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December 20, 2024
More in Sorrow than in Anger: Did President-elect Trump overplay his hand in the budget brouhaha?Yes, I write this more in sorrow than in anger. I am committed to Donald Trump having a hugely successful second term. More to the point, I seem to have recognized something that Trump and his team haven’t yet noticed – his...
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December 16, 2024
The Top Five Presidential Public Relations Crises of 2024Each year end, public relations (PR) practitioners are quizzed on what they think are the top-five PR crises of the year. Since I work more in politics than in business, I chose to consider the top five political – presidential –...
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December 15, 2024
Fixing deportationPresident-elect Donald Trump has pledged, starting on Day One, to begin physically deporting convicted violent criminals who are also illegal aliens. It's a first thrust against those roughly one and a half million illegals who have already been ...
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December 14, 2024
The unintentional consequences of Luigi MangioneHere is an unintentional consequence of Luigi Mangione’s assassination murder of the CEO of United Healthcare in the streets of Manhattan. There will be a quick rush of CEOs demanding – and getting – teams of bodyguards. ...
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December 14, 2024
The Moon and Mars – Not a pie in the sky if the FAA and EPA will just get out of the wayI’m sorry, I just can’t help it. I’m a big fan of space travel. When I was ten years old, I’d write NASA fan letters to the astronauts, and they’d send me a bunch of 8 x 10 glossy photos of the astronauts, ma...
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December 12, 2024
Drones gotta landFor a drone to fly, it needs some kind of energy source. It is possible that for these drones flying over New Jersey, this could be electrical. But that’s unlikely. Elon Musk’s Tesla brand’s claim to fame is the best propri...
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December 3, 2024
The Political Apology-Cancellation GameThe “Apology-Cancellation Game” has long been one of the American political left’s favorite indoor sports – one that is increasingly dominating our political discourse in the wake of Trump committing the “crime” of...
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November 23, 2024
Disney's Snow White, Rachel Zegler, who wished the worst to Trump supporters, has got to goAttention, Disney: Your Snow White lead actress, Rachel Zegler, has got to go. Now. She’s gone beyond the Pale, and there’s no turning back. Here’s why. Last week, she took to Instagram with a series...
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November 14, 2024
Writing a Book to Facilitate Winning a Political CampaignWinning a political campaign – for an office, or for a political proposition – requires a multi-layered communications effort to ensure that a majority of voters have a favorable understanding of either the candidate or the cause. T...
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November 13, 2024
Expediting Deportation, Using Carrots and SticksHow do you deport the roughly twenty million individuals living illegally in the United States? For a lot of reasons, this will be a huge challenge, and likely a costly one – when was the last time the government did anything even remotel...
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November 4, 2024
A new kind of political advertising to beware ofThis election cycle has launched a new kind of advertising that appears to be in the unregulated "wild west" realm of political campaign advertising: Text message ads asking for money or opinions, but always for money. It offers all kind...
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October 5, 2024
FEMA an Even Bigger Disaster Than the Storms Themselves -- and How it Can Be ReplacedThis is more of a think piece than an article, so please stay with me here. It’s based on decades of public health and disaster management work I’ve been involved with during my career. I first got involved in this while wo...
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August 2, 2024
Freed hostages and their families take a back seat to Biden's and Harris's victory lapLast night, my wife Lynn and I sat glued to the television, watching the return of the hostages to Joint Base Andrews, once known as Andrews Air Force Base. We were eager to see the victims of Putin’s Cold War-like use of hostages....
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July 15, 2024
They look just like the Keystone Kops: The DEI Secret Service in inactionI’m sure by now everyone has seen near-endless replays of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump on a campaign swing through Butler, Pennsylvania, hard on to the Ohio border. Real MAGA country. If you’ve done...
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August 15, 2023
What the Fulton County judge could doNow that President Trump has been indicted in Georgia, a Fulton County judge could do what all judges do, which is jail his court's defendant until trial date. Such an act would send shockwaves through the Trump Campai...
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February 14, 2023
Balloongate – China’s Long GameChina’s use of balloons to overfly U.S. territory is not an accident – it’s part of China’s Long Game for capturing Taiwan and becoming the world’s leading superpower. What is this Long Game? China is the old...
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February 12, 2023
Another Chinese balloongate?Well, the Chinese have done it again...or have they? Recently, Biden's spokespersons announced the shoot-down of an "object" over far Northeastern Alaska, shot down where it would land on an ice floe in Prudhoe Bay. The Pe...
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February 8, 2023
In the Aftermath of Balloongate, Now What?This article had already been accepted for print in American Thinker when President Joe Biden “courageously” ordered the destruction of China’s spy balloon after it had soared out to sea, where there was nothing more to spy on. ...
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January 17, 2023
The Ultimate Arms Deals: Why Washington is So Eager to Support UkraineI thought the Afghanistan bug-out was the ultimate arms deal. Biden abandoned billions of dollars of weapons, leaving them behind for the Taliban to enjoy. Which meant that our military – Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines – w...
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November 5, 2022
Our War of Words – Hint: We’re LosingOne of the major fronts on the war between progressives – who want to tear down and reshape America – against those of us who believe that America should be closer to what our Founding Fathers had in mind – can be defined as a War o...
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November 3, 2022
Wednesday night's valedictory speech — Biden's inept run-up to Election DayOn Wednesday evening, Joe Biden once again demonstrated the folly of his professional handlers, speechwriters, and P.R. flacks. Based on what we're seeing of Biden's public performance, we have to conclude that these people are...
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August 30, 2022
Senator Lindsey Graham claims Republicans are prone to riotEvery time Lindsey Graham tries to work his way back to the conservative fold, he blurts out something in a way that hurts not just Graham, but all Republicans. For his long history in the U.S. Senate, Graham has reliably been the Republic...
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August 20, 2022
Are Greg Gutfeld's satire targets becoming an endangered species?For nearly a year now, Greg Gutfeld's eponymous Fox News late-night talk show, Gutfeld, has been at the top of the ratings — not just on cable, but also in comparison to the late-night television shows on NBC, ABC, CNN, and Fox En...
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August 17, 2022
These Two Amendments Are Trump's Friend Right NowThe recent Mar-a-Lago raid will go down in history as one of the more egregious violations of any individual's constitutional protections. Objective future historians will view this as an outrageous abuse of the tradition that former p...
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July 30, 2022
Biden's realityIn college, rather than majoring in art — I was offered a full scholarship, but I realized there was no job market there — I went to a "trade school" — i.e., a major that led to a chance of employment. For me, t...
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June 17, 2022
Gunfight at the No-Kay CorralWhen will they ever learn? Apparently not any time soon. Once again, progressive Democrats have lured weak-kneed Senate Republicans – apparently eager for ‘approval’ from people and organizations who will, in truth, never g...
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June 14, 2022
Why Fox News Doesn’t Have to Broadcast the Stage-Managed January 6 ‘Hearings’The left-wing media, as well as their cohorts among elected officials and irate individuals in the Twitterverse, are all a-twitter about how Fox News is somehow violating a sacred public trust. They allegedly did this by not programming gavel-t...
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May 25, 2022
'For God's sake': Joe Biden and the Texas tragedyFor God's sake, Mister President, don't turn this tragedy into cheap political capital. I just watched President Joe Biden take a stab at playing the role of America's "mourner in chief," a role his Democrat predecessor,...
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March 5, 2022
Biden Should Check Franklin Roosevelt's Record before He Sanctions RussiaWhen President Biden gave his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, he opened with a paean to plucky little Ukraine, vowing to help that country with everything short of direct military action. He also pledged to live by our NATO treaty, t...
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March 1, 2022
Russia has Forgotten the Hard Lessons it Learned Invading FinlandRussia learned some hard lessons when it invaded Finland in November 1939. Today in Ukraine, it’s become clear that those lessons didn’t “stick,” at least not among Russia’s decision-makers. In the winter of 193...
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February 14, 2022
How a Potential Russia v. Ukraine War of 2022 Parallels the Germany v. Poland War of 1939Joe Biden is clearly not a student of recent history. Most specifically, he needs to revisit the lessons learned from the start of the Second World War in Europe. If he doesn’t wake up and smell the coffee, he may be as guilty of star...
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October 24, 2021
BeagleGate Strikes FauciIt takes a lot to mobilize a truly bi-partisan group of Congressional Reps to take action, especially against something being done by the Biden administration’s golden boy of COVID mis-information, Dr. Anthony Fauci. However, twenty-four ...
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February 10, 2021
How Silicon Valley's virtual monopolies helped TrumpImmediately after the Jan. 6 demonstrations at the Capitol, the cabal of "woke" Silicon Valley communications platforms — led by Twitter — banned President Donald J. Trump from ever posting again. This was meant ...
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January 29, 2021
Gitmo terrorist prisoners moved to head of the vaccine line —Biden PentagonPresident Joe Biden's Pentagon has just jumped 40 Islamo-fascist terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay to the head of the COVID-19 vaccine line. In a country where more than 300 million citizens and legal residents are enduring a long-...
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January 22, 2021
Gender-neutral playing cards?The media has been buzzing with this news about the young forensic psychologist from Oegstgeest, Netherlands and her amazing creation. A quick Google review of this story found more than 100 news stories about this innovation – not just (...
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November 14, 2020
The new gun-owner electoral surpriseThe 2020 election is technically over, even though the results remain up in the air. A real resolution is probably a month away, at the time when the Electoral College casts its votes. However, it's not too early to learn so...
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November 3, 2020
What to expect from President Trump and would-be President BidenToday is your last chance to vote. Democrats and their fellow travelers have poured millions in this election. The only way to overcome their heavy-dollar commitment is for each of us to vote and to encourage our friends, family...
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October 23, 2020
Figures Don’t Lie, But Liars Figure: Unemployment Figures Dramatically Favor Republican-Led StatesAugust’s unemployment figures, just released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, paint a remarkably consistent picture that correlates – almost uncannily – between low unemployment rates in states led by Republican governors and high...
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October 2, 2020
Tuesday's big debate losers: Chris Wallace...I'm sure that the chattering class and the political spin-meisters have been powering through the wreckage that was the first presidential debate of the 2020 election season. However, I'm reasonably certain that many of these talking heads...
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September 23, 2020
The Clinton blame game — the next generationSince her husband was first elected president in 1992, Hillary Clinton has proved adept at blaming everyone (but herself) for the negative things in her life, from "lies" about Bill Clinton's fidelity (remember "the vast right-wing...
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September 14, 2020
Colin Kaepernick does it againBack in pre-COVID America, second-string NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick started one strategic arm of the social justice movement in the fall of 2016. At a televised NFL game, Kaepernick very publicly took a knee during the Nati...
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September 14, 2020
It’s not an IQ test, Joe...Saturday evening around 7 P.M., two L.A. sheriff's deputies were ambushed in their patrol car in the Compton area of Los Angeles County. A short, stocky man with dark skin, wearing a gray hoodie over a white t-shirt and black shorts an...
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September 3, 2020
Growth in First-Time Gun Sales Has Election ImplicationsMore than a decade ago, my wife gave me – as a Christmas gift – a single share of stock for Ruger, a leading American gun manufacturer. She gave our kids stock, too – each company chosen for their own particular interests. It ...
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December 9, 2019
Democrat Climate Extremism a Boon to ConservativesIf you don't believe me, just ask the Democrats. They're going all in on global warming, believing that — as an issue — climate change will be an election-winning strategy. That's what they say, and appar...
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December 5, 2019
Down-Ticket Republicans Should Pray Joe Biden Is the Democrat NomineeThe Democrat Convention will gavel itself into existence on July 13, about seven months from now, and while it is far too early to make firm predictions, so far, the smart money seems to be on Biden. According to Rasmussen, Joe Biden holds...
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November 26, 2019
Transgenderism and the OlympicsNext year's Tokyo Summer Olympics may spell the swift death of the transgender movement as a dominant politically correct touchstone. Men, self-identifying as women, are poised to make a clean sweep of the Women's Olympic...
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November 19, 2019
Impeachment hearings – good for business?The current round of impeachment hearings do not seem to be going the way the Democrats might have hoped. No smoking guns have been found, while key anti-Trump witnesses, including the recently-replaced Ambassador to the Ukraine, admitting unde...
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October 10, 2018
Cultural Appropriation and HalloweenWith Halloween just around the corner, it's a good time for parents, grandparents, and others who care about their kids – and adults, too – to have a look at cultural appropriation. Last year, USA Today asked, in ...
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October 8, 2018
How Many Words Can You Write before You're Guilty of Cultural Appropriation?The Politically Correct Culture Police are at it again, and the insanity that defines what they call cultural appropriation has finally reached beyond simple comprehension. I first became aware of this when nonsensical snowflakes began condemning ...
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September 8, 2018
Bye-bye (not buy, buy), NikeNo sane company willingly alienates half of the entire potential U.S. market, yet that's what Nike just did. This makes me wonder if the people running the company are, in fact, sane – or if, perhaps, those decision-makers live a...
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September 6, 2018
The Awful Unintended Consequences of Virtue-Signaling LiberalsDoing good for those less fortunate is a positive thing; however, doing good for the purpose of virtue-signaling can have hugely devastating unintended consequences. An example of this can be found in the various liberal pure water initiat...
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August 25, 2018
Remembering John McCain as his moment comesThis won't be a popular column, because John McCain is not popular with conservatives. However, I invite my fellow conservatives to rise above their deeply ingrained dislike of McCain to consider him as a man, making a courageous decis...
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May 16, 2018
Transactional TransgenderismThere's a new book out: When Harry Became Sally – Responding to the Transgender Moment, by Ryan T. Anderson, which is one of the first rational (which is to say "conservative") looks at what I call "transactional tr...
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November 25, 2017
When Does Being a Jerk, or Just a Guy, Become Sexual Harassment?First, a caveat that is totally non-controversial: Real sexual harassment is never OK. But what is real sexual harassment? To my mind, sexual harassment exists when a predator, generally but not exclusively male, uses power – either ph...
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November 22, 2017
Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas: Not such a great ideaLas Vegas is, in many ways, a great city to live and work in, but it's got an image problem that's about to get a lot worse. We're about to have a team of traitors move to Vegas. Vegas is vibrant, with a lot of action – the...
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November 17, 2017
Two Issues, Two Answers: Time for SCOTUS to Make Some Hard ChoicesThe Supreme Court is facing two First Amendment issues, and we are at risk of having two different answers – ones that can only further confuse an already confusing selection of legal precedents. One is Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado ...
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November 17, 2017
The aftermath of the '70s and '80s coming home to roostSenator Al Franken (D-Minn.) and one-time cinematic "action hero" actor Sylvester Stallone are today's latest targets of sexual harassment charges. They won't be the last. Political and Hollywood celebrities are discovering...
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November 15, 2017
Advertisers Shoot Themselves in the Foot When They Take SidesLike it or not, America is locked in an ongoing culture war between those who support the country and the Constitution on the one side and those who want to tear America down and create a new, single-viewpoint nation in their image on the other side....
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November 13, 2017
Is The Star-Spangled Banner racist?The objective genius writers and editors at Salon.com – supported by a lecturer in the Department of African-American studies at the University of Maryland who really should know better – are busy parroting the latest far-left O...
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November 11, 2017
Roy Moore: Voters' and conservatives' rock-and-a-hard place moral dilemmaAs a rule, I oppose the conflation of sexual allegations with automatically assumed guilt, something that has become rampant on college campuses. On campus, a woman can "charge" rape, and the accused man is automatically and immediate...
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November 1, 2017
For Once, Playing the Gay Card Proves to Be A House of Cards: Spacey vs. The SpacemanIt is rare when Hollywood turns on one of its own, especially when it turns on a legitimate star who is widely-acknowledged for having a gift in his field (in this case, acting). Yet Kevin Spacey was unhappily surprised to discover that even hi...
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October 28, 2017
Corporate bait-and-switch at left-leaning GoogleThe increasingly left-leaning Google-YouTube cabal has come up with an interesting bait-and-switch method of selling a premium service, YouTube Red, even at the expense of the advertisers underwriting YouTube's profitability. Recently, YouTube...
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October 27, 2017
If those kneeling NFL players were serious about making a difference...What can you say about pampered millionaires who behave like spoiled children? Well, you can call them celebrities, and you won't be wrong. But what you can't say about them is that they're committed. Because they're...
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August 27, 2017
Abortion versus popular cultureAdvocates of abortion – especially those who see abortion as little more than a somewhat more painful version of birth control – would like us all to believe that the vast majority of women, as well as a significant majority of all Americ...
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August 20, 2017
Imposing 21st Century Sensibilities on 18th and 19th Century ActionsPerhaps the most beloved hymn of the past two centuries is Amazing Grace – and if Star Trek, The Wrath of Khan is any indication, it will continue to be a beloved hymn well into the 23rd Century. As a measure of its popularity, this song ...
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August 19, 2017
When Haters Hijack HistoryIs anything and everything related to the Confederacy be wiped from the face of the earth? Doing so, these radicals risk losing sight of American history. True, there were some Confederates who were virulent racists. Nathan Bedford Fo...
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July 20, 2017
John McCain's brain cancer: A tragic diagnosis for an American heroCancer seems to be more prevalent today than ever before, but that is an illusion. Americans today are living far longer than did their grandparents, and if you live long enough, cancer becomes an increasingly common problem. John McCain has...
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July 19, 2017
Congressional Republicans create a one-man third partyNot since President John Tyler was abandoned by his own party has a major political party abandoned its own president – until now, that is. Back in 1841, Tyler, after the death of President William Henry Harrison, became the first vice presi...
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April 24, 2017
Justice for Bill O’ReillyAs Bill O’Reilly has just learned, America has become a nation that punishes men who are charged by women with inappropriate behavior. Convictions based on proof are not necessary – the charges are sufficient. Members of the D...
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April 20, 2017
Where and Why the MOAB Falls FlatThe recent deployment of the MOAB against tunnels and caves being used by ISIS fighters in Afghanistan is a perfect example of the right weapon on the right target at the right time. First, it's the right weapon. That massive bomb's ...
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January 29, 2017
More 'Rules' Sean Spicer Can Change for the Press PoolAs Miami-Dade Mayor proved by abandoning his city’s long-standing status as a Sanctuary City demonstrates, President Trump is a broom that is sweeping clean. He’s dramatically changing how government is “supposed" to work, focu...
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January 24, 2017
Do Trump's Appointees Understand the Problem with Climate Change?In the Senate's ongoing confirmation hearings, knee-jerk liberals keep asking President Trump's appointees – even though the question is totally irrelevant to the secretaries being questioned – about global warming (AGW, for anthr...
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January 23, 2017
Trump's 'America First' Has Nothing to Do with HitlerismAs Winston Churchill famously said, history is written by the victors. This was particularly true of the Second World War. For instance, few Americans living today realize that Hitler declared war on the U.S. Japan's attack at P...
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November 22, 2016
Trump and the 'Blind Trust'Sunday Morning’s political talk shows, as well as President Obama’s Victory Lap press conference (live from Peru), focused on the faux issue of the difficulties and challenges and, of course, Trump’s moral failings -- over his plan ...
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February 24, 2016
Rubio skips CPACIn a shocking move that has begun to reverberate throughout the American conservative movement, Marco Rubio has just announced that he’s skipping the 2016 CPAC – the Conservative Political Action Conference – the pre-eminent conserv...
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February 17, 2016
The Republican schoolyard playgroundPolitical debates and political ads can take on the tenor of an elementary school playground, with bullies and whiners and tattletales. This is what's happening now in the Republican primary race, and it's not helping anybody. There ...
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February 16, 2016
It looks like Hillary is losing her Nevada betNevada’s Democrat caucus is scheduled for this coming Saturday, ahead of the South Carolina primary. Because of the state’s diversity – 15 percent black and more than 25 percent Hispanic – Nevada was, as Team Clinton tol...
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February 14, 2016
Did We Just See A Trump-Killer Moment?Front-Runner Donald Trump may just have crossed a line, one that can’t be un-crossed. Back before the Iowa Caucus, on January 29th, I wrote here in American Thinker that there were only two possible Trump-Killers: 1. ...
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February 11, 2016
How the Media Expectations Game Manufactured Winners and Losers in New HampshireIn both politics and public relations, perception is reality -- and this was never truer than in the New Hampshire primary. The candidates, of course, can’t shape their own perceptions. Just as Wall Street analysts set expecta...
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February 11, 2016
Abortion extremists looking pretty stupid over that Doritos adReacting to Super Bowl ads, the radical pro-abortion group NARAL put their extremism on public display. Most of the ads were deemed sexist by this humorless group of control freaks, but they saved their special ire for the Doritos ad, which sho...
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February 7, 2016
The Debate that Just Won’t MatterSaturday night’s Republican debate could have made all the difference for any one of the candidates. Instead, it didn’t make any difference at all, not for any of them. The men at the top of the polls didn’t stand out, so noth...
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February 5, 2016
Is the Donald Trump Big Bully Act Wearing Thin?Earlier this week, Trump performed less well than expected in Iowa. At first, he was gracious and magnanimous, even accepting the blame for his setback. But that was then. Now, Trump is demanding a do-over of the entire Iowa caucus. It didn’...
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February 4, 2016
GOP Contenders and the Art of Changing PositionsEach of the top-three Republican presidential candidates has stumbled, tripping over a position he once held, and then changed. Having changed his position on something big or small, he winds up spending entirely too much time either trying to ...
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February 2, 2016
Free speech now seen as lobbying by New York State regulatorsA new set of regulations passed by the New York State Ethics Panel puts a muzzle on free speech and on a free press. These regs stand in violation of prior Supreme Court rulings that defined the difference between paid lobbying and free speech ...
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February 1, 2016
The Real Reason Hillary Tied Her Campaign to ObamaMany commentators and political pundits have wondered why Hillary Clinton – who's hardly at the top of the public opinion polls for likability and trustworthiness – has so intensely tied her campaign to Obama. After all, Obama...
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January 29, 2016
The Two Trump-Killers his Opponents are Praying forAs Iowa, and then New Hampshire approach, the various opponents of Donald Trump are working their rosaries, bowing toward Mecca, sacrificing spotless lambs, lighting votive candles, chalking pentagrams in their basement floors, tossing coins in the f...
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January 22, 2016
Donald Trump, champion of evangelicals?Ferreting out Donald Trump’s faith is – as is so much with The Donald – complicated. Reports – including some from the man himself – have at different times identified him as a Catholic, a Dutch Reformed Church mem...
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January 17, 2016
The Debate’s New York Moment and Why It Doesn’t MatterWhen Ted Cruz made his “New York Values” comment, something that every conservative American living in fly-over country understood clearly, Donald Trump threw a “below the belt” punch by grabbing onto New York’s shining ...
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January 5, 2016
Why Iowa and New Hampshire won't matter this timeHere’s a news flash. The Iowa Caucus and the New Hampshire Primary will not matter this year, at least not in the way they’ve mattered every four years for as long as I can remember. You can take that to the bank. All...
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May 13, 2015
Some GOP contenders stumbling out of the starting blockI like Scott Walker. Guided by conservative principles, he has effectively governed a big, liberal state. He stood up to the unions – especially the public employee unions – and faced down a well-funded and no-holds-barred vic...
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March 4, 2012
The Apology-Gotcha GameThe "Apology-Gotcha Game" has become one of American politics's favorite indoor sports -- one that has increasingly dominated our public political discourse over the past decade. If you want to play, it helps if your cause is politically correc...
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March 3, 2012
Going Too Far in a Good Cause"Causes," and those who support them, play a vital role in society, often helping society to redirect its focus away from hurtful attitudes or policies and toward more humane or politically sound positions. However, sometimes even the best caus...
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February 28, 2012
We Don't Belong ThereAmidst riots spreading throughout Afghanistan, four American soldiers have been shot dead -- two by a uniformed Afghan soldier and two by an Afghan Interior Ministry official assigned to work with those Americans. Four dozen Afghanis are also d...
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February 15, 2009
Is Obama another FDR?Barack Obama is very consciously modeling the beginning of his Presidency after Democratic icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who is incorrectly credited as the savior of America from the ravages of the Great Depression. Obama is trying to tap into that...
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December 9, 2008
Obama's End Run around CongressCandidate Barack Obama promised "change we can believe in," but he never hinted that this change would all but circumvent Congress to impose on America the most dramatic liberal social transformation since the New Deal. While promisin...
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October 27, 2008
Senator Obama's Four Tax Increases for People Earning Under $250kI confess. Senator Obama's two tax promises: to limit tax increases to only those making over $250,000 a year, and to not raise taxes on 95% of "working Americans," intrigued me. As a hard-working small business owner, over the ...
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June 15, 2008
Can McCain Remain Competitive?If money is the mother's milk of politics, then Senator John McCain seems intent on going on a hunger strike. Barack Obama has proved to be the most effective fund-raiser in the history of American politics, at a time when McCain seems to be do...
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May 27, 2008
Subway Bans Homeschooled Kids from Essay ContestSubway -- the multi-national fast-food sub-shop giant -- has shot themselves in the foot. Again. The goal of their latest promotion was to win the loyalty of parents of grade school-aged kids -- to increase market share, revenue and profi...
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May 9, 2008
Hillary Clinton's Nuclear OptionMost pundits are telling Senator Hillary Clinton that it's all over but the shouting. The math is against her. However, the math is also currently against Senator Obama -- neither candidate can earn the needed majority in the remaining pr...
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May 3, 2008
Obama's Stealth Pro-Abortion Stance"The dog that didn't bark" is the central clue in the Sherlock Holmes story, "Silver Blaze." This oddly quiet watchdog's silence told Holmes that the horse-theft was an inside job - pulled off by the horse's trainer. T...
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April 2, 2008
Obama's abortion strategyAs I thought about Senator Obama's seemingly off-the-cuff comment Saturday advocating on-demand "convenience abortions" for minors, I realized that this was part of a larger strategy to carve supporters away from traditional feminist candid...
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August 23, 2006
DNC Changes the Rules AgainOver the past week, the Democratic National Committee drastically changed the rules for nominating a Presidential candidate. In doing so, they junked the long—standing tradition of having the Iowa Caucuses and the New Hampshire Primary launch t...
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July 26, 2006
Winning the Public Relations War for IsraelIf Israel wants to sustain US support for its efforts to defend its homeland from terrorists (which is what this current battle in the Middle East is all about), it needs to paint a word—picture that will cut through left/right politics and rea...