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December 6, 2024
Jaw, jaw, not war, warJaw, jaw is better than war, war, and Trump has no desire to go to war with China, or anyone else for that matter. Taiwan's de facto independence will be maintained, but we can still get along with the ChiComs. We just need to reach an accom...
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December 2, 2024
Kash Patel is just the man for the FBIThe FBI went rogue a very long time ago. J. Edgar Hoover was a law unto himself, and everyone in political life was a potential victim. His violations of civil rights were a national disgrace. Throughout his 48 years as director, he broke the law rou...
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November 15, 2024
The Gaetz appointment is a masterstrokeLisa Murkowski is itching to vote against firebrand Matt Gaetz as attorney general. She may not get the chance. If the new Senate leadership recesses the Senate for three days, Gaetz can take office as a recess appointment, circumventing the confirma...
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November 10, 2024
A new era for foreign policy“We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarantor of only our own.” —Thomas Jefferson When I was in the Alaska Legislature back in the 1980s, we were all fat and happy. With oil over $100 a barrel, it wa...
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July 10, 2024
Reviving the ConstitutionIn calling for a "Second American Revolution," the Heritage Foundation demonstrates its ignorance of the First. The revolution of 1776 overthrew the government of Great Britain in the 13 colonies, and substituted a new one, called the Artic...
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June 27, 2022
The politics of abortion, 2022Sensible men, who value domestic tranquility, defer to their wives on abortion. Men like Ronald Reagan and Ron DeSantis look to the mother of their children for guidance, and Nancy Davis and Casey DeSantis had and have knowledge and insight on pregna...
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February 7, 2022
Russia, Ukraine, and the price of oilIt looks as though Russia will take its second bite out of Ukraine at the end of the Winter Olympics. Its first bite, Crimea, was taken at the end of the Sochi Winter Olympics in February of 2014. No one will stop the Russians n...
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January 2, 2022
Big Supreme Court decisions to watch out for in 2022On January 7, the Supreme Court will hear challenges to two vaccine mandates ordered by the Biden administration. It looks as though the Court is at last ready to intervene on behalf of basic American liberty. This is a decision...
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June 23, 2021
CNN thinks Murkowski still has a chanceReporting on Alaska GOP Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka's strong showing in recent polls and President Trump's recent endorsement, CNN's Chris Cillizza admits that incumbent Lisa Murkowski is in trouble but thinks she's stil...
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March 14, 2021
Comparing James K. Polk's and Trump's successesJames K. Polk was one of the most successful presidents in our history, exceeded in his accomplishments only by Washington, Lincoln, and Jackson. He had four goals when he took office in 1845, and he achieved all of them in his one term....
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November 30, 2020
The revenge of Clarence ThomasTwenty-nine years ago, Joe Biden chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee and presided over the "high-tech lynching" of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Since then, Brett Kavanaugh has been subjected to similar treatment...
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November 14, 2020
How a local Alaska election shows the new face of the Republican PartyRobb Myers of North Pole, Alaska is a middle-aged family man, a professional truck-driver with virtually no political experience. Upset with the state of affairs in Juneau, he decided to run for the state Senate, challenging its most ...
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August 24, 2020
An old Indian trickAs wise stewards of the land, North America's Indians routinely started forest fires. They wanted grazing grounds for the animals they hunted and open spaces to live and hunt on. So before Columbus arrived, there was a lot l...
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August 17, 2020
Donald Trump, environmentalistAlaska's Pebble Mine is a world-class deposit of copper and gold, and its enormous wealth would justify a billion dollars' worth of environmental protections. Such precautions might allow responsible development of these ores, but ...
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July 6, 2020
The original black American patriotsThe American cause hung by a thread in the summer of 1781. The British were entrenched in New York, and the main Continental Army commanded by George Washington was incapable of dislodging them. In Virginia, a British Army of 7,...
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June 12, 2020
Defund the police, and it's nasty, brutish, and shortIn a state of nature, it's all against all, red in tooth and claw, nasty and brutish and short. Governments are formed to protect their citizens from foreign threats and from each other. When governments fail in this duty, people reso...
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June 9, 2020
Bad news for Trump not so bad after allThings don't look too promising for President Trump's re-election. He's down by eight points in the RCP poll average (41.6 to 49.6), 538.com has his approval rating at 41.3, and the betting odds have his chances at 45% vs. Bide...
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June 5, 2020
Donald Trump and George Floyd have something in commonNot everyone in law enforcement is a good guy. There are rogue cops, as every American now surely knows. There are also rogue D.A.s, rogue judges, and rogue federal agents. And sad to say, we have to include lawless a...
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May 23, 2020
The sleeping giant awakens againThey always underestimate us. First it was King George III, then it was Kaiser Wilhelm. Then came the fascists of Japan, followed quickly by Adolf Hitler. Then came Stalin, followed by a succession of Russian communis...
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May 21, 2020
The US wants China's moneyIf there's one thing the Chinese can count on from their government, it's theft. For millennia, the unelected despots of China have robbed their people of their money. The communists are doing it today. There ...
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April 6, 2020
Is Trump playing the Russians?With President Trump, we've learned not to take him literally. He says things for his own reasons, and his words are an uncertain guide to his actions. This is one aspect of his art of the deal: keep your opponent guessing....
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April 1, 2020
We need a tariff on oilOil tankers are used to store oil, as well as transport it. Rates for these tankers are brokered, and right now, they're going through the roof. The world is rapidly running out of storage space for crude. By June...
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March 28, 2020
Does Andrew Cuomo have what it takes to lead the Democratic Party?It's time for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the de facto leader of the Democratic party, to take the next bipartisan step toward economic recovery. The stimulus bill is not enough. In addition, we need to spend a trillion dollars on cr...
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March 1, 2020
The mad, mad world of a brokered Democratic conventionThe number to pay attention to over at 538.com is the chance of a brokered Democratic convention. Nate Silver has built a model that shows the likelihood of no candidate having a majority of delegates in Milwaukee four and a half...
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February 13, 2020
Republicans for Sanders?Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are the two wings of the Democratic Party. Clinton is the Democratic establishment, consisting of corporatists who sacrifice American workers for globalism and their corrupt masters. Because th...
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January 17, 2020
Bernie vs. the swampBernie Sanders has spent over half of his 78 years in Congress. He knows it as well as anyone, and he knows that it is hopelessly corrupt — and getting worse. The entire establishment in Washington, D.C. is corrupt, with few excep...
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December 18, 2019
Trump, Trade, and a Century of PeaceFor 28 years, the American people have been played for suckers. Since the fall of communism in 1989, we allowed ourselves to be taken advantage of, militarily and economically. The working men and women of this country have paid...
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November 3, 2019
Clinton and Trump: Comparing two impeachmentsBill Clinton committed perjury trying to hide the fact that he was a sexual predator. For that he was impeached. But the public did not find that sufficient grounds for removal from office. Purportedly, Donald Trump may be im...
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October 29, 2019
How Canadian provinces could get out from under TrudeauAfter Justin Trudeau's re-election a lot of Albertans and Saskatchewanites want their provinces to leave Canada but aren't sure what their options are if they do. President Trump should offer them membership in a new entity, the Co...
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October 25, 2019
How America best uses the warriors among usThere are sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs, according to Chris Kyle, the American Sniper. He learned that from his dad. Ninety-five percent of men are sheep. 1% are wolves. The 4% who keep the wolves at ba...
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October 19, 2019
Trump's dollar diplomacyThe United States has Turkey floored economically. It doesn't take much pressure to get the Turks' attention. That's why Turkey is making nice. It has no choice. Eisenhower used the same tactic in 1956 ...
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October 14, 2019
Trump to the rescue in Virginia?Virginia's been a purple state, but it's trending blue. Clinton edged out Trump in 2016, and in 2017, Democrats won statewide offices handily and reduced Republicans in the House of Delegates from 66 to 51. This year, du...
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October 13, 2019
The people's champion starts campaigningOver one and half million people have attended Trump rallies, and that many again will see him as he campaigns for re-election. These people all have families, neighbors, friends, and co-workers. Attending a Trump rally is ...
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October 12, 2019
McConnell needs to be a leader in the SenateA Senate Select Committee on Foreign Influence of American Elections needs to be appointed, to probe Ukrainian, Russian, and other efforts to subvert our democracy. Information gathered by this committee can be used by the Senate in its de...
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October 3, 2019
One dares call it treasonBecause the American people elected Donald Trump as their president, they are the enemy of the Deep State. If you are an enemy of the American people, you are an enemy of the United States. The Constitution, in Section 3 of Arti...
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September 25, 2019
The president as peacemakerThe Muslim conquest of India lasted a thousand years and is probably the bloodiest story in history. Typical were Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlak and his son. He invaded Bengal, offered a reward for every Hindu head, and paid for 18...
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September 22, 2019
The president prefers PocahontasIn seeking to undermine Joe Biden by exposing his Ukrainian corruption, President Trump has revealed his preferred opponent in 2020. It's Elizabeth Warren, for a host of reasons. Two weeks ago, she promised to ban fracking "eve...
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September 19, 2019
Should we expect a Trump dynasty?American political dynasties follow certain rules, at the presidential level. There is an interval between the presidencies of a dynasty, and each generation must have political achievements of its own. The office has never been...
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September 14, 2019
America's next oil bonanzaNow that Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is opening to development, you're seeing reports of its limited potential. The media are downplaying the significance of one of President Trump's signature achievements. ...
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September 11, 2019
Trump wins with the votes of people who don't like himThree years ago, President Trump was elected because he isn't Hillary Clinton. But he won't have her to kick around in 2020. And none of the Democrats running is as bad as Hillary when it comes to turning off voters....
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August 22, 2019
Trump's coming agreement with China will amaze everyoneDuring the course of his remaining five and a half years in office, President Trump will come to an understanding with China. Trade will be only a part of it. There will be established a concord, or state of agreement,...
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June 5, 2019
Donald Trump has Mexico over a barrelMexico is going to cave, and it's not just the tariffs. We've got the Mexicans over a barrel on energy, and if we want, we can wipe their economy out. Without American energy imports, the Mexican economy collapses. Th...
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April 10, 2019
Trump, tariffs, and the new (old) Republican PartyTrump now threatens the European Union with tariffs on $11 billion of E.U. products. As a nationalist, not an internationalist, the president is focused on the best interest of the American worker and American business. Tariffs ...
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April 5, 2019
It's time for Trump to actIn foreign affairs, American presidents have a free hand. The Constitution is short and sweet on the subject. "The President shall be Commander in Chief" is all it really says. Congress has to declare war, b...
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April 2, 2019
'It's not just the economy, stupid'We are in the midst of a great political transition from one era to another. Such transitions are rare in this country. "The End of the New Deal Era, and the Coming Realignment" in the American Interest, by Frank J. DiStefa...
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March 31, 2019
The Roaring '20s all over againBefore electricity, factories ran their machinery using a central steam boiler, which powered everything through elaborate sets of belts. If you ran a lathe, its motive power came from a belt, or cable, which wound back to the p...
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March 28, 2019
Why the smart money is on TrumpThere are no iron laws in politics, but a few things come close. One is that prosperity elects presidents. If, come election day, voters feel they're better off than they were and think they're likely to get better, incu...
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March 26, 2019
Donald Trump, the bewildering black swanThey shot at the king, but they didn't kill him. And because they didn't destroy him, they only made him stronger. If, a year from now, the economy is robust, Trump will be re-elected in an historic landslide. ...
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January 8, 2019
Ending the reconquista of America's SouthwestPresident Trump was elected to stop the reconquest of southwestern America by Mexicans. Before we seized it in 1848, this was Mexican territory. We took it from them through illegal immigration. First in Texas, then i...
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December 28, 2018
The Japan-America bond tightensThe north slope of Alaska is loaded with oil. It's all over the place. Look at this map. There are dozens of oil fields on the north slope. Prudhoe Bay is just the most famous. Just to the east of th...
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May 10, 2018
A journey through three civilizationsWhen I graduated from Cal in 1967 I decided I wanted to see some of the world, and in September I flew on a special student charter from Oakland to London. I think it cost about $120. The next day I took a ferry to France and hitchhiked do...
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April 24, 2018
Reading the tea leaves: Trump won't run for a second termLike everyone else I know, I grossly underestimated Donald Trump. He was so radically different from any man I'd ever seen in politics, he broke the mold so completely, that I figured he couldn't possibly know what he was doing....
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April 18, 2018
Trump should start cranking out the pardonsJudicial Watch president Tom Fitton appeared Monday night on the Lou Dobbs show on Fox Business, and he was a deadly serious man. He said the proper constitutional remedy to the Deep State assault on the presidency is a blanket u...
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April 17, 2018
The loophole in all campaign finance lawsThe First Amendment states, in part, "Congress shall make no law ... abridging ... the right of the people peaceably to assemble[.]" The Supreme Court translates this, in modern English, to the right of association. Th...
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April 16, 2018
Three Californias may be coming soonTim Draper is a rich man, but he understands he doesn't know it all. His first attempt to divide California into six states made little sense. So he went out and got some people who are experts on the subject. The...
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April 15, 2018
Dreading the Blue WaveFive years ago, I felt a red wave rising, and I got back into politics. I'd been sitting on the sideline for twelve years, but this wave was going to be so big that previously impossible political goals were going to be within reach. ...
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March 30, 2018
How Trump gets a line-item vetoPresident Trump has been criticized for passing a larded-up budget, but it's not that simple to get a balanced budget. One way is with the line-item veto, but to achieve this will take some careful strategizing. Here is how it works: A preside...
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July 20, 2017
The story of the Inupiat and the Arctic oil reserveThe health and welfare of Alaska's Native people is dependent on the responsible development of the resources on their lands and adjacent areas. To escape the reservation mentality of the Natives of the lower 48, in many cases, they have do...
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June 19, 2017
Do we have a common cause?Members of both parties should work to fix Washington. Can't we all pretty much agree that Congress is a broken institution, barely capable of functioning at all? Don't a lot of lefties and liberals realize that this concentration of...
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June 6, 2017
America First with Alaskan OilOn his recent visit to Alaska, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke began laying the groundwork to open the 3% of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge contained in Area 1002 to oil development. He ordered a new assessment of the area's po...
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April 24, 2017
Draining the Swamp with Article VThe publication of Rep. Ken Buck's Drain the Swamp: How Washington Corruption is Worse than You Think could not be more timely. The campaign for Buck's recommended corrective – the use of Article V, by the states, to ado...
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March 13, 2017
Liberty is a LadyWe have in our midst people who take Bill Clinton seriously -- his history of criminal sexual predation, perjury, and corruption notwithstanding. But he was twice elected President, so there he was last week at the Brookings Institution, lecturi...
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November 29, 2016
The States' Trump Card against the FedA fourth branch of government was created by Article V of the Constitution, superior to the other three. It consists of 7,382 voting members, distributed in the 50 States. In order to act, this fourth branch, which I call the Federal Asse...
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October 8, 2016
Alaska 2016: Comeback Kid vs. Most Liberal Republican in the SenateIn 2010, incumbent and write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski defeated the Republican nominee for Senate, Joe Miller, with 40% of the vote (100,000 votes) to Miller's 35% (90,000 votes) and Democrat Scott McAdams's 25% (60,000 votes). The po...
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August 20, 2016
The Trump insurrectionDonald Trump has at last assembled a team capable of winning this election. This process began with the selection of Mike Pence as his running mate. Ivanka and Jared Kushner apparently succeeded in convincing Trump that Pence, not Christi...
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August 17, 2016
Is Trump an American Moses?The Prophet Moses led the Exodus of the Jews from Egyptian bondage, and wandered the desert with them for forty years. But for the sin of pride he, himself, was not allowed to enter the Promised Land. So he surrendered his authority to Josh...
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August 15, 2016
The Great American EclipseIt begins the morning of Monday, August 21, 2017 on the rocky coast of northern Oregon, and it slowly moves east across Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina, before leaving us in South Carolina. It will be...
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July 30, 2016
A Russian-American Entente Cordiale?In 1973, Henry Kissinger was meeting Brezhnev in Moscow, making preparations for Nixon's upcoming visit. Old Leonid insisted on taking him boar hunting, where they sat alone in a blind with an interpreter, and the Soviet ruler unburdened hi...
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May 31, 2016
The Constitution's weapon of last resortReagan Democrats are with Trump today, driven to this extremity by Bush Republicans. These kinder and gentler, compassionate "conservatives" have not only refused to secure our border against millions of illegals, but conspired w...
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May 25, 2016
A Libertarian Time for ChoosingTed Cruz began campaigning on the transfer of public lands (TPL) from the federal government to the states, and the people, in Nevada, in mid-February, a week before the Nevada caucuses. He campaigned in, and won, Elko and adjacent counties, th...
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May 14, 2016
A New Federalist CoalitionThe Reagan coalition is dead. A new one is needed. We've got four years to figure it out. In 1979, as Reagan launched his second campaign for the White House, communism was still on the move. After receiving a kiss on the ear from Leonid Brezh...
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April 25, 2016
Kasich’s conceitConceit is not only vanity. It can also describe, as Webster says, "a quaint, artificial or affected notion." This is the deadly conceit of John Kasich, for it describes his belief in his own viability in an open convention. ...
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March 15, 2016
The mother of her countryIn 1765, she came with her family to the Waxhaw region on the border of the Carolinas. They were poor Scotch-Irish and couldn't afford good land, and her husband worked himself to death within two years, trying to scratch out a living....
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February 28, 2016
A different strategy for Cruz and RubioRather than trying to take each other out, Cruz and Rubio should join forces to knock out Trump. Then they can go head to head against each other. This would involve an exchange of promises. Rubio agrees to stay out of Texas. Cru...
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February 22, 2016
A man and a momentTed Cruz's moment was October of 2013. At his urging, the House refused to fund Obamacare, prompting a presidential budget veto and a short government shutdown. This was his Rubicon. After ten months in office, his career in the...
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February 18, 2016
A Supreme Court strategy for Ted CruzThere will be confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Obama's appointment. Mitch McConnell hoped to avoid them, but Grassley is the chairman, and he'll have hearings. The main reason McConnell is against the id...
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February 14, 2016
The Coen brothers love AmericaHail Caesar is one of the most pro-American movies you'll ever see. If you haven't seen it, you should. This is the best Coen production since The Big Lebowski. It's the story of Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), a tough-as-nails...
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February 11, 2016
Five Seats at the Final TableThere are five seats left at the Republican final table, with a total of 100 chips between them. Based on combining the results from Iowa and New Hampshire, and apportioning the chips of the dropouts according to the stated preferences of voters...
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January 27, 2016
Want change? Look for a leader, not a dealerA man who makes deals for a living does his deals in the world as he finds it. He accepts the world as it is, and tries to make the best deal possible. He doesn't try to change the world; he deals with it. Leaders, on the other hand, such as ...
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January 23, 2016
It's the same old deal with Donald TrumpPoliticians use taxpayer money to buy votes. It's the way the system works. Donald Trump is offering more of the same. Not content with simply supporting the ridiculous ethanol boondoggle of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), he wa...
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January 21, 2016
Hillary: In a hole, and digging hardDemographic doom is just around the corner for the Republican Party. Unless it demonstrates compassion for illegal immigrants, it has no future. Just ask a Democrat. But even the deep thinkers of the left will concede that...
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January 18, 2016
Let it be, New YorkPeople where I live don't care about New York City one way or the other. We think eight million people living all crammed together is unhealthy and unnatural, but if those people want to live that way, so be it. They like their high-t...
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January 11, 2016
2016 should be about Article V and amending the ConstitutionHow about trying Article V first? That's what it's there for. Senator Marco Rubio and Texas governor Greg Abbott are just the latest to see the light. The Framers foresaw this day, when the federal government itself is the grea...
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January 9, 2016
Is the Hive breaking up with Bill and Hillary?The disciplined drones and diligent worker bees of the Hive do the Queen's* bidding, but they also provide feedback to the Queen from the world outside the Hive. This, in turn, informs the Queen's future instructions. For a quar...
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January 6, 2016
Winning Nevada's caucuses and electoral votesTo win the Nevada caucuses, a Republican candidate should: Announce that the United States attorney for Oregon, along with all assistant U.S. attorneys who participated in the prosecution of Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond, will be fi...
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January 4, 2016
How Cruz Wins New Hampshire, and the NominationIt’s the ethanol, Sherlock. Ted Cruz thinks he's going to win Iowa, and will compete for the nomination with whichever of the establishment candidates wins New Hampshire. But he's selling himself short. He should also win New Hampshi...
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December 31, 2015
Rebel and Designated Driver: Ted Cruz and A Time for TruthA Time for Truth doesn't tell us a lot about Ted Cruz that we didn't know or suspect. But the bare outline he gives of his personal story is enough to get a read on him. As a man, and a politician, he doesn't appear to be that complicated...
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December 21, 2015
'What's been done when the tide turns?'Even hundred-year tides peak and turn, as all political tides must. The red tide that we are now riding is strong enough, if properly channeled, to permanently alter the political landscape. In our system of government, and in our situati...
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December 18, 2015
Donald Trump: The Indispensable ManThe Republican Party will owe The Donald, big time, if their candidate wins the general election. President Rubio or President Cruz should give him a suitable reward – how about secretary of homeland security, with instructions to build a...
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December 14, 2015
Reagan and Cruz: UnelectableFor political veterans, much of what we're starting to hear about Ted Cruz has an eerily familiar ring. Too extreme. Unelectable. Scares people. A radical, not a conservative. The American people will hear a lot about C...
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December 10, 2015
How Cruz wins Iowa, and the nominationAt Nate Silver's 538.com, they describe the Republican electorate as a five-ring circus, composed of Libertarian, Tea Party, Evangelical, Establishment, and Moderate voters. A candidate who can bring three of the rings together will be the ...
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December 6, 2015
Number-crunching the nail-biter states in 2016One of the most important jobs in a national campaign is targeting – where do you allocate your resources? This is where fivethirtyeight.com's nifty election tool really comes in handy. Once you start playing with it, one thing ...
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November 30, 2015
A Once in a Century OpportunityHundred year tides don't appear in cycles of a century. They're just very rare, occurring when a powerful storm coincides with the regular high tides of the autumn equinox. I submit we're in such a moment, politically, today. ...
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November 11, 2015
Gunning through the Blue WallApart from demographics, the Democrats' presidential hopes in 2016 are centered on their "blue wall" – eighteen states with 240 electoral votes that they've won for a quarter-century. With that as their base, it's re...
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October 28, 2015
To win in 2016, PACs must go negative on Hillary starting in MarchWhen Hillary formally clinches the nomination in February, she’ll have the luxury of watching the Republican field fighting it out, conceivably all the way to the Convention in July. This will be a critical period in the campaign. I...
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October 22, 2015
Marco Rubio, a Fortunate SonMarco Rubio titled his autobiography An American Son. It's a good read. It's apparently his own work, and it reflects well on him. I read a couple of Kasich's books, Every Other Monday and Stand for Something, and all I lea...
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October 16, 2015
The End of the Progressive CenturyIt was a time of bewildering change, of amazing technological innovation, and of massive disruption in the way everyday Americans earned a living. Wave after wave of immigrants arrived, and there was justified concern that many of these newcomer...
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October 11, 2015
Cruz and Rubio: Here Come the CubansI've noticed something about Rubio and Cruz. They're white guys. They're sons of Cuban immigrants, and their ethnic background is Hispanic, in that their ancestors were from Spain. Spaniards are genetically just as white as Finns,...
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October 5, 2015
The Center HoldsThat's my prediction for 2016 in a nutshell. We have two extremes in our politics today. On the right are furious populists, on the left socialist misfits. Neither represent a majority. As always, the center is the key. Ka...
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September 26, 2015
Don Juan of Florida and the Old ProThe spotlight is a solvent, and under its glare the muddled water of the Republican nomination fight becomes clear. Even now, we can state with some assurance that only two of the candidates remain viable, while the rest are residue. The thr...
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September 18, 2015
Speaking for John RobertsThe law was clear. But so was the politics. In the spring of 2012, as he reflected on his decision in NFIB v. Sibelius, the chief justice in the end chose to protect the Court rather than uphold the law. But in allowing ObamaCare to take e...
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September 7, 2015
Jeb and the Donald Need to Go One on OneAs the principal butt of Trump's insults, Jeb needs to challenge him to a face off in Iowa. He should rent a hall, get Rush Limbaugh as a moderator, and invite the Donald to answer, and ask, in detail, three questions from his opponent. Trum...
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August 28, 2015
Trump's moment of truthWhen a Democrat is in the White House, Congress – if it's controlled by Republicans – no longer has the power of the purse. If the president wants to spend money on a program like Obamacare, or Planned Parenthood, or executive a...
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August 25, 2015
Trumping The Donald on affirmative actionRacial discrimination against whites and Asians, also known as affirmative action, is just fine with Donald Trump. On Meet the Press last week, he stated, "I lived with it for a long time. And I've had great relationships with lots of ...
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August 15, 2015
Meryl Streep Unleashes Her Inner RedneckWhen you're Meryl Streep, the 65-year-old queen of American cinema, whenever you see a script you like, and a part you want to play, it's made into a movie, a big production movie. Brooke Busey-Maurio came up with the script that Meryl wan...
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August 13, 2015
If Joe's In, He'll WinEither the New York Times or Barack Obama could give the nomination to Biden. Hillary Clinton cannot be taken out by Joe Biden. But if Barack Obama, or the New York Times, chooses, she's toast. If the president, or the Times, give Joe assuranc...
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August 11, 2015
The Trump CardDonald Trump is channeling tens of millions of patriotic Americans, says the Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds. As long as he stays in the race, these frustrated and angry people will have a voice – voice that needs to be heard. ...
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August 6, 2015
The Hive is RestiveThe buzz from the Hive grows louder. The bees are nervous, confused. At the Hive's heart the Queen sends conflicting signals, because she, herself, is uncertain, anxious. For over twenty years, following the lead of the...
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August 3, 2015
Normality, John Kasich, and politicsIn America today, "normal" is not a word that should be used in polite society. It's a form of microaggression, since it implies the existence, and rejection, of abnormality. Since everything is relative, and of equal worth,...
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July 30, 2015
A 'runaway' Article V Convention?Article V of the Constitution gives the states the power to control the federal government through the amendment process. It has never been used. That’s about to change. The stars are aligned, and the time for Article V has ar...
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July 16, 2015
The supply-side Balanced Budget AmendmentWith 27 states down and only eight to go, the campaign for an Article V Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) is entering the home stretch. Next year, or the year after, the first Amendment Convention in our history may be held. The delegates t...