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December 7, 2024
Democrats suddenly embrace herd immunityRemember those phobic and spooky days in 2020 and 2021 when Democrats and their charlatan MD/PhDs had nothing but scorn for herd immunity re Covid? My favorite is Peter Hotez, MD/PhD, pediatric vaccine and infectious disease credentialed brainiac,...
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November 10, 2024
Whither the ‘National Popular Vote Compact’ and other post-election musingsIn early May, a local down-east Maine newspaper printed my musings about Donald Trump winning the popular vote, thus possibly rendering a stunning ironic twist to those Maine democrats who had delighted in joining the nationwide blue-state pledge, th...
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July 25, 2024
Who shall be held to account for the Joe Biden hologram?Joe Biden’s bizarre withdrawal from his re-election campaign, as a purely historical presidential political matter, is not really groundbreaking. Yet Joe Biden has the singular distinction in American history — an erstwhile striver for...
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July 16, 2024
Trump trumps the Democrats’ spurious calls for unity by picking JD VanceThe assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump, amidst a nation torn apart by sectarian hatred, now beckons a reconciling absolution, a cleansing unity. The bloody ear is the culmination of the ascending tyranny of the Democrat party l...
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July 11, 2024
Steve Bannon and Ignatius of AntiochAround the turn of the second century, St. Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, was condemned by a Roman tribunal to be torn apart and eaten by lions in the Coliseum. What was his crime? Ignatius was condemned because his speech wa...
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June 2, 2024
The nullification of Donald TrumpNullification, or to nullify, is usually a stunning erasure — to quash, undo, repudiate, wipe out. “Jury nullification” joined the lexicon of crime- and court-watchers once a jury verdict acquitted O.J. Simpson of murder in 1995....
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January 3, 2024
Claudine Gay, thiefClaudine Gay, erstwhile Harvard University president reliably accused of serial plagiarism, resigned yesterday. It is not a victory. She should have been fired. In a collectivist world, no one owns anything. Neither name, face, voice, nor written ...
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May 6, 2023
The Cultural Underpinning of Transgender Socio-PoliticsAre you awash with anxiety, and horrified that decency, truth, hope, faith, and probity are being firebombed by the leftist anarchists intent upon upending all civilized norms, and wonder how it came to be? The transgender movement and all extant ...
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March 24, 2023
When Will Stubborn Trump Loyalists Face Inconvenient Truths?Stubborn Trump supporters, especially the most fervent, seem unwilling to challenge the deedless covenant, ask the hard questions that if answered truthfully would confirm that Donald Trump has been a supreme letdown, and his failures -- includ...
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February 21, 2023
Where are the toxicologists for East Palestine?East Palestine, Ohio needs toxicologists — especially environmental toxicologists — pronto. Where will they be found? Well, it won't be the federal government. No doubt, the cadre of EPA toxicologists are alre...
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September 2, 2022
Jennifer Granholm's energy transition to oblivionHow romantic is the notion that electric power from wind turbines can replace power from fossil fuels or nuclear reactors! Dreamy thoughts of soft breezes, those sweet zephyrs gently billowing sails, aspens ruffling, oat stems waving, wisp...
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August 18, 2022
Kamala Harris makes Noah Webster weepIt seems apparent that Vice President (and obviously on-deck president) Kamala Harris can neither compose nor utter a coherent multi-clause sentence. The scurrilous rumor that Harris cannot sign her name without using tracing paper has yet...
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June 27, 2022
Lola, you nearly broke my heartWhen did cross-dressing sexual theater, drag, transvestite fetishism, transexualism, transgenderism, gender fluidity, and all manner of gender whorls emerge from the kinky underworld to now being all the rage? Those of us at a certain age remember...
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June 11, 2022
Trump’s Right of First Refusal Isn’t EnoughNot all erstwhile Trump voters, otherwise steadfast America First MAGA proponents, are thrilled with the prospect of Trump running again. Beset with Trump fatigue and his preoccupation with how he has been maligned, however merited, they channel t...
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May 31, 2022
See nothing, say nothing, do nothingWe are told we have an epidemic of gun violence. No, we have an epidemic of willful disengagement. We are disengaged from each other. We are disengaged from reverence for life, disengaged from moral instruction, and disengaged from a...
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March 26, 2022
Is Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson humble, or just an idiot?If Harvard Law School grads were paying attention to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's testimony in responding to Sen. Marsha Blackburn's simple but revealing question on defining "woman," they would petition the provost to rescind...
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March 19, 2022
Why Don’t American Cities Deserve the Same Care as Ukraine?Of course, Russia’s “special military action,” otherwise known as an invasion of Ukraine, is a humanitarian catastrophe. Photo-journo accounts of hospitals suffering rocket attacks, civilians slaughtered by bomb bursts and sweeps of...
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March 2, 2022
Who is Joe Biden?Could a man of his own accord discover that he did not exist? Such a metaphysical imponderable is easily dismissed by logicians as nonsense: a string of words appearing to be profound, but simply an incoherent jumble. Joe Biden, an inco...
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February 27, 2022
Psycho-socio affection for masksBill Maher, late night talk show host, in former times an unrepentant lefty, apparently has been red-pilled. In commenting on the pathology of mask wearers, and usefulness of masks per se, he says a mask is merely an “amulet.” Am...
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September 1, 2021
Who Shall Rescue Us from Joe Biden?With placeholder president-in-name-only Joe Biden’s horrifying, juvenescent, and callow surrender of Afghanistan, the Dems’ and Never-Trumpers’ grand succession plan après Donald Trump has now utterly collapsed. President ...
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July 6, 2021
Joe and Kamala put Dems in a pickleAct I was selling America on Joe Biden as the sane one, steadfast, statesmanlike, serene, smart. Act II was installing Kamala Harris as the insurance policy, in the event that sleepy Joe would reveal his real profile, dementia Joe, and be ...
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May 31, 2021
Deception Wearing the Mask of TruthFor Joe Biden/Kamala Harris devotees, the 2020 ubiquitous election lawn signs in my neighborhood read “Truth Hope Decency.” While most of these moralizing bromides did not survive the winter, some are still implanted, reminders of h...
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March 27, 2021
The Democrats’ War on Black AmericansToday’s wave after wave of illegal migrants, otherwise human chattel, are overrunning and overwhelming our southern border security, by design from dementia plagued president-in-name-only Joe Biden and his hate-America-first Democrat party Marx...
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February 11, 2021
One person escapes the brain-eaters at the Senate impeachment trial spectacleWhat a pathetic, sordid spectacle at the U.S. Senate! Rivaling the antics of Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) eating a bucket of KFC fried chicken at a scheduled May 2019 A.G. Wm. Barr Mueller Report hearing (in which Barr didn't show up), the Senat...
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February 3, 2021
Trump Will Play the Senate’s Game Using the Democrats’ ChipsThe impeachment managers from the Democrat House, along with co-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, seem convinced that a Senate “trial” will dispatch Donald Trump from the American scene. Not so fast…. The first three days...
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January 12, 2021
Trump Was Tragically Finished Off at the Hand of a Ruthless Assassin -- HimselfWhat was Trump thinking? Why did he invite a super-sized rally crowd to the Capitol on the very day members of Congress were prepared to expose the fraudulent election in front of tens of millions? Why did Trump erase the chance...
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December 22, 2020
Nullification Isn’t Just for Democrats, AnymoreSince the 2016 election, Democrats have made all kinds of nullification standard fare, but more pernicious than displaying a disagreeable temperament, or contrary opinion; more than First Amendment-protected civil disobedience. Instead, making tha...
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December 20, 2020
Jill Biden accused of stealing the wrong cheeseJill Biden has been flogged ‘round the fleet, her open wounds then flushed with a bucket of sea water, for allegedly preening with a stolen captain’s truckle of cheese -- otherwise labeled a Doctorate of Education. Did education guru D...
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July 7, 2020
Trump resets the electionThe N.Y. Times called President Trump's Mt. Rushmore Independence Day address "leaning into the culture wars." For once the Times got a story right, although its characterization wasn't intended to be a compliment. The...
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June 3, 2020
Pin the Tail on Champions of Lawlessness and AnarchyAmerican cities aflame after the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police should come as no surprise. Those small businesses and lives of everyday Americans that weren’t already crushed by the Democrat governors’ p...
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May 27, 2020
Is COVID-19 fading away?The Daily Mail (U.K.) says a technical report from Singapore predicts that COVID-19 will be gone in the U.S. by Nov. 11, the U.K. by Sept. 30, Italy by Oct. 24. Maybe that's why the heralded Oxford University vaccine development group is getti...
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May 24, 2020
No shoes, no shirt, no mask, no serviceMaine Governor Janet Mills -- indistinguishable from other Dem governors possessed by Covid-19 demons -- knows little about medical statistics, even less about economics, but her fashion credentials are swell. Gov Mills’s mandatory requirem...
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May 2, 2020
COVID virtue-signaling absurdity at the local floristIn our down-east Maine county, as of May 1, there have been ten cases of CCP COVID-19, eight recoveries, one hospitalization, zero deaths. That doesn't stop the hysteria or the virtue-signaling from local shop-owners, apparently delighted to p...
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May 1, 2020
Joe Biden, the necessary Dem sacrificeSee also: Increasingly looks like Biden is toast It is neither novel nor a hot take to say president Donald Trump will be re-elected. While 2020 is far from a redux of 2016, one similarity prevails: Trump has no rival. Despite an eco...
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April 28, 2020
When to admit you've made a grievous blunderPeugeot car–owners in the 1980s came in two varieties. The first group owned their lovable lemons fewer than six months. The second group owned their mistakes for ten years or longer. There were no Peugeot-owner...
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April 11, 2020
Where's the coronavirus plan for recovery?Enough of the daily squabbles with the Trump Resistance in the White House press corps. Enough of the daily bubble-wrapped public health directives that are draconian and fraudulent, change every 24 hours, and do nothing but prolong the agony of t...
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April 4, 2020
Trump taken hostage by the public health fear-mongersA week ago, I was convinced that President Trump knew the perils of shutting down the economy to enable a specious and the dubious public health mandate to arrest CCP COVID-19. Now I'm not sure. He has been taken hostage by Dr. Anthony Fauc...
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March 28, 2020
We've been had, and Trump knows itWhile President Trump closed the U.S. border against entry from China at the end of January, his overall instinct was right. The CCP virus was nasty, but no worse than a supercharged flu. Health professionals overwhelmed Trump and his i...
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March 22, 2020
Want to beat the coronavirus? Reopen America nowContrarian and compelling voices are rising to warn that the lockdown of the American economy is overdone, not sustainable — from the Wall Street Journal editorial pages to a standalone blog entry from a Hoover Institution economist highlighted...
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March 7, 2020
Massachusetts Dems did the nation a favorElizabeth Warren was shamed into finally fulfilling her pledge to represent the voters of Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate rather than engage in a hopeless wanderlust for the presidency. Nearly four out of five Massachusetts Democrat party preside...
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February 19, 2020
Michael Bloomberg Flunks Ag 101Michael Bloomberg is no Ag PhD. “You dig a hole, you put seed in it, you put dirt on top, up comes the corn…” Bloomberg couldn’t even describe planting a single corn seed correctly: he left out tossing a codfish into the h...
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October 15, 2019
2020 Dems Selling Shots of Hemlock TeaBeckoning voters to blithely transit across an active minefield, the 2020 Dem presidential strivers exhort a bizarre nihilism where voters are expected to sign on for their own demise. The 2020 Democrats are not content with showering would-...
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July 27, 2019
Coda for Robert MuellerRobert Mueller, a mere shadow of his former self as a U.S. Marine platoon leader, beckoned but wistfully failed to assert command of the Trump–Russian collusion snipe hunt subject matter. The special prosecutor's report was presu...
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January 18, 2019
Everything is racist: A handy listAnything, and everybody white is racist nowadays. Who knew that the 1953 Chevy Corvette that came only in Polo White, with white wall tires, was the ultimate in racist symbolism? We are covered in the white down of racism every ...
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December 24, 2018
Christmas wonder is something wholly otherChristmas wonder these days seems mostly to be about carols, lights, decorations, piles of gifts under fir trees adorned with multi-glazed ornaments, filled cookies, chocolates, rum-soaked cakes, and fattened geese. No, Christmas Wonder, something...
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December 14, 2018
What Shall We Do with Lizzy Warren?One of the best sea shanties is “What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?” traced to whalers out of Connecticut and Massachusetts in the 1830s, according to folklorist Stan Hugill “Shanties From the Seven Seas” Mystic...
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December 7, 2018
Rep-Elect Ocasio-Cortez proves Mark Twain's quipNewly minted Dem congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez once more validated Mark Twain's (Puddin'head Wilson) quip, "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." Numerous reports hav...
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October 18, 2018
'Democratic Socialism': A Myth and an OxymoronExcept for the stubbornly ignorant, led by U.S. senator Bernie Sanders and his fashionista acolyte Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic Party candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, the rest of us understand that socialism is an abomination....
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October 8, 2018
Stateswoman Susan Collins stands aloneTwo Mainers saved our republic, one hundred and fifty-five years apart. On July 2, 1863 Brewer native and Union Army colonel Joshua Chamberlain led the 20th Maine regiment in the legendary defense of Little Round Top at Gettysburg on July 2, ...
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May 7, 2018
The Devil and John McCainWhat possessed John McCain, with all of the makings to be a modern Daniel Webster, to descend into the depths of unprincipled contradictions? "You see, for a while, [he] was the biggest man in the country. He never got to be Pres...
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April 11, 2018
Facebook's Zuckerberg, master dissemblerFacebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's appearance before the U.S. Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees yesterday confirmed what we knew all along: when Zuckerberg isn't dissembling, he's not talking. OK, dissembling is just a f...
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January 23, 2018
The Cultural Roots of TrumpismPresident Donald Trump's occasional unfiltered coarse cloudbursts belie a man who is enormously joyful, having an abundance of entertaining good humor easily expressed, fairly shared. Trump is having a ball, for good reasons. Trump's...
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January 13, 2018
Trump's s-hole comment long overdue...but not enoughOf course, President Donald Trump is right about Haiti, El Salvador, and many African countries being s-holes. Only a fool, a lifelong shut-in, or an ideologue would deny it. Trump needs to affirm what he said, and expand his re...
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December 25, 2017
Christmas, Fruit of The WordChristmastide is the season that provokes the most spiritual reflection, accompanied by abundant joy. Amongst feasts in the liturgical calendar, over the centuries Christmas has either enjoyed a most favored festive status or been nearly ignored. ...
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December 10, 2017
Dems Need Plus-Size Fig Leaf in Ouster of Al FrankenSo, Al Franken is a lewd boor, an unfunny buffoon, an intellectual midget, and an adolescent crude serial invader of womens’ space. The latter triggered his blindfolded walk-the-plank exit from the USS Senate. How convenient for the De...
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December 4, 2017
While Percherons Graze, Mueller Perfects Whetstone GrindingOh my, how will the erstwhile unimpeachable, and irreproachable Robert Mueller rescue his reputation? In mid-June the former FBI director under presidents Bush and Obama -- Washington DC’s liege lord -- recruited thirteen, now up to twenty-one,...
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November 21, 2017
Democrats outflank Charles Manson in deathbed conversionImpending doom focuses the mind, occasionally leading to deathbed conversions, especially the Roman Catholic variety – for example, English king Charles II. Charles II, nominally an Anglican monarch, after all was a closet Catholic, understa...
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November 11, 2017
Remembrance Day and Lessons ForgottenOn this Remembrance Day 99 years later, recall that some 750,000 British soldiers, marines, and sailors were killed in WWI; nearly 400,000 more in WWII. The most heralded British war poets, emerging in 1915, were not practitioners of armchair vers...
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October 12, 2017
Trump is right about NFL's taxpayer subsidyLefties and all-purpose Trump-bashers called out president Trump's complaint about the "NFL's massive tax breaks." Time quickly labeled Trump's objection as fake news in that the NFL (a trade association, as disting...
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October 7, 2017
Trump's grand bargain? Trade gun control for abortion banOn October 3, the U.S. House passed HR26, the "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act," which bans most abortions after twenty weeks' gestation. One hundred eighty-seven Democrats voted against the bill, while only three Ds voted...
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July 4, 2017
Beneath the Dignity of the OfficeThe first article of impeachment against president Donald J. Trump -- if the Democrats regain the U.S. House majority -- will be that his behavior demeans the office of the President. Set aside for a moment that for Dem loons just electing Trum...
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June 11, 2017
Trump Ignores Lessons From CEO 101President Trump reminds us all too frequently that he has never been a governor, mayor, cabinet secretary, legislator, military officer, police commissioner, nor even a selectman, sheriff, or municipal waste water treatment plant superintendant....
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May 15, 2017
Trump Drops Bunker Buster on Comey and the Deep StateFor all of his stage-crafted gravitas and preening, James Comey was a bantamweight, yearning to be anointed with the heavyweight crown by securing a lifetime sinecure from the Deep State. After all, his most prominent prosecution in his career as ...
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April 18, 2017
Why Companies Detest CustomersFor a while in the 1990s, gurus on how to make a company great pushed aside traditional management chestnuts on command and control, mass advertising, and shareholder value. Instead new recipes on customer service marketing were all the rage. ...
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April 9, 2017
Obama’s Phi Beta Kappa LegacyMembership in the exclusive collegiate honor society Phi Beta Kappa has been a merit badge of exceptional scholarship, and integrity for over 200 years, with John Marshall (William and Mary) Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, admitted in 1780. ...
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April 7, 2017
Trump’s legacy nearly completeNo matter what else transpires during president Trump's remaining term, short of WWIII, his job is almost done. Trump needed only to defeat Hillary Clinton – frustrating the progressive state – and now to nominate and secure U.S. S...
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March 29, 2017
Paul Ryan’s EdselA few Ford Motor Company successes during the post-WWII era have been spectacular. First the Mustang in the 1960s, more recently the F150 pickup. Ford’s most stunning defeat was the Edsel, unveiled in 1957. The Edsel endures as a case study ...
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March 7, 2017
Obama and Russian Ambassador’s Dalliance with NucleonsThumbnail sketches about Sergey Kislyak, Russian Ambassador to the United States, skip over his university pedigree. Sergey is a graduate of Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI), far from a proletariat technical trade school. MEPhI, nearly...
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February 28, 2017
Trump’s rhetoric: A 'good news' styleRonald Reagan, the "Great Communicator" was a self-made orator. With or without a script, his words were sparse, and those selected were decisive. His most memorable lines barely contained a half-dozen words: "I...
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February 6, 2017
Judge Robart's dunce capDoes the 9th Circuit want anyone to assert border integrity? Doesn't look like it. Late in the day last Saturday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied president Trump's DOJ emergency request to stay the temporary restrai...
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January 22, 2017
Inauguration Day Pilgrims Have A PresidentMembers of Trump Nation, the voting majority occupying fly-over country, know they won, but still pinch themselves to reaffirm the reality of it all. Inauguration Day pilgrims were witness to the swearing-in of president Trump, fortified that i...
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January 11, 2017
Democrats Meet GodzillaOne of the premier cult film shorts, beloved by sophomores at least in 1969, is a ninety second pen-and-black ink drawn animation “Bambi Meets Godzilla”. Blissfully unawares in idyllic innocence, Bambi meets a swift, and untimely, e...
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December 8, 2016
Which is more important: global warming or clean water?The best news from Antarctica had been that conservationists discovered three bottles of Mackinlay highland malt scotch that Ernest Shackelton left behind in 1909 at the end of his first expedition. The second best news was reported last week i...
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December 8, 2016
More Smelling Salts For Liz WarrenPity hapless Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, anxiously awaiting the delivery of a fainting couch from Bob’s Discount Furniture. First cheated out of a plum spot as a US Senate majority committee chair, or the chance at joining Hillar...
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October 8, 2016
An internet trash heap with an agendaIt didn’t take long for the WaPo and other lib rags to pile on Matt Drudge for having the gall to accuse NOAA’s National Hurricane Center of hyping up the storm data on Matthew. Even the erstwhile nerd journal, Popular Science, jumped ...
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August 2, 2016
Hillary's cynical manipulation of Captain Khan's sacrificeEmpathy for Khizr and Ghazala Khan, parents of U.S. Army captain Humayan Khan, awarded a Bronze Star posthumously in 2004 for bravery in Iraq, should not obscure the brazen cynicism displayed by Hillary Clinton, and the Democrats, for trotting ...
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June 25, 2016
Rule, Britannia!“Rule, Britannia!” hasn’t been relevant for a century, since Jutland in 1916. With sheer willpower, and clever leveraging of U.S. assets, by 1940 Winston Churchill could only evoke the first four lines of a stanza from James T...
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June 10, 2016
What If A President Were One Of Us?The qualifications to be president are prosaic, strictly speaking, according to Article II Sec 1 of the US Constitution: No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States…shall be eligible to the office of Preside...
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March 17, 2016
Plea Bargaining with Merrick GarlandPresident Obama has nominated Merrick Garland, chief judge on the federal DC circuit court of appeals, as a U.S. Supreme Court justice to replace the late Antonin Scalia. Few would describe Garland a flaming liberal, in the mold of current Justice...
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March 7, 2016
Trump Nation’s CapitulationStock market crashes are almost always accompanied, if not provoked, by panic selling. Investors, large and small, sell everything fearing that no amount of market stimulus, or bromides, will rescue their fortunes. There is no good news on any fro...
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February 17, 2016
Hillary’s Joyless ObsessionHow sexist was it for Bill Clinton to have pursued and reached the White House before Hillary? Bill was a mere pedestrian policy junkie, a standard Democratic political manipulator -- far from an ideologue, working for lefty U.S. senator J. W...
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February 2, 2016
Trump Nation’s Faded Boarding PassTrump Nation has little tolerance, indeed any interest at all, in ideology, even less with intellectual volleying amongst political scientists. Donald Trump’s commanding poll standing on the cusp of the Iowa caucuses, and the New Hampshire prim...
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October 31, 2015
Donald Trump Can't Hold a Wheelie ForeverDonald Trump grabbed many of us with his immigration hole-shot. His all-purpose chlorine bleach burn-outs wiping out political correctness have been equally spectacular – not just for the strutting, but for calling out to the ...
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September 13, 2015
Will The Real Donald Trump Stand Up?Americans of a certain age will fondly recall “To Tell The Truth”, one of the earliest and longest-running TV game/panel shows, first airing in 1956. The object of “To Tell The Truth” was for a panel of celebrity inqu...
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August 14, 2015
To Be Coarse, But CompellingTea Partiers profess an affinity with this nation’s founders -- plain-speaking, unapologetic, and rugged sons of liberty. Does the Tea Partiers’ apparent delight in the crude bleacher-bum, WWE-like shouting from Donald Trump channel the b...
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July 24, 2015
Brain-eating toxin devours Connecticut DemocratsA brain-eating toxin has ravaged Democrat party bosses in Connecticut, who just announced, under pressure from the CT NAACP, that the name of their annual fundraising dinner, the Jefferson Jackson Bailey dinner, will be scrapped. Apparently Tho...
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June 17, 2015
Hillary, Lord Acton, and Willie SuttonBy most accounts, there should be no nexus between the spaces occupied by Lord Acton, and Willie Sutton. It was Lord Acton, 19th century English Catholic historian and statesman whose quarrel with Anglican Archbishop Mandell Creighton prompted Acton...
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March 16, 2015
Will Hillary Break The Criminal Conduct Glass Ceiling?No one has ever been nominated as the Democratic Party’s candidate for president while under indictment, or having been charged with a felony then acquitted before the election, let alone be a convicted felon. For over two centuries, only a ...
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March 11, 2015
Who Will Keep The Cap On Hillary's Sewer Pipe?Hillary Clinton’s twin eruptions, revelations about the Clinton Foundation slush fund and her private email system fiasco, are testing Hillary’s plumbing tradecraft in keeping the Clinton sewer pipe from blowing its cap. Forty years of...
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March 10, 2015
Hillary 'Splains It AllHillary Clinton wrapped up her version of a lie detector test at the UN podium. Q. Why did you use a private email system? A. It was convenient Bzzzz Q. Did you turn over all government related emails to the State Department? A. ...
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December 18, 2014
Who Will Be Suckered By Hillary's Glider Kit?If Hillary Rodham Clinton effuses that “new car smell” (for which voters yearn in their next president according to Barack Obama) it could only come from a cosmetic transplant, a heavy-duty truck Glider Kit. A Glider Kit, costing thous...
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November 24, 2014
Obama Leads Democrats Back to the WildernessFor all of the hysteria leading to President Obama’s immigration executive order, it turned out to be much ado about little. Except that Obama just dispersed the remaining asset so desperately needed by the Democrats in 2016, perhaps beyond. ...
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November 12, 2014
No Salvage Contract for Derelict SS <em>Obama</em>Talk of salvaging the final two years of Barack Obama’s presidency has been a favorite theme this past week from Reuters to the Wall Street Journal. Salvaging this presidency is silly talk. In the maritime business, salvaging a distressed ve...
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November 5, 2014
'Somethin' Strong fo' Our Money'This 2014 election issue is simple. Voters are fed up. The American people aren’t necessarily fed up with government, per se, just fed up with government that doesn’t work. And fed up with a government that suppresses liberty, restr...
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November 5, 2014
In Massachusetts, Republican Governor-Elect Charlie Baker Outduels Dem IncompetenceSince Calvin Coolidge was governor of the Commonwealth in 1920, Republicans have owned the “Corner Office” in Boston for 13 terms out of 23. Charlie Baker, age 57, won his bid to be the 14th by some 7,000 votes. Baker wi...
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August 2, 2014
The Fantail Deck PresidentThe aft party deck on a mega yacht is the best spot to luxuriate out of the buffeting winds, protected from spray, with lingering sunsets perfecting the ambiance. Admiring one’s wake from the aft party deck carries a certain nonchalant c...
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July 13, 2014
Media Pile-on for Evangelical College over LGBT Employment DiscriminationThe outcry was swift when Michael Lindsay, president of Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, co-signed a letter to President Obama seeking an affirmation of the religious exemption from employment discrimination regulations. This letter to Oba...
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May 8, 2014
When Celebrity Politics DiedTragedy often befalls fascination. A day hiker falls to his death from a slippery overhang while peering down at a spectacular waterfall. A child is swept into the breaking swells of the incoming tide while playing too close to the edge o...
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January 28, 2014
Obama's Phony IndignitiesHow rich of President Obama to whine about the income gap widening -- a fissure that has burst wide under his watch due to his growth-stunting economic programs and stifling regulatory policies. Let no one accuse Obama of being a literary d...
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November 20, 2013
When Color Trumps CharacterUshering in the age of Obama, neo-liberals and progressives -- escorted by the media elites -- invited a wide swath of middle Americans and ignorant under-thirty-somethings to sip from the false grail of redemption. Electing a black American as presi...
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October 29, 2013
Will Republicans Rescue ObamaCare?The odds now are depressingly high that Republicans will help rescue ObamaCare by encouraging a delay for the individual mandate, extending the enrollment period, or overturning penalties, thus once again be snared into a Democrat trap. Is it too muc...
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October 23, 2013
Some Questions for Kathleen SebeliusKathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, will testify next Wednesday, October 30, at a U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing regarding the ObamaCare rollout debacle. In typical Republican style, most c...
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October 7, 2013
Big Government Zombie Survives Shutdown"We've been looking for the enemy for some time now. We've finally found him. We're surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to those dirty bastards" And so goes a version of a quote by legendary US Marine commander Chesty Puller ...
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September 8, 2013
Obama, the First Lord of the AdmiraltyGilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore relentlessly ridicules the First Lord of the Admiralty. Their comic opera foretells our modern-day hero -- Barack Obama, the feckless bumbling Commander-In-Chief. Both pretenders arrived at their stations under i...
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June 12, 2013
Obama's Bodyguard of LiesPresident Obama and his people deserve at least one accolade: they have perfected lying into an art form. Is anyone in Obama's closest orbit a truth-teller? Jay Carney, press secretary, lied about the Benghazi talking points, the effects of...
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May 22, 2013
Obama Tosses a Grenade Into His Own DugoutRemember president Obama's first pitch of the MLB 2010 season at the Washington Nationals ballpark? It sailed towards the home team dugout. While he couldn't throw a baseball within ten feet of home plate -- even if it took a double bounce on the wa...
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March 24, 2013
The Brain Eaters Invade Massachusetts Middle SchoolThe best of the schlock sci-fi thrillers from the 1950s were The Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Blob. Further down the marquee was another cult favorite, The Brain Eaters, appearing at premier theaters in 1958. Following a well-grooved ...
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March 21, 2013
The Price of Gay Marriage: The Galvanic Corrosion of LanguageWhen was that watershed moment where advocacy of gay marriage crossed into the mainstream from the radical chic of the intellectual elite ? Gay marriage, quite apart from homosexuality per se, has only in recent years been embraced by mor...
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February 13, 2013
Second-Rate Appointments From A Third-Rate PresidentSo, former VP Dick Cheney says "The performance now of Barack Obama as he staffs up the national security team for the second term is dismal... Frankly, what he has appointed are second-rate people." Well, to be charitable to Barack's second-raters,...
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January 22, 2013
Obama's No-Show at the OK CorralAnd now president Obama has delivered his locked-and-loaded twenty-three point Executive Order for curing violence in America. Breathless previews predicted the president would call for a 21st Amendment copycat. Instead, Obama pledged to nominate an...
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December 23, 2012
Coping with Evil UnboundEither God cannot abolish evil or he will not; if he cannot then he is not all powerful; if he will not then he is not all-good. Thus philosopher Antony Flew opens his 1954 essay "Divine Omnipotence and Human Freedom " with a restatement of St. Augus...
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November 15, 2012
These Truths Are Not So Self-Evident, After AllThe Medical Examiner autopsying the Republican Party says the body isn't brown enough. No doubt Romney was badly bruised by identity politics, but I'm not convinced it was a decisive blow. No, the Republican lost the national referendum because...
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October 16, 2012
Hillary The Accountability QueenHillary Clinton, Secretary of State seeking sanctuary in the 16th century Lima Cathedral in the Peruvian capital some 3,500 miles from Washington DC, declared "I am responsible" for the security of US diplomatic outposts. Thanks for clearing up that ...
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October 4, 2012
Obama's Got The BluesThe best part of Obama's first debate appearance was his dignified blue dot tie framed by a dapper gray suit. Within five minutes Obama was fumbling to speed dial the new offer from JetBlue JetBlue Election Protection sweepstakes. "If you...
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September 12, 2012
Romney Stuffs Obama, John Sununu Needs To Stuff ItThis morning, at his impromptu press conference from Jacksonville, Mitt Romney delivered three master strokes: 1) displayed his decisiveness in projecting American power to assert and defend its sovereignty and its founding core principles of f...
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September 8, 2012
Obama Flunks the Job InterviewOn Thursday night, Barack Obama interviewed with the hiring manager -- the American voters -- to keep his job for another four years. Any hiring manager using the past behavioral event interviewing method -- a technique where experience triumph...
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September 6, 2012
Dems to God and Everybody Else: Drop DeadWhew! What a spectacle. The Rev Jeremiah Wright who invoked God to damn America wouldn't be so brazen. The Philadelphia Eagles football fans at the old Franklin Field who booed and hurled snowballs at Santa Claus wouldn't be so shameless. The v...
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August 27, 2012
Dissatisfaction with Obama Isn't Enough"Throw the bums out," the vernacular for incumbent fatigue, is the emotional response to the analytical dissatisfaction with the status quo. Yet a bum can survive if a challenger can't promise a compelling vision of the new order. Obama underst...
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August 16, 2012
Obama 'Intellectually Exhausted, Out of Ideas, and Out of Energy'Mitt Romney finally caught up with the rest of us via a fiery speech in Ohio on Tuesday where he proclaimed three simple truths that frame Barack Obama: "Intellectually exhausted, out of ideas, and out of energy." Those lines are still too charitable...
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July 25, 2012
The Romney Legacy: A Rambler AmericanMy father was a fan of George Romney, both as an auto exec and politician. Romney's appeal as an auto industry captain was his innovative simplicity and defiance of the Big Three gas-slurping, art deco, tailfin leviathans. Romney was a ch...
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July 8, 2012
It's Slipping AwayAnyone paying attention has read or least has heard about the plausible investigative story from CBS reporter Jan Crawford suggesting that Chief Justice Roberts chickened out on striking down ObamaCare. He's got some 'splainin' to do. Exc...
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June 28, 2012
The Power to Tax is the Power to DestroySo said Daniel Webster, counsel for the Second Bank of the United States, repeated by Chief Justice Marshal in McCulloch vs Maryland. Those of us yearning for a Supreme nullification of ObamaCare, were splitting hairs of course, expecting that the cu...
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June 19, 2012
Obama, Messiah No MoreIt has become fashionable to label president Obama, the once and future messiah, now a "loser" and describe his erstwhile disciples "disillusioned." Every day brings another report of demoralized Obama acolytes discovering the allure of agnosti...
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May 18, 2012
Will the Word 'Likeable' Stick to Obama?U.S. presidents have suit coats and jackets made from flypaper and Velcro. Words stick to their lapels, sleeves, and shoulders. Words sticking to Abraham Lincoln are "honest," "melancholy," and "resolute." James Buchanan, "feckless."...
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March 25, 2012
Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a ManMilitant feminists have long considered playwright George Bernard Shaw as one of their own. Perhaps Shaw is the only man of letters worthy of inclusion in the sisterhood of writers ranging from George Sand to Germaine Greer, Adrienne Rich, and ...
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February 29, 2012
The Blood of Religious Liberty Enabled Freedom of SpeechAround the turn of the 2nd century, St. Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, was condemned by a Roman tribunal to be torn apart and eaten by lions in the Coliseum. What was his crime? Ignatius was condemned because his speech was subversive to th...
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January 22, 2012
Newt's Open Marriage With ConservativesNewt Gingrich's marital shipwrecks are old news. But his second ex-wife, Marianne, revealed a new insight into Newt's definition of fidelity. Her claim that Newt asked for an "open marriage" explains his fatal character flaw spilling over...
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December 1, 2011
Obama's Design for Defeat"And now...the design for war," intones the inimitable voice of Leonard Graves , narrator of Victory At Sea, announcing that President Obama is in full re-election battle dress. President-elect Obama arrived at the west front of the nation's Ca...
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November 24, 2011
Ghost of the GatewayIn western New York State, near the village of Lyons, the seat of Wayne County some twenty miles south of Lake Ontario and east of Rochester, lies a shallow waterway. Threading its way from a rural crossroads known as Pilgrimport, around drumli...
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November 13, 2011
Taking Laps In The College Athletics CesspoolThe cesspool of big time college athletics spilled over this past week on the campus of Penn State University. It would be too easy, and mistaken, to assign this abject abomination to Penn State alone. No other big time program has ever been ac...
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October 9, 2011
Why Can't Obama Be Like Tito?In a remarkable interview on sports talk radio in Boston this week, Terry Francona (Tito), the departing manager of the Boston Red Sox major league baseball team, admitted that he failed and discussed why he walked away. President Obama c...
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August 30, 2011
What Liberals Fear More Than Obama LosingThe left are now wringing their hands fearing their agenda is overripe, blaming everyone else for their own spoiled pickling. While Obama's sinking prospects for re-election are disquieting, the real source of liberals' despair is their sudden,...
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August 1, 2011
Yes Dorothy, President Obama Is A Very Bad WizardIt was Dorothy's dog Toto, a standard bred cairn terrier, in the 1939 movie classic "The Wizard of Oz," tugging at the black curtain, who revealed the Great and Powerful Oz to be nothing more than a humbug, "Why, you're not a wizard at all, you're ju...
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June 20, 2011
Republicans Flicker On Light Bulb Ban RepealThe Republican House is flinching on passing the simplest and most symbolic piece of legislation this term: repeal of the incandescent light bulb phase out. Amidst great fanfare and promises to restore limited government, the new majority ...
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June 11, 2011
Who Will Weep Over Newt's Ashes?Self-immolation is the final act of defiance and surrender by those abused and tormented beyond repair at the hands of political oppressors. Americans had their first shocking taste of suicide by gasoline and a match when in 1963 a Vietnamese Buddhis...
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June 9, 2011
Obama's Undeclared War on AmericaRepublican US House Speaker John Boehner, and US Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking minority member Richard Lugar, are both obsessed with bringing President Obama to account under the War Powers Act for his intervention in Libya. Libya ...
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May 6, 2011
Obama: The Unlikely AssassinA bullet to the head of the world's most notorious terrorist was ordered by President Obama. This stunningly courageous act has been greeted with bouquets of thanksgiving and garlands of awe. The demise of bin Laden at the hands of Obama is the...
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April 22, 2011
What Do Light Bulbs Have to do with the Commerce Clause?Rand Paul, freshman US Senator from Kentucky, at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing last month, summed up in a few choice sentences the Democratic Party progressive agenda:You're really anti-choice on every consumer item th...
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March 21, 2011
Obama in ExileFor centuries exile has been the most popular strategy for kings and dictators to escape hanging, whether it be Charles II, his brother James II, Idi Amin, Ferdinand Marcos or the Shah of Iran. Exile also has been a preferred choice for those s...
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February 1, 2011
Obama's Standing Army of Regulators among UsThe victims of today's excessive government regulatory zeal face the same enemy confronted by the nation's Founders: unconstrained centralized power.The modern version of unconstrained power is an oligarchy enforced by unaccountable and unelected bur...
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January 26, 2011
Obama the Alchemist Would Pluck Your Savings CleanWhatever abject failings Obama has as a statesman or legislative leader, he's become a master wizard at projecting illusions and capturing the yearning of so many who want to be deceived. There have always been people like Obama, and the greats...
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January 12, 2011
We Need More Political Rhetoric, Not LessThe Rodeo Clown Posse was led out of Tucson in a cloud of dust with a hay-burning frenzy by Arizona's Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik. Close in tow were hyper-boiling politicians and the usual lefty print and TV media cowboys such as Rep. J...
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November 11, 2010
A Broken PresidentAs the nation swept the Democrats to the curb on November 2, the sheer relief of having been rescued from consignment to a collectivist dustbin was a blast of pure oxygen. Obama was not only crushed; he was disowned. While the absolute gains in Congr...
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November 1, 2010
On Tuesday, It's All about UsWhen President Barack Obama insists that "it's not about me," you can be certain it's about nothing but him. Obama still prefers a referendum on who he is rather than what he has done. But he will lose on both counts. Obama is loath t...
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October 4, 2010
And the Band Played OnThe Titanic's band leader Wallace Hartley paid little heed to the North Atlantic saltwater bubbling up through the floor in the first class lounge. It took an extreme case of denial or uncommon nerve to keep the beat while fellow passengers stood hor...
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September 21, 2010
Michelle Obama's Futile Fat Food FatwaThank God we have Michelle Obama delivering us from the evils of salt, sugar, and fat. Otherwise, how would any of us uneducated, grotesque peasants make any smart lifestyle choices without such expert pontification from the White House?Pay no heed a...
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August 8, 2010
So Long to the Dusty TrailWhy couldn't we have had the EPA in the Great Depression? If they had issued their proposed "no dust" regs in 1930, we would have been spared the decade of human suffering from sustained drought and agricultural devastation in the Dust Bowl...
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July 31, 2010
The Ruling Class Tosses Americans OverboardThe saga of Senator John Kerry's $ 7 million sailing yacht tied up on the Newport waterfront in the tax haven of Rhode Island proved again how adept Democrats are at spending other people's money. This time the $7 million was presumably s...
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July 8, 2010
What Is Your Breaking Point?Most of us are reaching the breaking point with Obama and the Democrats' agenda for more big government bankrupting the nation, higher taxes, job killing legislation, and infringements on our personal liberties.Yet none of these assaults on our cheri...
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June 12, 2010
Obama's TreacheryObama's White House stands accused of tampering with U.S. Senate primary elections involving Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania and Andrew Romanoff in Colorado. Both Democratic primary challengers apparently were urged to drop out of their races by Whi...
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June 1, 2010
The Smallest PresidentWould someone remind us again why the nation elected this man to be president? A man with no resume, a man with no experience in running anything other than a political campaign, a man who is ignorant of history, economics, and technology? A man who ...
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April 3, 2010
Who Will Guarantee ObamaCare Rights When the Duty-Bound Refuse?If ObamaCare rights were in a horse race against duties necessary to sustain and pay for them, duties would be losing by several furlongs. And rights would come up lame soon thereafter, because rights in the long run can prosper only with equal dutie...
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March 23, 2010
Dissembling, Death, and DeficitsThis past weekend marked more than the passage of ObamaCare by the U.S. House of Representatives. It confirmed the revealed truth of Democratic Party politics: Dissembling, Death, and Deficits.Democrats enacted the first step towards nationalized hea...
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February 22, 2010
Knights or Fools?Amidst the usual fanfare, President Obama signed the executive order deputizing Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson to head up his Debt Reduction Commission. "Without action, the accumulated weight of that structural deficit, of ever-increasing debt...
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February 16, 2010
Mister Cool and DetachedMuch has been made of President Obama's recent about-face on tax increases for the middle class. Obama says he is now "an agnostic." What this really means is that he has no conviction, no plan, and no blueprint, and he will increase taxes ...
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February 8, 2010
Obama's Antidisestablishmentarianism and the Tea PartiersAntidisestablishmentarianism has too many letters. And its obscure original meaning has long been forgotten. Now it merely produces sweaty foreheads at a National Spelling Bee. Anyone who can spell such a word without taking a breath is an overachiev...
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January 24, 2010
What to Do With An Obama Bumper Sticker?Buyers' remorse carries many unwelcome consequences. Chief among the tangible regrets from having supported candidate Obama, to now disavowing actually voting for him as president, is what do with that Obama bumper sticker? Here in New England most o...
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January 9, 2010
A Revolution in MassachusettsScott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in the special election to replace the late Ted Kennedy, enjoys neither widespread name-recognition nor charisma. The Democratic Party challenger, Martha Coakley, career state pr...
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October 10, 2009
Don't Blame Obama's CaddyTraditional media pundits, especially the Obama cheerleading variety, blame lousy advice from president Obama's inner circle for his abject failure at Copenhagen to convince the IOC to shed its grace on Chicago. No, this fiasco had little to do...
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September 19, 2009
The left still doesn't get itDespite steady progress in achieving their ambition, lefties have acquired neither clue nor interest in how things actually work. Imagine the destruction when the revolucion has transferred power from the oppressor class to them. Suffice ...
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August 31, 2009
Another Failed PresidencyBarack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson. In the modern era, we've seen several failed presidencies--led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed presidents have one strong common trait-- they are repudiat...
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August 13, 2009
Connect the Dots on ObamaCareThe use of logical corollary, a fancier way of saying connect the dots, has eluded the defenders of ObamaCare. Critics of those who have exposed ObamCare's contradictions and incoherencies are either unwilling to connect the dots or too stubbor...
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June 15, 2009
Obama's Government Health Plan Will Look Like Public SchoolsMuch of the speculation around Obama's health care reform centers around a single payer government monstrosity resembling either a larger bankrupt Medicare platform or the discredited national health schemes in Canada or the UK. Yet it's ...
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May 19, 2009
Notre Dame Rescued the Right-To-Life Movement from OblivionEven if you believe President Barack Obama's commencement address at the University of Notre Dame was cynical opportunism on Obama's part or a calculated appeal on Notre Dame's part inviting him in the first place to convince academic elites th...
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May 2, 2009
War Ain't BeanbagPerhaps George W Bush's most significant failure as president was not convincing enough Americans that the war on terror was a real war. From the vantage point of most Americans it had -- and still does have -- the look and feel of a police action, s...
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March 30, 2009
President Obama's Miscalculated TransparencyIn the end, it may be Obama's transparency that does him in. Not the kind he promised in the campaign, of course. More and more supporters are waking up to the reality of the man they helped put into the White House. In a sweeping but concise r...
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January 30, 2009
Nancy Pelosi's neo-eugenicsNancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, is no economist, judging by her comments made to ABC's George Stephanopoulus, in asserting population growth in the US would be a drag on economic growth. Population growth usually is an...
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November 8, 2008
Credo in Unam Nationem, Sub Deo-ReduxRepublicans have been swept aside, consigned to the wilderness, by their own undoing. The electorate was tired of a prolonged and until recently an incompetent and inconclusive military campaign for Iraq and the war on terror. Voters made...
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September 15, 2008
McCain at NASCAR -- exclusive photoAt yesteday's SYLVANIA 300 NASCAR race at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, NH., John McCain was fabulous. He looks very good and this was his crowd--about 105,000 people. Photo by author...
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August 31, 2008
Experience is More Than a Punched Amtrak TicketCritics from both political parties having doubts about Sarah Palin have seized upon her limited experience. But what kind of experience are they talking about? Normally level headed pundits like Mort Kondracke and former Clintonites like Dee Dee Mye...
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August 23, 2008
Would you buy a used car from Biden?So it's Joe Biden. The thesaurus pick. How many words can describe the Joe Biden pick? Underwhelming, pedestrian, sleepy, unimaginative, narcolepsic, undistinguished, conventional, ordinary, boilerplate, vanilla, unexceptional, flaccid, eupepti...
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August 18, 2008
Bringing Back the Union Label?Most Americans these days have little to do with unions. Barely 12% of today's workers belong to a union , compared to over 32% at the high water mark in 1953-1954. And most union workers today don't work in factories, mines, shipyards, on the ...
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August 5, 2008
Barack Obama: oil change you can believe inMy sin of driving a high performance car has been absolved by Barack Obama. For two years I've been driving a 350 horse Road and Track package Dodge Charger R/T that gets only 15 miles per gallon around town. At first I had trouble finding a pa...
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June 23, 2008
Carbon: the New Chemical VillainAccording to the popular press, carbon has now joined toxic heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury, lead and cadmium on Peck's Bad Boy list. The phrase "carbon footprint" in the lexicon of lazy pseudo science writers and amateur climatologis...
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May 18, 2008
A Specter haunts the NFLSen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), ranking member of the US Senate Judiciary Committee, recently announced that he wants to have an independent US Senate investigation into how Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner has handled the New England Patriots v...
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May 1, 2008
The Real Reason Why Rev Wright Dissed ObamaOn Tuesday morning, following Rev Jeremiah Wright's incendiary National Press Club appearance, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on ABC's Good Morning America that Rev.Wright "went out of his way to weaken Obama...I think Reverend Wright h...
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April 3, 2008
Obama, the Pardoner, and his TaleWhat are we to make of the extraordinary fervor of some of the supporters of Barack Obama? Stumbling upon a website called Is Barack Obama the Messiah? that chronicles the worship of Barack Obama as the second coming, I actually did a cart...
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March 28, 2007
Why No One Wants to Crack the Health Care WalnutA few days ago I had dinner with friends from a boutique actuarial services firm. After some chit chat, we soon turned to health care costs, health insurance and, as one would expect in the small talk lexicon of actuaries, mortality tables....
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February 18, 2007
Man-made Global Warming - So What If It's a Hoax?A small forest of pulpwood has been clear-cut and thousands of keystrokes have been exhausted by the indispensable media heralds warning us about the looming catastrophe from manmade CO2. While in fact the global warming science is rather dubious and...
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February 13, 2006
Are Traditional Pensions Finished?With the likes of IBM, Verizon, Alcoa and now General Motors announcing the end to their traditional defined benefit pension plans, analysts and commentators can't get into print fast enough their glee at seeing the old order replaced by the new and ...
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January 18, 2006
Plenty o Nuttin: The Democrats' National Security WastelandGeorge Gershwin's Porgy and Bess is a fitting allegory for the Democrats' approach to domestic policy— permissive sex, drugs, gambling, sleaze and co—dependency — all on somebody's else's tab. Less obvious, Porgy's refrain fro...
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October 12, 2005
The Everyman Supreme Court PickThe motives assigned to George W. Bush for picking Harriet Miers to be an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court have covered the waterfront: from the conventional analysis that he is ducking a fight with Senate Democrats, to the quick and d...
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November 13, 2004
Death of a StarNo, I'm not referring to Barbara Streisand, Alec Baldwin, Bruce Springsteen, nor the rest of the Hollywood glitterati in the twilight of their careers as entertainers. I'm referring to the death of the Democratic Party. Its hysterical mouthpiec...
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November 7, 2004
Credo in Unam Nationem, Sub Deo'We have one country, one Constitution... and no limit to the greatness of America,' said George W. Bush. Not a bad start to begin his second term, by reciting the creed of his decisive majority on Tuesday. This election was about the triumph o...
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October 31, 2004
Fear of successYesterday's 'rolling—rally' along a seven mile route in Boston celebrated the historic and spectacular Boston Red Sox World Series triumph. It also marked the beginning of a new ethos for Red Sox nation, no longer self—absorbed narci...
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October 13, 2004
The first ideologueGeorge W. Bush stands accused of being a unilateralist, oreven worse, an 'ideologue,' by the dominant Neville Chamberlain wing of the Democratic Party This is a milder, less inflammatory charge than the 'fascist' or 'theocrat' labels applied by...
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September 22, 2004
Dan Rather, philosopher-theologianIt will come as a complete shock to most readers that Credo quia absurdum est ['because it is absurd, it is to be believed"] did not originate with Dan Rather and the sophists at CBS News. Aristotle and Tertullian beat them to it. Accord...
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September 8, 2004
How the Democrats Flunked Physics 101Organization behaviorists have reduced the psychology of change to a mathematical equation. According to Michael Beer of the Harvard Business School, change is a function of dissatisfaction (D) multiplied by the vision of a new order (V) times leader...
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August 31, 2004
An ungrateful nation'For shame', say the moralizers about the Swift Vets' vitriolic attacks on John Kerry, insisting on attributing dishonorable or politically inspired motives to the Swift Vets' actions. Perhaps, to be charitable, they simply are ignorant about the psy...
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August 24, 2004
John Kerry's 80 Day Cook's TourThe proper duration of individual front line troop deployments in wartime has been debated since the Revolutionary War without any clear conclusion. Our nation's first Commander—In—Chief frequently despaired over perilously anemic t...