July 25, 2023

Good-bye, Europe (We are not far behind)

This is not just a French story, though the catastrophe is probably most advanced in France because of large numbers and the Muslims’ (correct) perception of unique French weakness and cowardice. The rest of western Europe isn’t far behin...

May 5, 2023

Why Russia invaded Ukraine

Without 30 years of provocative, to the Russian mind threatening, behavior by the United States, the Ukraine war does not happen. John Mearsheimer has pointed out that for well over 20 years, from the Soviet collapse in 1991 until the 2014 US supp...

April 23, 2023

How to create a foreign policy disaster

The following will come as news only to those who get their Ukraine information exclusively from the laughable stream of daily propaganda that pours forth from the American security state corporate media. Facts: Russia’s economy is just f...

April 21, 2023

Biden and China and the American ruling class

I agree with this author that America's ruling elite bear the overwhelming share of responsibility for the Biden catastrophe.  It was they at all levels — finance, corporate, governmental, security agencies, media, ...

March 10, 2023

The US’s March of Folly in Ukraine

One tries to read widely on the state of the Ukraine war, though it’s extremely difficult to cut through the fog of propaganda and obvious lies. But slowly, the picture of a determined, slow-moving, grinding, painful Russian victory emerges. Uk...

February 1, 2023

The Real Lessons of the Real History of The United States and post-Glasnost Ukraine

I am responding to "Ukraine and the Unlearned Lesson of History," by Jacob Fraden. published in AT 1/31/23. I’ll start with the author’s contention that Russia’s war against Napoleonic France was one of its wars “...

November 12, 2022

GOP must insist on a return to pre-2020 election system in competitive states or die

It’s entirely possible that the Republicans will not win the House. If they do, it will be by a razor thin margin under circumstances that should have produced a blowout. The main reason for this second in a row reversal of all historic elec...

August 1, 2022

Squandering Reagan's Cold War victory

Russia is "a gas station masquerading as a country," the noted war-monger John McCain once said.  This astoundingly disrespectful statement by a major U.S. political figure says much about the condescending and diplomatically dest...

July 8, 2022

Russia's will to win in Ukraine

There was never a U.S. or Western strategic interest in Ukraine for which it was rational for us to provoke this war.  And once this war started, Russia's commitment to its successful conclusion — inevitably, unavoidably ...

March 15, 2022

The Ukraine crisis may be more of a boon to the globalists and Western left's agenda than is apparent at first glance

First, the obvious: We — the U.S. — bear much of the responsibility for creating the poisoned atmosphere that inclined Putin to attack Ukraine.  Thirty years of spurning Russia's openly expressed desire after the Soviet c...

March 4, 2022

Stop The Momentum Pushing Us Toward World War III

Across the entire political spectrum, America and the West generally have swallowed the “Putin is Hitler” bait even more completely than the covid bait. Western governments, politicians, and grossly ignorant celebrities are now deliberate...

February 14, 2022

The ruling class and the COVID coup

The COVID virus has been used as an excuse to re-order society and permanently concentrate power in the hands of a small elite.  You don't have to wade through the 280 pages of The Great Reset by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malle...

December 23, 2021

Dems dangerous when they see their power at risk

In his December 21 article on these pages, Wolf Howling described the disordered thinking of three high-ranking retired U.S. military officers, who openly sought to justify a military coup to prevent Trump's (second) re-election. ...

December 20, 2021

Victor Davis Hanson and our miseducated youth

In a just and sensible America, Victor Davis Hanson would be chair of the history department at Harvard, teaching a mandatory and beloved course in the history of Western civilization, to be followed in undergraduates' sophomore year by his equal...

December 20, 2021

The game being played on us

The insanity of the American and Western world is the great sadness of my old age. It is absolutely clear to me now, with the idiotic and groundless fake panic over "omicron," which is killing no one, that this is the "crisis" our...

December 9, 2021

We now confront the classic circumstances that pose a serious risk of war, and no one is paying attention

We now confront the classic circumstances that pose a serious risk of war, and no one is paying attention. The president and his party, in deep trouble as an electoral year looms, need to goose their support with something.  There's ...

December 4, 2021

The Counterrevolution and the Republican Party

For nearly a year the Biden “presidency” -- whoever they are -- has subjected the United States to a destructive revolutionary agenda of unprecedented scope and virulence, all of it arising out of an irrational civilizational death wish f...

November 23, 2021

Struggle sessions come to UC Berkeley

Read the email reproduced below from Dania Matos, U.C. Berkeley's new vice chancellor for diversity, equity, and inclusion.  And weep.  Or laugh.  The language alone — an inadvertent parody of academic inc...

May 12, 2021

Dislodging the Dems

The great question is whether the Democrat left ever can be dislodged even if the electorate turns against it, given the current administration's multifaceted furious attempts to institutionalize last November's electoral corruption. ...

January 6, 2021

As the last line of defense of the Republic seems to be crumbling…

Now that the Georgia Senate seats appear to be unsurprisingly lost, we must ask: how many once reliably conservative states must be flipped before the cretinous Republican Party realizes that you can have cheap imported foreign labor, or you can...

December 23, 2020

The strangest political alliance in history has brought us to this point

The radical left and corrupt big-city Democrats, on the one hand, allied with the mega-billionaire tech; social media; and, to some extent, "ordinary" billionaire elites on the other.  The Bolshevik revolutionaries and their army ...

December 17, 2020

McConnell's treachery and surrender symptomatic of a capitulation-inclined Republican Party

There was no need for Mitch McConnell to cut off Trump's legs and call Biden "president-elect" and congratulate Kamala Harris.  If he had wanted to surrender to the fraud on January 6, he could at least have given Trump anothe...

November 23, 2020

Why Trump is waiting

I think (perhaps "hope" is more accurate) President Trump has something approaching the same thoughts and plan to bust the fraudulent election that occurs to me.  I suspect that he is deliberately avoiding major public addres...

November 17, 2020

The great theft

My gut says the small functionaries won't save us.  They're cowed, buyable, frightened, careerist, outright corrupt, small-minded.  The Republic will not be rescued from this putsch by state legislators, election officials...

November 11, 2020

Bush 43 calls Biden 'president-elect' and the election 'fundamentally fair'

On Monday, November 9, the normally passive and mute ex-president Bush is reported have telephoned Joe Biden and, ignoring basic constitutional law, addressed Biden as "president- elect."  Worse still, in a separate publ...

November 10, 2020

The two paths to overcoming the election fraud

It seems to me there are only two routes to electoral salvation for President Trump, both narrow, with treacherous cliffs beside both paths: 1. State legislatures, convinced that result-changing fraud occurred in their states, through direct evide...

October 29, 2020

Bracing for massive vote fraud and mob violence as the counting hits the courts

Four days out from the Republic's most consequential presidential election since 1860, deep concern that major voter fraud may be occurring arises by comparing the two most reliable polls with the numbers that daily, hourly are being bruited abou...

October 24, 2020

David Brooks gets it wrong

David Brooks, the purportedly conservative New York Times op-ed columnist and NeverTrump, recently exceeded in transparent error anything he's yet published that's known to this writer.  In his column published Thursday, t...

July 25, 2020

High Culture’s Imminent Surrender to the Woke

Not at all surprisingly, the classical music world is now squarely in the sights of the woke mob.  So now the gang of callow American Maoists is going to teach us that excellence in classical music -- composers and performers -- is also a white ...

July 24, 2020

Europeans increasingly see China replacing the US as the world’s dominant power

China Daily, a propaganda organ of the Chinese Communist Party, gleefully reports: Many Germans now believe the United States has had its day as the world's main superpower, and that China is poised to take its place. The expectation of a...

July 1, 2020

Trump Can No Longer Wait to Act and Speak Decisively in Defense of The Goodness of America

Among leading American political commentators, Victor Davis Hanson, from the beginning, has been President Trump’s most steadfast, consistent, articulate and clear-eyed supporter.  He has unswervingly praised not only the President’s...

June 16, 2020

COVID has laid the groundwork for revolution

Peter Hitchens's recent essay is about Britain, but change a word here and there, and it applies with equal prescience to America. What we now face is regime change. [text color in original] That is why these strange crow...

June 4, 2020

The systemic racism scam

If the transparently outrageous lie of police and generalized American racism is to destroy President Trump, he ought to go down with a ringing refutation of those gross falsehoods.  The American people are among the pla...

April 6, 2020

Careful, dispassionate analysis is totally lacking in coronavirus panic

When it comes to the coronavirus panic, what is needed now is a careful, dispassionate daily evaluation of the data.  It is indisputable that we are in the midst of a worldwide panic of unprecedented proportions.  When all is said...

March 26, 2020

The maddeningly unknown data on the Wuhan virus

The ongoing Wuhan virus hysteria is immensely frustrating to those trying to understand and think clearly, because the information available is incomplete, the key question (how lethal is it?) is unanswered and the vast majority of media coverage and...

March 6, 2020

Fighting the Muslim Re-Conquest of Europe on the Greece-Turkey Border

As Americans remain riveted to the coronavirus and the nauseating vicissitudes of the Democrats' battle to choose a presidential nominee — a choice now apparently winnowed down to the Marxist or the moron — this writer's thou...

February 27, 2020

How a German Mass Shooting Shows a Possible Deadly Future for America

On the evening of February 19, 2020, in the west German city of Hanau, a severely disturbed 43-year-old German male opened fire in two separate bars frequented by persons of non-German origin, particularly Turkish, killing nine innocent people. ...

February 16, 2020

Angela Merkel and the Destruction of German Democracy

These thoughts reflect the writer's concern about the worsening political and social conditions in Germany, a nation whose importance — for America, Europe, and the world — should require no laboring to a readership of politically sop...

October 5, 2019

Sojourns in Germany: Hoping against the Demise of Europe

Got back late from Europe with my wife, after a grueling day of travel — train from Passau to Landshut, connection to Munich airport, and an eleven-plus-hour flight to S.F.  Travel by train in Germany and on Lufthansa was, as usual, e...

September 30, 2019

Impeachment? Bring it on. Trump can put the Dems on trial in the Senate

The entrenched elites of both parties and a large portion of the corrupt upper federal bureaucracy understand the mortal threat President Trump poses to them.  This threat has been the driving force behind the continuous efforts to destroy ...

September 27, 2019

Will gutless GOP senators sell out Trump the way their predecessors did Nixon?

The impeachment events in Washington now gathering momentum are cause for great concern among American patriots, conservatives, and Republicans who want their party to survive. When an important one of their own is attacked, Republican senators, m...

July 28, 2019

What SCOTUS's wall decision says about John Roberts

At least the confused weakling John Roberts didn't stab the Constitution and the President in the back on yesterday's wall funds decision.  Too bad he was not as clear-eyed and courageous a few weeks ago, opining on the U.S. Census....

July 24, 2019

From Berkeley to Portland: A pleasant misfortune

I have returned home and can testify competently (in the legal sense) that the drive from Portland to Berkeley, exceeding the speed limits only slightly and infrequently, and making five quick pee stops, takes just under 11 hours. Oregon and north...

November 6, 2018

2018 polling recapitulates the pattern of 2016: Dem triumph predicted (except by Rasmussen)

As in 2016, the divergence between Rasmussen and all the other polling outfits is striking: Rasmussen's last pre-election poll published Monday has an astonishing +1 advantage for Republicans on the generic congressional ballot (46-45)....

September 17, 2018

Disappointed in article attacking Sweden Democrats

Michael Curtis ends his article published yesterday on AT about the recent Swedish election with a paragraph that starts, "It is gratifying that the Sweden Democrats did not do as well as some had feared." "Gratifying,...

August 30, 2018

Protect Political Speech from the Tech Oligarchs with The Civil Rights Act of 2019

If you haven't noticed that freedom of political speech in America is under increasingly effective assault by the left, you haven't been watching.  Over the internet, over lunch with colleagues, in every university classroom, indeed...

August 23, 2018

North Dakota Senate race: GOP ad hits Heitkamp over sanctuary cities

Every threatened Republican in Congress, the Senate, or a governor's mansion needs to hammer away in political ads at the now officially anti-American Democratic Party's support for universally despised sanctuary cities. The protection of ...

July 30, 2018

The Republican Party: Not Much of a Horse But the Only One in the Corral

The tragedy of American conservatism is that its only electoral home is in a party most of whose funds come from those who agree with the globalist agenda and whose privileged position insulates them from its disastrous cultural consequences.  I...

July 27, 2018

Does the Republican Party have the guts necessary to win the midterms?

In an election, as in a trial, the outcome depends less on a weighing up of all the issues and more on which issues the electorate focuses on.  Succeed in getting the electorate to focus on the most positive achievement of one's own par...

June 26, 2018

Democrats rushing toward an electoral cliff

Am I missing something, or is the "fringe wing" of the Democratic Party (its now dominant wing) trying to take itself, and with it the whole party, off an electoral cliff? After reading the news over the last couple weeks, let me see if ...

March 13, 2018

The utter stupidity of California in one project

How else to account for the state's wondrous physical beauty and gentle climate, on the one hand, and its ludicrously irrational political majorities and execrable public officialdom, on the other?  God gave Yosemite Valley but then ...

March 4, 2018

One week of California crazy

Noted American scofflaw Libby Schaff, the mayor of Oakland,  will probably escape prosecution for deliberately impeding federal authorities’ efforts to apprehend and deport violent criminal illegals, as she insists, ludicrously, that she i...

June 19, 2017

Mueller's Real Mandate

The Washington D.C. nomenklatura advanced forward last week with its slow-moving coup d’état against America’s constitutionally elected President. But even after the federal bureaucracy’s further progress toward undoing t...

May 22, 2017

The Real Constitutional Crisis is the Appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller

Rod Rosenstein’s appointment of Robert Mueller to investigate wholly unsupported claims of “links and/or coordination between the Russian government and … the campaign of President Donald Trump” poses the most serious threat ...

January 17, 2017

Major media ignored or downplayed Trump’s meeting with MLK III

It would be challenging in the extreme to find a more telling example of major media corruption than the treatment of President-Elect Trump’s MLK Day meeting with Martin Luther King III, the slain civil rights leader’s son, a significant ...

November 8, 2016

What’s up with the RCP average?

Without getting conspiratorial, the RCP poll numbers from which the final RCP average (Clinton +2.9%) is derived give rise to two observations: First, two distinctly separate sets of polls make up the RCP final average, and the picture of the race...

November 7, 2016

The Incredible Shrinking NeverTrumps

It’s been a great pleasure to watch the massive return of ordinary Republican and conservative voters to the only man who can prevent eight more years of America’s rule by the poisonous, destructive and corrupt Democratic Left.  In s...

October 27, 2016

Propaganda polling proliferates to panic peasantry

Against mounting evidence of an extremely tight race nationally, and of noticeable recent movement toward Trump in multiple battleground states, America’s corporate media (“Goebbels/Pravda”) continues the Big Lie that Clinton i...

October 25, 2016

Polls and the media disinformation campaign

Their mission is clear: discourage Trump voters.  On the polling front, Goebbels/Pravda (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, the Washington Post, and NYT) continues its campaign of disinformation and discouragement. Don’t be taken in. On Sunday, Oct...

October 22, 2016

What’s going on with the polls?

Something funny is happening in the major national polling department of this presidential race, and no one’s talking about it. First, somehow the narrative seems to be developing that the polls show Clinton with a near insurmountable lead. ...

October 20, 2016

The stuff Hillary’s Dreams Are Made Of

Courtesy of what should be an explosive WikiLeaks disclosure we finally know Hillary Clinton’s fondest dream: An America without borders.  It was an amazing confession by Clinton to Brazilian bankers of what the Left desperately longs for ...

October 11, 2016

Trump and the Surrender Caucus of the GOP

Right now we are witnessing one of the reasons the Left is winning and the Right losing America. No Democratic Party president or presidential candidate in history has ever been subjected to, or will be subjected to, the kind of savage attempted a...

September 26, 2016

The Bush Betrayal

Rumor out of Texas has it that the elder Bush will vote for Hillary Clinton. No word of denial issues from Pater, Dubya or Jeb.   Thus, the fair minded conclude that this spectacularly unsuccessful one term President is not content with the m...

September 6, 2016

NeverTrumps and the End of America as We Know It

The election of Hillary Clinton would mean final defeat for American conservativism -- for at least a generation and almost certainly for much longer than that.  The demographic changes certain to flow from eight more years of open borders, gene...

August 8, 2016

Once again, Trump on defense

Last week, for the umpteenth time, the turncoat hound pack was baying around Donald Trump.  Charles Krauthammer, one of its lead dogs, on August 4 pronounced Trump unfit for the presidency because Trump dared to respond hard to a Muslim lawyer...

July 26, 2016

For Trump! Against the Disloyalists!

At last it’s beyond dispute: This time the Republican Party’s presidential nominee is someone chosen by full throated roar from its augmented voter base, not by the timid and failed leadership that’s gripped the Party since Reagan. ...

May 19, 2016

For Trump (and with enthusiasm)

The ongoing William Kristol/Mitt Romney cabal aimed at dredging up a kamikaze third party candidacy is in fact a murder/suicide pact that would destroy both Trump and the sacrificial candidate (and Romney/Kristol) while delivering the White House to ...

March 1, 2016

The End of the Bush Era

After Jeb’s emotional withdrawal from his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, the spavined Bush political dynasty, now quite officially, belongs to history.  The family’s run can be said to have lasted thirty-five ye...

February 20, 2016

The most confusing political year ever

Over the last few days, especially as the South Carolina primary neared, I've had the increasingly disorienting feeling that, like Alice, I've fallen through a hole and landed in a political world I can't comprehend....

January 25, 2016

What Democrats know (and National Review forgot)

National Review’s attempted destruction of Donald Trump’s candidacy is its worst mistake in the journal’s long history.  Whether it will result in the demise of the magazine – a significant part of Bill Buckley’s no...

December 18, 2015

Trump and the Hazards of Muslim Immigration

Donald Trump’s December 7 call for at least a temporary halt to all Muslim immigration to the United States reinforced his position as the presidential candidate most willing to ignore the stifling restrictions limiting American political disco...

August 31, 2015

Trump and the Fate of the GOP

Last week George Will joined David Harsanyi in pouring oceans of vitriol and contempt on Donald Trump and his supporters. Will's dismissal of Trump and those who cheer him on -- dripping arrogance and anger -- seems to be a spreading habit among ...

August 18, 2015

Trump showed how to speak truth on immigration; Now which GOP candidate will do the same on race?

In his August 17 monologue, Rush Limbaugh discussed Trump's spot-on immigration plan extensively, a plan that incorporates all three of the main points I summarized in my August 5 article, “Hard Truth for the GOP from its Base.” I can...

August 5, 2015

Hard Truth for the GOP from its Base

The failure of the Republican presidential field (with one notable exception) to stand with its own voters on the burning issue of our time -- mass uncontrolled and unresisted illegal immigration to America -- is one of the most infuriating examples ...

August 3, 2015

How the Left turned electoral rejection into triumph (and what Conservatives can learn from them)

We must finally acknowledge the scope of the damage that’s issued from attaching too much importance to electoral victories and too little to cultural losses.  Through this immense misassessment, conservatives, long America’s natural...

November 27, 2012

Reversing America's Decline

The ongoing and not-so-gradual loss of American Civilization is the result of two related phenomena: the invasion of our country from the southern border, and our elites' culture of self-loathing that oozed out of the noxious slime of the 60's. ...

November 26, 2012

The GOP's California Lesson

There's been much verbal hand wringing since the election about the Republican Party's alleged urgent need to modify its stance on amnesty -- this, it's argued, is the key to improving Republican  showing among Hispanic voters (Romney got about ...

September 26, 2012

Polls, if you must

Jay Cost today in The Weekly Standard should provide more than a little encouragement to conservatives who've prematurely taken to drink because of Romney's current alleged poll deficits. Cost's central point - and he is among the most prescient of p...

July 1, 2012

Krauthammer and Yoo may both be right about Roberts

Chief Justice Roberts' opinion was clearly motivated at least in part by a desire to protect the Court from partisan attacks and the concomitant erosion of the respect it enjoys, which is key to its power and influence. (Charles Krauthammer).  B...

January 3, 2012

Americans Elect: Obama's Third-Party Tar Pit

Anyone with the remotest interest in replacing Barack Obama as America's president in 2012 should take his eyes off Iowa and the boring ups and downs of the race for the Republican nomination. The real action that may well decide our next president i...

November 1, 2011

Romney's Missing Core

Mitt Romney, the MSM/Republican establishment's designated "front-runner," has failed utterly to connect with or win affection or trust from the over two-thirds of Republican primary voters who self-identify as conservative.  As a well-earned co...

October 27, 2011

The Premature Coronation of Romney

For the legacy media, Romney's nomination becomes a greater certainty every day, if indeed it was ever in doubt to them, and their drumbeat and trumpet flourishes for the politically androgynous former Massachusetts governor grow ever louder and more...

October 4, 2011

Christie Too Fat to Be President?

What a relief!  One of the nation's most sanctimonious, overrated, puerile, and irritating political commentators has finally announced his unqualified, immediate, and permanent retirement.  I refer, of course, to that walking embarrassment...

October 3, 2011

Electability and the Republican Field

If all the poorly articulated political and economic philosophy and the multiple contradictory and confusing major issue stands of George Herbert Walker Bush, Bob Dole, and John McCain were tossed into a blender, and the device were turned on high fo...

May 24, 2010

Is This Just a Nightmare, or Did It Really Happen?

Over the past week we witnessed presidential and congressional disloyalty without precedent in American history, events that should be indelibly imprinted on the American electorate's collective memory. For the first time (at least to this writer's k...