March 5, 2025

What Zelensky Didn’t Get

Seventy (70) years in the making, there was a multi-car crash in the Oval Office on February 28 with Ukraine’s president, Donald Trump, and J.D. Vance.  As with any multi-car pile-up, we cannot look away.  The Zelensky-Trump m...

January 17, 2025

Pam Bondi and the J6 Defendants

Pam Bondi’s first confirmation hearing will likely ensure her confirmation by the U.S. Senate, but one exchange on Wednesday created or added to a controversy among MAGA-supporters and especially the community of January 6 defendants along with...

July 24, 2022

Some Lessons from January 6 Committee Finale

So what did we learn from the final “cliffhanger” season finale of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the Capitol?  Of course, the cast hopes to be renewed for another season and promised to be “b...

July 15, 2022

A Proud Boy Challenges the Jan. 6 Committee

A previously unnoticed Proud Boys member, Robert Fussell, has shredded conspiracy theories about January 6 pushed by the House January 6 Select Committee and federal prosecutors Journalist Carter Walker of Pennsylvania’s Lancaster Online new...

June 20, 2022

House January 6 Committee Is Failing but Doesn't Know Why

It is widely seen that the U.S. House Select Committee about January 6 is falling flat.  See, e.g., Breitbart's article, "January 6 Committee's Third Hearing So Boring NBC Cut to Golf Instead."  (For golf to be more i...

June 12, 2022

January 6 House Committee repeats Trump ‘Stand by, Proud Boys’ myth

On June 9, the “Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol” of the U.S. House of Representatives held a rare evening hearing.  As predicted in the run up news leaks, the Committee repeated the myth that ...

May 11, 2022

Fact-Checker Fail: 2000 Mules vs. the media

In a familiar pattern, left-wing fact-checkers furiously try to hide the damning proof of election fraud in the 2020 election presented in Dinesh D'Souza's documentary 2000 Mules.  But those "fake checkers" clearly di...

April 19, 2022

What Elon Musk Could Do to Buy Twitter Despite Its 'Poison Pill'

Elon Musk sought to buy Twitter for $43 billion but was met with a “poison pill” plan from Twitter's board of directors, which looks dire for his prospects, but is really just some mildly spicy hot sauce.  Their “S...

March 13, 2022

Handling War in Ukraine

We must mourn the death of leadership in America. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy cautiously but brilliantly managed the United States — nay, the world — through the Cuban Missile Crisis on the brink of a nuclear World War III....

June 29, 2021

The Legal Lynch Mob Going After Trump

There has been an increasingly frenzied gusher of leaks from the offices of New York County’s District Attorney, Cyrus Vance, Jr., telling breathless journalists that the grand jury is about to indict The Trump Organization, maybe as early as n...

June 12, 2021

Is Climate Change 'Science'?

“Trust science, not the scientists.”  That is the essence of science.  That should be widely shared. Unfortunately, climate change advocates have completed the twisting of science (although this was well underway).  Science...

June 7, 2021

New York Prosecutors are Screaming at the Sky

Did leftists learn nothing from the adventures of Wile E. Coyote forever trying to catch the Roadrunner but always failing?  New York prosecutors under District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. have convened a grand jury to investigate The Trump O...

May 22, 2021

Can New York Arrest Donald Trump?

Leftists are fantasizing about Donald Trump being arrested, booked, and put on trial. Well, they are fantasizing about that…again. The New York State Attorney General’s investigation of the Trump Organization is now “no longer p...

May 1, 2021

Do We Know Earth’s Global Temperature?

The next target of mainstream media propaganda is to convince the public that human industry is causing climate change. CNN insiders boasted about that to James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas on hidden camera (after bragging about defeating Do...

February 20, 2021

Nikki Haley just got burned, playing the old establishment Republican game

Nikki Haley appears to have discarded her political career by faithfully following what establishment insiders and political "experts" have believed and taught for decades.  The former South Carolina governor and U.N. am...

February 9, 2021

Here's another reason the impeachment trial is unconstitutional

After American Thinker queued up my "Impeachment Trial Preview" for publication on its busy pages, even more novel questions tumbled out, if one can believe it, about the second impeachment trial of former president Donald John Trump. ...

February 6, 2021

What to Expect from Trump's Upcoming Impeachment Trial

The U.S. Senate is scheduled to begin a trial on impeachment of Donald J. Trump officially announced for "the week of" February 8.  According to C-SPAN, that means 1:00 P.M. EST on February 9, 2021.  C-SPAN allows you to...

January 27, 2021

The Senate Cannot Impeach Donald Trump

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has delivered Articles of Impeachment of Donald J. Trump and the appointment of Impeachment Managers to the U.S. Senate on January 25.  The Senate cannot legally hold a trial on impeachment of a President or oth...

January 18, 2021

Republican-Governed States Can Stop Social Media Censorship

Social media censorship can be stopped immediately by states controlled by Republicans (meaning both legislative chambers and the governor).   Here’s how, from an attorney. Legislation has been introduced in the North Dakota legisl...

December 7, 2020

The Supreme Court vs. Pennsylvania

The U.S. Constitution was directly violated in the presidential election in Pennsylvania and half a dozen states. A new friend of the court brief filed last Thursday explains in the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of Joseph B. Scarnati v. Pennsy...

November 26, 2020

The Christian Covenant of Plymouth Rock

North America was dedicated to Jesus Christ when the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.  That covenant with Jesus Christ endures today.  God will not forget when we hold to His promises. December 21, 1620, is an important date for Christi...

September 30, 2020

Fact-checking Biden: Did Trump lie to the American people about COVID?

See also: Cleveland Brawl: First Presidential Debate Was a Cage Fight; Two crucial things that emerged from the first presidential debate Tuesday's debate for the 2020 presidential election between President Donald Trump and former vice presid...

August 1, 2020

Orange Man Bad? Democrats Worse

For years, #NeverTrump activists were pushing the challenge to Trump supporters on social media:  “Is there anything that Trump could do that would cause you to stop supporting him?”  It was one of the primary “Orange Man ...

July 20, 2020

Republicans Led the Way on Civil Rights

The Republican Party was founded largely to fulfill the promise of the Declaration of Independence that “All Men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.”  Republicans cannot represent who we...

June 6, 2020

Michael Flynn Prosecution Turned on Logan Act Hoax

The FBI and the DoJ have very reluctantly revealed more and more information about how the Obama administration conspired to subvert democratic elections.  Recent bombshell documents prove that President Barack Obama was directly involved in the...

May 26, 2020

Drive-through voting would reduce cheating

According to Democrats, everyone will now need to vote by mail this fall.  They argue that traditional voting — standing in lines at libraries and schools — will cause a contagious outbreak or at least force voters to choose bet...

May 23, 2020

Coronavirus Basics Too Many People Never Learned

As a nation and a society, we found ourselves not fully prepared for the sudden global pandemic of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.  One of many ways that our society is struggling to keep up is for the public to understand basic ...

April 30, 2020

C-SPAN posting inaccurate transcripts of Trump briefings -Updated

C-SPAN is publishing inaccurate transcripts of President Donald Trump's remarks during the vitally important national coronavirus task force daily briefings.  Yes, really. So Trump is being falsely attacked for what Trump never said (a...

March 9, 2020

What Is Earth's Temperature, Now or Then?

Is Planet Earth warming, cooling, or staying the same?  I often challenge advocates for climate alarmism: what is the temperature of the planet today?  Or we can use any specific day in recent years for which data are available. W...

November 1, 2019

Quid pro faux: Trump impeachment legally fails

Impeaching President Donald Trump is legally flawed. The chief law enforcement officer of the United States of America requested that Ukraine assist our attorney general in investigating possible criminal activity in 2014 through 2016.  ...

September 25, 2019

Carbon Dioxide Known Only Since 1930

Thousands of children skipped school last week to march in the streets and demand government action about the hypothetical threat that human industrial activity will change the Earth's climate.  It would have been better if the students had ...

June 12, 2019

John Dean Blows Hole in Democrats' Impeachment Push

John Dean, notorious from the Watergate scandals of the Nixon Administration, blew a hole in the bottom of the Democrats’ boat in his much-anticipated testimony on June 10, 2019. It happened around time 6:11 PM EST after about four hours of ...

April 10, 2019

Joe Biden Is Not Moderate. He's Far, Far Left.

Joe Biden is the frontrunner for the Democrat Party nomination for president of the United States in the 2020 presidential election.  Out of a field of eighteen Democrat candidates so far, Biden is polling at between 26 percent and 33 perce...

April 1, 2019

The Latest Scheme to Turn Gun Owners into Criminals

Gun-owners, they are coming: on March 21, a Fredericksburg man was prosecuted and convicted of the misdemeanor crime of merely holding a B.B. gun in public.  I know because I was in the trial, as the attorney defending Mr. Wolff. The Sec...

February 12, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 'Reconquistador!'

Last week's most overlooked news was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealing herself as a champion of the "Reconquista" war against Europeans.  The Mexican Reconquista movement is an openly admitted effort by Hispanic activists to take ...

February 10, 2019

We Built the 2006-2007 Wall: 'Over 100 Miles in 90 Days'

"We built over 100 miles in only 90 days," explains James Bonk.  Bonk was a consultant and manager among the team of companies who in 2006-2008 built and extended much of the border wall that already exists today along the USA...

February 4, 2019

Texas Can Get Trump's Border Wall Accomplished

  Texas can make a border wall happen.  Many worry that courts will block President Donald Trump from building a border wall with funds reprogrammed from other projects under a declaration of an emergency.  However, Texas is in the ...

January 30, 2019

Can You Be a 'Scientist' but Reject the Scientific Method?

As reported in Politico on January 27, climate activists at the American Meteorological Society’s annual meeting in January in Phoenix, Arizona admitted they are failing to persuade the American people of the threat of global warming. ...

December 6, 2018

Jerome Corsi Challenges Robert Mueller

After weeks of talking with Special Counsel Robert Mueller about Donald Trump's supposed collusion with Russia, Dr. Jerome Corsi instead filed his own criminal complaint through attorney and former federal prosecutor Larry Klayman on De...

November 4, 2018

Is It Legal for Trump to Use the Army at the Border?

It is absurd to claim that our military cannot defend our borders.  Yet "That is illegal!" shout internationalists who never wanted our U.S. border protected anyway.  Activists proclaim that the U.S. military is crippled under an ...

January 19, 2018

Bannon's Refusal to Testify

During ten hours of questioning by the House Intelligence Committee, on the instructions of the Trump White House, Steve Bannon refused to testify about his work for the Trump administration and the Trump transition team.  But the leak...

January 21, 2015

Obama proposes law that already exists

President Barack Obama shamed Congress in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night to pass legislation that already exists.  Apparently not briefed by his secretary of labor and attorney general, Obama announced: That's why this ...

September 15, 2014

The Oceans Ate Global Warming?

In Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, Alice says she cannot believe impossible things. The Queen of Hearts is surprised: “When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six ...

August 13, 2014

The Facebook Factor in the GOP's Battle to Take the Senate

Politically active liberal Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook is now blocking Republican candidates from his social media website Facebook in the GOP’s bid to retake control of the U.S. Senate in November.  Facebook deleted late Monday night...

July 26, 2014

Rick Perry Too Timid with the National Guard?

The American people cheered – starved for any crumb of leadership and faithfulness to constitutional duties – at the news of Governor Rick Perry calling out the Texas National Guard to patrol the Texas-Mexican border.  Then, within t...

July 24, 2014

They're Not Refugees

Update: See correction below: The unaccompanied children flooding our southern border are not refugees and do not qualify for asylum under U.S. law or international law. It is worth noting that border patrol agents are telling reporters that th...

July 21, 2014

Faulty and False Global Temperature Readings

Temperature measurements that are the basis for claims of global warming are defective and wrong.  That’s the finding of a scientific team led by Anthony Watts.  Watts is a meteorologist, editor of “Watts Up With That,” fo...

July 14, 2014

Could Boehner Enforce Lawsuit Against Obama?

John Boehner, as Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, proposes to file a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s violations of the U.S. Constitution by (a) exceeding his authority as president and (b) modifying and igno...

July 14, 2014

Delaware Expands Republican Party's Battle for U.S. Senate

Delaware just expanded the battle front in Republicans’ national campaign to take control of the U.S. Senate.  Delaware now offers one more state where Republicans could chip away at the Democrats’ majority in November.  At the ...

July 8, 2014

Boehner's Brilliant Lawsuit

John Boehner’s plan, in which he proposes to sue President Barack Obama for violating the Constitutional role of the presidency, is important and brilliant. I am an attorney, with a keen interest in both politics and law. I have read ...

June 27, 2014

Iraq Crisis Solved by Col. John Warden

The crisis in Iraq can be easily resolved – even now – with wise use of very limited U.S. military power and actions by allies.  The first step is to call Col. John Warden (USAF – Ret.) to come back in from retirement as a cons...

June 25, 2014

Delaware's US Senate Race May Draw A GOP Challenger After All

In the national Republican bid to win the United States Senate, no Republican is running in Delaware for the Senate seat held by Democrat Chris Coons. Chris Coons famously defeated Christine O'Donnell on November 2, 2010, for the final 4 years of...

May 22, 2014

Tea Party Continues Winning

Yes, you heard that right.  The tea party is (still) winning, even during and after this year’s 2014 Republican primary season.  The tea party is not a political party. It never has been. The tea party never set as its goal de...

May 7, 2014

NSA Metadata Snooping Challenged

Oops, your metadata is showing.  Is the Government violating your Constitutional rights by intercepting your “metadata” without a warrant?  The Government is collecting information about your phone calls, text messages, and emai...

May 5, 2014

Tuesday, May 6: Boehner Rebuke Hoped By Tea Party

This Tuesday, May 6 is the Republican primary election in Ohio, North Carolina, and Indiana . Tea party and conservative groups are hoping to hand GOP leaders like John Boehner a rebuke. Their goal is to scare the establishment to straighten up and f...

April 18, 2014

Historical Anti-Semitism and Christian Heresy

For centuries, anti-Semitism and racism have gained support from perverse counterfeits of Christianity. One heresy which warps the Gospel gained momentum under English King Henry VIII.  Many race-based heresies have been stimulated by this ...

April 11, 2014

GOP Must Re-Learn Campaign Techniques

Republican insiders don’t actually know how to run successful political campaigns.  But conservatives don’t know how to run campaigns effectively, either.   The two sides need to stop accusing each other, and start (re)lear...

April 1, 2014

The IRS Digs in its Heels

It could take years for Congressional committees to get all the documents demanded about the IRS scandal under mandatory subpoenas, IRS’ new Commissioner John Koskinen testified. The new IRS Commissioner displayed the slippery style of a s...

March 27, 2014

No, Don't Ban the Bossy

“Ban the Bossy", a campaign overseen by former Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, is the new feminist push.  The implication of the “Ban the Bossy” campaign is that girls and women are getting criticized be...

March 13, 2014

The IRS: Deliberate and Partisan

We now know that Obama Administration actions were intentional and partisan when the Internal Revenue Service targeted, harmed, and intimidated conservative and tea party organizations. Keep in mind the timetable while reading this – that ...

March 10, 2014

In IRS Scandal, Begging Is Not an Action Plan

One of the Articles of Impeachment drawn up against Richard Nixon was merely threatening to use the Internal Revenue Service to selectively audit political opponents.  Don’t let anyone forget that.  Today, IRS officials should go to j...

February 24, 2014

Amnesty: Not Just for Low-Skilled Workers?

Amnesty is being driven, among others, by big businesses claiming they cannot hire enough high-tech professionals.  These are (or posture as) major donors to members of Congress.  So these businesses are twisting arms on Capitol H...

February 7, 2014

Targeting the IRS

What should conservatives do next about the Orwellian intimidation of political opponents using the IRS? Here is a partial action plan. Lawyers for targeted tea party groups are hurling marshmallows at one of the most shocking abuses of power in our...

January 13, 2014

Lou Dobbs Drinks the Insider Kool-Aid

Lou Dobbs, business anchor, offers a lot of truly excellent and a little really atrocious advice to the Republican Party in his new book Upheaval, released on January 7, which he discussed in his January 6 broadcast "Steps to creating a winning elect...

December 29, 2013

Jesus was Middle Class

Bill O'Reilly's recent book Killing Jesus reflects a traditional stereotype that everyone in the Gospel story was poor. Among many historically inaccuracies, O'Reilly writes in his Chapter 5 that fish and red meat would be rare in Jesus' diet in Naza...

December 12, 2013

Charity by Force: Jesus vs. Marx

It is fascinating that the recent debate over poverty, starring Rush Limbaugh and Pope Francis (maybe, translations subject to disagreement) reveals one central dispute: (a) compulsory "charity" by government force, on the left, versus (b) the freedo...

December 8, 2013

What is a Capitalist?

Are you for or against capitalism? Doesn't that depend on how you define it? If any reader of this publication believed capitalism were an evil, greedy, law-breaking corruption of society, similar to abuses in Pope Francis's native Argentin...

November 14, 2013

Barack Obama, Low Information President

President Barack Obama is the perfect "Low Information President." He is not really interested very much in doing his job. He doesn't know anything going on in his own administration. He is always the last to know. He learns important developments on...

November 12, 2013

A 2014 U.S. Senate Run for Ken Cuccinelli?

Virginia Republicans may have a strong candidate for the 2014 US Senate seat in Ken Cuccinelli. As reported in the Daily Caller, conservative writer and Congressional candidate Quin Hillyer gives voice to a movement to draft Ken to run against i...

November 6, 2013

Government Computer Failures are Normal

How could the U.S. Government make such a mess of the roll-out of the website for ObamaCare?  Actually, government computer systems incompetence is normal.  The reaction to www.HealthCare.gov presupposes that our government normally does th...

November 3, 2013

How Ted Cruz Won the Shutdown Drama

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and his Republican colleagues won the shutdown drama in October.  However, the effects are still gradually rippling through the electorate.  And the full results will depend upon Republicans understanding t...

October 10, 2013

Is Obama's Shutdown War on Private Business Illegal Racketeering?

Has President Barack Obama violated the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations ("RICO") Act with his hardball tactics over the government shutdown, to extort taxpayer funds? "We've been told to make life as difficult for people as we can," a...

August 6, 2013

Amnesty Driven by Voodoo Economics

Voices calling for amnesty do not really understand economics or free enterprise. They offer garbled misconceptions -- with graphs. But they would be kicked out of the economics courses I took in business school. The pro-amnesty camp argues from "voo...

July 22, 2013

The IRS Intervened in Tea Party Elections

Did the IRS intervene in Federal election campaigns for Congress? According to the Washington Times, U.S. Treasury investigative special agent Dennis Martel has uncovered a new example of political abuse.  On March 9, 2010, Christine O'D...

July 15, 2013

Right of Self Defense 1, Obama 0

Destroying the Second Amendment and the people's right of self-defense was the real goal of the George Zimmerman prosecution. Liberals hoped to scare gun owners, regardless of the eventual verdict. Traumatizing and intimidating people from using a fi...

July 15, 2013

Blacks March to Oppose Amnesty

To save jobs in the Black community, Black Americans will march against amnesty for illegal aliens on July 15 in Washington, D.C. Buses are traveling from all over the U.S., as far away as from Florida in the South and from California in the West. Am...

July 10, 2013

Zimmerman's Pointless Trial

George Zimmerman will be found not guilty if his attorney connects the dots in his closing argument and the jury is fair. Then the professional race-baiters can go to work spreading disharmony. The trial concerns whether Hispanic (Peruvian) Zimmerman...

July 6, 2013

Real Americans Don't Trust the Government

"Question Authority" was a dominant political theme in the '60s and 70s We're talking about the 1760s and the 1770s, of course -- the American Revolution. Well, sure, the 1960s and the 1970s, too. But our country was founded on the idea "Question Aut...

July 5, 2013

Is Marco Rubio the New Charlie Crist?

Has Marco Rubio become the new Charlie Crist moderate Republican, angering conservatives to please GOP elites and liberal reporters? Thinking people start to wonder: Does Mexico have some scandalous photographs of Marco Rubio as a young man in its ba...

July 2, 2013

Is Obama a Victim of Self-Esteem Education?

I never understood Barack Obama -- or even some of my friends -- until I read The Amateur by Edward Klein (Regnery Publishing 2012 -- paperback June 13, 2013). But first you also need to remember the plague of "self-esteem" based education. And fina...

June 24, 2013

Border Security Promises Can Be Canceled

One more scam in the "Gang of Eight" immigration reform bill needs to be exposed and understood by the public, congressmen, reporters, and opinion leaders: any of the promises to secure our national borders can be canceled later by a Congress in the ...

June 20, 2013

Will the Real Traitor Please Stand Up?

Okay, who is the real traitor? Is Edward Snowden a heroic whistleblower or a traitor? Well, maybe Snowden is a bit of both. He is both a hero and a traitor, arising from different aspects of his dramatic actions. Snowden was a computer whiz and forme...

June 17, 2013

The False Excuse of National Security

Fighting terrorism? Don't be a chump. Excuses usually trade on something very important and genuine. But what is truly important can be abused, precisely because it should impress us. Government tries to fool us with phony excuses to do whatever ...

June 5, 2013

Should Congress Impeach Eric Holder?

Eric Holder -- Obama's Attorney General -- should be impeached by the Republican House of Representatives. Without a doubt, Holder's obvious perjury in lying to Congress is the most serious offense. But to understand one of Holder's underlying offens...

May 31, 2013

The Spending Cuts that Never Were

So the sequester has threatened public safety? What about thosee cuts in air traffic control? In truth, the Federal budget increased by 107% since 1996 for air traffic controllers within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) even though domestic...

May 29, 2013

Black Conservative Attacks Abortion, Dems Faint Dead Away

Journalists and Democrats have designated a new Republican scandal: Bishop Earl W. Jackson "compared" Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan. On May 18, Jackson became the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia in this November's 201...

May 25, 2013

U.S. Military: We Could Have Saved Ambassador Stevens

Elite U.S. troops were completely capable of saving Ambassador Chris Stevens during the Benghazi Consulate attacks on September 11, 2012.  Elements of the highly specialized Combatant Commanders In-Extremis (CIF) units are always on alert, on fo...

May 21, 2013

Virginia GOP Nominates Conservative Slate

Virginia Republicans nominated a conservative ticket for the November 2013 Virginia elections on Saturday, May 18, 2013. The Virginia GOP snubbed the unwelcome advice of Karl Rove urging Republicans across the country to nominate uninspiring moderate...

May 18, 2013

The IRS Scandal -- a Basic Primer

Confusion about the IRS scandal is distracting from its importance, so that thinking conservatives should be prepared to debate the issue. Some basics matter. Conservatives may need to share a summary such as this article to help convince moderate fr...

May 14, 2013

Debating the Heritage Foundation's Immigration Study

Two radically different theories are raging across the conservative movement about amnesty for illegal aliens and its effect on our economy.  How could the same movement grounded on the same conceptual principles come to two totally different co...

May 10, 2013

What the Hearings Mean

"Obama never tried, U.S. diplomats died." Shocking lies by the Obama Administration over Benghazi were unmasked on May 8. Testimony about the September 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Libya were heard by the House Committee on Oversight...

May 8, 2013

Amnesty and the Economy

On May 6, Heritage released its study calculating a $6.3 trillion price tag for the "Gang of Eight" immigration proposal. Amnesty promoters recall that a similar study by Heritage blocked amnesty in 2007. To implement the Gang of Eight's "Mariel Boa...

April 15, 2013

Gun Control Derangement Syndrome

Activists pushing for gun control are peddling contradictions and strange logic. Will the ATF's "No Buy" list be any more accurate than TSA's "No Fly" list? If lists are not accurate or meaningful, background checks won't succeed. Senators Pat Toome...

April 9, 2013

The Warmist Crisis

The Warmist conspiracy has reached a critical point, with doubters in the establishment speaking out. One of Sweden's top climatologists now admits global temperatures have barely changed (translated from Swedish):  "The Earth appears to have co...

April 4, 2013

The Coming Global Warming Voter Backlash

News is breaking out all over: global warming stopped 20 years ago. A political earthquake has resulted from a feature story in the Economist magazine because the Economist used to be a consistent cheerleader for global warming activism.  Doub...

April 1, 2013

Global Warming? Oops! Never Mind!

What was the Earth's temperature yesterday?  Nobody knows.  In fact, it's a ridiculous question.  Almost every place on Earth today has a different temperature from that of any other location.  So, is our planet's temperature risi...

March 29, 2013

Legislating from the Bench on Gay Marriage

A political legislature known as the U.S. Supreme Court held a purely-legislative hearing about homosexual marriage on March 26. The hearing debated raw policy preferences and speculated about benefits for and against homosexual marriage. To anyone t...

March 20, 2013

Priebus's GOP Autopsy Misses the Point

The Republican Party is violating time-tested, basic principles of sales and marketing. That's why the GOP is failing to communicate its messages. On Monday, the Republican National Committee released a massive reform strategy, whimsically labeled an...

March 19, 2013

Outsourcing the Poor

Pope Francis offers cause for both liberals and conservatives -- especially in secular politics -- to claim him as their own yet also to worry that the Vatican may stray in the 'wrong' direction under his leadership. The accession of Argentine Cardin...

March 13, 2013

What did Rand Paul's Filibuster Mean?

When U.S. Senators are called "Whacko-birds" by Senator John McCain, you really want to know what is going on. What was this big Rand Paul/Ted Cruz filibuster all about last Wednesday? First, no, it was not about drones -- not primarily. It was abou...

March 8, 2013

Rand Paul Shifts Political Orbit

The political world changed its orbit Wednesday as Rand Paul seized the spotlight in his March 6 filibuster. Rand Paul -- not this author's favorite before -- is probably now the 2016 front-runner for president. But the difference results from fundam...

March 7, 2013

Will Ashley Judd be Kentucky's Obama?

Republicans must win the U.S. Senate in 2014. Yet Democrats are hoping Ashley Judd can appeal to the same shallow voters who re-elected Barack Obama. Judd is only 9 percentage points behind Mitch McConnell, according to a Republican polling firm Harp...

February 4, 2013

Amnesty = Extinction

On January 28, 2013, a group of Republicans in Congress decided to close down the Republican Party. Their "going out of business sale" involves converting an estimated 12 to 20 million trespassing illegal aliens into solidly-Democrat voters. Republic...

January 17, 2013

The Debt Ceiling has Teeth

President Obama should violate the debt ceiling, Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats are urging. Force Republicans to sue in court. Democrats are already violating legal requirements to pass a national budget each year. Republicans would lose even more ...

January 13, 2013

It's the Waste, Stupid!

Conservatives are forgetting their most important lever: Voters logically must support raising taxes if they believe that every dollar of Federal spending is needed. But if some spending is unnecessary, cutting spending is correct. America is divided...

January 5, 2013

Obama and the Debt Ceiling

The debt ceiling is the last leverage that Republicans have to prevent out-of-control Federal spending and on various policy issues. Liberals know this: even as Senate Democrats talk of ending the right of Republicans to filibuster, liberals are seek...

January 2, 2013

The Real Country-Killer in 2013

Never mind the "fiscal cliff."  America went bankrupt, technically, at midnight on December 31, 2012.  We hit the debt ceiling of $16.394 trillion.  Yet the U.S. government needs to borrow more money than is legally allowed.  So T...

December 24, 2012

The Madness of Keynesian Economics

President Barack Obama demands more stimulus spending to avoid the "fiscal cliff."   Obama increased the national debt $6 trillion to $16 trillion.  Yet the Democrats' 'cure for what ails ya' is even more spending.   Obama de...