January 26, 2025

When Trump nixed DIE benefits, he helped minorities

In his inaugural address, Pres. Trump thanked minority voters for “the tremendous outpouring of love and trust that you have shown me with your vote” and said that “I will not forget it.” Later in the same day, he sign...

October 21, 2024

California's Prohibition Against Photo ID Requirements for Voting is Unconstitutional

In March of this year, voters residing in Huntington Beach, California approved a measure requiring voters to show ID prior to casting a ballot. On September 29, however, California Gov. Gavin Newsom approved legislation -- SB 1174 -- to ou...

February 24, 2023

Did Andrea Mitchell just apologize for defaming Ron DeSantis?

In interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell asked, [W]hat does Governor Ron DeSantis not know about black history and the black experience when he says that slavery and the aftermath of slavery should not be taugh...

February 4, 2023

A question for Representative Omar

Is U.S. rep. Ilhan Omar anti-Semitic? The GOP says she is, and she was removed from the House Foreign Relations Committee on that basis. Rep. Omar says that she isn't. One thing that she does not dispute is that she is Muslim. At 9:2...

November 26, 2022

Has the Democrat party converted to Islam?

On October 21, U.S. reps. Ilhan Omar and Jan Schakowsky issued a press release introducing a bill titled the "Combating International Islamophobia Act."  According the release, the purpose of the bill is "to address the rise ...

November 5, 2022

What debate moderators should be asking

The October 14 debate between senator and pastor Raphael Warnock and former NFL running back great Herschel Walker covered a number of issues — inflation, abortion, student loans, the minimum wage, etc.  The debate was hosted by the l...

November 1, 2022

Abortion and student debt forgiveness in Georgia

In the Oct. 14 debate between pastor Raphael Warnock and college/NFL running back great Herschel Walker for Warnock's current seat in the U.S. Senate, the subject turned to abortion.  In opposition to bans on abortion, Warnock said [at ...

August 4, 2022

What We Must Do to Restore Confidence in Our Elections

According to Patrick Basham, there are such things as  “non-polling metrics” -- things like  comparative party registrations, turnouts in the primary elections, social media followings, attendance at campaign rallies and other m...

May 21, 2022

Do We Really Want to Take Out Vladimir Putin?

For undying enmity toward Mother Russia, Ukrainians have good cause. It can be traced to a single Ukrainian word -- “Holodomor” (derived from “holod, meaning hunger, and “mor,” meaning extermination). The word refers to ...

September 4, 2021

The official explanation for California's suspicious recall election envelopes

In California, Jacqueline Timmer of  American Voters Alliance reports that, in at least three California counties, the return envelopes for the recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom have circular punch-holes in them that allow a person to se...

December 25, 2020

We need a revote

Far, far, far more than the evidence of Russian collusion which spawned a $40-million, two-and-a-half-year investigation, there is evidence that the Democratic Party stole the 2020 presidential election.  Close to half the country believes ...

November 22, 2020

To Restore Election Integrity, End Mail-In Vote Fraud

In the recent presidential election, Wisconsin had a high turnout, 72.3 percent, of which Joseph Biden took 49.6 percent — 250,000 more votes than Hillary Clinton in 2016 — and enough to win.  For a candidate whose rallies virtu...

October 21, 2020

DHS whistleblower Philip Haney was murdered fighting Obama's 'new beginning.' What now?

In June 2009, then-president Barack Obama gave a celebrated speech in Cairo, calling for a "new beginning" between the United States and Muslims around the world.  Following up on that speech, and under the rubrics of "privac...

May 25, 2020

Joe Biden's plantation mentality

Nearing the end of an interview with likely Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, radio host Charlamagne Tha God told Biden that he had to come back, saying, "It's a long way to November; we got more questions..." ...

February 7, 2020

Mitt Romney's Oath before God

Nothing reveals the character of the Democratic Party more clearly than the Democrats'  vote to convict based on the second article of the impeachment of Pres.  Trump — an article that was about legal disputes over subpo...

December 7, 2019

Sorry, Joe Biden, but you did do something wrong

In a campaign event for Joe Biden, a man, citing Biden's son Hunter's lucrative position with a Ukrainian company, Burisma, at a time when Biden oversaw U.S. anti-corruption policy in that nation, accused Biden of "selling access" t...

October 9, 2019

Why Joe Biden?

On Oct 4, Sen. Mitt Romney tweeted: "When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent [Joe Biden] ... it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically mo...

October 30, 2018

The truth about Florida's felon voting amendment

In its 2018 ballot, Florida includes a proposed constitutional amendment that would reinstate voting rights to felons (excluding murderers and sexual felony offenders) upon completion of their sentences.  Surprisingly, its sponsor, Floridia...

October 20, 2018

Andrew Gillum and the Florida economy

Andrew Gillum is the Democratic gubernatorial nominee for Florida.  The following is from his "Economy and Jobs" webpage as it appeared as of October 19.) Nearly half of Florida's households struggle to make ends mee...

October 9, 2018

Questions for Andrew Gillum

  Andrew Gillum, endorsed by socialist Bernie Sanders, is the Democratic gubernatorial nominee for Florida.  The following is from his "Economy and Jobs" webpage as it appeared October 7, 2018: Andrew has proposed the...

September 19, 2018

Kavanaugh should not even respond to Ford's accusation

If the election of Donald Trump has done nothing else, it has shown, to those who are willing to see, how utterly devoid principle the Democratic Party has become.  I'm speaking, in particular, of the last-minute accusation against Supr...

April 12, 2018

Advice to Trump: Make Mueller defend his raid

If Special Counsel Robert Mueller believed he had actionable grounds to suspect Pres. Trump of some crime that Mueller was authorized to investigate, he should have raided Trump's home and offices, not the offices of Trump's attorney, Michael...

February 13, 2018

The dishonesty of Sheldon Whitehouse

Regarding the memo on the "Steele dossier" released by the Republican-controlled House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), in the Washington Post, writes: The FBI and the Ju...

February 6, 2018

Wiki and DACA

 In its article about itself, Wikipedia writes: Wikipedia must not take sides. All opinions and viewpoints, if attributable to external sources, must enjoy an appropriate share of coverage within an article. This is known as neutral point of ...

January 7, 2018

DACA and the Rule of Law

In its introductory section on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA immigration policy, Wikipedia closes by citing the findings of several studies – to wit, that DACA decreased the number of "unauthorized" immigrant househo...

September 28, 2017

On NFL protests, Trump is right

In a recent National Review article regarding the NFL protest controversy, Jonah Goldberg asks, "Does America Still Believe in the Right to Be Wrong?"  This question is followed by "The idea [of ideological freedom] on which free ...

August 16, 2017

A way to bridge the divide over Robert E. Lee

In an ongoing campaign to eradicate the heritage of the South connected with slavery, groups have called for the removal of statues of heroes of the Confederacy, including one of Robert E. Lee, located in Charlottesville, Virginia.  Removal was ...

July 8, 2017

Answering Conservative Objections on Health Care

Currently, due to objections from both moderates and conservatives, Republican efforts in the Senate to replace Obamacare are at an impasse. According to Kimberley A. Strassel, the sticking point is really the conservatives -- four of them -- who rej...

June 14, 2017

The dishonesty of Anderson Cooper and James Clapper

Regarding James Comey's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the following exchange  (edited) between CNN's Anderson Cooper and former director of National Intelligence James Clapper took place: ANDERSON COO...

May 17, 2017

Has the Washington Post committed libel?

Relating to President Trump's alleged disclosure of classified information to the Russian ambassador, on May 15, Aaron Blake of the Washington Post writes: We see ... top national security aides saying Monday night that The Washington Post...

November 22, 2016

Two concepts of government, Illustrated

In the picture below, we see a woman embracing a young Hispanic girl. Although much of the woman's face is blocked, we can safely conclude that it is Hillary Clinton, particularly as this picture appeared at her presidential campaign we...

November 2, 2016

America's moment of truth

Do you think we need to change the direction of this country?  Away from where most of the big money and long academic degrees, away from where the political establishment, away from where the "citizens of the world" seem convinced it ...

October 22, 2016

The pictures Hillary Clinton doesn't see

At her website, Hillary Clinton devotes a page to "Immigration Reform."  She begins: We need comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to full and equal citizenship. As legal immigrants already have a full and equal pat...

September 24, 2016

Why isn't Hillary Clinton 50 points behind?

Hillary Clinton has said that her supporters wonder why she isn't 50 points ahead of Donald Trump.  I wonder why she isn't 50 points behind.  In fact, I wonder why any Democrat isn't 50 points behind.  And it isn't beca...

September 13, 2016

Engaging Islam

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the Council for Islamic-American Relations, or CAIR, is the leading Muslim advocacy organization in the United States.  CAIR states that its mission is "to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogu...

May 14, 2016

Coming to Grips with Muslim Immigration

During the Republican presidential primary campaign, now-presumptive nominee Donald Trump proposed a temporary ban on Muslim immigration. It was a novel proposal. Of the 16 other Republican candidates for the nomination, and of the 3 Democrats, not o...