July 2, 2018

Settled law...isn't

What some people refer to as "settled law" isn't – it's not "settled," nor is it "law." According to the Constitution of the United States, Article I, Congress makes the laws.  Period. ...

January 22, 2018

It's not 'the wall' Democrats fear

You can tell what scares Democrats by what they aren't talking about.  Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Luís Gutiérrez have indirectly given away Democratic fears.  First, Senator Schumer came out of his me...

July 10, 2017

Trump and the Canary Trap

A lot of (electronic) ink is being used regarding anonymous leaks from the Trump White House, some of which have disclosed classified information, and, in at least one case, undermined a critical intelligence relationship with a key ally. There appea...

March 27, 2017

Trump, the doer

The Democrats have once again rolled the Republicans.  They did it, as always, by controlling the terms of the discussion. All throughout the Obama era, Republicans (quite rightly) complained about Obamacare.  They passed a seemingly une...

February 23, 2017

Is 29,000 man-years of American labor just a 'hill of beans'?

In the U.K. Independent on February 22, Christopher Hooton penned an article entitled "Eliminating arts funding programs will save Donald Trump just 0.0625% of budget." He writes (emphasis mine): The White House budget office h...

February 5, 2017

Time to Get the VA Out of Medical Care Delivery

To all my fellow veterans, I'm about to tip a sacred cow here. I would ask that for the sake of our many fellow warriors who need relief ASAP, please read this with an open mind and a willingness to offer tweaks, embellishments or outright differ...

February 1, 2017

Rush gets the Yates firing wrong

I normally agree with most of what Rush Limbaugh says, but on his Tuesday radio show, he appeared to chide President Donald Trump for not getting rid of all of Obama's political appointees.  The particular incident that fostered this discuss...

January 25, 2017

The lady in the trenches

Donald Trump is now the recipient of much deserved congratulations.  He ran a hard fought campaign.  That effort started just over 18 months ago.  In that oh, so brief time period, he started as a real estate mogul and celebrity TV tit...

January 16, 2017

SNAP is not an entitlement

Some time ago, I had the idea to write a series of articles about language and how conservatives lose the argument by using the terms the left wants us to use.  The idea was to help foster a conservative philosophy of pushing back on leftist ter...

December 31, 2016

Senator McConnell, the Security Council resolution, and the default of the guardians

President Obama has learned well from Majority Leader McConnell.  A few days ago, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power, acting under direction of Secretary of State Kerry, who was himself obeying a diktat from President Obama, abstained from a Securit...

December 24, 2016

National Review owes an apology to the Trump family

In the Friday edition of National Review Online, Kevin D. Williamson pens an article entitled "Manners, Even in the Age of Trump."   His intent is to bring to light an escalating lack of decency in our public life when it comes to disc...

September 24, 2016

Mexican former foreign secretary: Of course Mexico can be made to pay for the wall

Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump has made what would seem to be, at first glance, off-the-wall statements that upon further analysis turned out to be solid policy positions, supported by the Constitution and even supported by previous Democrat a...

September 20, 2016

Racial profiling...isn't

I am appalled (but not surprised) at the reaction of the left, led by President Obama and former secretary Clinton, to the Saturday-Sunday terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.  It appears that both of those luminaries did whatever they could to avoid...

September 15, 2016

Twice the Citizen: Astronaut edition

A short while ago, I penned an article called "Twice the Citizen" to commemorate the career of a great Army Reserve officer.  Here is another stellar Army officer: my West Point classmate, Colonel (ret.) Jeff Williams. Colonel Willi...

September 13, 2016

Liberal policies put underage US citizen and noncombatant in war zone

The Navy Times reported this week that a U.S. sailor on board the USS Eisenhower, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier now launching air strikes against ISIS from its station in the Mediterranean, just delivered a healthy seven-pound baby girl. ...

July 19, 2016

All aboard the Trump Train

Politico's Glenn Thrush penned an article about his interview with Senator Ted Cruz and Cruz’s failure to endorse Donald Trump as of yet.  Thrush has Cruz holding off endorsing Trump for now.  In the lead sentence, he states,...

July 16, 2016

Perhaps radical Islam...isn't

When Donald Trump opined that we should stop all Muslim immigration "until we can figure out what is going on," perhaps he stumbled on something we have yet to recognize: that radical Islam...isn't.  Much is being made (with good r...

July 15, 2016

Nice attack a blow to Hillary

As I watch the reporting of the carnage that just took place in Nice, France, I cannot understand how anyone with two neurons to rub together could support a political party or candidate that allows Muslim immigration, refugee or otherwise, into thes...

July 6, 2016

Director Comey has to go

Yesterday, the director of the once-irreproachable Federal Bureau of Investigation grossly misled the American people.  Director James Comey, as regards the Hillary Clinton private server scandal, boldly stated that there was no evidence that an...

April 5, 2016

One way to avoid a Trump third-party run

Right out of the gate, please allow me to disclose two things: 1) I am a Ted Cruz supporter, and 2) if Donald Trump is the nominee, I will happily and enthusiastically low crawl (that's an Infantry term) over broken glass to flip the lever for hi...

March 12, 2016

Conservative economics 'not a partisan issue'? Nonsense.

In Wednesday's American Spectator, Gary Shapiro pens a great article entitled, "Republicans Can Be The Party of Choice."  His article waxes effusive about the potential of the Republican Party going forward. For the most pa...

February 24, 2016

Hillary will take a hit on Obama’s Gitmo plan

I watched President Obama as he held a news conference yesterday to announce his plan to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  As I listened to the president and his list of long proven false-to-fact reasons for closing the faci...

January 22, 2016

Two presidents, two naval battles

Last week, a caller into the Mark Levin show brought up an incident I had almost forgotten about.  The caller, a retired U.S. Navy commander, brought up Operation Praying Mantis, President Ronald Reagan's response to Iranian belligerence in ...

January 19, 2016

Twice the Citizen

This past Saturday, I traveled to the University of South Florida (Tampa) and had the distinct honor to witness the retirements ceremony of a great American, Major General Luis R. Visot, United States Army.  "Retirements" is not a misp...

January 10, 2016

Hillary's Email: It's a Felony!

The constant "drip, drip drip," regarding former Secretary of State Clinton's e-mail is starting to sound like so much inside baseball. Secretary Clinton continues to stand on her statement that none of the e-mail she sent or received h...

January 8, 2016

Jeb! just doesn't get it

Governor Jeb Bush demonstrated again last night (Thursday 7 Jan.) that he just doesn't get it. As I listened to Sean Hannity interview Governor Bush on Hannity's afternoon radio show, the subject of Donald Trump's words regarding Presi...

December 4, 2015

It's time for Constitutional Carry

The shooting scene hadn't even been evacuated, a final casualty count determined, or the perpetrators even named when President Obama, former secretary of state Clinton, and a plethora of leftist pundits began their strident cries for "...

November 9, 2015

Why would Bill Kristol want to make a Hillary victory inevitable?

Last week in an article titled "Ben Carson Reconsidered," destined for the November 16 print edition of The Weekly Standard, "conservative" pundit William Kristol shows just how willing he is to risk a Hillary Clinton preside...

October 10, 2015

Your Property Is You

In an article titled "Will Property Crime Uptick become Crime Wave?," Debra J. Saunders opines that a recent small rise in property crimes could be a harbinger of a much larger and more violent growth.  Ms. Saunders does a straigh...

October 7, 2015

Obama Needs to Stop Talking Trash

In an article in Politico on October 2 titled, "Obama's Trash Talk," Edward-Isaac Dovere writes regarding President Obama's statements at that day's press conference: "Putin, meanwhile, is just a liar," Obama said, ...

October 5, 2015

Obama Is Going to Get a U.S. Pilot Killed

President Obama has allowed President Putin to maneuver the United States into a no-win position.  He has made it more likely that a U.S. Air Force pilot or crew will be shot down and killed or captured by Russia – or worse, ISIS forces....

October 2, 2015

You and your party are responsible, Mr. President

Last night, I watched as President Obama delivered his standard response to a mass shooting in Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, where, at last count, 13 Americans lay dead.  His solution, before any real evidence has been made ...

October 1, 2015

No, Obama should not join Putin

In September 29th's edition of American Thinker, Michael Curtis wrote a very well thought-out article, examining the complexity of the situation in Southwest Asia. He detailed the issues, the actors and the current and possible future f...

September 26, 2015

Pope or politician?

A slip-and-fall lawyer, a liberal congressman, a defense contractor, and the pope walk into a bar.  They are all looking for the same thing: money on the table.  "Money on the table" is a phrase often used by attorneys negotiat...