July 18, 2016

Only federal lives matter

Now Baton Rouge, and the fabric of civil society is torn more and more to tatters at an increasingly rapid pace. Ask yourself this: if those police officers and sheriff’s deputies who are being shot and killed were federal officers, and not ...

July 17, 2016

North Carolina NAACP Official Spreading Hate

Curtis Gatewood is currently the field director of the North Carolina NAACP.  He has described the killing of mass murderer Micah X. Johnson by the Dallas Police as a ‘lynching’: Make no mistake, by taking this Black ‘susp...

July 17, 2016

Hillary Clinton prioritizes outlawing criticism of Hillary Clinton

Orlando, Dallas, Nice, terrorism, dangerous levels of deficit, lowest workforce participation in decades as millions give up even trying to find work, Putin auditioning for Tsar Vlad the Terrible, the bonds that hold a civil society together coming a...

July 15, 2016

Liberal Logic: Free press applies only to quill pens and hand presses!

Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman, Democrat from New Jersey, claims that the Second Amendment applies only to muskets, and as such, citizens don’t have the right to own various and sundry other weapons.  That delusion is based on her un...

June 27, 2016

A tale of two first ladies

The Washington Post reports rather cheekily that Ann LePage, the wife of the Republican governor of Maine, has used family connections to secure a job.  She is waiting tables during Maine’s tourist-rich summer on the coast at an estab...

June 22, 2016

Due process in the age of Obama’s IRS

Arguments against banning gun purchases by people whose names are placed on secretive government lists are largely and correctly based on a denial of constitutional due process, as at American Thinker here and here.  There is another compelling ...

June 17, 2016

What does 'getting weapons of war off our streets' really mean?

Repeating words spoken by President Obama two years ago, Hillary Clinton stated, "I believe weapons of war have no place on our streets," referencing the AR-15 and presumably other semi-automatic rifles labeled "assault weapons" b...

May 28, 2014

Under the Protection of Our Flag

President Reagan was fond of telling the story of Captain Duncan Ingraham, U.S. Navy, and did so in remarks to the crew on board the USS Constellation on August 20, 1981. After a failed attempt in 1848-1849 to free Hungary from the Austro-Hungaria...

March 13, 2011

What A Tsunami Really Is

With cameras of all types having become ubiquitous, it was only a matter of time before images were taken of a tsunami in progress that for the first time really showed why these events were so catastrophic.There were numerous photos and videos of th...

March 3, 2011

A Democrat Discovers 'Jihad'

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February 10, 2011

Muslim Brotherhood Wants Egyptian Nukes

If I can readily find this on the Net why can't the big media? It is from WMD Insights, November 2006, a publication sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the U.S. Defense Department.Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Presses Government...

February 7, 2011

Citizens Must Know Their Place

In North Carolina, some state functionaries and politicians believe citizens must be credentialed by the state in order to be allowed to analyze and criticize certain state government plans.  Absent those credentials, citizen transgressors shoul...

January 21, 2011

NPR: Putting Aside Forced Abortions...

On NPR's Morning Edition, Jan 21, 2011, co-host Renee Montagne interviewed Congressman Chris Smith, R-NJ, about discussions he was involved in yesterday with Speaker Boehner centering on China's violations of human rights. Smith noted that Speaker Bo...

January 16, 2011

Killing Politicians and Other Guilty Pleasures

In the leftist pile-on blaming the Tucson shootings on the right, the collective voice of Hollywood was muted.  Some, like Jane Fonda and Michael Moore, were among the notable exceptions, but most, including many normally outspoken liberals, wer...

November 23, 2010

Time to Arm Airline Passengers?

As opposed to the increasingly absurd steps being taken to identify and keep weapons off commercial aircraft, it would be advisable and practical to identify and empower volunteer counter-terrorists among the passengers, initially at least on domesti...

December 4, 2009

Is the AP trying to sow discord between the US and Canada?

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November 12, 2009

Muslims Bombing Muslims

Muslims (Saudis) are shelling and bombing Muslims (Yemenis) and we are not getting hourly photos of the civilian casualties!It seems like the same old sad story from the Middle East. The side with the powerful military apparatus shelling and bombing ...

November 11, 2009

Rep. Cao vs. Retired Gen. Honoré

The single Republican to vote for Speaker Pelosi's version of ObamaCare is Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, who replaced William "Cold Cash" Jefferson in Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District. Rep. Cao's engagement in bi-partisanship immed...

October 21, 2009

Rush should make CNN an offer it can't refuse

CNN just keeps embarrassing itself. Oddly enough, Rush Limbaugh could help them out, while doing himself a little good at the same time. Following close on its much-derided ‘fact checking' of an SNL skit poking fun at President Obama, and the h...

October 10, 2009

NYTimes: Rescind Peace Prize!

Yes, the NY Times published an article by Randy Cohen (The Ethicist) entitled Taking Back Nobel Prizes!However, that was from the Sunday Magazine of October 6, three days before the announcement that President Obama had won the 2009 prize! The Times ...

September 6, 2009

Van Jones and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge

If one asks what does President Obama’s Green Jobs czar Van Jones (assuming he still holds the position as of this being read) and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) have to do with each other, the answer is both nothing and everything. Jone...

August 7, 2008

Could Obama still lose the nomination?

Will Hillary outsmart Obama and take the nomination at the last minute? Many of us familiar with Hillary Clinton's approach to achieving her goals refused to believe that she ever gave up all hope of winning the nomination and the presidency. Her wor...

March 15, 2008

Winter Soldier: Compliant Media and Message Control

After some online negotiations months ago The Iraq Veterans Against the War agreed to allow what can be called "opposition" milbloggers to attend the Winter Soldier Investigation now being held in Silver Spring, Maryland. One of those milbl...

March 9, 2008

Winter Soldiers Face New Law, by D. Keohane (with correction)

In 1971 the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) held their Winter Soldier Investigation (WSI) during which over one hundred members told often lurid stories of war crimes and atrocities they had witnessed or participated in during the war. The ev...

February 28, 2008

Smearing the Troops: Then and Now

This last Monday FrontPageMag.com published "Newly Discovered Army Reports Discredit 'Winter Soldier' Claims" written by Scott Swett, proprietor of WinterSoldier.com and co-author of "To Set the Record Straight - How Swift Boat Veteran...

February 17, 2008

PBS To Air Haditha documentary

This Tuesday, February 19 at 9:00 pm ET, PBS' Frontline will air a one hour show on what has come to be known as "The Haditha Massacre". The show is entitled "Rules Of Engagement".Bruce Kesler of The Democracy Project, has be...

December 23, 2007

Swiftboating History

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."     George SantayanaIt may be Providential that a book of history is soon to be released dealing extensively with certain shameful events of nearly four de...

October 18, 2007

Gore's Inconvenient 9/11 Truth

Nobel laureate Al Gore, we are to believe, has the technical acumen to analyze complex data, assess risks, and identify the right countermeasures. He must be able to critically sift through mountains of data, distinguish between r...

October 9, 2007

Investigate the Winter Soldier Investigation

It's being called ‘Winter Soldier Syndrome.' The phrase refers to slanders of American soldiers and Marines made by people who also make fraudulent claims about their own military experiences. Michelle Malkin writes: "Winter Soldier Syndro...

September 23, 2007

U.N. Sec. Gen. Suspends Disbelief

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the U.N. will return to Iraq, after having closed its offices in 2003 when a bombing killed envoy Sergio Vieira and 21 others. Improved security is cited as grounds for the change.Captain Ed asks:"What happens ...

September 21, 2007

Al Qaeda's Cry for Help

Apparently despairing of any other kind of workable offensive, Al Qaeda is busily engaged in a media one. Now there's another tape. Any moment now some Democrat will announce that this is an obvious indication that we are losing the fight, and that e...

September 18, 2007

Democrats, MoveOn and the Monkey Trap

Democrats find themselves caught in something resembling the "monkey trap."There are varieties of the monkey trap used in Africa, South America and Asia. Some are pottery jugs, some are wooden boxes, but all work on the same principle. The ...

September 16, 2007

Harry Reid, Gen. Petraeus, and cooking data

In an interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal, Srnate Majority Leader Harry Reid claimed a million Iraqis have been killed since the beginning of the invasion. How did Reid arrive at that figure? He probably got it from this poll. I know of no non-po...

September 5, 2007

When the Left Cares, and When It Doesn't

Left wing artists love to portray themselves as avatars of compassion, and are often praised by the media and cultural establishment for the humanity their political work supposedly demonstrates. But theirs is a highly selective compassion, ofte...

August 26, 2007

The Haditha Libels Require Investigation

If Democrats really do support the troops, they will use their control of Congress to launch one more investigation -- into a series of statements and reported leaks by officials that have severely harmed our troops and their ability to accompli...

August 5, 2007

Obama: The Mark of Inexperience

No doubt Senator Obama was stung by Hillary Clinton's charge of naïveté and knows that his lack of executive and foreign policy experience could be a drawback to his presidential ambitions, even within his own party. Admittedly his Democr...

November 29, 2006

When Killing is Enough to Defeat America

Thanks to the development of mass media inclined to oppose the nation's efforts to obtain military victory, a new path to victory has opened up for America's enemies. Historically there have been instructive and useful criteria to gauge whether one w...

November 16, 2006

SF School Board Hits the Wrong Target

The San Francisco Board of Education has voted to phase out and ban Junior ROTC, sparking a nationwide uproar. The excuse for denying 1,600 students the opportunity to voluntarily participate is what is commonly called 'the Pentagon's Don't Ask/Don't...

November 5, 2006

The Caring Culture vs. the Warrior Culture

The Democrats have a problem with America's warrior culture, and consequently, with our military. And yet, honesty compels me to say that such hostility and scorn does not explain all of the Democratic left's attitude to our troops, present and veter...

October 29, 2006

Marty McFly and Poli-Sci

That's Poli—Sci as in 'politicized science'. Possible best intentions and sincerity notwithstanding, Michael J. Fox is being used in a crass corruption of science, shrouded in a fleeting compassion by politicians solely for political profit. Th...

October 18, 2006

The Anti-Democratic Democrats

Democrats named their party after democracy. They used to think it was a good way to run things. There has been debate on the right for years about whether President Bush's promotion of democracy in the Middle East as an integral part of the GWOT is ...

October 15, 2006

Wake up and Smell the Hypocrisy

Pointing out Democrat hypocrisy is like picking the low hanging fruit of contemporary political discussion. They rush at you on a frighteningly regular basis with bushels of the stuff, insisting that you let them put it in your car so you don't even ...