis OK Israeli Overflights?

Sounds hard to credit, but the Times Online is saying that's the case:

July 2, 2009

Obama condems Zelaya-like behavior

Small democratic nations allied to us (Israel, Honduras, Columbia) get the shaft and thugs get a pat on the back.

June 30, 2009

More details from Myers spy ring court papers

The Telegraph's Toby Harnden has unearthed some additional details from the papers the government has filed in the Myers case.

June 29, 2009

Campaign Finance Law and Sotomayor

The Supreme Court court has now handed the Senate Judiciary panel another reason to closely question Sotomayer and remind the voters why this is an important nomination:

June 23, 2009

Cuba's Spy Program Widely Seeded in US Government

A warning from a counterintelligence officer with a track record of uncovering Cuban spies.

June 23, 2009

Another DOJ Criminal Division Mess Up

"Pattern and practice" anyone?

June 22, 2009

Covering up a Bush program's success

Mainstream media ignore a Bush success that threatens a Democrat interest group.

June 21, 2009

What have Iran's leader and ours in common?

The ever witty Jeff Dobbs gives us a graphic answer.

June 21, 2009

Lancing Fitzgerald

Patrick Fitzgerald and a critic.

June 20, 2009

Iran protestors remind mullahs what happened to Saddam

It turns out that the example of a tyrant overthrown and executed next door weighs on the minds of protestors in Tehran, and maybe on the mullahs' minds too.

June 20, 2009

More great videos from Iran

Filming the Revolution

June 19, 2009

Ten Amazing Videos from Iran

Modern technology makes the revolt in Iran as close to home as possible.

June 17, 2009

It wasn't the Gorelick Wall?

A just-declassified monograph written for the 9/11 Commission would have us believe the Clinton-era "Gorelick Wall" between police and intelligence can't be blamed. Oh really?

June 16, 2009

Cuba Fishes for Spies in DC Academic Waters

Go where the fish are biting.

June 15, 2009

Daschle's connection to the Myers' Spy Case

The Cuban spy ring and two South Dakota senators.

June 15, 2009

We Don't Need No Stinkin'Intel Oversight

The President has still not appointed anyone to the presidential intelligence oversight board.

June 12, 2009

More Obama Thuggery

Inspector Generals are appointed to make certain that agencies are running properly and to rout out corruption, but apparently if that corruption involved a big time Obama supporter and you find it, you will be fired.

June 10, 2009

Myers spy case update

After learning the Myerses had planned a sail to the Carribbean with no return date, the judge denied them bail pending hearing.

June 8, 2009

Fidel-ity: Three Decades of the Myers Spy Ring

Last week a Department of State retiree and his wife were arrested and charged with spying for Cuba for thirty years. In this article I will sort out what we know, don't know and need to explore about this matter.

June 6, 2009

They Shoulda Listened to Me

Clarice Feldman warned the State Department to fire this man in 2006. Now look what has happened.

June 5, 2009

Single Payer Propaganda

The latest study intended to stampede the country into socialized medicine claims even health insurance doesn't protect you from bankruptcy.

June 5, 2009

More Apparent Prosecutorial Misconduct in Alaskan Prosecutions

It seems that Senator Ted Stevens was not the only Alaskan Republican ensnared by unethical prosecutors.

June 3, 2009

Chavez and Fidel To Obama's Right?

How far to the left is Obama? Here's Venezuelan Preseident Hugo Chavez' take:

May 27, 2009

The Union's Pyrrhic Victory Over Capitalism

The market noticed and is exacting its price.

May 25, 2009

More Evidence of Saddam-Al Qaeda Links

It is perhaps unfashionable to keep reminding people that the claim that there were no links between the deposed Iraqi regime head and Al-Qaeda is bunk. Mark Eichenlaub isn't letting that stop him.

May 23, 2009

Obama's verbal onanism

Probably a presidential record for the use of the first person singular. The stats are impressive.

May 22, 2009

Telegraph:Cheney Lands 10 Solid Punches to Obama's Jaw

It is something to read a major press piece by someone not beset by Obama fever.

May 21, 2009

Obama Backtracks on Threat to California

It seemed outrageous when Obama threatened to deny California stimulus funds if it reduced SEIU member health care workers' wages

May 13, 2009

Did Obama Open Pandora's Box?

Be careful what you wish for.

May 11, 2009

Time For Holder to Appoint a Special Counsel to Investigate the Leaks from OPR

Criminal leaks.

May 9, 2009

Poppin-Jay

Jay Rockefeller is a consummate liar.

May 8, 2009

The nutroots doesn't know Obama anymore than we do

The nutroots inadvertently reveal the fragility of Obama.

May 7, 2009

Congress Should Say Nuts to ACORN (updated)

Add up the billions being dangled before ACORN in the new budget and you have serious money, even in DC.

May 5, 2009

Unfinished Business in the AIPAC case

Another misbegotten prosecution needs formal investigation, and the Department of Justice requires serious reform.

May 5, 2009

And Now--The CIA's War on Obama?

The trumped up Plame affair was the first battle of the CIA against Bush. Is Obama is now about to feel the agency's bite?

April 28, 2009

'Scooter' Pelosi?

"Revealing CIA interrogation techniques and exposing government officials...."

April 28, 2009

Fly By Farce Theory (updated)

A plausible theory on the fly-by over Manhattan yesterday

April 28, 2009

Remembering Specter

I remember Specter from almost 40 years ago when he was Philadelphia D.A. and my client Jock Yablonski, his wife and daughter were murdered in their beds and we knew the coal miners' union was behind it.

April 27, 2009

It wasn't an NSA tap on Harman's telephone line (updated)

I knew it! The NSA was not the agency tapping Rep. Jane Harman's calls:

April 24, 2009

Stevens Case Prosecutors Lawyering Up

Legaltimes is reporting that the prosecution team in the now-dismissed case against former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens have engaged heavy hitting private counsel

April 24, 2009

Obama Nominates King County Vote Theft Abettor

The King County Democrats in Washington State stole the 2004 gubernatorial election. Obviously a plus to the Obama administration

April 22, 2009

Holder on interrogations in 2002

Eric Holder spoke out on the interrogation of unlawful combatants in 2002.

April 21, 2009

Voters are Smarter than Media Thinks

Michael Barone notes that people are smarter than the press thinks they are.

April 21, 2009

Harman Tape Irony (Update: Prosectors reported considering dropping AIPAC case)

Ironically, the single identifiable crime in this whole story is the unauthorized disclosure of the classified contents of an intelligence intercept to CQ,

April 20, 2009

China only works if we do

A tale of the not-so-implausible future.

April 20, 2009

Leak targets Rep. Harman: Another coincidence? (updated)

The long-delayed trial against two former officials at AIPAC is scheduled to start soon

April 19, 2009

Math is hard!

When is a 16% margin a narrow one? When it's the Washington Post describing opposition to a pet issue.

April 19, 2009

Credentialed Morons:1938-9 Version

The sorry history of campus idolization of idiots and villains.

April 18, 2009

Iowahawk on DHS

Iowahawk presents a transcript of Homeland Security's film ,warning us of the dangers of the Red State International Constitutionalism scare.

April 18, 2009

A good week for the Stevens family

The Alaskan Supreme Court confirmed that a lower court correctly dismissed a case against Ted Stevens' son for allegedly violating laws which don't exist.

April 17, 2009

'Cheap Grace'

That's Tom Maguire's take on the Administration's release of the "torture memos":

April 17, 2009

Pwned by China?

Are we already, in an expression found in internet chat rooms, pwned (beaten) by China?

April 16, 2009

Obama committed to 2 state solution within 4 years?

Yedioth Achronoth, the largest circulation daily in Israel, is reporting that Rahm Emanuel has said that President Obama intends to implement a two state solution of Israel and Palestine within his first term in office.

April 15, 2009

DHS on left wing and right wing threats: a big contrast

April 12, 2009

Washington Post Post Mortem on Stevens Case

The Washington Post reports today (with less fanfare than it reports gossip about the First Family's dog) the aftermath of the announced investigation into the legal team that prosecuted Ted Stevens

April 12, 2009

Government Schools and the Ruling Elite

The Tories and Labour party worked together to destroy the publicly funded British grammar schools while maintaining their own elite status by placing their children in non-state funded schools

April 9, 2009

Policing the Prosecutors

In recent years service as a successful crusading prosecutor has been a pathway to political success. There is simply too much suspicious overreaching for us to feel comfortable with the enormous power they wield

April 8, 2009

The US Electrical Grid has Been Penetrated by Foreign Spies

Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system

April 8, 2009

Prosecutor of Ted Stevens also worked on Libby case

Brenda Morris, one of the lawyers in the Stevens case under investigation for wrongdoing in the prosecution of that case, was involved in a number of other familiar cases

April 7, 2009

Judge names special prosecutor for Stevens prosecutors

The federal judge in the Ted Stevens case not only threw out his conviction but took the unprecedented step of instituting a criminal proceeding against the prosecutors.

April 6, 2009

It Looks Like the Ted Stevens' Case Judge Means Business

Prosecutors in the Ted Stevens case face more than an internal investigation by Eric Holder. The federal judge who tried Stevens is acting on his own.

April 4, 2009

More Obama cluelessness

One pundit called Obama the smartest man ever to be president. Let the sniggering begin.

April 2, 2009

Obama bows down to Saudi King (updated)

I am quite certain that this is not the protocol, and is most unbecoming a President of the United States.

March 31, 2009

Outrageous federal power grab

Big Brother will set all pay levels once federal bailout funds are received. Remember: some banks were forced to accept bailout money.

March 29, 2009

Holder to drop prosecution of Ted Stevens

Too late to save his political career, the Department of Justice moves to drop the case against former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, in an obvious effort to shield from public view the improprieties of its own attorneys.

March 27, 2009

Some thoughts on Political Gold in Daily Dross

Congressman Paul Ryan is typical of our political leaders. Unfortunately

March 26, 2009

Dems Keep Madoff $$, Media Has No Comment

With one honorable exception.

March 24, 2009

Left of Sweden

Nationalize banks? Take over two troubled car companies? Ask the Swedes about it.

March 22, 2009

Let other states produce California's power

Democrats make extraction, refining and utilization of traditional fossil fuels increasingly impossible. Now solar panels are subject to California's NIMBYism

March 22, 2009

Richard Holbrooke's Terrible , Horrible, Miserable No Good Week

Richard Holbroke, Obama's Special Envoy is coming in for criticism from all sides.

March 20, 2009

Get the Temple of Obama props out of storage

Obama has dispelled his mystical (and entirely unproven) aura of competence with breathtaking rapidity.

March 18, 2009

Insurance Commissions Failed to Do Job In AIG's Case

Ignore the nonsense in the MSM and take a close look at what caused AIG to fail.

March 18, 2009

Dodd comes clean

And leaves his media defenders high and dry.

March 17, 2009

You can lease Chris Dodd, but you can't buy him

Dodd is such a bum when you buy him he doesn't stay bought.

March 17, 2009

Our Brilliant Class Warfare Generals Attack Their Own Troops

This could end very badly.

March 17, 2009

Court Rules Bankrupt Municipality Can Void Union Contracts

A judge ruled that Vellejo California's bankruptcy permits it to void the contracts it had with its unions. Other cities and states are watching closely.

March 17, 2009

Haditha update

Another decision bringing an end to another part this tragic hoax of a case.

March 16, 2009

European Hypocrisy in a Nutshell

Europeans who offered to help us close Gitmo with promises to help resettle the prisoners in their countries reportedly are (surprise!) having second thoughts

March 16, 2009

AIG Bonuses

As usual, the reports of substantial bonuses to bailed out AIG officials is grist for the populist, anti business pro government interventionist mill

March 14, 2009

Obama giveth and then taketh away

Honestly, I know with advancing age, I'm slowing down, but our new President has my head absolutely spinning.

March 13, 2009

More Obama appointee trouble

Has ever a new Administration had more trouble with its appointees?

March 12, 2009

Soros-funded Institute for Public Accuracy to Freeman's Defense

An outfit called Institute for Public Accuracy is advertising that Chas Freeman and others are available for interviews on the dastardly Jewish Lobby's role in forcing Freeman's withdrawal from nomination.

March 11, 2009

Mc-Cain Feingold Like Gag for TARP Recipients?

Believe it or not, elements of the left are arguing for a gag rule on TARP funds recipients. And getting smacked down.

March 5, 2009

Bad Science Informing bad Tax Policy

Our tax chiseling Secretary of the Treasury who can't manage to understand Turbo Tax further reveals his scientific and economic illiteracy

March 5, 2009

Can We Endure an 8 % Reduction in Clean, Safe Energy?

Special interests get their way.

March 5, 2009

CFLs may increase greenhouse emissions in cold climates

Using compact flourescent lights in cold climes may actually increase greenhouse emissions.

March 4, 2009

The genius of Obama

the preposterous flailing about of the President on foreign affairs.

March 4, 2009

Has Obama Killed Nuclear Power?

Buried in the budget is a clue that under the radar that's exactly what Obama has done.

March 1, 2009

Yet another corrupt Obama appointee

Another czar, another tale of questionable conduct.

February 28, 2009

Spielberg: the magic is gone

John Nolte says what most of us are thinking: Spielberg's magic is gone

February 26, 2009

Marty Peretz as a judge of character

The New Republic's Martin Peretz is disappointed in the man he backed for president.

February 26, 2009

The Game's Afoot

Senator Durbin is attempting to avoid the constitutional problems in reintroducing the fiarness doctrine while achieving the same ends

February 25, 2009

AIPAC Prosecution Receives Another Blow

Secrecy news reports that the prosecutors in the AIPAC case have received yet another blow.

February 25, 2009

Conde Nast Reaps What It Sowed

A little karma comes around for a left-loving publisher.

February 23, 2009

Relax, Rush

Much has been made of the possibility of a revival in one form or another of the Fairness Doctrine, an obvious ploy to diminish the considerable impact of conservative radio hosts, notably Rush Limbaugh.

February 19, 2009

New Ruling May Well Lead to AIPAC Acquittals

Secrecy News bring some long awaited news about a ruling in the AIPAC case which may well lead to the acquittal of the defendants

February 18, 2009

Putin warns US to eschew socialism

What is the world coming to?

February 16, 2009

Will Welfare 'Unreform' Undo the Dems?

Has the stimulus bill given the Republicans an enormous political opening?

February 14, 2009

Ted Stevens' prosecution held in contempt (updated)

There have been repeated indications that the prosecution was not playing by the rules, and that the case against former Senator Ted Stevens, who lost his reelection bid when he was convicted, was not quite kosher.

February 11, 2009

Iowahawk on the stimulus

The inimitable Iowahawk explains the math behind the numbers in the Stimulus Bill.

February 10, 2009

FBI Visiting More Murtha Pals

For the second time in recent days, the FBI has raided a firm connected with Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman John Murtha.

February 8, 2009

Lancing Lancet (updated)

When politics corrupts science and medicine, everyone loses.

February 6, 2009

Another global warming ripoff

Real money being paid out on account of make believe science, under judicial aegis.

February 4, 2009

Shaming women to death

Behind the story of female suicide bombers.

February 4, 2009

Lies and damned lies

This morning brings us more evidence of how lies are quickly spread by the media around the world to create a kind of ersatz reality which it is hard to debunk.

February 4, 2009

We need Sarbanes-Oxley regulations for Congress

America needs  a new law which applies the principles of Sarbanes-Oxley to Congress.

February 1, 2009

Daschle Skirted Lobbying Law, Too

Given the new expanded lobbying rules in the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007, it is hard to see why Daschle isn't being charged with failing to follow them.

February 1, 2009

Form 1040 (Dem)

We might as well give them a form for it, since they do it anyway.

January 31, 2009

A call to arms on Daschle

There is no acceptable excuse for the type of tax problem Dashcle has. He failed to pay taxes on income well in excess of what a majority of Americans earn in a given year.

January 29, 2009

The boycott sword has two edges

For the first time, a group of American academics has called for a boycott of Israel's universities.

January 24, 2009

Obama's war crimes begin

Congressman Conyers may have to expand his war crimes hearings to cover the new Administration

January 19, 2009

Empty coffers, rising 'threats'

Whenever "public interest groups" find their coffers or influence diminishing they find threats in their area of concern which are rising.

January 14, 2009

Libby pardon watch

Will he or won't he?

January 14, 2009

Will Obama clip his own wings?

I remain skeptical that Obama will willingly reduce his own executive powers once he takes office no matter what he or his appointees said when those powers were not his to wield.

January 13, 2009

IDF on YouTube

Undoubtedly because of the biased coverage in prior years, the IDF has set up its own website to show what it is doing in Gaza and why.

January 13, 2009

McGirk again

Time Magazine's master of moral equivalence is at it again.

January 12, 2009

Libby's Innocent and the President Should Pardon Him

If the President hasn't already pardoned Lewis (Scooter) Libby, I beg him to reconsider and do so, for Libby is an innocent man.

January 10, 2009

Islamisists Caught Out

The Moslem street which can be mobilized to march with every false account of insult to Islam or Mohammed is silent as the IDF targets mosques in Gaza. There's a reason.

January 7, 2009

Let our Roland go

If the GOP Senators had any  guts and a good sense of humor, they would take the advice of the best writer on Chicago politics.

January 7, 2009

Beware the Battling Belgians

Russia has cut off critical energy supplies to the Ukraine and Europe and the EU has issued an ultimatum

January 5, 2009

Obama's choice for Solicitor General

Continuing to to staff up with academicians to gladden the hearts of liberal elitists...

January 4, 2009

Richardson drops out

NBC is reporting that Governor Bill Richardson has taken himself out of the running for a cabinet post

January 4, 2009

Guilt by association?

Save yourself time and aggravation with this thirty second summary of the MSM's coming treatment of Democrats' corruption.

January 2, 2009

Obama's no gentle faun

John Kass of the Chicago Tribune rings in the new year with another winner

January 1, 2009

It's a Small World After All (Siemens' Bribes)

A link between corruption in Louisiana and two other continents.

December 31, 2008

Blago 1 -- Obama 0

The Chicago Tribune's John Kass, the go to guy on Chicago politics says with the appointment of Burris, Blago thumped Obama and the Senate Democrats:

December 30, 2008

Israel finally wises up

The Israeli government is going to make its side heard, even if that means setting up its own YouTube channel to counter the media lies.

December 30, 2008

Exclusive from Caroline Kennedy's Chief of Household Staff

Iowahawk on Caroline Kennedy's qualifications for office. Your smile of the day.

December 30, 2008

NYT Sued by Iseman

As the paper reels from its lost revenues and diminished assets, it is being sued by a woman with whom the paper suggested Senator McCain had had an affair.

December 27, 2008

What exactly is the Kennedy legacy?

Which Kennedy is Caroline supposed to be following in the footsteps of?

December 24, 2008

The Libby Prosecution in a Nutshell: The DoJ War Against Cheney

If you weren't paying attention at the time and feel the whole matter is too complicated for you to absorb now, do not despair. In

December 24, 2008

More Shennanigans Charged in Stevens' Criminal Case

The prosecution of Senator Ted Stevens more and more seems to have been scandalous.

December 23, 2008

FBI Whistleblower Files 8 Page Complaint Re Ted Stevens Case

An FBI agent who worked on the criminal case against Ted Stevens has filed an 8 page complaint charging his fellow agents and the prosecution with misconduct in the prosecution of Ted Stevens

December 23, 2008

WSJ: Pardon Libby (updated)

The editors of the Wall Street Journal think Libby was wrongly convicted and the President should pardon him

December 20, 2008

Past Tense Pretense

I confess I do not and never really will understand the workings of large bureaucracies.

December 18, 2008

Human rights commission prosecutes only Christians

The Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) refuses to prosecute hate speech by Muslims and other PC victims.

December 18, 2008

Madoff: 'The Producers' redux?

Look who was auditing the $50 billion fund.

December 16, 2008

The left and nukes

The left magnified the threat when nuclear weapons were in the hands of only relatively sane nations and ridiculously minimizes it when they are about to be in the control of true lunatics.

December 15, 2008

More on the FISA leaker

A prosecutor says he's a criminal.

December 14, 2008

Whistleblowing or Politics?

The FISA "whistleblower" Thomas Tamm has a political background you won't read in the MSM.

December 14, 2008

Will Holder have to recuse himself from Chicago probe?

If Eric Holder is confirmed as attorney general, he may have to recuse himself from overseeing the Illinois courruption probe that has ensnared Governor Blagojevich

December 13, 2008

Fitzgerald's Repeating His Outrageous Behavior

I don't like Blagojevich or any of this case of characters much, but this kind of behavior does not advance the cause of justice.

December 12, 2008

Jimmy De Leo:The Guy behind the Guy

Meet Jimmy De Leo, the state senator who runs Rahm Emmanuel's Congressional District, the guy behind Governor Rod Blagojevich

December 11, 2008

Camerot

Can the media resist a juicy scandal? They may have one with Blago and Obama

December 11, 2008

Rev Wright (Wrong Again) on American History (updated)

Rev. Wright's tenuous grasp on reality on display. What exactly kept Obama in those pews for 20 years?

December 11, 2008

He's not crazy, he's stupid

Michael Barone explains the Chicago political scene, how a really stupid man like Blagojevich is the Governor and what he sees as the possible outcome of all this:

December 8, 2008

Revenge is a dish best eaten cold

Don't get mad, get even. So goes the saying among the Kennedys. And take care of your friends, even the distasteful ones.

December 7, 2008

Earmarks vs protecting our soldiers?

Have earmarks resulted in soldiers getting an inferior product for chemical weapon decontamination?

December 6, 2008

Klaus Reminds Europe What Democracy Is

Czech President Vaclav Klaus tells EU biggies the truth about their move away from democracy.

December 4, 2008

Susan Rice and Reality

Commentary's blog, Contentions, has a short but sweet take down of Obama's nominee to be Ambassador to the UN, explaining that this naive, incoherent multiculturalist and her boss are about to meet head on with reality

December 3, 2008

Fast News Beats Slow News (Mumbai Massacre)

Mickey Kaus captures the essence of what is added by old media sources when they take time to provide context.

December 3, 2008

Look Who's Ponied Up for Murtha

If you are still as angry as I am about Congressman Murtha's slander of the Marines in Haditha, you might be interested to know who shipped him the last minute funds he needed to pull victory out of a looming loss:

November 23, 2008

The Noble Lord Black Writes From Prison

I have always been fond of Lord Black and an admirer of his. Never more so than today upon reading his article written from prison as he awaits the result of his appeal of what I regard as a meritless conviction

November 20, 2008

Ayres' Influence on Obama's Education Policies:The 'Education Debt'

Many have felt that the biggest and most significant part of the Bill Ayers-Barack Obama story was overlooked: Ayers' views on education and Obama's apparent approval of his noxious plan

November 20, 2008

Penny Pritzker for Commerce Secretary? (Important Update)

Nominating her for Secretary of Commerce seems to be pushing the envelope more than seems prudent

November 20, 2008

Hillary and Obama

I'm beginning to think Obama discussed the Secretary of State slot with Hillary because he felt he had to -- but he really doesn't want her to take it.

November 17, 2008

Turning up the Heat on Global Warmists

The tide must certainly be turning in favor of rationality and away from the religion of global warming. It's starting to become fashionable to question its tenets.

November 16, 2008

Is Preventive Detention In the Wings?

The New York Times is suddenly getting weepy at the thought of where to house the terrorist thugs if Gitmo is closed, and it would appear that there's some movement afoot to get Congress to pass a preventive detention act.

November 16, 2008

Sorcerer's Apprentice Caught With Pants Down

A particularly egregious and obvious error seems to have finally outed Al Gore's Merlin, NASA's Dr. James Hansen

November 12, 2008

Winter v. NRDC: Injunction Lifted

In an unfortunately too rare exercise of judicial sanity and restraint, the Supreme Court has dissolved the injunction issued in California preclluding the Navy's sonar training

November 10, 2008

Quick Change!

A website detailing Obama's agenda, which got a great deal of critical agenda online since Thursday when it was publicly viewable, has quickly been scrubbed

November 7, 2008

Iowawk on this Historic 'Inspirational Disaster'

Reporting from Chicago's " Electionpalooza Control Desk", Iowahawk weighs in on this "Inspirational Disaster":

November 6, 2008

Time for McCain to Step Up to the Plate Again

November 5, 2008

The Shameful Treatment of the President

In a truly magnificent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal ,Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, who at one point interned with Senator Kerry, details the shameful treatment of President Bush and its consequences:

November 4, 2008

'Take it to the Bank, Pennsylvania is Turning Red'

Sean Malestrom is persuaded that McCain Palin will win Pennsylvania and the White House.

November 4, 2008

Live Blogging the Election From NPR HQ

Clarice Feldman is spending the night at NPR headquarters, one of several nprbloggers. Stay tuned for her coverage of the election returns. Fox is reporting Dole has lost her Senate race in North Carolina.

November 3, 2008

Obama wants to destroy agriculture too

Not content with destroying the coal industry, Obama is also targeting our agricultural sector

November 3, 2008

Live Blogging the Election From NPR HQ

I will be at NPR headquarters Election night, the guest of NPR and the Guardian who have created a space for us to blog away the evening

November 1, 2008

Helen Jones-Kellly Lied About Why She Ordered the Check on Joe The Plumber

Having been caught red-handed invading without warrant the privacy of Joe the Plumber, Ohio's Helen Jones-Kelly, an Obama contributor, lied about why she ordered the search and her staff is not backing her up.

November 1, 2008

Dustbin Stasi

In statist regimes like that in the UK local authorities do little to prevent or punish real crime but use every law at their disposal to beset and harass the honest, law abiding citizens

October 30, 2008

More Dems In Early Fla Voting (But They're Voting for McCain)

Democrat turnout is high in Florida's early voting, but look at how many of them are voting for McCain, accoprding to an LAT/Bloomberg report.

October 29, 2008

Dem attacks on GOP challenger in Florida

Lt Col Allen West, an African American Republican candidate for Congress in Florida's 22d Congressional District, must be gaining on Democrat Ron Klein.

October 29, 2008

New Obama campaign tie to ACORN exposed

Money ties between the Obama campaign and ACORN have come to light.

October 29, 2008

Obama Family Values

It seems that Obama has more relatives in need than his shanty-living half-brother in Kenya.

October 27, 2008

Aristide and his Democrat Friends

Did well connected Democrats conspire with Haitian dictator Aristide to rip off Haiti? Mary Anastasia O'Grady has an intriguing report in the Wall Street Journal

October 27, 2008

Update on AIPAC Case

Josh Gerstein, formerly with the NY Sun , has a new blog, and begins with an interesting update on the AIPAC case.

October 24, 2008

The monied left under Obama

The financial turmoil has taken its toll on the purveyors of goods to the wealthy left.

October 23, 2008

Leftist Bianca Jagger's 20 year rent scam comes to a halt

The Court of Appeals in New York has upheld the eviction of Bianca Jagger , a foreigner who visits the U.S. on a tourist visa, from the 20 year tenancy of a rent stabilized apartment

October 22, 2008

Is ACORN Setting Up a Nutty Defense?

This looks to me like an ACORN effort to pawn off countless incidents of wrongdoing as the result of just sloppy work or the misdeeds of a handful of officers.

October 20, 2008

Phone banks to get out the vote

One side has money to pay for help, while the other needs volunteers.

October 20, 2008

NYT Highlights Cisneros' Role in the Housing Disaster

Amazingly the NYT acknowledges how great and varied a role Clinton appointee Henry Cisneros played in America's housing disaster.

October 20, 2008

ACORN's sweatshop

Not only is ACORN exploiting us by its outrageous practices abetting vote fraud and mortgage manipulation, but it appears it exploits its very own workers.

October 20, 2008

The never ending (meritless) AIPAC case

October 18, 2008

Many Enlist, Few Actually Shlep

The Telegraph reports that the much heralded shlep to Florida by grandchildren to persuade their grandparents to vote for Obama was a bust.

October 16, 2008

Ohio Files Emergency Appeal to Supreme Court

Although Ohio's Secretary of State Brunner said she'd abide by the Sixth Circuit's ruling that she was not complying with the law in refusing to advise country poll offices of problems in new registrations (200,000 of them are facially defective),Ohio has filed an emergency appeal to the US Supreme Court

October 16, 2008

24,000 ballots to be sent out in Washington to felons not eligible to vote

KIRO in Seattle reports that 24,000 illegal felons will probably be sent out ballots even though they are ineligible to vote. In fact, some have already voted this year

October 14, 2008

Outrageous Obama propaganda in schools textbook

An 8th grade literature class in Racine, WI is already using a new textbook which carries a fifteen page section ("Out of Many, One") solely about Obama. There are no pages dedicated to other contemporary U.S. politicians.

October 14, 2008

Temporary restraining order reimposed in Ohio voting scandal

It looks like ACORN and the Ohio Secretary of State will not be able to guarantee a fixed election after all

October 13, 2008

Karma:Foley's successor in own sex scandal

For all those who refused to vote for the Republicans in 2006 and turned Congress over to the Democrats because of the trumped up Foley "scandal", here's some news:

October 11, 2008

2007:Obama promises to give ACORN a role in shaping his presidential agenda

Watch it. He can try to to explain it away, but how persuasive can he be?

October 10, 2008

Stopping ACORN

ACORN is rapidly becoming a major issue, with the Republican base outraged over the voter registration fraud investigations in ten states. An online petition has been created

October 10, 2008

ACORN Fraud In Pennsylvania

The American Spectator documents huge vote registration fraud in Pennsylvania:

October 8, 2008

What Newspapers Does Obama Read?

The facially preposterous claim by Obama's campaign that he did not know of Ayers' past raises an interesting question for the perky one.

October 8, 2008

Wonder How the Dems Will Finance All the New Giveaways?

Cutting out every single tax break they can get their hands on, including your 401(k)

October 7, 2008

When Associations with 'Extremists' Matter to Dems (And When They Don't)

When Judge Alito was being considered for the Supreme Court Senator Kennedy expressed concern that Judge Alito might have had some association with a group called CAP (Concerned Alumni of Princeton)

October 7, 2008

Ayers' Social Justice: Educational Malpractice

Ayers' brand of educational humbug was spread the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, chaired by Barack Obama.

October 5, 2008

Weathermen for Obama (updated with video)

Doug Ross of Director Blue notes at least four top leaders of the Weathermen terrorist organization have signed on as members of a "grassroots effort" to support the election of Barack Obama.

October 5, 2008

Plame update

A veteran CIA covert ops guys writes of Valerie Plame's real job at the CIA.

October 4, 2008

The Scott Shane Whitewash: Obama and Ayers (updated)

Today the NYT carries a report by Scott Shane which purports to demonstrate that contrary to the work of unnamed bloggers (ahem), the Ayers/Obama contact was minimal.

October 3, 2008

ACORN vote fraud continues (updated)

When are we going to see some perp walks?

October 2, 2008

Ifill on Palin

In advance of her performance at tonight's debate, Gwen Ifill has already tipped her hand respecting her animus toward Sarah Palin. From an actual transcript of her PBS show Washington Week:

October 1, 2008

Hunting Mr. Good Will

Powerline has a compelling blog on the many fraudulent contributions for Obama--including from overseas. One example: Mr. Good Will

September 30, 2008

Wisconsin Vote Fraud

When I grew up in Milwaukee it was a model of civic probity. In recent years it has become a site of blatant election fraud. Yesterday, there was an effort to punish some of it:

September 28, 2008

Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda, Here I am at Camp Obama

You too can learn the Alinsky techniques of community organizing by signing up for Camp Obama.

September 27, 2008

Replenishing ACORN's Account: Keeping the Housing Mess Going

Like me the WSJ thinks it's outrageous that the Democrats are trying to find money in the bailout to keep their friends in ACORN well nourished:

September 27, 2008

Memory Lane: 'Lynching' Franklin Raines and How Fannie Mae Isn't 'Broke'

This incredible video showing how the Republicans in Congress tried hard to regulate better Fannie Mae and how the Democrats fought that tooth and nail

September 26, 2008

ACORN doing its thing: Will Taxpayers Keep Funding Them?

Reports continue that as in previous elections ACORNS's fraudulent voter registrations continue unabated:

September 24, 2008

The Mystery Candidate (Obama) and his Pals

Obama has not been forthright in explaining why he--with no background for the position--was picked to head the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.

September 23, 2008

Leftist watch

Independent Sector, a supposedly nonpartisan nonprofit organization helping other nonprofits be ethical, has been on the Fannie Mae take.

September 23, 2008

Jewish organizations choosing abortion over Israel

Caroline Glick has an outstanding piece in today's Jerusalem Post excoriating those Jewish organizations which chose abortion over Israel in demanding that Palin not be allowed to address the anti-Iran rally.

September 22, 2008

The Washington Post's double standard on religious cartoons

Yesterday the Washington Post ran an Oliphant cartoon, insulting to Pentecostals (and Palin). Some time ago the paper refused to print the Mohammed cartoons and offered an interesting standard.

September 22, 2008

Jawa Report Charges Obama With Astroturfing

The Jawa Report observes -- in a lengthy, well-documented article -- that at least one of the viral videos carrying a proven false rumor about Palin (that she belonged to an Alaskan separatist movement) was professionally prepared by a p.r. firm linked to the Obama campaign

September 22, 2008

Diana Aviv Has Some 'Splaining to Do

Why would someone involved in keeping nonprofits ethical give the appearance of being involved in political partisanship?

September 20, 2008

AP's 'Racists May Cost Obama the Election' Piece

In one of his usual rapier-tipped analyses, Steve Gilbert debunks the AP article suggesting racists may cost Obama the election:

September 19, 2008

Obamonopoly

Doug Ross has created a wonderful graphics series, a parody of the game of Monopoly he calls Obamonopoly, so anyone can understand the Obama/Fannie Mae/ACORN connections

September 19, 2008

Obama and Raines: then and now

In 2008 the Washington Post reported (and its principal source was clearly Franklin Raines) that Raines was offering financial advice to Obama

September 18, 2008

Rangel's further abuses exposed

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman John Conyers' (D-NY) violation of the Congressional rules (and tax law) continues

September 17, 2008

ACORN Fraud in New Mexico Again

Over 1,000 fake voter registration cards have been turned in in New Mexico and 6,000 cards remain to be examined.

September 17, 2008

Astroturfing, the new propaganda plague

If you're reading this article online, you probably do know about astroturfing, but your friends who are less computer savvy do not

September 16, 2008

ACORN, Fannie Mae and Motor Voter

M. Simon traces the funds Fannie Mae pumped into vote fraud specialists ACORN, and explains how that organization pressed for the grant of mortgages to unqualified buyers, leading to the subprime mortgage mess and Fannie Mae collapse.

September 15, 2008

More trouble for Rangel (updated)

He tax returns are hopelessly wrong, and he takes "ultimate responsibility" but blames his staff for the work he "delegated."

September 15, 2008

Obama: leave Iraq, no stay

Did the candidate violate the Logan Act?

September 14, 2008

Obama's missing years

Now that we've had full field MRIs of Palin, her family and their pets, perhaps the media could focus on the many missing aspects of Obama's bio.

September 14, 2008

More ACORN fraud (What Else is New?)

As we head toward another election, ACORN is doing what it does best: handing in phony voter registrations and facilitating election fraud.

September 14, 2008

More Rangel Scandals

Three scandals and you're out?

September 12, 2008

Judy Woodruff peddles old tripe

In last night's event at Columbia University, Judy Woodruff peddled some old tripe about the military being largely composed of poor and minorities. Not so and it's about time more "informed" people knew

September 12, 2008

The Fall of Pelosi?

Gallup reports a huge shift which may mean the end of the Democrats' control of the House of Representatives.

September 10, 2008

Dems vs. Dems

Here are a series of videos by Democrats who charge the caucus primaries were marked by violations of the rules and the elemental principles of a fair election.

September 10, 2008

The Obama "tell" (updated)

Remember when Hillary took Obama apart in the debate and he then made a speech where it was claimed he made a very rude gesture in reference to her?

September 9, 2008

Biden's expensive commute on Amtrak

Now we know how Senator Biden was able to afford to commute home every night on Amtrak.

September 8, 2008

How to tell Obama's in trouble

Sunday Biden says life begins at conception. Over the weekend Obama said he'll not rescind the Bush tax cuts if the economy remained in trouble. Earlier on O'Reilly he said the surge did work.

September 5, 2008

What do you mean 'us' Kimosabe?

How badly did Jann Wenner's Us Weekly misjudge his readers? Badly enough that the magazine may be on the rocks for its unfair treatment of Sarah Palin

September 5, 2008

Iowahawk on Community Organizers

Iowahawk has the definitive defense of community organizers which includes useful information like this:

September 3, 2008

Another Weird Development in the AIPAC Case

Secrecy News reports that the prosecution is trying to prevent a key government witness from testifying on behalf of the defendants in the AIPAC case

September 3, 2008

Obama's Plan for Ruining Your Schools

Obama hopes to bring the lessons of the failed lefty boondoggle he ran knwon as the Chicago Annenberg Challenge to your schools if elected:

September 2, 2008

Mrs. Palin Goes to Washington

We didn't always have only very rich people or children of politicians running for higher office. Harry Truman, one of my favorite presidents, for one, was a failed haberdasher.

September 1, 2008

Obama Begins the Ayers Walk Back and Heads Into the Reparations Trap

Barack Obama is beginning a walk back on his preposterously untrue former claims that Ayers was just a guy in his neighborhood

September 1, 2008

Ask Alan (Colmes)

Alan Colmes, it appears is an expert on obstetrics. Missing but captured by Wizbang from his website is his blog indicating Palin's last child suffered from poor pre-natal care by his mother

August 29, 2008

Hillary supporters and Sarah Palin: a first indication

A report on what they are saying about Sarah Palin at the closed hillaryclintonforum.com site.

August 27, 2008

A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum

Reuters previews the finale of the Democrat convention, something like Greek theater at Invesco Field:

August 25, 2008

Ayers' long march through education

Obama's pal and educational grant dispensing partner, former Weatherman Bill Ayres, plays a key role in the radicalization of public education

August 23, 2008

Misfortunes of War

Under this title Noemie Emery explains the effect of the Iraq war on the candidates and offers this suggestion for a McCain ad:

August 22, 2008

Obama-Ayers Annenberg papers to be released

AP is reporting the University of Illinois Chicago has relented and the CAC records in its possession will be released and made available to the public Tuesday.

August 20, 2008

The Annenberg Challenge money

Massive amounts of charritable money were spent by the Annenberg Challenge under Barack Obama's leadership, and acomplished nothing. Usually it takes the UN to squander such sums without any positive results.

August 12, 2008

Plame and Wilson's lawsuit going nowhere

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Distrcit of Columbia Circuit today sustained the lower court's dismissal of their civil suit against Libby, Rove, Cheney and Armitage.

August 11, 2008

'The future is so bright I have to wear shades'

M. Simon reviews European housing markets;the slumping mortgage markets, the war in Georgia, the US economy and concludes:"The future is so bright I have to wear shades"

August 10, 2008

Edwards, Rielle Hunter and Andrew Young

As the media continues to avert its eyes from the Edwards' scandal, bloggers continue to tell us interesting things about the Democrat's fair haired boy and what was going on in Edwards' camp under the radar.

July 29, 2008

Wexler Games the Tax Codes of Fla and Md

We have more details on how Congressman Robert Wexler -- for whom no liberal spending program is too much -- has gamed the tax system for his benefit: