David Lanza

David Lanza


  • We Have Been to the Grocery Store

    November 30, 2024

    We Have Been to the Grocery Store

    More than three weeks after election day, commentators still try to explain the results. The more “establishment” the commentator, the more likely they are to discuss less relevant details and miss the main point. The Democrats lost the 2...

  • The President Needs Less Power

    November 19, 2024

    The President Needs Less Power

    While we celebrate our great election victory, we must remember that the real work only now begins. The Republic has been saved, but only if we break from the mistakes of the past. We cannot expect to finish saving the country with the same business-...

  • A watershed moment in American politics -- Democrats exclude Jews from high office

    November 4, 2024

    A watershed moment in American politics -- Democrats exclude Jews from high office

    Many commentators have missed one of the most disturbing aspects of this year’s election. The Democrats faced a choice when picking a vice-presidential nominee.  Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro appeared to be the favorite.  He serve...

  • The Kamala Harris (So-Called) Plan

    October 17, 2024

    The Kamala Harris (So-Called) Plan

    Kamala Harris runs commercials that identify her plans for the economy.  The United States has experienced high inflation caused by the government printing press during the Biden-Harris years.  Her solutions include a mix of scape...

  • Many Little Lies

    October 14, 2024

    Many Little Lies

    The Democrats’ campaign against Donald Trump has been characterized by so many lies that it is impossible to respond to all of them.  The sheer volume of lies prevents observers from learning the truth about any of them.  A ...

  • Kamala Harris and the ‘Fair Share’

    October 7, 2024

    Kamala Harris and the ‘Fair Share’

    A PAC supporting Kamala Harris runs an ad that features Harris making the following impassioned statement, “We are helping dig families out of debt by telling billionaires to pay their fair share!” The commercial presents this exclamation...

  • Kamala Harris, Inflation, and Rip-Offs

    September 16, 2024

    Kamala Harris, Inflation, and Rip-Offs

    Kamala Harris’s recent ad on social media tries -- and fails -- to explain how she would stop inflation. Harris would somehow fight big corporations that “rip us off.” We are to believe that these unexplained rip-offs somehow c...

  • How stupid does Bob Casey think we are?

    August 25, 2024

    How stupid does Bob Casey think we are?

    A recent campaign commercial from Pennsylvania Democrat Senator Bob Casey has plumbed the depths of childishness.  Casey (in his campaign against Republican Dave McCormick) runs an ad on social media that depicts “corporate CEOs...

  • Should we celebrate a recent election integrity ruling in Pennsylvania?

    April 13, 2024

    Should we celebrate a recent election integrity ruling in Pennsylvania?

    On March 27, 2024, the federal appeals court for the 3rd Circuit (covering Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware) issued its latest opinion (appeal docket # No. 23-3166) in the ongoing ping-pong game over election integrity.  The appeals c...

  • October 7th and the Future of the United States

    April 4, 2024

    October 7th and the Future of the United States

    As we approach the six-month anniversary of the attacks against Israel of October 7, 2023, we must take stock of the reaction and aftermath of such attacks and how they impact our own nation. Many of us were rightly outraged at the October attacks...

  • December 11, 2023

    January 6 Is the Dems’ Electoral Strategy

    Democrats and their compliant media have given us a roadmap to their strategy for the 2024 presidential and congressional elections.  The strategy is not subtle.  Democrats and their media handlers have spoken of little but ...

  • November 27, 2023

    Legalizing Ballot Fraud in Pennsylvania

    On November 22, 2023 it was reported that a federal court in Pennsylvania changed the legal requirements for counting mail-in ballots by county boards of elections. When no-excuse mail-in balloting was permitted in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, we...

  • October 26, 2023

    We Must Learn to Ignore the Colin Kaepernick Media Narrative

    The news cycle has been full of stories about Colin Kaepernick and the latest speculation of his signing with another football team. These stories are similar to those that have circulated for the past seven years. To recap, Colin Kaepernick played q...

  • September 27, 2023

    How Government Spending Causes Inflation

    The federal government, under both parties, has printed trillions of dollars to fund its “stimulus” packages and other projects. This spending greatly increased during the COVID era. Basic economics teaches that the government printing pr...

  • August 25, 2023

    Executive Orders and the End of Liberty

    On August 1, 2023, it became “illegal” to manufacture or sell incandescent light bulbs anywhere in the United States, and consumers are left with no choice but to purchase LED bulbs. Incandescent bulbs were a previously legal product abou...

  • June 1, 2023

    How to Spot a RINO

    We are now enduring the usual competing ads from another primary election.  A trend has developed in Republican primaries that sees candidates call each other "RINOs" (Republicans in Name Only).  An incumbent GOP candida...

  • May 22, 2023

    Debt Ceiling Scare Tactics

    The Democrats and their media allies are in the midst of their usual campaign to pressure Republicans to vote for an increase in the debt ceiling.  The national debt now stands at over 31 trillion dollars.  The debt will never be ...

  • May 13, 2023

    Reparations: A Slow Motion Riot

    The California reparations controversy continues to spin out of control as we head for either a major confrontation or hyperinflation.  It appears that Governor Gavin Newsom will reject the latest proposal, but expectations have already been sto...

  • April 20, 2023

    The War on Pronouns is Really a War on Language

    The use of plural pronouns (“they/them”) to refer to a single person has insidiously crept into our language. This practice is especially common in mass media publications and other establishment writings. It is more than a mere passing f...

  • April 4, 2023

    The Nightmare of Reparations

    Lisa Holder, a member of the California Reparations Task Force, has published an opinion piece in which she hinted at the recommendations that will be made public on July 1st, 2023.  We do not yet know the details,  but what has been made p...

  • March 22, 2023

    Abusing Roberto Clemente as a Woke Tool

    Recent media headlines have focused on grassroots attempts in Florida to stem the tide of leftist indoctrination in schools.  Establishment media has objected strenuously to the review of LGBTQ books and books focusing on professional athletes, ...

  • January 20, 2023

    Harmful media coverage of the Idaho killings

    Despite so many consequential events unfolding in the United States right now, one story continues to dominate headlines on a daily basis. For two months, the nation has been transfixed by a quadruple stabbing in Idaho. Especially since a suspect...

  • August 30, 2022

    Unelected Bureaucrats Unilaterally Impose the Green New Deal

    Last week, a bank in Australia announced that it would no longer lend money for the purchase of gasoline powered cars. From now on, Bank Australia will lend money only to buyers of electric cars. Bank Australia is not one of the big four Australian b...

  • July 6, 2022

    Independence Day and the perilous state of our nation

    In the wake of this week's Independence Day celebration, some thoughtful reflection is in order. Imagine a scenario in which England somehow managed to reconquer the United States in the next few months.  (Such a scenario is rendered...

  • October 26, 2020

    Drain the swamp

    Supporters of President Trump are encouraged by the idea that we must "drain the swamp."  President Trump is an outsider fighting an entrenched bureaucracy and career politicians in both parties with vested interests in maintainin...

  • October 5, 2020

    Why it's important to remember Rathergate

    An important anniversary passed last month and predictably received no attention.   This anniversary carries implications for how we receive news, how political campaigns are conducted, and the credibility of almost everything we see or hear fro...

  • September 19, 2020

    The Party Of Panic

    The latest contrived issue to bedevil the left is President Trump’s statement to Bob Woodward in March that he was downplaying the virus to avert panic. Leftists have interpreted this attempt to avert panic as a “lie,” even though t...

  • September 10, 2020

    New Biden ad laughably accuses Trump of destroying the US steel industry

    One of Joe Biden's recent commercials features "John" — an alleged steelworker (from an unnamed Pennsylvania steel town) who predictably blames the nation's steel woes on Donald Trump.  After making the obligatory cl...

  • April 28, 2020

    Driverless Cars Will Make the Next Pandemic Crackdown Complete

    As we anticipate a reprieve from coronavirus and maybe a corresponding end to the various lockdowns, we should expect worse from our governments in the future.  In the next pandemic (and there will be more pandemics), governments may have a...

  • April 1, 2020

    We Have Missed Key Lessons from the Downfall of Venezuela

    As the coronavirus dominates the news and populations are increasingly restricted to their homes, staple items disappear from supermarket shelves.  Buyers hoard toilet paper and many other products.   Commentators respond by ...

  • February 10, 2020

    Rush Limbaugh's True Contribution

    Leftists renewed their decades-long attacks on Rush Limbaugh last week as he announced a serious illness and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.  Leftists celebrate his illness and somehow deny that a non-soldier should receive t...

  • January 12, 2020

    The Left's Endless Commercial Has Weaponized Popular Culture

    American consumers understand that most forms of popular culture have become nothing more than commercials for the Democrat party.  Movies, television, and music focus less on entertainment than on influencing the next election.  ...

  • December 30, 2019

    Documenting the Virginia Crackdown

    Recent elections in Virginia have placed the Virginia government within arm's length of widespread gun confiscation.  Around eighty-four counties and cities throughout the Commonwealth have pledged to ignore and resist these measures....

  • December 22, 2019

    Harvey Weinstein and the future of leftism

    More than two years after the fall of Harvey Weinstein's empire, Weinstein awaits a criminal trial next month on charges of rape and related sexual misconduct.  It is time to take stock of what we have learned from this scandal. The ...

  • November 19, 2019

    Resistance: Czechoslovakia and America

    As we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the liberation of Eastern Europe, a growing portion of our own political system has become dedicated to totalitarianism. We can better understand our own socialist media culture when we revisit one Eastern Bloc...

  • October 15, 2019

    Lurid sex allegations against MSNBC's president will teach liberal audience nothing

    Predictably, the latest "me-too" revelation features objectionable behavior by another leftist/establishment media figure.  Ronan Farrow's new book, Catch and Kill, alleges that MSNBC president Phil Griffin displayed a photo o...

  • July 27, 2019

    Political Ventriloquism

    Robert Mueller’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on July 24, 2019 revealed something that has become common in modern politics.  He knew and remembered very little, leading some observers to wonder whether he had even read h...

  • January 5, 2019

    How social media censorship demonstrates the horrors of driverless cars

    A sobering implication of the debate over social media censorship concerns the dangers we face from driverless cars Cars without steering wheels have been a reality for at least a year.  These cars will be directed from a central databas...

  • November 25, 2018

    Are You Ready to Stop Watching the Never-Ending Commercial?

    The United States has just endured the most expensive midterm elections in history.  Most of us are tired of campaign commercials and are glad that they no longer run on television.  But we fool ourselves if we think the commercia...

  • January 29, 2018

    Driverless Cars and GPS: The Fearful Master

    General Motors made a momentous announcement on January 12, 2018, as GM introduced the Cruise AV – potentially the world’s first commercially available self-driving automobile. The car has no steering wheel and is entirely directed b...

  • November 30, 2017

    Charlie Rose: One More Reason to Turn Off the Television

    For more than a month, the American public has heard many stories of sexual harassment among Hollywood, media and political elite. New accusations against different perpetrators seem to emerge every other day. We have reached the point where we are n...

  • October 19, 2017

    We Are All Harvey Weinstein's Victims...and Enablers

    The Harvey Weinstein story continues to reverberate, as new accusations, denunciations, or other consequences of his decades of sexual harassment seem to come to light every day.  Weinstein has dutifully been abandoned by company, industry, frie...