January 25, 2012

The Punditry is Fuming Mad at the Voters

Clearly the ruling class is in a kind of anaphylactic political shock brought on by even the slightest exposure to Newt Gingrich victory speeches.  It's hard to remember a presidential cycle where the punditry has been so overtly hostile toward...

January 21, 2012

Culling the GOP field

Governor Rick Perry sounded a strategic retreat on Thursday ending his campaign the day of the second South Carolina debate. Thankfully the needed winnowing of the traditional Republican field is continuing apace. Most significantly, Perry endorsed G...

January 12, 2012

Romney Supporters: Herbert Hoover Was a Successful Businessman and Manager, Too

In this Republican presidential primary cycle, no endorsement will be able to match former GE CEO Jack Welch's assessment of Mitt Romney in its sweeping claim: "In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presi...

January 6, 2012

John McCain's Kiss of Death

John McCain's stale endorsement of Mitt Romney in New Hampshire reinforces all the reasons that 75% of the Republican electorate either don't like or don't trust the former Massachusetts governor.  As with McCain, we find Romney's vaunted modera...

December 17, 2011

A Reluctant Embrace of Newton Leroy Gingrich

America's most incendiary political force is not the 99% but the 75%, that large unfading fraction of Republicans who want a candidate more conservative than Mitt Romney to run against Obama.  With less than a month to go before the first primar...

November 18, 2011

The logical outcome of the OWS movement

As OWS was the logical outcome of three years of Obama's fascistic class warfare rhetoric, nationalizing America's most profitable global companies is the logical outcome of the OWS movement. As corporations are not people no one will be hurt as we n...

November 7, 2011

Oakland's Quan Song

Gertrude Stein was wrong about Oakland.   In fact there's a lot of political there there, most of it incoherent, violent and reeking and all of it is being encouraged and prolonged by the country's most incompetent and blubbering political ...

November 1, 2011

I Like Mark Block and We'd be a Better Country If More of Us Smoked

I stopped smoking years ago but Mark Block has reminded me about how great it felt to smoke after a big meal, and to stand at a bar and drink and inhale for hours on end. Mark Block is the coolest guy I've seen in politics in years.  And his cli...

October 16, 2011

A Lesson about Crony Capitalism for the OWS Crowd

Unless you identify your economic enemy correctly, you cannot succeed in defeating him.  The typical Occupy Wall Street sap, the radical left's modern incarnation of the useful idiot, thinks his enemy is an evil Wall Street billionaire. But Wall...

September 21, 2011

David Brooks Isn't a 'Sap', He's a Moron

It might be that case that David Brooks penned his column yesterday weeping uncontrollably while wearing his best red wig to help him get into character for the most comically bad Maureen Dowd imitation of the year. He writes, intoning like the 16-ye...

September 16, 2011

Obama's Jewish Chickens Have Come Home to Roost

With the landslide election of republican (and Catholic) Bob Turner in the overwhelmingly democratic (and 40% Jewish) 9th Congressional District, one could imagine that the Jews of this section of Brooklyn and Queens, whether orthodox and reform, ask...

August 4, 2011

AAA or AA: Important for Choosing Batteries Not for Our Financial Future

Standard and Poor's has warned that there's a 50% chance it would downgrade the credit rating of the United States of America from its once-untarnished AAA perch to a Spain-like AA.  It seems that the credit rating agency and its peers including...

July 12, 2011

Barack Obama, Prince of Gloom

With almost perfect and abject symmetry Barack Obama stood at a podium in the Rose Garden addressing the nation's latest depressing employment figures as the last space shuttle flight prepared to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center. Our ever-wors...

July 12, 2011

To Fund Liberal Programs Confiscate Liberal Wealth

Head Start and an Infrastructure Bank are just two "investments" Obama can't make now but wants to once we get our fiscal house in order by raising the debt ceiling and raising taxes. But he can get his programs funded now by simply confiscating the ...

June 30, 2011

The Real Problem with the Gingrich Candidacy

The difficulty many conservatives have with Newt Gingrich is not the commercial with Nancy Pelosi as heart-sinking as it was.  Nor is it the seemingly cruel way he ended his marriages.  Even his classless, unprovoked attack on the Ryan plan...

June 26, 2011

Mitt Romney Plays Mitt Romney on TV

Does Mitt Romney actually stand for anything? Or for everything? Deroy Murdock has recently compiled a blistering assembly of Romney positions in a column entitled "Will the Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up?"  eviscerating the current GOP primar...

June 25, 2011

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve Is an Obama '12 Reelection Asset

The American economy, the one that even Democrats admit Obama now owns, is hurtling towards a near depression so fast that the administration will exploit any asset, and embrace any ploy, however desperate, in the hopes the economy will resurrect its...

April 16, 2011

California's Renewable Economic Suicide

Gov. Jerry Brown, flakier now as a recycled geriatric governor than he was as Governor Moonbeam decades ago, has decided to place his state into economic hospice care.  By proudly signing legislation that would require California to obtain 33% o...

March 24, 2011

Saudi Tanks Roll Where Obama Fears To Tread

Saudi Arabia is the last country an American should respect, having spawned fifteen of the nineteen 9-11 murderers and continuing to fund and spew hate-filled, anti-Western, anti-Semitic Wahhabi-inspired propaganda everywhere in the world.  But ...

March 11, 2011

There's no crying in politics, right?

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March 5, 2011

The 'violence of faction' in Wisconsin

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March 1, 2011

America Should Default

Neither individuals nor nations ever come to terms with their indebtedness and overspending until catastrophe looms.  Only when the repo man comes for the car, the credit charge is rejected, and the bank forecloses on the house do we finally adm...

October 18, 2010

Soaring Gold and a Sinking Dollar Signal Trouble Ahead

As measured by the price of the forward December contract on COMEX, the value of gold is up nearly 30% -- over $300 per troy ounce -- since last October, and it recently closed at a record high (in nominal terms) of $1,374 per ounce.Hardly unique amo...

September 20, 2010

For Whom Bell, California Tolls

It tolls, of course, for public employees and for Democrats, the party almost exclusively linked to big labor, big government, and big labor in big government.  Bell, California, a small municipality in Los Angeles County with a population ...

September 1, 2010

Liberal Billionaires Good, Conservative Billionaires Evil

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August 26, 2010

Is Islam Compatible With Constitutional Government?

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August 16, 2010

Surprise! Economic Numbers Are 'Worse Than Expected'

The current government employment report is just the most recent example of bad news for the economy, expressed in depressing unemployment figures that the wizards in the Washington constantly find either "surprising" or "unexpected....

August 7, 2010

Global Warming, R.I.P

In a remarkable monograph, Roy W. Spencer presents hard evidence that 75% of the observed warming since the start of the 20th century is due to natural processes. He offers a detailed model describing how one of these processes, the Pacific Decadal O...

July 21, 2010

Barack Obama's Endless Crises

There is no evidence that Barack Obama willfully precipitated the Nashville floods, but almost all of the other gloomy, intractable quagmires that feed the country's pessimism are of his creation. But unlike crises of past administrations that seemed...

July 1, 2010

No One's Capital Is Safe in Obama's America

Obama's poorly coded message to investors is to take your money out of America and keep it out. Whether through excessive taxation, suffocating over-regulation, or thuggish confiscation, the lesson to be drawn by anyone with excess capital is to look...

June 5, 2010

Advice to BP: Shrug

Obama and his team of thugs are dressed out in heavy boots aimed at BP's neck. Apparently, oil booms and actionable emergency plans are in short supply in the government, but the Obama administration is buried under a glut of hard heels in a variety ...

March 18, 2010

Chris Christie's New Jersey Revolution

New Jersey's Republican Governor Chris Christie may be the best thing to come out of the Garden State since The Sopranos ended its run. Christie has given the GOP faithful a reason not just to hope, but to exult. We conservatives are programmed to ta...

February 18, 2010

Bill Gates, Environmental Kook

If giving away a multibillion-dollar fortune is hard work, Bill Gates has been slaving away since he relinquished active management of Microsoft Corporation in 2008. Perhaps the most loathed technology executive of the P.C. era, he now bottle-feeds A...

February 11, 2010

Our National No-Energy Policy

Economically sensible states including Texas, Louisiana, and Pennsylvania are developing their enormous, non-traditional, "tight" natural gas reserves. In the process, they are transforming America's energy profile for the next half-century...

January 26, 2010

McCain Should Retire

John McCain clings to more liberal positions than almost any other Republican in Congress. Whether encouraging economic suicide by standing against drilling in Alaska, putting the nation's security at risk by equating waterboarding with torture, dema...

January 18, 2010

California: An Obituary

Only raw and unrestrained liberalism could have destroyed the world's 8th-largest economy. Boasting unparalleled assets in agriculture, high technology, entertainment, and tourism, and blessed with ample energy resources, deep-water ports and ideal w...

December 26, 2009

Natural gas and capitalism to the rescue

Marxist grandees slipped in and out Copenhagen last week thanks to the plentiful jet fuel whose combustion they claim poses grave threats to the future of mankind. While they solemnly convened to tax hydrocarbons out of existence and roundly mocked a...

December 19, 2009

Global Warming and the 'Settled Science' Baloney

If you've misspent your youth conducting experiments, taking graduate courses in physics and chemistry, and learning about thermodynamics, molecular spectroscopy, fluid mechanics, modeling data and publishing scientific papers, then the current debat...

December 17, 2009

Imagine...John Lennon was a conservative

Imagine peace, say the liberals. Conservatives prefer to deal with the world as it is. But if I had to imagine.....I imagine Obama spending the Christmas holidays reading nothing but military history but worry how he'll react when he discovers that...

December 10, 2009

Look Who's Clubbing Tiger Woods Now

Anyone who hoped that Obama's election would usher in a post-racial American era might have to wait another generation. To see why, just take a look at Tiger Woods' troubles -- the ones he has with some members of the black media elite.It is likely t...

December 1, 2009

Dick Morris and the Crusade against ObamaCare

Until recently, this political epitaph might have been written for Dick Morris: "An amoral but brilliant consultant, strategist, and analyst -- the man who kept Bill Clinton in, and Hillary Clinton out of, the White House."  By selling...

November 24, 2009

Sarah Palin and the Low Ebb of the Cultural Left

No serious observer or reader could ever label Sarah Palin as our Pangloss of the North.  The former governor's view of politics and of life itself is maturely tragic, as it should be for a true conservative. Starting with a broad-ranging, 5,000...

November 1, 2009

Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich: The Visionary and the Hack

Two weeks after Sarah Palin's unique exit from public office, Newt Gingrich offered up some unsolicited counsel for the former governor in an interview with POLITICO. Apparently, Newt was certain that Palin's reputation needed serious burnishing, and...

October 22, 2009

Turning Back ObamaCare

Rep. Michele Bachmann from Minnesota offered sound advice this morning during an interview with Lee Rodgers on KSFO (audio here and MP3 here) in San Francisco, on how to turn back the various healthcare proposals working their way through Congress.Th...

October 21, 2009

Gold's no-confidence vote on Obama

Five peace-loving Norwegians have recently expressed their belief that Barack Obama holds great promise as a global leader.  Much of the rest of the world is not nearly as sanguine, and the world is expressing its opinion openly, albeit quietly,...

September 30, 2009

Energy Secretary Chu and the Toll of Silly Physics

Many of us had just the grandest time conducting worthless research for the old monopolistic phone companies.  Dr. Steven Chu, our Secretary of Energy was one of the typical products of that era of unfocused industrial research.  He nurture...

September 21, 2009

Racists Anonymous: The 12-Step Program for White Redemption

1. We are powerless over racism.  We are white. It's in our DNA, and it's on display from infancy.  Unpublished scientific studies show that when presented with a white ball and a black ball, the white infant will choose the white ball 99%...

September 12, 2009

Virtue and Sarah Palin

No republic, not even our exceptional one, can survive without virtuous citizens.  On July 3 when Sarah Palin announced from her Wasilla home that she would step down as Governor, we got a glimpse of a person none of us had seen before: this rem...