March 8, 2024

The Moral Case for Aid to Ukraine

Military aid for Ukraine remains in congressional limbo. Tucker Carlson is the loudest public figure opposing this aid. Tucker is clear in both actions and words that he wants Russia to prevail: "Why do I care what is going on in the c...

October 8, 2023

A look at who's attacking Israel

Why are there people in the Gaza Strip?   Here is some context for the question.  Canada is 16% larger than the U.S. but has only 11% of our population.  Australia is almost the size of the U.S. but has only tw...

June 6, 2023

A case for Ron DeSantis

In the presidential race, I am solidly for Governor DeSantis.  I trust his judgment.  There are many examples, but his ability to see through and counteract social insanity is foremost. In 2020, America lost its mind ...

May 23, 2023

DeSantis is right on Disney

There are many pixels being spent to make it appear that Florida and Governor DeSantis are being unfair to Disney and, as a result, have lost an investment opportunity.  Neither assertion is true.  None of the ...

January 31, 2023

The Case against Trump 2024

There are many explanations for Trump's spectacular success in the 2016 election and during the first 30 months of his presidency.  There are as many explanations for his descent into more spectacular failures. Using Occam'...

March 10, 2022

Getting creative about that MiG dilemma

Occasionally, strange historical precedents can be used to solve current dilemmas. Here is the current problem.  Several NATO countries, most notably Poland, have Russian MiG fighter planes.  They are willing to ...

March 6, 2022

Time to dismantle some Russian delusions

With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, everyone breathed easier.  Russian communists tacitly, and in some cases openly, acknowledged that Reagan was right about the "evil empire."  Religious extreme Marxism followe...

February 20, 2022

Putin’s cat and mouse game with Ukraine

See also: Maybe Russia's interests regarding Ukraine are simpler than you think Putin continues playing a cat and mouse game with Ukraine.  Putin may be the rare predator who tires of the game and walks away, but that's not ...

March 28, 2020

Coronavirus panic: Is it really 'my grandmother' versus 'the economy'?

William Buckley once remarked, "Liberals are willing to consider all sides of an issue, then are surprised to hear there are other sides."  His point is borne out in the today's conflict over the containing the sprea...

August 27, 2018

A truly dumb column

People who doubt that Trump derangement runs wild among Democrats and their media allies need to read Chris Cillizza's column listing 36 outrageous Trump lies from a Fox interview.  Three observations are worth making. ...

August 13, 2018

Where the real racism comes from

The assertion that people who support Trump are racist has never been credible. There are two arguments advanced to bolster this assertion: a racial disparity in lethal police shootings, and examples of white people dehumanizing black people. ...

August 5, 2018

Actually, white people have contributed quite a lot

Putting aside the hateful, despicable slurs on Sarah Jeong's Twitter feed, here are some that caught my attention. have you ever tried to figure out all the things that white people are allowed to do that aren't cultural appropriation. t...

July 31, 2018

The latest concept liberals don't get

There's a standard playbook for commentators.  Find a situation that can be construed as a problem.  Spin it into a crisis, then blame President Trump.  Conservatives need to respond or these ginned up crisis will re...

July 16, 2018

Trump and the queen

It remains interesting that much of the ridicule aimed at Trump involves things that liberals do as well. Case in point from the Huffington Post: The royal family adheres to a strict code of etiquette and behavior. So when the ever-boist...

July 11, 2018

The Paranoid Style of Jonathan Chait

In 1964, historian Richard Hofstadter published The Paranoid Style in American Politics.  Conspiracy theories and movements of suspicious discontent are recurring phenomena in American history. A current example is the Russian collusion theory. ...

April 28, 2018

Time to admit that Trump is doing a good job

It's been drilled into everyone that "past performance is no guarantee of future results."  That piece of wisdom is a double-edged sword.  Most Trump critics, be they Democrats or NeverTumps, miss the second edge....

April 24, 2018

What does Starbucks know about racial sensitivity?

When the story broke that the police removed two young black men from a Philadelphia Starbucks, I decided to ignore it.  It was just the sort of misunderstanding that  happens often enough to be a non-news evident.  Well...

March 21, 2018

Jordan Peterson Is Driving His Critics to Desperate Attacks

Jordan Peterson, the Canadian clinical psychologist, is having an enormous impact on our culture.  His refusal to use legally mandated language has reverberated around the world. He is obviously rattling leftists as they c...

February 15, 2018

Trojan Horses: 3 Liberal Policies that Secretly Push Open Borders

I've lost count of the pundits and people who call themselves comedians who refer to the absurdity of Trump.  He is an interesting and contradictory guy, but what is most notable about his presidency is how consistent, reasonable, and r...

February 10, 2018

Debunking Democrat talking points on the Trump tax cuts

If nothing else, Democrats are persistent.  The U.S. economy is obviously responding to the tax cuts and dramatically reduced regulation brought on by the Trump administration and the Republican Congress.  But Democrats believe th...

September 23, 2017

Why won't McCain vote for friend Lindsey Graham's Obamacare bill?

Senator John McCain announced that he will yet again vote against an effort to repeal or at least mitigate some of the worst features of Obamacare.  The current effort is the Graham-Cassidy bill, which is widely understood to be a quite reasonab...

June 10, 2017

To understand the Comey swamp, look to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

If asked about the Lilliputians, most people call up the image of tiny people restraining Gulliver with hundreds of ropes.  It's a striking image that's spawned uncountable metaphors.  For me, the more interesting part of Lilliput...

May 24, 2017

The Media's Reliance on Skeevy Leaks and Crazy Conclusions

Our institutions are failing us. The skies are filled with bitter accusations thrown at our president.  This is the outcome we should expect when we allow a man to rise to governmental heights beyond his experience and competence. The problems a...

April 4, 2017

Nunes, Trump, and the Russians: Here's what we know

For many weeks, we've watched the Democrats and their allies in the media attempt to hide what is now an established fact: the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign and transition team.  The principal method of obfuscation is an e...

March 30, 2017

Liberal logic: The difference between choices and choices

Very often, liberals present arguments that make conservatives laugh out loud – but there is a danger in just laughing and moving on.  Quite often, there are sophisticated sophistries underlying the silliest liberal memes.  If those a...

March 21, 2017

Colin Kaepernick and the consequences of liberal orthodoxy

Many liberals believe that people should be insulated from the consequences of their own conscious decisions.  Spike Lee's recent outburst about Colin Kaepernick is a perfect example of this attitude, and it needs to be examined.  Bu...

March 8, 2017

Repealing Obamacare an open door to Medicare reform

The Obamacare repeal and replace is causing more than a little angst among some conservatives, who complain of many deficiencies in the bill.  There may be a hidden treasure in this piece of legislation, however.  It appears that Paul Ryan ...

February 27, 2017

Employment and legal immigration

Liberals are also for ever higher levels of immigration.  They insist that immigrants do not take jobs that American workers would do and that immigrants do not put downward pressure on wages for existing workers.  David Brooks tried to mak...

February 23, 2017

Five festering problems the Democrats cynically ignore

Our national media have a knack for missing important trends.  They are focused on what is seen as general confusion and a lack factual fidelity in the Trump administration.  The media miss entirely the contrast in adult responsible behavio...

February 13, 2017

Why Mexico Needs the Border Wall

The much-needed reforms initiated by the Trump Administration are met with two types of criticisms.  The first and least used is that the reform is bad policy, for one reason or another.  The second often-used type is that the proposal caus...

December 12, 2015

Examining Trump's Policies

There are four stylistic differences between Liberals and Conservatives. Liberals all hold the same opinions. They view disagreements as affronts rather than as opportunities for debate. Liberals are casually wiling to depart from traditions and acce...

October 21, 2015

Trump: Just Another Grifter

Dennis Miller perfectly described Barack Obama as a "debonair grifter." Donald Trump is just a grifter without the charm. Given the performance of these two men, it is difficult to understand the emotional (yes, emotional) attachment of the...