December 11, 2019

When Wray goes away, will Flynn fill in?

General Michael Flynn is about to be exonerated, Wray isn't doing the job, and the American people desperately need someone trustworthy at the FBI. As various people have reported, FBI director Christopher Wray seems to have lost Presiden...

October 28, 2018

Understanding the Socialist Delusion

Democrats are nuts, and their violence will get worse - but to help them back to sanity we must understand what's going on with them. We can observe the left's behavior without understanding or judging it. In general that behavior can be s...

September 6, 2018

Why focus on Trump?

Here's a passage from a June 6, 2018 article by Ivan Pentchoukov ("Spy Operation on Trump Campaign Started as Early as December 2015, New Texts Suggest"): The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committ...

August 4, 2017

A better wall

Since it is very much not in interest of those who run Mexico to have the United States act to rebalance the labor cost component of cross-border products, I've been expecting the NAFTA renegotiations to quietly include a Mexican government commi...

July 10, 2017

An Integrated Healthcare Strategy

What's missing from the healthcare efforts undertaken by the Trump administration is a political strategy aimed at defeating leftist efforts to implement a national socialized healthcare scheme like those in England and Canada. Absent such a stra...

July 8, 2017

Green bragging rights: Tesla X vs. Volvo XC90

"Austin" (not his real name) is a neighbor whom I recently had a gentle conversation with after he tried lecturing four kids, including one of mine, on the moral rightness of driving Tesla instead of something with an internal combustion en...

July 1, 2017

Why Canadians, Brits, and everybody else need Obamacare fully repealed

The Senate healthcare bill now on life-support may, like RyanCare before it, be revived through the injections of public money and minor policy variations needed to move recalcitrant conservatives off Stop. Unfortunately, both the House and Senate ve...

June 27, 2017

The Senate's Obamacare repeal is a trap

A review of the Senate's Obamacare repeal legislation suggests that this isn't a repeal at all.  What it amounts to is a new and improved version of Obamacare with a little more realism on funding, a little more freedom for insurers, a l...

May 21, 2017

Democrats in the Cesspits of Despair

I have an answer for the Instapundit's favorite question: "Why is the Democratic Party such a cesspit of hypocrisy?" in two words: "disconfirmatory reality,” meaning the failure of reality to conform to their beliefs. This le...

May 17, 2017

How about Michael Flynn for FBI director?

It's a good bet that the Trump team has asked at least two people to consider taking the top job at the FBI, and both are dithering because neither wants to face the storm of negativity the Democrats will unleash on the nominee. There's an...

April 5, 2017

Rice vs. Trump: a deafening silence on the obvious

This week, the Daily Caller published a story on the Obama administration's use, through national security adviser Susan Rice, of NSA information assets to spy on its political opponents.  That story ends with these words...

April 1, 2017

Understanding the Ryancare Play

When it comes to health care reform, there most certainly is a right thing to do.  But those guys in Washington are clearly launched in a very different direction.  So what's that about? Ryancare was fundamentally flawed because it a...

March 11, 2017

Cutting the Obamacare Knots

Conservatives in Congress are not buying Paul Ryan's proposed ObamaCare revisions mainly because Ryan seems have accepted, as Trump implicitly did when he promised nearly universal coverage, the idea that health care services should be provided f...

February 15, 2017

The scandal-plagued Trump regime

This week, the same people in the media and the Democratic Party leadership who applauded then-senator Obama's world diplomatic tours in 2008 managed to take their first Trump administration scalp: that of General Michael Flynn – and based ...

January 26, 2017

Go, Rudy, Go! Cyber-Security in the Age of Trump

Shortly before his inauguration, Donald Trump asked Rudy Giuliani to put together an advisory group aimed at helping Mr. Trump's administration understand and respond to "cyber-security" threats.  I'm obviously not going to be ...

January 19, 2017

The Giuliani cyber-security commission: Harbinger of hope

Last week, Mr. Trump asked Rudy Giuliani to put together an advisory group aimed at helping the administration understand and respond to "cyber-security" threats. To most of us, this seemed like a pretty ordinary thing to do, and it shou...

January 6, 2017

What's Really Going On with Trump and Ford

Earlier this week, Ford announced new investment in Michigan instead of Mexico, and that set off a storm of speculation as to why they might have done it.  Most of that speculation focuses on two possible answers, with some arguing that Ford act...

December 8, 2016

Understanding Fake News

Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance has been detested and denigrated by the social sciences community since its first formal description in 1956. As a result, a lot of what people have been taught about it is wrong -- specifically, th...

November 27, 2016

Here's where Trump should put Mitt Romney

The Hill just ran a long article headlined "Trump team ducks and weaves on Romney-Giuliani feud."  In broad terms, the article reflects the choice the left sees the Trump transition team facing: select Giuliani for State and reward loy...

November 23, 2016

An observation about senior Democrats

In the last few days, I've probably read more than forty pieces written by deeply concerned Democrats trying to rationalize what happened to their party on November 8, but not a single one has even suggested the possibility that the people and po...

November 10, 2016

Ensuring Electoral Integrity in 2020

Al Franken cast the decisive 60th senate vote passing Obamacare and virtually everyone now agrees that his initial election in 2008 was achieved through judicially assisted electoral fraud; Clinton buddy Terry McAuliffe was almost certainly elected b...

September 20, 2016

Platte River Networks executive epic fail opens new avenues

The news on Monday the 19th included this headline, by Sundance, at the Conservative Treehouse: Discovery - 2014 Reddit Archive: Platte River Network's Paul Combetta ("Oh Shit" Guy) Requesting Tech Help To Strip "VIP's Ema...

September 10, 2016

How Russia Entered the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy

A September 6 story in the New York Times headlined "Nancy Pelosi Urges Paul Ryan to Ban Republicans From Using Hacked Documents" contains this: Ms. Pelosi, calling the hack into Democratic servers, apparently by Russians, "an unp...

August 12, 2016

Democrats, Slavery, and the American Record

In both 2008 and 2012 black voters seemed to overwhelmingly favor Obama, and today, at least according to an August 8th headline at The Atlantic, Black Pastors Are Breaking the Law to Get Hillary Clinton Elected. That article doesn't mention t...

July 19, 2016

How Democrats Steal Elections

The reality is that in the 2016 election it now takes more than a majority for a Republican to win. Romney, for example, won about two thirds of all precincts nationwide and probably got in the range of 55% of the verifiable vote, but lost the electi...

December 2, 2015

The GOP Reset Button: 'You're Fired!'

Progressives aren't mentally normal, and neither is the GOP political establishment in Washington. Normal babies learn that if something hurts, you stop doing it, but when progressives see their policies fail, they blame the people involved and d...

November 22, 2015

The GOP Amnesty Opportunity

The easiest way to understand the effect of what the Obama Democrats are doing with respect to immigration is to think of it as an updated version of the strategy Castro's mercenaries used to destabilize Angola, Somalia, and a host of other Afric...

October 30, 2015

Leftist lies matter

The opposite of "right" is both "wrong" and "left" – and these really are synonymous far more often than you might think.  Most Democrats, for example, believe that the German Socialist Worker's Party was ...

October 9, 2015

Commonsense Gun Reforms

A major reason the WW I doughboys were such effective soldiers was that they knew how to use their rifles to hit what they were aiming at -- and that happened because the gun was, for most Americans, an everyday tool. By the mid-1960s, however, many ...

September 30, 2015

In Volkswagen's Defense

First, let me say that I drive a Volvo XC70 - a 300 HP, 5000 pound, gas guzzler that gets about 9,000 miles per ticket -- and have never owned, or wanted, either a Volkswagen or an Audi. It's unfair to hold today's Volkswagen AG accountabl...

September 19, 2015

The meaning of Trump

Many people seem to think that Mr. Trump dominated the latest GOP candidates' debate but can't win the nomination, while Ms. Fiorina came in second but can. There are three things to bear in mind while thinking about this: 1) Eithe...

March 6, 2015

The Impact and Purpose of Net Neutrality

In theory, Democrats regulate because they believe that society progresses when the leadership elites make decisions for everyone -- and correspondingly, Republicans oppose regulation because they generally believe that societies progress best w...

February 27, 2015

About Obama's 50% approval rating

One of the many odd things about the whole IQ measurement business is that significantly less than 50% of any large human population is in any practical sense of below average intelligence -- so when Gallup recently announced that Mr. Obama's pop...

February 26, 2015

Right-Wing Extremism? Really?

A February 20th, 2015 CNN report: "DHS intelligence report warns of domestic right-wing terror threat" has been widely cited in the Obamacon press as authoritative proof that right wing crazies are threatening to blow up the country. CNN...

February 6, 2015

Finally: Sarah Palin, yes

The Thursday, February 5, article "Not Sarah Palin -- not again," by Jerry Shenk, struck me as dead wrong on all counts. First, Sarah Palin is one of us, not one of them. Second, the country needs a healer – someone who can rise...

June 27, 2013

Blasphemy Law Comes to Facebook

Over the last couple of weeks Facebook has clamped down heavily on various (around 40) counter-jihad and patriot pages. The administrators of these pages were shocked when they logged on and found that their pages had suddenly 'disappeared'. In some ...

April 23, 2013

Is Guantanamo Detention Camp really the 'Gulag of our times'?

Recently I posted an image of an Iranian torture chamber on my Facebook in which an inmate was being tortured for the pleasure of various Muslim officials, including the ex-President of Iran, Muhammad Khatami (president between 1997 and 2005). This i...

April 21, 2013

Does the US execute more criminals than North Korea and Afghanistan?

Amnesty International (AI) published a survey at the beginning of April about the number of executions which occurred worldwide in 2012. It flatly stated that the "United States executes more people than North Korea and Afghanistan."This is an extrem...

December 14, 2012

The GOP Opportunity in Electoral College Reform

There is a pre-groundswell mutter coming from the Democrat media right now about calling a constitutional convention to get rid of the electoral college -- with the not so hidden agenda of removing a few other impediments to their policies, including...

December 6, 2012

Who elected Obama?

Many Republicans seem ready to agree to Obama's demands for tax increases -- after all, elections have consequences, and he won, right? Maybe, but before agreeing to anything, the GOP should probably look a little more carefully at just who elected...

November 17, 2012

Did Obama Cheat? How to Answer the Question

There are 15 states with photo ID requirements for voting.  Mr. Obama lost in all of them.  In places with the weakest controls, specifically counties in Florida, Ohio, Colorado, and Pennsylvania, he generally drew turnouts in the 90% or gr...

November 10, 2012

'It Ain't Over 'til It's Over': What to Do Now

In all the crying and wailing going on about Mr. Obama's continued presence in the White House two things seem to be completely missing: an honest appraisal of what happened; and, a serious plan for saving the republic. What happened is painfully o...