May 28, 2018

Let’s 'tax the poor,' says former Mayor Bloomberg

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of America's richest billionaires, now wants to heavily tax poor people. His fondness for taxes – on cigarettes and other things – premised on the idea that such taxes will keep the...

May 14, 2018

Why Obama's Iran deal got Trumped

President Donald Trump's decision to terminate President Barack Obama's Iran deal, said Mr. Obama – a self-described globalist "citizen of the world" – "is a serious mistake." Two former directors ...

May 7, 2018

The 'fundamental transformation' of the Democratic Party

Hillary Clinton's latest excuse for losing the 2016 election is that she is a "capitalist" while "41 percent of Democrats are socialists." Sadly, after her closest approach yet to truth, no journalist asked the ob...

May 3, 2018

Redefining Humankind: The Left's Quest for a Head Tax on Robots

As God cast Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, He told Adam that henceforth, "through painful toil ... [and] the sweat of your brow you will eat your food." Socialists and scientists now declare that a new Eden, a Heaven on Earth, i...

April 25, 2018

Welcome to the Class War

In the Great Class War between the "rich" and the government, whose side are you on? This week, MarketWatch reported that by 2030, "the richest 1%" are on track to "control nearly 66% of the world's mone...

April 20, 2018

The End of Castro's Cuba

Cuba once was among the most prosperous nations in the Western Hemisphere, before Fidel Castro overthrew its government in 1959 and replaced capitalism with a communist dictatorship that turned this beautiful Caribbean island poor, with an average mo...

April 12, 2018

How a 'Cashless' America Could Become 'Gunless'

The United States is quickly turning "cashless," buying most things from automobiles to hamburgers via bank loans and credit cards.  Americans carry more than a trillion dollars on such "debt cards."  Banks for...

April 3, 2018

We need more warning labels

Coffee should carry a warning label that it might cause cancer.  So ruled a California judge in late March 2018. Some may scoff at this, noting that the main risk scientists have found is a trace chemical in roasted coffee that might cau...

April 2, 2018

California’'s illegal alien voting law is secession

On April 12, 1861, the Confederacy opened fire on Fort Sumter, igniting a civil war that before its end killed more than 800,000 Americans. Mark the date April 1, 2018, April Fool's Day, as the day Civil War 2.0 began.  On that day, ...

March 26, 2018

Gunning for religion

Much of what he saw was expected at Saturday's March for Our Lives protests, writes Jarrett Stepman of the Heritage Foundation.  The politics and organizers were predictably "left-wing," and their aim was not so much...

March 5, 2018

Democrats try to reshape, not persuade, the electorate

In 1812, Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry tried rigging elections by redrawing district boundaries so his Democratic-Republican Party (the forerunner of today's Democratic Party) would win more seats.  One such district was shaped ...

February 26, 2018

Will the Supreme Court defund the Democrats?

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical," wrote Thomas Jefferson in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. This will be a central issue this we...

February 16, 2018

Time to disarm certain mentally ill people

In the wake of the Florida school gunman's killing of at least 17 victims, it is time we took violent mental illness seriously.  It is time to crack down on those sick people who have threatened to attack or kill conservative office-hol...

November 17, 2017

The Democrats' dilemma

Democrats paid a high price for saving Bill Clinton in 1999 after he became the first elected president impeached in American history.  (Andrew Johnson was elected as vice president, becoming president after Abraham Lincoln's assassination.)...

November 6, 2017

The left's failed civil war

Saturday, November 4 was supposed to be the beginning of mass protests against President Donald Trump that every day would put "tens of thousands of people" into the streets and create "a political crisis in the country" to r...

November 3, 2017

Brazile discredits the 'democratic' pretensions of her party

Few were surprised by Donna Brazile's admission that Hillary Clinton had taken control of the Democratic Party and rigged its processes beginning more than a year before the party nominated Clinton as 2016 standard-bearer and defeated her more po...

October 30, 2017

China's opiate war?

See correction at the end of this article. President Donald Trump this week begins an Asia trip to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, and the Philippines, a major topic of which will be the risk of war with North Korea.  Will he also acknowl...

October 23, 2017

Did US troops die in Niger protecting French and Chinese uranium?

America was surprised when U.S. troops in Niger were ambushed, with four killed, on October 4.  Why are more than 1,000 U.S. soldiers in this desolate region of western Africa, in one of the world's least developed nations? According to S...

October 20, 2017

The real reason Hollywood is gunning for the NRA

Actor Alec Baldwin and California lieutenant governor Gavin Newsom have helped launch a crusade to win an Oscar for the documentary Making A Killing: Guns, Greed And the NRA.  Their reasons in this case may go beyond the predictable liberal virt...

October 18, 2017

Where the Russian uranium scandal might lead

Before the Obama administration approved Russia's acquisition of more than 20 percent of America's uranium supply, the Federal Bureau of Investigation found Russian racketeering involved. This shocking news is in a must-read investigation ...

October 15, 2017

Liberal mind control? The secret methods of Democrat politics

Most people do not know that Barack Obama had a kind of "Office of Thought Control" and team of mind manipulation experts in his White House.  And most know nothing of the sinister techniques Mr. Obama and his Progressive comrades used...

October 10, 2017

Dems laundering Weinstein's money

In 1950, Jimmy Stewart co-starred in the movie Harvey with an invisible character of that name, a 6'3.5" tall pooka, a harmless but mischievous Celtic mythic creature. Half a century later, filmmakers from Steven Spielberg to Harvey Weins...

September 25, 2017

Is it time for racial equality in pro sports?

The fat was in the fire last week, after Golden State Warriors basketball star Stephen Curry refused to visit the White House with his successful team, and President Donald Trump suggested that those professional athletes who refuse to stand during t...

July 1, 2017

Is Donald Trump killing romance?

“What I’m looking for… first and foremost [is] someone who did not vote for Trump,” said one of many profiles on today’s computer dating sites, according to Sacramento Bee reporter Angela Hart. She sees this as evidence...