August 1, 2016

Chuck Todd employs Clinton talking points against Trump

I know it’s getting a little tired to point out media bias, but in the case of Chuck Todd, well, he holds a special place in the pantheon of biased and corrupt broadcasters.  His taking over of Meet the Press was a disappointment.  To...

July 25, 2016

A novel excuse for Islamic terrorism in Munich

The German media is just as leftist and ridiculous as ours, and this has been further evidenced by the response to the latest shooting in Munich.  Predictably, the shooting by the 18-year-old “Iranian-German” of nine Germans outside ...

July 22, 2016

Hillary’s Management Style: Insufferable Female Boss

Have you ever had a crazy boss who just happened to be a woman?   Someone who micromanages, lashes out uncontrollably, and is just simply unpleasant?  God forbid our country should be on the verge of getting such a boss.  Hillary ...

July 9, 2016

An exciting opportunity for Mexican nationals to return home

Some good news on the immigration front: the Mexican government is encouraging Mexican nationals in America to return to Mexico and receive full benefits.  The report includes the dubious assertion from the government that there are now more Mex...

May 15, 2016

New York Times Exposé on Trump!

Breaking news: there has been an incredible exposé in the New York Times that Donald Trump likes pretty women. In the article, “Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved with Women in Private,” we learn that he has even shown a p...

May 13, 2016

The Taco Bowl Peace Gesture

When it comes to appeasing certain victim groups, it’s truly a no-win situation.  This Donald Trump learned in an innocent attempt to make a nod to the Hispanic community – eating a taco bowl on Cinco de Mayo and tweeting out the pic...

December 7, 2015

Terrorism and the Multiculturalism Experiment

An ordinary citizen, in light of recent events, might step back and ask a George W. Bush-esque question: who is with us, and who is against us?  This should be asked not to the world, but to our own countrymen.  That this even needs to be a...

June 18, 2015

Bush's minority outreach fail

Jeb Bush’s failure to appeal to minority voters is already apparent.  Has he not “shown his heart” enough?  Maybe he just needs to show his heart a little more and they’ll come around.  A Wall Street Journal/NBC...

May 24, 2015

Taking Trump Seriously

Are you not eagerly anticipating Donald Trump’s announcement about whether he will run for president?  This is a serious question, despite all the mockery that is aimed at the real estate mogul.  Skepticism about his potential candida...

May 9, 2015

The British election according to Katty Kay

The leftism of Katty Kay is insidious.  Kay, lead anchor of the BBC and sometime guest on American political shows like Meet the Press, has been long accustomed to giving her unsolicited prognosticating on our affairs to the American public....

April 7, 2015

<em>Killing Jesus</em> Defies Expectations

Killing Jesus, a film adaptation of Bill O’Reilly’s book, is not at all what you would expect. The film, which is the most watched program ever on National Geographic, has a novel take on Biblical events. Here Jesus is more tentative...

April 3, 2015

The Hispanic Media and Republicans

Like a lot of people, I find the conventional wisdom about how Republicans need to appeal to minorities to be extremely naïve, and frankly, hopeless. Case in point: the Spanish speaking media. Univision’s number one concern is amnesty...

February 25, 2015

The Common Core: Something to Like and Loathe

There’s a lot of hyperbole surrounding the Common Core, whether it’s teachers unions bellyaching about tests, or those on the right warning of subterfuge socialist agendas. And then there are more establishment types like Jeb Bush and for...

November 19, 2014

Leftist Media against Amnesty?

... at least to an extent, anyway.  The leftist media does seem to be coming out against executive amnesty.  As AT publisher Thomas Lifson notes, this occurred in the New York Times, which pointed to Obama’s own prior disavowal o...

November 14, 2014

Brian Williams on Ferguson

On NBC News Monday night, the venerable Brian Williams gave us an update on the “white police officer who shot an unarmed black man” (gee, that’s not loaded language, is it?).  “The problem,” according to Williams, ...

October 25, 2014

Scott Brown debates Sen. Shaheen <em>and</em> Wolf Blitzer

It’s de ja vu all over again.  We all remember screaming at our TV sets when Candy Crowley seemed to join the Barack Obama debate team against Mitt Romney, speciously claiming that Obama had in fact called the Benghazi attack “terror...

March 24, 2014

Mayor Nutter in Need of Dictionary

Mayor Michael Nutter apparently does not know what “anecdotal” means.  How does someone this ignorant get elected to govern a major northeastern city?  Draw your own conclusions. The issue at hand was whether ObamaCare i...

February 3, 2014

NEA Warns Against 'Micro-Aggression'

It's official: political correctness has achieved levels of self-parody. This becomes clear as the "micro-aggression" reaches the common parlance of the eternally offended. The NEA (the National Educators Association) has a column in their winte...

January 30, 2014

Theology vs. Spin

As the cliché goes, people are free to do what they want in their bedrooms.  But people are not free to alter theological history in order to generate the best possible spin for their political causes. Everyone knows that the Old Testament is ...

December 23, 2013

Jon Stewart's Tortured Logic

I'm not one given to hyperbole when it comes to politics, so I don't make statements like "liberals are liars" and such. But I'm starting to wonder. There's really nothing to add to the analysis which has appeared in various conservative outlets as t...

November 10, 2013

In Defense of Normal

One of the dumbest notions brought to you by the politically correct disciples is that "there is no normal." The purpose, I suspect, is to make sure no fragile American is ever marginalized and made to feel the slightest bit uncomfortable.  A wo...

January 6, 2013

The Hobbit as Metaphor

These days one may as well lose touch with reality in favor of Middle Earth. Exasperated by the ambiguities and uncertainties of the modern world, paralyzed by our helplessness to effect change in a broken political system, we yearn instead for a wor...

July 1, 2012

What Chomsky Got Right

It is well-trodden ground to expound upon the liberal dogmatism of academia and the media.  What is less commonly known, though, is that none other than Noam Chomsky identified this dogmatism before most conservatives began to describe it. It wa...

May 10, 2012

Does 'Gay Marriage' Equal 'Gay Rights'?

Though North Carolinians are clearly not on board, public opinion has grown favorable to gay marriage to the point that Obama has seen fit to jump in with both feet, announcing his unequivocal support. What courage! But how did we get here? The incre...

May 1, 2012

Low Class all Around

The President may not have personally approved Jimmy Kimmel's shtick for the White House Correspondence Dinner beforehand, but he seemed to indicate approval by his positive reaction to even the raunchiest moments of the night.   Kimmel's "video...

April 6, 2012

Mitt Romney, Antihero

The presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney seems at first glance a lightening rod of un-enthusiasm, a man who is provocative for being unprovocative.   This is of course a media-created illusion.  In fact, Romney has the liberal media qua...

March 24, 2012

Bradbury's America

In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the firemen's sole job it is to burn books.  Not just contraband books, but all books.  Today, we have our own firemen to metaphorically burn speech, massive flamethrowers in tow.  Anything that might ...

February 26, 2012

Meet the Deaf

At the risk of stating the obvious, David Gregory is just not doing a good job preserving the pretense that Meet the Press is an austere and objective news program.  We all know that Fox News Sunday skews Republican a bit, but Gregory seem...

February 5, 2012

A Linguistic Ghetto?

Back in 2007, Newt Gingrich made a remark that everyone should learn English instead of the "language of the ghetto."  Afterwards, he meekly apologized.  But now, in light of Mitt Romney's use of the sound-bite in a negative ad in Florida (...

January 22, 2012

Gingrich's Tax Plan Would Eliminate Any Tax Liability for Romney

Perhaps like others who hope for a Romney nomination, I like Gingrich.  I wish him well -- I hope he continues to prosper and to generate ideas for the conservative movement.  However, his shining oratory has outpaced the cogency of the ide...

December 22, 2011

The Paradox of Merit Pay

A recent study from The American Enterprise Institute and The Heritage Foundation compared teacher salaries to their counterparts in the private sector and concluded that teachers deserve even less than what they get.  The study has only added t...

December 12, 2011

Romney: Guilty of Wealth

Maybe we should stop taking questions from the audience in these debates.  "When have you struggled financially?" asked one viewer of the candidates.  Obviously this question is a "gotcha" to Romney, who is guilty of never being poor. Yes, ...

October 23, 2011

NCLB Says Failure Is Not an Option...but It Should Be

A district administrator recently visited a high school to elucidate some of the fine points of No Child Left Behind legislation.  "Failure is not an option," she declared, meaning that students are no longer allowed to fail.  Although it s...

July 29, 2011

Differentiation is the New Diversity!

If you can't do, then teach.  And if you can't teach, become an education professor.  Education professors can be taken about as seriously as their PhDs.  They both may appear to have heft and authority to an outsider, but on closer in...