August 22, 2023

A sober look at four indictments

I've read the indictments and it seems that three of the four cases against Trump are pretty weak. Georgia (election interference) — using tweets to support a RICO case?  Come on.  Plus taking two and a half years to investigat...

December 10, 2022

Calling out anti-Semitism

Donald Trump did himself no favors by having dinner with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes.  By doing so, he has opened himself up to criticism not just from the usual suspects (the Democrats and their media allies), but from others as well....

November 11, 2022

A key takeaway for disappointed Republicans

A key takeaway for Republicans disappointed with the election results is that candidate quality matters.  That was proven in 2010 and 2012, when Republicans lost many winnable Senate seats by nominating weak candidates. Unfortunately, th...

June 27, 2022

What Dobbs actually says

Many smart people are misinformed on what the majority opinion in the Dobbs case held.  The Supreme Court did not criminalize abortion.  It said nothing about whether the procedure should be legal or not.  It m...

March 29, 2022

Was Joe Biden ever competent?

Joe Biden was never smart. When I interned in Congress for two summers many years ago, other congressional members openly referred to him as one of the dumbest men on Capitol Hill.  Staffers and interns, including ones who worked fo...

December 12, 2021

A longtime Chicago resident's take on the Smollett fiasco

I offer my perspective on the Smollett hoax and verdict as a longtime Chicago resident.  It is simply incredible that anyone would believe that the "attack" would happen on a night when Chicago was having a polar vortex, and that th...

September 22, 2021

Understanding the Haitian refugee crisis on the border

I offer a few comments on the Haitian migrant crisis. First, this is mostly self-inflicted by the Biden administration.  The Haitians heard Biden's call for economic "refugees" to come here.  They understood that ...

September 6, 2021

Biden's free fall

Biden's approval ratings are in a free fall, with good reason.  Pluralities disapprove of the president's performance, based on the RealClearPolitics and FiveThirtyEight polling averages.  His approval rating is in th...

August 27, 2021

Smug NeverTrumps: Happy now?

There has been predictable silence from the vast majority of my Democratic friends on the utter incompetence of the Biden administration.  These are the same people who spent four years obsessively posting and tweeting that the very existen...

July 4, 2021

What SCOTUS's just finished term portends for upcoming elections

A few comments on the Supreme Court, whose term ended June 30. First, the term was not kind to the Biden administration, which suffered a series of losses on a variety of issues.  Whom do conservatives have to thank for that?  ...

June 23, 2021

Even with a lousy government, I'll still support Israel

On a national radio program the other night, I discussed Israel's new government.  I offer readers of American Thinker a summary of my comments. First, I am a big fan of Bibi Netanyahu and the unprecedented prosperity and relative peace (...

May 26, 2021

Anti-Semitism lately is coming strongest from one particular direction

The last time Israel and Hamas were at war, in 2014, I flew from my home in Chicago to Israel (where we have a small apartment) with my family to show support.  I remember those three weeks as though it were yesterday.  I would ha...

May 7, 2021

Wokism and COVID

Yesterday, I listened to a podcast in which three "women of color" discussed their struggles resulting from the lockdowns.  It was sobering, and I was moved by their stories.  But one thing bothered me — two of the...

March 30, 2021

But Dr. Fauci says...

I was surprised to receive his text message because I had not heard from him in over a year, he had not responded to two of my texts sent eleven and nine months ago, and we used to see each other about every six to eight weeks for coffee or drinks to...

March 14, 2021

There is so much wrong with the COVID 'relief' law

The $1.9-trillion relief law is being promoted as a way to get the economy back on track following COVID.  The reality is that despite the unnecessarily long and overly restrictive lockdowns imposed by mostly Democratic governors and mayors...

March 3, 2021

There's a reason states are still locked down

Remember how about a year ago they told us to sit tight for a few weeks so that hospitals wouldn't be overrun and then we'd be back to normal?  Heck, we even had a vaccine within eight months (thank you, President Trump, for Operati...

February 28, 2021

Joe Biden says 'America is back.' Back to what?

I wonder if I am the only one confused by Joe Biden's repeated use of the phrase "America is back" when he talks to foreign leaders.  First, where did America go? Second, does use of this phrase mean that "America is bac...

January 18, 2021

It’s time for Republicans to start planning to win again

I am growing tired of the self-flagellation among Republicans since the events on Capitol Hill on January 6. If Democrats, the establishment, and the media had accepted Mr. Trump's victory in 2016 instead of waging a 4-year campaign of obstructio...

December 31, 2020

Whether Trump wins or loses, this point is crucial

Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to undo a national presidential election result, even where there was fraud, ballot-harvesting, and illegal loosening of voting requirements.  So it is easy to understand why President Trump, who accom...

October 5, 2020

Media hysteria and the angry left have brought us to the brink

In 1955, during his first term, President Eisenhower had a massive heart attack.  Until his death in 1969, he suffered at least 20 other cardiac events, several of which occurred during his two terms as president.  Vice President ...

September 20, 2020

The Republicans have a lot of options going forward

I am all for power politics, but President Trump and Senate Majority Leader McConnell may be better off not trying to ram through a new justice before the election. It is questionable whether McConnell will have the votes for it anyway, given that Re...

September 5, 2020

Media bias will only get worse for Trump as election nears

With Trump rising and now ahead in many betting markets after a stellar convention and more Democrat-induced lawlessness, and Nancy Pelosi's illicit trip to the hair salon and blaming the fallout on the owner, telling voters everything they need ...

August 17, 2020

Trump vs. mail-in voting

While the media are bashing President Trump for withholding funding for the U.S. Postal Service, here's what they are not telling you: Democratic governors across the country are taking advantage of the pandemic to do something they have wanted t...

July 12, 2020

How can Trump get the better of the bad polls of late?

President Trump's re-election prospects do not look good at the moment.  While the polls are probably not picking up some Trump voters, and most voters have not yet started paying serious attention to the race yet, the Tr...

March 10, 2020

Coronavirus, 2020 primaries should humble Democrats making predictions about Trump

From scrolling through my social media newsfeeds, I had no idea I had so many infectious disease and financial market experts as friends.  I feel so blessed! The more I think about it, though, maybe I shouldn't feel so lucky, as ever...

March 4, 2020

Leftist heartache at the upscale gym

I've sometimes written in these pages about what it's like to be a moderate Republican living in the fifth most progressive ZIP code in America, the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago.  Before I get to what happened over the weekend, ...

February 28, 2020

Bernie to Biden: The Democrat candidate spectrum is a mess

Everything one needs to know about today's Democratic Party is revealed by the fact that Bernie Sanders is now their de facto leader. Bernie's work experience in the private sector is very limited — union carpenter, freelance journal...

January 20, 2020

It's going to be painful for the Trump-deranged when Trump is re-elected

On the same day the senators were sworn in for the impeachment trial, I was in my favorite coffee shop in the progressive Chicago neighborhood where I live (the fifth most liberal ZIP code in the country).  Many suffer from especially bad c...

December 19, 2019

History will be a harsh judge of the Democrats

They failed to stop his election even though they weaponized intelligence agencies and lied to the FISA court so they could spy on his campaign, as the Horowitz Report documents. They then spent three years in their unhinged effort to delegitimize...

December 17, 2019

After shouting that they had the goods on Trump, Democrats give us...this?

After shouting from the rooftops for months that they had the goods on Trump for bribery, extortion and collusion, the Democrats' move to impeach on weak and nebulous "abuse of power" and "obstruction of Congress" charges is l...

November 1, 2019

The Chicago teachers strike: A leftist victory

For those of you who live outside Illinois, consider me to be your canary in a coal mine, reporting from Chicago, a city formerly run by moderate Daley-type Democrats, but which now is being taken over by the Militant Woke Far-Left. What is happening...

October 7, 2019

Life among the Trump-haters

My anti-Trump friends have truly lost it.  I guess because I'm one of the few Republicans they really interact with, and perhaps because I've done a lot of media appearances lately, they are taking it out on me.  Big time....

September 27, 2019

Is this really all the Democrats have to impeach Trump with?

I've read the whistleblower report and the transcript and am underwhelmed.  Trump's discussion of Biden may have been clumsy and inappropriate, but it is hardly an impeachable offense. It is obvious that the Democrats have no pol...

January 20, 2019

Pelosi and Schumer keep digging their hole

By pre-emptively rejecting President Trump's reasonable plan, Democrats have proven they do not really care about: (a) the 800,000 government workers not getting paychecks that they’ve been whining about, and (b) the million DACA reci...

October 26, 2018

Trump and the 'mail bombs'

Within hours of the discovery of the attempted mail bombings, President Trump issued a strong statement that "in these times, we have to unify.  We have to come together, and send one very clear, strong, unmistakable message that acts ...

October 1, 2018

Why the outrage?

Why has the Kavanaugh confirmation unleashed the furies?  Gerald Seib offers the best explanation I have seen in "The New Kind of Fury Unleashed by the Kavanaugh Fight," although I don't think it is complete.  T...

August 29, 2018

Democrat love-in for John McCain another symptom of Trump Derangement Syndrome

This will probably get me in trouble, but the overblown tributes to John McCain are getting tiresome.  Some of the praise is being used as cover to hit President Trump, who has accomplished far more in a year and a half in public office tha...

July 11, 2018

The left reacts to Kavanaugh

Mental illness is always a difficult topic to discuss, especially in a public forum.  However, based on the unhinged reactions I am seeing on my blog and in person to Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court (I live i...

July 3, 2018

Why I joined #WalkAway

I recently joined the #WalkAway Facebook group and was moved reading a number of posts from former lifelong Democrats by members of just about every minority group imaginable (LGBT, black, Latino, Jewish, Muslim, etc.).  They are done with ...

May 23, 2018

Why Aren't More Jews Attracted to the GOP?

I am an outspoken Zionist, Jewish Republican, and Trump-supporter, and as such, I have a number of conservative friends.  Given that I live in a trendy neighborhood in a large metropolitan area, I have many liberal Jewish friends as well....

May 8, 2018

McCain's exit

I admire Sen. John McCain for his bravery, patriotism, and public service.  Further, I can understand why he would have animosity toward President Trump, in light of then-candidate Trump's untoward comments about McCain's war record...

April 4, 2018

Why a 53-Year-Old Big-City Lawyer Who Has Never Shot a Gun Joined the NRA

I am a 53-year-old lawyer who lives in a trendy neighborhood in a large diverse city with my wife and three kids. I have never owned a gun. In fact, even though I grew up in Louisiana ("Sportsman's Paradise"), I have never even pulled t...