June 10, 2023

Is the Deep State pushing the UFO/alien narrative on conservatives?

I recently pointed out on American Thinker that Matt Walsh, after his huge Twitter triumph last weekend, immediately published two controversial posts claiming aliens are real on his Facebook page. Walsh’s readers are reacting: as of this writi...

June 7, 2023

The coming alien invasion

Viewers could watch Matt Walsh's movie What is a Woman? for free on Twitter this past weekend, and, thanks in part to a plug at American Thinker, more than 170 million people have watched at least some of the documentary. So how did Matt follo...

December 10, 2020

How to Challenge the PA Secretary of State's Election Chicanery

Much of the election controversy in PA had to do with guidance that PA secretary of state Kathy Boockvar gave election officials on the night before the election: "At issue is guidance Boockvar's office gave to counties on the night befor...

December 7, 2020

Will SCOTUS Overrule the Pennsylvania Supreme Court?

It’s likely that the Supreme Court will overturn a critical Pennsylvania State Supreme Court ruling on account of the state court’s incorrect use of the legal doctrine of laches (pronounced like latchkeys but without the “k”)....

December 1, 2020

About those 'spike anomalies' in Pennsylvania …

Paul Kengor's recent article about the presidential election results got me thinking about what it would take to convince a friend of mine — or a Pennsylvania legislator or judge — that there really was something fishy going...

February 27, 2014

Obama's Usurpations

In the plays of Shakespeare, it is pretty obvious when a coup happens.  At a time when most of the political power was in a king, when one man deposes (or murders) a king and takes his place (as when Henry Bolingbroke usurps the throne of Richar...

February 15, 2014

A Concise Definition of Liberalism

Do not miss Eugene Kontorovich's Washington Post blog piece on Belgium's decision to permit doctors to help children commit suicide, and its relevance to the Supreme Court's ruling in Roper v. Simmons that (explicitly based on European concepts ...

February 11, 2013

Reconstructing Obama's Columbia Transcript

Jason Kissner recently questioned President Obama's whereabouts in spring 1982, and also discussed in passing some of the courses Obama took while at Columbia. In response, I would like to try my hand at reconstructing the Columbia part of Obama's co...

December 25, 2012

The Faith of Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln's spiritual beliefs are notoriously difficult to pin down.  It's a source of endless debate for historians trying to reconcile Lincoln's words and actions into a coherent faith. Tony Kushner, for his part, does not portray the ...

December 20, 2012

Was it the Meds?

Lost amidst the anti-gun clamor following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School is the possibility that it may have occurred not because of easy access to guns but to the alleged perpetrator's use of psychiatric drugs. There are unconfirm...

October 27, 2012

More Green Energy Follies

The past couple of weeks have been filled with bad news concerning President Obama's green-energy policies. On October 16, A123 Systems -- a manufacturer of lithium batteries for electric cars -- became "the fourth major clean energy compan...

October 20, 2012

George Kaiser's Great Big Green Energy Scam

The Wall Street Journal reports that George Kaiser, "a Tulsa oil billionaire who bundled campaign checks for Mr. Obama in 2008," is poised to accomplish one of the great scams of all time.  Here is how it works.  The "primary investment arm...

October 16, 2012

The Corrupting Influence of Federal Housing Policy

The U.S. government recently filed suit against Wells Fargo, the nation's largest mortgage lender, for failing to check or otherwise misrepresenting the creditworthiness of borrowers to whom the bank issued mortgages guaranteed by the Federal Housing...

October 13, 2012

Mitt Needs to Bring More Than a Knife to This Gunfight

In June 2008, a trash-talking Barack Obama assured his admirers that he was ready for a street fight: "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." Now that he has been accused by his followers of being too passive in the first presidential d...

October 8, 2012

Could Fannie and Freddie Add $5 Trillion to U.S. Debt?

In 2003, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) famously denied that "the Federal Government is obligated to bail out people who lose money in connection" with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:  "There is no guarantee, there is no explicit guarantee, there is no im...

September 29, 2012

Is QE 3 Really Just Another Bailout?

At a time when mortgage rates are at historic lows, home prices have fallen, and previous overbuilding leaves little room for growth in employment in the housing industry, why would the Federal Reserve suddenly decide to purchase $40 billion worth of...

September 22, 2012

Rick Perry Nailed Obama's Strategy

Governor Rick Perry may have turned out to be a disappointment as a candidate, but let's give him credit for this: he warned us of the possibility that the Federal Reserve would start printing up a lot of money shortly before the election. "If this ...

August 8, 2012

Obama's Columbia Years

My fellow Columbian Wayne Allyn Root may well be correct when he suggests that President Obama transferred to Columbia in fall '81 as a foreign exchange student, and I support his challenge to the president to prove otherwise. At the same time, I'd l...

July 28, 2012

The Flip-Side of "You Didn't Build That" Is "Everything Is Your Fault"

President Obama recently claimed that successful entrepreneurs are not responsible for the success of their businesses.  The president and his defenders now allege that he did not mean what he said, but it is clear that these words were merely a...