September 22, 2017

Stop Shopping until You Drop...or until a Terrorist Drops You

"Another attack in London by a loser terrorist," tweeted President Trump.  "These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard." Prime Minister Theresa May and the mad media fumed over the president...

August 20, 2017

Barcelona and beyond: How politicians and policy wonks play God with your life

No sooner do terrorists attack than those who monopolize the conversation revert to abstractions: "terrorism returned," "terror struck," when, of course, not terrorism, but terrorists struck Barcelona, Spain, on August 17. ...

August 14, 2017

James Damore Confronts the Nagging Harridans of High Tech (and Loses)

Of the many men who toil in high tech, few are as heroic as James Damore, the young man who penned the manifesto "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber."  In it, Damore calmly and logically exposed the tyrannical ideological edifice er...

August 2, 2017

The few, the 'pride': From gender neutrality to gender fluidity in the military

President Trump's July 26 LGBTQ directives signaled his intention to ban the politicized transgender production from the theater of war. LGBTQ is a political program why?  Central to the concept of "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgende...

July 22, 2017

Truman would have agreed with Trump on the CIA in Syria

Said the president: "For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and, at times, a policy-making arm of the Government. ... [T]his quiet intelligence arm of the P...

July 14, 2017

Hiring another swamp creature for the FBI

Christopher Wray, President Donald Trump's FBI director nominee, seems a perfectly nice man.  But nothing he has said during confirmation hearings on July 12 distinguishes him as someone who would reform Barack Hussein Obama's Islamophil...

July 4, 2017

The Declaration No Longer Expresses 'The American Mind'

For most Americans, Independence Day means firecrackers and cookouts. The Declaration of Independence -- the proclamation of which, on July 4, 1776, we celebrate -- doesn't actually feature in the celebration itself. Contemporary Americ...

June 9, 2017

Trump fends off 'Showboat' Comey and the federal zombies

He pleaded the case of a loyal soldier, rather than forsake retired U.S. Army lieutenant general Michael Flynn to the mercies of FBI director James Comey.  And he asked for loyalty from the congenitally disloyal.  You'll agree: Presiden...

May 25, 2017

Manchester massacre and the immigration vexation

"ISIS" did not attack in Manchester; a second-generation Muslim, son of immigrants, did. The Islamic State may have inspired 22-year-old Salman Abedi, but ISIS in the Middle East did not murder 22 youngsters and injure dozens at a pop-ta...

May 8, 2017

Thanks, POTUS, for breaking up the annual correspondents’ circle-jerk

As a newly elected president, Donald Trump was quick to take one of Washington's institutional pillars down a peg.  By snubbing the 2017 annual White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD), the president deflated what should have been more ...

May 1, 2017

Damned lies and statistics about black-on-white farm murders in South Africa

Farming in South Africa is the most dangerous occupation in the world.  Farmers there suffer more murders per capita than any other community on Earth outside a war zone.  Since the dawn of democracy in the country, farming South Africa has...

April 21, 2017

Why The H-1B Visa Racket Should Be Abolished, Not Reformed

Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban insists that the H-1B visa racket is a feature of the vaunted American free market.  This is nonsense on stilts.  It can't go unchallenged. Another billionaire, our president, has ordered that the H...

April 13, 2017

What Ivanka wants, Ivanka gets

"Donald Trump must get those kids out of the White House," a blunt South African observer of our politics barked at me, weeks back.  "You're looking more and more like us."  She was alluding to the nepotism on displa...