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Mike Phelps
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October 3, 2024
How has the Left claimed the moral high ground on abortion?First, we need to dispense with the silly use of the word “fetus.” No one talks about their fetus’s due date or asks when your fetus is due. Use of the word is an insidious, but successful use of propaganda to distance pro-abo...
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August 28, 2024
Can we keep it?To paraphrase President Lincoln our government was set up to serve the people not for the people to serve the government. You would not be out of line if you increasingly felt like you were an inconvenience at best to our elected officials. Both part...
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April 27, 2024
Is China Rethinking its Invasion of Taiwan?When Admiral Michael Gilday, chief of U.S. naval operations, gave an interview in 2022, he made a point of saying he believed China could invade Taiwan in 2022 or 2023. As of the last week of April 2024, China has not invaded Taiwan. Does this m...
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November 9, 2022
The Coming Invasion of TaiwanMost observers of the rising tension between Communist China and Taiwan do not believe that an invasion of Taiwan is imminent. However, it seems increasingly clear that China is arming and planning for such a campaign. President...
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February 18, 2019
Selling Americans down the Rio GrandeThe funding bill President Trump signed that avoided a second partial government shutdown is a terrible piece of legislation. Republicans have to take at least as much of the blame as the Democrats for this latest affront to the Amer...
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December 21, 2018
Google and the Red DragonIn traditional Chinese culture, dragons have a positive image – they are seen as protectors. Modern China is a communist state, or more accurately a red fascist state. This China has another use for dragons in mind. With the h...
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October 12, 2018
Time to close the Post Office?The Second Continental Congress founded the U.S. postal system in 1775, with Benjamin Franklin as the first postmaster general. As of 2017, the United States Postal Service employed more than 500,000 people and has reported its eleventh...
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November 15, 2017
Countdown to carnageThe recent deadly attack on civilians on cyclists and joggers in New York City by an Islamic terrorist is only the latest in a long string of attacks by Muslim terrorists against the West dating back to the 1970s. That is quite a while and incl...
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September 20, 2017
In the Wake of Russia Hysteria, Opportunity BeckonsRussian president Vladimir Putin’s spokesman seemed to put it to rest the supposed love affair with President Trump with one remark. Dimitri Peskov told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that relations between the United States and Russia...
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February 22, 2017
1984 all over againSince the surprise election victory of Donald Trump, George Orwell's 1984 has enjoyed a spike in sales. Orwell wrote a letter in 1944 explaining his motivation for writing a novel that would become the dystopian classic. Str...
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October 29, 2015
The Phonebook ImperativeThose who are old enough to remember actual phonebooks can recall the color-coded sections that made finding the object of your search easier. There were yellow pages for businesses, white pages for residences, and blue pages for government pag...
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August 18, 2015
'A Hell of a Price to Pay'Early in the film The Enforcer, Dirty Harry remarks that prematurely promoting a patrolwoman to inspector for the sake of progress is “a hell of a price to pay for being stylish.” President Obama has ordered the Pentagon to open up c...
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July 17, 2015
President held captive by IranThe deal agreed to by the Obama administration and the mullahs in Iran is no deal at all. It is a piece of paper Obama can point to as a legacy item, but a legacy the United States will very likely regret in the near future. Until now, Presi...