March 4, 2017

He 'didn't inhale': Disentangling the Sessions situation

Thus far, I've not seen an analysis of the Jeff Sessions matter that gets it quite right.  Here is my attempt. During his recent Senate confirmation hearings, then-Senator Sessions's response to Sen. Al Franken was not as complete as ...

February 12, 2017

What Rights Will the Left Take Away (or Make Up) Next?

I just got a funny email about the difference between Republicans and Democrats, purportedly by Jeff Foxworthy.  It's been around for a while and isn't likely Foxworthy's doing, but it's really quite cute, as it captures the esse...

February 9, 2017

Trump vs. Philly.com

  In an article titled "Trump said Philly's murder rate is 'terribly increasing.' It's not." at Philly.com, staff writer Chris Palmer casts as untrue President Trump's statement that the murder rate in Philadelph...

January 31, 2017

Saul Alinsky in the White House...Still?

Considering Donald Trump's expert "rope-a-dope" bouts with the media, I'd like to offer a slightly different take on President Trump's boxing matches. Let's start with some of the President's (and his staff's) mos...

February 24, 2013

Drones and Due Process: A Contrary View from a Tea Party 'Extremist'

Most of the talk about Obama's use of drones to kill terrorists has focused on the killing in Yemen of two Americans: Anwar al-Awlaki and then his teenage son two weeks later.   To date, so far as we know, Obama has issued kill orders only for I...

December 22, 2012

The Unintended Consequences of Gun Control

In 1996, John Ross penned what has become a classic story of what might happen when the federal government oversteps its bounds and clamps down too hard on guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans.  So chilling is the story, so graphic in its ...

September 13, 2012

America's New First Amendment

By now, most people know of the latest episode of Islamists frothing at the mouth over what they claim is an insult to the Prophet Muhammad.  Specifically, they are enraged by a movie titled "Innocence of Muslims."  The movie's trailer was ...

September 9, 2012

Decision in November: Ride Amtrak or buy a Ford

Jim McElhatton of The Washington Times wrote in his recent article, "Fraud, abuse found rampant at Amtrak": One Amtrak employee spent much of his time in the office sending emails to women he met through a half-dozen online dating sites and claime...

August 22, 2012

Wargaming Termination of Tea Party Extremists

Our military planners are openly discussing how to kill "Tea Party extremists" who have taken over a small town in the USA.  Is this "operational lay-down" merely a "cartoonish and needlessly provocative scenario," as described by The Washington...

August 8, 2012

Harry Reid and Alinsky's Thirteenth Rule

Virginia State Sen. L. Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth), as quoted in The Washington Post, claims that Gov. Mitt Romney's rise in the polls is the result of racism.  In the same newspaper, Opinion Writer Harold Meyerson asks, "What happens if GOP's v...

July 28, 2012

It's a Tax/It's Not a Tax: ObamaCare Explained

Matthew Franck has defended Chief Justice Roberts' opinion thusly: I am more convinced than ever that Roberts has a fully plausible case that can be defended on principled grounds.  That is not the same as an endorsement of its merits. ... But ...

July 7, 2012

To Rule, or Not to Rule, That Is the Question

The airwaves and blogs are atwitter with comments about how Justice Roberts has abandoned the conservative ship and set sail to the "left" side of the vast oceans of judicial statesmanship.  I've heard some pretty venomous stuff coming from my c...