Fletch Daniels

Fletch Daniels


  • Slaying the University Dragons

    March 31, 2025

    Slaying the University Dragons

    President Trump demanded simple actions from Columbia University to recoup the $400 million in federal grants that he had rescinded, actions which amounted to taking active steps to protect Jewish students on campus. The university presi...

  • Democrats Unmask Themselves

    March 17, 2025

    Democrats Unmask Themselves

    The Democrats stand primarily for their own personal power, prestige, and wealth.  To maintain these, they’ve patched together a rogue’s gallery of supporters, forcing party leaders to navigate an array of contradictions. ...

  • Faith, Hope, and Babies

    March 11, 2025

    Faith, Hope, and Babies

    The United States’ fertility rate has fallen to around 1.78, which, combined with the general downward trajectory, is a cause for concern. To replace the population, a country needs to maintain a rate around 2.1. When I was a young lieutenan...

  • The Democrats Descend into Madness

    March 7, 2025

    The Democrats Descend into Madness

    The Democrat party has descended into madness.  For anyone who may have doubted that before the State of the Union address, the Democrats went into overdrive to hammer the message home. When you strip away all the platitudes around one o...

  • Shock, Rattle, and Awe

    March 3, 2025

    Shock, Rattle, and Awe

    Every Republican president starts with distinct disadvantages. He inherits a largely disloyal and subversive federal bureaucracy, can expect nothing but hostile media coverage, and will be forced to battle for every inch against partisan judges who d...

  • America’s Last Chance

    March 1, 2025

    America’s Last Chance

    What a difference a few months make.  This time last year, we were hurtling toward societal collapse.  The government's growth rate and requisite spending had hit such obscene levels that the question of whether we, like Wile ...

  • November 20, 2023

    America on the Edge of the Cliff

    There is more than an average share of discontent brewing from sea to shining sea as ever more Americans get the sense that their country, which has been pivotal to ensuring global security, stands on the edge of a cliff.  Many comfort them...

  • November 20, 2022

    Reclaiming the City on a Hill

    On the eve of the 2016 election, I thought America was done as a constitutional republic.  I simply did not see how the country could avoid completing the project that Barack Obama kick-started. While maintaining the appearance of democr...

  • November 13, 2022

    With This Obstacle in Place, Republicans Can't Get the White House

    Surveying the wreckage of the disappointing Republican midterms, voters were left scratching their heads, trying to figure out what went wrong.  With the fundamentals being as bad as they were this year, Republicans underperformed expectati...

  • November 1, 2022

    Lessons from the Debate Season

    As we hurtle towards the day of reckoning, one of the most fascinating elements of this election season has been the utter destruction of nearly all Democrats who took to the debate stage, often by opponents who were considered intellectual lightweig...

  • October 17, 2022

    Joe Biden: Wartime Leader of the Black Soul Brigade

    As the midterms approach, the great unifier decided that it is a good time to start emphasizing his "unifyingness."  He put out a bizarre and delusional text that both bragged about his vision and achievements and claimed he is a pr...

  • October 10, 2022

    The Polls are Lying: Dems in Deep Trouble

    The Democrat media, in conjunction with their allies in the polling industry, have driven the false narrative that the Democrats are likely to defy both history and their historically awful record and do fairly well in the midterms, particularly in S...

  • October 3, 2022

    Air Force Academy Woes Highlight Collapse of Military Values Under Diversity Mania

    Other than a well-fought win over rival Navy, the United States Air Force Academy had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week.  First, came the story that the Academy gave diversity training to cadets encouraging them to stop using such ...

  • September 14, 2021

    California Recall Election Today: Larry Elder Proves Democrats Are Still Racist

    So Larry Elder is a white supremacist (at least in the eyes of the left). So argued a Los Angeles Times columnist, Jean Guerrero, on CNN as Brian "journalists are the real heroes" Stelter's smug visage nodded along.  These deniz...

  • September 9, 2021

    It's the Story of the Century, and the Media Yawn

    Never before in human history has a global pandemic resulted in the dismemberment of first-world economies, highly divisive universal vaccine and mask mandates, education-stunting school shutdowns, and the isolation of entire societies to the point o...

  • September 6, 2021

    Abortion: The Animating Sacrament of the Left

    The Texas abortion law and the reaction to it has shone a spotlight on the fact that abortion is the primary animating force for the left, a sacrament of a sort that drives both their priorities and energy. The celebrity crowd had the Taliban on t...

  • September 2, 2021

    The Biden Administration's Upside-Down View of Extremism

    Americans were treated to the theater of the absurd as they watched a humiliated Biden administration bend over backward to paint the Taliban as some kind of trusted partner with a future in responsible governance. Apparently, nobody got word to t...

  • August 30, 2021

    Harvard Determined to Race to the Bottom

    So, Harvard University named Greg Epstein, an atheist, as their head chaplain because, apparently, nothing makes more sense to them than turning over the spiritual direction of their students to someone whose entire belief system is built around...

  • July 5, 2020

    Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln Are Left's True Targets

    Leftist thugs and rioters continued their coordinated assaults on monuments to America's history this weekend as Democrat politicians in the city areas they control largely nodded and winked their assent, basking in the chaos and intimidation of ...

  • June 29, 2020

    Driving Conservatives Underground

    Cultural tyranny reigns in America, the last step before full-fledged political tyranny.  Lurking beneath the surface of virtue-signaling leftists are tyrants seeking to exert their will over those they despise.  The defining leftis...

  • June 10, 2020

    An Honest Conversation on Race?

    One of the trite pearls of wisdom repeated ad nauseam for the past several days is that America needs to have an honest conversation on race.  It’s a constant theme repeated in the self-flagellating virtue signaling spewing forth from prom...

  • April 9, 2020

    Democrats Likely to Dump Biden

    As Democrat power brokers survey the constantly shifting ground in the lead-up to the national election, it is not hard to guess the candidate strategy discussions going on in their super-secret supervillain lairs. Plan A: Hide a Biden The firs...

  • April 2, 2020

    Does America Need Journalists?

    Chris Cillizza of CNN sent one of the most unintentionally hilarious posts into the Twittersphere when he proudly displayed his new (and ugly) sweater that read "America Needs Journalists." Apart from the obvious tone-deafness of th...

  • March 17, 2020

    Wuhan Flu Reminder: Political Correctness Kills

    Political correctness is not just harmless virtue-signaling navel-gazing by a bored “elite” first-world populace.  It is both a weapon and a disease that kills. On January 31, on a day when the entire national press corps was full...

  • March 8, 2020

    No, Conservatives, Biden's Rise Is Not a Victory against Socialism

    Far too many voices on both the right and left are arguing that Joe Biden's recent success is a repudiation of Marxism. This is so fantastically wrong that it is a little surprising how often we're seeing and hearing it this week. Ben S...

  • March 6, 2020

    Romney and Graham Suffer Same Political Disease

    A couple of stories converged to highlight the effective destructive threat against weak Republicans from the leftist cultural Death Star. Mitt Romney received a standing ovation at the University of Denver for his impeachment conviction...

  • February 29, 2020

    Russia, Democrats, and the Death of Logic

    The media's attempt, bolstered by some in the intelligence community, to spin the lie that Russia wants Donald Trump re-elected shows their utter contempt for the intelligence of Americans. Simple logic and a cursory understanding of history, ...

  • February 27, 2020

    Bernie Sanders: Last Step in America's Slide to Socialism?

    There can no longer be any doubt that Bolshevik Bernie Sanders is a runaway freight train with the Democrat establishment tied to the tracks in front of him near a stop called Super Tuesday. Sanders absolutely steamrolled the field in Nevada, crea...

  • February 21, 2020

    Trump Overturned Obama's Conventional Wisdom

    President Donald Trump spent the first three years of his presidency taking a flamethrower to elite conventional wisdom. Before the president, an "elite" consensus had formed that lost manufacturing and industrial jobs were gone for good...

  • February 16, 2020

    Two-Tiered Justice System on Full Display

    This was not a banner week for the idea that justice is alive and blind in America. Three separate stories converged to drive home the obvious truth that America has a two-tiered justice system: the Justice Department's decision to not indict ...

  • February 15, 2020

    Democrats Aiming for More Impeachments

    With their ludicrous impeachment exercise, Democrats have forever destroyed impeachment as a political tool even as they ensured that it will get pulled out of the drawer repeatedly by their radical political progeny in the years ahead.  It...

  • February 8, 2020

    Democrats Hate What Trump Is Highlighting about Them

    President Donald Trump's campaign strategy came into sharp focus during the State of the Union address, and the Democrats are horrified at the mirror held up to their faces. The campaign strategy has three components.  The president ...

  • February 5, 2020

    Depressed Democrat Turnout: The Iowa Story that Matters

    While the most entertaining story of the Iowa caucuses was either the utter chaos and incompetence that unfolded or the sinister machinations of the Democrat party, depending on your take on the events, the more important story is getting far less at...

  • January 20, 2020

    Democrat Radicalism Creating a Dangerous Void

    The media generally speak of Democrats as falling into one of two wings, usually contrasted as the progressive wing or as some mythical establishment moderate wing.  Bernie Sanders and his squabbling squaw sidekick are placed in that first wi...

  • January 7, 2020

    Rise of the Democrat 'But' Warriors

    This past week saw the rise of the Democrat "but" warriors.  Every viable remaining presidential candidate, with the exception of Bernie Sanders, included an identical sentence construct in response to President Donald Trump's...

  • January 5, 2020

    The Media's Worst Year

    There were certainly a lot of candidates for the biggest story of 2019, from the red-hot economy to the Mueller mumblings to the president’s record pace in reshaping the judiciary.  But, my vote for the biggest story of 2019 is the complet...

  • December 21, 2019

    Corrupt Democrats Pushing America toward the Abyss

    When Lord Acton observed in the 19th century that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," he was referring to absolute monarchies and dictatorships.  But he could have just as easily been referring t...

  • December 3, 2019

    Trump-Hating Democrats are the Real Cult

    There has been an outbreak of cult-watchers among Democrats, as they all parrot the same talking points that President Donald Trump’s supporters are part of a cult and that he is a cult leader. A rogue’s gallery in leftist groupthink r...

  • November 29, 2019

    Democrats Ponder Impeachment Pivot

    The Democrats have twisted themselves into a Schiffian Knot, a modern-day unsolvable puzzle. When they plunged forward on their ill-fated impeachment voyage, they were destined to land on this surreal shore, even if their parade of bureaucratic in...

  • November 27, 2019

    President Trump Scoring with Black Voters, and Dems Are Terrified

    Ana Navarro-Cardenas managed to produce one of the most offensive tweets of the year in response to the news that multiple polls show black job approval of President Donald Trump now at 34%.  She tweeted, "Zero chance this is accurate....

  • November 25, 2019

    The Democratic Cold War on Christianity Heating Up

    One of the great unknowns in terms of the future electorate is the effect the Democrats’ increasingly radical anti-faith stance will have on its voting coalition.    Black and Hispanic Democrats tend to be far more religious than t...

  • November 22, 2019

    The Hate and Anti-Intellectualism of the Modern Democratic Party

    Bill Maher recently played the role of a broken clock and stumbled upon a truth.  He noted that America is potentially heading toward a civil war due to rising anger on both sides of the political aisle. This is a true sentiment, althoug...

  • November 18, 2019

    Impeachment Lesson: Cut Government

    This current impeachment theater is the equivalent of Caddyshack II, a sequel so dreadful that nobody is bothering to tune in.      Even my liberal colleagues who despise President Donald Trump can’t be bothered watch....

  • November 13, 2019

    Kamala Harris Campaign Collapses Under Perception of Law and Order

    When President Donald Trump was elected in 2016, Kamala Harris appeared to hold the pole position to challenge him in 2020. And yet, three short years later, she has already conceded New Hampshire, is polling even worse in Iowa, and is at 4.5% nat...

  • November 4, 2019

    President Trump’s Foreign Policy Wisdom

    One of the greatest speeches ever given on U.S. soil was President George Washington’s Farewell Address in 1796.  The speech itself was written by Washington, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. While it covers many themes, two of th...

  • November 1, 2019

    Media-Democrat Tantrum a Fear Response

    In 1776, 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence, knowing that their actions would be viewed as treason by the prevailing power.  Should the revolution fail, they were signing their death certificates. Indeed, many paid a heavy pri...

  • October 30, 2019

    Fairfax County, Virginia Presents Dire Warning to America

    My home county of Fairfax, Virginia was once a safe suburban area with some of the best performing public schools in the nation.  It's now a blinking warning sign to America as it hangs on the edge of complete disaster thanks to uncheck...

  • October 22, 2019

    Will Abortion Sink the Democratic Party in 2020?

    The big wild card issue heading into the 2020 election is abortion because of how radical Democrats have become on this issue. Opposition to abortion is the issue that elicits the greatest voting passion for many Americans. This is for good rea...

  • October 19, 2019

    Democrats Seek to Drown Trump in Drama

    Back in 1988, one of the greatest movie villains of all time, Hans Gruber, burst onto the screen with a group of murderous thieves, seizing complete control of the Nakatomi Plaza building in Die Hard.  That movie serves as a decent metap...

  • October 17, 2019

    Hillary Clinton's Impossible Dream

    Hillary Clinton, still suffering from delusions of adequacy, has a dream.  It is that Democrats will beg her to run again and be their savior.  After all, she recently celebrated her historic 2016 win against President Donald Trum...

  • October 15, 2019

    Destroying America’s History One Icon at a Time

    Columbus Day brought a refreshing reminder that leftists are effectively erasing America’s heritage as an important step in transforming America into a socialist state.  As I look, “Happy Indigenous Peoples” day is approachi...

  • October 14, 2019

    Trump Stands between America and Tyranny

    The movie Titanic had one really good scene.  The ship had already swiped the iceberg.  The behemoth continued sailing along and appeared to be doing just fine.  But one person on the ship, Thomas Andrews, knew that it w...

  • October 9, 2019

    Elizabeth Warren: Leading Liar in the Party of Liars

    In response to the obvious reality that Elizabeth Warren is an unrepentant liar, Saturday Night Live decided to portray her as a salt-of-the-earth honest everywoman who cares only about the common man.  This wasn't a parody.  It...

  • October 7, 2019

    Can a Socialist Win in 2020?

    Over half of bettors now believe the beer-chugging socialist Cherokee princess will be the Democrat nominee to face President Donald Trump in 2020, which is more than 32 percent higher than the next closest candidate. This number is likely to clim...

  • October 5, 2019

    Celebrities man the impeachment barricades

    A group of anti-Trump liberal celebrities is setting up an "Impeachment Task Force" to hold President Donald Trump "accountable for betrayal of America."  As is always the case, projectionist Democrats are guilty of doing ...

  • October 3, 2019

    Why President Trump Is Likely to Win the Rust Belt in 2020

    I spent an evening this week driving through a series of small towns in Michigan and Ohio while visiting my daughter at Hillsdale College in rural Michigan. While having dinner, what appeared to be a drug-addled gentleman walked by our table, and ...

  • October 1, 2019

    Republicans must fix partisan intelligence cabal

    Joseph Wilson's death this week at 69 is a reminder that Republican presidents are always fighting a rearguard action against the Intelligence Community.  For those who don't remember, Wilson was the Deep State diplomat who worked in ...

  • September 28, 2019

    Trump Exposes Paul Ryan and Romney Republicans

    One of the greatest public services President Donald Trump has done for the nation is forcing institutions and people to reveal their true character. While this has been the most valuable when it comes to the media, it has also been valuable when ...

  • September 27, 2019

    Liberal media driving Trump impeachment narrative

    When I recently scanned CNN's website, there were more than fifteen anti-Trump stories pushing the impeachment narrative, and not a single one acknowledging any wrongdoing by the Bidens or even the existence of Crowdstrike, which reflects the ten...

  • September 26, 2019

    US Oil Is Key Weapon against Iran

    President Donald Trump's restrained response to Iran's attack on Saudi Arabia shows that the U.S. is in a much stronger strategic position in reference to the Middle East than it has been in decades past. This is largely thanks to America...

  • September 22, 2019

    Democrat Censured for Voting with Trump 19% of the Time. Bipartisanship Is Dead.

    One of the more interesting news items this week was the revelation that Arizona Democrats were considering a censure vote against Senator Kyrsten Sinema for being too pro-Trump.  Apparently, voting against the president 81% of the time const...

  • September 20, 2019

    Kavanaugh Smear an Escalation of Court War

    The fact that the New York Times published one of the most absurd stories in news history, a straight up lie-filled smear of Brett Kavanaugh, shows just how important the battle for the courts is to the Left. There is no depth to which t...

  • September 19, 2019

    Gun Control: Wrong Solution to the Wrong Problem

    With their push for gun control, liberals are demanding that conservatives acquiesce to their solution for a problem they largely created. But gun control is the wrong solution to the wrong problem.  The actual problem is the growth of m...

  • September 15, 2019

    The Electability Myth of Joe Biden

    The leftstream media characterization of Joe Biden is that he is moderate, likable, and the most electable Democrat candidate.  He is affable Uncle Joe, the self-made lunchbox-toting common man of the people.  In truth, he is n...

  • September 14, 2019

    Blame academia for the insanity at Thursday's Dem debate

    In watching Thursday night's Democrat debate, I first felt as though I was watching a conservative spoof on a Saturday Night Live skit.  There was Bernie Sanders, playing the crazy and deranged college professor, quite literally spitting ...

  • September 13, 2019

    Warren Wins Sweepstakes for Week's Dumbest Tweet

    The Democrat primary has devolved into an extremism arms race to see who can adopt the most radical position. Last week’s winner, despite steep competition, was Elizabeth Warren, who tweeted out, “On my first day as president, I will s...

  • September 11, 2019

    Grievously Injured Rand Paul Gets a Second Chance at Justice

    The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the ridiculously lenient sentence received by Rene Boucher for assaulting Senator Rand Paul, a sentence that fell well below the sentencing range of 21 to 27 months in jail that he should have re...

  • September 9, 2019

    LGBT Activists Seek to Destroy Christianity

    Quarterback Drew Brees came under brutal attack last week for having the audacity to appear in a video encouraging Christian students to bring Bibles to school. The pretext for the attack was that he supported a project by Focus on the Family, a C...

  • September 6, 2019

    Republicans Win by Hammering Immigration in the Suburbs

    This was not a banner week for the anti-law "Sanctuary" crowd. Seven-time felon and five-time deported invader José Inéz García Zarate was found to be guilty of nothing in the heartbreaking shooting death of Kate Ste...

  • September 4, 2019

    When Trump Fights the Left, He Punches Up

    President Trump sent out a tweetstorm on Sunday morning on a wide range of topics that included media corruption, the economy, failing union leadership, the Democrats' employment of the tired racism charge, and Hurricane Dorian, among other subje...

  • September 3, 2019

    Liberals Embrace Anti-Feminism in Transgender Sports Debate

    Anti-feminists continue their unapologetic efforts to destroy women’s sports at all levels.  Not satisfied to just ruin high school girls’ athletics, they are setting their sights higher.  This week’s headline indicated...

  • August 31, 2019

    Planned Parenthood Recruits Musicians to Propagandize the Youth

    Planned Parenthood announced this week that it enlisted at least 136 pop singers and groups to market abortion at their concerts as part of Planned Parenthood's Band Together campaign.  This follows the abortion mill's stinging defeat...

  • August 31, 2019

    Comey’s leaks were political penance

    The Inspector General report that addressed James Comey’s leaking of memos was so damaging that even the usual media suspects, such as CNN and the New York Times, only offered token cover.  The report indicated that Comey knowingly and ...

  • August 29, 2019

    Media Puff Up Trump's Republican Primary Challengers

    Comical headlines from the leftstream media that treat Joe Walsh and the other would-be primary challengers as serious candidates are an attempt to concern-troll Republicans into supporting them.  That's not going to happen.  Pr...

  • August 27, 2019

    Democrats Brace for War over Supreme Court

    The news that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was treated for pancreatic cancer raised the possibility of a Supreme Court opening within the next year. The 86-year-old Ginsburg's health has been declining for years, to where the last year has felt like a ...

  • August 25, 2019

    Left-Wing Institutions Mainstreaming Hatred

    The contrasting reactions of conservatives and liberals to the news that libertarian philanthropist David Koch died and that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is suffering from a serious health problem highlight a fundamental difference betwe...

  • August 24, 2019

    Debt Dwarfs China as Top National Security Threat

    This year's National Defense Strategy heralded the return of peer competitors and the re-emergence of long-term great power competition.  The debate among national security experts that followed its publication mostly focused on whether...

  • August 23, 2019

    Democrats Continue Normalization of Anti-Semitism

    Democrats have been continuing a long trend of normalizing anti-Semitism in their party. Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib had been leading the charge on Capitol Hill to deploy anti-Israel legislation with the goal of weakening Israel....