March 25, 2018

The Republican traitors spring their trap

It is clear that the bank-breaking budget that Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell enabled to pass was an intentional effort on their part to help make sure Democrats take back both the House and Senate this November in the midterm elections and that the l...

August 27, 2015

The China Syndrome

The ongoing stock market meltdown is just the tip of the iceberg that is the dangerously precarious China economy. The back story -- the extraordinary market manipulation that has allowed the global economy to come to this potentially disastrous pass...

August 20, 2015

Turning the Trump debate back to real issues

Donald Trump’s “rude” and “vulgar” manner – as disdainful Fox News Sunday panel member George Will insists on labeling it – means he can’t can’t possibly win the Republican nomination, let alone b...

September 18, 2013

Axis Of Obama

What is emerging out of the black comedy of Barack Obama's weakness and vacillation in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria is the revitalization of what President George W. Bush termed the "axis of evil." By allowing himself to ...

September 12, 2012

The Results of Radicalism in Chicago's Education System

"You've got a mouthful of gimme, a hand full of much obliged." -Clarence Williams, "Gulf Coast Blues" The difference between the lowdown character in Clarence Williams' "Gulf Coast Blues" and the striking Chicago Teachers Union is that the teachers d...

August 13, 2012

The Real Danger of the Obama Campaign Strategy

There's a story about a young man who comes home one day and says to his father, "Dad, I know who I am and what I want to do with my life: I'm a sea captain." The father looks at him and says, "Son, you know you're a sea captain, and I know you're a ...

May 22, 2012

Barack Obama's 15 Minutes of Fame

"In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes." -Andy Warhol In 1970, George Winne, Jr., achieved his Warholian 15 minutes of fame by setting himself on fire on the campus of the University of California, San Diego, to protest t...

March 26, 2012

Untangling the Republican Delegate Mess

It is possible that Mitt Romney might not get the requisite number of delegates before the Republican National Convention is held in August, but that's looking more and more unlikely as the primary season grinds on.  Because it could happen, tho...

March 18, 2012

What If Oil and Natural Gas Are Renewable Resources?

President Barack Obama and his green energy confederates are determined to scare the public about a declining supply of "fossil fuels."  If we accept the idea that oil is produced by the conversion of organic matter -- from plants to dinosaurs -...

February 9, 2010

I Was a Teenage President

The Obama administration resembles nothing so much as a big house in the suburbs where the parents are away for the weekend. In the absence of any responsible person to take charge, the Teenager-in-Chief is letting the rest of the adolescents run wil...

January 20, 2010

The Obama Administration's Rampant Racism

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's remarks during the 2008 presidential campaign that Barack Obama would have a good chance to be elected because he is "light-skinned" and speaks with a "Negro dialect" only by choice are ugly and...

November 5, 2009

Obamerika

It was fashionable among leftist revolutionaries in the 1960s to label our country "Amerika," the German spelling meant to recall Adolf Hitler and indicate that the United States was a "fascist" state. With the dramatic shift towa...

October 5, 2009

Did We Elect a Beta Male As President?

We're all somewhat familiar with the body language dogs display when they greet each other. The dominant alpha male approaches directly, asserting his authority, while the beta male genuflects, crouches, tucks his tail, and may even end up on his bac...

February 8, 2006

What Did Chuck Schumer Know and When Did He Know It?

Democrats, prominent among them New York Senator Charles Schumer, have held President Bush to an irrationally high standard of proof in asserting that "Bush lied" to the American people regarding what he knew about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction ...