October 24, 2021

An insider's take on the Biden energy strategy

Through many years of contacts and acquaintances, Walter Russell Mead has become a quintessential insider to the political establishment.  As such, he's privy to the thinking of many people in Washington, including t...

October 22, 2021

Higher prices are the cost of Biden's war on fossil fuels

On the 2020 campaign trail, Joe Biden promised to create for America a green economy.  He specifically mentioned that the way to do this is to denigrate fossil fuels.  Now that this mentally addled man has been installed as presid...

October 20, 2021

The only alternative to a Great Divorce between the states is Caesarism

There has been more talk of late of a divorce between the states or, in other words, secession.  What is prompting this is the continuing failure and corruption of the institutions that the country relies on to maintain a constitutional rep...

October 18, 2021

The problem with school boards

There is more than the usual turbulence in public schools these days.  It's driven by things like the asinine mandates for kids to wear masks throughout the school day and the introduction of divisive programs like Critical Race Theory ...

October 15, 2021

COVID: A series of accidents or a planned conspiracy?

With the advent of the Wuhan virus in early 2020, the country has been severely disrupted, metaphorically turned upside-down.  We've gone from ubiquitous mask-wearing to locking down the economy to the release of untested vaccines to no...

October 14, 2021

The silver lining in the Democrats' assault on kids in the public schools

A dark cloud is hovering over America's K–12 public schools.  Look at the landscape.  Some school districts still mandate that kids wear face masks throughout the school day.  Not only don't ...

October 11, 2021

What's driving France's hissy fit over losing the submarine deal with the Aussies?

The French are throwing an overwrought emotional reaction to Australia canceling its submarine deal with them. In a nutshell, the $66 billion deal was for France to supply 12 diesel-electric subs to Australia. Plagued with cost overruns that projecte...

October 8, 2021

American fascism?

Fascism is a nebulous term that people throw around as a pejorative, even for minor things. When asked what they mean by fascism, they're at a loss. Like the word 'racist,' 'fascism' or 'fascist' is typically used by li...

October 6, 2021

If America's going to split apart, here's what will happen to you

When Abraham Lincoln spoke the prophetic words "a house divided against itself cannot stand" — in a speech before the Illinois Republican state convention in 1858 — he was a relatively unknown politician. ...

October 4, 2021

Rack up another win for Big Pharma

Big Pharma is celebrating. Merck has released "phenomenal" test results for its experimental pill for treating COVID. The drug is said to greatly reduce the risk of hospitalization and death from the Wuhan virus. In this...

October 1, 2021

Why do so many K–12 schools require masks?

As of this week, ten states and the District of Columbia require all students and teachers to wear face masks in the public schools.  Not surprisingly, these are mostly blue states — California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii,...

September 28, 2021

Xi's desperate roll of the dice

Wall Street and the big international corporations have suddenly awakened to the threat China poses.  And no, it has nothing to do with the danger China poses to American national security, the massive theft of U.S. intellectual property, t...

September 24, 2021

Fauci: Psychopath or narcissist?

Anthony Fauci has been in the limelight for over 18 months now.  During that time, he has displayed definite anti-social behavior.  Is he a psychopath, or does he suffer from a narcissistic personality disorder?  It'...

September 21, 2021

The COVID vaccination program is the largest medical experiment in human history

Any critique of the COVID-19 vaccines has to point out that they were inadequately tested before being released.  The FDA can't dispute this claim but will immediately add that the vaccines are nonetheless safe.  As famed...

September 17, 2021

One reason for the push for COVID vaccination may be to eliminate a potential control group

There are a number of reasons to explain the intense push from the Biden administration and the government medical bureaucracy to get people to take the COVID vaccine.  From a wide search of the information available, I find it hard to beli...

September 16, 2021

Two contradictory forces are at play in today's America

There are two contradictory forces at play in today's America.  The first is the weakening of national unity.  There's a feeling in the air that the country might fragment between blue states versus red states; the coasts ...

September 14, 2021

China, like Waldo, is hiding in plain sight

Waldo is a cartoon character with a distinctive wardrobe of a red and white striped shirt, blue jeans, brown boots, red and white striped socks, glasses, and a red and white bobbled cap.  Dressed like that, Waldo should stand out ...

September 12, 2021

If your employer demands you vaccinate, don't quit

There is a news report that the Lewis County General Hospital in upstate New York will stop delivering babies after September 24.  This is because too many maternity unit workers have resigned over the COVID vaccination mandate. ...

September 11, 2021

Is America in a Fourth Turning?

America is in a topsy-turvy state.  Anyone who doesn't know that outright at least senses it.  A just taken CNN poll finds that 70 percent of Americans are pessimistic about the country.  The c...

September 9, 2021

A censored biologist views the COVID vaccine debacle as part of a 'noble lie'

Bret Weinstein is an evolutionary biologist.  He's not against vaccines per se but is a skeptic of the ones for COVID.  He's also a proponent of using ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine regimens for preventin...

September 7, 2021

The false narrative on ivermectin

Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic drug that has been used since the mid-1970s to treat river blindness and intestinal infections.  It has been documented by frontline doctors around the world to also be a safe and effective treatment for COVI...

September 5, 2021

What's an ‘antivaxxer’?

After carefully listening to the pros and cons on the COVID vaccines and measuring their risk-to-reward, I am opposed to taking any. Does this make me an antivaxxer? The likes at the CDC and those folk who blindly follow the directives of t...

September 4, 2021

How Big Pharma corrupts public health

Vaccines are a multi-billion-dollar industry, and the revenue from them is rapidly growing with the advent of the ones for COVID.  The prime example is Pfizer.  The company estimates that 2021 sales for its mRNA vac...

August 31, 2021

For Larry Elder, winning the recall election will be the easy part

California's recall election of Gavin Newsom is scheduled for September 14.  Larry Elder has a good chance of becoming California's next governor, provided the election isn't stolen from him as was done to Donald Trump. ...

August 27, 2021

What the polio vaccines can teach us about the COVID ones

Prior to the 1950s, paralytic polio was a scourge.  FDR was crippled from it while in his 30s, the March of Dimes was started to combat it, and photos of rows and rows of children in iron lungs were common in the media.  From...

August 25, 2021

What Pfizer's FDA approval for the vaccine means...and doesn't mean

The big COVID news is the Food and Drug Administration has granted formal approval for the Pfizer vaccine.  Heretofore, the COVID vaccines were being used on an emergency basis.  Putting aside the hoopla, the approv...

August 22, 2021

Do the people who rushed to get the COVID shot have buyer's remorse?

There are many troubling aspects to the COVID vaccines and the growing mandates for them. Here I'd like to focus on one that is rarely discussed. To begin with, when these unapproved vaccines were first made available to the public on an emerg...

August 18, 2021

First Afghanistan, then COVID

The eyes of the country are glued on the debacle unfolding with the Afghan withdrawal.  It is surely correct to pull out of that backward hellhole.  But Joe Biden and those advising him have demonstrated their utter incompetence t...

August 16, 2021

Pressuring the FDA

With reports of the delta variant of COVID surging, the Biden inner circle has grown impatient with the Food and Drug Administration.  It wants the FDA put on a wartime footing so as to get formal approval as quickly as possible for the thr...

August 15, 2021

You will never see China held accountable for COVID

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. provides an interesting story in the Wall Street Journal on China's history with viruses.  According to Jenkins, in 1979, independent investigations in New York City and Germany both concluded that the y...

August 13, 2021

Fear of the coming of autumn

Autumn has always been my favorite time of the year...until now.  I fear what this fall will bring. That's because October is the traditional start of the flu season. In years past, I never gave that a second thought.  B...

August 4, 2021

Big Pharma and its vaccines

One of the biggest proponents behind the vaccine mania has been the health establishment.  Why? Is it to protect public health from a deadly virus? How can that be the case when the mortality rate is relatively low for the Wuhan flu. After...

July 23, 2021

Not wishing the US women's soccer team well

The heavily favorite U.S. women's soccer team was humiliated in its 3-0 loss to Sweden in the first round of the 2020 Summer Olympics.  Many people, even conservatives, lamented that and hope the team can recover and go on to win a meda...

July 18, 2021

The Larry Nassar case: Another black eye for the FBI

Larry Nassar is the disgraced team doctor employed by USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University who is now imprisoned for sexually abusing hundreds of female gymnasts, women, and girls.  The investigation of Nassar turned ...

June 23, 2021

No accommodation for Critical Race Theory in our public schools!

Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an anti-white, anti-American philosophy that has spread like cancer throughout society.  It has made surprising headway in government agencies, the corporate world, and the K–12 public schools — and...

June 15, 2021

Caitlyn Jenner's hissy fit

Caitlyn (Bruce) Jenner, candidate for the governorship of California, is throwing a hissy fit.  It's because the left-wing late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel referred to Caitlyn as "Trump in a wig."  Jenn...

May 26, 2021

Media proven wrong on COVID origins...but who cares?

Well, well, well.  It seems the media's and assorted government officials' insistence that the  COVID virus did not escape from the Wuhan lab was a lie.  As Tucker Carlson put it: "Pretty much every sane per...

May 22, 2021

Can anti-Trump RINO Rep. Anthony Gonzalez survive a primary challenge?

You may recall that Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (RINO-Ohio) is one of ten Republican House members who voted to impeach President Trump after he left office on the bogus charge that he had incited the riot in the nation's ...

May 19, 2021

Biden is responsible for the current Hamas-Israeli violence

Make no mistake about it.  President Joe Biden bears significant responsibility for the current raging hostilities between Israel and Hamas.  Hamas is Iran's terrorist arm in Gaza.  It is Iran that supplies the wh...

May 1, 2021

Elon Musk's racket

The big automotive news is that Elon Musk's Tesla reported record earnings of $438 million for the past quarter.  This translates to 93 cents per share on $10.39 billion in revenue.  Tesla did this despite a semicond...

April 29, 2021

People of the wrong color: Media won't remember Yao Pan Ma's name

Have you ever heard of Yao Pan Ma?  Probably not, at least not by name.  Yao Pan Ma is the 61-year old Chinese man who was brutally attacked in East Harlem on April 23.  This senseless crime made the news in the New...

April 26, 2021

Broken Arrow: America has been overrun

"Broken arrow" was the code sometimes used in Vietnam when the ground unit had been overrun.  It was a cry to send all available assets to help.  In some circumstances, this could include calling down fire...

April 24, 2021

Caitlyn Jenner to run for governor of California

You heard right.  Caitlyn Jenner — Bruce Jenner of Olympic fame — has filed papers to run for governor of California.  The transgender Jenner presents himself as socially liberal and fiscally conservative woman. ...

April 22, 2021

Alan Dershowitz's vain hope for Derek Chauvin

Alan Dershowitz, writing at the Gatestone Institute, says, "The Minnesota appellate courts might not reverse the conviction [of Derek Chauvin] but the United States Supreme Court well might, as they have done in other cases involving j...

April 16, 2021

Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer is in the hot seat

Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer is in the crosshairs of the progressive left.  And no, it's not that the left-wing Breyer has undergone an epiphany and might finally fulfill his oath of office and start rul...

March 13, 2021

Destruction is the left's defining characteristic

The Democratic Party has been captured by revolutionary leftists.  This process started in the 1970s and accelerated with Barack Hussein Obama being elected twice.  The takeover is now complete with the brazenl...

March 12, 2021

Is Daylight Savings Time a health hazard?

It's that time of year again.  Daylight Savings Time is upon us.  Sunday, March 14 is when we are to turn the clock ahead in order to "save the daylight."  No need to go into the genesis of this. ...

March 6, 2021

Another black swan in America's future?

The U.S. has had a slew of black swan events of late.  For the purposes here, I'll define a black swan as having the following characteristics.  First, it disrupts the equilibrium of society.  Second, it is not commo...

March 2, 2021

What Nicolas Sarkozy's conviction means for us

A Paris court just found former French president Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and sentenced him to three years in prison, two of which have been suspended.  The presiding judge said Sarkozy, who served from 2007 to 2012, u...

February 28, 2021

Today's political martyrs

Although the term 'martyr' is commonly understood in a religious sense, it also can be applied to the political world. Before looking into that, first a brief history.   Originally, the word "martyr" derived from the...

February 24, 2021

The mainstream media's quandary...and panic

Although it was written back in October, the cry is still echoing throughout the mainstream media. It comes from Hamilton Nolan, formerly at Gawker Media and now the public editor for the Washington Post.  He penned a piece in the C...

February 20, 2021

The China class and its damage to America

In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis wrote: "If there are rats in the cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly[.] ... The rats are always there in the cellar, but if you go in shouting and ...

February 12, 2021

What will CPAC 2021 reveal about the Republican Party's direction?

Conservative activists will gather at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) annual convention on February 25–28.  This year's event will be held in Orlando, Florida.  This is the first time in 50 years that ...

February 3, 2021

Should we really worry about a $27-trillion national debt?

I can still remember when there were serious debates in Washington over balancing the federal budget.  Indeed, just 20 years ago in 2000 and 2001, the federal government ran budget surpluses of $236 billion and $127 billion, respectively. ...

January 31, 2021

The deep, inbred swamp tells the rest of us how to live

You can't make this up.  Under the Harris/Biden administration, last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that lifelong bureaucrat Melissa R. Hodgman has been named acting director of the Divis...

January 23, 2021

Trump could (...and Biden can't)

Donald Trump has often said he achieved more in his first term than any other president.  That is not exactly true, at least not without a qualifier.  The fact is that FDR and LBJ both accomplished more in their first terms w...

January 21, 2021

The ruling class against Trump

It was incredibly sad to see Donald Trump depart the White House.  As my wife watched his farewell address, there were tears in her eyes.  She saw him as a good, decent man who was maligned at every turn, all because he strove to ...

January 14, 2021

Liz Cheney, pre-eminent backstabber

Whether it's a country at war, a criminal organization like the Mafia, or a dysfunctional family, the most loathsome within any group is a traitor.  I thought of that when hearing Wyoming rep. Liz Cheney announce that she'll vote to...

January 9, 2021

The Federal Reserve, the ultimate swamp creature

There are several misapprehensions the public suffers from when it comes to the nature of the Federal Reserve System (the Fed). The Fed's stated mission is to conduct monetary policy to manage inflation, maximize employment...

January 4, 2021

The US government is not the country

Abraham Lincoln ended his Gettysburg Address with the words "... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the ea...

January 1, 2021

Trump opened the Overton Window on a host of issues

The Overton Window is a concept that politicians are limited in what policy ideas they can support. They will generally only consider initiatives that are accepted by a critical mass of society as viable options. Such policies are said to l...

December 26, 2020

NeverTrumps still hate Trump

Jonah Goldberg, one of the smugger NeverTrumps, is as bitter and petulant as ever.  And no, it's not because of the undeniable election steal of 2020.  In fact, Goldberg is quite satisfied that Donald Trump might be ...

November 28, 2020

Electric Vehicles Will Drive Us to Serf City

Love them or hate them, electric vehicles (EVs) are in our future. If you doubt that, look at signs. Car companies around the world are in a mad rush to pivot to EV manufacturing. Some examples follow.    "Since March 2019, Gener...

November 20, 2020

A rude awakening coming to Europe

The European ruling class is salivating over the prospects of a Harris/Biden presidency.  The bureaucrats who run the European Union and the globalists behind them are cocksure that with Donald Trump gone, things will return to th...

November 10, 2020

'Aggressive federalism' can save America

Law professor F.H. Buckley in his American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup writes: Americans have never been more divided, and we're ripe for a breakup. The bitter partisan animosities, the legislative gridlock, the ...

November 6, 2020

The Supreme Court: Two scenarios

As of this writing, it's a good bet that the election mess will end up in the Supreme Court for resolution.  If so, one of two scenarios is likely to unfold.  One is the that the five conservative justices will have the backbo...

October 30, 2020

Trump shoots down the 'Flying Geese' theory of international trade

Michael Lind, a professor at the University of Texas (Austin), is a proponent of a national industrial policy.  In an article appearing in American Compass, he focuses his attention on the flaws of the reigning paradigm for trade ...

October 28, 2020

Now it's Justice Barrett

Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in as a justice to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday.  This could not have come soon enough.  Almost immediately, there will likely be cases before the court regarding the handling of absentee mail-...

October 24, 2020

How DJT aced the debate

For reasons that are unclear to me, the Republicans put up with the Debate Commission and biased debate moderators.  Thursday night was no exception. The debate moderator was NBC's White House correspondent, Kristen Welker.  She come...

October 23, 2020

Was Hunter Biden acting out?

Is Hunter Biden to be pitied?  Does he deserve our sympathy?  Normally, I would dismiss such a thought as absurd except that is it being offered by no less than the Master of Insights, Rush Limbaugh. Here's Rush's argum...

October 18, 2020

America operates under two constitutions

What is seem in the confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett is yet another example of the left's ongoing attempt to displace the written Constitution of 1787 with an unwritten one based on progressive dogma.  This has been a continu...

October 14, 2020

Theater of the absurd: China, Russia, Cuba elected to UN's Human Rights Council

This week, China, Russia, and Cuba were elected to the United Nations' Human Rights Council.  This trio of countries is among the worst offenders of human rights on the planet. If this were an election for United Nations human r...

October 13, 2020

Face masks as a form of conditioning.

Face masks are ubiquitous.  In most state, a person can't go into a store, a barber shop, a hair salon, a church service, or most any other place without wearing one.  Why?  Masks are not effective in stopping a viru...

October 11, 2020

It's a duty for patriots to own a firearm

The Second Amendment states: "A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."  This was true when the Bill of Rights was written, an...

October 9, 2020

New Jersey ignores economy, focuses on abortion, marijuana

A fair question to ask is just how insane NewJersey's Democrat governor, Phil Murphy, is.  The state suffers from obscenely high property and income taxes that are squeezing the middle class and stunting economic growth.  New ...

September 17, 2020

Betrayal by the US Chamber of Commerce

Next to the presidential election, the focal point in November is on races for the House.  Should the Republicans take control, power would be stripped from such dangerous people as Nancy Pelosi (speaker of the House), Adam Schiff (chairman...

September 15, 2020

Why the left needs racism

By most objective standards and metrics, the United States is the least racist among the advanced countries of the world.  Yet racism has been made into the foremost boogeyman in America of the 21st century.  Why? The short ans...

September 12, 2020

Ohio's pro-life governor makes another bizarre pro-abortion appointment

Gov. Mike DeWine, Republican of Ohio, has stepped in it again. Dr. Amy Acton resigned as director of the Ohio Health Department in June and then again in August as the governor's health adviser.  DeWine subsequently nominated ...

September 11, 2020

Lessons for today from the anarchy and terrorism in pre-Bolshevik Russia

Tsarist Russia was plagued by an unprecedented wave of terror starting after the 1905 revolution.  This laid the groundwork for the Bolshevik coup of 1917.  It is worth reviewing this history since there are similarities...

September 5, 2020

China and its apologists

Apologists for China like Thomas Donohue's U.S. Chamber of Commerce (USCC) and numerous leading politicians in the U.S. say that decoupling from China is both unadvisable and hard to do.  They are wrong on the first point but right on t...

September 2, 2020

Here's what's behind white guilt

Universities and colleges have long been indoctrinating that whiteness is an evil that must be shamed into the corner and apologized for.  At first, a subtle approach was used to propagate this message.  In that way, thi...

August 27, 2020

Defiance in New Jersey

New Jersey is one of the bluest of states.  All branches of government are controlled by the Democrats, including the Judiciary, and the educationally destructive teachers' union is among the most powerful lobbying force in the Garden S...

August 22, 2020

The college football saga continues...and worsens

The college football saga continues.  As of this writing, two of the Power Five conferences have canceled their 2020 season.  These are the Big Ten and the Pac-12.  The other three conferences — the Big 12, th...

August 18, 2020

Democrats' Plan B should Joe Biden lose in November

Democrats expect that the Biden-Harris ticket will prevail in November.  But in the event it doesn't, the left will go to Plan B and try to make lemonade out of that lemon it has been handed.  First consider what is li...

August 15, 2020

How the NFL is shooting itself in the foot, over and over

The NFL is on the verge of precipitous decline due to a weakening of the three legs of the stool upon which the league's empire sits: attendance, viewership, and revenue.  All of these items are interrelated.  All three are be...

August 9, 2020

Woke college football stars make their demands

The "woke" movement of major sport leagues like the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, and Major League Baseball has filtered down into the collegiate ranks.  Given today's insane environment, how c...

July 23, 2020

How Trump can win over soccer moms in 2020

Polls have shown that since 2016 and up until now, Donald Trump has had weak support among suburban women.  This is about to change.  Women, more than men, value security.  The current rash of Antifa and Black Lives...

July 20, 2020

Drop tests for blacks, say college coaches

The cult of celebrity is a flaw in American society.  It bespeaks of a lack of seriousness in what people see as important in life.  And when Hollywood "stars," singers, and athletes, many of whom are...

July 18, 2020

Who posts ‘Hate Has No Home Here’ signs outside their homes?

As I drive around, I notice lawn signs that say "Hate Doesn't Live Here, or "Hate Has No Home Here." You must have seen such signs, too. To be sure, that's a good sentiment which is near impossible to argue with. That...

June 22, 2020

Should Trump worry?

The low turnout at the Trump campaign rally in Tulsa is an ominous sign for the upcoming election.  Brad Parscale, Trump 2020 campaign manager, blamed the media, saying it spooked people with its constant hyping of the d...

June 14, 2020

Dr. Amy Acton, architect of Ohio's shutdown, resigns

The above-the-fold headline in all the Ohio's newspapers on June 13 was that the state's public health director, Dr. Amy Acton, has resigned.  The sad-faced Dr. Acton said the routine of the past couple of months, which involve...

June 13, 2020

What Antifa and MAGA have in common

Neil Munro at Breibart has published a controversial take on Antifa.  He sees these radicals as close cousins to those in the MAGA movement.  Before discounting Munro as out of hand, hear him out. His thesis in n...

June 8, 2020

US to remove 9,500 troops from Germany

The Wall Street Journal reported on June 5 that President Trump directed the Pentagon to permanently reduce the U.S. military presence in Germany by 9,500 troops.  This corresponds to an approximately 27.5-percent t...

June 7, 2020

The building cold anger throughout America

America watches while radical leftists and aggrieved blacks riot, loot, and commit acts of violence up to murder in cities across the country. And more galling than that is the lack of effort by responsible public officials to stem the mayhem. Indeed...

June 4, 2020

Why hasn't Antifa been infiltrated yet?

I'm puzzled.  With a hate group like the KKK, it seems that no three Klan members can meet without at least one of them being a FBI informant.  So how in Heaven's name does a violent anarchist group like Antifa, which has ...

May 30, 2020

Why China won't reform

The leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) fears chaos and loss of control more than anything else, and this explains much of its seemingly erratic behavior.  The matter goes back to be bargain that the CCP has struck with the Chines...

May 26, 2020

Wuhan's fingerprints are also all over the opiod epidemic

Everyone but the willfully blind knows that the COVID pandemic was hatched and released from Wuhan, China, either deliberately or through gross incompetence.  This virus from China has inflicted untold pain on the United States.  ...

May 24, 2020

US one step away from delisting Chinese companies from American stock exchanges

Right now, regulations call for companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges to let the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) oversee the auditing of their financial records if they want to raise money by selling stocks and bonds to the Ameri...

May 7, 2020

Ohio's Gov. DeWine cuts state budget

Ohio's Republican governor, Mike DeWine, has come in for well deserved criticism from conservatives for his lockdown policies.  But the governor is doing one thing right: he's cutting the state's $32.4-billion budget, which by l...

May 3, 2020

Will the US face a depression?

Will the U.S. face an economic downturn, maybe even a depression, brought on by the Wuhan virus?  Optimists say no.  They contend that pent up demand will explode and the economy will come roaring back once the government imposed ...

April 30, 2020

The DNC's dilemma

Like Shakespeare's Hamlet, the Democrat National Committee (DNC) is facing a terrible dilemma.  Should it go with Joe Biden as the party's nominee, or should he be switched out?  And make no mistake: the choice is the...

April 23, 2020

Looks as if the Year of the Metal Rat will not be kind to China

The U.S. is not the only country that has realized the folly of having so much of its vital production concentrated in China.  Add Japan to the list.  In early March, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe proposed at a conferenc...

April 18, 2020

The Chinese virus is bringing Modern Monetary Theory to life

In a nutshell, Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a policy whereby the federal government can print money with abandon.  Under MMT, there's little concern of the debt level or how, if ever, the debt will be paid off. The Chinese virus is...

April 16, 2020

Cost-benefit analysis vs. model-making

The response to the Wuhan virus by the federal and state governments is unprecedented. Given the magnitude of the effects these actions are having on the American society, one would expect that cost-benefit analyses would be taken into account. But n...

April 9, 2020

The way to punish China for letting its virus loose on the world

The entire world is suffering from the Chinese coronavirus.  No objective observer can deny with a straight face China's guilt in this matter despite the blizzard of propaganda being put out daily by the Chinese Communist Party (CC...

April 7, 2020

The green movement made the Wuhan epidemic worse

The environmental movement has made the Wuhan epidemic more severe than it would otherwise be.  And I included in this movement not just the enviro-activists and assorted kooks like Greta Thunberg, but also most of the Democr...

April 4, 2020

Could oil prices go negative?

Even before the Wuhan pandemic hit, the major economies of Japan and Europe were experiencing negative interest rates.  There are even hints that the U.S. might soon head in that direction.  It seems like just yesterday that the t...

April 3, 2020

South China Morning Post gives insights into globalist thinking

Two columns from the South China Morning Post give insight to the thinking of globalists.  Before beginning, a word about the SCMP.  It's a Hong Kong English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba, a Chin...

March 28, 2020

US Chamber of Commerce wants to keep America dependent on China

In this time, when the Wuhan virus is ravishing the U.S., it is beyond nauseating to read that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants America to stay dependent on China for pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and other manufacturing goods.  That ...

March 24, 2020

Could New York's Gov. Andrew Cuomo be the Democrat presidential nominee?

Could New York's governor Andrew Cuomo emerge from the Democrat convention as the consensus nominee?  According to a theory over at the Conservative Tree House, the answer is quite possibly yes.  What give credenc...

March 22, 2020

Laughingstock New York Times offers coronavirus comic relief

Jennifer Senior, an op-ed columnist at the New York Times, writes that President Trump's news conferences on the Wuhan Virus are nothing but "propaganda."  Trump "rambles on incoherently, vainly, angrily, d...

March 15, 2020

Why the rich favor the Democrats

There's little doubt that today's Democrat Party is the party of the rich.  Actually, that's an understatement.  Far more than billionaires are involved.  A better expression of reality would be to say a fund...

March 13, 2020

The silver lining in the Wuhan Virus

The Wuhan Virus is causing major disruptions in the U.S., from the stock market to the economy to social gatherings of all sorts.  The virus itself is still not nearly up to the disease standards of the common flu or swine flu, even though ...

March 5, 2020

Biden's Super Tuesday performance...no big deal

It is basic.  Primary elections are different from general elections in terms of the quantity and quality of the turnout.  Quantity is straightforward.  It's the number of people bothering to vote.  Even in...

March 3, 2020

Europe's ongoing immigration problem

Europe is about to be inundated by another massive wave of immigrants.  They are coming from Syria via Turkey as the result of Syrian president Assad's assault on the last rebel stronghold of Idlib.  The Syrian ...

February 27, 2020

What liberalism is today and why it is toxic

What is the essence of today's liberalism?  A good answer is provided by Ryszard Legutko, a professor of philosophy at Jagiellonian University in Poland.  He sees liberalism as a super-theory that dominates West...

February 23, 2020

Democrat food fight scheduled for Tuesday night in Charleston

The fallout from the last Democrat debate hasn't settled, and the next one is already upon us.  It's Tuesday, February 25 in Charleston, S.C.  This one should be just as amusing as was the Nevada one.  Voting in th...

February 22, 2020

Mini Mike says he knows how to stand up to bullies

Mike Bloomberg has said and done many things that are laughable and point to a high degree of hypocrisy.  Permit me now to home in on one nugget of how Mini-Mike thinks, to show how delusional and out of touch he is.  It came...

February 19, 2020

Daddy Warbucks qualifies for Nevada Democrat debate

Mike Bloomberg, the "former Republican," has qualified for Nevada's Wednesday-night Democrat debate.  This is by virtue of polls such as the latest NPR/PBS/Marist poll, which shows nationwide that the self-funding bi...

February 16, 2020

A Sanders-Clinton ticket is a possibility

Bernie Sanders could well be the Democrat nominee. This is far from being a lead-pipe cinch; rather, it's an informed opinion.  Here's the straightforward reasoning behind it. Sanders is on track to arrive at the Democrat Nationa...

February 14, 2020

Coronavirus is a black swan for China — and beyond

The term "black swan" was popularized by Nassim Nicholas Teleb in his book by the same name.  It is taken to mean an unpredictable event that's beyond what can normally be expected and that has a high impact. To put it anot...

February 14, 2020

Will Ruth Bader Ginsburg kill the Equal Rights Amendment?

Iconic progressive Ruth Bader Ginsburg's feminist legacy is in jeopardy.  It has to do with the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment  (ERA).  Here's the story.  Since being taken over by n...

February 12, 2020

Trump is Moby-Dick, the Democrats are Captain Ahab

In a telling way, the current political scene is a replay of Herman Melville's 1851 novel, Moby-Dick, with Donald Trump being the great white whale and the Democrats playing the role of the vengeful Captain Ahab.  In the story, ...

February 10, 2020

Buttigieg, the evasive chameleon

Elizabeth Vaughn of Red State cites Don Bongino to explain Pete Buttigieg's appeal the Democrat voters despite his glaring inexperience and poor performance as mayor of the small city of South Bend, Indiana.  Bongino says, ...

February 9, 2020

Will Operation Chaos resurface in upcoming Democrat primaries?

Chaos might be ready to descend on two more Democrat primary states this month.  When you watch the returns from the primaries in New Hampshire (February 11) and South Carolina (February 29), realize that the vote for Bernie Sanders may be ...

February 8, 2020

Win the House, investigate and expunge the impeachment

The presidential race will take center stage in the coming months, but House elections are of critical importance, too.  Looking at the numbers, the GOP needs to flip only 18 seats to regain control of the lower body.  Of the...

February 6, 2020

The real reason Joe Biden is running

Some things are worth repeating, and Sundance's take on the candidacy of Joe Biden is one of them.  His basic premise is that Biden's candidacy was an engineered effort by the Democrat establishment from the start.  Its pu...

February 4, 2020

What the coronavirus is doing and will do to China

The coronavirus is an epidemic in China and seems to be morphing into a worldwide pandemic.  In its current form, the virus does not appear to be extremely deadly, but the fear is that it could mutate...

February 1, 2020

Post-Brexit Europe is sailing into a perfect storm

Europe is sailing into a perfect storm involving China, Brexit, and America.  This does not include Europe's immigration problem and the populist uprising in member-states. This year will be rough ride for Europe, but 2021 could be a...

January 27, 2020

The Obama-Clinton-induced mess in Libya continues to grow

The chaos that the Obama-Clinton diplomacy unleashed in Libya continues to grow.  It started when U.S.-French-NATO-led military intervention toppled Col. Moammar Gaddafi in 2011.  After his government fell, Gaddafi was then beaten...

January 24, 2020

Transgenderism in the cage

The transgender craziness marches on, undeterred by reality and devoid of common sense and decency.  A case in point is Fallon Fox, a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter.  Basically, Fox is a man who, using the terminology of the ...

January 19, 2020

Iran plans on using game-changing weapons in its proxy war against Israel

Going on five years, Iran has been waging a "quiet" war against Israel through its proxies like Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Hamas, and Hezb'allah.  This so-called "war between wars" basically involves rocket att...

January 15, 2020

Europe criticizes US for withdrawing troops from West Africa

Europe, particularly France, is criticizing the United States for its plans to withdraw some or perhaps all of its 6,000 to 7,000 troops from West Africa.  The U.S. is doing this as part of an effort to shift its military assets around...

January 14, 2020

Is France beyond reform?

The events in Iran have sucked all the oxygen out of other stories and dominates news coverage.  But it is still a big world out there with all sort of things happening. Take France, for instance.  A short while ago, Frenc...

January 12, 2020

Trump repudiates the Carter Doctrine

Nikolas Gvosdev is a Russian-American international relations scholar who is concerned that President Trump is repudiating the Carter doctrine on the Middle East.   What is this doctrine that Gvosdev is referring to?  N...

January 5, 2020

The Achilles heel of Iran

When it comes to Iran, most analysts and commentators speak as if the country were a homogenous monolith comprising Persians.  It is not.  In fact, the seldom mentioned Achilles heel of Iran is its diverse ethnic and rel...

December 29, 2019

American liberty depends on the Deep State?

Francis Fukuyama — surely, you remember him.  He's the ivory-tower "intellectual" who, after the collapse of the USSR, proclaimed in 1992 that history has come to an end and that from then o...

December 23, 2019

De Niro bags it

In an hour-long Podcast, Rumble with Michael Moore, two-time Academy Award–winner Robert De Niro said: "I'd like to see a bag of s--- right in his [President Trump's] face like that, and let the picture go all over the wo...

December 19, 2019

The war on Christmas

For anyone who has eyes to see, there has been an ongoing war over Christmas for over a generation now.  The facts to support this claim are indisputable.  The most obvious examples include the following: public schools have been ...

December 14, 2019

Is BoJo's massive victory a foreshadowing of November 2020?

The referendum for Brexit was held on June 23, 2016, in which 51.9 percent voted for Great Britain to leave the European Union.  A victory for Brexit, no doubt, but not an overwhelming one.  Then, five months later, American voter...

December 12, 2019

How the extreme left can use Joe Biden

Anyone who has followed politics for even the briefest of time has seen that leftists hold honesty in contempt and use lies with abandon to advance their agenda.  And by leftists, I include progressives, Democrats, socialists, and liberals,...

December 10, 2019

A new take on conspiracy theories

What to make of conspiracy theories?  There are a plethora of them out there.  Some of the more prominent ones that come to mind are on the JFK assassination, Flight 800, and the 9-11 terrorist attack.  Of more...

December 9, 2019

Trump's great economy can't be hidden

The wonders that President Trump is doing with the economy are getting impossible to hide or to ignore.  November's job report has been so good that even those poor souls encased in the liberal media's bubble are learning about it....

December 8, 2019

The Omadhaun Express rolls through Iowa

As former vice-president Joe Biden travels through Iowa on his bus labeled "No Malarkey," voters under the age of 60 are scratching their heads trying to figure out what that message means. For the clueless ones ambitious enough, they can d...

December 6, 2019

Is Bloomberg right calling for regressive sales tax that hits the poor?

Is Michael Bloomberg, the freshly minted Democrat candidate for the presidency, right in his call to raise taxes on the poor?  And to be clear, the former New York City mayor is speaking about raising sales taxes on so-called vice prod...

November 29, 2019

Why Michelle Obama may jump into the race

Although it's far from a lead-pipe cinch, a plausible case is to be made that former first lady Michelle Obama may enter the Democratic primary race.  There are three reasons for believing this. First and most obv...

November 27, 2019

Brave new world: Girl wins state wrestling championship against girls while pretending to be a boy

A Texas girl won the girls' state high school wrestling championship in the 110-pound division.  What's confusing about that — a girl wins the girls' title?  Well, it's not that simple.  It see...

November 24, 2019

Trump takes our allies to task

Media coverage of the attempt of the Democrats (and the media) to impeach the president has drowned out other news. That's a pity because what generally has not been reported is President Trump attempt to readjust the structur...

November 21, 2019

Global warming, mental illness, and Greta Thunberg

After traveling across the United States and parts of Canada, Greta Thunberg, the sixteen-year-old Swedish climate activist, has set sail back to Europe. This time, she's hitching a ride with an Australian couple sailing around the world ...

November 11, 2019

The Economist, baseball, and Donald Trump

Much ado has been made about the reception President Trump received the other week at the fifth game of the World Series in National Park in Washington, D.C., but none has exaggerated as much as the Economist. In the November 2 issue, the tit...

November 3, 2019

Envy is a symptom of Trump Derangement Syndrome

Trump derangement syndrome (TDS) is a mental disorder in which a person has effectively been driven insane due to his hatred of Donald Trump, to the point where he abandons all logic and reason.  Such people are impervious to facts tha...

November 2, 2019

Fall back, spring ahead

Get ready to go through the routine of turning the clocks back an hour this weekend. Daylight savings time is leaving us... yet again.  Daylight savings time has been with us in the United States since the days of World War I. It has see...

October 21, 2019

Noonan clueless on Syria

Peggy Noonan reveals her cluelessness on the complexity of Syrian situation with her column "Trump's Reckless Rush to Withdraw." There she writes that the president doesn't know much about the Kurds, thus implying ...

October 5, 2019

Taming China

The always insightful Victor Davis Hanson has an article titled "How China 'Woke' America." This could not have happened soon enough, because before being "woke," America was a pitiful giant with respect to China. ...

September 27, 2019

Who is responsible for the impeachment circus?

Who is responsible for the current overhyped impeachment frenzy?  The culprits are many.  There's the radical Left that, although small in number, is extremely vocal and influential in the media, the entertainme...

September 24, 2019

Europe's coming trade storm

The European Union has consistently enjoyed hefty trade surpluses with the United States.  According to the United States Census Bureau, for the past four years, those surpluses were $168, $151, $147, and $156 billion, r...

September 19, 2019

Iran's oil strategy could backfire

Apart from the apologists for the Obama administration's nuclear deal with Iran, all objective observers agree that the Iranian economy is being crushed by U.S.-imposed sanctions.  But due to a combination of pride and religio...

September 15, 2019

Should black athletes leave white colleges?

Jemele Hill is a black writer who was employed as a sports columnist at ESPN for 12 years and is now on the staff of The Atlantic magazine.  Her latest column is rather provocative.  It's entitled: "It...

September 6, 2019

European Central Bank to put climate change at its core

Cancer is an insidious disease.  It typically starts with a single cell mutating into a cancerous one, which then multiplies many times over to form a tumor.  If left untreated, a cancerous cell can break off from the tumor, enter...

September 5, 2019

Two-Tier Justice in Cleveland

Not to be out done by flagrant two-tier justice on the national level, Cleveland demonstrates that it too can protect Democrats and their family members. Case in point involves the grandson of four-time Democratic mayor Frank Jackson. From the Sep...

September 1, 2019

Huge transgender case will be heard by Supreme Court in October

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on a major case on sex, gender, identity, and discrimination in October.  It is titled R.G. and Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The nub of t...

August 30, 2019

Radical leftist magazine sponsoring trip to glitzy fake version of Cuba

True to its leftist roots, The New Republic (TNR) magazine is sponsoring a trip to Cuba.  The visit to the island will mix tourism with education, although "propaganda" would be a better word for what's planned....

August 24, 2019

Enemies of America align with Democrats to defeat Trump in 2020

It is often said that politics makes for strange bedfellows.  The Democrats are taking that truism to unprecedented levels.  Jumping on the Democrat 2020 bandwagon, but careful not to make it too noticeable, are China, Iran, and t...

August 19, 2019

Who's wishing for a recession?

Left-wing comedian Bill Maher has let the cat out of the bag.  He speaks a truth that is in the heart of leftists everywhere but they dare not say too loudly — namely, their hope for a recession as a means of defeating Presi...

August 13, 2019

CBD: Marijuana lite?

There's a form of marijuana that I'm calling marijuana lite.  It comes in products infused with cannabidiol (CBD).  CBD is the second most active ingredient of cannabis (marijuana) and is derived from hemp plant, which is ...

August 11, 2019

A brief thought on Jeffery Epstein's death

Much has been written and will be written on the death of Jeffery Epstein.  Was it suicide?  Was it murder?  The only thing certain is that the man did not die of natural causes. The official finding will most likely ...

August 8, 2019

Heading for civil war

Donald Trump's opponents are completely unhinged.  The hate and slander directed toward the president and his supporters is off the charts.  The vitriol comes not just from the Democratic Party, the media, and the world of ent...

August 5, 2019

Antifa is arming

The incessant hate campaign against President Donald Trump and his supporters by the media and the Democratic Party is pushing the left's Trump Derangement Syndrome into the danger zone.  The current issue of the New Republic, a pr...

August 2, 2019

Trump announces new tariffs on China

On August 1, President Trump announced 10-percent tariffs on 300 billion dollars' worth of Chinese goods that previously had not been subject to import duties.  These new tariffs are scheduled to kick in on September 1 and are in r...

July 29, 2019

Trump closing a WTO loophole used by China

Donald Trump is gearing up for the 2020 election.  Not only is he making the Democrats own the "Squad" and all their hateful anti-American rhetoric, but he's also forcing the Democrats to defend their oversight of the decay of...

July 17, 2019

Dress codes for public school students degrade even further

Public school dress codes are degrading.  This is no mean feat, given how low the standards already are.  As good example of the trend comes from the Austin Independent School District (AISD) in Texas.  This district has a...

July 12, 2019

Did Advanced Micro-Devices Put Profits Ahead of Country?

Did Santa Clara, Calf. chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) put profits ahead of U.S. national security? After reading an expose in the Wall Street Journal by Kate O'Keeffe and Brian Spegele about AMD, the answer might well be 'yes....

July 10, 2019

What Would Colleges be Like If SATs Were the Sole Admission Criterion?

Many bar and dorm room conversations probably have centered on what colleges would look like if SAT scores were the sole criteria for admission. People have had their suspicions and cite anecdotal observations but now Georgetown University ...

July 7, 2019

Goodbye, Hong Kong

The demonstrations in Hong Kong to protest the proposed extradition law have turned violent.  This past week, a group of hardcore protesters laid siege to Hong Kong's legislature, trashed the place, and said they were willing to die for...

July 5, 2019

Another newspaper bites the dust

Another newspaper is biting the dust.  This one is the 150-year old Vindicator, which has announced that it will halt publication as of August 31.  The Vindicator, which is centered in Youngstown, is not a s...

July 4, 2019

John Bolton's political utility

National security adviser John Bolton is for all intents and purposes an über-hawk.  In a June 23 interview on Meet the Press with Chuck Todd, President Trump summed it up nicely when he quipped: "John Bolton is abs...

July 2, 2019

China's New Silk Road Will Flop

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is China's two-prong attempt to construct a new Silk Road. The first prong is the overland Silk Road Economic Belt. The other is the Maritime Silk Road. Both are being undertaken simultaneously and are said to o...

July 1, 2019

Heat wave in Europe is bad political news

Europe is sweltering this summer.  A heat wave has gripped the Continent, where high temperature records have been broken in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and elsewhere.  In Germany for example, the...

June 25, 2019

A possible Trump strategy if Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz

Since May, six oil tankers have been attacked in or near the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian fingerprints are all over these maritime attacks. Many think that this could be a prelude to Iran carrying out its often-made threat to close the Strait throu...

June 22, 2019

Angela Merkel pulls a Hillary

It hasn't receive much notice but last week German Chancellor Angela Merkel put on a performance reminiscent of Hillary Clinton in her 2016 campaign. Standing beside the president of Ukraine in Berlin, Merkel started to sha...

June 21, 2019

China: The Accidental Superpower

Gordon Chang, an American expert on China, has written that three times since the end of World War II, America has saved China's communists. As surprising as that may sound, Chang has a strong case. It began with Richard Nixon. In a 1967 la...

June 17, 2019

Is America ready for a cold war with China?

Walter Russell Mead is on to something when he writes Americans aren't ready for Cold War II with China.  His basic reasoning is this.  As the relaxed posture the U.S. has taken toward China in the past is changed in...

June 12, 2019

Electric vehicles are overhyped

In the automotive world, there's a madcap scramble on to produce electric vehicles (E.V.s).  It's not just Elon Musk's Telsa.  All the major car companies are on board with the endeavor.  The industry as a wh...

June 10, 2019

The Democratic race is set to start in earnest

Get the popcorn ready. The race for the Democrat Party's presidential nomination is set to begin in earnest. The first debate is only two weeks away. It's set for June 26-27. Here is the full debate schedule:  June 26-27 in Mi...

June 7, 2019

Joe Biden is relishing a fight with Trump over China

Yes, you read that right.  China Joe Biden is looking forward to squaring off with President Donald Trump on the question of the terms of trade with China.  Biden staked out his position in Iowa last month, saying sarcastically, ...

June 4, 2019

Is BlazeMedia the answer?

Back in December, it was announced that Glenn Beck and Mark Levin were teaming up by merging Beck's TheBlaze and Levin's CRTV (Conservative Review TV) to create a news conservative-media platform called Blaze Med...

June 2, 2019

The coming Roe v. Wade showdown

On May 30, Louisiana's Governor John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, signed into legislation a fetal heartbeat bill that bans abortion at six weeks of gestation.  This made the Pelican State the fifth one just this year to enact such legi...

May 28, 2019

Justin Amash, a threat to Trump 2020?

Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) made a news splash by being the only Republican in Congress to call for the impeachment of the president.  This will not be the last we hear from him. Amash says he's a libertarian as oppose...

May 24, 2019

Why feminists threw a fit about the finale to Game of Thrones

The television series Game of Thrones made for a major cultural event.  Since HBO launched it in 2011, Game of Thrones became the most watched program on Earth by the time of its fourth season.  John Podhoretz writes in the New Yo...

May 21, 2019

'Mayor Pete' is Gramsci's perfect socialist vehicle for cultural destruction

In a significant way, "Mayor Pete" Buttigieg is the embodiment of his father Joseph — and, by extension, Antonio Gramsci. Buttigieg Senior was a professor of critical theory and the relationship between culture and politics at Notr...

May 16, 2019

A huge Supreme Court decision you never heard of

One of the things that separates leftists from normal people is their passion for political power.  It is all-consuming.  Among other things, this gives the Left the ability to plot and plan well in advance.  This is cle...

May 14, 2019

MAGA vs. the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

The general public typically equates the Chamber of Commerce with local Mom and Pop businesses in their area which meet for networking and mutual support in local chapters across the country. This is erroneous. According to the Hill:  ...

May 9, 2019

Is diversity strength?

Diversity is defined as something composed of different elements.  In sociological and political terms, it means the inclusion of people of different races, cultures, religions, and economic background into a group or organization. ...

May 3, 2019

Mayor Pete and his 'husband': Time's first couple?

An early pioneer of conservative talk radio was the late Bob Grant (1929–2013), who broadcast out of New York City.  Often when Grant was commenting on some outrage in the news, he'd say, "It's sick out there an...

April 23, 2019

The Times confesses: Most taxpayers got a tax cut under Trump

On April 14, the day before the deadline for income tax filing, the New York Times admitted that the 2017 tax cut law resulted in most taxpayers paying less federal income tax. This is an amazing report from the mother ship of lib...

April 16, 2019

Pete Buttigieg, the Democrats' Latest Lightweight

The latest lightweight to announce for the Democratic nomination for president is Peter Buttigieg (age 37), a two-term mayor of South Bend, IN. The media has gone gaga over Buttigieg, who refers to himself as "Mayor Pete," in the same ...

April 4, 2019

NATO Is Rife with Contradictions and Absurdities

Even since Donald Trump won the presidency, the foreign service community has almost unanimously circled its wagons to protect and prop up their prized project, the 70-year old North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).   Ye...

March 23, 2019

Michigan's Attorney General Dana Nessel toes the SPLC line

The thought police are coming to life in Michigan. The state's Attorney General Dana Nessel, and Agustin Arbulu, the director of the Department of Civil Rights, announced they have started the creation of a process to document so-called ...

March 19, 2019

Trump to International Criminal Court: Don't touch our servicemen, or else

Last week, the Trump administration in the person of secretary of state Mike Pompeo gave the European international set another swift and deserved kick in the derrière.  That's when the secretary of state made it known that the U...

March 17, 2019

Sandy Hook lawsuit threatens the Second Amendment

The Sandy Hook elementary school shooting resulted in the deaths of 20 students and six adults on December 14, 2012.  The killer, Adam Lanza, used an AR-15 manufactured by the Remington Arms Company to do the killing.  T...

March 14, 2019

Macron's Algeria Dilemma

France's President Emmanuel Macron is facing a dilemma with Algeria.  To act or not to act is the fence he uncomfortably sits on.  Here's the story. Eighty-two-year-old Abdelaziz Boutefilka, the president of A...

March 12, 2019

Transgenderism: More Poison Fruit from the Tree of Cultural Marxism

Today, transgenderism is being forced on society not from the ground-up but from the top-down by the ruling elite. This establishment consists of the media, academia, the entertainment industry, major corporations, and even some wayward religiou...

March 6, 2019

Is there a method to the madness of the Green New Deal?

Radical firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has teamed up with Senator Edward Markey, a leftwing political dinosaur from Massachusetts, in presenting a resolution in Congress for support of AOC's Green New Deal.  The tedious details...

March 4, 2019

Can pretty-boy Justin Trudeau survive?

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is on the ropes. He has two thorns in his side that could either force his resignation or at least significantly dim his chances for reelection in October.   The first problem is that...

March 3, 2019

Trump Makes the Elites Pessimistic on Foreign Trade. Good.

A gloom has settled over the American elite on trade and foreign policy.  This is good news.  Here's why. The dark clouds started forming during the presidency of Barack Obama.  Even though, in a number of ways, O...

February 28, 2019

An end-run around the Electoral College

The National Popular Vote (NPV) is an interstate initiative designed to give the presidency to the candidate who wins the most popular votes nationally.  It is a workaround to the Electoral College as commonly understood in the Constit...

February 21, 2019

Why Trump stepped out of the INF nuclear missile treaty

In early February, secretary of state Mike Pompeo announced that the U.S. is withdrawing from the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) agreement with the Russian Federation.  The reason given was the flagrant violations of the treaty by M...

February 19, 2019

Another pro league starts up for football junkies

Although it has been flying under the radar of most sport pages, a new pro football league was launched on February 9. It's called the Alliance of American Football (AAF). The league consists of eight teams playing a 40-game schedule in its initi...

February 13, 2019

Another NeverTrump throws in the towel

Will wonders never cease?  Erick Erickson, one of the original leaders of the NeverTrump movement and the one who initiated the NeverTrump hashtag, has come out saying he will vote for the Trump-Pence ticket in 2020.  Quoting Eric...

February 12, 2019

Foreign Affairs magazine and identity politics

Foreign Affairs is the ultra-elitist magazine of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), created by and for the WASP establishment in the aftermath of the Woodrow Wilson presidency in 1922. Writing in the National Interest, Hunter...

February 9, 2019

MAGA gavel: More Trump judges coming down the pipeline

Just when the Democrats and the left are clutching their pearls over the prospects of the U.S. Supreme Court being without the services of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, they get hit in the gut.  It was announced on February 7, that the Senate Judici...

February 7, 2019

Will insurance be the NFL's Achilles heel?

The National Football League (NFL) faces a threat from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) — i.e., head concussions.  We live in a hyperlegalistic society.  It's prudent for corporations to take potential liabili...

February 4, 2019

Northam and the GOPe

There is a lesson from the scandal of moonwalking Gov. Ralph Northam (D-Va.) being photographed in either a KKK hood and sheet or blackface in his medical school yearbook.  In 2017, Northam decisively defeated Ed Gillespie...

February 2, 2019

Alberta: Our 51st state?

Alberta as our 51st state is not as far-fetched as it sounds at first blush.  The idea was written about by Peter Zeihan in Accidental Superpower (2014) and recently broached by Holman Jenkins, Jr. in no less than the Wa...

January 26, 2019

Macron's Dream Is Europe's Nightmare

Earlier this week, France and Germany signed an update to the Treaty of Aachen. The gist of this document is that brings the two powerhouses of the European Union closer together in terms of economics, politics, and defense matters. Among o...

January 23, 2019

Did the NFL tinker with the Rams-Saints game?

All the sports world knows by now about the game-deciding pass interference that wasn't called against the Rams in the fading minutes of regulation time in the NFC Championship game.  Come Monday, everyone admits, including a ...

January 21, 2019

The screws tighten on China

A quick survey of news from around the world show the screws are tightening on China.  First, news broke that Chinese tech company Huawei is now likely to face a criminal probe for stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile.  This case is...

January 17, 2019

The upcoming European elections

Elections will be held May 23 to May 26 among the 27 countries of the European Union to select 705 members to the European Parliament.  These elections happen every five years, and 2019 is one of those years. The number of coun...

January 16, 2019

Elon Musk's latest gamble

Elon Musk is back in the news.  It's not for drug use or space shots.  It's that Tesla has just broken ground to construct a massive factory in China on a 210-acre plot.  When up to speed, this facility...

January 15, 2019

The elite vs. the middle class

In "Let's Rebalance," published in First Things, R.R. Reno writes that society needs a rebalancing.  Too much attention and too many resources are dedicated to the elite.  Our leadership class has...

January 10, 2019

Bill Kristol, back from the paths of the dead

Just when a sigh of relief could be expressed that Bill Kristol's Weekly Standard is dead and buried, he and his fellow-traveling Trump-haters have crawled out of the crypt like walking dead vampires to find a new home. On January 7,...

January 3, 2019

Poor Max Boot

Back in 1956, Clarence "Frogman" Henry croaked out a tune entitled "Ain't Got No Home."  This is the theme song of Max Boot, as his latest opinion piece demonstrates.  In the pages of the Washington Post,...

December 31, 2018

Huawei and National Security

Huawei is a massive Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics company. Some basics facts about the company include:  It employs over 170,000 people, It is currently the largest telecommunication man...

December 29, 2018

John Kasich vetoes Ohio's heartbeat bill

John Kasich, the self-anointed moralist scold of the Republican Party, has vetoed the pro-life heartbeat bill (H.B. 258) as one of his last acts as Ohio's governor.  This bill had wide support in the state's legislature....

December 28, 2018

A cold wind for the globalists

President Trump's decision to pull out of Syria has invoked endless commentary.  Powerful forces are against this, including nearly the entire political and foreign service establishments and big money interests like Wall Street.  ...

December 27, 2018

Trade Wars and China

As President Trump's MAGA policies start to undo the unfair trade practices of China and Europe, he faces a wall of criticism from the global elite who personally benefit from the current arrangements. One of the most commonly heard argument...

December 23, 2018

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has lung cancer

Back on November 7, the 85-year-old Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell in her office at the Supreme Court and fractured three ribs on her left side.  Ironically, this mishap may have been a blessing in disguise, as x-ray tests o...

December 22, 2018

Farewell to Syria

An uproar has arisen over President Trump's decision to pull U.S. military forces out of Syria.  But note, it isn't the American people who are protesting this decision.  Rather, it's those who propose perpet...

December 17, 2018

Is the National Rifle Association dying?

Liberal opinion writer E.J. Dionne, Jr. of the Washington Post thinks so.  He writes that the power and influence of the National Rifle Association has been broken.  What he serves up as proof is the 2018 election, the one wh...

December 14, 2018

The French Dilemma

Few 'deplorables' on this side of the pond are shedding any tears over the predicament that French President Emmanuel Macron finds himself in with the violent protests erupting throughout France. The man is an arrogant globalist...

December 10, 2018

Who is QAnon?

Who is QAnon?  The question is posed because the Q phenomenon is nearly impossible to ignore.  From his beginning as a fringe internet poster in October 2017, Q has broken out and now not only has a devoted following, but also has...

December 7, 2018

Is Pride in America Failing?

According to a recent Gallup poll, the percent of American who are extremely proud of their country has been steadily falling, and now in 2018, it stands at a mere 47%.  Leading this trend are the usual suspects. They are Democrats, liberals in ...

December 7, 2018

Poland trolls the global environmentalists at UN climate meeting

Here is a Polish joke our conservative Polish-American friends should love. A two week gathering of diplomats and climate 'experts' on man-made global warming started in Katowice, Poland this week. The purpose of t...

December 4, 2018

Is globalism the new feudalism?

Liah Greenfield, a professor at Boston University, gives her view of how nationalism came about and how it equates with democracy.  Her thoughts are worth considering because they shed a light on the events of today. According to Greenfi...

November 28, 2018

Trump vs. General Motors

An insight into what Donald Trump means by Make America Great Again will be seen in the fallout from General Motors' announcement to halt production at three North American assembly plants: Lordstown, Ohio; Hamtramck, Michigan; and Oshawa, O...

November 24, 2018

Hillary Wakes Up on Immigration

None other than Hillary Clinton has advised Western Europe "to do something to lessen the flow of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa."   But don't jump to conclusions. Madam Hillary has not undergone an epiphany...

November 20, 2018

Noonan vs. Reality

Most #NeverTrumpers are audacious with their contempt about the president. Not Peggy Noonan. She has a soft, feminine touch. Her latest column in the Wall Street Journal is titled "America Could Use Some Deals." Its premise is tha...

November 16, 2018

Sherrod Brown eyes the presidency

Add Sherrod Brown’s name to the growing list of those making noises about 2020. It would be a grave mistake to discount Brown's prospects both for the nomination and the presidency. This 66-year-old just won a comfortable reelection in a...

November 13, 2018

Emmanuel Macron: Front man for the globalists

The French like to think of themselves a rationalists, but this is a conceit. Actually, they are champions of convoluted thought. Case in point are the French President's Emmanuel Macron comments on nationalism as a betrayal of pat...

November 9, 2018

Ohio midterm election a sweeping victory for Republicans (with one unlucky exception)

Democrats charged into the Ohio midterm election full of piss and vinegar. Their belief was that they were surfing a blue wave and were going to start the process of turning what is often described as a purple state into a blue one. The Buckeye State...

November 8, 2018

Democrats: You can't always get what you want

The words sung by Mick Jagger could well summarize the 2018 midterm election: results.   You can't always get what you want But if you try sometime you find You get what you need.    Yes, we conservatives...

October 22, 2018

Trump and sanity in the definition of gender

Talk about being politically incorrect. The New York Times, for one, is aghast to report that the Trump administration is considering a legal definition of sex as immutable and fixed at birth.  The so-called ...

October 19, 2018

Trump goes 'postal' on China

It hasn't been widely reported, but the Trump administration has opened a new front in its trade conflict with China.  In looking out for America's interests, the U.S. has started the processes of withdrawing from a 144-year-old int...

October 17, 2018

Could the Republican Senate be in jeopardy?

There's not much of a chance of the Democrats taking control on the Senate in November.  It looks favorable for Republicans to add to their majority by three seats or maybe more.  My concern is in 2020.  That's w...

October 14, 2018

Would Republicans bend on the next Supreme Court confirmation fight?

Start with Senator Chuck Grassley. Could he become a problem in confirming the next Supreme Court nominee? This might seem like a strange question to ask after the senator's stellar performance as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in the...

October 12, 2018

Are even liberals ready to kick the UN out of New York?

Martin Peretz, former owner and editor-in-chief of the flagship leftist magazine The New Republic, is calling to get the United Nations out of the United States.  Although he notes it, Peretz says this has nothing to do with ...

September 30, 2018

Three likely scenarios for the Kavanaugh saga

As of this writing, the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court is up in the air.  Here are three likely scenarios of how this might play out. Scenario 1.  After the Jeff Flake-induced FBI investigation, Kavana...

September 16, 2018

What happens when Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaves the Supreme Court?

With the confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh over, perhaps now is a good time to look at the recent history of appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court with an eye to the future. Start with Neil Gorsuch, now an associate ju...

August 22, 2018

Stagnant wages are a problem. Trump is the solution.

Since the 1990s, the share of national income going to working- and middle-class Americans has been dropping.  For most of the post-WWII period, wage-earners captured 64% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).  At the beginning of t...

August 18, 2018

Gender Confusion: A Tool of the Left

The Democratic Party has gone off the deep end in many more ways than just pushing socialism.  One sign is the fanatical embrace of identity politics, which has become the hallmark of the Party of Obama (POO).  Look at Vermont....

August 9, 2018

Why the EU Won't Comply with Trump

Two of the main points of contention between the European Union and President Trump are trade and military spending. Scrap away the rhetoric presented in the mainstream media, most of it reflexively anti-Trump, the fact is that what the president is ...

August 1, 2018

Trump Derangement Syndrome at NRO

Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS): A mental condition in which a person or organization has been driven effectively insane due to dislike of Donald Trump, to the point at which he or it will abandon all logic and reason. For the most part, the writ...

July 26, 2018

Another anti-Trump newspaper hurting

Here's another virulent anti-Trump newspaper taking a wallop.  This is a biggie – the 99-year-old New York Daily News.  It is thought that the newspaper is losing about $30 million a year.  Interestingly, ...

July 12, 2018

More Fallout from the Janus Decision

The recent Supreme Court Janus vs. AFSCME decision (5-4) prohibits the mandatory collect of agency fees by public sector unions. This is the equivalent of a political earthquake of 9.0 on the Richter scale, and the union movement knows it. ...

July 3, 2018

The coming Democratic crackup

The signs are there for anyone with eyes to see.  Despite media-inflated stories of the popularity of Bernie Sanders and his fellow travelers, the radicalized Democratic Party is heading for a major crackup.  The trend started with ...

July 2, 2018

It's sick out there and getting sicker

When doing radio commentary out of New York City, the legendary Bob Grant would often say on his program, "It's sick out there and getting sicker."  If only he knew how true his words were.  News out of Manil...

June 16, 2018

What Is a Liberal Democracy?

A question worth asking is, what is a liberal democracy? That's because a recurring topic in the media is that liberal democracy is being threatened. If you think the culprits are countries like China, Russia, and Iran, you'd be wro...

June 12, 2018

America's Europe Problem

What with President Trump blowing up the recently concluded G-7 summit in Canada, it is likely that the Europeans now know that Trump's 'Make America Great Again' rhetoric is not idle talk. This is a shock for Europe, especially with the ...

June 2, 2018

Are Democrats becoming the stupid party as well as the evil one?

There's a truckload of truth in the old political saw that the Democratic Party is the party of evil, while the Republicans are the stupid party.  But now it seems as though the Democrats are bound and possessed to be champions in both ...

May 30, 2018

Germany, France, and the EU

To better understand the European Union and its likely prospects for the future, it is important to delve into the relationship between its two main players: France and Germany.  In many ways, their relationship since the founding of the E....

May 26, 2018

Bill Kristol barks at the moon

Some #NeverTrumps won't quit.  Indeed, so chained are they to their hurt pride and delusions that they can't.  Foremost among them is Bill Kristol, former editor of the Weekly Standard.  Speaking at a New Hamp...

May 19, 2018

Emmanuel Macron not loved at home

Pity French president Emmanuel Macron.  When he returned to France from his visit to Washington, he caught holy hell.  The French are irate not only that their president came home empty-handed on matters like the Obama-Iran nuclea...

May 17, 2018

World Trade Organization rules against Europe's Airbus

If Europeans have been feeling blue over the way President Trump has been ruffling their sensitivities, things got measurably worse the other day.  This past Tuesday, the World Trade Organization (WTO) gave the U.S. the ...

May 13, 2018

Question: Does torture work?

The nomination process for Gina Haspel for Director of the CIA has brought the matter of torture front and center again. In being questioned by senators, Ms. Haspel said that under her watch, the CIA would forgo advanced interrogation techniques (tor...

May 12, 2018

Two Trump critics commend him

As the trajectory of a comet changes as it passes by a star, so some of Donald Trump's most adamant critics are starting to alter their course due to the gravitational pull of the president's significant achievements.  First...

May 10, 2018

Ambassador Grenell's first day on the job in Germany

The newly appointed American ambassador to Germany is Richard Grenell.  His first day on the job was Tuesday, the day President Trump announced America's withdrawal from the Obama-Iran nuclear deal.  I...

May 8, 2018

Mossad to Khamenei and Iran: 'Kilroy was here'

It was quite a revelation in late April when Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed the world that Iran had intensified its efforts to hide evidence of its nuclear weapons program after signing the deal in 2015. The proof for...

May 7, 2018

The youth vote and the Democrats

The latest left-wing "feel good" initiative is to lower the voting age to 16.  Currently, the voting age set at 18 per the 26th Amendment (1971). Lowering the voting age, like wanting to eliminate the electoral colleg...

May 4, 2018

Emmanuel Macron, the So-Called 'Leader of the Free World'

Introducing – drum roll, please – the leader of the West, the leader of the free world, the one, the only, French president Emmanuel Macron.  I kid you not.  This past April, Monsieur Macron gave a speech...

April 30, 2018

New York Times in a panic over prospect of Justice Kennedy retiring

The New York Times is in a panic. On Sunday, April 29, in one of the longest editorials in memory, it penned an open letter to Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy begging him not to retire.  It seems the rumors that the 81-year-...

April 28, 2018

Rich New York City liberals don't want their kids to integrate

A stress test is common in engineering.  It is done by applying a measured amount of force to the item in question to see if it is still able to meet specification.  In the wider world, stress tests can be done just by observ...

April 26, 2018

A Hillary supporter gets the boot

This comes from the People's Republic of New Jersey. It involves Caren Turner. This Democrat and Hillary fundraiser has just resigned her post as a commissioner on the New York-New Jersey Port Authority due to an arrogant and overly emotiona...

April 25, 2018

Merkel's Mission for Her Visit to Trump This Week

German chancellor Angela Merkel's goal for her White House this Friday would be humorous if it weren't so pathetically typical of what America often faces.  Here's a brief background on the episode I reference. Ever since Rus...

April 22, 2018

Harry Truman and the Deep State

President Donald Trump is not the first president who has had trouble with the Deep State.  Harry Truman had a major problem, too, which revolved around the resistance by the State Department and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to his dec...

April 16, 2018

The Trials and Tribulations of the Transgenders

In today's public dialogue, there's a lot of talk back and forth over the transgender issue. And why not? Transgenderism has been made into a cause celebre by the cultural elite. Many, myself included, view this as part of the ongoing effor...

April 11, 2018

Insane Obama education rules vigorously defended by Trump's Government Accountability Office

Racial egalitarians – that is, those who mandate equal outcomes rather than an objective level playing field – are flying high over the latest Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on K-12 school discipline. This report, issued...

April 7, 2018

What Should Trump's Litmus Test Be for Judges?

For longer then I care to remember, judicial appointments have been politicized. This unfortunate situation was started by Democrats. In a form of half-hearted self-defense, it has been mimicked by the GOP.  But as is the case of much in life, t...

March 29, 2018

Trump don't play dat

The U.S. runs trade deficits with South Korea.  In 2016, these amounted to $17 billion in goods and services.  This situation has been addressed by the one-on-one trade agreement the Trump administration just concluded with that A...

March 28, 2018

Add pharmaceuticals to the list of trade complaints

International trade is in the news these days, almost on par with the media pumping the tale of porno star Stormy Daniels.  Even so, there's still an aspect of trade that gets far too little attention.  This is surprising, giv...

March 24, 2018

Trump's Strange Allies

Donald Trump has some strange domestic allies.  For want of a better term, call them the Bernie Sanders crowd (BSC). Before you scoff, hear me out.  And for the record, this is not a dig at Trump.  Rather it is an observation of the...

March 22, 2018

Male-to-Female Transgenders in Women's Sports

To get a feel for the level of craziness of today's world, take a look at sports – women's sports in particular.  It is on the cusp of being turned upside-down because of the rise and societal acceptance of the pheno...

March 16, 2018

Legalizing Weed for the Sake of Social Justice

The People's Republic of New Jersey has a new governor.  His name is Phil Murphy, and he's a Democrat.  In presenting his first budget, Gov. Murphy showed his progressive bona fides by proposing  $...

March 14, 2018

Lady Lex: A brief reminder of how great America is

Earlier this month, the research vessel (R.V.) Petrel of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen located and filmed the wreckage of the American aircraft carrier USS Lexington, also affectionately known as Lady Lex. This is both a historic ...

March 12, 2018

Trump has some aces up his sleeve for China on trade

When President Trump announced his tariffs on steel and aluminum last week, a cry of bloody murder went up.  The globalists and free traders trotted out exaggeration after exaggeration as to their adverse effect on the U.S. economy. ...

March 9, 2018

How Bad Would Steel and Aluminum Tariffs Be, Really?

President Trump has proposed slapping a 10- and 25-percent tariff on aluminum and steel imports, respectively.  The cry from the free trade quarter and the mainstream media is loud, often bordering on hysterical.  They claim that ...

March 7, 2018

Why the GOP Needs to Win in November

As much as any other magazine, Foreign Affairs is one whereby the globalists and foreign policy elite within the U.S. speak to one another. Its March/April 2018 edition is devoted to bemoaning the foreign policies of Donald Trump. Needless to say, th...

March 4, 2018

China: Colossus or Paper Dragon?

Is China a colossus, and will the 21st century belong to the Chinese, as many think?  Or is China a paper dragon?  Let's see. The impressive economic growth China has experienced in the last 40 years started in 19...

March 1, 2018

Another federal judge goes off the rails

This one is Judge Juan R. Torruella, of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston.  This 84-year-old dinosaur was nominated to the court in the pre-Reagan era, in 1974, by President Gerald Ford.  As a Puer...

February 23, 2018

Pocahontas speaks with a forked tongue

At a February meeting of the National Congress of American Indians, Elizabeth Warren doubled down on her assertion that she is 1/32 American Indian.  As to this claim, the liberal Washington Post, in a "Fact Checker...

February 20, 2018

Mimicking Stalin

A story was told in the USSR about how Joseph Stalin used a bird to demonstrate political control to his underlings.  It goes like this: Stalin was meeting with two young comrades and instructing them on the use of power.  For ...

February 17, 2018

Public-sector unions on the brink

The clock is winding down to a court showdown with public-sector unions in the Janus v. AFSCME case.  On February 26, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the request of Mark Janus, a public-sector worker in Illinois, to overturn A...

February 14, 2018

Global labor arbitrage: What is it, and why does it matter?

Global labor arbitrage (GLA) is the method globalists have used since the early 1990s to amass wealth for themselves while hammering the standard of living of the American middle class and chipping away at America's national sovereignty. Of these...

February 12, 2018

The two-state solution: Beware, America

Turkish leader Recep Tayyip ErdoДџan met with Pope Francis in Rome this past week.  The topic of the meeting wasn't the persecution of Christians in the Middle East, nor ErdoДџan's human rights abuses in Turkey.  It w...

February 10, 2018

Is Trump finally getting a reality check on trade and China?

The news isn't good.  Actually, it's terrible. This past year, America's overall trade deficit in goods and services grew by 12 percent to $566 billion.  The trade gap hasn't been this wide since back in 2008....

February 8, 2018

A 2nd Amendment Thought Experiment

Here's a simple thought experiment regarding the 2nd Amendment. What do you think the U.S. would be like if we didn't have it? Without the 2nd Amendment, firearms would likely be highly restricted and controlled. Various state legislatures...

February 3, 2018

Paraphrasing Cato: The Democratic Party Must Be Destroyed

Prior to the Third Punic War against Carthage in the 2nd Century BC, Cato the Elder was said to have ended all his speeches in the Roman senate by saying, "Carthage must be destroyed." Notice, Cato did not say 'defeated' but 'de...

February 1, 2018

Ohio Coal Mine Canary at the SOTU: Democrat Tim Ryan

You have to shake your head in amazement as to what has happened to the Democratic Party. To see what I mean, look at Rep. Tim Ryan. He represents Ohio's 13th Congressional District in northeast Ohio which is centered in the gritty city...

January 28, 2018

The President, fake news, and Davos

The news out of Davos is that President Trump was booed when he mentioned fake news in a speech before the esteemed global elite assembled there. The media is salivating and spinning this as verification that Trump is a boob and the dislike (hatred?)...

January 27, 2018

The silver lining in the NFL protests

Just in time for the Super Bowl, Shelby Steele has an interesting take on the "Take a Knee" protest by African-American NFL players, "Black Protest Has Lost Its Power"  Steele writes that protests have been an effective ta...

January 10, 2018

A political prisoner is freed

The federal government charged Cliven Bundy, 71, and his two sons Ammon, 42, and Ryan, 44, with multiple felonies for threatening a federal officer, carrying and using a firearm, and engaging in a conspiracy.  This all stems from ...

January 5, 2018

Aid to the Palestinians Is Counterproductive to Peace

President Trump has suggested that the U.S. start cutting aid to the Palestinians because of their reluctance to negotiate in good faith for peace with Israel.  Like the mouse that roared, Palestinian officials are acting with outrage at the pre...

October 28, 2017

Trump and the demise of ISIS

One of the many areas where the liberal media is loath to give President Trump credit is the demise of ISIS.  To recall, this group of Islamic psychopaths expanded its domain in short order to include wide swathes of ...

October 20, 2017

Why is gun ownership so high in the US?

After the horrific shooting in Las Vegas, many people ask: Why is gun ownership so high in the U.S.?  That's an honest question.  Maybe you've asked that of yourself or have had it posed to you by a liberal friend, as I have. ...

October 14, 2017

The German Manifesto on Anti-Americanism

Is reality starting to dawn on the Germany foreign policy elite?  In a manifesto published in Die Zeit entitled "In Spite of it All, America," these foreign policy experts warn the German political class of the country's gr...

September 30, 2017

The Free Lunch Slide into Socialism

New York City's Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina recently announced the new "Free School Lunch for All" for the big Apple's public schools. This means that the entire public-school population, some 1.1 million students, will now be ...

September 25, 2017

A Super Bowl prediction

The "taking a knee" protest at the playing of our national anthem started by Colin Kaepernick will reach its obscene climax at the Super Bowl in February.  It is likely that the protest will include players, advertisers,...

August 26, 2017

What about monuments that honor Nazi-lovers?

Demanding the removal from the public square of Confederate monuments and those of some other personages of history like Thomas Jefferson and Christopher Columbus is all the rage today.  The pretext for this jihad against our past is that such p...

July 14, 2017

Pressure China with student visas

William McGurn, writing in the Wall Street Journal, has floated an interesting idea on how to pressure China into helping curtail North Korea's nuclear and missile program.  Mr. McGurn notes that the Chinese leadership has an unquenc...

June 28, 2017

Do the mainstream media profit from their hatred of Trump?

It is often taken as accepted wisdom that the mainstream media's aggressive and blatant bias against Republicans, conservatives, and Donald Trump in particular hurts their bottom line.  On this point, Peggy Noonan disagrees, a...

June 19, 2017

For NATO, Time to Clarify Goals

During President Trump's recent visit to Europe, much was made of the fact that in a speech before NATO leaders, he did not explicitly affirm America's commitment to NATO's Article V.  This put much of European opinion on edge and wa...

June 12, 2017

Is Today's Britain Like Post-WWI France?

As the dust settles on the just concluded election in Great Britain, the Conservative Party under Theresa May received 48.9% of the vote, compared to Labour's 40.3% under Jeremy Corbyn. Furthermore, although the conservatives lost seats in p...

June 9, 2017

Undercutting American accountants

There is a lobbying effort afoot by the country's major accounting firms and industry trade groups like the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to bring more foreign accountants into the United States under the H-1B visa program. ...

May 31, 2017

Frau Merkel and European defense

German chancellor Angela Merkel has come out and said that "Europe can no longer count on the U.S. and the U.K. as reliable allies and that the days that Europe could completely rely on others are over ... to a certain extent." Frau Merk...

May 24, 2017

Types of compassion for Syria refugees

In discussing the Syrian civil war with a dear friend who is trapped in the liberal media bubble, the attempt was made to paint me as non-compassionate, indeed un-Christian, for not wanting refugees from that area flooding into the U.S...

May 17, 2017

Bioengineering: The Next Terror Threat

Modern society glides around on a cushion of the cyberworld with nary a thought. We have assimilated computer technology and all its many advantages into our lives to the point where we cannot conceive being without it. Then comes something like...

May 9, 2017

Opioids and the Failure of Compassion

Move over meth, cocaine, and crack. The latest addiction du jour is now opioids.  According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine, in 2015 there were 20,100 deaths from prescription opioids and another 13,000 ...

May 3, 2017

The left attacks the New York Times

The liberal left is in an uproar.  And no, the howls are not coming from the childlike snowflakes on campus, who shut down speakers, or the even from the anarchists.  This time, it is coming from the intellectual arm of the left, like the N...

April 21, 2017

Steve Bannon and the Fourth Turning

In its ongoing effort to counter Steve Bannon's influence in the White House, the New York Times recently ran a piece essentially ridiculing Bannon's for his admiration of The Fourth Turning (1997) by William Strauss and Neil Howe....

April 14, 2017

Reading Trump's martial week: A few questions

President Donald Trump struck Syria with dozens of cruise missiles on April 6 for Syria's chemical attack on civilians.  What was rather amazing about this was that the president didn't ask permission from Congress, the United ...

March 18, 2017

Healthcare and Individual Responsibility

In spite of seven years of railing against ObamaCare, the Republican Congress seems to be having a hard time to repeal and replace or even to reform ObamaCare. The whole process strikes this observer as a bloody mess with a decent outcome in doubt. ...

March 6, 2017

Target’s decline continues

Readers might be interested in learning how Target Stores (stock symbol TGT) is doing these days.  Relative to the Dow Jones Industrial average (DJI) in a year-to-date comparison, the DJI is up 23% as Target's stock has declined 28%....

March 3, 2017

Neutering the administrative state

President Trump, with a Republican-controlled Congress behind him, has the means to roll back a surprising amount of the red tape and regulations that Washington bureaucrats have smothered the nation with in the past ten years.  I'm referrin...

February 13, 2017

What Tolstoy could teach Madonna

In his book A Confession (1884), Leo Tolstoy wrote about his midlife path from atheism to the acceptance of the main tenets of the Russian Orthodox faith. Tolstoy came to God at around the age of 50, when he started to ser...

January 31, 2017

With the Bureaucracy, Trump’s Got His Work Cut Out for Him

A major part of the Washington swamp that is suffocating the American republic is the federal bureaucracies. In the opinion of many, the federal workforce is over-staffed and grossly over-compensated. Yet true as that is, it's...

January 23, 2017

Tweeting by Trump and the Future of the Media

In my travels I come across those who think the tweeting by Donald Trump, first in the GOP primaries, then as the Republican candidate for president, then as president-elect, and then presumably as president is ...  well ... unpresidential, undi...

January 8, 2017

Trump gives Kasich a black eye

The election is over, but President-Elect Donald Trump is still rolling up victories in Ohio.  As The Plain Dealer of Cleveland reported on January 6: In another victory for the forces of Donald Trump, Stark County attorney Jane Timken was ...

January 3, 2017

Obama and the mall violence

Hey, all you “root cause” fans!  Guess who’s been teaching black kids that violence is acceptable! Writing in City Journal, Heather Mac Donald provides good insight into the rash of mall violence over Christmastime....

December 31, 2016

Shocking victories and paradigm shifts: Trump and college football

There is a curious parallel between the shocking victory of Donald Trump and 2016 and that of the University of Alabama in the 1926 Rose Bowl.  Does the paradigm shift that began 90 years ago foreshadow what is to come for the Trump movement? ...

December 19, 2016

Time to downsize Washington, DC

One of the underlying themes of Donald Trump's candidacy was that he would drain the swamp that is Washington, D.C.  This was one of the reasons he won the presidency.  And so far, Trump's cabinet picks demonstrate that he means to ...

December 16, 2016

Unions playing defense now

The just concluded election does not bode well for Big Labor, and a recent unanimous Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision may be even worse. With the election of Republican governors and legislators, the odds are good that three additional stat...

December 12, 2016

A threat to the Electoral College

The 2016 election has given the left – that is, liberals, progressives, the Democrats, and all their fellow travelers in the media – a collective conniption fit, and this is fueling their call to do away with the Electoral College. ...

December 6, 2016

Ending Multicultural Madness

The United States is importing people with a religious and cultural propensity to commit horrific acts of hatred and revenge against Western Civilization. This is madness rooted in politics. On November 28, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a Somali-born Mus...

November 27, 2016

Reliving the bloodiest battles in the War on Language

Beth Reinhard wrote a short piece in The Wall Street Journal entitled "Abortion Battle Set to Rage Anew."  Reading it, one can get the impression that there could be a shift in the culture war.  And no, it's not that funding f...

November 21, 2016

A Conservative Supreme Court Nominee Is Not Enough

When it comes to future U.S. Supreme Court nominees, one has to pay careful attention to semantics – i.e., the meaning of words and phrases in a particular context.  This is particularly important because of the propensity of the Democrats...

November 15, 2016

Right-to-work won on election day

The 2016 election was a major defeat for Big Labor and forced unionization.  As the results get further dissected, the magnitude of the defeat inflicted on the liberal agenda becomes more apparent with each passing day, especially when down-ball...

November 13, 2016

2018: A Democrat Nightmare

Not only were Hillary Clinton and the mainstream media solidly defeated on November 8, but so were the Democratic Party's aspirations for capturing the Senate.  From the start of this election cycle to its finish, the media mantra...

November 1, 2016

Big or small, the Clintons will lie and cheat

The latest scandals swirling around the Clintons truly stagger the imagination.  Take the one involving the Clinton Foundation, for example.  This multi-million-dollar baby has yet to peak in the public consciousness.  When it doe...

October 29, 2016

Time for Newspapers to Retract Endorsements for Hillary

Look far and wide and you'll find that nearly every major newspaper in the country has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. But surprise! The ongoing Wikileaks dumps, coupled with the re-opening of the FBI's investigation regarding Clin...

October 26, 2016

Where's abortion in the 2016 election?

One of the ways this 2016 election is unlike others in the recent past is the muting of social issues.  This is due in large part to the way that Donald Trump has burst onto the scene and turned over the applecart of the political esta...

October 20, 2016

Can the American Center Hold?

The main aftereffect of the 2016 election could well be found in the lines of Yeats' prophetic The Second Coming, where the Irish poet wrote:      Turning and turning in the widening gyre   ...

October 15, 2016

A Blizzard of Snowflakes

Infantile skittishness on campus is not confined to just politically correct and so-called diversity issues, as bad as that is. As a recent Wall Street Journal article pointed out, college students are now literally flooding mental-health center...

October 12, 2016

The 2016 Ohio Sellout

Here is a brief summary of the how Ohio looks this election cycle, with a special focus on the senatorial race, which pits incumbent Republican Rob Portman against former Ohio governor Ted Strickland.  At the campaign onset in April 2015, St...

October 1, 2016

Lester Holt says stop and frisk is unconstitutional, but it's not!

In the recently concluded presidential debate, Donald Trump said Chicago's soaring murder rate could be cut by implementing a stop and frisk policy and that such a policy did wonders to reduce New York City's crime rate.  Thereupon,...

September 25, 2016

‘The United States Must Be the World's Policeman.’ Really?

The editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal had an op-ed piece that gave me pause, even coming from that newspaper. It was "The United States Must Be the World's Policeman' by one Anders Fogh Rasmussen. (Note the operative word ...

August 25, 2016

Hacking Hillary's medical records

Hacking of computer records and databases has become a major news story.  Some of the more notable examples include:  Financial and other personal information affecting over 100 million customers at Target stores was hacked in 2013, r...

August 20, 2016

The boycott of Target

In April of this year, Target jumped on the "inclusivity" bandwagon with both feet with its radical, but ever so politically correct, policy for restroom use.  The company's stated policy was, "We welcome transgender team...

August 9, 2016

Juxtaposition: Hillary and the Rich Fool

The gospel reading at Catholic Mass this past Sunday was on the Rich Fool (Luke 12:13-21).  For those who do not know this parable, here it is: 13 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tel...

July 20, 2016

Isaiah Crowell and the NFL’s values

Ever hear of Isaiah Crowell? He a mediocre three-year running back for the Cleveland Browns who posted a graphic of a hooded figure dressed in black in the process of slashing the throat of a police office with his hands tied behind his back. For...

July 1, 2016

A view from Ohio: Rob Portman vs. Ted Strickland

There is a major element in the Republican establishment that is urging its congressional candidates to distance themselves from Donald Trump, the party's presumptive presidential candidate, lest Republicans suffer defeat in November. This is ...

June 19, 2016

The Immigration Compassion Trap

Compassion is an endearing human trait, but as with everything else, it can be too much of a good thing when carried to excess.  Take the case of Donald Trump's call to temporary ban muslim immigrants from countries with high radical isla...

April 27, 2016

John Kasich, unhinged

The major mistake Gov. John Kasich made in his quest to be nominated for president is that he chose to run in the wrong party.  As a Democrat, Kasich would give Hillary fits.  Even all but the most dyed-in-the-wool Democrats are graspi...

March 18, 2015

Right to Work, the GOP, and 2016

Governor Scott Walker recently created big news when he signed legislation making Wisconsin in the 25th right-to-work state in the country.  This is a continuation of a dramatic shift in how Big Labor is viewed in the Midwest. ...

February 21, 2014

Knowing the Enemy

Adolph Reed, Jr.,professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and unapologetic leftist, has the feature article in the March edition of Harper's magazine. His theme is that the left, which seems to him to be synonymous with libe...

February 10, 2014

The Metcalf Incident

In more ways than one, our current lifestyle and even our civilization itself depends on slavery. Only these "slaves" aren't human, they are machines -- billions of them at our beck and call. And what feeds the great majority of these man-made slaves...

January 16, 2014

Smoking and Individual Liberty

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the date when the surgeon general at long last admitted that smoking was a clear and present health hazard (1), particularly as it relates to lung cancer. And even though great strides have been made a...

September 6, 2012

Barack Obama and the Pepsi Challenge

Barack Obama reminds me of the New Coke and the Pepsi Challenge as described in Malcolm Gladwell's national bestseller Blink (2005). This story starts in the 1980s, when Pepsi was making serious inroads in the market for cola soft drinks in spit...