July 23, 2024

Will Biden’s resignation be this year’s October surprise?

Well, now it’s official: Senile Joe is out; Kamala the Laughing Hyena is in.  This should really come as no surprise.  Anyone who pays attention to politics regularly has been able to look right through the media cover-narra...

July 2, 2022

New York Moves to Nullify Supreme Court Decision Upholding Gun Rights

In an act of breathtaking defiance and spitefulness not seen since Southern states engaged in "massive resistance" to the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board decision, the New York State Legislature gave a middle finger to the Supreme C...

April 19, 2021

How Generations of Presidents (Including Reagan) Wrecked Our Country

For over fifty years, it has been a recurring promise of conservative candidates running for election that they will stand up for our constitutional rights and support the appointment of judges and Supreme Court justices who will uphold the Constitut...

March 9, 2021

Why the Left Hates Cuomo

Conservatives are happily gloating over the fact that Andrew Cuomo is at, or rapidly approaching, his nadir. Unfortunately, they cannot take credit for the three-term governor's rapid fall from grace. Though New York once had a competitive Rep...

January 23, 2021

Disrupting Congress: All fun and games when liberals do it

The reaction to the mob of demonstrators storming the Capitol two weeks ago provoked a hysterical and heavy-handed response from the political elites.  Federal agents went on a nationwide manhunt and quickly arrested over a hundred demonstr...

January 15, 2020

How Scalia Botched Heller and Let the Left Undermine the 2nd Amendment

Twelve years after the Supreme Court ruled that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right "unconnected with service in a militia," the Second Amendment is in worse shape than ever.  New York; California; Massachusetts...

August 9, 2019

Proposed Gun Laws Would Do Nothing to Prevent Mass Killings, and Everyone Knows It

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." —H.L. Mencken The country is again in an up...

June 28, 2019

The Treaty of Versailles at 100: Wilson's Progressive Abomination

Today marks the hundredth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.  Though the treaty ended World War I — supposedly the "war to end all wars" — it practically ensured future conflict and charted a cours...

March 5, 2019

Debbie Dingell's daddy issues

Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-Michigan) has "daddy issues."  She thinks her "issues" trump the Second Amendment's guarantee that the "right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." ...

March 1, 2019

Who Comes after Trump?

Halfway through President Trump's first term in office, the jury is still out on his effectiveness in his quest to "make America great again." Trump has had some apparent successes: the confirmation of Supreme Court justices Gorsuch ...

September 27, 2018

The Kavanaugh fight isn't about abortion. It's about guns.

Conventional wisdom says the Democrats are fighting tooth and nail to derail Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court because he'll provide the fifth vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. As much as I hate to admit it, I don't...

June 28, 2018

As Trump replaces Kennedy, time for some conservative judicial activism

I have a few words of advice for President Trump in choosing a replacement for retiring Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy: Earl Warren, William Brennan, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, Sandra O'Connor, David Souter. Republican president...

April 20, 2018

Cuomo pardons paroled felons so they can vote for him

The most cynical, manipulative, Machiavellian – and dangerous – liberal in the nation has outdone himself once again. New York governor Andrew Cuomo has issued a pardon potentially affecting some 35,000 felons on parole, enabling ...

March 25, 2018

Mass hysteria and the anti-gun marches

See also: David Hogg, demagogue Whip up fears, exploit panic, and assemble giant rallies where where mass hysteria powers a political movement to blame a chimera, and demand abrogation of existing rights: It's a classic recipe for demogoguery....

March 14, 2018

Florida's bump stock ban and the slippery slope

You remember Florida's Gov. Rick Scott, don't you? He's the supposedly conservative Republican who bowed to pressure from Al Sharpton and appointed Angela Corey to prosecute George Zimmerman for second-degree murder – after polic...

March 6, 2018

New York State moves to ensure more school shootings

Three weeks after armed sheriff's deputy Scot Peterson refused to engage accused school shooter Nikolas Cruz in Parkland, Florida, a New York state Senate Democrat wants to make it illegal for anybody but cops like Peterson to possess a firearm o...

February 21, 2018

Cries to 'Ban the AR-15' Based on Ignorance and Hysteria

Yet another mass shooting has taken place in America – followed by all too predictable cries to ban the AR-15 rifle. The pure ignorance of the people bleating for a ban on America's most popular rifle is appalling. With few exceptions, m...

January 13, 2018

Trump was right...literally

When President Trump asked why the U.S. should accept immigrants from third-world nations he allegedly characterized as "s-holes," liberals (and some neo-conservatives) howled with outrage, branding the president a bigot and a racist. Bu...

April 26, 2017

Veteran faces 21 years in prison for possession of pistol magazines

Simeon D. Mokhiber, a Niagara Falls, N.Y. Army veteran, was convicted April 21 on three felony counts of possessing "large capacity ammunition feeding devices" under Gov. Andrew Cuomo's SAFE Act. Mokhiber served nine years ...

March 24, 2017

Schumer’s Machiavellian filibuster gambit

In chess, a gambit is an opening maneuver intended to draw one's opponent into a position where he can be taken advantage of.  Sometimes a gambit involves the sacrifice of a piece, often a pawn, to entice the opponent. On Thursday, Senate...

February 6, 2017

The United States Cannot Survive as Presently Constituted

“With slight shades of difference,” wrote George Washington in 1796, Americans “have the same religion, manners, habits and political principles.” That is no longer true. The inauguration of Donald Trump sparked nationa...

January 31, 2017

Chuck Schumer: Constitutionally illiterate, or intentionally deceptive?

In a statement  on Sunday regarding President Trump's moratorium on immigration from several majority-Muslim countries, Senate Minority Leader Chuck  Schumer described the policy as "unconstitutional" and said (emphasis mine):...

October 11, 2016

The Coming National Gun Ban – and How the States Can Resist

The law of averages predicts that at some time in the future, perhaps as soon as 2017, the Democratic Party will once again control the White House and majorities in both houses of Congress. When that happens, the next Democratic president -- be it H...

September 27, 2016

Round One goes to Hillary

I hate to say it, but objectively speaking, Trump lost the first debate. Hillary told 100% lies and focus-grouped tag lines.  They were slickly delivered and effectively pre-planned.  Trump’s responses were too extemporaneous and r...

June 24, 2016

Chuck Schumer, world-class hypocrite

A recurring problem faced by conservative Republicans is this: when they play by the rules, they end up losing the game anyway.  That’s because the left-wing Democrats are hypocrites who refuse to abide by the same set of rules they demand...

June 18, 2016

Army generals for gun control

The gun control debate, relentlessly politicized by Democrats every time a jihadist or immigrant with foreign ties shoots up a gun-free zone here in the U.S., has taken what I regard as an ominous turn. High-ranking former military officers are no...

May 26, 2016

Would Obama Trump The Donald by pardoning illegals?

With every passing day, Donald Trump's chances of winning the presidency increase. Hillary Clinton's campaign is floundering.  She has no message aside from "Elect me; I'm a woman."  She is hated by 30 to 40% of Dem...

April 29, 2016

The Troubling Prosecution of Dennis Hastert

I don't like Dennis Hastert.  During his tenure as Speaker of the House, my attitude toward him was, more or less, "Meh."  Hastert is undoubtedly the pervert and sexual predator he is accused of being – he admitted so in...

February 10, 2016

Bernie Sanders's New Hampshire victory speech: Terrifying

I listened to the victory speeches of both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump last night.  Frankly, in terms of delivery, Bernie's was a lot better than The Donald's.  Trump's speech was mostly extemporaneous happy talk, and not pa...

January 6, 2016

Obama's gun control lies

In what was surely the most sickening display of presidential demagoguery in the history of the United States, President Obama wept – wept – crocodile tears in a calculated effort to gain the support of the ignorant, the clueless, and the...

October 20, 2015

Court decision paves the way for Australian-style gun ban

On Monday, the Court of Appeals for the Second U.S. Circuit issued a long awaited decision on the constitutionality of the most drastic gun control law in U.S. history, the New York SAFE Act of 2013.  The Second Circuit ruled that nearly all of ...

October 3, 2015

Obama's selective outrage: AIDS vs. gun deaths

The bodies of the victims of the shooting at Umpqua Community College had barely hit the floor Thursday night when President Obama practically sprinted to the White House podium to deliver a demagogic screed calling for gun control – just in ti...

August 24, 2015

Donald Trump and His Enemies

Within about a 48-hour span this week, Donald Trump was compared to Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Putin, and a hardcore pornographer – in addition to being characterized as "vulgar," "squalid," and "counterfeit." Those...

June 19, 2015

Obama's contempt for Second Amendment on full display at press conference

The blood of the nine victims shot by a deranged criminal at a South Carolina church had barely dried when, as if on cue, President Obama and his “point man” on gun control, Vice President Biden, stepped up to the microphones to issue a t...

June 15, 2015

New York prison break demonstrates dangers of gun control

The escape of two convicted murderers from Clinton Correctional Facility in New York State has dominated national news headlines for over a week.  As of this writing, the escapees have been on the lam for nine days, eluding hundreds of New York ...

March 28, 2015

Conservatives' worst nightmare is next at bat

One unfortunate day in the future, America will again have a Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate.  And when that day happens, conservatives had better start digging foxholes, because their worst nightmare will be the majority leader. Sen. ...

February 16, 2015

Obama Administration Plans Major Ammunition Ban

The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action is reporting that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) is planning to use its bureaucratic discretion to enact a major ammunition ban as soon as next m...

January 26, 2015

Shouting match leads to gun confiscation, forfeiture

Andrew Cuomo’s New York appears to be a Constitution-free gulag, especially when it comes to the Second Amendment. Earlier this month, American Thinker reported on the lawsuit Montgomery v. Cuomo, which alleges that a retired police detectiv...

January 11, 2015

Obama's Free Community College Proposal Is Ridiculous

As someone who has spent over 15 years teaching at community colleges, I cannot think of a worse idea than President Obama’s proposal for the federal government to provide “free” community college tuition nationwide.  Here...

January 2, 2015

Guns Confiscated after Man Seeks Insomnia Treatment

In the old Soviet and East German police states of the Cold War, police kept secret files on scores of common people.  Information was fed to the police by thousands of clandestine sources – and a seemingly banal or routine interaction wit...

December 2, 2014

New York's Plot to Gut the Second Amendment

On Dec. 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit will hear oral arguments in the case of Nojay v. Cuomo.  At stake is nothing less than whether the Second Amendment grants substantive gun rights to American citizens, or is meaningless...

September 6, 2014

White Cop Fatally Shot by Black Felon; No Riots

Did you hear about the cop shooting? No, I’m not referring to the one in Ferguson, Missouri.  Of course you heard about that.  I’m referring to the fatal shooting of 32-year-old Ofc. Daryl Pierson of the Rochester, NY Police ...

September 3, 2014

Why Should We Care about ISIS?

The war hawks in Washington are again beating the tom-toms.  Despite the fact that we’re $17.5 trillion in debt, Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain are doing their best to goad President Obama into attacking the Islamic Sta...

July 1, 2014

Immigration Criminal Voted for Gun Ban

One of the chief concerns of America’s Founders in the early days of the Republic was the possibility that foreigners would usurp American political power.  As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 68, “[the] most deadly adversa...

February 18, 2014

Did Cuomo Aide Commit a Gun Crime -- and Get Away with It?

Recently, gun blogs lit up with the story of Jerome Hauer, appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to be commissioner of New York State's Department of Homeland Security.  The Albany Times-Union and the Daily Caller reported that last October, Hau...

January 18, 2014

No Place for Dissent in Andrew Cuomo's New York

In a media interview Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo tagged his opponents as "extreme conservatives" and said that they "have no place in New York." Who are these "extreme conservatives?" Opponents of gun control, abortion, and homosexual marriage, that...

October 30, 2013

Man Arrested, Guns Seized for Carrying More than 7 Rounds

The Buffalo News is reporting that law enforcement agents seized all of the registered handguns from the home of a man who had been arrested earlier this month.  His "crime"?  Carrying ten rounds of 9mm ammunition in his legally r...

August 23, 2013

Obama Takes Refuge on Campus

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that President Obama speaks almost exclusively at colleges and universities in Blue States? Thursday morning, Obama spoke at SUNY Buffalo (my alma mater) on his two-day "bus tour" of Upstate New York and N...

February 5, 2013

New York's 'SAFE' Act: The 'Rape' of the Second Amendment

In January, the New York State Legislature passed the Orwellian-sounding "SAFE" (Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement) Act.  The act was debated in closed session without committee hearings, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed it into law within ...

November 9, 2012

Election 2012: The Final Victory of the Counter-Culture

It is fitting that President Obama gave his victory speech from Chicago this week, for his re-election is the final and decisive victory by the left in the four-decade culture war that began with the hippie riots at the Democratic Party Convention th...

October 31, 2012

Bumper Stickers Reveal Democratic Posers

Twice this week, I did a double-take upon seeing Obama bumper stickers on vehicles. After months and months of Obama's class-warfare campaign rhetoric against "the rich," and after four years of incessant blather about "green energy," I saw the driv...

October 23, 2012

A Most Pathetic 'Debate'

The best word I can come up with to describe the final presidential debate is "pathetic." No matter who wins, we've had it. What you just witnessed was the bipartisan abdication of American global leadership. Obama certainly "won" on style and perso...

October 18, 2012

A Moment of Arrogance

In all the analysis and spin in the media about Tuesday night's debate, one item seems to have escaped scrutiny--- but it struck me at the moment that Obama said it as a statement of such remarkable arrogance and hubris that I had to check the transc...

September 16, 2012

U.S. Government Supports Pussy Riot (But Not 'Innocence of Muslims')

I noticed an interesting contradiction between the way the U.S. government reacted to the jail sentences handed down to Russian punk activists "Pussy Riot" and the way it responded to the YouTube video "Innocence of Muslims" that has supposedly led t...

September 14, 2012

Bernanke Sucker-Punches Romney Campaign

By announcing another massive economic stimulus program just weeks before the election, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered a vicious sucker-punch to the Romney campaign and may have rigged the election in favor of Obama. But his actions ...

September 5, 2012

Election 2012: Great Society vs. New Left Radicals

There's some striking contrasts between the Republican convention in Tampa last week and the Democratic convention in Charlotte this week. At the Republican convention, Vice-Presidential nominee Paul Ryan, who wants to have a balanced budget not now,...

July 23, 2012

Where There Are Sheep, Wolves Will Always Thrive

Another mass homicide, and another round of the usual media drivel.  It was a "senseless tragedy."  "Shocking."  The suspect was "quiet" and a "loner."  He "must've just snapped."  More pictures from the suspect's high school...

July 2, 2012

Can Government Now Tax Handgun Ammunition 10,000%?

Conservatives still reeling from Chief Justice John Roberts's decision to uphold the 2,700-page ObamaCare legislation as a Federal tax are rightly worried that Roberts opened the door to unlimited Federal coercion of the American public through the t...

June 30, 2012

Why I Walked Out on John Roberts

I've had doubts about Chief Justice John Roberts for a couple of years now -- doubts that were unfortunately confirmed Thursday by his decision upholding ObamaCare. In October 2010, Canisius College in Buffalo, NY hosted Chief Justice Roberts as part...

June 28, 2012

Hard Questions for Conservatives In the Wake of SCOTUS Ruling

As everybody knows by now, the Supreme Court has upheld Obamacare. Bush appointee John Roberts cast the deciding vote, allowing the "individual mandate" to proceed as a "tax" - even though the Obama administration argued that it wasn't. Welcome to so...

June 16, 2012

If We Took the Constitution Seriously, Obama Would Be Impeached

If the citizens of this Republic still took the Constitution seriously, Obama would be impeached for his decision to unilaterally grant amnesty to certain illegal aliens. Article 1, Sec. 8 of the Constitution, which enumerates the power of Congress, ...

May 31, 2012

The Origins of Leftist Racial Orthodoxy

If "diversity" is good, why do liberals congregate in lily-white enclaves like Vermont (the whitest state in the Union, according to the Census) and Marin County, California?  White liberals hector others incessantly about the need for "diversit...

April 12, 2012

Can George Zimmerman get a fair trial?

George Zimmerman has now been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin by Special Prosecutor Angela Corey.  Zimmerman was charged after the New Black Panthers put a "dead or alive" bounty on his head. After President Obam...

March 24, 2012

What if Trayvon Had Been White, and the Shooter Black?

What would happen if a black man armed with a handgun confronted "suspicious persons" in his neighborhood? What would happen if the "suspicious persons" were unarmed white teens, one of them was shot dead, and the shooter claimed self-defense? This i...

February 26, 2012

Anti-Gun Fascism in Canada

In yet another example of why Americans should be grateful for the Constitution -- especially the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments -- we may cite the case of a Kitchener, Ont. man who was arrested for "possession of a firearm," strip-searched, an...

February 13, 2012

Anti-Gun Justice Becomes Victim of Armed Robbery

Ah, yes. There is such a thing as "poetic justice" after all! It seems that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, a 1994 Clinton appointee, was the victim of an armed home-invasion robbery in his vacation home on St. Kitts and Nevis. (Read the r...

February 9, 2012

Will 'Known Unknowns' Put Romney into the White House?

In 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made what has become one of his most famous remarks: [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do...

January 10, 2012

Ron Paul Is Wrong about Iran

I watched Ron Paul's "town hall" meeting in New Hampshire a couple of days ago, and I found it pretty interesting. There's a lot I like about Ron Paul.  I like the fact that he's anti-abortion.  I like the fact that he's for small governmen...

November 18, 2011

Prepare Yourself for Obama's Second Term

(See also: The Prism of Electoral Reality) For some time now, many conservatives have thought that President Obama is the Second Coming of Jimmy Carter.  They think that chronic 9% unemployment, creeping inflation, and a foreign policy of self-a...

September 11, 2011

Ten Years Later, 9/11 Reveals Depth of American Decline

On December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor.  The attack took place on a remote U.S. territory 2,500 miles from the American mainland.  The targets were entirely military; of the 2,400 killed, virtu...

September 8, 2011

Urban Gun Buyback Targets Nerf Guns

From the "They can't really be this stupid - can they?" category, an urban anti-violence group in Buffalo, NY conducted a gun "buyback" - targeting Nerf guns. Yes, Nerf guns - the spring-loaded children's toys that fire harmless, spongy little projec...

August 12, 2011

The Wasted Valor of the Navy SEALs

Last week, 30 American service personnel, including 22 Navy SEALs, died when their helicopter was shot down by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. The event was big media news, but it will soon be forgotten by the public as just another bit of media c...

August 2, 2011

Obama's Let's Pretend Theology

President Barack Hussein Obama today issued an official statement "U.S. President on the Occasion of Ramadan." Most of it is the mushy, post-Orwelllian P.C. that has sadly become part of our daily political discourse. You can read the text here. What...

July 21, 2011

The 70-Million-Check Constituency

Obama and the left have a massive constituency of tens of millions who do not comprehend the true meaning of money, only caring that the government check is in the mail. In an interview with CBS anchor Scott Pelley last week, President Obama was aske...

July 1, 2011

The Need For A Militant Conservative Movement

Late last week, the New York State Senate voted to legalize homosexual marriage, giving  equality with heterosexual marriage, the foundational unit of every single human society in the last 5,000 years of recorded history. This is an enormous vi...

June 13, 2011

Retired Cop Gets $293,000 Thanks to Union Contract

Do you plan to retire at age 59 and get $293,000 from the taxpayers - plus a generous pension? No? Well, you're in the wrong line of work, sucker! The Buffalo News reports that a police lieutenant in Cheektowaga, NY, a suburb of Buffalo, retired in ...

May 27, 2011

PATRIOT Act Renewed - But is it Legal?

POLITICO reports that the House and the Senate have passed a four-year renewal of the PATRIOT Act:"The bill approved Thursday renews three terrorism-fighting tools that authorize court-approved roving wiretaps, access to business and other recor...

May 26, 2011

Don't Believe Everything You Hear About NY-26

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May 2, 2011

Does the Death of bin Laden Really Change Anything?

President Obama announced Sunday night that the world's Most Wanted Terrorist, Osama bin Laden, is dead. If reports that he was shot in the head during a commando raid are true, Osama got exactly what he deserved. On one hand this is a great event fo...

April 14, 2011

The Federal Budget and the Crisis of Democracy

Last week, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan issued his 2012 budget proposal to much fanfare.Ryan's proposal would "cut $6.2 trillion in government spending over the next decade compared to the President's budget," repeal ObamaCare,...

April 1, 2011

Obama's Mad Max war

Two weeks after Operation "Odyssey Dawn" was commenced on behalf of the "rebels" in Libya, the U.S. government is still trying to figure out exactly who it is we've allied ourselves with. At this point the answer should be clear:...

March 20, 2011

Libya and the Left's Sickening Hypocrisy on the Use of Military Force

An evil Arab dictator has been in power for decades. He personally controls his country's vast oil wealth. A sponsor of terrorism, he has provoked the West to take military action against him in the past. Islamic fundamentalists despise him as much a...

February 21, 2011

Why I Changed My Mind About Unions

The organized tactics of intimidation by the public employee unions in Wisconsin last week came as no surprise to me. I'm from New York, one of the most union-friendly states in the country, and I've seen the negative effects of unions my entire life...

January 22, 2011

Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court's Dumbest Decision

Imagine for a moment that you were ticketed for speeding by the state police.  Suppose that you lied to the cop about why you were driving so fast.  Then imagine that a group of special-interest lawyers contacted you and told you they wante...

January 13, 2011

Guns are not the problem, and gun control Is not the answer

As if on cue, the hounds of gun control began baying as soon as the news of the murders in Tucson became public. Derrick Jackson of the Boston Globe opined that our tolerance for guns is "senseless." Richard Cohen of the Washington Post wro...

January 10, 2011

The Left, Not the Right, Owns Political Violence

It took less than 24 hours for the political left to seize upon the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of six people on Saturday to blame the political right for the shooting. Perhaps the most egregious example...

January 6, 2011

The Constitutional Hypocrisy of the Left

I continue to be astonished by the reaction of the political Left to the Republican House majority's decision to begin the 112th Congress by reading the Constitution on the floor. This has been mocked by the New York Times (whose business depends on ...

December 29, 2010

Is the Republican Party Finished?

The lame-duck session of the 111th Congress proved one thing beyond a doubt: the Republican Party does not represent the interests of conservatives.  Despite the midterm election tidal wave, in which the Republican Party gained 63 House seats (e...

December 19, 2010

End of DADT: The Final Blow Against Cultural Conservatism

The military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy regarding gays in the military is over. The lame-duck Senate passed legislation ending the policy today by the overwhelming margin of 65-31; all that awaits is President Obama's signature, which...

November 23, 2010

Has U.S. Foreign Policy Ever Been This Screwed Up?

American foreign policy is in a state of total disarray. I don't think that our foreign policy has been in straits this dire since the early 1960s, when we rushed headlong from the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis straight into Vietnam. At le...

November 9, 2010

Obama's Ignorance of World Affairs on Full Display in India

When George W. Bush was sworn into office, he was mocked by his political enemies as a parochial idiot who had no understanding of world affairs. That proved untrue. By contrast Barack Obama was touted as a multicultural "citizen of the world...

November 3, 2010

After the Party's Over, A Dose of Reality

Tea Partiers and other activists should savor their historic victory Tuesday night. They worked very hard on a grassroots level to capture the House, throwing a monkey wrench in Obama's plans to "transform" America into a European-socialist...

July 29, 2010

What Is the Endgame for Conservatives?

Conservatives who read the polls are already anticipating Republican gains in this November's congressional elections, hoping for an anti-Obama tidal wave. They should temper their enthusiasm. Statistically, the opposition party almost always gains s...

June 28, 2010

Elena Kagan, Harvard Elitist

In Sunday's Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, staff writer Farah Stockman takes umbrage at the idea that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is an out-of-touch Harvard elitist, specifically singling out my American Thinker column "Elena Kagan and the ...

June 25, 2010

Have the Democrats Learned Anything from Vietnam?

The Vietnam War was the defining event for the modern Democratic Party. Nearly four decades after the war ended, we ought to ask if the Democrats learned anything from Vietnam that is applicable to Afghanistan.In Vietnam, the U.S. fought an insurgenc...

June 10, 2010

Israel, the World's 'Dirty Harry'

With the recent "peace flotilla" incident, we have yet another Arab-Israeli dust-up. It's been going on as long as I've been alive, and we can expect "more of the same" for the foreseeable future.I reflexively side with Israel -- ...

May 11, 2010

Elena Kagan and the Yale-Harvard Nexus

On Monday, President Obama nominated Elena Kagan to succeed John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. Kagan's resume is incredibly thin. She was named dean of an Ivy League law school after only four years on its faculty. Kagan has never been a judge, ...

May 3, 2010

What If Arizona Were Quebec?

Suppose for a moment that 15 million Americans -- the population of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut combined -- sneaked across the border into Quebec. Suppose that these illegal immigrants refused to learn ...

March 22, 2010

Is ObamaCare Headed for a Supreme Court Smackdown?

Now that the House Democrats have rammed ObamaCare down the throats of the nation by a vote of 219-212, the situation is indeed bleak. But Conservatives and Tea Partiers despondent over the fact that liberal Democrats just passed a massive encroachme...

March 5, 2010

Influence, Corruption, and Misconduct: Albany's Lesson for America

February was not a kind month to New York State politicians.Last week, only a few days after declaring his candidacy, New York Gov. David Paterson announced that he would not run for reelection. Why the sudden change? It came to light that one of Pat...

November 12, 2009

It's Time to Surrender in Afghanistan

It's time to surrender in Afghanistan. Yep, that's right. Surrender. Let's sign a document of surrender, apologize for our "aggression," withdraw the troops, and let Osama and the Taliban have a ticker-tape parade in the streets of Kabul be...

July 27, 2009

The Truth About Cops and Race

Last week, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, a black man, was arrested by a white police officer for disorderly conduct. Gates accused the officer of racism. President Obama created a national media firestorm by commenting on the arrest, saying th...

March 8, 2009

Obama and the Triumph of the Fabians

In 1945, the United Kingdom implemented a program of change at the hands of a new left wing government. The structure of support built up in previous decades, the way change was sold to the public, outcomes themselves have much to teach us about Amer...

February 18, 2009

The Stimulus will lead America in the direction of Western New York

If you want to know what President Obama's new style of government-led, Democratic Party economic and political policies will bring to the country, you need look no further than Western New York -- and what you'll see isn't pretty. Nearly every item ...