February 22, 2025

Where have all the ladies gone?

For months, on college campuses across the country, we’ve been treated to the sorry spectacle of obnoxious women, mostly young, dressed like vagrants, hurling epithets and bellowing inane slogans like “free Palestine” and ...

February 11, 2025

Confessions of Schadenfreude

It’s difficult to catalog the range of visceral emotions I feel as I watch President Trump, Elon Musk, and his team of whiz kids at DOGE dismantle the Deep State, piece by piece.  Anger.  Joy.  Disgust.  ...

November 13, 2024

Now govern accordingly

For the first time since 2018, and only the third time since the 1950s, the GOP will control all three seats of elected power in this country: the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. That’s about as much of a mandate as anyone can ask for. ...

October 30, 2024

‘Word salad’ versus ‘the Weave’

One of my main takeaways from the Joe Rogan interview was a greater appreciation for Donald Trump’s unique rhetorical style, which he has recently referred to as “the weave.” It is diametrically opposed to Kamala Harris’s styl...

September 18, 2024

Why I’m a single-issue voter

Like most politically active conservative voters, I’m concerned about a number of issues: abortion, immigration, inflation, taxes, DIE, “transgenderism,” antisemitism, and foreign policy, just to name a few. The Democrat candidat...

July 21, 2024

How the Left Plays the Long Game

Remember that schoolyard game we used to play as children, where one person turns their back and everyone else runs toward them, until they turn around and you have to stop in your tracks? Then they turn their back again, and you see how close you ca...

July 16, 2024

‘Fight, fight, fight!’

According to the left-wing media narrative, we conservatives are the violent ones. This despite the fact that a Bernie Bro shot up a congressional baseball game, targeting Republicans. Despite the fact that BLM and Antifa burned down multiple Amer...

July 8, 2024

Donald Trump, Gunslinger

A common plotline in the Western movie genre involves a lone, hard-bitten, rough-around-the-edges gunslinger, scarcely better than an outlaw himself, who rides into a small town plagued by genuine, hard-core outlaws. The townspeople, even if they ...

November 18, 2023

It’s always the women and children

As shocking and horrifying as it was to witness Hamas’s attack on innocent Israeli women and children, it shouldn’t really surprise us.  Women and children have always been the chief victims of “progressive” ideology...

January 7, 2023

Progressives seek to eradicate gender

Leftists like to refer to themselves as "progressives," which raises the obvious question: progress toward what?   Daily Wire host Matt Walsh, among others, has observed that leftism "progresses" like a...

March 8, 2022

Wisdom from my father

Sometimes I feel sorry for Barack Obama.  Though we grew up in the same era — indeed, were born less than two months apart — he had a very different upbringing.  The title of his first autobiography says it all: D...

December 29, 2021

The Two COVID Questions Before the Court

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up two vaccine mandate cases -- the one involving OSHA and the one for health care workers (CMS).      A third mandate, aimed at federal contractors, remains in a kind of legal limbo. The te...

November 22, 2021

College Tips for Conservative Parents

Lately, conservative parents have been laser-focused on K–12 education.  And well they should be: perhaps no other issue is as important to our nation's future. But what about college?  Those same parents wi...

September 13, 2021

Will Gen Z Save the World?

As a college professor for over 35 years, I’ve gotten to know three generations of students: Gen X (born between 1965 and 1980), the Millennials (1981-1996), and now Gen Z (1997-2012). And because I teach rhetoric, I’ve read thousands of ...

August 29, 2021

A Baby Boomer Explains What's Wrong with Millennials

If you're over 50, you might remember occasionally seeing small children throw temper tantrums in public, 25 or 30 years ago, and wondering what those kids would be like when they grew up.   Well, now you know.   The pro...

August 15, 2021

A pandemic appendix to The Devil's Dictionary

Ambrose Bierce was an early 20th-century writer, newspaperman, and adventurer known for his rapier wit.  Indeed, among American satirists, Bierce is (in my opinion) second only to Mark Twain.   Perhaps his most famous work, in ...

August 2, 2021

How to spot a domestic terrorist on social media

(Although it can be hard to tell nowadays, this post is satire.) To help our colleagues at Homeland Security identify potential threats from domestic terrorists, we here at the White House Task Force on Lawless Online Lowlifes (WTFLOL) are asking ...

July 20, 2021

10 Reasons to Question the Election

It's frustrating to hear people on the Right, including some who should know better, claim there's "no evidence" of significant, possibly outcome-changing fraud in the last presidential election — even as the forensic audit in...

July 5, 2021

Mainstreaming Pedophilia

After the U. S. Supreme Court decided to change the 6,000-year-old definition of marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, I predicted to a liberal friend that the Left’s next big push would be to normalize and ultimately legalize pedophilia. Of course...

June 11, 2021

Vernon Jones: Rising star?

Former Georgia state representative Vernon Jones made waves last spring when, as a Democrat, he announced his support for President Donald Trump.  Jones, who also served for eight years as chief executive of one of Georgia's largest cou...

May 17, 2021

School Boards: Unmask our children

In 1993, an Amtrak passenger train derailed near Mobile, Alabama and plunged into the Mobile River.  Would-be rescuers later found a dead young mother still gripping her small daughter (also dead) by the ankles.  Apparently, she h...

May 4, 2021

We’re Not the Crazy Ones

Long gone are the days when “politics as usual” meant Democrats and Republicans quibbling over policy preferences. Today’s divide is more existential than political, between two sides -- left versus right, progressives versus conser...

April 26, 2021

Why politicized science is dangerous

First, a confession: I borrowed this title from an essay by the late Michael Crichton, appended to his 2004 novel State of Fear.  I'm also going to borrow rather liberally from both the essay and the novel itself, since I doubt mos...

April 4, 2021

How to destroy the public school system

Unlike many conservative commentators, I've long been a supporter of public schools.  I enjoyed many positive experiences with them growing up, and my four children received an excellent public education here in Gwinnett County, Georgia...

March 15, 2021

Now hiring: Facebook fact-checkers

Are you a recent college graduate who can't find a job because you majored in gender studies, art history, or interpretive dance?  If so, you should consider an exciting and rewarding career as a Facebook fact-checker!  Fact-che...