July 6, 2022

Hillary Jumps on the Dobbs Bandwagon

With the inexorable march of time, Hillary Clinton’s cheekiness has been matched by a set of sagging jowls that seem to vibrate with anticipation at being back in the political fold.  While some might say she turns up like the proverbial b...

March 23, 2022

Joe Biden, Ukraine, and a Reign of Error

Several decades ago, my then-elderly mother was mugged in a New York City subway station.  She was knocked to the hard ground by a male stranger, who ran off with her purse.  According to reports, there were several other passenge...

March 7, 2022

Biden and Putin's war

"Putin's War" has replaced Donald Trump as the culprit on whom Biden conveniently blames everything bad.  Gas and inflation rising?  Putin's war is at fault.  Biden's delay in sending arms to Ukrain...

January 16, 2022

You Have Been Warned: Hillary is Back

Standing in front of livestock at the 2016 Iowa State Fair, presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton chortled, “I’m back!”  But she was dead serious. Now, despite Joe Biden’s unlikely intentions to run for a second term, H...

November 18, 2021

Stumbling, Bumbling Kamala

Ooh-la-la!, oui, oui!  Kamala Harris has finally gone to Europe — and at taxpayers' expense.  Yet despite CNN's glowing description of the "chumming chemistry" between the vice president and France's Pr...

October 26, 2021

Why Pete B. Prefers Diapers

Pete Buttigieg may be politically driven, but in his new job as Secretary of Transportation he seems as effective as a speed bump on the road to relieving the supply chain hang-up at our Southern California ports.  His clueless inaction suggests...

September 18, 2021

Gone Is the Romance of California

Perhaps if all the disgruntled voters who left California in recent years were still there to favor the recall of Gavin Newsom, his political career would have ended last Tuesday.  During the 2010s, about 6.1 million people moved from Calif...

September 3, 2021

America's 'No Accountability' Military

Looking like oversized versions of Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Generals Lloyd Austin and Mark Milley lumbered onto the stage for a press conference a couple of days after the U.S. military debacle brought the 20 years' war in Afghanistan to an ign...

August 22, 2021

Joe Biden, Sinking into the Sand

In his sonnet "Ozymandias," poet Percy Bysshe Shelley tells of a traveler who comes upon a desert ruin that was once an ancient empire. All that is left of it are "two vast and trunkless legs of stone" and a sneering imperial ston...

July 7, 2021

The Democrat Blame Game

Democrats are taking to a whole new level Rahm Emanuel’s seminal advice to “never let a crisis go to waste.”  Ideally, they simply refuse to admit that a crisis exists -- as with Joe Biden’s dementia.  Otherwise...

June 7, 2021

How Much Longer Must We Endure the Mask?

Not since the glove in the O.J. Simpson murder case has a piece of fabric received more notoriety and discussion than the modern mask.  Even after Joe Biden shuffled up to the mic to take what was supposed to be a verbal victory lap for COV...

April 29, 2021

The raid on Rudy

At some point in the 1980's, when Rudy Giuliani was a U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, my mother went with a friend to hear him talk at a local meeting.  She came home enormously impressed.  The speaker, sh...

April 8, 2021

Grim Kamala shadows Joe, sizes up the Oval Office

Kamala Harris is beginning to resemble the Grim Reaper — minus a scythe and hood — silently stalking President Biden.  The doom-and-gloom likely future president, who has even at times been referred to by her boss as "Presi...

March 18, 2021

Joe Biden: More Heel Than Healer

It’s been about a year since America’s senior citizens --by virtue of our vulnerability – unwittingly became the pandemic’s protected overaged poster children.  Having recently received my second shot of COVID vaccine, I...

November 21, 2020

Hillary Clinton is not happy with how 2020 is going

You can say this for Hillary Clinton: she's proving to be a lot more prescient than popular.  Ever the meddler, the vengeful presidential wannabe advised Joe Biden way back in August not to concede the election under any circumstances....

October 20, 2020

Marching madness

Many things have happened for the first time in the final weeks before the 2020 election. So it is hardly surprising that last weekend, we witnessed the first series of women's marches whose primary purpose was to denigrate a woman.  It...

September 30, 2020

Debate 2020: Joe Biden was disgusting

On the night of what was supposed to be the most watched televised event of the (football-less) season, I found myself seated in the lounge of my apartment complex where about a half dozen other residents had settled in front of the TV set, munc...

September 20, 2020

Big Orange Man Make Big Orange Sky

Considering the ubiquitous portable technology of urban protesters, one might expect their behavior to be several notches above Neanderthal.  Instead, the public temper tantrums of America's disgruntled mobs continue at an alarming pace...

July 19, 2020

New Candidates for National Anthem Can't Hold a Candle to the Original

The cancel culture cultists are busier than ever in their undisguised attempt to reimagine a wholly different America, one rising like a socialistic phoenix from the ashes of the old. When public outrage to their toppling statues of Confederate le...

June 22, 2020

Being an octogenarian in a coronaviral world is no picnic

An omnipresent media establishment never ceases to remind those "of a certain age" how vulnerable to contagion we truly are, as if somehow that disquieting thought had hitherto eluded us.  We are treated like children — even...

May 1, 2020

I Bet Joe Biden Picks Michelle to Be His Running Mate

I've never been a betting woman, especially now that I'm too old to earn back anything I lose.  But recently I made a chump-change wager with an acquaintance of mine, who figured he'd easily pick up a few bucks in a fantasy-fed ...

April 12, 2020

Biden: The Democrats' Eggs All in One Basket Case

What seems like many pandemic moons ago, my liberal son called me on the night of Super Tuesday to express his surprise.  Somehow, he pondered, Joe Biden — all but left for dead after the three initial Democrat primaries — had m...

February 23, 2020

The Vegas debate: No jackpots for Democrat crackpots

As the Democratic Party's presidential wannabes pick up their chips and depart Sin City for hopefully greener pastures, their debate performance leaves behind a bad taste in the mouths of many Silver State voters. Much has been written about t...

December 14, 2019

Malice in Blunderland

As if the stresses of the holiday season weren’t enough, harried Americans find themselves tumbling deeper and deeper down a rabbit hole of political insanity.  Originally orchestrated by Mad Hatter Adam Schiff, the plot of the impeachment...

November 14, 2019

California Burns, Gavin Newsom Fiddles

If Gavin Newsom is not the worst governor of California, he will be by the time he gets through with it.  Know-it-all "pretty boy" Newsom, predictably elected in a deeper-than-deep blue state, has no regard for anyone who thinks d...

October 8, 2019

Hillary's Chances

It is not surprising that some political gurus now see the potential of Hillary Clinton as the Democrat Party standard-bearer in 2020.   What took them so long?  Inveterate Hillary-watchers like myself understand that the motto prop...

June 25, 2019

At Hillary's 50th Reunion at Wellesley College

If Hillary Rodham Clinton insists she’s not running for president in 2020, why is she running… all over the place? Well, for one thing, Her Heinous has always believed in the value of high visibility as a means of enhancing her political...

May 28, 2019

Old white Joe tees up strike three for the presidency

Jumping Jehoshaphat!  Joe Biden is now a candidate for a third run at the presidency, though at age 76, he is no longer running on as many cylinders as he once was. Nevertheless, Sleepy (rhymes with creepy) Joe rolled out his vision for ...

December 13, 2018

Hate-Soaked Liberals Go Hunting for Rudolph the Reindeer

'Tis the season of peace on earth, goodwill toward men – or "persons," to be politically correct.  Presumably, this joyous time of year should bring out the best in everyone, especially Democrats, whom Cory Booker sancti...

September 27, 2018

Prof. Ford Flunks as a Female Role Model

In Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery" – published in 1948 and later made into a film – a rural community holds its annual drawing, after which the unlucky winner is stoned to death.  This pagan-like ritua...

September 7, 2018

The Ahabs of the left

Desperate Democrats appear fixated on two narrow issues, which they regard as viable conduits in their vengeful desire to destroy Donald Trump: impeachment and abortion. Now, incredibly, we hear that old liberal warhorse Robert Reich has hysterica...

July 22, 2018

Gavin Who? Media Not Mining for Gold in California

Hell hath no fury like a party scorned.  A mounting eruption in one of the largest and bluest U.S. states is proof of it.  Out in California, the Democrat establishment is launching its latest dose of venom against President Trump...

July 5, 2018

Liberal hypocrisy: Independence Day edition

It was hardly surprising that many liberals spent the Fourth of July holiday railing against America rather than celebrating her.  It was, for example, an opportunity for Elizabeth Warren – flatteringly referred to as "Pocahontas...

June 7, 2018

California: Land of Fruits and Nuts in the Jungle (Primary)

For as long as I can remember, California has been facetiously branded "the land of fruits and nuts."  At the same time – at least until recent years – it was ironically acknowledged to be America's innovative land...

May 24, 2018

Hillary's fatuous advice to grads

Last year at this time, it was Wellesley.  Last week, it was Yale.  What will Hillary Clinton do in the future when faced with the prospect of having no other collegiate alma maters at whose commencements to spew her wearying bran...

May 8, 2018

Andrew Cuomo's quips, quirks, and coiff

Andrew Cuomo, formerly secretary of housing and urban development (1997-2001) and now the beleaguered governor of the Empire State, is neither as articulate nor as attractive as his late father, Mario.  But like Mario, he is politically amb...

April 19, 2018

The Silver Fox: Rest in Peace, Barbara Bush

Barbara Bush was one of those national figures who subsequently became even more admired – and less criticized – than during her stint as a player in the very public game of political life. Such easing of perceptions can be a startling...

March 22, 2018

Hillary in India: A Sari Spectacle

One of my liberal friends admitted to me recently that there is a certain virtue to losing gracefully. She was referencing her disappointment with the mean-spirited salvos Hillary Clinton delivered during her recent visit to India, an outburst closer...

January 16, 2018

The Unequal Rules of the Anti-Trump Blame Game

In a memorable scene from the 1986 blockbuster Crocodile Dundee, Paul Hogan and his reporter girlfriend are taking a nighttime "walkabout" in Manhattan when a thug suddenly steps from the shadow and demands their money.  Warned that th...

November 6, 2017

Rats Haven't Deserted Democrats' Sinking Ship

Despite being waterlogged by scandal and disagreement, the Democratic Party is far from headed for a shipwreck. Waves of destruction may threaten, but Democrats cling fast to what they regard as their righteous, life-saving superiority. They have alw...

October 29, 2017

Screaming meemies and Howard Deanies

I wouldn't put too much stock in the anti-Trump celebration – aka commiseration – scheduled to take place in some big cities on the first anniversary of what his defectors view as his theft of the presidency.  Threats to communal...

October 2, 2017

Is Michelle's 'true voice' Telling Her to Run for President?

In the biblical Song of Solomon, the voice of the turtle(dove) is a sign of Spring. But in the siren call of Michelle Obama -- who emerged last week from her nine-million-dollar beltway mansion to deliver a speech in Boston -- the voice of the lady b...

September 13, 2017

Hillary's new book: 'It Takes a Pillage'

There's an old saying: "I don't care what you think of me, just as long as you think of me!"  Nobody – not even Donald J. Trump – takes to heart that sentiment more sincerely than Hillary Rodham Clinton.  Co...

August 23, 2017

Which side are you on, anyway?

There were times when spats between my parents-in-law escalated to the point where they hauled out the big laundry bag of family pictures and grudgingly began to divide up the contents.  Now, in a national argument over decades-old Confederate m...

July 21, 2017

The Cruise: One Yankee Lady Takes on 3,999 Brits

What do you get when you put one American on a British cruise ship with over 4,000 citizens of the U.K.?  Answer: a lot of questions about Donald Trump. The population worldwide has gone bananas – "ba-nah-nahs," as the Brits ...

June 1, 2017

Hillary: No Class, and No Class Cheer

I did not return to my alma mater to hear Hillary Rodham Clinton deliver her commencement address to the Wellesley Class of 2017.  Nor did I – in the manner of my more liberal alumnae friends here on the West Coast – opt to rise very...

May 25, 2017

When the Cat's Away, the Rats Will Play

Out of sight, out of mind.  When it's President Trump who's far out of sight, the Democrats go even farther out of their minds. Biased media have all but buried the coverage of Trump's historic visit to Riyadh, Israel, the Vatican...

April 26, 2017

The Left's Irrational Fury

There’s an old joke about a psychiatrist who is approached by a patient in a mental ward who tells him , “I, sir, am Napoleon!” “How do you know that?” asks the doctor. “Because God told me!” From th...

March 31, 2017

Hillary’s 2020 Vision of Revenge

Hillary Clinton looks good in green.  After all, it’s the color of money  -- and envy.  So it’s symbolic that on St Patrick’s Day she left  the quiet woods of Chappaqua   and wandered back  into th...

February 5, 2017

The Reich Stuff

Even as his campus smoldered from the latest riots, former labor secretary Robert Reich – now the highly paid, long tenured chancellor's professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley – put in an appearance to sp...

January 25, 2017

Progressives’ post-election guilt therapy

  If last Saturday’s pink-clad marchers had shown the same enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton that they now demonstrate against Donald Trump, she might be sitting pretty in the White House. But they didn’t – and she isn...

January 19, 2017

Joe Biden after Jan. 20: In Dover or in Clover?

A lot of tears have been glistening in Joe Biden's eyes lately, some of them unabashedly coursing down his worn cheeks.  No, it's not allergy season in the D.C. basin.  It's just that Uncle Joe is waxing even more emotional than...

January 8, 2017

Shop ’til the Stores Drop

After what is being described as a “disappointing holiday season,” some of America’s largest retailers are about to close even more doors of their “brick and mortar” outlets, thus laying off thousands  of additional...

December 6, 2016

Why Obama Likely is Secretly Glad Hillary Lost

Am I the only person who thinks that in Barack Obama’s heart of hearts lies a glimmer of glee now that the Clintons won’t be moving into the White House when he moves out?  Roll your eyes in skepticism, if you will. But hear me out b...

November 13, 2016

Post-Trumpmatic Stress Disorder

In the machinery of politics, all cycles are spin cycles.  And once the centrifugal force takes hold, the whirlwind will not easily come to an abrupt halt.  So it is not surprising that after the most contentious presidential election in re...

November 7, 2016

Hillary Clinton, the Quintessential Queen Bee

It’s almost Election Day, and Hillary Clinton is buzzing around the country trying to grab as many votes as she can in what time remains. For several years now Hillary has reigned as the one and only queen bee in the Democratic Party’...

October 17, 2016

Hillary's and Bill’s Art of the Deal

Imagine Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton’s first date at Yale.  After dinner in some joint -- followed by a joint they didn’t inhale – first year law student Hillary peers penetratingly through her oversized owl glasses into the...

October 9, 2016

A really bad boy GOP candidate? OMG!

Last night, as I slipped between the sheets, I started laughing out loud...possibly because it seemed easier than crying out loud.  Like everybody else, I had learned hours before about Trump's sexually charged misogynistic tape.  We ne...

October 8, 2016

Clinton, Trump, and the Gap in America’s Infrastructure

Democrats have always gone misty-eyed over metaphors.  Perhaps it is the only means by which they feel their constituents can conceptualize complex ideas. So it is not surprising that the Clinton campaign is attempting to throw a one-two pun...

October 2, 2016

Hillary: Smug as a Bug After First Debate

Hillary Clinton is a woman who enjoys hovering above the law and hitting below the belt.  In the first presidential debate, she stood smugly behind the lectern in a bright red pants suit, grinning like a Cheshire cat.   It’s not ...

September 26, 2016

D-Day, September 26: Stand and Deliver

Not since the invasion of Normandy has a national event been considered more crucial to the outcome of a strategy than the first presidential debate between Hillary R. Clinton and Donald J. Trump tonight. For weeks now, pompous pundits have been w...

September 12, 2016

De Plorable Unum

Hillary Clinton’s mean-spirited put-down of half of Donald Trump’s supporters as a “basket of deplorables” gives further proof that she is the real “basket case.” The term, itself, is so archaic that I keep forg...

September 11, 2016

America’s Dangerously Shifting Values

The recent devastating earthquake north of Rome is another reminder of how tenuously we live at the mercy of forces greater than ourselves. But not all of earth’s dislocations are natural. Rancorous fault lines in the political, economic, an...

August 29, 2016

Hillary Coughs but Fills Campaign Coffers

Good luck to the Trump fans waiting for Hillary to cough herself out of contention in the first debate.  If you're hoping it will be another "Deep Throat" moment – unstoppable by popping a lozenge – forget it.  Cli...

August 15, 2016

So to Speak: Hillary and Trump on the Stump

I spent a good chunk of my adult life teaching public speaking to college students. Some years ago, a tome called The Book of Lists was compiled by David Wallenchinsky; his father, Irving Wallace; and his sister, Amy Wallace, who researched and ranke...

August 5, 2016

Hillary's America, and ours

It was an unusually hot and humid Sunday in the Southland.  So when a friend called and suggested I accompany her to see the latest Dinesh D’Souza film, Hillary’s America, at an air-conditioned theater complex in a nearby town, I jum...

July 29, 2016

Kerry's hot air about cold air

Secretary of State John Kerry can get pretty hot under the collar when it comes to global warming.  Even though his elevated position in the world largely isolates him from its vagaries, he nevertheless has plenty to say about how the rest of us...

July 24, 2016

Kaine and Unable

Most pundits consider Tim Kaine a safe, if boring, vice presidential running mate for Hillary Clinton.  For those who truly understand the frontrunner, Kaine is an apt pick.  Like Mike Pence, he is not exceptionally attention-grabbing. ...

July 21, 2016

The Democrats’ Green-Eyed Monster

My mother always had a simple explanation for what often seemed like a complicated problem.  For example, when she’d discuss the animosity that many non-Americans held for the beloved country to which she had emigrated as an infant, she ...

June 30, 2016

GOP Trump-Dumpers: Saints or Saboteurs?

There’s a common thread between the rejection of Brexit by some Brits and the rejection of Trump by some Republicans.   Both reflect a sore loser mentality that unrealistically yearns to reset the political clock in such a way that th...

June 21, 2016

Hillary's Pick for Veep: Will She or Warren She?

Will Hillary Clinton pick Elizabeth Warren as her running mate? That's a major decision facing the presumptive Democratic nominee as the national convention approaches. Forget the latest assault on the United States by a radicalized Islamist. ...

June 10, 2016

Schools for Scandal

A few students are suing Trump University for breach of promise. They have every right to try. And if they’re successful, perhaps all the disenchanted, unemployed, and underemployed graduates of other universities should do the same. In fa...

May 26, 2016

The Overhyping of Hillary

Last year I attended the first ever of a nonpartisan event called Politicon, which brought together an impressive number of popular conservative and liberal political gurus. One learns quickly enough, however, that there is no such thing as ...

May 19, 2016

The Moralizer in Chief

If Donald Trump's campaign uses the slogan "Make America Great again," Barack Obama's consistent message as president has been "Make America Moral again" – that is, assuming in his mind that it ever was.  As a r...

April 18, 2016

Chill Bill

Hillary Clinton’s wardrobe is not the only thing that isn’t necessarily working in her favor these days. Even less flattering is the popularity of Bernie Sanders, whose campaign -- according to conventional wisdom -- should have...

March 28, 2016

The Case for Kasich

During John Kasich's salad days as a congressional budget wonk, George W. Bush referred to him as "the future of the Republican party."  Now, in this tumultuous election year, the question arises whether Kasich – or, indeed, ...

March 22, 2016

Put a Lump of Coal in Hillary's Blue Stocking

Hillary Clinton has walked back so many of her campaign statements, she should consider putting her pantsuits on backwards!   Last week at a Democrat town hall meeting, Ms. Clinton vowed to “put a lot of coal miners and coal compan...

March 13, 2016

My Way or I’ll Hit The Highway … North!

Decades back, there was a popular retort leveled at people who found fault with this country:   “America: Love it or Leave It.”   The phrase isn’t used much anymore, but the whining of disgruntled citizens contin...

February 18, 2016

Explaining Donald Trump into South Carolina

Doubtless I'm not the only Republican who has forgiven The Donald several times too often for his indiscretions.  In fact, I once described my overly generous reaction to Trump as "the gift that keeps on forgiving."  There ...

February 14, 2016

Who Needs Christie When We Have Trump?

Postmortems rarely solve the mystery of political deaths.  Yet we tend to search for clues that suggest why some wannabes fall by the wayside while others manage to keep in the race. Money matters, of course, though elections are harder to bu...

February 7, 2016

A Political May-December Romance?

Every generation finds fault with the next, which finds fault with the one before.  But sometimes a wave of mutual affection manages to skip generations, creating a surprising bond between the young and the old.  Could this be a factor at p...

December 23, 2015

Hillary's Debate: Bladder before Blather

For the unimpressive number of people who watched the last Democratic debate – facetiously scheduled for the Saturday night before Christmas – the most exciting thing to happen was an apology. Oh, no, it wasn't Hillary who apologiz...

November 17, 2015

Liberal Academia Hoist with its Own Petard

Toward the end of my years as a college teacher, I was accused of being a racist. I can’t recall the exact date in the late seventies when this happened, because, like Ben Carson, I couldn’t anticipate than an isolated incident would pres...

November 4, 2015

It's Time to Remove the (!) from Jeb!

Jeb could soon become a burning Bush, flamed-out by poor judgment, inept campaigning, and an unusual display of mean-spiritedness. His self-serving attack on protégé Marco Rubio in the last debate might well be the straw that break...

October 17, 2015

Hillary's Sexploitation of the Issues

When Hillary Clinton participated in the first Democrat "debate," she wore a dark suit – a female version of those worn by the male decoys up there on the platform with her.  From her cream-puff center-stage position, Hillary emo...

October 6, 2015

Obama: Guns and Poses

The rock star reception of Pope Francis in the Americas was not lost on Barack Obama. Though the president falls short of the pontiff’s popularity, he still gets a high by pontificating from the bully pulpit. But don’t expect him to be as...

September 26, 2015

Why did Walker Walk?

Scott Walker had the right last name. The young governor of Wisconsin not only talked the talk, he walked the walk. He challenged the unions in his state, and in the course of only a few years, battled to victory through three gubernatorial...

September 14, 2015

Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum: I Am Trump and They Are Dumb

The summer of primary madness is about to be replaced by the autumn of primal anger.  On one side of the political divide, Her Heinous Hillary's coronation has been put on hold.  On the other, Jeb Bush – the presumed front-runner ...

September 1, 2015

Liar, Liar, Pantsuit on Fire

Last week’s roller-coaster ride on Wall Street was matched by some unexpected rises and falls of fortune in the presidential race as well. The “stock” of White House wannabe Donald Trump soared, while that of the Democratic fro...

August 22, 2015

Whom Should Republicans Talk to During Election Season?

My mother, Min, died several months after her 101st birthday.  With the exception of only a couple of years, her long and eventful life played out entirely within the span of the 20th century. Min came of age around the time when American wom...

August 5, 2015

Jumpin' Jehosaphat! Jump in, Joe!

It’s the latest political soap-opera cliffhanger, and we may have to wait even longer with bated breath and chewed-down fingernails to find out whether Joe Biden will jump into the race for the presidency.  Things must really be looking ba...

July 20, 2015

What about Bill?

There’s a Beltway insiders’ tale about how Hillary Clinton, upon becoming first lady in 2000, was invited to a welcome-to-Washington luncheon by the Washington Post’s Sally Quinn.  When Hillary declined, the offended hostess sp...

July 13, 2015

Greece-ing the Skids

Sometimes the degree of obsessing over the past is in direct proportion to the degree of regressing in the present.  That’s what appears to be happening in Greece as it reluctantly faces the economic fallout from the folly of its ways. ...

July 2, 2015

This Just In: America Still Racist

When I listen to the rhetoric of the American left, I wonder whether their counterparts in other countries are as adamant about blaming citizens for the sins of their forefathers. Do Australians sit around navel-gazing because their country was se...

June 20, 2015

Devil in a Deep Blue Pantsuit

Hillary Clinton’s run for the presidency is driven by a lust for power, a sense of entitlement, and enough conceit to fancy herself the best one for the job.  But none of these insures her success.  To drive Hillary’s engine of ...

June 5, 2015

The Republican Primaries: One Long Slog

One look at the reaction to Bruce Jenner on Vanity Fair’s cover, and it’s obvious that the public’s interest in someone running away from sexual constraints is a whole lot greater at present than it is for anyone running for preside...

May 24, 2015

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Hillary?

I always thought Democrats were the ones who excelled at being delusional!  You know, as in believing that if there were more gun control laws passed, violence would be curbed.  Or if yet more money were thrown at our failed educational sys...

May 14, 2015

Who's on 'First': America's Obsession with Breaking the Political Mold

Regardless of whom Republicans support in the primaries, Dr. Ben Carson is an impressive and likeable guy.  He speaks simply and with eloquence about the issues that matter to Americans.  He exudes the wisdom of a successful and unassuming ...

May 5, 2015

Stalking horse Sanders enters the race

Last week marked the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby, “the most exciting two minutes in sports.”  But the “horse race” that matters most takes place every four years in the political arena.  And though the outcom...

April 28, 2015

Defying Gender

There were three articles on the front page of last Sunday’s Los Angeles Times. Two of them reported on the violent earthquake that shook the impoverished country of Nepal, killing thousands there and elsewhere in the region, including mou...

April 21, 2015

Bill wants back in the White House again

Bill wants back in the White House again, Where a rooster can crow like a hen. He will regain his power In that ivory tower, With its bedrooms still there for his friends.   If the First Gent ‘s feet are made of clay, ...

April 15, 2015

Down the Yellow Brick Road with Hillary

When Hillary officially announced her candidacy for president of the United States on April 13, I figured she would come out swinging.  Instead, her initial video was so innocuous, it might as well have been accompanied by Julie Andrews twirling...

April 6, 2015

Her Royal Heinous vs. the Democrat Opposition

It’s been suggested that candidate Clinton should leave politics and embrace grandparenthood.  The innuendo is clear: Hillary is too old to run for president. That’s a pretty bold and even biased assumption, considering that we...

March 23, 2015

The President's Mouthpiece

I never thought I’d find myself yearning for former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. After all, he was, well, a “carny,” as in “one who works with a carnival,” a good description of this administration. More ...

March 14, 2015

Hillary Clinton Will Not Implode!

My initial encounter with Hillary Clinton (then Rodham) happened over 45 years ago, when I was unwittingly subjected to what turned out to be the first speech of her long and contentious political career.  I had returned to our mutual alma mater...

March 8, 2015

What Does Obama See in Susan Rice?

Susan Rice looks perennially like a deer caught in the headlights.  No matter what her appointed position happens to be in this administration – whether U.S. ambassador to the United Nations or national security advisor – she has ass...

February 17, 2015

The Dean of Snobs

You don’t have to ponder the polls these days to figure out which Republican presidential possibilites are in the ascendency. All you have to do is see who is being attacked by liberals and the mainstream media. Their latest target is Scot...

February 7, 2015

Still Cruzin' for a Bruisin'

All my long life I’ve been a Republican. Now I suddenly find myself identified as a member of the “establishment,” defined derisively as a RINO -– a party member in name only -- and considered less than a “true cons...

February 3, 2015

Driving on Cruz Control?

There's an old saw about how a prestigious member of a community received a phone call from the leader of a local organization and asked if he believed in free speech.  The personage quickly answered, "Of course I do," whereupon th...

January 26, 2015

That's It: I'm Moving to Iowa

At some point between now and the 2016 election, I’ll be making an important decision.  No, I’m not talking about my primary pick or whether I will support the ultimate party standard-bearer. No, I’m referring to something e...

January 7, 2015

Read My Lips: No New Bushes

Jeb Bush’s recent announcement of his intentions to “explore” a bid for the presidency came as no surprise. To Democrats, anyway. For the past year, I have listened to liberal friends tell me that the battle for the White ...

December 24, 2014

Biden His Time?

Even Democrats desperate for some challenge to front-running Hillary must cringe at the thought of Joe Biden mounting a campaign for president.  Or maybe they have tender feelings for the old pol, even if his gaffes are hard to swallow. Still...

December 15, 2014

Making Whitey Suffer

This holiday season, if you want to buy something in a high-profile New York City store like Apple or Macy’s, you may have to sidestep some protestors or even step over a few pretend-to-be dead bodies blocking the doors and clogging the aisles....

December 4, 2014

Obama's Immigration Blitz a Bad Break for Black Americans

It’s hard to be compassionate and condescending at the same time.  But that’s how President Obama comes across whenever he jaws about the plight of illegals in America.  The very term “undocumented worker” tends to s...

November 25, 2014

The Emperor's New Close

While President Obama natters over the specter of illegal alien families being “torn apart” by deportation, he seems oblivious to another schism that could negatively impact his party -- and the nation -- for years to come. It’...

November 21, 2014

Grubering

Jonathan Gruber’s surname has the potential of taking on a life of its own, based on historic precedents – if only a few – whereby a person’s name morphs into a more generally recognized word in the English vocabulary. The ...

November 8, 2014

Grumpy Bear Obama Not Headed for Hibernation

There are times when I feel like ripping a page from Chris Christie’s blunt playbook and shouting at dissenters, “Sit down and shut up!”  That’s what I wanted to do to the incessant parade of talking heads, prognosticator...

November 4, 2014

Hillary Unbound

In the current political jungle, Hillary Clinton is a lioness gnawing on the carcass of speculation, while hidden in the surrounding shadows, lesser predators lie in wait for their own chance to feed their egos. Hillary is prowling the country for...

October 22, 2014

An End to Defensive Republicanism

Halloween is almost here, and for some Americans the very term “Republican” can be as scary as Ebola or ISIS. While both political parties score low in the polls, the GOP continues to be the bottom feeder. If the party is going to ga...

October 12, 2014

Ratchet Down the RINO Rhetoric

The presidential election is two years distant, but that hasn’t stopped some in the GOP from already deciding who would make “acceptable” Republican candidates and who would not, based on their perceived degree of fidelity to conser...

October 6, 2014

Election 2014: Beware of False Tears in the Democratic Crying Towel

I like to think Nancy Pelosi was just joking when she said on Jon Stewart's Daily Show that if Republicans won control of the Senate, it would be “the end of civilization as we know it.“  But the power-grabbing progressive from S...

September 29, 2014

The Hillary Mystique

One of my liberal friend’s husband is a long-time consultant to Democrat  candidates, so when he says that having Hillary run in 2016 as the first woman presidential candidate would assure an additional 15% of the vote,  he should kno...

September 23, 2014

What's with Kerry and Climate Change?

It’s not enough that John Kerry's diplomatic plate is overcrowded with unpalatable menaces like ISIS/ISIL and an epidemic of Ebola that could mushroom to pandemic proportions.  As busy as Kerry is, flying around the globe and assemblin...

September 17, 2014

Cutting the Apron Strings between Women and the Democratic Party

It may seem unusual that the husband-and-wife team of Mary Matlin and James Carville have managed to carve successful careers in large part by being on the opposite sides of the political divide.  But the really big surprise is that she’s ...

September 4, 2014

Desperate Dems Demanding Dough

Labor Day may mark the official start of the campaign season, but the mud-slinging and money-grubbing have long been in full swing.  An active Republican friend of mine unexpectedly found herself on a Democrat Party e-mail solicitation list whos...

August 26, 2014

Obama Demonstrates Fear, not Courage

Challenging times call for extraordinary courage. But at the risk of sounding indelicate, the only cojones associated with President  Obama are the ones lined up on the putting green, where his frequent appearances have given  rise to ...

August 2, 2014

Seniors Out Now!

I get a lot of tongue-in-cheek e-mails, most of them having to do with either aging or politics. Recently, I received a facetious one that combined both! It said, basically, that in an effort to lower the national debt, legislation would be intr...

July 26, 2014

The Party of War

For a party that professes to hate war, Democrats consistently use it as metaphor in framing their issues – the war on poverty, the war on women, the culture wars, class warfare, and even the war on war.  The intention of Democrats is t...

July 22, 2014

Bashing Boehner: A No-Brainer?

I was reading a political blog the other day when my computer screen suddenly went dark.  On came the burning question: "Who Would Make a Better Speaker of the House: John Boehner or Trey Gowdy?" Great.  Just the sort of specul...

July 15, 2014

America the Gullible

The situation on the southern border has gotten out of hand because a provision of our federal immigration law has been misinterpreted – or, at worst, willfully subverted.  Put another way, Central American kids made the journey north, but...

July 11, 2014

A Note to Politicians: 'Hands Down'

It used to be jokingly said that if you tied the hands of Italians, they couldn’t talk.  Now  the condition appears to be an epidemic among those who speechify, particularly politicians.  Being of Italian extraction, Nancy Pel...

July 3, 2014

Obama Bores; the Nation Snores

President Obama talks too much.  Earlier this week, I listened to him introduce his latest nominee to lead the Veterans Administration, Robert McDonald . It wasn’t hard to pick up on a predictable pattern that characterizes just about a...

June 25, 2014

If Hillary Folds, what Democrats wait in the Wings?

Hillary Clinton’s selection as the Democrat standard-bearer in 2016 has never really been in doubt… until now. The tepid sales of her latest book, however, coupled with some gaffes and a creeping sense of déjà vu, could wel...

June 22, 2014

State Department Diplomats Spit on Chris Stevens's Grave

For all we know, Congress – or anyone else who gives a fig – may never get to the bottom of the Benghazi debacle.  Already the Obama administration’s sanctioned scenarios spun to explain the atrocity are beginning to harden on ...

June 18, 2014

Biden: Out of Sight, Out of Trouble?

Remember how Veep Joe Biden boasted in the last campaign that “General Motors is alive and Osama bin Laden is dead!”?  Not so fast, Uncle Joe.  Slogans have a way of biting the hand that fed them to a gullible public.  T...

June 16, 2014

Hillary's Hardest Choice

The best way to justify Hillary’s barnstorming across the country while pretending not to be on the campaign trail is for her to write a book. Even before Hard Choices hit the stands, Hillary Clinton was madly making the rounds, amassing e...

May 16, 2014

Rove Needs Head Examined for Hillary's BrainTumor Remarks

A half year ago, I found myself vociferously defending Karl Rove at a local Republican Club meeting.  The guest speaker had gone off on a tangent.  He was scheduled to discuss an energy tax measure proposed for the upcoming state ballot Ins...

May 14, 2014

Run it up the Flagpole

“Let’s run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes,” was a popular advertising catchphrase back in the ‘50s and ‘60s. And it’s about to be adopted as a Democrat slogan for the upcoming election.  ...

May 9, 2014

Obama Pegs Benghazi Miles Behind Boston Marathon In Importance

Imagine the outrage among Americans if, after over a year, the Boston bomber(s) had not been identified and apprehended?  There would certainly be charges of gross governmental incompetence. There could be marches and protests, not just in Bosto...

May 1, 2014

Skittish Republicans in 2016

Despite President Obama’s low approval rating, many Republicans seem unusually nervous about the future of the GOP.  And likely the ennui is not from imbibing too much propagandistic kool-aid liberally poured out by the press. The problem ...

April 25, 2014

Obama Speaks Loudly and Carries a Small Stick

Liberals contend that President Obama's only credible approach to foreign policy is to avoid leading the nation into war.  They point to polls showing most Americans are more worried about their country's possible involvement in a confli...

April 19, 2014

Barack Obama, National Conversationalist

We hear a lot about the importance of having a "national conversation" in America.  This is supposed to be a good thing. The only problem is that the Obama administration decides which issues to elevate to that status, and when such...

April 14, 2014

Beating the Bushes for 2016

Hillary Clinton cowered at the podium recently when a shoe sailed by her. She thought it was a bat. Not a baseball bat, presumably, but a little bug-eyed cave creature said to have an affinity for human hair. Mrs. Clinton's blonde ...

March 1, 2014

Ma Nature Proclaimed Earth's Worst Terrorist

In stentorian tones befitting his Boston Brahma pretensions, Secretary of State John Kerry recently proclaimed climate change to be a weapon of mass destruction.  Indeed, he solemnly suggested that it will be far more menacing than, say, nuclear...