November 14, 2020

Coloradans unleash wolves on their neighbors: A fitting metaphor for COVID

Some recent news from Colorado is a better metaphor for the current unpleasantness than any novelist or screenwriter could invent.  On Election Day (or rather, in the late campaign, during the two months or so of voting), the people of Colo...

October 13, 2020

Court-Packing Is More of a Monstrosity than You Think

The Biden-Harris court-packing plan is a plan to destroy the Constitution and replace it with a disguised dictatorship.  Democratic court-packing is a plan to leave the forms of the Constitution intact while destroying its essence, much in ...

November 25, 2014

Obama and the Dispensing Power

President Obama’s abuse of his powers to attempt to grant pseudo-legalization to five millions illegal aliens by executive fiat has been widely described as being “unprecedented” in some quarters. This is inaccurate. Other...

April 27, 2014

The New Totalitarianism and the Logic of Civil War

Although I have developed a strong tolerance for reading the worlds of the left-wing press through many years of exposure, Christopher Hayes article, “The New Abolitionism”, in The Nation made me almost sick with anger. Hayes’ artic...

July 20, 2013

Drones are 21st Century Superweapons

There's this strange sense in the zeitgeist that robotic warfare is somehow disreputable. If you read the news, hardly a day goes past without some deprecatory reference to the use of drones by the United States in its ongoing war against al-Qaeda an...

July 12, 2012

Obama Campaign Is in Worse Shape Than It Looks

One strains, studying the entire history of presidential elections, to think of a president who was re-elected under such economic conditions as prevail in the U.S. today.  Now, with June's campaign finance data trickling out, we can add the gro...

May 29, 2012

Romney Should Seek a Big Win

Writing in the Wall Street Journal last week, Karl Rove described Mitt Romney's electoral strategy as being as simple as 3-2-1.  Beginning from the base of states that John McCain carried in 2008 (plus the single electoral vote that Obama carrie...

April 7, 2012

American Must Prepare for the Next War

If the United States is to maintain its military supremacy into the 21st century, it is absolutely vital that the federal government ensure that its defense efforts are directed at preparing for the next war, rather than for re-fighting the wars of t...

March 6, 2012

Santorum Has No Credible Path to the Nomination. But...

One can pretty much write the headlines for Wednesday in advance.  Super Tuesday's results will be mixed.  Mitt Romney will win the most delegates -- buoyed by races in his home state of Massachusetts and a Virginia contest where his only o...

February 21, 2012

Obama Faces Fearful Political Geography in November

The geographic concentration of much of President Obama's political support in a few large Blue States and urban areas means that he could be defeated for re-election this November even while winning the popular vote.  What few seem to have seri...

January 4, 2012

Ron Paul and the Dictatorship of the Libertariat

I find dealing with many of Ron Paul's supporters deeply frustrating.  Granted, I agree that government has grown too large, too intrusive, and expensive over the course of the last century.  But it is consistently the case that the majorit...

December 21, 2011

The Madness of Ron Paul

I believe that Texas Congressman Ron Paul and his followers have good intentions.  However, as any conservative can attest, having good intentions does not exempt a person from the consequences of his actions or views.  Given that, by diver...

November 6, 2011

How might Obama win in 2012 - and what would happen next?

Several readers have disputed the plausibility of my new book, The Blast of War: A Narrative History of the Third World War, on the grounds that it features the re-election of Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election.  While I would agree ...

October 30, 2011

Could We See World War Three in Our Lifetimes?

Three months ago, in this space, I asked whether, if present trends were to continue, we could find ourselves embroiled in something like a Third World War.  Working from that concept and the thoughtful remarks of a number of readers, I decided ...

September 19, 2011

Obama's Recipe for Tax Disaster

President Obama's "Buffett Tax" proposal to change the nation's tax laws may sound seductively reasonable.  Ensuring that nobody earning over a million dollars a year pays a lower percentage than the middle class sounds like justice.  The t...

September 16, 2011

The Crisis of Socialism

One should not make the mistake of thinking that the pathetic floundering of the Obama administration and the imminent doom of Europe's spendthrift welfare states spells the end of global socialism.  Socialism has rarely attempted to make any cl...

August 10, 2011

Will There Be War?

An American credit downgrade.  Europe in turmoil.  Israel menaced by an Iran with nuclear ambitions.  Mexican drug cartels run amok.  Chinese ghost cities.  With each passing day the news gets worse.  To my amateur histo...

August 7, 2011

Obama Likely Will Lose in 2012

If one examines the history of previous presidential elections it becomes obvious that the most likely outcome next November is the defeat of President Obama in his campaign for reelection.  In fact, historical trends point towards a blowout. Le...

July 18, 2011

Obama's Magical Thinking

Attempting to keep up with the Orwellian mental evasions of modern liberals can be exhausting.  After weeks of following the president's pronouncements on the matter of the deficit, I remain undecided as to whether he is a liar or whether he has...

July 15, 2011

Playing the Man: Defeating Obama With the Debt Ceiling

If President Obama's decidedly un-presidential explosion at House Majority Leader Eric Cantor during a White House meeting on Wednesday suggests anything, it's that the stress is getting to the man.  Everything that we've ever seen suggests that...

June 18, 2011

Why History Says that Mitt Romney Will be the GOP Nominee

I'm far from 100% sold on Mitt Romney at this point in time.  While the Governor is able to speak articulately and passionately on a number of issues that matter to me, such as taxes, spending, and national defense, his record as Governor of Mas...

May 3, 2011

Bin Laden's Death and the Vindication of George W. Bush

"Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies," declared President George Walker Bush nine days after 9-11, "justice will be done."  I've always thought that that speech, delivered to a Joint Sessio...

March 21, 2011

The Conservative Case for the Libyan Intervention

I am for the intervention in Libya.  It may have come weeks too late -- and it may not be executed correctly by those who have been entrusted with the responsibility -- but it is absolutely the right thing to do.  We cannot allow national s...

March 4, 2011

The Warmist's Dilemma

I have longed argued that one of the primary problems with the thinking of our well-meaning liberal friends is that they tend to live in the world of "wouldn't it be nice" and then attempt to argue that people who dissent from this view are...

February 12, 2011

America's Most Dangerous Law

Deep flaws in the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 make the Federal Government incredibly vulnerable to attack by a foreign power.  In testimony before the Continuity of Government commission in 2003, Yale Professor Akhil Amar described it as...