January 2, 2025

How Chanukah repudiates terrorism

At the time of this writing, 15 are dead and over thirty injured in New Orleans at the beginning of the new year.  Meanwhile, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump Hotel entrance in Las Vegas.  I suspect that these inciden...

September 4, 2024

Reagan: The Movie, Holds Many Lessons for Us Today

Labor Day weekend was the opening of the movie “Reagan.”  It has been four decades since he was in the White House, yet the situation is eerily similar today.  We will get to that later.  But first, I must say that th...

August 30, 2024

The Harris-Walz CNN interview: A plus for Kamala

Dana Bash conducted a better interview than I would have expected.  The answers by Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, though, were almost shocking. Listening to the analysis by the CNN crew led by Abby Phillip afterward was as expected: the vic...

August 20, 2024

A Night At the Opera: Day One of the Democratic National Convention

With difficulty, I endured an evening of Democratic National Convention festivities on the first night.  In politics, both sides exaggerate their good points and distract from their negatives, but Monday was like watching a melodrama with inv...

August 12, 2024

Harris and Walz Go for Mainstream

I hope anyone who is still undecided will put aside their concern over Donald Trump’s personality, insults, and braggadocio and recognize how radical Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are. We are facing a crisis for our future.  Our econo...

August 1, 2024

The Denigration of America's Great Cities

I recently traveled by car to Baltimore to seek medical testing at Johns Hopkins Medical Center.  I was shocked to see the many empty and boarded-up buildings between the Inner Harbor area, the athletic arenas for baseball, and football and t...

July 25, 2024

Biden’s platitudes, America’s truths

The news cycles move at a dizzying pace.  Only a few weeks ago, a debate that rendered President Joe Biden inconsequential seemed to dominate the news.  Then an assassin almost changed the 2024 presidential race, heightening the d...

July 14, 2024

Thoughts on the Trump attack, and the Israel attack

We are publishing continuously today. To see more blog entries, please click here. As of this writing the Secret Service has confirmed that a possible assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump has resulted in an injury to him, a killi...

July 4, 2024

Joe Biden hates separation of powers

The chattering class spends much time arguing over the Supreme Court ruling in Trump v. USA.  The decision is clearly moderate, in which the Court chose to require the lower courts to do their job and define private and official actions per...

June 29, 2024

What we can learn from the presidential debate analysis

Thursday’s presidential debate revealed the intellectual mismatch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.  For those ignorant of Biden’s mental decline, the truth was laid bare and the world saw how vulnerable our nation has become....

June 25, 2024

The Poor Legal Arguments of Jack Smith

On Friday, Judge Aileen Cannon, overseeing the Florida-based records prosecution of former president Donald Trump, heard a lawsuit regarding the legitimacy of the appointment of special prosecutor Jack Smith.  On Sunday, his office provided...

May 1, 2024

A beginning toward taking back our country

Today, police have virtually completed the arrest of dozens of students and provocateurs who occupied Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.  With the request by Columbia’s President Baroness Minouche Shafik earlier today to have the N...

April 29, 2024

A defense strategy for the case of NY v. Trump

The sham trial in NYC being orchestrated by DA Alvin Bragg against Donald Trump is designed to keep Trump off the campaign trail and further salacious material to create more doubt about him in the minds of undecided voters. The judge, Juan...

March 18, 2024

Damned lies and statistics

This past Friday, Senator Charles Schumer of New York, the Democrat Majority Leader, and a Jew in the state with the largest Jewish population in this nation, called for the removal of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  Though this is i...

November 28, 2023

The Divide Among American Jews

This week was a sad awakening for me.  I attended a discussion group regarding the situation in the Mideast at my synagogue.  Of the ten attendees I was the only one to express concern about the level of anti-Semitism which was occurring ar...

April 16, 2023

The GOP should look to new solutions to win over blue-state voters concerned about crime and mass shootings

The election results of 2022 should be a warning to the Republican establishment that a new strategy is required to win the Congress decisively and take back the White House in 2024.  There are several states that Republicans have not been co...

April 3, 2023

Did Hollywood predict the future in the 2016 thriller Jason Bourne?

In only seven years, a Hollywood dystopian thriller seems to have partially come true. While I was talking to my brother, he mentioned the 2016 thriller movie Jason Bourne, in which the former CIA assassin discovers that the agency has k...

January 10, 2023

Biden took classified documents out of the White House, too

President Biden previously had said that it was irresponsible for former President Trump to be in possession of secret documents at Mar-a-Lago.  Now he has been discovered to be in possession of such documents at his former think-tank locat...

January 4, 2023

Can we tolerate a Speaker McCarthy?

As of the writing of this article (Tuesday evening Jan 3, 2023), three votes for the Speaker of the House have been taken.  The last vote, the "no" votes for Kevin McCarthy increased from 19 to 20 members of the Republican Party....

May 6, 2022

Get ready for another 'summer of love'

In 2020, we watched as rioters destroyed buildings and lives throughout our cities in the wake of George Floyd's death.  Get ready for another summer of riots and destruction.  The White House has legitimized such behavior by ...

April 5, 2022

How can we help Ukrainian refugees?

The Ukraine refugee situation is the worst in Europe since WWII, reminding us of the 1990s, when Yugoslavia broke into warring states.  The bulk of the support to the Ukrainian military and refugees is provided by European countri...

March 7, 2022

What is the strategy to avoid WWIII?

I confess that I am not an expert regarding military affairs or on the war in Ukraine.  But commonsense observation of the events leads one to question all the pundit experts pushing "no-fly zones" (which would be a direct act of ...

March 5, 2022

Zelensky and what it means to be Jewish in Ukraine

The press has noted widely that President Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish and that his grandfather fought the German Nazis during WWII.  Some have noted that Zelensky's father is a college professor and his mother is an engineer. ...

August 17, 2021

Hubris: The undoing of great plans

After listening to President Joe Biden give his 20-minute speech explaining his decision to leave Afghanistan in the hurried way that has resulted in the fall of the nation (if we can call the tribal land such), I was compelled to end my half-year se...

December 12, 2020

Supreme Court's Texas Ruling is Nothing Short of Disgrace

Friday evening the United States Supreme Court decided to not take the Texas lawsuit against four states over their application of presidential election law.  The Court only mustered two justices in favor of taking the case:  Samuel Alito a...

December 10, 2020

What would King Solomon do if he were on the Supreme Court in 2020?

Time is running out for the presidential election of 2020.  Texas attorney general Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit directly to the Supreme Court charging that Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Wisconsin have violated the Constitution. ...

September 22, 2020

Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her mark even after death

The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Friday has increased the ferocity of the political divide facing the citizenry.  For many generations, the progressive left has used the courts to make changes to American society that it could not enact thr...

August 25, 2020

Is Joe Biden the gift that Donald Trump relishes?

Pundits considered Joe Biden a difficult opponent for Donald Trump.  They see him as a moderate and more calming figure.  Yet his extreme positions will be his undoing. Biden is a gift that keeps giving.  On Sunday, h...

July 15, 2020

Does Trump have a secret well of unreported support?

In Alabama, the Republican party nomination for senator provided a surprisingly large victory (over 25% points with 50% of the vote counted) for Jeff Sessions's opponent, Tommy Tuberville, the former Auburn football coach.  This likely ...

March 27, 2020

Dr. Birx brings hope to America

The hysteria that has gripped our nation over the coronavirus scare is based on numbers generated through mathematical modeling created by public health experts.  Such models take into account the aggressiveness of the infection or amount o...

March 26, 2020

The resurrection of America, Trump-style

Donald Trump plays a different game of chess.  He thinks several moves ahead, as any chess master would, but he also plays multiple games simultaneously.  He contends with a confrontational media, an insatiable Democratic House le...

March 25, 2020

Trump's daily press briefings are helping to save the Republic

It is almost time for the daily briefing from the White House coronavirus task force.  For those working from home or working shorter hours, as their business has declined, the briefings are a welcome chance to get calming, reassuring, and ...

March 24, 2020

Who is Our John Galt?

Who is John Galt? In 1957 Ayn Rand published her final novel, Atlas Shrugged.   This magnum opus describing her philosophy of “objectivism” sought to call attention to the danger of socialism and communism and demonstrate t...

March 18, 2020

Coronavirus Response: Anxiety or Insanity?

Monday's Coronavirus Task Force press conference demonstrates the changed political, social, economic, and religious environment confronting USA.   President Trump unveiled a new recommendation protocol for the next 15 days, approv...

January 13, 2020

A tale of two approaches to Middle Eastern struggles

As the Iranians now admit to shooting down the Ukrainian Boeing 737 aircraft with Canadians, Ukrainians, and Iranians onboard, it is instructive to review some past experiences in the region.  Our battles with some members of the Islamic worl...

January 8, 2020

Trump Doctrine on display Tuesday evening as he contemplates response to Iranian missiles

While the funeral for General Soleimani proceeds in Kerman, Iran, the military, with the blessing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, fired 15 ballistic missiles at two bases in Iraq.  The bases in Erbil in the north and Al-Assad in t...

December 5, 2019

Wednesday hearings shine a light on the question: What is presidential impeachment?

Wednesday was another day in legal boredom provided via the House Judiciary Committee.  The four law school professors called as witnesses were there to argue for or against the effort to impeach President Trump on intellectual grounds....

November 30, 2019

What am I thankful for?

At 64 years of age, I have much to be thankful for.  I recently had a coronary catheterization, which demonstrated healthy coronary arteries.  I have a wonderful wife and daughter.  I have been able to put money away fro...

October 24, 2019

Ozone hole shrinking, NASA announces

NASA recently announced that evidence indicates that the planet's ozone hole over Antarctica is closing and now the smallest it's been since it was discovered three decades ago.  By 1990, the ozone hole had enlarged to 8 million squ...

October 20, 2019

Explaining Hillary Clinton's feud with Tulsi Gabbard

The latest attack against another Democrat by Hillary Clinton is curious unless you are familiar with her past.  The former secretary of state, U.S. senator, and former first lady erupted in a tirade against Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), w...

October 12, 2019

Turns out Biden's family not the only one to benefit from Ukrainian fossil fuels

On Sept. 24, 2019, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the official impeachment inquiry that would be led by the Intelligence Committee and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).  At first, this was a curious decision to objective persons, since the Judic...

October 8, 2019

Trump's exaggerations stand in stark contrast to Democrats' actual lies

The media tell us regularly about President Donald Trump's exaggerations and overstatements.  Some keep count on what they call "lies," and they number these in the thousands.  Trump's hyperbole is well understoo...

August 16, 2019

Philadelphia shootout puts the lie to the anti-gun lobby

Wednesday's shooting incident, in which it is reported that Maurice Hill injured six police officers during a standoff after officers served a warrant for the arrest of suspected drug-dealers in Northeast Philadelphia, demonstrates the hypoc...

July 24, 2019

Democrats will never stop calling to raise the minimum wage

For several years, the chant has been to make the minimum wage a living wage.  The Left said $15 per hour was necessary to meet that aim.  This week, Senator Bernie Sanders was forced to reduce working hours of his field workers t...

June 19, 2019

Trump opens his 2020 campaign: Keep America Great!

Donald Trump demonstrated his ability to hold a crowd for about one hour and twenty minutes.  His skill at branding gave him ample opportunity to involve the audience, which approved of his new theme, "Keep America Great." ...

March 15, 2019

Watch Beto O'Rourke destroy Joe Biden's presidential run

Yesterday, Beto (Robert) O'Rourke announced his candidacy for the presidency.  Only six months ago, he said he would not run.  Increasing the field by another white heterosexual will help dilute the already crowded field....

February 28, 2019

Dissecting the Cohen testimony

Briefly stated, Wednesday was a sad day for our republic.  Former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen answered questions from Republicans and Democrats for almost seven hours.  I endured the entire event but have gleaned little ...

January 26, 2019

Friday was a bad day in Washington

Friday, Jan. 25 will be remembered by Trump-supporters as the day he caved on the wall.  By agreeing to fully open the government for three weeks without any wall money, Trump has angered many supporters, who will vilify him to the detrimen...

January 19, 2019

Weird new frontiers in media bias: BuzzFeed versus Robert Mueller?

Thursday, BuzzFeed reported that President Trump had ordered Michael Cohen to lie to Congress.  Friday, at a late hour (after a day of misinformation), Robert Mueller had his office refute the details of the report and its implications....

December 5, 2018

Flynn sentencing memo reveals the sham that is the Mueller investigation

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has finally provided his team's sentencing recommendation  for three-star general Michael Flynn.  He has acknowledged that Flynn has provided 19 separate interviews with the Mueller team.  The heavily...

October 8, 2018

The left's scheme to neutralize Justice Kavanaugh

Some on the left are so committed to defeating Trump and his agenda that they spend hours every day scheming to thwart his surrogates and appointees.  The NeverTrumps appear on television as pundits in numbers much greater than their real r...

October 6, 2018

Susan Collins's finest hour caps a great week for America

Susan Collins of Maine rose yesterday to give a thoughtful and well reasoned speech on the floor of the Senate in support of Brett Kavanaugh.  She decried the destructive nature of the confirmation process.  This was one of t...

October 4, 2018

With NAFTA-busting deal, Trump negotiates his re-election

Anyone who has lived in this country for over 20 years is likely to notice the loss of manufacturing jobs as they have moved to Mexico and Asia.  This was one of several reasons why Donald Trump was elected president.  He has now ...

October 3, 2018

Kavanaugh circus well into Twilight Zone territory

Arizona prosecutor Rachel Mitchell has sent a summary report of her assessment of the accusations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.  She concludes that the charge would not meet the standard for prosecution, not ev...

October 2, 2018

How Trump made GOP control more likely post-November

Monday, the White House announced a new agreement among Mexico, Canada, and the USA to end the NAFTA treaty and replace it with the USMCA treaty.  Donald Trump has managed to confound the pundits again and get an agreement likely to expand ...

August 9, 2018

Can Kim Jong-un survive North Korea's swamp?

Foreign policy and intelligence pundits spend time regularly claiming that Donald Trump is ignorant in expecting that the North Koreans will eventually forgo their nuclear threat in favor of peace and better relations with the USA.  They ad...

August 7, 2018

Identity Politics and Kamala Harris

The fight for the 2020 presidential nomination is underway within the Democratic Party.  Several personalities are vying to position themselves as far to the left as practical to garner adequate attention and support among the activists and...

August 4, 2018

Dinesh D'Souza's Death of a Nation

Dinesh D'Souza has released the latest edition of his cinematic view of America, Death of a Nation.  His essential points are reasonable, but he oversimplifies, sometimes distorts, and excludes inconvenient facts.  He con...

August 3, 2018

Trump and his war on fake news

President Donald Trump traveled to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on Thursday, where he spent much of his time attacking the fake news media.  He went to this northeastern Pennsylvania city to support the ambitions of Representative Lou Barlett...

March 17, 2018

AG Sessions fires former FBI deputy director McCabe and McCabe fires back

Washington insiders must be wondering what will happen next after the last-minute decision by A.G. Jeff Sessions to terminate former deputy director of the FBI Andrew McCabe only hours before his retirement would have been effective.  This ...

February 1, 2018

Trump and the real divide

Twelve hours after the State of the Union speech by President Trump, the response demonstrates the likely situation for the next year. Trump delivered a well-crafted speech for one hour and 20 minutes that provided many personal illustrations via gal...

January 22, 2018

How Republicans Gain Seats This Year

Daily reports by the media express the likelihood that the Republicans will lose seats in both Houses of Congress.  They point to losses in Alabama, Virginia, and Wisconsin by Republicans as proof that Donald Trump is dragging down the part...

January 22, 2018

What Trump and Obama have in common

They are polar opposites politically, but Donald Trump and Barack Obama do share some qualities.  Both have a charisma that is infectious.  This is one quality that Hillary Clinton lacks.  To rise to a high office such a...

January 20, 2018

Schumer's risky gambit

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has decided that it is time for a government shutdown.  He is reading the latest polls and fears that the generic congressional results may be trending toward the Republicans.  The tax...

September 24, 2017

Health Care Reform: Compromise Is Not a Dirty Word

A significant deadline is approaching. The federal fiscal year ends on Sept. 30 and with it this year’s opportunity to use reconciliation to reform and replace ObamaCare. Time is running out to make changes that will devolve any power back to t...

September 17, 2017

DACA provides the impetus to solve immigration issues

When the Trump administration decided two weeks ago to halt DACA (for minor children of illegal immigrants) applications and allow six months for Congress to pass legislation that addresses the issue, a new round of political fighting was unleashed....

September 5, 2017

The American Spirit and Culture: Alive and Well despite Harvey

Hurricane Harvey hit southeast Texas more than a week ago.  By now anyone who is awake is aware of the heroic efforts to rescue the many thousands of affected victims on the Texas coast and Louisiana southwestern coast.  The initial clean-u...

August 22, 2017

Military strategy, Trump-style

President Trump delivered his version of military strategy after almost 17 years of war in Afghanistan.  As he stated previously, his instinct was to limit the war and remove the troops after spending almost $1 trillion and over 2,200 deaths....

August 5, 2017

The Jobs Report: Proof of Trump Making America Great Again

Since the election of Donald Trump, most economic news has been positive despite the lack of media coverage.  Prior to November 2016, some financial reporters predicted losses for the stock market and our national economy should Hillary Clinton ...

July 30, 2017

Trump and his never-give-up-strategy continue the fight on Obamacare

Donald Trump, never one to throw in the towel, has begun the hardball phase of healthcare reform negotiations.  After Friday morning’s fiasco in the Senate, where three Republican senators, Collins, McCain, and Murkowski, decided to end th...

July 26, 2017

A tale of two Trumps

Donald Trump traveled to Youngstown, Ohio for what became a victory speech.  Tuesday's vote to proceed with debate in the Senate by 51-50 (with V.P. Pence casting the deciding vote) on health care reform was a major win despite its limited m...

July 20, 2017

A plea to Republican politicians to prevent an Orwellian health care system

The news concerning Arizona senator John McCain is extremely sad for his family and friends.  His glioblastoma is particularly aggressive, but McCain is a fighter, and we can only wish him well during his treatment.  As a result, his abilit...

July 19, 2017

On Obamacare, it is time to play hardball

Shockingly, Republican senators, having failed to pass any health care reform legislation, appear poised to leave Washington in August for an undeserved vacation.  Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has decided to force them to v...

July 18, 2017

Obamacare repeal: A brick-by-brick project, or all at once?

It is time for Republicans and conservatives to learn something from progressives. "Incrementalism" is a negative word among those who remember the military creep (the ideal of liberal politicians) that was our failing in Vietnam.  ...

July 17, 2017

The CBO and its big lie

As the CBO studies the revised Senate healthcare reform bill, both sides of this debate await their prognostication regarding the economics and numbers of covered individuals.  Their analysis may provide cover for the difficult political decisio...

July 16, 2017

A simplified solution to the healthcare reform debate

Next week, the Senate is expected to vote on its revised bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare.  As of this moment, there are at least two Republican senators doubtful that they can support the proposal.  This would doom the bill; since reco...

July 4, 2017

To tweet or not to tweet

The press is aghast with fury concerning Donald Trump's tweets.  They point out the great number of tweets unrelated to policy and containing personal counterattacks.  They claim he is unpresidential and undignified.  This, they ar...

July 3, 2017

Hillary's campaign coordination with Obama possible only in the Washington swamp

Hidden in the usual holiday weekend news dump (perfected during the Obama years) was the New York Times admission that it had misstated facts.  In stories since January and as recently as Monday, the Times has incorrectly rep...

June 20, 2017

What if Robert Mueller is a straight shooter and not a swamp monster?

Daily we hear Trump supporters decrying the special counsel's power and intent to take down the president and reverse the election results of November 2016.  The evidence for this situation includes the broadening investigation of Special Co...

June 9, 2017

Swampy Washington swallows another insider

James Comey went to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee.  It was not a good day for him, the Justice Department bureaucracy, the former administration, President Trump, or the American people.  Comey admitted that he was n...

May 18, 2017

The special prosecutor: Democrats, be careful what you wish for

Yesterday, Deputy A.G. Rod Rosenstein appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller as the special counsel, with full federal attorney powers, in the investigation of Russian interference in the electoral process of 2016.  At this point, Mueller ...

May 11, 2017

Draining the swamp is entertaining!

The firing of James Comey as FBI director has generated more prognostications of President Donald Trump's demise. If I were given the script to the first four months Trump's presidency, I would be amused.  But now one can see that the...

April 8, 2017

The Trump Doctrine

With the Syrian air strike, Donald Trump has demonstrated his ability to be decisive and nimble.  His course of action was that of a bold, unpredictable risk-taker.  It's the very opposite of what Barack Obama was.  That steadier h...

March 23, 2017

The Nunes presser unveils the Washington divide

Representative Devin Nunes, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, publicly announced that he had read several intelligence documents that unmask several people related to the Trump transition team.  After briefing Speaker Ryan, he went ...

March 14, 2017

What the CBO score means for Republicans' health care bill

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO)'s analysts have given the evidence necessary for the House Freedom Caucus to gain substantial changes in the GOP House American Health Care Bill.  This also provides reasons for the GOP leadership to red...

March 11, 2017

Another case of mainstream media inherent bias

The halfway point of the President Trump's first 100 days has come and gone.  With negative reports on the televised media outpacing the positive articles regarding the new administration, it would be routine for this to continue unabated....

March 10, 2017

A Sober Look at Obamacare Repeal and Replacement

Since 2009 I have written about problems with national healthcare reform for this website. I oppose Obamacare and would prefer a complete repeal and replacement with a market-based system. However, we must contend with political realities. A Democrat...

March 3, 2017

Sessions flap shows a Trump administration under constant oppo pressure

Yesterday, we saw that the Democrats will not stop until they destroy the ability of the Trump administration to enact any meaningful legislation and make the changes he was elected to accomplish.  Senator Schumer and his cohorts in the Senate h...

March 1, 2017

Trump's speech, viewed with anti-Trump Democrats

President Donald Trump hit a home run while addressing Congress yesterday.  He delivered a well crafted policy statement that stayed true to his campaign.  He will alter his immigration plans to allow the "Dreamers" some leeway fo...

February 19, 2017

Protests and resistance lead the narrative, but Trump keeps chugging along

Friday night, north Philadelphia experienced protests against the police, which resulted in 4 arrests and 3 police officers hurt.  The neighborhood surrounding Temple University was the locus for this disruption.  The grievances originate w...

February 6, 2017

SNL loses its edge

As an on-and-off Saturday Night Live viewer since 1975, I have begun to find it difficult to watch the show.  The show has always been dominated by liberal actors and comedians.  Comedy is supposed to be humorous, but lately the s...

February 5, 2017

The Press Anoints the Next Democratic Candidates

We are in the beginning of the third week of Trump’s administration, yet the press has already started the 2020 presidential campaign.  No wonder these campaigns drag on so long.  Five people are given primacy by liberal pundits, b...

February 3, 2017

Liberal college students calling Trump Hitler should demand their money back

On Wednesday, the campus of UC Berkeley (in the 1960s a conservative institution) erupted with protests and riots.  This reaction by the elite students of this now radical state-supported California institution should raise serious questions abo...

February 1, 2017

Will the anti-Trump right unite behind the administration to confirm Gorsuch?

With the nomination of Neil Gorsuch for the position of associate justice of the Supreme Court, taking the seat of former Justice Scalia, President Trump has kept another promise made during his campaign.  Before discussing the merits of th...

January 28, 2017

Voter fraud: The issue won’t die

A recent university analysis has given a basis for the Trump argument that there is significant voter fraud.  Old Dominion associate professor Jesse Richman, through an online, survey has suggested that 100,000 non-citizens may have cast vo...

January 23, 2017

The True Meaning in Trump's Inauguration Speech

The inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States marks a new paradigm for our nation.  While the pundits will parse every word of his 16-minute speech, most will miss the embedded meaning of federalism, patriotism, ...

January 23, 2017

Obamacare replacement plan to be unveiled

Senator Susan Collins of Maine and Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, two very different politicians, plan to unveil their proposal for replacing Obamacare on Monday.  This combination of sponsors gives hope that a compromise will be possible wi...

January 14, 2017

Has Obama already won?

Donald Trump has promised to repeal and replace Obamacare.  The Senate and House have begun the effort to defund the legislation via the budgetary and reconciliation process, where only 51 Senate votes are required.  However, lost in all th...

January 9, 2017

A short and simple economic primer for liberals

Former secretary of the treasury Larry Summers appeared on Maria Bartiromo's Fox News show Sunday and proceeded to attack the Trump economic agenda.  However, his present views seem to conflict with the policies he followed while in the Clin...

January 7, 2017

Obama's parting shots

Two months ago, the president was faced with the reality that his legacy was rejected at the polls.  He had expected Hillary Clinton to win the national election and continue his policies.  Instead, Donald Trump utilized a successful strate...

January 6, 2017

The GOP can now enact real health care reform

During the last two days, the press has given us a continuous back-and-forth concerning the GOP attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare.  The Democrats now claim that the effort by Trump and the GOP will "make America sick again."...

December 14, 2016

Thank you, Dr. Jill Stein

A few weeks ago, Trump supporters were angered by Jill Stein’s decision to ask for a recount in several close Rust Belt states.  This appeared to be a waste of taxpayers’ money and an effort to undermine the Electoral College victory...

October 18, 2016

Trump frames the election...so why is he trailing?

Some in the press have actually acknowledged that the majority of the media is biased against Trump.  This forms the core of his assertion that the election is rigged.  Shockingly, others have conceded that in some cases, voter registration...

October 8, 2016

A tale of two campaigns

Friday night is political dumping ground time.  Wikileaks released two thousand e-mails demonstrating the duplicity of Hillary Clinton in governance and personal integrity.  Meanwhile, the Washington Post provides video and audio showi...

October 6, 2016

Trump’s ace in the hole

Bill Clinton, in a moment of honesty, has handed Donald Trump a gift that can gain him many votes, if he will use it effectively.  Earlier this week, the former president, in a critical October surprise, was shockingly candid and stated that Oba...

September 26, 2016

The Battle for the Undecided Millennial Generation Begins at Hofstra

Analysts believe that up to 100 million people may watch the first debate on Monday at Hofstra University. Both candidates are vying for the largest potential voting bloc, the millennials of over 75 million, expected to be the smallest percentage wat...

September 19, 2016

Obamacare is un-American: A personal story

Along with many other citizens, I have been affected by changes since adoption of the Affordable Care Act of 2010.  I am a practicing dentist and have studied medical economics.  Democrats provide personal vignettes to sell their federal pr...

September 8, 2016

Even at her most scripted, Hillary comes off unprepared for the White House

The scoop for the public is that Matt Lauer was actually even handed in his questioning of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump during the NBC Forum.  Fair questioning showed individual style differences between the two respondents.  Trump is s...

September 3, 2016

Hillary's best asset: Friends in high places

It is Saturday of Labor Day weekend, and for the fourth time, an agency has dumped more damaging Clinton email records over a holiday.  The Obama administration has raised this behavior to an art form.  Yesterday we found out that Hillary t...

August 30, 2016

Can Donald Trump Provide a Clear and Attractive Message?

To an objective viewer, it is curious that Donald Trump has such upside down numbers with the minority community, women, and moderate Republicans. Hillary Clinton has not provided any rational explanation for the comingling of Clinton Foundation inte...

August 22, 2016

Can Kellyanne Conway save Trump’s campaign?

I just returned from vacation on the Delaware beach coast and in Washington, D.C.  During this week, the press focused on Donald Trump's changes in his campaign, while limiting the information in his speeches.  While Manafort helped him...

August 6, 2016

A thank-you for The Donald: Time for a winning campaign

Last night in Green Bay, Wis., the Donald Trump campaign began a new phase.  The tone of his speech reminds one of the days during Ronald Reagan.  The Donald has finally demonstrated the big tent principle as practiced by Reagan. He endo...

July 27, 2016

The angry white voter: Who is he?

Commentators have regularly railed against white males who are mad at their economic situation.  They have called these "angry white voters" conservatives refusing to give up their power structure.  These "white privileged...

July 21, 2016

Pride before the fall: Too many Republican candidates do not honor their pledge

The third night of the Republican National Convention provided observers with that moment of true ethics and honor.  Governor Kasich has not attended the convention and will not endorse Donald Trump.   He claims to be a man of convicti...

March 17, 2016

A possible solution for a divided Republican Party

On Super Tuesday II, Donald Trump was victorious, except for Ohio.  To listen to the professional pundits on Fox, one would get the impression that Trump had a mediocre evening.  One cannot miss the negative information related to Trump...

February 17, 2016

Will the Senate demonstrate a backbone on SCOTUS?

The president has indicated that he will nominate a successor to Judge Scalia.  He is likely to place the name of a left-leaning justice for consideration.  The president will undoubtedly determine to make this selection politically advanta...

January 13, 2016

The Entrenched Parties Have Weakened America

Last weekend I listened briefly to some local Binghamton, NY persons I do not know give their opinion of Martin Luther King over the radio. They talked about his sense of community as going beyond one’s immediate family and neighborhood. They t...

December 16, 2015

President Obama's merry visit to Oz (aka the Pentagon)

Monday saw one of those interesting reminders that victory in politics has consequences, as our president has previously stated.  Obama went to the Pentagon for only the third time in seven years while serving as our commander-in-chief.  He...

December 31, 2013

ObamaCare and Dentistry

ObamaCare will change the American healthcare marketplace in unintended ways. It will have notable impact on the dental field, through mandated pedodontic coverage. Few people enjoy visiting the dentist; however, dental care may become more prob...

October 31, 2013

Why Does the President Appear Unconcerned?

Yesterday in Boston, the President indicated that he will not adjust his signature program during his administration.   His speech was a reaction to his declining poll numbers and outrage from middle class American's against ObamaCare....

October 27, 2013

Thanks to ObamaCare, My Insurance Was Canceled

I provide the full cost of health insurance for my full-time staff and pay the cost for my family.  In August I received a notice that my insurance would cease as of January 2014 due the basic set of requirements under ObamaCare. I do no...

September 27, 2013

Weakness Does Not Make A Political Party

The recent gymnastics in Washington, D.C. with parliamentary maneuvers involving the efforts to defund or diminish ObamaCare, demonstrate weakness in the Republican Party.  Fundraising among the national Republican Party leadership is down. The ...

January 28, 2013

Encounter with a Low-Info Voter

I was engaged in a conversation regarding the future of health care in America when a third person (W) gave her opinion that she was happy with ObamaCare since her son could now get insurance. In New York State the cooperatives will not begin until O...

January 3, 2013

A Lesson on Presidential Power

It comes a shock to discover that liberal Hollywood has provided a powerful response to the expanded presidential power sought by Barack Obama and other progressives. Steven Spielberg has produced a cinematic powerhouse, Lincoln, in which our 16th Pr...

July 8, 2012

Will Romney Find His Voice on Health Care?

Governor Mitt Romney's oratory style is not charismatic.  He does not connect to average people.  This week, the Romney campaign missed an opportunity to attack President Obama after the Supreme Court ruling concerning the individual mandat...

March 31, 2012

Health Care Reform Legislation Revisited

In 2009, as the health care reform legislation made its way through the Congress, many on both sides argued for their respective positions.  (I wrote an article discussing some of the issues which appeared in the American Thinker in November 200...

March 25, 2012

The Worldwide Price of Oil

Every day the American consumer is barraged by news reports concerning the cost of gasoline.  Environmentalists and progressives argue against drilling for oil and encourage the use of green technologies.  They hope for growth in this indus...

July 29, 2011

The Boehner Plan is the Best Deal for the Country That Our Divided Government Can Deliver

As we wait for the vote on the Boehner Debt Bill, some wonder what is the best way to handle the debt crisis?  The crisis was created by our President and the Democrats in Congress.  For two years the President had a Democratic majority in ...

July 16, 2011

Is This the Worst Economy since the Great Depression?

Data indicates that we are in the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s.  But is this true?  And more importantly, how did we even get to the point where we have to ask?   During the past thirty y...

November 8, 2009

National Health Care Reform

Unfortunately, those who are about to decide the future of our health care system have no care delivery experience. They also have the hubris to think that they can write a 2,000-page law that will handle all future contingencies for a complex segmen...