January 16, 2025

Reconsidering the J6 Pardons

Anyone paying attention to the Hunter Biden saga fully expected ‘The Big Guy’ to pardon his bagman. What was a surprise was that the pardon was a blanket amnesty for any possible crime that may have been committed while Hunter was raking ...

November 11, 2024

Lefties in Wonderland

Just prior to the election, an ultra-liberal acquaintance and big-time student of politics was predicting a landslide Harris-Walz win, suggesting that the key to victory would be to see how many counties Harris increased the Democrat vote over the Bi...

October 18, 2024

Do Maine and Nebraska Have it Right?

Democrats, still hurting after two losses in which their candidates won the popular vote but not the Presidency, have been making noise about eliminating the Electoral College (EC). Recently Tim Walz came out in favor of eliminating the EC, but he wa...

September 1, 2024

Six Things About Harris

Those running the campaign for the back-door selected Democrat candidate are doing their best to keep voters unaware of several primary aspects about their candidate, such as: Her voting record as senator, her positions on key issues, as well as...

August 10, 2024

Walz's Eagleton connection

The ‘Eagleton Affair’ may not come immediately to mind, except to those who either were old enough to vote in 1972 or are true students of history and politics. Thomas Eagleton was then a 42-year-old senator from Missouri who became ...

July 19, 2024

A Victory for Honest Elections

In 2000, as Democrats were attempting to steal the Presidential election in Florida, an article written by Jon Dougherty and David Kupelian titled “How Democrats Steal Elections” shed light on the tactics used. What unfolded in Broward...

July 1, 2024

Obama's chickens come home to roost

It was not too many years ago that Barack Obama was welcomed into the Presidency in messianic fashion. Change was needed, it was proclaimed, and Barack Obama was just the man to make that change. The death of the GOP was being joyously proclaimed, at...

April 16, 2024

Erwin Chemerinsky: Dodging a Bullet

Last week controversy arose at the home of the Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the Berkeley Law School, at a luncheon he and his wife were hosting for senior law-school students. To become the law-school dean at one of the most leftist universities in the...

February 24, 2024

The Democrats' Long Game for 2030 Census

Much has been written analyzing the issues regarding the Biden Border Crisis. One aspect, however, that has not been adequately covered should be deeply troubling to all honest Americans: The impact of 8-10 million illegal residents on the futur...

January 9, 2024

The Roots of Lawfare

Although the term “Lawfare” has origins going back to the 1950s, it remained relatively dormant and unknown until 1999 and 2001, where first Chinese military officers used the term in their book titled Unrestricted Warfare: China...

October 1, 2023

Replacing Dianne Feinstein

With the passing of long-serving Senator Dianne Feinstein Friday morning, Governor Gavin Newsom has the rare second chance to pick California’s next senator. His first opportunity, which came when Kamala Harris resigned to become Vice President...

June 20, 2023

The Swamp Strikes Back

On February 23rd, of this year, Jaqueline Breger, the principal investigator for Harris/Thaler Law Corporation, at the invitation of State Representative Liz Harris (R), made a presentation to a joint committee for the state of Arizona on Municipal O...

April 11, 2023

Team Biden's Pathetic Rewrite of History

An old adage tells us: “The last person who quit or got fired gets the blame for everything that goes wrong, until the next person quits or gets fired.” Last week Team Biden placed the blame for the failed withdrawal from Afghanistan squa...

January 11, 2023

Nancy's last stand

This past week, we witnessed an extremely rare hard fought battle in Washington to elect a new leader for the incoming GOP majority.  Fifteen rounds of voting over several days were required before an agreement was reached.  McCar...

December 23, 2022

From 'Free Speech' to Elon Musk

There was a time, in years past, when calling someone a hypocrite was taken as an insult to a person’s integrity, or more specifically their lack thereof. That is no longer the case. Today’s political Left, Democrats in particular, now se...

November 17, 2022

Arizona's numbers don't add up

The media and the Democrats want us to believe that Kari Lake, along with others, lost because the "Red Wave" did not exist, and that close association with President Trump was the kiss the of death for Republicans.  Really? Le...

November 13, 2022

Who's Running this Ship of Fools?

The puzzle as to who is really running the country, has been with us for some time. Certainly, all logic points to the fact the Joe Biden is an example of a man who has risen to his level of incompetence. His age, reflecting the early stages of demen...

June 25, 2022

Are you now or have you ever been a supporter of Donald Trump?

As the Pelosi-Thompson-Cheney circus rolls on in D.C., signals are given that the Democrats have their sights set on more than just the former president. Obviously, the primary purpose of the pseudo-hearing is twofold: Destroy Trump and keep ...

July 3, 2020

Why Biden's Lead Will Evaporate

Recent polls indicate that former vice president Joe Biden has a significant lead over President Trump. Democrat leaders are holding their self-confidence in check as they recall the horror (to them) of 2016. Likewise, the horrors of the last few wee...

June 18, 2020

The Democrats and anarchy

It seems every presidential election is termed the "most important election of our lives."  It is a tired cliché that will not be repeated here.  What will be said is this: rarely have the implications posed by th...

June 4, 2020

What a difference a day makes

Saturday was a great day.  With friends and family, we celebrated my wife's birthday.  It was a delight to be among loved ones after ten weeks of isolation. On Sunday, my wife and I were standing in line at a local gun shop...

December 30, 2019

The Most Irritating person of 2019 is....

We are now looking at 2019 in our rear view mirrors, since it is time for those irritating “The Best/Worst of the year” lists. This past year was full of irritations, on many levels, from the shallow and superficial, to the rare...

July 17, 2019

Ali vs. Rapinoe

Writing for Sports Illustrated, Grant Whal drew a comparison between current Mega Soccer Goddess Megan Rapinoe and Muhammed Ali, when he wrote: Muhammad Ali is a singular figure in American life. But there are elements of a modern-day Ali in Rap...

April 23, 2019

Four Reasons Why the Dems Will Lose in 2020

This election cycle seems to have begun earlier than past cycles, perhaps because the Democrats are too anxious to get on with the show. Their eagerness, possibly creating a burn-out factor, could work against them, but there are other issues at play...

September 22, 2018

Feinstein: The Greater of Two Evils

In recent days, the nation has witnessed an unseemly display of political gamesmanship, one that has served as a testimonial to just how low the Democrats have sunk.  In a ploy to regain the power she believes to rightfully belong to t...

May 8, 2018

Five Reasons the GOP Must Hold Congress

Recent history has indicated that first midterm elections do not bode well for new presidents. Both Clinton and Obama lost control of the House, for example. As for Trump, with November fast approaching, there are exaggerated expectations of a ...

April 6, 2018

Ted Kennedy: Lion or Jackal?

On April 6, Chappaquiddick, a movie detailing the events involving Senator Ted Kennedy on Martha's Vineyard in July 1969, will be released.  That incident demonstrated the depths to which the Kennedys were willing to go t...

March 27, 2018

Why Does the Congressional Black Caucus Get a Pass on Farrakhan?

In late January of this year, a previously unreleased photo of then-senator Barack Obama schmoozing it up with Louis Farrakhan was made public.  The photo had been kept from public view to protect the political aspirant from poten...

March 12, 2018

Trump's Korea proposal drives Maddow crazy

Last week, it was announced that President Trump had accepted an invitation from North Korea's Kim Jong-un to meet in the near future. Reasonable people are hoping for a positive outcome, while unreasonable people, blinded by their hatred for ...

December 29, 2017

We Don't Need No Stinkin' Predictions

With apology offered to B. Traven for the above appropriation of his words, I wanted to take a moment, as we approach 2018, to look back on tumultuous 2017 – or, more specifically, some of the comments made foretelling coming events. It take...

June 29, 2017

The Domestic Terrorism Count: Jihadists vs. Right-Wing Extremism

I’ve known Richard since 1981, as a mentor, competitor, and colleague, and I consider him a friend. I only recently though found out how liberal he actually is, but I do not hold that against him. During a recent business trip, he brought up...

April 13, 2017

The Supreme Court: A Modest Proposal

Once again the nation has suffered through the process of a Supreme Court nomination. Having done so, we can now either sit back and wait in dread for the next one, or we can consider modification of probably the most divisive process in politic...

December 23, 2016

Words and Phrases to Lose in 2017

During a performance at Yoshi’s in Oakland, the late legendary Texas wordsmith Guy Clark asked the question: Is there a synonym for ‘Thesaurus’? He added that he never found one, but the word ‘lexicon’ was about as close...

September 10, 2016

Notes from 30,000 feet: The ongoing search for the perfect smoked ribs

The search for the best combination of method, rub, glazing sauce, and mop sauce used to achieve baby-back perfection has been an arduous but enjoyable task.  I think I may have found it this past Labor Day weekend with a new twist on ...

July 28, 2016

The right call on Manson follower

It’s hard to believe that it has been almost fifty years since the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders of 1969.  Unfortunately, we are reminded of these murders on too regular a basis.  They were again in the news recently when Gov. Brown ...

February 19, 2016

Before the Fireworks: A Refresher on Supreme Court Nominations

Few Senate actions are as dramatic or divisive as the ‘advise and consent’ process for Supreme Court nominations. The replacement of Antonin Scalia is shaping up to be a barn burner, since November’s outcome is not a solid bet. We c...

October 23, 2015

Honoring a Woman vs. Honoring Women

In June of this year the Treasury Department announced that the redesigned ten dollar bill would honor a woman of historic significance. In doing so, a disservice to women may be the unintended consequence of this action. A closer look at those wo...

August 19, 2015

2016 is Upon Us

Having been a political junkie most of my life, this election cycle is shaping up like one rarely seen before. It is doing so in a manner I hope is never repeated. The first issue is the timing: It is still summer in the year before the election. ...

June 22, 2015

The Need for a Convention of the States

Our freedom was won at the cost of blood by men desirous of liberty unconstrained by tyrannical authority, and responding to unacceptable tyranny from a malevolent king. Once liberty was gained, the choice was made to decentralize power so as to n...

April 5, 2015

The Lines of Duty

Throughout history rare men have risen in times of strife, acting unselfishly while striving to achieve an end for the betterment of mankind. In many cases they succeed, to be long remembered for their words, battlefield exploits, or deeds: William W...

March 19, 2015

The Gang of 48

After the GOP released the open letter to the leaders of Iran the Democrats and went into high dudgeon with a level of outrage rarely seen. TRAITORS!! -- blasted the headline in the New York Daily News The Washington Post’s Dana Millbank ...

December 14, 2014

The GOP Won. Now What?

In the movie Patton General George S. Patton relates a story: "For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. . .  A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden cr...

November 6, 2014

If You Can't Beat Them, Indict Them

The character of Frank Underwood, played magnificently by Kevin Spacey  in ‘House of Cards’, represents the kind of politician you love to hate. He is a strange combination of ruthlessness and charm; amorality mixed with a faç...

October 31, 2013

Heritage vs. ObamaCare

On rare occasions members of the far left permit a glimpse, as dark as it may be, into the inner workings of their minds.  As radical Israeli professor Ilon Pappe told Le Soir, "The struggle is about ideology, not about facts. Who knows wha...

December 8, 2012

What would Thomas Jefferson Think?

Inspired by the words of Thomas Paine, the new nation's leaders sought to resolve grievances with the government to allow the citizenry to live free from tyranny, while remaining true to the concepts of civil rights and individual liberty. James Mad...

December 5, 2012

Whatever Happened to Common Sense?

The time was 1775, the rebellion was increasing in intensity. Blood had been shed at Lexington and Concord, and Falmouth had been bombarded by ships of the Royal Navy. The rebellion had begun, but the War for Independence had not. The Continental Con...