March 7, 2025

The SCOTUS a little more than half-nuts

Strong dissent by the four actual conservative justices in a case of blatant “judicial hubris”. The Supreme Court this week allowed an activist federal judge to assume the powers given by the Constitution only to the president under Ar...

February 28, 2025

Federal judge who thinks he's president blocked

History of a sort was made last night when Chief Justice Roberts issued an order blocking, as Sean Davis called him, “an unhinged federal district court” that joined the chorus of federal judges recently who have either never read Article...

February 19, 2025

The Trump Effect moves even the nastiest anti-Trump judges!

The news has just broken that the most virulently anti-MAGA, anti-Trump judge on the federal bench, Tanya Chutkan, has refused to grant the request of attorneys general of 14 blue states from effectively shutting down DOGE’s efforts to halt bas...

January 22, 2025

A disgrace at the National Cathedral

As an Episcopalian, I am reluctant to write this, but as I feel strongly about what this member of the clergy of my church just did at a sacred National Prayer Service in the National Cathedral, I feel I must note these impressions. The world just...

January 18, 2025

Insurrection? What insurrection?

Oops! Jack Smith committed a gaffe -- he accidentally told the truth. A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth -- some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say, as the old Washington saying goes. It perfectly sums up that part of Jack S...

January 10, 2025

Disappointment from the Supreme Court

The last hope for a small glimmer of sanity in the years-long saga of the lawfare warriors against President Trump has been extinguished by a 5-4 vote of the United States Supreme Court in the following order, handed down late on the evening before t...

January 4, 2025

A requiem for New Orleans

My first day in New Orleans was my first day. Thus, one can say I can reasonably claim to have some authenticity when I write and think -- and lament -- about my birthplace of long ago. The act of evil which started at 3 a.m. on New Year’...

December 29, 2024

The Cult of the ‘Hot Assassin’

Now we can add to that fictional list of grotesqueries a few not-at-all fictional categories which not long ago  would have been regarded as quite simply unthinkable. After the hell on earth that descended upon innocent Israeli families ...

December 21, 2024

Whatever Happened to the Presumption of Innocence?

We see all around us the detritus left by the wrecking crew of woke-ism, damaging our institutions and savaging our traditions, customs and history by preaching the poisonous theme that America was never great as it was built on the backs of slaves a...

November 22, 2024

Semper Fi, Sgt. Penny!

Disclaimer: It is impossible for me to be objective about the Marines, and thus I am hard pressed even to try to see the “justice” in the prosecution of Marine sergeant Daniel Penny for acting as the very definition of what we think of as...

November 14, 2024

Safetyism, Calming Jars, and America's Crisis of Leadership

While basking in the euphoria of President Trump’s historic victory, I happened upon one of those articles that make you think, “Surely this must be parody on a Babylon Bee level!” We were told that students at Georgetown University...

August 4, 2023

Watching the crooks

I recently had a "procedure" — the kind that makes you think about matters far weightier even than the fact that our nation is now provably being led by a crime family that would shame the Gambinos as rank amateurs. ...