M. Walter

M. Walter


  • Joe Biden is claiming a 'plenary' pardon power even <em>kings</em> did not enjoy

    December 7, 2024

    Joe Biden is claiming a 'plenary' pardon power even kings did not enjoy

    In early 2016, then candidate Donald Trump uttered these famous words: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters.” He was, of course, simply being hyperbolic about the un...

  • Rubio’s not a worry. Here’s why

    November 14, 2024

    Rubio’s not a worry. Here’s why

    Donald Trump nominated Marco Rubio to be Secretary Of State.  I think there’s little doubt he’ll sail through his Senate hearings, being, as he is, a member in good standing of “the club.” Yeah, yeah, I hear you, MAGA....

  • Texting the election

    November 9, 2024

    Texting the election

    Watching my (just turned) 28-year-old daughter go through this election has really been something.  She’s had quite a rude shock. Nearly everyone in her peer group believed the hype about Trump taking away their “reprod...

  • Will a second term break TDS fever?

    November 7, 2024

    Will a second term break TDS fever?

    Remember in 2012 when President Obama hoped “that the Republican ‘fever’ would break if he won re-election”? Yeah… no. That didn’t pan out.  Trivializing principled differences seldom does. But what of ...

  • Trump vs. Obama on freedom of the press

    November 4, 2024

    Trump vs. Obama on freedom of the press

    “Journalists” are wondering what their jobs will be like if Trump wins a second term.    They needn’t wonder, but they should worry, and they are, according to one unnamed television executive, recently quoted in New...

  • This shows they still don’t get Trump

    October 25, 2024

    This shows they still don’t get Trump

    “I’m on the top of his list,” says the suddenly paranoid Tim Walz. Jimmy Kimmel also believes he’d have to find a non-extradition-treaty country to escape a Trump Administration “enemies list.”  He was desc...

  • ‘I feel your pain’ Democrats are long gone—they are now pain-incapable

    October 9, 2024

    ‘I feel your pain’ Democrats are long gone—they are now pain-incapable

    If you’re of a certain vintage, you remember well “I feel your pain” from the (Bill) Clinton era.  It became a punchline, a joke. Those Democrats are long gone.  And there’s nothing funny about what’s left. ...

  • As I sit here on day 10 of hurricane-ravaged western North Carolina with no power or water ...

    October 6, 2024

    As I sit here on day 10 of hurricane-ravaged western North Carolina with no power or water ...

    As I sit here on day ten of no power/water in Hurricane Helene-ravaged Western North Carolina, it occurs to me: why did none of the trillions we’ve spent on “infrastructure” do something eminently sensible, like bury all the wires? ...

  • Coffee and Cable TV in Helene-ravaged NC

    October 4, 2024

    Coffee and Cable TV in Helene-ravaged NC

    My husband and I live in Western North Carolina. We are among the inconvenienced, not the devastated. Our family and property, thank God, are fine. We’re just out of power/water now for seven days now. The storm hit last Friday. As I write this...

  • WTH is an ‘Opportunity Economy’ anyway?

    September 18, 2024

    WTH is an ‘Opportunity Economy’ anyway?

    Directly from the Harris-Walz campaign website, we have this: As part of her Opportunity Economy agenda, she has put forward a plan to help small businesses and entrepreneurs innovate and grow. She has set an ambitious goal of 25 million new bus...

  • Un-defundable... or indefensible?

    September 17, 2024

    Un-defundable... or indefensible?

    On September 16th, Paula Bolyard at PJ Media wondered Why Was Big Tech So Quick to Scrub Ryan Routh’s Accounts? Why indeed. Bolyard writes this: PJ Media reached out to Facebook, X, and the FBI for answers, but got no response. Speci...

  • Leftists Live In A Mental Prison Of Their Own Making

    September 11, 2024

    Leftists Live In A Mental Prison Of Their Own Making

    We need to talk about our progressive brothers and sisters’ mental health. They’re not well. Like, literally, not well. Even that well-known hotbed of conservatism … Tufts University… says so: …Many studies...

  • The Humanity of The Wall

    September 4, 2024

    The Humanity of The Wall

    Building a wall along our southern border — a comprehensively-sealed-border border wall — is the most humane thing the United States of America could do. It’s not even a close call. Having one is not even a little bit inhumane, as D...

  • Progressivism Makes the World Smaller…In A Bad Way

    August 30, 2024

    Progressivism Makes the World Smaller…In A Bad Way

    Social media, books, movies, news—my universe of media options has decreased dramatically and I’m pretty hacked off about it. Once, on a transcontinental flight, I sat next to a Brit who I asked, upon noticing his accent, “Are yo...

  • Is Biden sabotaging Kamala?

    August 14, 2024

    Is Biden sabotaging Kamala?

    Girlfriend doesn’t need any help, heaven knows. She’s enough of a disaster all on her own, but I’ve noticed something the last day or two that seems to indicate a purposeful strategy afoot on the order of Team Biden to kneecap Mizzz...

  • The Shooter is to Blame, Not the Rhetoric

    July 25, 2024

    The Shooter is to Blame, Not the Rhetoric

    I’ve never even visited, much less read anything, in the Establishment Republican NeverTrump website The Dispatch before, but much to my surprise I came across an article worth quoting. It’s on the subject of who or what is...

  • ‘Who says I’m not running?’

    July 22, 2024

    ‘Who says I’m not running?’

    “Who says I’m not running?” You know it’s coming. They can’t keep Joe in hiding forever, and he will forget he “passed the torch.” Sooner or later, probably sooner, he will be in front of a camera an...

  • Pelosi adds fuel to the ‘wrap-up’ Biden fire

    July 11, 2024

    Pelosi adds fuel to the ‘wrap-up’ Biden fire

    In 2017, Nancy Pelosi helpfully explained “the wrap-up smear.” “You demonize — we call it the wrap-up smear.  If you want to talk politics.  We call it the wrap-up smear.  You smear somebody ...

  • Democrats wheeling old Joe off the cliff?

    July 8, 2024

    Democrats wheeling old Joe off the cliff?

    Remember the infamous video ad showing a Paul Ryan look-a-like literally wheeling grandma off a cliff?  It was during the 2012 campaign season and meant to illustrate the supposed cruelty of Republican budget policy. Well, it took 12 year...

  • Can Biden even form consent?

    July 6, 2024

    Can Biden even form consent?

    George Stephanopoulos’s interview with President Biden lasted approximately twenty minutes and consisted of approximately thirty-nine questions. I'll discuss the first half in this piece. You’ve no doubt heard of the headlines...

  • Biden: 'My health is fine. ‘It’s just my brain.’

    July 5, 2024

    Biden: 'My health is fine. ‘It’s just my brain.’

    President Biden had one job this holiday weekend:  Just show he was up to the job, vigorous, etc. That’s all he had to do. What’d he do? He got this headline from the New York Times, of all places: "Biden Tells Gov...

  • It was their final, most essential command

    July 4, 2024

    It was their final, most essential command

    You are never, ever the good guy if you are for suffocating speech. Ever. In order for what follows to make sense, we all need to stipulate this point.  Especially when you are being told to reject the evidence of your own eyes and ears and b...

  • The Democrats’ struggle bus

    June 28, 2024

    The Democrats’ struggle bus

    The headline banner on the home pages of both The New York Times and The Washington Post both began “Biden Struggles”: NYT: Biden Struggles as Trump Blusters in Contentious Debate WaPo: Biden Struggles, Trump Deflects Questions T...

  • Julian Assange and WaPo’s deep-telling on itself

    June 25, 2024

    Julian Assange and WaPo’s deep-telling on itself

    You are, no doubt, waking up to some unexpected news: Julian Assange is a free man. Citizen journalist Julian Assange, as you recall, founded Wikileaks in 2006 then set about publishing America’s deep state dirty laundry, especially as it re...

  • The Left's Missing Survival Instincts

    June 13, 2024

    The Left's Missing Survival Instincts

    On nearly every major issue, progressives are hurtling towards extinction. Abortion, LGBT, guns, crime, open borders, even religion; all the things they relentlessly, senselessly agitate about, if extrapolated out to their inexorable ends, would r...

  • Politico reports on the Biden family syndicate, and it’s crickets all around

    June 9, 2024

    Politico reports on the Biden family syndicate, and it’s crickets all around

    Did you know that Politico committed an act of journalism yesterday, reporting honestly on the Biden family syndicate? This was such a rare act that you’d think its reporting would stand out, especially given that it’s read by absolutely ...

  • Biden's evil smirk and the left dancing like demons about Trump's punishment, their imaginations afire

    June 2, 2024

    Biden's evil smirk and the left dancing like demons about Trump's punishment, their imaginations afire

    By now, we’ve had a couple of days to absorb what happened in lower Manhattan on Thursday.  Many of us were unsurprised at the verdict, but if you are like me, you are surprised at your reaction to it. To be clear: I, like most capital-...

  • Worse Than Woke, the Libertarians Have Gone Globalist

    June 1, 2024

    Worse Than Woke, the Libertarians Have Gone Globalist

    Libertarianism The theory: The reality: pic.twitter.com/EW2j40mFrY — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 27, 2024 President Trump recently made headlines for speaking to the Libertarians at their annual convention.  Who are Libertar...

  • Obama never kept his word on warrantless wiretaps

    May 26, 2024

    Obama never kept his word on warrantless wiretaps

    Literally less than 72 hours after being sworn in in January 2009, Barack Obama was in federal court arguing he had the right to spy on us.  Did you know that?  Perhaps you did and you forgot. Seemed a worthwhile thing to bring up in ...

  • Congressional hall monitors

    May 12, 2024

    Congressional hall monitors

    In the seventeen-second ad below, “Why Monitor a Problem?” a credit monitoring service is in the role of what appears to be a dentist. He looks inside the patient’s mouth, tells the patient he has the worst cavity he’s ever se...

  • Known wolves

    April 17, 2024

    Known wolves

    “It needs to be said, and it needs to be said loudly, the FBI is the 2024 equivalent of the 1984 Soviet-era KGB, now FSB.” — Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse American Thinker and The Conservative Treehouse share many of the...

  • Maureen Dowd quotes Shakespeare and everyone swoons

    April 8, 2024

    Maureen Dowd quotes Shakespeare and everyone swoons

    An earthquake. An eclipse. A bridge collapse. A freak blizzard. A biblical flood. Donald Trump leading in battleground states. Apocalyptic vibes are stirred by Trump’s violent rhetoric and talk of blood baths. No, Mo, that’s you...

  • Where have all the trans<em>sexuals</em> gone?

    March 28, 2024

    Where have all the transsexuals gone?

    Was there a memo? Did I miss it? When did “sexual” get chopped off “trans” and replaced by “gender”? Seriously. When was the last time you heard “transsexual” instead of “transgender”? I ...

  • It’s (D)ifferent when they (D)o it

    March 25, 2024

    It’s (D)ifferent when they (D)o it

    Sometimes they just make it too easy. The formerly “counter-culture” but now boot-licking publication, Rolling Stone, is out with a long, heaving, breathless piece outlining the scary, scary ways Trump might try to “steal” ...

  • 'Indefensible': Sen. Bill Hagerty takes aim at Joe Biden's inbound migrant flights

    March 24, 2024

    'Indefensible': Sen. Bill Hagerty takes aim at Joe Biden's inbound migrant flights

    Sen. Bill Hagerty, a Tennessee Republican, tweeted on Friday night that “every single Senate Democrat voted against (his) amendment” to stop illegals from using the Department of Homeland Security as their own personal Con Air. He call...

  • Ketanji Brown Jackson is a fascist who should be removed from the Court

    March 22, 2024

    Ketanji Brown Jackson is a fascist who should be removed from the Court

    Ketanji Brown Jackson, is concerned the First Amendment is “hamstringing the government.” That’s a 5-alarm fire of a pull-quote from a sitting Supreme Court justice, and she should absolutely be impeached and removed from th...

  • Barack Obama was a Terrible Thing to Waste

    March 18, 2024

    Barack Obama was a Terrible Thing to Waste

    Remember the United Negro College Fund ads?  “A mind is a terrible thing to  waste”?  These ads presumed our kids were being educated well enough to go to college; that graduates were not merely literate, bu...

  • Could Schumer’s broadside against Bibi have the Trump Effect of backfiring on him?

    March 15, 2024

    Could Schumer’s broadside against Bibi have the Trump Effect of backfiring on him?

    Chuck Schumer was a famous “no” on the Iran deal just 9 short years ago, but now he’s reliably pro-Hamas—what other possible reason might be for this remarkable shift, other than appeasing the hard-left wing of the party? T...

  • The Brutal Wielding of the Mis/Dis Information Club

    March 4, 2024

    The Brutal Wielding of the Mis/Dis Information Club

    Remember when politicians lived in fear of offending “soccer moms” or any other constituency? That ended with “bitter clingers.” We are now in an abusive relationship with our federal government. If you search the Obama Whi...

  • December 30, 2023

    Plagiarism and Potty Training

    We’ve all seen the stories about Harvard’s president Claudine Gay. Multiple instances of “duplicative language” have now been documented, and  Harvard alumnus Barack Hussein Obama was among those urging the board to retai...