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David Lanza
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November 30, 2024
We Have Been to the Grocery StoreMore 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...
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November 19, 2024
The President Needs Less PowerWhile 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-...
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November 4, 2024
A watershed moment in American politics -- Democrats exclude Jews from high officeMany 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...
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October 17, 2024
The Kamala Harris (So-Called) PlanKamala 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...
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October 14, 2024
Many Little LiesThe 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 ...
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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...
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September 16, 2024
Kamala Harris, Inflation, and Rip-OffsKamala 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...
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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...
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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...
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April 4, 2024
October 7th and the Future of the United StatesAs 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...
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December 11, 2023
January 6 Is the Dems’ Electoral StrategyDemocrats 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 ...
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November 27, 2023
Legalizing Ballot Fraud in PennsylvaniaOn 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...
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October 26, 2023
We Must Learn to Ignore the Colin Kaepernick Media NarrativeThe 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...
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September 27, 2023
How Government Spending Causes InflationThe 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...
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August 25, 2023
Executive Orders and the End of LibertyOn 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...
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June 1, 2023
How to Spot a RINOWe 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...
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May 22, 2023
Debt Ceiling Scare TacticsThe 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 ...
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May 13, 2023
Reparations: A Slow Motion RiotThe 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...
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April 20, 2023
The War on Pronouns is Really a War on LanguageThe 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...
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April 4, 2023
The Nightmare of ReparationsLisa 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...
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March 22, 2023
Abusing Roberto Clemente as a Woke ToolRecent 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, ...
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January 20, 2023
Harmful media coverage of the Idaho killingsDespite 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...
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August 30, 2022
Unelected Bureaucrats Unilaterally Impose the Green New DealLast 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...
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July 6, 2022
Independence Day and the perilous state of our nationIn 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...
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October 26, 2020
Drain the swampSupporters 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...
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October 5, 2020
Why it's important to remember RathergateAn 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...
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September 19, 2020
The Party Of PanicThe 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...
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September 10, 2020
New Biden ad laughably accuses Trump of destroying the US steel industryOne 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...
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April 28, 2020
Driverless Cars Will Make the Next Pandemic Crackdown CompleteAs 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...
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April 1, 2020
We Have Missed Key Lessons from the Downfall of VenezuelaAs 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 ...
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February 10, 2020
Rush Limbaugh's True ContributionLeftists 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...
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January 12, 2020
The Left's Endless Commercial Has Weaponized Popular CultureAmerican 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. ...
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December 30, 2019
Documenting the Virginia CrackdownRecent 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....
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December 22, 2019
Harvey Weinstein and the future of leftismMore 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 ...
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November 19, 2019
Resistance: Czechoslovakia and AmericaAs 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...
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October 15, 2019
Lurid sex allegations against MSNBC's president will teach liberal audience nothingPredictably, 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...
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July 27, 2019
Political VentriloquismRobert 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...
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January 5, 2019
How social media censorship demonstrates the horrors of driverless carsA 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...
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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...
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January 29, 2018
Driverless Cars and GPS: The Fearful MasterGeneral 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...
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November 30, 2017
Charlie Rose: One More Reason to Turn Off the TelevisionFor 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...
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October 19, 2017
We Are All Harvey Weinstein's Victims...and EnablersThe 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...