Robert Gelinas

Robert Gelinas


  • August 17, 2015

    The Trump Paradox

    The Washington chattering class is perplexed and bedeviled by a political alien by the name of Donald Trump, who just doesn’t have the good manners to die, no matter how hard they try to kill him. No, like The Terminator, he keeps on coming, ad...

  • September 20, 2011

    Obama's None-Too-Divine Comedy

    The decision of who will become the next president of the United States will be made long before November of 2012.  After the current president's most recent tour de farce before a joint session of Congress, it is rapidly becoming a foregone con...

  • October 9, 2010

    If We Build It, They Will Come... Won't They?

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  • May 8, 2010

    A Tale of Two Car Bombs

    It happened on August 8, 1981, at 7:21 am (some reports said it was 7:15, but I was there, about a hundred yards away).I felt it more than heard it. The first sensations were the air in the room slapping me, stinging my face, and the impact tremor be...

  • April 10, 2010

    The Liberty to Achieve

    "Social justice" is an oxymoron -- a contradiction of terms, built on a lie.Helen Keller opined, "Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be...

  • March 21, 2010

    The Demon Pass and Its Self-Executing Slaughter Solution

    "Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice."  -Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart, 1938In war, theologically driven fanatical leaders see their sacrificial soldiers as martyrs. A secular warlo...

  • March 13, 2010

    The Big Lie of Health Care Reform

    One-sixth of the U.S. economy is threatened with a takeover by the federal government on the erroneous rationale that "tens of millions of people in the U.S. are without health care insurance, and therefore are being denied access to adequate he...