January 4, 2025

Upstream

Andrew Breitbart had a maxim, that politics are downstream from culture.  Thanks to Trump, his team, and a once-in-a-lifetime realignment, we find ourselves on the positive side of this equation.  We find ourselves upstream, in a positive m...

October 26, 2024

The final stretch

Here we are: the final days before this biggest of elections.  The stakes are high. Taking a page from athletes, we cannot fail to finish this race.  Most can remember seeing impossible comebacks in sporting events.  ...

September 3, 2024

The Great Realignment

The Trump campaign has been shaking the foundations of America since he came down the escalator.  Part of the shake-up is due to Trump himself.  A blue-collar billionaire who was not part of the political in-crowd.  Brash.  Bold....

August 24, 2024

The Culture of Death Returns

It’s clear the Democrat convention hasn’t lived up to the buzzword their machine used. Let’s face it, when anger and negativity towards Trump becomes the focus, you can’t call that "joy." When they parade their impor...

August 19, 2024

Fight! Fight! Fight!

We had an iconic moment in history, a demonstration of courage and resolve in the face of evil.  It brought unity to the right in so many ways.  It’s a forever moment.   Barely a month later, doubt and second-guessing is ...

July 29, 2024

Rage Against the Machine

This is not about the rock band.  It’s a phrase that should be a war cry against what has taken over the central governing powers of our country, what Vivek has called “the system”.  In this election cycle, we ar...

July 25, 2024

It’s Far from Over

The second candidacy of Ronald Reagan was the last time things have gone so well for a Republican campaign.  We are in a time of a turning tide, a time where the Stalinist left is being exposed, where leftists are in disarray, and where Ame...

July 21, 2024

An Outward Sign of an Inward Grace

“An outward sign of an inward grace.” This phrase came through the works of St. Augustine.  He may not have been the first to use it, but through him it has become well known. He described a sacrament as an outward and visible sig...

July 7, 2024

The Left Is Coming Undone

We now have a trend on the left: confusion.  Leftists have fallen into an abyss.  They are in the middle of full-throated chaos. Couldn’t happen to a nicer group. There has been this idea the left never makes mistakes,...

July 1, 2024

Who’s Behind This Show?

Most now know Joe Biden has serious dementia problems.  Many thought this was already true during the last election.  They kept him in the basement, he never did much, never campaigned much, never gave many press conferences, and ...

May 6, 2024

False-flag Nation

The definition of a false flag is a hostile or harmful action (such as an attack) that is designed to look like it was perpetrated by someone other than the person or group responsible for it. It was first done by pirates who would fly flags of fr...

May 1, 2024

The Importance of Vivek

The first time I listened to Vivek Ramaswamy was early as he began his run for the Republican nomination, here is what I heard. He believed in the America First movement.  He believed that the founding of America was extraordinary. ...

April 18, 2024

Betrayal and the Democrats

The story of Judas Iscariot is the archetypal story of betrayal, fascinating and terrifying at the same time.  It's fascinating, because Judas Iscariot was the Apostle who betrayed Jesus to the Pharisees for 30 pieces of silver. He felt...

April 8, 2024

The Compelling Case for Trump

We are told by our leftist betters that Trump supporters are a cult. A group that has no core beliefs, a group of Simple Simons that simply can’t understand nuance the way we should. The smarmy Bill Maher (and his ilk) loves to let everyone kno...

April 2, 2024

Time is Running Out to Save Western Civilization

“What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”  --Ecclesiastes 1:9  “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”  --George Santaya...

December 31, 2020

The Left Takes On God's Country

The Declaration of Independence conceived a nation.   Yes, it took the revolutionary war, a constitution, and a Bill of Rights to give us the birth of these United States.  A country that would shortly become the light of liberty, the ...

December 14, 2020

Our Crisis Already is at DEFCON-3

We’re witnessing a historical rift in a cold (so far) civil war.  It’s like overlooking the battlefields pre-Gettysburg, or looking at Hiroshima before the bomb.  DEFCON-3: What is that?  Most center-right readers know....

November 3, 2020

The Gales of November

I have heard the horror stories of living through hurricanes.   Hours of hurricane strength winds can reduce the bravest soul to despair.  In the Great Lakes region, there are times of hurricane-strength winds, but the duration can be ...

October 27, 2020

Donald Trump is the strong horse

"When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse."  Osama Bin Laden. There is a certain truth here.  Trump described it in the last debate, about the many Democrats who were coming to ...

October 21, 2020

This Is How the Left's Power Structure Collapses

Weeks ago, Rush Limbaugh mentioned that the issues defining the election had not come forward yet.  He was correct.  Not entirely, because all the issues coming out right now have existed.  In plain sight. They just w...

October 9, 2020

The End of Covid Hysteria

  Most of the nation was stunned by the news that Donald and Melania Trump had contracted COVID.  I found out early morning the night after it was announced.  Already the Democrat/media complex was gleefully hoping for death, report...

September 11, 2020

Trump's Glorious Path to Victory in November

Psalm 133: "Behold how good and how pleasant it is for Brethren to dwell together in unity." I urge you to read the whole psalm.  You'll see it expressing David's point deeper through powerful metaphors: "Like dew ...

July 11, 2020

A Transformational Fourth of July

In the Midwest, this week brought a phenomenal amount of celebration, likely shared by a majority of the country.  We may have celebrated the most consequential and important Independence Day in a generation. This is much to the chagrin ...

June 1, 2020

The Fog Is Lifted

The fog of war.  It's real.  It's been hiding the truth that civil war has been upon us for years now. Here is a prescient definition, first made by Prussian military analyst Carl von Clausewitz, who defined the fog of ...

May 18, 2020

On Trump-Hatred

It’s not rocket science to say the beginning of Trump hatred came from the Clinton campaign.  He was once feted in New York, even by liberals.  How did it change from high regard to hated?   One thing is clear, dislike was i...

April 19, 2020

The Pharisaical Spirit

Here is what Jesus says about the ruling class of his day.  He said this after he entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, shortly after he overturned the tables of the money-changers: “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypo...

January 10, 2020

Trump's Masterstrokes

Consider the masterful takedown of the Soviet Union by Ronald Reagan.  “We win, they lose.”  He insisted on that premise.  One of his finest moments was “Mr.  Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”...

November 5, 2018

The Dems are Mad as Hell

A few seconds of frustrated political rage in the 1976 movie Network drove the words “I’m mad as Hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” into our national collective consciousness.  Most Democrats seem to feel that...

October 31, 2018

Trump Didn't Start the Fire

"It was always burning, since the world's been turning." Apologies to Billy Joel.  But Trump really didn't start this fire of incivility.  Nor did he ever preach violence.  Or racial animosity. ...

July 25, 2018

Deliver Us to Evil

So many have written about the left's meltdowns over the past years – meltdowns that include our mainstream media, or what I call the Democrat-media complex.  The left has been (correctly) called unhinged, serial liars, power-mad,...

July 5, 2018

The Two Culture Leaders Changing Today's World

History has shown, in countless examples, the reality and value of leadership – George Washington, Ulysses Grant, Eisenhower, and Churchill, to name a few. Studying the movement of history, it's clear that the character, resolve, and int...

June 25, 2018

A High-Stakes Game of Get Trump Poker

All around us, the current cold civil war rages.  We are in constant battles as part of this war and have been for years.  It's almost impossible to avoid engaging in some skirmish, since the left has politicized everything fr...

June 12, 2018

Trump's statesmanship surprise

Nobody knew.  None of us saw it.  Among his biggest supporters, maybe a handful suspected it.  Many of us expected the economic renewal of the U.S. to happen.  Many of us foresaw a significant roll back of Sain...

May 31, 2018

The New (and Improved) Stupid Party

A well earned title. I never thought we'd see the day, but the GOP has finally been outdone in the department of stupid. Think of the events of last week. The Democratic Party went on record defending Hamas-style terrorism.  Ne...

May 19, 2018

Code Red: The Coming Eruption

One of the incredible stories du jour is the latest phase of the Hawaiian volcano. I have seen that volcano many times.  It’s truly amazing.  The desolation it can cause is incomprehensible.  There are places where you can see...

May 7, 2018

On 'Russian Collusion,' Trump Will Win...Big Time

The winds of the special counsel are blowing hard.  A big tempest is brewing, and it's not clear what is happening.  Nobody really knows, other than perhaps Mueller and a few other insiders, one probably being Donald Trump and...

April 23, 2018

Wisdom and the Smartest People Ever

We value intelligence and knowledge.  With good reason. Intelligent, thoughtful illumination has an uplifting effect on individuals and a civilization. We've seen that many times throughout history.  The founding of our Ame...

March 16, 2018

The Left and Distraction: Pulling It All Apart

Recently, I heard a grisly description of the long-ago practice of torturing (often killing) people by strapping each leg and arm to a horse and then sending the horses in separate directions.  Tearing people asunder.  It sounds h...

February 23, 2018

Getting Home Again

Recently, I bought a special gift: the music collection called Abbey Road by The Beatles.  Its second side has long been considered one of the best series of tracks in popular music.  It did not disappoint.  I must say, ...

February 12, 2018

Stuck on Stupid

That phrase comes from a press conference with General Russell Honore back in 2005.  It was a jab at the media for being mired in the past. A well placed jab.  One that is unforgettable. It's a jab that has stood the tes...

January 8, 2018

Cosa Sinistra: The Left as Crime Family

The left indeed has become a family.  Unfortunately, it often resembles the Gotti crime family (hat tip: Larry Schweikart). Let's face it: Republicans have their share of corruption, but what the left has become is not tinged wi...

December 27, 2017

Trump's Momentous First Year

We’ve experienced a miracle in our day that a lot of us thought we might never see again. The conservative base wanted a consequential President; one who could overcome a combination of our country’s decline, the neutering of conservat...

December 25, 2017

A Time for War: The Battle for Christmas

I know what you're thinking: what an awful thing to talk about during the Christmas season.  We should be ignoring politics and celebrating all those good things we believe should be conserved. I agree with that.  Unfortunately, the ...

December 18, 2017

A Time for War: Deep State's Strike and Trump's Counter-Strike

The history of war is filled with examples of effective strikes that were surprise attacks.  George Washington crossing the Delaware River to rout the Hessians on Christmas night is one example.  No one expected it.  D-Day itself was a...

December 8, 2017

A Time for War: The Gathering Storm

Most everyone entrenched on both sides of this cold civil war feels it coming.  The thunder and lightning have been getting closer.   For the better part of a year, we’ve been listening to the noise getting louder, and the flashe...

December 2, 2017

A Time for War: The Cold Civil War Continues...and Trump Is Winning

The cold civil war we are fighting is not just going well.  Contrary to what was once expected, this war right now is in a stage of overwhelming success.  Not that we have won anything permanent, but one has to be amazed at how positively t...

November 24, 2017

A Time for War

“To everything, there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.”  That’s the beginning of a famous bible verse.   It’s a litany of life’s times and wonders that are dropped in our laps; weepin...

November 21, 2017

Hillary: Corrupt, Clueless, Coddled

Hillary Clinton is not complex, not at all.  For her legion of personal problems -- her tone-deaf woodenness, her arrogance, her greed, her worst problem has been her Democratic Party Privilege. Yep, that’s the fatal flaw. It’s...

November 14, 2017

One Nation. Multiple Realities.

There have been tumultuous times in our country, passionate debates, and even a civil war that have all defined who we are as a nation.  Yet we have survived and thrived.  Now, more than ever, we need to remember this fact, because as has b...

November 2, 2017

Pamela Geller, Heroine

The horrible act in New York on Tuesday reminds us once again we are in a war.   A war with radical Islam.  A war that our prior President and most of his party has tried to lose through their juvenile, silly version of Neville Chamber...

October 30, 2017

The Mother of All Scandals

There is an answer to Hillary’s question, “What Happened?”  And yes, it should be considered a dumb question rather than a book title.  But the short answer to her question is:  She fooled almost the entire left, f...

October 25, 2017

The hunt for red November

The Democratic Party has put forth several narratives since its loss in 2016.  Democrats have stuck with those narratives no matter how absurd they have been: Trump was elected because Russia colluded with him.  Trump is unstable and u...

October 3, 2017

America's Millennial Realignment

We have witnessed realignments in the past, but the one we are in the midst of is extraordinary. It began before Trump came down the escalator but he was the first to capture it, energize it, and win office as a result. The realignment is not ab...

September 27, 2017

Trump's Unintended Consequences: The Turn of the Culture Wars

Conservatives have long discussed the culture wars and why we have been losing them. Many have fought, and are fighting, for a resurgence of sanity in our culture. Well, it’s happening in the strangest way. Two examples: 1. The sharp Hollywo...

September 12, 2017

The Eye of the Storm

Ben Franklin is quoted as saying to the Constitutional Convention in June of 1787: “I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. ...

September 3, 2017

Trump's Unintended Consequences: Extreme, without Vision, and Fractured

The Democratic Party, that is.  I doubt it was Trump's intent to make them into the broken, bitter, crazy, power-mad, yet powerless party they have become, but it happened.  He did not start the fissures; he did not start their downward...

August 21, 2017

Trump's Unintended Consequences: The Republican Party Reveals Itself

I think that the Sermon on the Mount applies to the vast majority of Republican Party officialdom right now. “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?  It is then good for nothing but...

August 9, 2017

Trump's Unintended Consequences: The Unmasking of the Deep State

The term "Deep State" unleashes many paranoid fantasies.  Movies and spy stories abound about the existence of dark, nefarious forces from our government aligned against us.  But as Joseph Heller once wrote, "Just because you...

August 4, 2017

Trump's Unintended Consequences: Driving the Media You-Know-What Insane

Most Trump supporters have a list of reasons for supporting him.  America first, stopping illegal immigration, economic resurgence, better trade deals, nominating conservative judges, taking the country back – any and all of the issues he ...

July 15, 2017

The Mystery of the Russia Collusion Derangement Continues

Consternation.  The ridiculous Russian narrative keeps returning.  It’s like a class B horror flick.  The undead just keep coming.  Nothing stops them.  They are unceasing in their bloodlust, supernaturally strong as th...

July 7, 2017

The Deconstruction of Western Values

Western Civilization is extraordinarily complex. From Greece to Rome to Europe and America, a long, multifaceted, and rich line of thought has dominated. In 1909 Harvard (oh, the irony) published a series called the “Harvard Classics” tha...

June 22, 2017

For the GOP, Step Up or Become an Irrelevant Majority

Where are the adults?  No, this is not about the Democrats.  We know they have devolved into churlish toddlers, and few adults remain there.  I’ve ranted enough about them lately, this is not about them.  It’s time thi...

June 19, 2017

Scorching the Earth

"Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many."    That's a compelling verse – call it a proverb – from the New Testament.  It's a great admonition for all of ...

June 13, 2017

The Zinnification of America

This may sound like it, but it’s not a journal of winetasting. It’s about the undue, horrific influence of a man named Howard Zinn. He became a famous, or accurately infamous, historian. Zinn, more than any other man, turned our history b...

June 7, 2017

Why Venezuela Matters

Venezuela is one of the most unreported tragedies of our time.  We can guess why: the left-leaning media are not interested in telling us what happened in Venezuela because it disproves so many of their narratives. In a nutshell:  Venezu...

May 30, 2017

The GOP Choice: Greatness, or Else Self-Destruction

The stupid party did not get its nickname because of its smashing successes.  And right now, it’s stupider than ever.  It’s a party steeped in Stockholm Syndrome, a party performing a version of assisted suicide.  Live....

May 24, 2017

Strong Enough

Did anyone realize the onslaught that a Democratic loss would bring? Did anyone predict just how juvenile and inane the Democratic base would be? Did anyone understand the petulance and nastiness Democratic officials would display? Did anyone predict...

May 20, 2017

The Underreported Success of the Trump Presidency

Something is afoot.   Even the circumspect Tucker Carlson has been warning how divided and close to losing it we are.   The left is full of “passionate intensity” (a euphemism), while many of us on the right are lackin...

May 1, 2017

Trump Trolling the Media, Winning the Narrative

Richard Nixon once gave a speech to the nation where he famously said, “I am not a crook.”  At the recent White House Correspondents Dinner, President Trump not in attendance, Bob Woodward and other media champions tried to tell the ...

April 28, 2017

The Jacobins of the Democratic Party

Rather than accept electoral defeat, the mainstream of the Democratic Party now believes in “resisting” -- resisting anything the party in power enacts into law, does, wants to do, or even wants to think.  Their new goal is to disrup...

April 24, 2017

The Bush Family Conundrum

When George W. Bush ran, I supported him – to the max financially during the primary, then during the full campaign.  In hindsight, he was a decent president early.  He then sowed the seeds for his own destruction during the Iraq war ...

April 15, 2017

American Resurrection

Easter Week celebrates resurrection. It’s fitting that of all weeks, the signs of the American resurrection championed by Donald Trump are finally beginning to show. There is a book titled Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, Really Bad Day. L...

April 10, 2017

The Rotten Obama Record -- and Legacy

There is an excellent cartoon showing a circle of people surrounding Barack Obama, guarding him, preventing anyone from bringing him harm.  An observer asks if those people are the Secret Service.  The answer:  No, that’s the med...

April 1, 2017

The Fake News Crisis

  This nation has faced many a crisis, but not since the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, ginned up by the Hearst media empire, have we had crisis of the current magnitude powered by fake news. Within living memory, in 1968, the ...

March 3, 2017

Trump's Speech and the Shifting of the Political Plates

Our political drama has been beyond high for a very long year now.  It has ratcheted up close to frenzy since the election in November.  We've all watched as the left, from the highest leaders to the lowest voter, have melted down....

February 17, 2017

The Left's Once Mighty Echo Chamber Is Losing Power

The left and its echo chamber are convinced they are taking out Trump. It's their "narrative" and they actually believe their own PR. They don’t see how they have driven themselves over the edge of reason and can no longer convinc...

February 13, 2017

The Handmaidens of Hatred

It's unfortunate that this has to be a discussion about hate – unfortunate because hatred is divisive, destructive, and at the very least unpleasant.  It has never been totally gone from us, and now it is in the process of overwhelming...

February 1, 2017

Breitbart: Five Years After

I had the pleasure of meeting Andrew Breitbart just weeks before he died. He was at a conservative conference where he gave a fiery speech. Most people came to see Michelle Malkin, the other conservative firebrand at the conference -- Andrew was not ...

January 24, 2017

Chronicles of Self-Destruction

In 1969, demonstrations, rallies, campus takeovers, and violence abounded. America was roiled in the spitefulness of the New Left. It was a most intense time. Being a student, I went to the rallies, curious about the left’s “new” id...

January 5, 2017

Broken: The Sickening, Stale, and Worn Out Narratives of the Left

It's safe to say Americans on the right are sickened by the same old tired playbook of the left. Let's face it: using the race card, the gender card, the "stupid" card, the insensitive card, the tax cuts for the rich card, and th...

December 3, 2016

On Time, under Budget

Most building contractors have a goal of finishing their projects in the time specified, with the money budgeted.  The closer you get to doing both, the more profitable and the more successful your company will be.  The sad truth is, most b...

November 28, 2016

Next Steps on the Right

I think we have witnessed a national miracle in the past year.  Against all odds, the Clinton machine, the corrupt Democrat juggernaut, the media, what I used to call the Democrat-media complex has been defeated.  Donald Trump is presi...

November 14, 2016

We Are in Good Hands with Trump

For those of you pearl-clutchers on the right who haven't understood why Donald Trump is president-elect, here it is.  The man known for the phrase "you're fired" should actually be known for another talent, which is to size up...

May 15, 2016

The Conservative Case for Trump

As a longstanding Reagan conservative, my initial preference was Ted Cruz; yet I would have voted for any of the candidates over Hillary.  I held my nose for McCain and Romney, and hope some at least hold their noses and vote for Trump.  Ho...