February 10, 2025

Trump Has the Taxpayers’ Back

Is there a publicly traded company in the U.S. where shareholders (in this case, the taxpayer) or the company’s board would not want their CEO to have visibility, oversight, and authority over how their company’s money is spent and provid...

August 4, 2024

Why hasn’t anyone been 'fired' for July 13th?

Nine days after the shocking events of July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, Kim Cheatle testified before Congress still holding her title as Secret Service Director and still fully in charge of the agency responsible for ensuring the safety and security ...

May 2, 2024

A Political Impeachment?

“To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail,” goes the old adage.  For Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democrat Senate majority leader, the nation’s issues brought before the Senate are first and foremost political ...

March 7, 2024

Why Putin Endorses Biden

Presidents Biden and Putin are trading barbs as of late, albeit through interpreters and intermediaries.  At a California Democrat fundraiser, Biden called Putin a “crazy SOB,” while Putin sarcastically responded in so many word...

March 6, 2024

Putin Says 'Da' to Biden for November

Presidents Biden and Putin are trading barbs as of late, albeit through interpreters and intermediaries. At a California Democrat fundraiser, Biden called Putin a “crazy SOB,” while Putin sarcastically responded in so many words that he [...

February 9, 2024

No Super Bowl Interview for Joe Biden

It’s Super Bowl week, and one of many hyped events now surrounding the game has become the customary media interview with the sitting American president.  But President Joe Biden — or, maybe more correctly, his handlers — ...

January 22, 2024

The Frustrating Irony of Legal Immigration

One Virginia household had much to be thankful for and celebrate this past holiday season.  After 14 long months dealing with U.S. immigration authorities, the foreign-born spouse of a U.S. service member was approved for her “green card...

December 29, 2023

World Leaders’ Terror of Climate Change

Playing to what amounted to a friendly home crowd at the Dubai U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP28), NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg went there to deliver a message touting a relationship between global security and climate change, while em...

June 11, 2023

‘Show Me the Motive’ Postscript

With John Durham and his report now pretty well closing the book on one of the most sordid episodes in American politics, one angle never pursued -- not even by Durham himself -- was to consider the illogic of the allegations against Donald Trump of ...

May 19, 2023

Biden fails as the nation's Chief Citizen

From Civics 101, the president of the United States, in addition to the position's more well-known roles such as "Commander in Chief" and "Chief Executive," also has a designated, but less talked about, role as the nation'...

April 26, 2023

'Mr. President, How About a Press Conference?'

It finally happened.  Out of frustration, Gray Television's Jon Decker, a member of the White House press corps, flat-out asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: "Is the administration trying to protect the president ...

January 28, 2023

Whom does Representative Maria Salazar represent?

When a citizen is elected to Congress, he is conferred the title of "representative," with each "representative" elected to a two-year term, "serving the people of their specific congressional district." So ...

January 14, 2023

Adam Kinzinger showcases a serious flaw in modern American society

The appearance of former Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger on CNN as a "senior political commentator" so soon after leaving office calls for a moment to reflect on the idea of retired members of Congress — indeed, of any high rankin...

October 19, 2022

Remember When Joe Biden Promised to Fire Alejandro Mayorkas?

Just where did President Biden set the bar for the promise he made? On the campaign trail and during the early days of his presidency, President Biden made grandiose promises and assurances to the American people of unity and a return to normalcy ...

October 1, 2022

This Is Not about the Migrants

Since April, thousands of migrants have been bussed to Democrat-controlled "sanctuary" areas like New York City; Chicago; and Washington, D.C., sent north by border state governors to send a message and call needed attention to the overwhel...

September 16, 2022

Will Anyone Actually Like It if Biden Ends Fossil Fuels?

President Joe Biden does not hide his intention to "end fossil fuel."  He campaigned on it; his policies reflect it; and as soon as he took office, he began actively pursuing an end to fossil fuels by engaging federal agencies und...

March 19, 2022

To Fly or Not to Fly? That is the Question

Liberal talk show host Steven Colbert pretty well captured the whole callous disconnect between this nation’s green zealots and Americans paying all-time record high gas prices at the pump.  By now, many Americans have heard Colbert’...

January 26, 2022

Is It Too Much to Expect That President Biden Abide By His Own Promise?

Throughout his campaign and the early days of his presidency, President Biden made grand promises and pledges to the American people of unity and a return to normalcy and civility.  He also put forth another related promise on his inauguration d...

June 28, 2021

Climate Change Takes Center Stage Again at the Pentagon

Speaking to American troops at RAF Mildenhall, England, on his trip to Europe, President Biden recounted an exchange with the Joint Chiefs as vice president: "This is not a joke.  You know what the Joint Chiefs told us the greatest thr...

March 30, 2021

An apology from Congresswoman Sherrill is in order

Less than a week after the chaotic and unfortunate events at the Capitol building on January 6, New Jersey Democratic congresswoman Mikie Sherrill went public in a Facebook Live broadcast to make brazen accusations against Republican member...

October 31, 2020

Ed Markey fails his oath of office in his vile attack on Amy Coney Barrett

Among the many Democrats throwing fits over Justice Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation, one glaringly stood out.  Sen. Ed Markey, the Democrat from Massachusetts known for his liberal progressive bona fides, issued a bitter...

October 21, 2020

Judge Barrett's play of the day

In the spirit of Sportscenter's "Play of the Day," let's recap key moments from Judge Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearings. Her "Play of the Day" ensued when Republican Senator John Cornyn started his questioni...

November 9, 2019

Democrats and the 'Fight Against Western Imperialism'

At a recent  Bernie Sanders rally in Minneapolis, Representative Ilhan Omar endorsed him for President with a rousing declaration that Sanders “will fight against Western imperialism.”  Yes, you read correctly -- “western ...

November 1, 2019

A Crying Shame: Europe's 'Flight Shaming' Movement

If one invention in mankind's history has connected people and places, helped raise the standard of living for billions of people, and allowed anyone to travel the world freely, it is the modern jet airliner.  Yet environmental activist...

September 21, 2019

DC Statehood Is Up for a Vote Again. It's Still a Bad Idea.

Since regaining their House majority in the 2018 midterms, Democrats have floated a raft of proposals that, if enacted, would upend bedrock elements of our American system of government. One such Democratic undertaking is H.R. 51, the District ...

August 29, 2019

Insane: Even Republicans Think 2020 Russian Election Meddling Will Help Trump

In his ballyhooed hearing before the House Intelligence Committee in July, Special Counsel Robert Mueller forewarned lawmakers that Russian meddling in U.S. elections didn't end in 2016, and Russia would again try to subvert American democracy du...

July 24, 2019

Wall Street, Main Street, and 2020

In the lead-up to the 2016 election, an array of economists, financial media, and academics were making rosy predictions of where financial markets would be headed after Hillary Clinton won, and correspondingly dire forecasts for the markets if ...

May 11, 2019

Post–Mueller Report Reminder: The Russians Would Have Loved President Hillary Clinton

Had Daniel Patrick Moynihan been around for today's politics, fellow New York Democratic politician Representative Hakeem Jeffries may well have provided the inspiration for his astute quote: "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not...

April 27, 2019

Senator Wyden's Very Bad Idea for More Taxes

Oregon's liberal Democratic senator Ron Wyden most likely knew from the get-go that his idea for new taxes on assets and investments wouldn't get a lot of traction — so much so that a news release, tweet, or bulletin taking credit for h...

March 15, 2019

Terrified, Democrat Jay Inslee Runs for President as a White Male

Is it any wonder that Washington governor and announced 2020 Democratic candidate Jay Inslee polled at an almost statistically insignificant 1% among at least 13 Democratic candidates in a new Iowa poll, conducted last week by the Des Moines Register...

December 22, 2018

Law & Disorder: Time for Mueller to Call It Quits

The successful formula for TV's long-running series Law & Order consisted of the show's first half focused on the police investigation of a crime; the second half followed the prosecution of the crime in court.  For the police, ...

October 26, 2018

Will Global Warming Destroy the World? Ask America's Farmers.

This is a good news story. With the fall harvest underway across the nation's Midwest "breadbasket," early U.S. Department of Agriculture reporting predicts record-setting corn and soybean crops for 2018.  The corn crop wil...

October 17, 2018

Senator Grassley's Play of the Day

For sports fans, ESPN's hugely popular Sportscenter TV show is a roundup of the day's highlights, updates, and scores from major sporting events.  The show's "Play of the Day" segment gives viewers a chance to see...

July 21, 2018

The Shoe on the Left Foot: Trump's Travel Ban and the Iran Crisis

After the Supreme Court ruling in favor of the administration in Trump v. Hawaii, continued efforts by the left to push the twin ideas of religious animus and conservative politics in the Trump administration's travel ban requires – to borr...

March 29, 2018

Mark Warner; Adam Schiff's kindred spirit in the Senate

Americans are now inured to California congressman Adam Schiff as the public face of congressional Democrats' now withering allegations that "collusion" took place between the Trump campaign and Russians during the 2016 presidential ele...

March 1, 2018

What Mexico Should Be Focusing On

Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto once again canceled plans to make his first visit to the White House to meet with President Trump after a recent phone call described as "testy" ended in an impasse over President Trump's...

February 10, 2018

Show Me the Motive

Over the many months since he first cried "collusion" before a camera, one thing Adam Schiff and his fellow Democrats have never done – or conveniently avoided – is explain just what happened or provide any substantive proof or ...

January 13, 2017

The Trump EPA: Increasing Levels of Common Sense

To hear Democrat voices tell it, one might be tempted to think the incoming Trump administration actually wants dirty air, dirty water, and to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Among the more breathless of those voices, one Atlant...

March 18, 2016

Will the Military Answer Hillary's Call in 2016?

When Barack Obama kicked off his first presidential campaign in 2008 as a junior first-term senator from Illinois, it became a political imperative for the greenhorn candidate to obtain the endorsements of retired – but still influential ...