Ebben Raves

Ebben Raves


  • August 18, 2017

    All in: The left is through messing around

    "Russia, Russia, Russia" isn't working and may actually turn against the Democrats.  What is next in their playbook?  The usual racism page, although this time, it is for all of the marbles.  With nothing to run on beside...

  • January 22, 2016

    Escape from the plantation

    Four years and one week ago, I wrote an article titled "Welcome to the Plantation."  When it was written, Mitt Romney was leading in the polls, Herman Cain was finished, and Newt Gingrich was under attack.  Conservatives were desp...

  • September 12, 2015

    About Those Crossover Voters...

    Crossover voters.  They are an integral part of the Republican establishment’s plan to nominate Jeb Bush as their candidate for the presidency.  This plan in a nutshell, well described by many, especially Sundance at The Conservative ...

  • December 5, 2014

    Grand Jury Protesters: If You Like Your Big Government, You Can Keep It

    It is interesting to watch the aftermath of the Eric Garner Grand Jury decision coming so soon after Ferguson.  “White Police Officer Once Again Kills Unarmed Black Man – And Gets Away with It” is already the reaction in many p...

  • March 22, 2013

    Of Sheep, Sheepdogs, Shepherds and Wolves

    The sheep, or as many call them, the sheeple, are content to graze in the pasture of television and newspapers, living their lives without a care in the world.  Some are true believers, biting at every sprig of lusciously painted foliage offered...

  • January 12, 2013

    Dangerous Old Men

    Everybody knows a Walt Kowalski.  He is the grizzled Korean War veteran Clint Eastwood played in the movie Gran Torino.  A man who spends his days sitting on the porch, keeping his house and yard immaculate, satisfied to drink his cheap bee...

  • December 26, 2012

    You're in the Army Now ...or Should Be

    Militia: a word which has been twisted into something that has an entirely different meaning from when our country was founded and now with its every utterance, spits on the graves of those who died in our nation's birthing. Thanks to the Clintonite ...

  • November 15, 2012

    Time to Let the Country Crash?

    "Let it crash!"  "Give them what they want and they'll see what happens!"  "Surely, once the left's programs are implemented and the economy crashes, people will come to their senses." Since the election, many on the right have echoed this ...

  • October 13, 2012

    I Must Have Missed It

    Once again, we have been treated to the spectacle of a national debate. Joe Biden was a boor, Paul Ryan was a wonk, and the moderator was biased. Gigabytes have been written about this debate, but that pretty much sums it up. Oh, and Hillary being th...

  • August 12, 2012

    The Secretary Determines

    Ronald Reagan once said, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help."  Many found humor in this quip, which had more than a kernel of truth to it.  There is nothing funny, howe...

  • June 19, 2012

    Mitt Romney's in It to Win It

    Mitt Romney will beat President Obama in this fall's election, most likely by a substantial margin.  There.  I said it.  I may have a plate full of hat in my future, but I doubt it.  Pundits will give you the usual reasons for a R...

  • February 19, 2012

    Our Father, Who Art in Washington

    Images can be powerful.  We have all seen films of the Nuremburg rallies.  The torchlight processions, the banners, the chanting crowds: all purposely staged to elevate one man to a status as something more than human, a benevolent leader w...

  • February 7, 2012

    So You Say You Want a Revolution?

    Lexington Green.  Dawn.  April 19, 1775.  Captain John Parker, commander of the Lexington militia, stood among seventy-some men, many of them kin, all of them neither rich nor poor, awaiting the arrival of the British Regulars. Facing...

  • January 29, 2012

    The Mask is Off

      Last Thursday will be remembered as the day the Republican establishment unveiled its true face.  We know they've just been inside the beltway too long.  We expect their informed opinion to tilt in whatever direction keeps them on th...

  • January 16, 2012

    Welcome to the Plantation

    Much has been written about the Democrat plantation.  On this Democrat plantation, it is said that today's American blacks are slaves to the Democratic Party, much as their ancestors were slaves to their antebellum plantation masters.  Then...