November 8, 2024

Bergoglio Fiddles as the Church Burns

The Vatican’s Synod on Synodality, an all-inclusive gathering of four hundred progressive cardinals, bishops, laypeople, diverse religious communities, gay advocacy groups, and liberal theologians, is finally in the rear-view mirror. Its work o...

July 9, 2024

The Jesuits Come Home to Roost

Pope Francis née Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who practices an ecclesiology tailored to the spirit of the times, could easily be mistaken as Joe Biden in a white cassock and skull cap. They share an imperious disposition that takes delight in overtu...

February 14, 2024

A Papacy Fit for the End Times

The Holy See has become a playground for secular causes and worldly pursuits, keeping Catholicism on a decline that started with the implementation of the liturgical reforms of the Vatican II Council in 1969 and created the new order of the Mass. Man...

November 15, 2023

Congress on a Hamster Wheel

Notwithstanding the messy intermezzo over the House speakership, Republican congressional chairs James Comer, Jason Smith, and Jim Jordan have used their committees to triangulate a cogent case of rampant political corruption and grift by the Biden f...

August 11, 2023

Why Ban Books if you can Rewrite Them?

Progressives have succeeded in draining all semblance of common sense and morality from the Democrat Party.  They have also been hammering away at free speech for decades, using college campuses as havens for restrictive speech codes to turn thr...

March 1, 2023

Just Call it What it Is

Ever fearful of a Trump curtain call in 2024, the powers behind Joe Biden’s throne have throttled up their efforts to institutionalize socialist rule in America.  A path has been cut by means of a legal assault on state election proto...

January 3, 2023

Guns for Me but Not for Thee

It’s 2023, and two of America’s deep-blue governors are still having conniptions over the June 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association vs. Bruen that threw out the need for a justifiable reason to rec...

December 20, 2022

Not Your Grandfather's Election Day

Republicans are still recovering from the midterms hangover after suffering a stiff dose of how probabilistic mathematics, statistics, blood-red election maps, armchair predictions, and century-long historical trends are collectively no match for the...

October 10, 2022

With ESG, Everyone's a Climate Activist

In 2019, 266 members of the influential Business Roundtable, including the world’s largest fund managers, bankers, communications carriers, even fossil-fuel companies at the risk of their own survival, signed off on a one-page statement reimagi...

September 21, 2022

A Figurehead Fiddles While America Burns

Joe Biden has ruled against the will of the people for almost two years as a straw boss who has earned the title of capo di tutti capo of human traffickers.  Often exceeding his constitutional authority to circumvent congressional lawmaking, he ...

September 8, 2022

Ripping Out the Soul of a Nation

As the midterms approach, Joe Biden is accelerating his trademark attacks against Republicans-at-large and Trump voters in particular.  In his demented state, perceptions of conservatism as conventional political thought and ultra-MAGA as extrem...

August 24, 2022

Stopping Biden After November

As November looms, Republicans remain giddy about the probability of victory in both chambers of Congress.  Unfortunately, without a two-thirds majority needed to overturn regular and pocket vetoes by the president, a politically divisive Americ...

July 23, 2022

Fishing for a Biden Successor

Provided the Democrats don’t meddle with the mail-in ballots, drop boxes, or cover their hijinks with a doomsday variant, congressional gavels will change hands in November.  If Joe Biden seeks re-election after this drubbing, it will be a...

July 5, 2022

The Calamity Janes

June 24, 2022 was a momentous day for both life and democracy.  The SCOTUS decision in Dobbs, hardly a cliffhanger by standards of the Roberts court, sent the issue of abortion back to the states where it belonged and put the endemic malevolence...

June 21, 2022

How New Jersey Mollycoddles Illegals

According to the nonpartisan New Jersey Office of Legislative Services (OLS), Governor Phil Murphy has once again slipped the ethical leash.  Not to be outdone in progressive circles and to burnish his credentials for the 2024 presidential elect...

May 4, 2022

Government by Punchline

It has taken just a year and a half for Joe Biden to mature into a caricature attached to a teleprompter.  It is a sad state of affairs that our allies and enemies have learned not to take Biden at his word, instead withholding judgment until Wh...

March 18, 2022

Putin's Sudetenland

The Treaty of Versailles, doling out spoils to the victors at the end of the  First World War, was a Carthaginian peace that sliced and diced Germany, surrendering provinces to Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Poland, and cutting homeland ties to se...

February 9, 2022

And the Band Played On

Those familiar with this title ascribe it to those who downplay or conceal others from an impending catastrophe.  It is drawn from the story of the fated musicians who performed beyond any hope of their own salvation on the submerging deck of th...

January 20, 2022

Biden Crosses the Rubicon

Even the venerable Abraham Lincoln, in a presidency dragged down by the secession of half his domain, chose to separate the causes of the Confederacy from the character of the people settled upon it.  In that one and only American Civil War, Lin...

January 4, 2022

New Jersey vs. Gun Owners

For much of the past forty years and more often at government expense, Phil Murphy has surrounded himself with a well-armed and trained private and public security force, first as a bigwig with Goldman Sachs, then as U.S. ambassador to Germany for Ba...

December 14, 2021

The Whitewashing of Black Crime

Selectively reporting or downright ignoring crime based upon race is a dangerous gambit in the hands of a partisan media with a political ax to grind.  The Associated Press Stylebook cautions journalists against identifying race in crime reporti...

November 20, 2021

A Border Sheriff's Reality

Mark Dannels is the well-known and respected sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, a large jurisdiction that put its first county seat in the iconic frontier town of Tombstone and took its name from one of the most famous and feared war chiefs of the C...

November 7, 2021

The Pick of the Left's Litter

The cascade of unforced domestic and international policy errors of the current administration, each more damaging to our economic well-being and national security than any fabricated misstep of the Trump presidency, has not dissuaded most Republican...

September 24, 2021

Biden's DoJ vs. the Police

While American heads are still spinning over Afghanistan, despotic COVID mandates, and gluttonous spending bills, the Civil Rights Division (CRD) under Merrick Garland is quietly advancing a Biden campaign promise to put major police departments back...

September 10, 2021

The Coming COVID Apartheid

Even before his radical demands Thursday for vaccination of federal employees and those of federal contractors and large companies, President Biden was seeking to demonize the unvaxxed. When it comes to the pandemic, only one-half of Americans are...

August 6, 2021

Whose Insurrection is it, Anyway?

The progressive front controlling the kill switches for the White House teleprompter and lectern audio are also busy crafting policy up and down Constitution Avenue.  With much of their radical legislation sent to the dustbin by a couple of stif...

July 22, 2021

The Real Faces of Privilege

Last April quietly marked the second anniversary of Attorney General William Barr’s appointment of Connecticut U.S. attorney John Durham to look into the origins of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation by the FBI, the nom de guerre for a Trump...

July 1, 2021

Taking a Knee to Public Safety

As Governor Phil Murphy’s pick for top cop, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has become the perfect chameleon, changing his ideological stripes against whatever political backdrop he finds himself. Since taking office in 2018, Grewal h...

June 8, 2021

The Pandemic that Keeps on Giving

With very rare exceptions now on display in the Senate, congressional Democrats are a mass movement worthy of a few aphorisms from the late, great Eric Hoffer. Wholly disinclined to individualism, their tendency to cohesion is blatantly undemocratic,...

May 10, 2021

A Phony Insurrection Brings on a Real Purge

For the new White House tenants, the events of January 6, 2021 ushered an opportunity to refresh the progressive narrative and raise public hackles against soldiers and cops.  Throwing fuel on that Reichstag fire were approximately fifty arreste...

April 25, 2021

What's in a Basket of Deplorables?

There are few nicknames proffered in contempt that have rallied Republicans more to a cause than the appropriately capitalized “Deplorables.”  Hardened Republicans, and even those who practice mainstream conservatism, adopted this pe...

April 14, 2021

Stupid is as Stupid Votes

If congressional resolutions had a voice, House Bill 1 (HB1), at 30 pounds a considerably obese tome, would let slip the parts usually kept at bay from the electorate.  The For the People Act of 2021 is the antonymic title for the most openly un...

April 3, 2021

New Victims of the Year of the Ox

So far, the Year of the Ox has brought fortune to the China Communist Party (CPP). In Anchorage, the Obama redux team from the State Department went belly up on its own soil. Slapping high fives and wearing party hats behind the Xinhua Gate, it...

March 19, 2021

Say it ain't so, Joe

Befitting an age of masks, Joe Biden’s first prime-time address to the country last Thursday evening was pure kabuki theater. Reprising his campaign schtick of walking, talking to a teleprompter, and avoiding improv, it was dispiriting at best....

March 9, 2021

Filiblustering the Future of America

The pace is quickening for House Democrats with last week’s passage of a troika of contrany titled bills now in the Senate hopper.  First to switch chambers was House Bill (HB) 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.  That was fol...

March 3, 2021

Taking the GOP Out Behind the Woodshed

At CPAC, Donald Trump swung a mighty cudgel against the corruption and subterfuge of the Democratic party.  While discounting rumors of starting his own political party and teasing the mainstream media with whispers of his own candidacy in 2024,...

February 24, 2021

Congressional Whack-a-Mole

At least half the country is bewildered by the incapacity of the Democrat party to get beyond Donald Trump.  We fondly remember bygone times when general elections were simply won or lost on Election Day, where the victors trotted off to church ...

February 19, 2021

Inoculating Against the Wrong Attitudes

Kurt Braddock is a thirty-something smart researcher and professor in the communications department of American University who has expanded upon the seventy-year old proposition that people can be conditioned to ignore extremist propaganda  ...

February 12, 2021

Biden's Cuba Conundrum

olitical luminaries on the left have always harbored a soft spot for the world’s dictators, Putin, Ortega, Jinping, Maduro, and Cuba’s successor to the Hermanos Castro, Miguel Diaz-Canel. Not to say that they align with the atrocities the...

February 7, 2021

The Art of the Steal

For every American, the fallout from Democrat party control of the presidency and both Houses is to be slowly dispossessed of their freedom to choose, speak, assemble, bear arms, and to be assured that your children will be given a proper educat...

January 26, 2021

C'mon, Joe

Brave commentators or run-of-the-mill voters who challenge Joe Biden with a politically awkward question may find themselves answered with a familiar refrain, “c’mon man.”  That sarcastic nip hides the mental fog often evi...

January 19, 2021

Stop the Steal

There’s something about the title of this article that really rubs Democrat socialists the wrong way.  It incites a level of anger and irrational behavior not seen since the MAGA clothing line hit the shelves.  For the Democrat party ...

January 12, 2021

The Politics of Inoculation

One week before Christmas, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer accused the Trump administration of stalling the shipment of millions of COVID vaccine doses.  Why would a president who spent the better part of a year pulling his beloved country back from...

January 5, 2021

Appeasing China

While we bemoan the events of the past year, the 90-million strong Chinese Communist Party (CCP) can rightfully celebrate a good half-century.  Since the Cold War, it has been a foreign policy goal of Mao Zedong and his successors to get America...

December 28, 2020

The First COVID Christmas

There was plenty of space under the tree this year.  Not anything to do at all with being good or bad.  Rather, that the usual bulk of boxes, fruit baskets, bangles, and bows have been replaced by a coterie of cute little string-handle bags...

December 21, 2020

From China, With Love

In an incautious moment during a November 28 panel presentation in Shanghai, Professor Di Dongsheng, Vice Dean of the School of International Relations at Renmin University, the school for children of the party elite, officially spilled the beans tha...

December 8, 2020

Biden's Illegal Immigrant Gravy Train

In the face of congressional fiscal and logistical roadblocks, President Trump has been undaunted in his efforts to control illegal immigration through the use of emergency powers, executive fiats, and discretionary financing to build an $11 billion ...

December 1, 2020

Woke Police Reform Doesn't Work

This summer, street anarchists and militias doubled down on their exploitation of fatal police-involved shootings as straw arguments to legitimize widespread rioting.  A 2019 landmark, five-year study published in the Proceedings of the Natio...

November 24, 2020

New Jersey and the Spoils of Legalization

Getting a joint into the hands of any grownup who wants one was a first-term campaign promise for Governor Phil Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs CEO and Obama ambassador to Germany with a penthouse empathy for progressive and social justice causes....

November 15, 2020

Will the Real Winner be China?

Cheered on by the media, presumptuous Democrats are already popping the corks and picking out the drapes for the Oval Office, giddy that more than 70 million Republican voters will be handed their red caps and shown the door. Not so fast.  Up...

October 28, 2020

The Battle Royal of 2020

It may be less than a week from a presidential election, but a battle royal has been underway for months. Like two navies angling for a better broadside, the legal teams of Donald Trump and Joe Biden are already sparring over the integrity of the 202...

October 22, 2020

Battling for the Youngest Minds

One would expect that a deceptive narrative about colonial America, rebuked by a couple of dozen distinguished historians of that era, would promptly be pulled from the shelves and kicked to the curb.  Not so for the 1619 Project, the New York T...

October 14, 2020

What Happened to the Riots?

The riots of 2020 are the battlefront of a movement hatched from an alternative history built upon an abstruse foundation of systemic racism and white privilege.  In early summer, they created an apocalyptic spectacle of 23 American cities in fl...

September 27, 2020

The University as Madrasah

A progressive and tenured professoriate who luxuriate in a rewarding lifestyle and station have held sway over the student body politic in higher education for generations.  Bred of a style of campus Marxism seeded in the sixties and disbeliever...

September 15, 2020

Murphy's Law and Vote Fraud in New Jersey

More than a century before hashtags and messaging apps, the era of political bosses and patronage made New Jersey the punch line of jokes about voter fraud.  Provincial anecdotes in Democrat county strongholds about the dead still voting an...