Cindy Simpson

Cindy Simpson


  • April 21, 2023

    Humor, pandemic style

    A joke fell flat on the stage of Saturday Night Live a few weeks ago, but the reverberations are still being heard across the country.  It happened when Woody Harrelson shocked the live audience with this short joke about a Hollyw...

  • July 17, 2019

    The Left’s Shorthand Smear Tactics

    “Birtherism” lives. Not because Kenyan birth conspiracists refuse to let it go, but because the Democrat-Media Complex won’t let the term die. The label and its interchangeable charge of “racism” are too useful to them a...

  • July 6, 2018

    NeverTrump Conservatism Has Passed Its Sell-By Date

    NeverTrump conservatism has passed its sell-by date.  It is a negative asset of the Republican Party.  It needs to pack up and move – but not until the movement has been so decisively rebuked that those who are a part of it ...

  • February 15, 2018

    Behind the portrait of Barack Obama

    The selection of the artists painting the Obamas' new portraits commissioned for the Smithsonian revealed much more than two pieces of "art." One would surely think that the chosen artists of the former president and first lady of th...

  • September 17, 2017

    If I Were the Devil, I'd Enact Hate Speech Laws

    Hate speech laws are loved not only by the do-gooders who demand them.  If I were the Devil, I'd love laws that limit free speech, too. "If I Were the Devil," a famous monologue originally written by Paul Harvey in 1965 that he ...

  • July 15, 2017

    The Shameful Disdain of the #NeverTrumps

    The worst sin of the #NeverTrumps is their blatant ridicule of the people who voted for President Trump and support his administration.  Ranging from published screeds and Twitter tirades to disparaging remarks on national television, the #Never...

  • August 18, 2016

    #NeverTrumps: Hoping Trump Fails to Make America Great Again

    Back in 2009, Rush Limbaugh was pilloried by the mainstream media for admitting he hoped that President Obama would fail.  Today, we have #NeverTrump Republicans hoping that Donald Trump fails. Although the media framed Limbaugh’s remar...

  • July 8, 2016

    America’s War to Defend Islam

    Why is America in a war on the side of Islam? War is all about taking sides: it involves both fighting against an enemy and defending the target of that enemy. But when political correctness prevents an accurate identification of either side, the...

  • February 16, 2016

    Trump’s Highlighter

    President Obama has a pen, and he hasn’t been afraid to use it. (His transformational writing instrument of choice is really a stubby, unsharpened pencil with a well-worn eraser, but that’s another story.) Presidential candidate Trump,...

  • August 12, 2015

    The Shrinking of the GOP Tent

    It has often been said that in order to win future elections, the GOP needs to build a “bigger tent.” Lately, however, it seems that some conservative pundits have pulled up the stakes and are working at trimming down its size by around 2...

  • July 14, 2015

    Trump's Lesson for the GOP Establishment

    Donald Trump has started a wave. And what the rest of the GOP slate decides to do about it is pivotal. If Republicans were smart, they’d be wise to apply some lessons from the party that’s actually much smarter at political strategy th...

  • April 22, 2015

    Natural Born GOP Presidential Candidates

    “Birthers are crazy,” according to a recent Facebook post by one of my respected conservative friends, and they just need to “shut up” about Senators Cruz and Rubio and Governor Jindal being eligible for the presidency as ...

  • January 26, 2015

    Obama, the Comic Book Villain

    Encouraged by the Democrat Media complex to write his own narrative, President Obama has apparently decided to deliver it in the form of a comic book supervillain monologue. Obama’s “swagger” has led us beyond the realm of ...

  • October 23, 2014

    The Democratic Campaign Platform: Lie to Win

    President Obama “giftwrapped” the truth Monday, when he told Al Sharpton that Democratic candidates are lying when they distance themselves from him.  The Washington Post summed it up: Obama’s comments not only “sugg...

  • September 29, 2014

    The Obama Doctrine: Freedom for Whom?

    As our nation considers what President Obama now admits as “the real and growing threat” of terrorism, the question must be asked: What is the “Obama Doctrine?”  A close examination of the thinking behind the Obama Doctri...

  • July 14, 2014

    Impeachment: The Red Line and the Last Straw

    Where is the red line of impeachment? In theory, a red line might be located somewhere on a list of impeachable offenses – perhaps at the point where a certain number of transgressions is exceeded, or next to a specific instance because of i...

  • July 7, 2014

    All Obama's World's a Stage

    "Sometimes stuff just happens,” according to former IRS chief Lois Lerner.  It sure does, sometimes.  Forrest Gump would have something to say about that.  Sometimes, though, when it happens is the most important chara...

  • May 10, 2014

    America's Last Straw

    The tenth of May is the anniversary of the “royal assent” of the Tea Act -- famously known as one of the last straws that led to the American Revolution. A “last straw” -- defined as “the last of a series (as of event...

  • April 15, 2014

    Obama's Pencil-thin Presidency

    Peeking over the top of Obama’s shirt pocket is not the end of the pen that he threatened to use, along with his phone, if he didn’t get his way. It’s the tip of a pencil. An ordinary, wooden, No. 2 pencil, complete with eraser, ...

  • March 5, 2014

    Lois Lerner Pleads the Fifth Again

    This morning, Lois Lerner again pleaded the Fifth, refusing to answer any of Chairman Darrell Issa’s questions.  After a few minutes of Lerner’s repetitive non-response, Issa adjourned the hearing, so we don’t know if the commi...

  • February 15, 2014

    Where Is the Red Line of Impeachment?

    In the business world, a diligent board of directors would have long ago fired CEO Obama. Sometimes it takes only a year of less than expected earnings to result in the termination of a corporate CEO.  A couple of underperforming years ...

  • January 28, 2014

    The Bully-in-Chief Takes the Bully Pulpit

    President Obama's pen and phone and threats to use them could forever transform the meaning of the term "bully pulpit" in our nation's lexicon. According to the Oxford Dictionary, "bully pulpit" describes "a public office or position of authority th...

  • January 16, 2014

    What Obama's 'Making Sure' of

    One of President Obama's less-noticed verbal tics is his frequent use of the expression "make sure." He recently proclaimed: "Talk is cheap and we've gotta actually make sure we can do it."  The "it" in that opening statement of his "Promise Z...

  • January 8, 2014

    Audit the IRS!

    When certain unusual items pop up in the news that appear to point to a Democrat craftsman or underlying Big Government agenda, we're told that the events are merely isolated anomalies or coincidences that imply no such intentional design. An opposi...

  • October 23, 2013

    Ted Cruz Spots a Tsunami

    Ted Cruz is our Tilly Smith. Tilly Smith was a hero. Vacationing on a beach in 2004 in Thailand, the ten-year-old Tilly immediately recognized the signs of the approaching tsunami and quickly warned fellow beachgoers, in time to save over a hundred l...

  • September 26, 2013

    Natural Born Irony

    Is the Canadian-born Senator Ted Cruz eligible for the presidency as a natural born citizen?  If not, chalk it up as one of the reasons why the junior senator, in the opinion of some, has no business working to defund ObamaCare.  As noted b...

  • June 12, 2013

    Which Database: OFA or NSA?

    In the wake of the explosive NSA data-mining revelations, Breitbart TV reminded us of an interesting Rep. Maxine Waters bombshell from February.  In an interview, Rep. Waters described a very powerful database that "no one has ever seen before i...

  • June 8, 2013

    The Obama Avalanche

    Like the grains of sand in the "creepy" sculpture of Obama at the 2012 Democratic National Convention that were blown away by bad weather, it is only a matter of time until the stones constituting the protective wall around the Obama narrative begin ...

  • June 7, 2013

    Big Government's Data Plan

    With the shocking revelation that the NSA is collecting all Verizon phone records under a secret court order, we can now begin to understand why that same agency is in need of the massive new data center in Utah. Fox News's Catherine Herridge broke...

  • April 24, 2013

    Babies and Immigration Reform

    Not a single word in the 844-page "Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act" introduced by Senator Marco Rubio and the "Gang of Eight" addresses the controversial practice of "birthright citizenship." Birthright citiz...

  • April 18, 2013

    Big Government Mind-Readers

    Growing up as the daughter of a small-town evangelical Christian preacher, in an era where children quietly sat with their parents through hours of services that were often of the fire-and-brimstone variety, I learned basic yet critical truths that I...

  • April 1, 2013

    The Left's Viking Politics

    The new Vikings series on the History Channel has brought to light an interesting battle strategy from the past. The pagan Nordic marauders -- after having learned that most Europeans attended church on Sunday -- found Christians, their unattended ho...

  • March 19, 2013

    Drones in Wonderland

    Not only in an epic thirteen-hour filibuster but also in his 2013 CPAC speech, Senator Rand Paul referred to Wonderland's White Queen from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Paul, warning against drone assassination policies that deprive citi...

  • March 9, 2013

    Wacko Birds and Birthers

    If birds of a feather flock together, should the cuckoos be pushed out of the nest? Senator John McCain, still squawking about Sen. Rand Paul's filibuster, is now calling Tea Party-backed lawmakers "wacko birds" that don't represent the GOP mainstrea...

  • March 7, 2013

    OFA: The Organizing of America

    Other than the obvious initials "OFA" and a now-familiar circular logo, what do Obama for America 2008, Organizing for America (2009), Obama for America 2012, and now Organizing for Action all share -- and why should we care? The Democratic National ...

  • February 20, 2013

    The Truth Be Dimmed

    Maybe Sarah Palin could see Russia from her house -- but on my front porch, every morning, a view of Pravda-style reporting rolled up in the form of my local paper awaits me.  In Kentucky, many conservatives jokingly call Louisville's paper, The...

  • January 31, 2013

    Obama's 'Evil Empire' Speech

    If President Obama is truly the "Reagan of the Left," then it's only fair to ask: What does Obama consider "evil" and an "evil empire?" After all, since Obama's second inaugural address, commentators both left and right have been busily comparing Ob...

  • January 26, 2013

    Smoking Out the Truth of Obamacare

    The truth about Obamacare's death panels and the twisted liberal logic behind them was brilliantly exposed by AT's Daren Jonescu, who described the progressive's goal of "a legal monopoly" on health care which can then "deny treatment to some on the ...

  • January 24, 2013

    Women in Combat: And Then What?

    It seems that Leon Panetta is preparing to launch a very large wrecking ball of political correctness on his way out -- to lift the ban on women in combat: Leon Panetta, in one of his last acts as President Obama's defense secretary, is preparing to ...

  • January 22, 2013

    Obama: Fox, Lion, or Emperor?

    "The White House may craftily be laying the groundwork for a massive and thoroughly unconstitutional seizure of power from Congress," warned veteran White House reporter Keith Koffler of the upcoming debt ceiling battle. Considering both the slyness ...

  • January 7, 2013

    Who Would Dare Veto the Sandy Bill?

    "Folks have put politics ahead of their responsibilities." So declared New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in a highly-publicized news conference where he blasted House Republicans for failure to approve the $60 billion Hurricane Sandy aid package. C...

  • December 22, 2012

    Stickin' It to The Man

    A few years ago, a commercial for a mobile phone carrier featured an executive who triumphantly declared that by taking advantage of a new calling plan, he was "sticking it to The Man." The assistant standing next to the boss, after listening to the ...

  • December 10, 2012

    Who Goes Obama?

    In 1941, Harpers Magazine published a fascinating article by writer Dorothy Thompson titled: "Who Goes Nazi?" Seventy years later, we're asking the question: "Who goes Obama?" (Before the reader is shocked that this article dares mention "Nazi" and "...

  • December 2, 2012

    The Mainstream Elf on the Shelf

    Santa's "Elf on the Shelf" may be watching little girls and boys and sending reports of their naughty or nice behavior to the North Pole, but Mainstream Elves sit on America's shelves with a much bigger job. Propped up by the Democrat-media complex, ...

  • November 21, 2012

    The Benghazi Slingshot

    Some brave thinkers recognize that beneath the intrigue surrounding the Benghazi tragedy lie the traces of something much larger and far more dangerous. Frank Gaffney and the Center for Security Policy hosted a panel on November 13, 2012 to discuss "...

  • November 17, 2012

    Nightmare on Election Street

    We're all familiar with the scene from the horror movies.  Just at the moment of facing the monster, or perhaps that last step before a fall into the abyss -- the music climaxes; the camera zooms in.  And there, on the big screen, a close-u...

  • November 6, 2012

    Julia Stayed Home; Jane Voted

    Julia stayed home this election. Jane voted. Although the actual results of the 2012 presidential election will be examined for days to come, I would be willing to bet that women's votes showed a dramatic change from 2008. Julia, living in her gover...

  • October 29, 2012

    Soft Bigotry of Campaign Expectations

    The phrase "soft bigotry of low expectations" explains today's commonly accepted rules of engagement in political warfare.  In this context, however, it has nothing to do with differences based on race or income level that was the phrase's origi...

  • October 16, 2012

    What Not to Wear: Presidential Edition

    While getting my hair done at the salon, I was entertained with my iPad and this recent headline on The Blaze: "'Morning Joe' panelist actually asks if we can 'trust" Mitt Romney if he 'colors his hair.'" The guest panelist for MSNBC, Donnie Deutsch,...

  • September 29, 2012

    Read This While You Can

    Read this column by Diana West while you can -- while we still have journalists brave enough to write the truth, and before the truth is censored.  West, a syndicated columnist and author, noted an astonishing statement within Obama's speech to ...

  • September 26, 2012

    Obama's Struggle

    On the campaign trail, Michelle Obama often employs the word "struggle."  It was actually Mrs. Obama's peculiar pronunciation -- "shtruggle" -- that first drew my attention to the frequency of her usage.  At the 2012 Democratic National Con...

  • August 24, 2012

    The Akin Issue: A Mouse under Republican Feet

    The recent Todd Akin debacle is reminiscent of an item from the last round of senatorial elections.  Back in June of 2010, I wrote about some of the ugly tactics of the Harry Reid campaign that appeared to follow the advice of a leaked Democrati...

  • July 30, 2012

    Did You Get Your ObamaCare Letter Yet?

    I got my ObamaCare letter yesterday.  Lately I've been so caught up in the other troubling aspects of the AFA -- like the contraceptive mandate and the Supreme Court ruling on the penalty/tax -- that the "Medical Loss Ratio" rule had fallen off ...

  • July 30, 2012

    Votes for Sale

    Vote-buying is "where the money's at."  Those were words recently spoken in my home state of Kentucky, by some who admitted to knowing that the practice is illegal but as "everyday" as jaywalking.  (The Kentucky buyers interviewed were eith...

  • July 25, 2012

    Birthers and Bainers and Returners, Oh My!

    Birthers and Bainers and Returners -- oh my!  In today's political Oz, we're warned to beware of crazy conspiracy theorists, described by creative names ending in "er." Along the road to the 2012 election, birthers are probably the most notoriou...

  • July 13, 2012

    A Man for All Races

    Mitt Romney received a standing ovation at the NAACP convention.  Really.  Even though practically every media outlet failed to mention that important tidbit and instead focused on the boos he provoked after his comments on ObamaCare. ...

  • July 12, 2012

    Key Man or the Constitution?

    Much discussion on the ObamaCare ruling has centered on the surprising identity of the tie-breaking Supreme Court justice, rather than the disturbing fact that such a crucial decision hinged on the opinion of just one man. Experts were primarily focu...

  • July 11, 2012

    Personal Space Wars

    The enactment of Obamacare places the fight to defend our freedom right in front of our eyes as it occupies the personal space each and every American inhabits. "Personal space" was the concept studied by anthropologist Edward Hall in his 1966 book, ...

  • June 25, 2012

    The Fairness Card

    In the game of Obama politics, the Race Card and the Bush Card are frequently played to trump most any criticism of Obama or his policies.  While those cards tend to be the most oft-used defensive tactics, the most effective offensive card in th...

  • June 13, 2012

    Lord of the Skeptics

    Did you see this extraordinary headline recently?  Prominent foreign statesman claims posted birth certificate of the President of the United States probable digital forgery.   Just kidding.  Not about the content of that hea...

  • June 5, 2012

    The Morphing Obama Biography and the Skeptics

    An odd taboo has been created on noticing that the president of the United States has a biography that can adapt itself to the needs of the moment.  Go too far in raising an alarm, and be labeled "birther" and shunned in polite society.  Th...

  • May 28, 2012

    Looking Up to Our Heroes

    Talking about Memorial Day, MSNBC's Chris Hayes admitted he was "uncomfortable" calling our fallen soldiers "heroes": Thinking today and observing Memorial Day...I think it is very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking...

  • May 26, 2012

    Grown-Ups, Take the Wheel

    Ever wonder why conversations with adults often leave you feeling like you were arguing with teenagers? Take heart, you're not alone: author Diana West, in her brilliant book, The Death of the Grown-Up:  How America's Arrested Development is Bri...

  • May 4, 2012

    Rubio and Birthright Citizenship

    Those conservatives who argue against "birthright citizenship" have just been thrown under the same bus as the "birthers" -- whether or not they like it, or the GOP admits it.  The mainstream media, longtime foes against reform of the anchor bab...

  • April 30, 2012

    Obama's new slogan

    The Obama campaign has just issued a new slogan for the mob:  "Forward!" "Mob" was the term used to describe liberals by Ann Coulter in her brilliant book, Demonic:  How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America.  Citing Gustave Le Bon, "...

  • April 29, 2012

    Raining Cats, Dogs, and Hypocrisy

    So many dog stories making headlines these days -- might cats be feeling a bit jealous?  A privileged feline named Boots, who "walked from a bizarre death sentence," was the star in this recent post by Professor Jonathan Turley: Boots was the pe...

  • April 24, 2012

    Narrative Wars: How the GOP Can Win

    There is one thing that President Obama refers to as a silly distraction.  But in reality, it represents a key part of the bigger thing conservatives must overcome to win this election battle. The biggest thing was described by the "Big" sites' ...

  • April 10, 2012

    The Political War of Wordgames

    A political war of wordgames rages on.  The latest front has been drawn at the steps of the Supreme Court. Warning of a "right-wing revolution dressed in judicial robes," campaign strategist Robert Shrum in his March 30 article declared: "The co...

  • April 1, 2012

    Christianity or Thoughtcrime?

    "Thoughtcrimes" -- opinions and ideas that oppose the status quo -- were pursued and punished by the Thought Police in the future world described by George Orwell in his novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.  Could politically incorrect thought be declar...

  • March 26, 2012

    Obama's 'Flexible' Second Term?

    Many of us, back in 2008, instead of being inspired, were uncomfortable with the prospects of a self-admitted "blank screen" as President. One with a rather murky, largely unknown past, who voted "present" much of the time as senator.  Also one ...

  • March 21, 2012

    Al-Awlaki's Can of Worms

    Anwar al-Awlaki may be dead, but the controversy surrounding his demise is far from over.  Many Americans and members of Congress are still alarmed that a U.S. citizen was ordered assassinated without due process of law.  And an important p...

  • March 18, 2012

    The Master of Words

    Words appearing on a computer screen, printed on paper, or spoken through a microphone hold a certain measure of power on their own.  But when skillfully controlled by a master, words can unleash the potential for absolute power.  In Lewis ...

  • March 6, 2012

    Obama and the Matter of Trust

    Ronald Reagan was fond of saying:  "Trust, but verify." President Obama told us he released his official long-form birth certificate on April 27, 2011.  Can we trust him, and should we verify? Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his "Cold Case P...

  • March 2, 2012

    Sheriff Arpaio's Posse Surprise

    The Tea Party members of Surprise, Arizona, were likely not surprised to learn that even America's Toughest Sheriff cannot fully break the shroud of secrecy and mystery surrounding Obama's long-form birth certificate. However, yesterday, Arizona Sher...

  • February 29, 2012

    NFL Changes Schedule for Obama

    The NFL announced yesterday that it would move its 2012 season opener in order to "avoid a conflict" with President Obama's Democratic National Convention acceptance speech planned for the same evening.  The opener, originally scheduled for Thu...

  • February 24, 2012

    Will Voters Bite?

    If the wisdom contained in the old adage "a dog won't bite the hand that feeds it" is true, does it also follow that a voter, dependent on the government, will not vote against an incumbent big-government president? The Heritage Foundation's recently...

  • February 20, 2012

    Georgia and Birthright Citizenship

    Some interesting events have been transpiring in Georgia over the last few weeks.  At least, that is, in the right wing blogosphere's view -- the mainstream media orchestrated a complete blackout.  And it wasn't because big media missed the...

  • February 14, 2012

    Obama's Eligibility Diversion

    Having followed the Obama "natural born" citizenship quandary since its inception, I had always viewed the controversy over Obama's birthplace and other records as a diversion from the real issue: Obama's dual citizenship precluded his constitutional...

  • February 8, 2012

    Georgia Rules for Obama

    On February 7, Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp adopted Judge Malihi's final decision on the ballot challenges -- Obama's name will appear on the Georgia 2012 ballot. A few hours before Secretary Kemp issued that decision, one of the attorne...

  • February 4, 2012

    Obama Wins Georgia Ballot Challenge

    President Obama's name should appear on Georgia's 2012 presidential ballot, in the official opinion of Judge Michael Malihi of Georgia's Office of State Administrative Hearings (OSAH), issued on February 3.  Judge Malihi's decision is the result...

  • February 2, 2012

    Obama Got Served

    Obama was served a subpoena to appear in a hearing last week in Georgia over his eligibility to appear on the state's ballot.  Obama's attorney, Michael Jablonski, immediately filed a motion to quash the subpoena, which was denied by OSAH Judge ...

  • January 30, 2012

    Media Blackout in Obama Georgia Ballot Eligibility Case

    Last week, I noted that Obama turned his back not just on Arizona's Governor Jan Brewer, but also on the laws of the State of Georgia.  I closed my column, "Georgia Ballot Challenge: Obama Walks on By," with the observation: "And most of the med...

  • January 25, 2012

    Citizenship: Easy Come, Easy Go?

    Rather than engage in the politically incorrect practice of "profiling," our government, under the guise of national security, has chosen to subject everyone who holds an airline ticket, from small children to grannies, to uncomfortable and unreasona...

  • January 23, 2012

    Georgia on Obama's Mind?

    As reported here on American Thinker, "the 'birthers' went down to Georgia, lookin' for an election to spoil"...and spoil it they may. The story began last November, when Georgia citizen David Welden filed a formal challenge over Obama's qualificatio...

  • January 6, 2012

    Academia Shrugs: Obama's Citizenship and the Presidency

    By avoiding the contentious question of Obama's "natural born" eligibility, America's academic establishment has also stifled discussion on the inextricably related issue of citizenship law in our country, in the greater context of immigration refo...

  • January 4, 2012

    The Birthers Went Down to Georgia

    The birthers went down to Georgia, lookin' for an election to spoil.... Last November, Georgia citizen David Weldon filed a challenge over Obama's qualifications to appear on Georgia's 2012 presidential ballot.  Yesterday, Obama's motion to dism...

  • January 1, 2012

    Timshel, America

    Of the many novels based on the biblical account of Cain and Abel, one of the most unforgettable and beautifully written is John Steinbeck's classic, East of Eden.  A compelling saga spanning three generations of two families living in the Salin...

  • December 24, 2011

    A Different Kind of Hope and Change

    As America appears to edge ever closer to a disastrous economic tipping point -- defined as the point at which the majority becomes dependent on the government -- we find ourselves wondering if the downhill slide is inevitable and irreversible. ...

  • December 15, 2011

    Obama's Job Description

    What exactly is the proper role of the president of the United States?  As we prepare for another election and strive to thoroughly vet GOP hopefuls, an equally comprehensive examination of the job to which they aspire is in order. A starting po...

  • November 8, 2011

    The Great American Memory Hole

    In the fictional world of George Orwell's 1984, when printed information conflicted with the newest version of truth as Oceania's government proclaimed it, relevant documents were promptly revised by the Ministry of Truth and damning remnants of evid...

  • October 29, 2011

    Conspiracies, Lies, and Justiagate

    I have never believed in conspiracies -- at least, not in the vast kind that Hillary felt the right wing deployed against her philandering husband.  More often, it seems the cover-up of truth, not the circulation of manufactured untruths, lies a...

  • October 18, 2011

    Citizenship Jeopardy

    Trivia question:  What do Anwar al-Awlaki, Yaser Esam Hamdi, and newborn twin daughters of Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman have in common? You were probably ready to hit the buzzer and answer something like "What is Islamic terrorism"-until you...

  • September 19, 2011

    A New Chorus for the Mob

    "Pass this bill!" Have you been keeping count of how many times since The Jobs Speech you've heard Obama and his team repeat that command?  The day after Obama's address, the blogosphere lit up with links to National Journal's video "remix" high...

  • September 11, 2011

    A Bridge for Obama

    In his speech before Congress last Thursday, Obama mentioned "a bridge that needs repair between Ohio and Kentucky that's on one of the busiest trucking routes in North America." The bridge Obama described is the "Brent Spence Bridge," with a needed ...

  • July 6, 2011

    Birther Card: Coulter's Turn

    The Birther Card game continues, with Obama's long-form birth certificate on top of the pot and "Made in the USA" coffee mugs around the table. Watching the match unfold leads me to agree with Donald Trump: lots of smart people are birthers, and they...

  • March 18, 2011

    Obama's Puddles

    Sir Walter Raleigh, so the legend goes, once threw his cloak over a mud puddle that sullied the path of Queen Elizabeth I.  His chivalrous gesture served to keep Her Majesty's dainty feet free of dirt and to shield the ugly puddle from the Queen...

  • February 13, 2011

    The Birther Card

    Hawaii's new governor, Neil Abercrombie, stirred the "birther" pot just before Christmas when he promised to launch an expedition for Obama's long form birth certificate. Chris Matthews reported on the Abercrombie quest, and though calling ...

  • January 25, 2011

    The Birther Trial Balloon

    Is anyone really surprised that Hawaii's new governor, Neil Abercrombie, was unable to produce the promised Obama long-form birth certificate?  No matter how Abercrombie's words are parsed or interpreted or spun, the fact is that there is no new...

  • December 21, 2010

    The Picture of Barack Obama

    In the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, described as "a classic commentary on narcissism, decadence, and the wages of sin," author Oscar Wilde wrote:Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitte...

  • November 28, 2010

    President Obama, It's Business, Not Personal

    Years ago, as a freshly recruited manager in an international corporation's headquarters, I was offered this friendly advice from my co-workers: The day we were hired, an imaginary bullet was fired, and we would spend the rest of our careers attempti...

  • October 23, 2010

    America's Casting Call

    I confess:  Sometimes, after a long day of political blogging and all the infuriating news relayed by Fox I can take, I reach for the comfort mind-food of my stack of well-worn DVDs. There are a few that I shamelessly enjoy watching repeatedly, ...

  • October 5, 2010

    Obama's Pumpkin

    As pumpkins line the front of my local market and appear on neighbors' porches, I am reminded of the famous pumpkin described in Whittaker Chambers' autobiography, Witness. A moving and beautifully written book containing much more than a tale of esp...

  • September 24, 2010

    I Can See November from My Pew

    Sarah Palin can see November from her house.  Somewhere between 87,000 and a few hundred thousand, on August 28, could see November from the Washington Monument. I can see November from my pew.  What I hear about November from the pulpit is...

  • August 14, 2010

    What a Difference Five Years Make

    Five years ago, my family took a vacation to Niagara Falls. On our return across the Canadian border, U.S. Immigration officials detained us for several tense hours because we happened to be the unlucky renters of a car that matched some sort of susp...

  • August 4, 2010

    GM announces major investment in auto plant (in Mexico)

    That's Government Motors gratitude for you! From the Wall Street Journal:U.S. automobile giant General Motors Co. said Tuesday it plans to invest close to $500 million in its Ramos Arizpe plant in northern Mexico to produce a new line of engines...

  • August 1, 2010

    Home Is Where the Heart Is

    Recently discovered in a Manhattan library's records: In 1789, George Washington borrowed a copy of Emmerich de Vattel's "The Law of Nations" and never returned it. Many historians have documented this important treatise as the basis for mu...

  • July 31, 2010

    The question of 'Birthright Citizenship'

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  • July 25, 2010

    Who's Watching Big Brother?

    My summer job at thirteen was babysitting a set of eight-year old twins, adorable little monsters under my bungling care, all day long, nine hours a day, five days a week. (Fortunately the experience wasn't so scarring as to prevent me from marrying ...

  • July 9, 2010

    If it Looks Like a Duck

    The Wall Street Journal's John Fund makes an alarming observation in his article:  "The Obama-Pelosi Lame Duck Strategy:"There have been signs in recent weeks that party leaders are planning an ambitious, lame-duck session to muscle th...

  • July 4, 2010

    The 'Deem'n Pass' budget

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  • July 3, 2010

    Shooting Hoops with Kagan

    Often when I introduce myself as a Kentuckian and a Louisville native, the first question asked of me is whether I root for the University of Louisville or the University of Kentucky...in basketball, of course. (Is there really any other sport in Ken...

  • June 24, 2010

    An Angle for Angle

    Right on cue, in a move described in the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee strategy playbook as a tactic to "pin down opponents," the media are attacking Harry Reid's Republican challenger, Sharron Angle, with the "birther...

  • June 23, 2010

    Citizen Journalists Needed

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  • June 22, 2010

    Wealth Redistribution 101

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  • June 12, 2010

    A Witness for America

    Amid the struggle to define the mainstream of current conservative thought and articulate its platform, perhaps no book is as relevant as Whittaker Chambers' Witness. Although it could be described simply as a lengthy autobiography that recounts an i...

  • June 1, 2010

    A Hole in the Fence of Immigration Reform

    A gaping hole sits squarely in the middle of the fence of proposed "Immigration Reform." This crack, while inviting to those on the other side of the border, seems to go largely unnoticed by the politically correct mainstream on the America...

  • May 23, 2010

    War of Wordcraft

    The newest tactical weapon of this administration against our terrorist enemies appears to be one constructed of language. Its deployment began when the term "War on Terror" was replaced by "Overseas Contingency Operations," and t...

  • May 13, 2010

    Obama; Free yourself from distractions - like information

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  • May 6, 2010

    Reviving the White House Press Corpse

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  • April 22, 2010

    A vexatious question

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  • April 20, 2010

    Who let the dogs out?

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  • February 13, 2010

    'Tis the Tax Season

    Yes, it's that time of year when most of us begin the arduous task of completing our 2009 income tax returns. I just received a tax-planning memo from my accountant highlighting the new tax credits available under the American Recovery and Reinvestme...

  • January 26, 2010

    Dems and the 'Three B's'

    Republicans are a "party of Birthers, Baggers, and Blowhards," according to Bob Beckel, Fox News Analyst. Is this demonizing part of the Democrat strategy for 2010?In William A. Jacobson's Legal Insurrection Blog yesterday in a post he titl...

  • January 25, 2010

    'Smart' is the new 'Big'

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  • January 22, 2010

    Obama, Dems, on the edge of a cliff

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