March 30, 2025

A Multi-Point Attack on the National Debt

The first article I wrote for American Thinker was published on December 19, 2008.  I proposed the creation of a Super Roth investment for U.S. taxpayers that could be used as an alternative to bailouts the government was meting out to insu...

February 17, 2025

Four magical words

Ali Baba had two: “Open Sesame!” Lydia had three: “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.” Dorothy, five: “There’s no place like home.” All got results, almost instantly. Donald Trump has four mag...

January 8, 2025

How Trump can amend Canada’s constitution…with just one phone call

Let’s call it the Crowder Amendment. Steven Crowder, the conservative talk show host, is the son of an American father and a French-Canadian mother, from Quebec. Born in the U.S., Crowder’s mother returned to the Montreal area with Ste...

June 2, 2024

De Niro vs. Trump

We all know Robert De Niro despises Donald Trump.  With a vengeance. I was curious to know why.  So I googled “trump de niro” and got a lot of hits of quotes and video clips of De Niro spouting vitriol but very little in the ...

March 28, 2018

Discrimination and Segregation: How Trump Can Fix Canada

More than just a poster boy for liberal folly and excess, Justin Trudeau is a segregationist.  So was his father.  Indeed, Pierre Trudeau is responsible for entrenching in Canada's Constitution provisions of segregation that d...

November 7, 2013

The Privileged Class Speaks

On the heels of election night and the win for governor by Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia, websites such as The Daily Beast are telling us that the Center Speaks, suggesting that the electorate is rejecting the "extremism" of the Tea Party. A ...

October 20, 2011

Did Al Gore contribute to a $20 billion loss in Apple capitalization?

Apple shares fell about 5% on the opening of trading this morning on news that 3rd quarter earnings did not meet expectations.  With a market capitalization of over $370 billion , a 5% loss represents almost $20 billion. Apple's fourth quarter e...

September 5, 2011

Fortunately, Dr. Salk's Attempt to Eradicate the Scourge of Polio Has Failed

The other day, the Drudge Report linked to an article about an experiment completed by CERN that provides credence to Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark's theory that global warming is caused by the cosmic rays of the sun and not by man. The website S...

December 29, 2010

The Four Questions Every Liberal Must Be Asked

Ever notice how liberals like to spend money...particularly other people's money?   If you've ever found yourself engaged in debate with a liberal in an attempt to convince him that government spending is out of control, you know it's often...

August 29, 2010

Labeling People the Quebec Government Way

The liberal media have been criticizing those 20% of Americans polled who believe Barack Obama is a Muslim. The president declares himself a Christian, yet those 20% insist upon determining his religion based upon his father's adherence to Islam. The...

June 19, 2010

Execution? What execution?

Amid much fanfare and the inevitable revisiting by the Main Stream Media of that tired old debate over the merits and demerits of the death penalty every time one actually gets carried out, murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by a Utah firing sq...

June 13, 2010

Canada's Walter Duranty

Walter Duranty won a 1932 Pulitzer Prize while serving as the New York Times' Moscow bureau chief from 1922-36. The posthumous return of the award has been demanded -- largely from Ukrainian-American groups -- because of Duranty's erroneous and ...

May 8, 2010

NBA All-Star and Canadian Steve Nash should worry about discrimination in his own country

Steve Nash is lecturing Arizonians on the evils of the recently enacted immigration law. He believes it "damages our civil liberties" and "opens up the potential for racial profiling and racism."Lofty words. But Mr. Nash should ...

May 3, 2010

The solution to Arizona's immigration law lies in Democrats' hands

If the Democrats vilifying Arizona's new illegal immigration law were sincere, they could solve the problems of which they complain today. Harassment of minorities, racial profiling and invasion of privacy.  These are just some of the Left's fav...

December 30, 2008

The AIG junket fable

The AIG post-bailout junket was irresistible fodder for both outrage and mockery. But most of what you know about it is wrong. Largely due to co-host John Stossel -- whom I consider America‘s best journalist -- ABC's 20/20 is my favorite T...

December 19, 2008

A better bailout alternative

Is taxpayer money the only source for bailout funds?There is an alternative to the bailouts the federal government is meting out to insurance companies, banks, and automakers. This alternative requires neither one cent of taxpayers' money nor governm...