December 12, 2024

The Worst Presidents in American History

There have been 45 men who have been president of the United States. Over the decades there has been voluminous speculation over who were the worst. That distinction now belongs to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Obama was the most anti-American and radi...

November 27, 2024

How Trump Derangement Syndrome Saved America

While the Democrats and their allies in the legacy media and the Ruling Class wallow in 2024 election post-mortems, they are overlooking the foundational factor in Donald Trump’s triumphant return to the White House -- their immersion in Trump ...

November 14, 2024

The Biggest Blunder in the History of American Politics

The biggest blunder in the history of American politics was the premeditated, unabashed, and overt theft of the 2020 presidential election by the Democrat Party, the legacy media, and their fellow left-wing elitists in the Ruling Class as that allian...

October 31, 2024

A New Level of Crassness and Incivility

As the weeks marched on in the 2024 presidential campaign, the rhetoric emanating from the Democrat Party and legacy media wing of the Ruling Class continued to plumb new depths in crassness and incivility. In the past week, led by their loathsome ve...

October 23, 2024

The Best Laid Schemes of the Ruling Class Have Turned to Ashes

The alliance of the Democrat Party, the legacy media, and NeverTrumpers entered 2024 brimming with confidence. This dominant faction within the Ruling Class was convinced that its ongoing plans to retain the White House and control Congress...

October 9, 2024

Is 2024 America’s Last Election?

More Americans are awakening to the warnings of Elon Musk. In a speech at Trump’s triumphant return to Butler, Pennsylvania, Musk unequivocally stated: “President Trump must win to preserve the Constitution. He must win to preserve Americ...

September 19, 2024

The Death of the Washington Establishment

Regardless of the outcome of the 2024 election, the Washington Establishment is facing its inevitable demise. If Donald Trump wins and a populist Republican Party controls Congress, their power and influence will be dramatically curtailed. If Kamala ...

August 30, 2024

A Man’s Character is His Fate

Over the past four years the people of the United States have witnessed the choreographed rise and precipitous fall of Joe Biden. Twenty-five hundred years ago the ancient Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, wrote “A man’s character is his fat...

August 12, 2024

Trump Was Right about the Size of the Crowd on January 6, 2021

Despite polls indicating that just 7% of Americans have a great deal of trust in the media, the denizens of the newsrooms among the legacy media outlets are apparently determined to see if they can drive that woeful number down even further. Not o...

August 8, 2024

A Reality Check for American Voters

This election season, the Democrats have again descended into a quagmire of duplicity, lies, mindless name-calling, and one-upmanship.  In response, the Republicans, including the Trump campaign, are predictably and foolishly initiating the...

July 30, 2024

The Democrat Party is the Greatest Threat to America

The greatest threat to the survival of the United States as founded is not offshore but within its borders: the Democrat Party controlled by the Obama-led Marxist faction. Indicative of this dominance are the machinations surrounding the 2020 and the...

July 22, 2024

The Fracturing of the Democrat Party

The summer of 2024 will be remembered for two events that changed the political landscape of United States: the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and the fracturing of America’s oldest political party. The attempted assassination has p...

July 16, 2024

The Legacy Media Has Passed the Point of No Return

Joe Biden’s one major accomplishment during his calamitous tenure as president is to abet the legacy media in their head-first dash into permanent and irretrievable disrepute. The legacy media’s self-prostitution in concealing and downpla...

July 8, 2024

Biden’s Blackmail

The ongoing soap opera that is the 2024 presidential election has now entered its “will he or won’t he” phase. Rampant speculation about Biden dropping out of the race, or resigning the presidency, or continuing to run as the Democr...

June 25, 2024

The 2024 Election and the Economic Future of America

A so-called unwritten rule in the world of editorial writing is to avoid discussing in any detail the financial state of the country as the reader’s eyes would invariably glaze over and their interest would wane within the first few paragraphs....

June 20, 2024

Is the 2024 Election Trump’s to Lose?

Recently the New York Times published an article claiming that there is an increasingly high probability of a large turnout in the upcoming election cycle. However, in a surprising turn of events, this eventuality would benefit Donald Trump and not, ...

June 14, 2024

Donald Trump and the Resurgence of the West

The recent elections in Europe have revealed that the citizenry of many European nations will no longer tolerate irresolute leaders who are incapable of reversing the accelerating downward spiral of their countries and the rest of the Western world....

June 6, 2024

D-Day and America in 2024

On this day eighty-years ago, in the largest combined naval, air, and land operation in history, 154,000 Allied troops, including 71,000 American soldiers, landed on the beaches and in the marshlands of Normandy.  Within the first twenty-fo...

May 23, 2024

An Effective Trump Presidency Requires Republican Control of Congress

Because virtually all the polling firms publish essentially the same results, there is little doubt that if an honest election were held today Donald Trump would handily defeat Joe Biden in the Electoral College vote.  Further, as long as an inc...

May 14, 2024

This Is Not the 1960s

It was inevitable that the American Marxists would go down the road of justifying the current premediated chaos on college campuses by claiming it is no different than the marches, demonstrations, and unrest on college campuses during the 1960s. This...

May 1, 2024

Marxism and Cowardice are the Hallmarks of America’s Colleges and Universities

The campuses of America’s colleges and universities are awash in Marxist ideology and tolerance for Fascist/Nazi tactics as well as cowardice and lemminglike groupthink by professors and presidents.  The chaotic and perilous end-product of...

April 25, 2024

Can the Swamp be Drained?

On October 17, 2016, Donald Trump issued a press release and subsequent Tweet stating, “I will make our Government honest again -- believe me. But first I am going to have to #DrainTheSwamp.” in Washington, D.C. Thereby creating a campaig...

April 19, 2024

Israel and America at a Crossroad

On April 13, 2024, Iran, deploying more than 300 drones and missiles, launched a premeditated aerial assault on Israeli military and population centers. While ninety-nine percent of the weapons were intercepted, Iran’s attack is equivalent to a...

April 9, 2024

A Nation Without Honor

On March 11, 2024, The United States Military Academy at West Point abruptly removed the “Duty, Honor, Country” motto from its mission statement. The motto, which was first used in 1898, will be replaced with the anodyne phrase, “Ar...

March 26, 2024

The Democrats Have Crossed the Bridge into Unabashed Nazism

Following the lead of the Communists in the Soviet Union, the American Left for three-quarters of a century has been incessantly and mindlessly accusing Conservatives, and anyone opposed to their statist agenda, of being Nazis.  Which, together ...

March 12, 2024

Obama’s Biden Conundrum

By March 20, 2024, Donald Trump will have amassed sufficient Republican delegates to clinch the Republican presidential nomination. On the same date, Joe Biden will have accumulated the delegates required to secure the Democrat nomination. Thirty-thr...

March 6, 2024

American Marxism and Unalienable Rights

American Marxists have recently launched a new campaign in their ongoing war on America and its founding. Their latest salvo is the proposition that so-called “Christian Nationalism” is an existential threat to the nation. They define Chr...

February 27, 2024

Trump’s Conundrum

In less than five months, the Republicans will hold their convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On August 19, the Democrats will convene in Chicago. In mid-September, early voting will begin in five states. The amount of campaign spending that will tak...

February 20, 2024

Donald Trump is Right about NATO

As he is wont to do, Donald Trump caused heads to explode among the American political establishment and legacy media when he recalled an encounter he had with an unnamed president “of a big country” regarding the North Atlantic Treaty Or...

February 13, 2024

The Obama Doctrine vs. the West

The global and domestic landscape is one of turmoil and indecision. Everywhere one looks there is chaos and potential disaster, whether in the financial, economic, political, or military sphere. Since the beginning of the post-World War II era there ...

February 6, 2024

The Republican Party Is Not Prepared for the 2024 Election

There is a growing consensus among conservatives and the vast majority of Republican voters that the 2024 election is a watershed moment for the United States. The dire reality of another four years of a Marxist-dominated Democrat Party in total cont...

January 30, 2024

The Death of Citizenship

From 1860 to 2000, in the largest legal migration in human history, over 61 million immigrants arrived in the United States. They were not only escaping poverty and oppression, but they were eager to assimilate and attain the most sought-after nation...

January 23, 2024

America in January of 2029

Virtually every presidential election over the past forty years has been described by one of the candidates or by either left-wing or right-wing pundits as being the most crucial since (fill in the date). However, in light of the Marxist radicalizati...

January 18, 2024

Donald Trump and the Fate of the Nation

It appears, short of a catastrophic event over the next eight months that forces him out of the race, Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for president in 2024. By capturing the nomination, he will be thrust into a stark and near untenable si...

January 10, 2024

On Being a White, Male, Nazi, Insurrectionist RINO

A recent email exchange with a feminist college professor regarding the resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay was abruptly terminated with an angry email informing me that White men were responsible for all the evils in America and that if th...

January 3, 2024

No Republican Can Singlehandedly Rescue This Nation

The Democrat and Republican parties have dominated the political landscape of the United States since 1856.  In 2024, they are mere shells, in the process of being commandeered by two distinct and warring tribes.  It is at present...

December 12, 2023

Two Weeks That Changed America

I was recently asked if there was a defining moment that dramatically accelerated and perhaps made permanent the chaos this nation is presently facing. My answer: the two weeks between March 16 and March 30, 2020. On March 16th, Donald Trump decla...

December 1, 2023

The Curse of Sanctimonious Republican and Conservative Voters

Thirty-one years ago, an event occurred that was among the primary catalysts in the elevation into the political mainstream of the Marxist-inspired American Left.  The presidential election of 1992 marked the turning point when the American peop...

November 14, 2023

America in October of 2024

The 2024 presidential election is a year away. The political landscape of America in October of 2024 will be far different than it is today. The current polling, which focuses on which candidate for president is winning and the attendant punditry, is...

October 31, 2023

The West is Facing Another Munich Moment

On March 5, 1946 in Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill delivered one of his most famous and memorable speeches.  While often entitled the “Iron Curtain Speech,”, for his classic description of the Soviet Union’s occupation of ...

October 25, 2023

The Inevitable Fracturing of the Democrat Party

The Democrat Party is not a homogenous entity, but an amalgamation of various left-wing factions now overwhelmingly dominated by its smallest and most radical element, the avowed anti-Semitic and racist American Marxists.  However, the largest g...

October 19, 2023

Where There is No Respect for Life, Evil Flourishes

The heinous actions of the Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 can unequivocally be described as evil. It had as its genesis the inculcated belief that Jews are malevolent and subhuman, therefore, they are deserving of death, destruction and being co...

October 10, 2023

The Impact of Third Parties on the 2024 Election

A Gallup poll published on October 4, 2023 should serve as a wake-up call to both the Democrat and Republican Parties as well as their prospective presidential nominees in 2024. A massive 63% of those polled told Gallup they agree with the premise...

September 26, 2023

A Reality Check for Republican Voters

There are three realities that Republican voters can no longer avoid.  The first, Joe Biden will not be the Democrat nominee in 2024.  Second, the Democrats want to face a damaged Donald Trump in November of 2024.  Third, Trump’s...

September 20, 2023

The Evolution of the American Police State

With the unconscionable persecution of the January 6th protesters, the unabashed government censorship of speech, the weaponization of federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and the egregious abuse of presidential executive orders and eme...

September 11, 2023

A Tale of Two Marches in Washington D.C.

On August 28, 1963, I participated in my first protest march on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.  On January 6, 2021, I participated in my last.  Over many of the intervening years I watched the United States, as exemplified by the Aug...

August 31, 2023

Trump: Victim of a Radically Transformed Federal Judiciary

The judicial persecution of Donald Trump has exposed the blatant political bias that animates many Federal District Court judges. Packing the Federal Judiciary at all levels with left-wing judges is the cornerstone of the Marxist Democrat Party strat...

August 29, 2023

Donald Trump and the 2024 General Election

Recently a passionately committed Donald Trump supporter asked me who I would back in 2024 and why are so many pundits claiming that Trump cannot win the general election.  In my reply I wrote that while I like both DeSantis and Trump, I will en...

August 16, 2023

The Democrats are Certain They Will Never be Held Accountable for the Trump Indictments and Biden Cover-Up

Never in the 235 years since the ratification of the Constitution has an administration premeditatively and blatantly prosecuted, on specious and conjecturable charges, the titular leader of the opposition party and leading candidate for president....

August 8, 2023

The Trump Indictment and 2024

Many constitutional lawyers and pundits have criticized the latest specious indictments of Donald Trump as being an attack on the Constitution and intentional election interference.  This premeditated debasement of the Constitution and the judic...

July 26, 2023

The Democrats’ Dilemma: How to Convince Joe Biden to Drop out of the Race

As the 2024 presidential election is beginning to cast a growing shadow over the American political landscape, many in the party establishment are quietly looking into replacing Joe Biden as the Democrat Party nominee. But who will they choose to rep...

July 13, 2023

Pre-Emptive Presidential Pardons for Joe and Hunter Biden

As the revelations of potential bribery, bank fraud and tax evasion swirl around Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, both men, who are increasingly appearing together, seem extraordinary calm and unconcerned in public as Joe flashes his signature superciliou...

July 5, 2023

It’s the General Election, Stupid

By 2024, Barack Obama’s Marxist-infused Democrat Party will have held America hostage for 12 out of 16 years.  This nation cannot survive if the Democrats are in control for another 4-8 years with what will become an irreversible strangleh...

June 20, 2023

The GOP is Losing the Vote Fraud War

A Rasmussen poll taken in October of 2021 found that 56% of all likely voters believed that cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.  Another Rasmussen poll dated April of 2023 revealed that 60% of all likely voters belie...

May 30, 2023

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

A cursory examination of history reveals that the United States is mired in the same process that precipitated the collapse of the great empires of the past.  The foibles and failures of human nature and their impact on the rise and fall of empi...

May 17, 2023

2024 is Evolving into a Trump vs. Not-Trump Election

Never in the two and a half centuries of American history has one person concurrently dominated and overshadowed both major political parties as does Donald J. Trump. Trump’s dominance in the Republican Party is an outgrowth of his imperturb...

May 4, 2023

China, Trump and Covid-19

Three years ago on these pages I posed the question Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Derail China’s Global Ambitions?.  My answer: only if Donald Trump were to be re-elected as President in 2020 will China’s ambitions be derailed; on th...

April 19, 2023

Biden’s Susceptibility to Blackmail has Unleashed Domestic and International Chaos

It has often been speculated what would happen to this nation if a decadently compromised president who willingly succumbed to extortion from both domestic and foreign interests were elected.  That possibility is no longer in the realm of specul...

April 6, 2023

America’s Geriatric Megalomaniacs

The root of all nation-destroying evil is the megalomaniacal abuse of power.   In the United States of 2023, no two people personify that more than ninety-two-year-old George Soros and eighty-year-old Joe Biden, who are essentially working ...

March 29, 2023

Donald Trump is Campaigning As If It Were 2016

Thus far, Donald Trump is essentially re-running his 2016 campaign in his bid to win the presidency in 2024.  He has chosen to emulate his 2016 scorched earth primary campaign and hope for the same outcome despite a far different America and a f...

March 21, 2023

Eight Startling and Uncomfortable Ways the Democrat Party Emulates the Nazi Party

The Democrat party has been a stain on the nation since its founding in 1828 by a virulently racist president, Andrew Jackson.  It was the party of slavery and the Confederacy, it initiated racial segregation by legislating and brutally enforcin...

March 9, 2023

Race-Based Hatred Permeates the Black Population

For forty-five years (1964 to 2009), the United States experienced significant progress in race relations.  Thanks to the efforts of individual citizens in their communities throughout all regions of the country, this nation was well on its way ...

February 23, 2023

Biden’s Wonderful World of ‘Equity’

Immediately after his inauguration on January 20, 2021 Joe Biden, signed an executive order placed in front of him directing the federal government to “…pursue a comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all.”  On Februar...

February 8, 2023

Can Donald Trump Win in 2024 America?

Due to demographics, voter manipulation, and implacable ideological fault lines, the 2024 election is a potential watershed that may well be the point of no return for this nation as founded if the Democrat Party’s presidential nominee wins. ...

February 2, 2023

White Supremacy, Racism and Malevolent Incitement

Per the legacy media, White supremacy and racism are the underlying reasons five Black policemen violently beat a Black suspect to death in Memphis.  Per academia, White supremacy and racism is the root of all race-related violence in the United...

January 26, 2023

America’s Future is Bleak When Only 27% of the Younger Generations are Proud to be American

I first encountered unabashed pride in being American when I came to the United States in 1951.  I sailed across the Atlantic alone.  Perhaps someone along the way told me tht I was going to the United States; however, as a seven or eight-y...

January 4, 2023

The War in Ukraine has Underscored the Necessity of America Exiting NATO

With the passage of the ludicrous omnibus bill the total amount spent and committed to be spent by the United States in Ukraine since the Russian invasion is in excess of $110 Billion.  That amount exceeds the annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP)...

December 13, 2022

Controlling the Department of Justice

The unabashed political persecution and unconscionable years of pre-trial incarceration for some January 6th protestors in direct violation of the Sixth Amendment. The near-psychotic obsession to indict and convict Donald Trump of any specious f...

November 15, 2022

The 2022 Mid-Terms Exposed the Existence of Two Americas and the Overwhelming Importance of the 2024 Election

There have been many postmortems written about the outcome of the 2022 mid-term elections.  Nearly all focus on political or structural issues.  Did the Republican primary voters pick terrible candidates?  Why didn’t the Republic...

October 25, 2022

The 2022 Election is the Opening Salvo in the Repudiation of America’s Elites

A massive Republican victory in the 2022 midterm elections is imperative in stopping the disastrous policies of the Marxist left.  However, far more important and potentially more enduring than a temporary victory by the Republican Party, is tha...

October 11, 2022

Americans Must Permanently Marginalize the Perpetual Adolescents of the American Left

As the United States careens out of control and left-wing hysteria over the impending red wave in the 2022 mid-terms reaches a crescendo, the irrationality, obliviousness, and immaturity of the followers of American Marxism has been on display for th...

September 28, 2022

Donald Trump and the Future of Western Civilization

The panoply of heads of state leaders at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II highlighted the dire reality that there are at present no resolute statesmanlike leaders capable of reversing the accelerating decline throughout the whole of the Western worl...

September 8, 2022

Can the United States Stop the March to Self-Destruction?

Since the founding of the nation there has been a consensus that the demise of the United States would not come about by being conquered from without but rather by destroying itself from within.  That consensus about the first-of-a-kind constitu...

August 23, 2022

Joe Biden and the Ides of August

William Shakespeare, in his play Julius Caesar, wrote of a soothsayer warning Caesar of his impending demise during the Ides of March.   But when it comes to his political demise fueled by catastrophic decisions, Joe Biden, as president, fa...

August 11, 2022

The Lockdowns and Mandates Emboldened the Ruling Class and Led to the Raid on Mar-a-Lago

The entire panoply of the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic countermeasures, from lockdowns to vaccine mandates, has been a once in a century fiasco and among the biggest blunders in American history.  This chapter is also the catalyst that emboldene...

July 27, 2022

The Demise of American Citizenship

From 1860 to 2000, in the largest legal migration in human history, over 61 million immigrants arrived in the United States.  They were not only escaping poverty and oppression, but they were eager to assimilate and attain the most sought-after ...

July 19, 2022

The Left’s Blackmailing of Biden has Unleashed National Chaos, Stagflation and Systemic Uncertainty

There have been forty-six presidents of the United States.  Among them have been the grossly incompetent (James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson), the unabashed racists (Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson), the scandal-ridden (Warren Harding, Richard Nixon)...

July 1, 2022

The United States Has Become Two Countries Within a Nation

Not since the decade leading up to the Civil War has there been as much discussion about the possibility of the United States splitting into two or more countries as there has been in the past 10 years.  The reality is that this nation has effec...

June 16, 2022

The Citizenry’s Willingness to Surrender their Freedoms Risks a Potential Dissolution or Civil War

Over the past two decades, far too many citizens of the United States have willingly surrendered their rights and freedoms and now they are on the cusp of being unrestorable.  This erosion and voluntary forfeiture have empowered the ruling elite...

June 7, 2022

Why Donald Trump Should Not Run for President in 2024

Donald Trump should not run for president in 2024.  His place in the pantheon of American presidents is secure as he was the right president at the right time and will go down in history as among the nation’s indispensable presidents....

May 24, 2022

America is Regressing into a Tribal Society Rife with Acrimony, Anxiety and Suspicion

The United States is experiencing tribalism, collective poverty, soaring crime, an obliterated southern border, the destruction of constitutional norms, and roaring inflation.   We are being led by a catastrophically bewildered, ill-tempere...

May 10, 2022

The Ruling Elites Redefined Character in order to Elect Joe Biden

On August 20, 2020, Joe Biden accepted the Democrat party’s nomination for president by fatuously declaring, “Character and decency are on the ballot.”  Thus, directly proclaiming himself and the Democrat party as the paragons ...

April 20, 2022

The Regime Media’s Quandary: By Exposing Joe Biden They Exonerate Donald Trump

The regime media (the amalgamation of the legacy media, elitist opinion writers, and the internet troika: Google/Facebook/Twitter) finds itself in a quandary of its own making.  As the nation descends into recession and societal turmoil, the can...

April 6, 2022

Resurgent Populism and the Fate of America’s Elites

Perhaps never in modern human history have a nation’s elites been more spineless and self-absorbed than in today’s America.  In order to protect their privilege, America’s most privileged are nervous and afraid of conflict even...

March 28, 2022

Political Blackmail Empowers the American Left

Among the more famous quotations by Mao Zedong is: “All political power comes from the barrel of the gun.”  However, Mao got that wrong as in the United States circa 2022 political blackmail in the hands of progressives – reall...

March 22, 2022

The War in Ukraine is in America’s Vital Interest

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the reaction, or lack thereof, by the feckless and incoherent Biden Administration has spawned a fissure within conservative circles.  Some on the right are beating the war drums for increased intervention bey...

March 16, 2022

Social Media: The Intimidation and Enforcement Arm of the American Left

The American left uses their dominant position in social media to manipulate the legacy media, set the agenda, browbeat the elected members of the Democrat party, and intimidate corporate America.  In order to protect their political or socia...

March 11, 2022

The War in Ukraine has Exposed the Perils of 21st Century Globalism

The unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine has exposed the folly, peril, and incoherence of 21st Century Globalism.  Unlike the economic globalism of the 19th and early 20th centuries that focused on the concept of free trade of goods for goods,...

February 23, 2022

The Treason of the Ruling Class

Because of the egocentrism and megalomania of the current ruling class, our country is inexorably and stealthily marching toward a tyrannical one-party socialist oligarchy beholden to a globalist agenda.  These elites, in their determination to ...

February 8, 2022

FDA Duplicity on Covid-19 Vaccines

Perhaps the most important long-term fallout of the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic has been the exposure of the venality and politicization within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as well as other federal health agencies such as the Centers for D...

February 1, 2022

It’s Time for America to Leave NATO and for Europe to Resolve Their Internal Disputes

Since 1916 and the First World War, United States foreign policy has been dominated by Eurocentrism. Following the Second World War, America has been the military protector of Western Europe for 73 years through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...

January 25, 2022

Never Forgive or Forget the Enablers of the Destructive Covid Panic

After nearly two years of America pursuing politically motivated policies to “eradicate” an unstoppable respiratory virus, an increasing number of liberal politicians, commentators, and publications have begun to speak out about the failu...

January 14, 2022

It’s Time to Admit Failure in the War Against COVID

Israel has been at the forefront of the unconventional/politically-oriented means of combatting a respiratory virus. Despite nearly 90% of the adult population being fully vaccinated, with vaccines originally touted as nearly 100% effective in pre...

January 11, 2022

The Loathsome Ruling Class and the January 6th Protestors

On January 6, 2022, the governing and corporate media wing of the ruling class put on a sophomoric production commemorating the first anniversary of a contrived “insurrection.”  Self-righteous preening and blatant propagandizing amid...

January 3, 2022

COVID 19 and the Deification of Government

The rocky road this nation has traveled over the past 22 months has given rise to a severe loss of credibility for the government and the scientific/medical community.  But more importantly, these months of COVID hysteria have brought out into t...

December 14, 2021

Donald Trump, the Right President at the Right Time

Of the 46 presidents of the United States, there are three that can be considered indispensable to the nation’s enduring existence as a free people;  they are George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Donald Trump.  Washington, witho...

December 7, 2021

The Left-Wing Legacy of the Mainstream Media

Over the past eight decades, there have many frauds promoted by the mainstream media.  Perhaps the most notable, and consequential, was the media persuading an overwhelming majority of citizens over the years that their brand of journalism is no...

November 22, 2021

The Rittenhouse Trial Underscores the Left’s Determination to Eliminate the Natural Right of Self-Defense

The American left’s determination to conduct a media-inspired political trial of Kyle Rittenhouse had as its objective the ultimate disarming of Americans and the elimination of the Second Amendment.  While Kyle Rittenhouse was listed as t...

November 16, 2021

Lies, Half-Truths, and Misinformation Used to Sell the Covid Jab

The American landscape is littered with so many ongoing and predesigned crises, as well as the never-ending falsehoods and illegalities of the Biden Administration, it is nearly impossible for the average American to keep up with all the facets of th...

November 3, 2021

Democrat Voters are Among the Most Gullible People on Earth

The primary reason the United States finds itself in its current predicament is the vast number of credulous and miseducated Americans who, over the past two decades, have blindly pledged their undying allegiance to the current iteration of the Democ...

October 13, 2021

The Traits of the Authoritarians Among Us

The perpetually irascible Samuel Goldwyn, a founder of the American motion picture industry, once said “I am willing to admit I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.”  While Goldwyn said this tongue-in-cheek, the quote is an...

September 27, 2021

The United States and the West are in the Grip of Delusional Madness

The politically motivated and unprecedented overreaction to a virus with a 99.5% survival rate was launched in March of 2020, thus unleashing what can best be described as a once-in-a-century fiasco. Nineteen months later it is impossible to look at ...

September 13, 2021

The Disposable Children of the Pandemic

The rhetoric about and treatment of children over the past 18 months has flung open a window into the soul of America’s ruling class. As Nelson Mandela warned us, “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way i...

August 27, 2021

Did the FDA Pull a Bait-and-Switch on the American People?

See also: The FDA did NOT grant full approval to the Pfizer shots On August 23rd all the mainstream or agitprop media outlets were trumpeting the news that the FDA had granted permanent approval for the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.  The press bre...

August 24, 2021

The Afghanistan Debacle Will Relegate the Current Ruling Class to the Dustbin of American History

The disaster that is the withdrawal from Afghanistan coupled with other innumerable debacles that Joe Biden has singlehandedly precipitated in just seven months should not come as a surprise to anyone who has paid attention to his career.  His f...

August 17, 2021

The FDA Must Not Hastily Grant Final Approval for the Covid-19 Vaccine

The Biden Administration, elected Democrat politicians, government bureaucrats, the education establishment, and clueless corporate management are hellbent on imposing Covid-19 vaccine mandates. These mandates could potentially apply to everyone over...

August 4, 2021

Why I Refuse to Be Vaccinated

I have been vilified for refusing to be jabbed with an experimental vaccine.  I have been told that I am among the worst people on the face of the earth as that refusal is putting an inordinate number of people at risk of near-certain death....

July 28, 2021

The Duplicitous Ruling Elites Have Awakened the American People

Over the past three decades, a sizable majority of the ruling elites have been preoccupied with self-aggrandizement and cohabitation with the Communist Chinese, ignoring the gradual and now complete domination of many of the nation’s institutio...

July 13, 2021

So Much Evidence that January 6, 2021 was a Calculated Set-Up

Political persecution and isolation of vast swaths of the citizenry by the Justice Department, the Intelligence Community, and the Judiciary in the wake of the January 6, 2021, Capitol incursion should bring a chill down the spine of every American. ...

June 29, 2021

What Happened to Honor Among America’s Military Leaders?

America’s top military leaders have thrust themselves into the national spotlight by their overt politization and cowardly acquiescence to the radicalized Democrat Party.  The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Milley, in Congr...

June 14, 2021

American Marxists, Take Your Fictitious Systemic Racism and White Privilege and Shove It

Over the past fifty years, the Marxist-inspired American Left has been hellbent on trying to convince the citizenry that the United States is and always has been a malevolent nation due to “systemic racism” and “white privilege....

June 8, 2021

The Depravity of the Democrat Party, the American Left, and the Media

After nearly 17 months, the Chinese laboratory manipulation of coronaviruses as the origin of Covid-19, the Federal science bureaucracy’s complicity and cover-up, and the motivation behind the overwrought government- and media-sponsored solutio...

May 25, 2021

How Trump Derangement Syndrome Could Save America

In the four years he was President, Donald Trump rebuilt the economy after the policy disasters of the Bush-Obama years, significantly curtailed illegal immigration, confronted and exposed the Chinese Communist Party, and with Operation Warp Speed co...

May 11, 2021

The ‘Woke’ Follies

Over the past few years, the term “woke” has been among the most bandied-about words in the English language.  For those of us in our alleged golden years, we have always assumed woke is the past tense or past participle of wake (the...

May 3, 2021

Barack Obama, Race, and Revolution

For nearly 50 years, until 2009, the United States experienced enormous progress in race relations.  Thanks to the efforts of individual citizens in their communities and not the nation’s ruling elites and patronizing liberals, this countr...

April 21, 2021

The trial of Derek Chauvin has unleashed the dogs of thuggery and revolution

The trial of Derek Chauvin maybe over, but the repercussions have just begun.  Whether Chauvin was guilty of murder or manslaughter or innocent can be debated endlessly; however, based on the testimony of all the witnesses, the conviction o...

April 12, 2021

The Mendacity of Joe Biden and the Ruling Elites

An ex-business partner and I were recently reminiscing about an encounter we had with then Senator Biden at MBNA’s new corporate offices in downtown Wilmington in 1996. (MBNA was then the world’s largest independent credit card issuer.) ...

March 29, 2021

The Commonalities Between the Rise of the Nazis and the Tactics of the American Left Cannot be Ignored

I recently wrote a column wherein I accused the American Left and its wholly owned subsidiary, the Democrat party, of using Fascist or Nazi tactics in their determination to permanently transform the nation into a one-party hybrid socialist state by ...

March 23, 2021

The Democrat Party Has Declared War on America

The American Left and its wholly owned subsidiary, the Democrat party, has declared war on America by openly and ruthlessly attacking American society, its norms and foundational principles.  While they previously had been somewhat restrained in...

March 8, 2021

The 21st Century Ugly Americans

In 1958 a political novel, The Ugly American, by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer became not only an international best-seller but permanently embedded the phrase “ugly American” into the global lexicon.  The book had become notori...

February 23, 2021

Boycott the Gaslight Media and Save America

There is one major lesson that conservatives and frankly all Americans must learn: never accept at face value the reporting of any news event.   By foolishly acquiescing to the version of a story put out by the denizens of the mainstream me...

February 8, 2021

The Betrayal of the American People by Biden and the Ruling Oligarchy

The Biden Administration is willfully and permanently undermining the economy and the future well-being of the citizenry as well as trampling on the Constitution with an unprecedented avalanche of executive orders, proposed legislation and untenable ...

January 26, 2021

The Attempt to Install a One-Party Oligarchy is Predestined to Fail

Scattered throughout the length and breadth of the United States are those who have experienced first-hand the tyranny of despotic rulers and repressive one-party oligarchies.  Today, many of us that came here as refugees are watching with bemus...

January 8, 2021

January 6, 2020, a Day that Will Live in Political Infamy

I attended the “Million MAGA March” on January 6, along with the Mainstreet Patriots chapter of the Eastern Shore of Maryland.  I did so not because I believed the Republicans in the Senate or Vice-President Mike Pence would do the r...

December 22, 2020

The Biggest Political Blunder in American History

If courts and state legislatures award Joe Biden the presidency, the anti-Trump cabal, driven by a four-year single-minded obsession to defeat President Trump, will have committed the greatest political blunder in American history -- the unabashed an...

November 30, 2020

The Hijacking of the 2020 Election and the Hate America Strategy

There is a consensus that American society in 2020 is more polarized than at any point in the nation’s history.  If Joe Biden is inaugurated as President thanks to an irrefutably fraudulent and choreographed election, then this polarizatio...

November 9, 2020

Class Conflict Will Cripple the Democrats

In the midst of the post-election chaos a long-time acquaintance, who is a robotic Democrat voter, texted me “With Biden the violence and riots in the streets of the big cities will stop.  That is why he needs to win.”   I te...

November 2, 2020

Will Election Day see Americans forfeit our heritage of liberty?

I have had a love affair with this country for nearly 70 years.  It began on a cold misty morning in 1951 as I stood alone at the railing of a U. S. Navy military transport ship ferrying displaced persons from refugee camps in post-war Euro...

October 27, 2020

Donald Trump is Poised to Become Among the Most Transformative Presidents in American History

The nation stands on the cusp of the third and perhaps most notable political realignment in the past 160 years, as those on both sides of the political spectrum recognize that the 2020 election has evolved into a watershed moment in American history...

October 14, 2020

Ten Lessons from a Tumultuous 2020

This year has been not only stunning but eye-opening.  The list of what we as a nation have learned about ourselves is not limited to the political arena but includes the scientific and medical communities as well as modern-day American society....

October 6, 2020

Biden and the Modern-Day Front Porch Campaign

Joe Biden’s basement campaign is not unique in American presidential history.  In the past this form of campaigning, primarily from one’s home, was known as a “Front Porch Campaign,” so named after James Garfield who in 1...

September 23, 2020

Can the Present-Day Democrat Party Govern America (with or without Joe Biden)?

The cabal fronted by Joe Biden is selling hatred of Donald Trump and his voters and prefers that voters not worry about their ability to govern should the Democrats win the Senate and install Harris-Biden. This same cabal that would be charged wi...

September 10, 2020

Biden’s Billionaires

Many years ago, while participating in a voter registration drive, I came upon a grizzled and disheveled old man sitting in the overgrown and weed-infested yard of his paint-starved house calming smoking his pipe.  Despite his gruff demeanor, Ul...

August 25, 2020

The Breathtaking Ignorance and Gullibility of America’s Elites

Those of us that immigrated to the United States from various hellholes over the decades find one characteristic of the current American populace astonishing and disturbing.  That is the breathtaking level of gullibility and ignorance of many os...

August 11, 2020

The Mainstream Media Is at the Point of No Return

  A recent landmark poll of 20,000 citizens undertaken by the Knight Foundation and Gallup found that Americans’ hope for and trust in an objective media is all but lost.  They see not only an ever-growing partisanship in news report...

July 28, 2020

The Seditious Among Us

In the world of politics, repetition is almost without fail the key to winning elections.   The dominant campaign issue in the upcoming election that President Trump, the Republican Party and the conservative media must relentlessly repeat ...

July 22, 2020

The Insidious Impact of Twitter

Twitter claims to be a modern-day public square wherein those without a forum can discuss, debate and share their opinions and views.  However, it has evolved into a primary source of fabricated stories and copy farming for the media, the princi...

July 15, 2020

Democrats Using Trump Hatred to Seduce the Educated and Affluent into Supporting Class Suicide

In the 2018 midterm elections the Democrats reclaimed the House of Representatives, ushering in Nancy Pelosi as Speaker. This transfer of control eventuated not only in the de facto takeover of the House by the radical arm of the Party, but the callo...

July 7, 2020

The Obama Years Sowed the Seeds for the Current Societal Chaos

The election of Barack Obama in 2008 and the unfathomable defeat of his hand-picked successor Hillary Clinton in 2016 rendered inevitable the societal chaos and attempted cultural revolution presently roiling the country.  This entire wretched s...

July 1, 2020

The Fatal Flaw in the Electoral Victory Plan of Democrat Elites

Since its founding in the 1820’s, the Democrat party has been the most pernicious and most schizophrenic entity in American politics.  Today, the two dominant factions within the party are the ultra-wealthy beneficiaries of capitalism plus...

June 16, 2020

The Left’s Premature Revolution

There an evergreen adage in the world of business, politics and entertainment: “Timing is Everything.”  It’s a truism that is lost on the now fully radicalized American left and their militant cohorts in their mad dash to explo...

June 8, 2020

Don't let them pull off the revolution!

Having experienced firsthand the death and devastation caused by the ascent to power of Hitler and the Nazis, I see many frightening parallels between the ongoing efforts to foment revolution in America and the takeover of Germany by the Na...

June 1, 2020

The Economic Fallout of the Lockdown and Riots will not Diminish Support for Trump

Since November 9, 2016, the nation’s elites have been obsessively determined to either use the unchecked clout of the deep state to force Donald Trump to resign, or failing that, so besmirch him and his voter base as to ensure his defeat in 202...

May 25, 2020

America at the Crossroad on Memorial Day 2020

The past three months have been a period of extreme trial and tribulation for the people of United States.  They are struggling to regain a sense of optimism and confidence in the face of what now appears to have been an unnecessary Wuhan Virus ...

May 20, 2020

Obama’s De Facto Russian Collusion Co-Conspirators

The release of both the sworn testimony of those involved in creating and disseminating the Russia collusion hoax and the documentation outlining how General Flynn was framed has confirmed that President Obama was fully involved in and aware of the t...

May 13, 2020

The Wuhan Virus Lockdown is a Colossal Blunder

The Wuhan Virus pandemic is not the most significant crisis in our nation’s history.  It isn’t even the greatest public health crisis in our history.  But with the imposition of a near total national lockdown it is undoubtedly t...

May 1, 2020

Why Dem governors prolong their states' lockdown: Follow the money

As each day passes, there is more good news about the Wuhan Virus pandemic in the United States.   The general consensus is that the nation has passed the peak and is well on the downhill side of the infamous curve that the media decla...

April 24, 2020

The Wuhan Virus Pandemic has Exposed the American Ruling Class

At the culmination of a national health or societal crisis in the United States, it has become de rigueur for the media and innumerable pundits ensconced within the professional class to perform a post-mortem on how the citizenry handled the crisis a...

April 10, 2020

Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Derail China’s Global Ambitions?

The Communist Party leadership in China, steeped in that nation’s millennia of history as the dominant power of its known world prior to the eighteenth century, has long been resolved to take whatever actions are necessary to establish China as...

April 4, 2020

The Time has Come for some Answers about the Coronavirus Pandemic

How much does the general public really know about the Chinese Coronavirus?  What is the death rate solely attributable to the virus?  Of those that have died, how many had serious underlying conditions?  Do the reported deaths include...

April 1, 2020

How a Police State is Born

The United States and much of the western world, by utilizing the most draconian of tactics, is plunging many nations into potential economic and societal chaos as they attempt to stem the tide of the Chinese Coronavirus.  Relying on dubious and...

March 24, 2020

Is a Once in a Century Fiasco Befalling the United States?

The first pandemic of the 21st Century took place in 2009.  It was commonly referred to as the “Swine Flu” or H1N1.  It was notable for its rapid global spread which was facilitated by an unusually high degree of viral contagiou...

March 17, 2020

Joe Biden and the Democrat Party's Incestuous Relationship with China

Desperation has set in among the Politburo in China as their deliberate mishandling and obfuscation of the Chinese Coronavirus outbreak has threatened, and in all likelihood derailed, their grandiose plans for global hegemony.  In what can ...

February 18, 2020

Bloomberg's China Conflict of Interest

The inevitable cratering of Joe Biden's campaign, accelerated by the impeachment fiasco orchestrated by Nancy Pelosi and the inexorable rise of Bernie Sanders, has caused the Ruling Class to turn their lonely eyes to a hoped-for savior, Michael B...

February 11, 2020

Thirty-one Days of Winter 2020

World history will record that the period between the 7th of January and the 7th of February 2020 will be among the most consequential 31 days in the past 25 years.  In the United States this same period will also be remembered for the first sta...

February 6, 2020

Trump, Sanders, and Populism

With the failure of the impeachment gambit and the surge in Bernie Sanders’s popularity among potential Democratic primary voters, panic has fully set in among both the Republican and Democrat branches of the Washington establishment.  Wor...

January 29, 2020

Ruling Class Held Hostage by Trump’s Impeachment

Every year 3 million visitors make the pilgrimage to Ellis Island.  It is estimated nearly forty percent of all Americans can trace their ancestors to the 20 million immigrants that were processed through New York and Ellis Island from 1892 to 1...

December 2, 2019

The Inevitable Breakup of the American Left

What makes up the American Left?  It is not a homogenous entity but an amalgamation of various factions now overwhelmingly dominated by its smallest and most radical element, the avowed Marxist/socialists.  However, the largest group and un...

November 19, 2019

Impeachment is not Playing in Peoria

During the heyday of American vaudeville, the answer to the question “Will it play in Peoria?” determined whether a show would be a hit or a flop.  It was generally understood that if the production wasn’t acceptable to those i...

November 7, 2019

Donald Trump and The Art of Political Warfare

Over the past three decades far too many Republicans and Establishment Conservatives have acquiesced to the conventional wisdom that the American Left (i.e. the Democratic Party), are superior tacticians in the arena of political warfare.  This ...

October 11, 2019

What makes Fox News's 'Trump impeachment' poll totally unreliable

Journalism and those claiming to be journalists in America have been not only increasingly and overtly partisan over the past 25 years, but also increasingly indolent.  Far too many rely on the lunacy, vitriol, and rumor-mongering on social...

August 28, 2019

China and the 2020 Election

On April 25, 2019, Joe Biden declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.  Seven days later, on May 3, 2019, the Chinese sent a diplomatic cable to the Trump administration blowing up a 150-page draft agreeme...

August 14, 2019

Can the Democratic Party Govern America?

I recently had a lunch meeting with a client of 25 years who is a lifelong member and financial supporter of the Democratic Party.  While we managed to avoid politics as best we could, the inevitable subject of Donald Trump and the Democratic pr...

July 24, 2019

The Co-Conspirators in the American Left's Takeover of the Democratic Party

Is there any doubt that the American Left is on the cusp of their ultimate prize and ticket to permanent political domination -- absolute control of the Democratic Party?   A clear indicator is the unanimity of all 24 candidates campaigning...

July 9, 2019

The American Left's Army of Dupes

Since the 8th of November 2016, all those that voted for Donald Trump or supported his candidacy have been gratuitously identified as Nazis, Fascists or white supremacists by the hierarchy of the American Left and the verdict dutifully regurgitated o...

July 1, 2019

Where the Democrats are Trying to Take Us

After watching the first two Democratic Party presidential debates last week, it has become crystal-clear that there are embedded in this nation's body politic prospective oligarchs who are overwhelming threats to the future of the nation. ...

June 6, 2019

The Seven Self-Serving Stratagems of the Despotic Left

The United States, along with its allies, invaded continental Europe seventy-five years ago on June 6, 1944, thus ensuring the defeat of the worst tyranny in human history.  But is this magnificent nation capable of mustering the same effort and...

April 1, 2019

Democrats, the Media, and the Big Lie

For the past two and a half years this nation has been roiled by the incessant drumbeat of accusations that its newly elected President, Donald Trump, was a clandestine agent of Russia and colluded with them to alter the outcome of the 2016 election....

February 28, 2019

The Obliviousness and Conniving of the Democratic Party

Election Day, November 3, 2020, is 20 months over the horizon. Already, there are currently eleven declared candidates for the Democratic Party presidential nomination with another eight or ten waiting in the wings.  With this gaggle of dedicate...

February 13, 2019

The Left Has Ensured that this Will Never be a Socialist Country

The breathtaking ignorance, unabashed espousal of authoritarian policies and nonsensical concepts by the current poster child of the American Left, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is a window into the end-product of the indoctrination and resultant mindset...

February 1, 2019

Infanticide Is Legal in the United States

Last week, Democrats in New York legalized third trimester abortions, allowing women to abort a fully formed, viable and healthy infant for any reason virtually up to the point of birth.  Women need only claim that their health, which includes t...

January 31, 2019

The Ruling Class and an Undeclared Civil War

Over the past 73 years, devoid of any meaningful national misfortune, the American social order has undergone a major transformation.  Historically, societies tend to stratify themselves along economic or pre-ordained class lines.  The Unit...

January 7, 2019

The Ruling Class Redefines Character for Donald Trump

The Democrats, the media and the NeverTrump Republicans have thus far been unable to marginalize Donald Trump, despite utilizing the tried-and-true tactic of incessantly fomenting faux scandals directed at a sitting Republican president.  Furthe...

November 14, 2018

Class Conflict within the Democratic Party

Over many decades, the American Left, the Democratic Party and their mutual propaganda arm, the self-styled “mainstream media,” have successfully portrayed conservatives and the Republican Party as a coalition of the wealthy and intoleran...

October 5, 2018

The Mainstream Media Fraud

The conjoined Democratic Party and mainstream media's despicable character assassination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh combined with the two-year single-minded determination to destroy the Trump presidency by any means possible has irretrievably awake...

September 13, 2018

Trump Voters and the Bitter Elites

Since the 9th of November 2016, I and 63 million other Americans have been collectively characterized as racists, misogynists, Nazi sympathizers and ignorant simpletons because we voted for Donald Trump.  Whether it is the media, the denizens of...

September 5, 2018

Does Mueller Have an October Surprise?

The investigation that was ostensibly initiated to ascertain if the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians to affect the 2016 election has been ongoing for twenty-seven months.  Seventeen months of which have been in the hands of Special Coun...

August 28, 2018

Donald Trump and the Purveyors of Civility

With the election of Donald Trump as president, the words "civility" and "character" have become among the most overused terms in current political discourse.  According to his adversaries, Trump grotesquely lacks these ...

August 22, 2018

Was the strange language in Michael Cohen's guilty plea a set-up?

Michael Cohen, who was snatched out of obscurity and made famous and wealthy by Donald Trump, pleaded guilty to five counts of tax evasion and bank fraud and two counts of making excessive campaign contributions.  Within the language descri...

August 17, 2018

Donald Trump and the Professional Conservative Class

Recently, I came across a tweet from Bill Kristol commenting on some recent polling data favorable to Donald Trump.  Bill is one of the founders of not only the Weekly Standard magazine, but also the NeverTrump movement.  He ...

August 7, 2018

Socialism's Downfall

With the unexpected success of Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primaries and Democrats swooning over the newest face in the crowd, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, socialism – or its latest euphemism, "Democratic Socialism" – is the new hot...

July 17, 2018

The irrational hysteria over Trump and Putin

I spent a good part of yesterday watching the vast army of those incapable of generating an original thought – namely, the majority of talking heads on radio and television as well as politicians in both parties, droning on about the disaster t...

July 9, 2018

Did Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Save America?

The citizenry of a nation that has experienced unprecedented peace, prosperity and global or regional hegemony over four or more generations are often lulled to sleep believing there will never be an end to their good fortune.   Inevitably ...

May 31, 2018

The Permanent Adolescence of the American Left

Donald Trump's remarkable and unpredicted victory in 2016 unleashed perhaps the pinnacle of all unintended consequences.  By their ongoing nonsensical reaction to the Trump victory, the American left has exposed and validated their irra...

April 26, 2018

The United Kingdom, Socialism, and the Dignity of Life

The United Kingdom, a nation once revered for its promotion of individual freedom and the promulgation of limited government throughout the world, has accepted, as a governing principle, the foundation of Marxist philosophy: the individual human bein...

April 3, 2018

The Natural Right of Self-Preservation and the Second Amendment

To what extent does man have a natural or God-given right to self-preservation and protection of his property?  This question has been bandied about for thousands of years, and that issue, not guns (which are an instrument of self-preservat...

February 26, 2018

The Left's Objective in Its War on the NRA

The litany of major American companies severing their ties to the NRA continues to expand.  They are succumbing to the drumbeat of false accusations and hysteria ginned up by the left and its political arm, the Democratic Party, as well as ...

February 23, 2018

The Contemptible American Left

The American left, whose enthusiasts traffic constantly in victimhood and noble intentions, are once again exploiting and manipulating a tragedy.  They are now shamelessly claiming not only that teenagers who have been victims of or witness...

September 20, 2017

The Awful Future that Looms for a Majority of Today’s Americans

When it comes to the future, an overwhelming majority of Americans have adopted a mindset that is a variation of Isiah 22:12: “Let us eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow does not matter.”   Recently, federal debt surpassed the ...

August 29, 2017

Trump's Foremost Accomplishment

Regardless of whatever Donald Trump may or may not accomplish during his years in the presidency, he has one notable achievement that will surpass all others during his term: the defeat of Hillary in the 2016 election has fully raised the curtain on ...

August 17, 2017

The Civil Rights Con

For the first time in American history there are multiple generations without an essential national cause.   Every generation of American society since the nation’s founding up to the 1970’s has been swept up in one of three ind...

August 8, 2017

Watergate and the Trump Investigation

Forty-three years ago tomorrow, on August 9th, 1974 Richard Nixon resigned as the 37th President of the United States, becoming the only President in American history to quit while in office.  His resignation was ostensibly due to his personal r...

August 4, 2017

On Immigration, Trump Is Not Racist – He's Right

President Trump, in a White House address, forcefully endorsed the RAISE Act, as previously introduced by Senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga).  This is a bill that would dramatically reduce the level of legal immigration and rev...

July 31, 2017

Trump and Big-Government Paternalism

The spirit of rugged individualism that marked the American psyche since 1776 is dying, as a clear majority of Americans look to the shepherd that is the Government to be their protector.  There is little doubt that the Ruling Class, which encom...

July 10, 2017

America’s Long March toward a Secular Socialist Democracy

The United States is the only nation in the annals of mankind to be established on the basis of a political and social philosophy centered on natural, or God-given, rights.   Yet, within 230 years of our founding, America has been essential...

June 16, 2017

The Rise and Fall of James Comey

The New York Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar has once again thrust the works of William Shakespeare into the headlines.  The current iteration features a Donald Trump look-a-like in the title role of a ...

May 18, 2017

Turning the tables on Comey and the media

The mainstream media and their fellow travelers in the Democratic Party are beside themselves, praising Comey for his allegedly contemporaneous memo regarding his early February meeting with Trump in which the media claim that Comey noted that T...

March 29, 2017

Trump and National Heath Care

There is no doubt that the entirety of the Democratic Party wants single payer or socialized medicine.  There is now little doubt that far too many in the Republican Party, while not overtly in favor of national health care, would do little to o...

March 20, 2017

The National Health Care Nightmare Ahead

There is a growing consensus that if the American Health Care Act as proposed by the Republicans in the House and wholeheartedly endorsed by President Trump becomes law, the prospect of a single payer government run health care system will be virtual...

March 10, 2017

The Dark Cloud over the Trump Presidency

There is an old French adage that applies to the Republicans in Congress and perhaps the Trump Administration: “Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose” (“The more things change, the more they stay the same”). ...

March 6, 2017

The Enablers of Obama’s Wiretapping Scandal

As the news of the potential wiretapping of the Trump campaign has finally found its way into the headlines and the never-ending leaks emanating from the Obama Administration holdovers continue to be exploited, whatever national chaos and retribution...

February 28, 2017

The Rampant Incivility of the Left

As the weeks march on in the Donald Trump presidency, the rhetoric of the Left, the Democratic Party, and the Hollywood elites has continued to plumb new depths in crassness and incivility, with far too many in a mad dash to outdo the other in being ...

February 21, 2017

The Mainstream Media Have Forfeited All Respect

The inevitable conflict between the mainstream media and Donald Trump has come to boil just four weeks into his presidency.  The media are beside themselves that someone would castigate them at every opportunity and use hyperbole such as “...

February 15, 2017

President Trump and the Runaway Judiciary: The Founders Have Provided the Remedy

Recently, a rogue U.S. District Court Judge issued and a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed one of the most egregious judicial decisions in American history, dramatically undermining and thus relegating the issue of the sovereignty ...

February 7, 2017

Mainstream Media’s Trump Derangement Syndrome Epidemic

Donald Trump concluded his second week as President of the United States last Friday.  Prompted by virtually every utterance and action of the current President, the never-ending demonstrations and delirium of the professional activist Left as w...

January 30, 2017

Trump, Refugees and the American Left

President Trump issued an executive order on January 27th suspending indefinitely admission of refugees from Syria and halting all potential refugee immigration from six other Islamic countries for a period of 90 days, after which time a significant ...

January 21, 2017

Godspeed, Donald Trump as You Embark on Your Journey

On January 20th 2017, Barack Obama launched his preferred career: permanent celebrity.  After eight long and painful years, the seemingly never-ending national nightmare came to a close.  As an added bonus the Clinton crime family has been ...

January 17, 2017

Barack Obama’s Deplorable Race Relations Legacy

A recent phenomenon in American politics amid the conclaves of the media and academic elites is the stultifying debate over an outgoing president’s so-called “Legacy.”  The nation now finds itself embroiled in this conversation...

October 11, 2016

The Biggest Blunder of the 2016 Campaign

Many have tried to dismiss the recently released tapes of Donald Trump discussing women in extraordinarily vile terms as simply good old boy locker room banter claiming they are immaterial and will not impact on their vote. Perhaps to his diehard sup...

October 5, 2016

The Sun Is Setting on America as Founded

The seemingly endless and sweltering Philadelphia summer was finally coming to an end.  It is the 17th of September 1787 and for nearly four months delegates from twelve of the thirteen states, after many compromises and at times virulent disagr...

July 13, 2016

Bringing Down the Left

After nearly a century, with the tacit abetting by a feckless Republican Party over the past 30 years, the Left has succeeded in breaking nearly everything in the political china shop.  American society is calculatingly in shambles as race relat...

July 12, 2016

Demographics and 2016

Many have brought up the issue of changing demographics as being a major hurdle for any Republican candidate for president, but in particular Donald Trump.  Just how daunting is this task? In 1988, 85% of the voting electorate was white; in 2...

July 6, 2016

The American Left Has Won

The Democrats in the House of Representatives recently staged a theatrical sit-in ostensibly demanding that they, as an oppressed and victimized minority, be allowed to vote on additional gun control measures.  This childish attempt to mimic the...

June 15, 2016

The American Left is Beneath Contempt

The United States has just experienced the worst terrorist attack on its shores since September 11, 2001.  Forty-nine innocent fellow Americans were wantonly slaughtered by a radicalized Muslim, and traitor, who had pledged his allegiance to a f...

June 8, 2016

The Extortion Election of 2016

With the exception of the 1980 and 1984 election cycles, the most common electoral storyline since 1960 is that presidential elections have been won chiefly because most people voted against someone rather than for someone.  In 2016, for the fir...

May 30, 2016

A Memorial Day Reminder (and a Thank You)

The people of United States, a nation struggling to regain a sense of optimism and confidence, have, over many years, been told by a preponderance of the elites in American society that their country is one of an ignoble nature and history.  Tha...

May 24, 2016

America, the Founders’ Dream, and the Nightmare of Decline

The one common thread in this year’s presidential campaign, regardless of party, is a palpable sense of anxiety regarding the future and anger as to why the nation finds itself in its current state of decline.  The answers offered by the c...

May 9, 2016

Trump, the Republican Party, and the Future of Conservatism

The Republican Party hierarchy commenced the current primary season with two overriding objectives 1) make certain no constitutional conservative would win the nomination; and 2) nominate someone considered to be an ideological moderate.  They h...

May 4, 2016

Women Will Determine the Winner of the 2016 Presidential Election

In 1920 American women were, for the first time, able to vote for president in all the states of the union.  The female vote accounted for 30% of the total votes cast in that election.  The women’s vote gradually increased but remaine...

April 30, 2016

Fox takes hits on viewer numbers

It appears that the SS Fair & Balanced (aka Fox News) is taking on water. In April CNN, for the fifth time in the past eight months, is ranked #1 in prime time. The last time CNN had this many prime time wins was 14 years ago (November 2001) in t...

April 29, 2016

You Play the Game to Win

The sole purpose of a political party in a representative republic is to choose and support candidates that can win elections.  After eight years of Obama the 2016 election has become extraordinarily important and who the Republicans choose as t...

April 25, 2016

America in Wonderland

Over the past few years I have had the strange sensation that I, along with the American people, have fallen down a rabbit hole and joined Alice and her band of peculiar and anthropomorphic characters in Wonderland.  A world ruled by nonsense wh...

April 8, 2016

Donald Trump’s Anachronistic View of Women

That Donald Trump is having a serious problem with the women’s vote should not be a surprise as he is an anachronism in his outlook towards the opposite sex.  While he has adapted to some degree, as he does employ women executives in his r...

March 21, 2016

Why I Cannot Vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton

I have voted in all 12 presidential election cycles since 1968.  During this 48-year period there were choices I enthusiastically supported, such as Ronald Reagan (I worked as a volunteer in his campaign) and others, such as Gerald Ford, Bob Dol...

March 18, 2016

The Splintering of the Conservative Media

Over the past 28 years there has been a sea change in the media.  Not only has the monopoly of the so-called mainstream media been shattered but the phenomenal rise of conservative media has been truly stunning.  It began in 1988 with the n...

March 11, 2016

The Demise of the Conservative Movement

Since the end of Ronald Reagan’s second term, the Republican Party establishment has subtly denigrated and deliberately diminished the influence of the conservative movement within their ranks.  Despite the fact that conservatives are by f...

March 8, 2016

Time to stop the Hitler comparisons

Thanks primarily to a certain billionaire from New York, as the weeks have marched on in the Republican presidential nominating process, the rhetoric has continued to plumb new depths in crassness and incivility.  However, in the past few days, ...

February 29, 2016

The Closet Statist and the Constitutional Conservative

After seven years of Barack Obama, the power of the president of the United States has expanded far beyond what was ever envisioned by the founding fathers.  As was the case with Obama, it is dangerous to choose a president based solely on plati...

February 23, 2016

Rubio and the establishment’s game plan

The Republican Establishment has finally exposed its game plan for the 2016 presidential nominating process: go all out for Rubio, destroy Cruz’s character, and set up a one on one between Trump and Rubio.  If Rubio cannot win the nominati...

February 16, 2016

The United States at the Point of No Return

There is an unquestioned disconnect between the vast majority of the American people and the so-called elites or ruling class.  Whenever I am in the company of those that are members of this exclusive fraternity, and when the conversation inevit...

February 8, 2016

No More Room for Compromise with the Socialist Agenda of the Democrats

In the United States of 2016 the occupant of the White House is someone steeped in and aggressively implementing statist ideology.  And one of the two major political parties has as its only candidates for the presidency a dedicated lifelong soc...

February 6, 2016

Eagle Forum vs. Marco Rubio

Marco Rubio, long the heartthrob of much of the so-called conservative media such as the National Review and Fox News, has now been thrust onto center stage as the last best hope of the establishment.  His third-place showing in Iowa this past w...

January 27, 2016

A Time for Choosing

Among the images seared in my memory is that of standing alone at the railing of a ship on a cold and foggy winter morning sixty-five years ago when, as the sun began to break through mist, I first saw, bathed in an iridescent glow, the Statue of Lib...

January 22, 2016

The American People vs. the Political Establishment

Over the course of 228 years since the ratification of the United States Constitution every presidential election cycle has been identified in history by an overriding issue or movement.  In 2016 the underlying theme is the anger and disgust dir...

January 13, 2016

Who is Donald Trump?

I applauded when Donald Trump jumped into the Republican presidential nominating fray.  Here was someone with overwhelming national recognition due to his celebrity status, as well as someone who was politically independent due to his wealth....

January 6, 2016

The American Left and the Death of Political Discourse

Much has been made of the precipitous decline and near death of political discourse in the United States.  Many attribute this to the coarsening of the language.  However, this factor is a symptom of a current underlying and foundational di...

December 25, 2015

Saved by Christmas

In the United States and the nations of Europe preparations are underway to celebrate Christmas as first and foremost a tribute to materialism.  These increasingly agnostic and secular societies are not only willfully choosing to ignore the exis...

December 15, 2015

Barack Obama and the End of Western Civilization

The global and domestic landscape is one of turmoil and indecision.  Everywhere one looks there is chaos and potential disaster, whether in the financial, economic, political or military sphere.  Since the beginning of the post World War II...

October 30, 2015

Behind the Benghazi Curtain

At this juncture in American history the question must be asked: How much has the potential mutually assured destruction pact between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that is the Benghazi debacle played into Hillary’s run for President? Whil...

October 19, 2015

No Time for Cowardice in the GOP Presidential Field

This nation’s economic future is in shambles thanks in large part to the policies of Barack Obama and his fellow travelers in the Democratic Party.  In fact the current economy is, in many ways, the equivalent of the Great Depression of th...

October 9, 2015

A Nation of Discontent

Not since the presidential election of 1932 has the American electorate been so mired in discontent.  Despite the best efforts of the media to portray this discontentment as limited to the Republican base, numerous polls have confirmed a vast ma...

August 28, 2015

Immigration must benefit the home nation

Regardless of what one may think of Donald Trump, he has brought the long festering issue of unfettered illegal immigration to the forefront of the nation’s attention.   His proposed plan to resolve the issue, if elected president, in...

August 18, 2015

Trumping the Republican Establishment

The alarm bells are reverberating throughout the halls of the Republican Establishment as the realization has begun to sink in that their days controlling the Party are over.   Nothing is more telling than the Real Clear Politics average of...

August 10, 2015

Obamism and Neo-fascist America

The philosophical foundation of the American Left and the Democratic Party is a proprietary hybrid of Fascism.  While in lockstep with the economic and political tenets of Fascism, the unique feature of the current American iteration is anti-nat...

August 3, 2015

A Message to the Supporters of Planned Parenthood

A few days ago I received a phone call from an old acquaintance living in Haifa, Israel.  Fighting back the tears, he asked me what in God’s name has happened to the United States.  He had been reading about the recent revelations con...

July 17, 2015

The United States is a Dying Country

The United States a dying country.  For many years that distasteful reality has been painfully obvious to those of us who immigrated to the United States having experienced first-hand the human suffering brought about by the near total destructi...

July 8, 2015

The Fate of the Republican Establishment

Over the past century there have been two common traits found in all nations that have adopted socialist governing principals.  The first is the creation of a privileged governing class, and the second is the abject economic and political failur...

July 1, 2015

America's Destiny in the Balance

In 1856 Harper’s Magazine published a quote first attributed to Jose Correia de Serra, a Portuguese Abbot, scientist and close friend of Thomas Jefferson: “It has been said that a ‘special Providence watches over children, drunkards...

December 25, 2014

Saved by Christmas

Preparations are underway in the United States and the nations of Europe to celebrate Christmas as first and foremost a tribute to materialism.  These increasingly agnostic and secular societies are choosing to ignore the existence of God as wel...

February 20, 2014

The Curse of the Sanctimonious Class

Twenty-two years ago an event occurred that was the primary catalyst in the election of the Obama administration with its totalitarian mindset and statist convictions.  The presidential election of 1992 marked the turning point when the American...

December 25, 2013

Saved By Christmas

Preparations are underway in the United States and the nations of Europe to celebrate Christmas as first and foremost a tribute to materialism.  These increasingly agnostic and secular societies are choosing to ignore the existence of God as wel...

December 19, 2013

The Decline and Fall of Political Discourse

As the easily predicable disaster that is ObamaCare continues to evolve, two things are certain: one, Barack Obama and his minions will never admit failure and reverse course; and two, the vitriol emanating from the Left aimed at obliterating their p...

December 2, 2013

The Schizophrenia of Barack Obama

Barack Obama is a man with only one core conviction.  He has, as the basic foundation of his otherwise disorganized and uncertain belief system, the irrefutable tenet that the United States, because of its European roots, has been the epitome of...

November 20, 2013

Three Minutes that Transformed America

Invariably at some point in the history of a nation an event occurs which precipitates or dramatically accelerates the potential demise of that nation or empire.  The United States experienced such an event in Dallas fifty years ago Friday. Wit...

August 28, 2013

The Dream is No More

It was an overcast, albeit relatively mild August day by Washington D.C. standards, fifty years ago today, as I joined the thousands walking along Constitution Avenue toward the Lincoln Memorial.  Many of those in the crowd who had traveled vast...

July 22, 2013

Immigration, Race, and Social Conflict

Many are beating the drums for legalizing untold millions of undocumented immigrants in a nation facing not only the worst long-term economic conditions since the Great Depression but a society rapidly coming apart at the seams.  Both party esta...

June 27, 2013

The Victims of Immigration Reform

In virtually all recent polls the overriding concern facing the people of the United States is the moribund economy.   Per the Rasmussen survey out of 15 issues 80% of all respondents listed the economy as the most important followed by: 2)...

June 22, 2013

The Immigration Reform Circus

As an immigrant to the United States, I am often asked what I think of the need to do something about the broken immigration policy of the United States and the presumed overriding necessity to legitimize those that are illegally in the country. ...

June 20, 2013

The Self-Delusion of the American Political Establishment

Washington D.C. is not just a city of monuments, museums and millions of square feet of buildings housing a preponderance of left-leaning overpaid bureaucrats complaining about how hard they work, it is also the home of the American Political Establi...

June 14, 2013

Obama and the Despots

Last week Herb Meyer wrote an article published by the American Thinker cogently analyzing how and why Barack Obama is responsible for all the anti-American actions directed at his political enemies by so many true believers not only in the administr...

June 11, 2013

The Obama Scandals and the Limbaugh Theorem

Virtually all the scandals erupting around the Obama regime involve the loss of individual freedom and the rapid evolution of an oppressive central government.   These ongoing revelations eerily mirror the history of repressive nations such...

June 5, 2013

The GOP and the IRS

As usual, the Congress is all over a scandal after the fact.  The hearings on the IRS fiasco are good theatre and admittedly necessary; but where were the Republicans, not only over the past three years that the IRS was targeting conservative gr...

May 24, 2013

Quinn Hillyer for Congress

My good friend, American Spectator stalwart, and recent contributor to AT Quin Hillyer has decided to run for Congress: When an opportunity comes to do something good, one must grab it. At 2 p.m. central time Thursday afternoon in Mobile, word spr...

May 23, 2013

Don't Blow the Opportunity Obama Has Handed Us

It appears the Republican Party establishment and some conservative commentators have come up with another mistaken tactic to woo the low information and undecided voters.  With the avalanche of scandals swirling around the Obama administration ...

May 19, 2013

Scandal is not Enough

The scandal eruption currently surrounding the Obama regime was inevitable. The only question was when and what would finally break through the wall erected around the White House by the media. It has long been obvious to conservatives in America tha...

May 13, 2013

Barack Obama and the End of an Era

The re-election of Barack Obama is the high water mark and the end of an era.  The period 1960 to 2014 will go down in American history as the era of never-ending crusades leading to the decline and potential downfall of the United States. ...

April 28, 2013

Immigration Must Benefit the Host Nation

A root factor of the April 15th bombing in Boston is the self-destructive immigration policy of the United States, which willingly allows the infiltration of those either dedicated to or susceptible to being converted to the tenets  and tactics ...

April 21, 2013

Stemming the Tidal Wave

Lost amid all the discussion and demagoguery of so-called immigration reform is the foundational proposition that immigration policy should be based on what is good for the nation and not for those seeking, either legal or illegal, entry into a count...

April 10, 2013

Why the United States is a Dying Country

Recently Rush Limbaugh opined that the United States is a dying country.   For many years that reality has been painfully obvious to those of us who immigrated to the United States having experienced first-hand the suffering inherent in the...

March 29, 2013

Our Culture: Whose Fault Is It?

It is fascinating to listen to or watch the Republican Establishment and much of the punditry on the right wonder, with amazement, why the nation's attitude has dramatically shifted regarding acceptance of the concept of gay marriage.  It is as ...

March 27, 2013

Is the Republican Party America's Achilles Heel?

The hierarchy of the Republican Party has published a 100 page new and improved game plan entitled the "Growth and Opportunity Project" ostensibly to win future elections and re-tool the party.  While this effort is an improvement over similar e...

March 27, 2013

Europe's Never-ending Crisis

For the past four years the world has watched as the Euro Zone countries have careened from one financial crisis to another.  Each time the debacle of the day is papered over with yet another patch involving either more printing of euros, forced...

March 21, 2013

Karl Rove and Republican Decline

Not since 1984 and the landslide victory of Ronald Reagan have the Republicans had a more winnable election than the 2012 presidential election. Yet the Republican Establishment managed to lose to the worst and most vulnerable President in modern his...

March 11, 2013

Why Is America Facing Economic and Societal Turmoil?

How did the United States, a country founded on the principle of individual freedom and having achieved great wealth and world influence, find itself in its present financial and societal predicament?  Until the bulk of the American citizenry un...

March 4, 2013

Barack Obama: The Man Behind the Mask

Sixty-three months ago Barack Obama officially declared his candidacy for President.  Only now are some among the so-called media and ruling elites in America slowly awakening from their self-induced infatuation and beginning to understand who h...

February 25, 2013

The United States is a Euro-Socialist Nation

On stage in Washington D.C., starring Barack Obama, the Democratic Party, and the supporting cast -- the mainstream media, is the 21st sequel, since 1995, of imminent Armageddon if government spending is reduced. This award-winning production current...

February 14, 2013

The Peculiar American Left

As an immigrant to the United States, and thus a sideline spectator of the panorama that is American society, as well as someone who has spent most of his adult life in the field of international finance dealing with a myriad of countries and nationa...

February 5, 2013

First Comes Honor

A nation without honor is a nation without a future.  Today the United States finds itself in a quagmire of ever-increasing self-doubt and foreboding.   Chief among the factors that have brought America to this point has been the aband...

January 25, 2013

The Worst Five Years

As the mainstream media unabashedly cheered, Barack Obama was inaugurated for a second time as President of the United States. He and the American left, in alliance with the media, have it made clear that, in a second term, their primary agenda items...

January 21, 2013

The Left's Inability To Be Civil

It was inevitable that the American left, and its mouthpiece the mainstream media, is now resorting to its usual mindless name calling, as they cannot intimidate the NRA and the bulk of the American citizens into meekly acquiescing to their so-called...

January 16, 2013

How Congressional Republicans Can Win the First Battle in the Spending War

What does one do when confronted with the mandatory task of negotiating a deal with someone who is demonstrably dishonest, driven solely by ego and only interested in embarrassing you?   You don't negotiate with them. You place your be...

January 8, 2013

I Will Not Be Intimidated

As a young boy I was shot by a man whose clear intent was to kill me as I had deliberately, by throwing broken bricks at him, interrupted his attempt to rape a young teen-aged girl, allowing her to escape. To this day I can still see the evil in his ...

January 3, 2013

The America of 2013

Americans take great umbrage whenever they, as a society, are portrayed by the residents of other nations as self-centered, avaricious and overbearing.  While an egregious exaggeration in the past, is it an accurate description now?  Who ar...

December 25, 2012

Saved By Christmas

Preparations are underway in the United States and the nations of Europe to celebrate Christmas as first and foremost a tribute to materialism.  These increasingly agnostic and secular societies are choosing to ignore the existence of God as wel...

December 17, 2012

Can the Republican Party Remain Relevant?

Does the Republican Party want to remain relevant?   Or are they willing to be cast, by the not so subtle scorched earth tactics of Barack Obama, the Democrats and the mainstream media, into permanent second class status, and eventual obliv...

December 13, 2012

An Overlooked Constant

The theater of the absurd in Washington revolving around raising tax rates on the wealthy is based on a fiction: massively raising the rates will result in additional revenue for the government. One of the constants in any analysis of income taxes p...

December 7, 2012

There Is No Party of Principle

The 2008 and 2012 elections have revealed that an escalating number, perhaps a majority, of Americans are comfortable with the concept of transforming the United States into a Euro-Socialist democracy.  While this may be easily sold to an increa...

November 29, 2012

The Governing Class and the Decline of America

The United States will not reverse its descent into the abyss of financial and societal bankruptcy until the current political and governing establishment is replaced.  That will not happen until the American people, who have been deliberately i...

November 21, 2012

Whither America?

In the 1970's there was an evocative public service advertisement on television.  It showed an old and grizzled Native American Chief with a tear rolling down his cheek as he surveyed the scaring of the landscape of this once pristine land. On t...

November 13, 2012

A Nation Adrift

It is now an unquestionable reality that the United States is no longer the beacon of freedom and hope for all mankind.  As America careens toward not only a fiscal cliff, but a societal one, theories abound as to why, including changing demogra...

November 7, 2012

The task ahead

So there it is.  Apparently a sufficient number of Americans susceptible to the fabrications, false promises and the faux celebrity persona of Barack Obama have re-elected him as President.   Those of us, who still maintained an unshak...

October 31, 2012

The Miscalculation of the American Left

As the 2012 election season winds down to a merciful end, the Obama re-election cabal is in a state of shock and panic at the very real prospect that they and their anointed "messiah" look headed for a monumental defeat.  Such a defeat may well ...

October 15, 2012

Barack Obama's October Surprises

In October 1972, and twelve days before the presidential election, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger made a surprise announcement of a peace agreement ending the war in Vietnam, thus giving birth to the term "October Surprise."  In nearly every ...

October 12, 2012

Biden hasn't changed a bit

I had the misfortune to meet Joe Biden in the mid-1980's.   There was the perfunctory handshake and exchange of the usual few words when politicians greet people they do not know personally.   There have been a few occasions over ...

October 4, 2012

Does Obama want out?

I have always been convinced that Barack Obama was champing at the bit to win a second term in order to complete his "transformation" of America.   After last night watching his body language and inability to respond to Mitt Romney or make ...

October 1, 2012

Is Barack Obama a Compulsive Liar?

Barack Obama has lied about the terrorist attack on the American Consulate in Libya for over 15 days, even going so far as to overtly imply that this attack was prompted by an obscure internet movie trailer in his speech at the United Nations two wee...

September 17, 2012

Rarely Has an International Crisis Been More Predictable

Rarely has an international crisis and potential for a regional conflict been more predicable than what the world is witnessing in the Middle East and North Africa.  The naiveté, ignorance and narcissism of Barack Obama coupled with his and othe...

September 12, 2012

How the Financial Collapse Would Happen in an Obama Second Term

The stakes in the coming election could not be higher.  While crystal ball-gazing always is hazardous, the trail America's economy would follow, should President Obama's re-election effort succeed, has already been blazed.  Naturally, the m...

September 5, 2012

The First Refuge of Scoundrels

Why have so many in the so-called mainstream media become unhinged in their attacks on not only Mitt Romney, but anyone who does not openly support Barack Obama?  Why do so many on the left hate conservatives as monsters? While there has always ...

August 28, 2012

Declining MSM's last gasp

There is no more denying that the so-called mainstream media is in the tank for Barack Obama. This fact now needs to be accepted for what it is, and conservatives, libertarians and Republicans must stop wasting so much time either pointing out the ob...

August 25, 2012

Obama Administration Desperate Not to Talk about Jobs

The current re-election campaign tactics being waged by the Obama team make for some of the most bizarre in recent history, as the Obama campaign attempts to focus solely on destroying its opponent, Mitt Romney, while occasionally throwing in some ma...

August 15, 2012

The Childishness of the American Left

The American left is the most self-indulgent, arrogant, and spoiled group of people on the face of the earth.  They live in a nation facing national bankruptcy and societal upheaval -- a country presently subsisting on the residue of past econom...

August 7, 2012

Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and American Insolvency

The Obama re-election campaign tactics are now approaching near-hysterical levels with the unleashing of the White House's pawn Harry Reid accusing Mitt Romney of not paying any taxes over the past ten years, claiming some anonymous source as the aut...

August 3, 2012

Mitt Meets Mainstream Media Mindset

With one voice, the mainstream media proclaim Mitt Romney's overseas tour a disaster, hoping to damage his standing.  To the surprise of no one, shameless double standards are being applied.  But does it matter anymore? The current iteratio...

July 27, 2012

Pawns in the Obama Re-Election Campaign?

Beyond attempting to reconstitute the cult of personality, which was the major factor in propelling Barack Obama to the White House in 2008, the Obama campaign must suppress and discourage the turnout among the electorate by casting Romney as a disho...

July 20, 2012

Quietly, a food crisis brews

The nation is experiencing its worst drought in over half a century.  Grain crops, particularly corn, are being devastated as only 31% of the domestic corn crop in is good shape versus 40% just one week ago.  The same is true for soybeans a...

July 18, 2012

Obama and the Fantasy of Omniscient Government

Marxism and its precursor, socialism, are the philosophies of choice for those who are obsessed with self-aggrandizement and the need to attain control over their fellow man.  In order to achieve this end, a nebulous antagonist must be created, ...

July 9, 2012

Mitt Romney's Time to Choose

Throughout the history of the United States, whenever the dark clouds of apprehension, fear, and adversity cast a long shadow over the nation, a leader has emerged to successfully guide America into even greater prosperity and achievement.  Men ...

July 3, 2012

Six Weeks That Saved America

More than any six weeks in recent memory, the events that transpired during the period May 21 to June 28, 2012 confirmed the ingenuity and wisdom of the founders and sealed the fate of an administration as well as of the American left. The founders o...

June 25, 2012

Euro Crisis and the Twilight of Sovereignty

Many Americans, viewing the European debt crisis from afar, are justified in asking how does this ongoing and apparently never ending debacle affect them.  The explanations offered thus far are steeped in arcane and convoluted discussions of bon...

June 21, 2012

Obama administration will invoke Bush in Fast and Furious defense

Now that Obama has invoked executive privilege in order to protect Eric Holder and apparently the White House relative to the "Fast and Furious" gun-walking debacle, the sycophants in the media and the Democratic Party will have to find a new narrati...

June 18, 2012

Civility and the Legacy of George W. Bush

Excessive civility in the face of a national crisis is tantamount to indifference.  The Bush family dynasty exemplifies the patrician attitude of holding oneself above the fray after fulfilling one's pre-ordained obligation to society.  Thi...

June 8, 2012

Obama's Friday Press Conference

On May 8th the American Prevaricator-in-Chief held one of his infrequent press conferences.  Within that performance Barack Obama made the statement that the private sector is doing fine but state and local governments are not and we, as a natio...

June 5, 2012

Party Loyalty and the Future of America

Does loyalty to a political party trump the well-being of a nation?  That question now confronts many Democratic Party activists, financial contributors, and elected politicians, particularly because Barack Obama has no loyalty to the party he l...

May 31, 2012

The Obama economy worsens

Very few people will hear the news today that the Commerce Department has revised the growth of the nation's Gross Domestic Product downward.  The original estimate of first quarter 2012 growth of a lethargic 2.2% has been revised to an anemic 1...

May 30, 2012

Trump trumpets Obama birth certificate anomalies again

Donald Trump is back in the political news.  Not surprising as he is not exactly a shrinking violet when it comes to the media.  The discovery of a 1991 promotional booklet by Obama's literary agency claiming his birth in Kenya has brought ...

May 28, 2012

The Distinctive Trait of America

The people of the United States, a nation struggling to regain a sense of optimism and confidence, have, over many years, been told by the elites in American society that their country is one of an ignoble nature and history.  That "American Exc...

May 22, 2012

Stupid media tricks produce poll favoring Obama

Polls, the mainstay of news reporting these days, are rapidly losing their luster as many mainstream media outlets not only sponsor these polls but skew them in a variety of ways in order to create news and assist their favored candidate.  The o...

May 21, 2012

The Media Mess of Pottage?

The 2012 election season has begun in earnest, and the mainstream media find themselves in the position of having to defend and reinforce a failed president, Barack Obama -- the man they chose to sleep with in 2008.  The media are systematically...

May 11, 2012

Desperate media are pandering to desperate Obama

The recent hit piece, now falling apart, by the Washington Post on Mitt Romney's supposed high school hi-jinks has prompted many questions as to why a pillar of the mainstream media sinks so low in not-so-subtle pandering for Barack Obama and the Dem...

May 10, 2012

Obama's politics of distraction

While Europe is inching ever closer to plunging into a financial abyss, there are moments of comic relief provided by the current President of the United States.  He has not only become the butt of innumerable jokes but his re-election campaign ...

May 8, 2012

Obama's Second Term Transformation Plans

The 2012 election has often been described as the most pivotal since 1860.  This statement is not hyperbole.  If Barack Obama is re-elected the United States will never be the same, nor will it be able to re-capture its once lofty status as...

May 4, 2012

Dismal jobs numbers

One of the most confusing and distorted statistics coming out of Washington today is the monthly unemployment situation.   More and more Americans are waking up to the reality of the job market when the curtain is drawn back and the actual ...

May 1, 2012

America's Useful Idiots

Many years ago, a phrase was coined by the leaders of the Soviet Union to describe those in the West who naively promoted the cause of Russian Communism when in reality they were held in contempt and were being cynically used by the Soviet hierarchy....

April 23, 2012

Obama's Springtime of Discontent

Spring is the most idyllic time in Washington, D.C.  It is marked by not only the blossoming of the cherry trees along the Tidal Basin, but also the greening of the grass and trees along the Mall as an influx of awestruck high school students an...

April 9, 2012

Time to Stop Being Intimidated by the Left

Over the past twenty years, the American left has been largely successful in intimidating much of the conservative movement and creating the impression that leftists are much smarter and thus able to stay one step ahead.  Things have evolved to ...

April 6, 2012

Unemployment data not what it appears

The March unemployment data has been issued.  The government claims 120,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate fell to 8.2% from 8.3% in February.   However closer looks at the statistics reveal an altogether different scenari...

April 3, 2012

Barack Obama and the End of the Progressive Era

The people of a nation that has experienced unprecedented peace and prosperity for an extended period of time are often lulled to sleep, believing there will never be an end to their good fortune.  Many powerful countries throughout history have...

March 23, 2012

The Pants-on-Fire President

This past Sunday, the Washington Post ran a lengthy front-page article on Obama's machinations during the debt ceiling debate last summer.  Rush Limbaugh spent a considerable amount of his on-air time Monday discussing one of the highlights of t...

March 20, 2012

Barack Obama, Euro-Socialism, and the 2012 Election

Throughout modern history, those who sought to control and expand the reach of government often resorted to exploiting mankind's most dominant trait: an innate desire to survive and prosper.  To that end, the people would be promised a utopia on...

March 8, 2012

The American Left and the Erosion of Public Discourse

Much has been made of the precipitous decline in the level of discourse in the United States.  Many attribute this to the coarsening of the language and the ever-widening gulf between the various factions in the political spectrum.  However...

March 2, 2012

A New Right Daily

The Left invariably frames their policy pronouncements in the mantle of so-called "rights" that only the government can guarantee.  The implication is that all citizens are entitled and guaranteed, by virtue of living in the United States, to wh...

March 1, 2012

Obama and the End of American Exceptionalism

America's once-exalted position as the unquestioned leader of the free world has been greatly and deliberately eroded.  A nation respected not only for its military and economic might, but more so for its dedication to the ideals of individual f...

February 24, 2012

Obama's oily deception

Once again the nation is experiencing gas prices exceeding $4.00 per gallon and as predictable as the sun rising in the East, Obama claims there are no easy fixes and that the real solution is the forced development of alternative energy -- after all...

February 22, 2012

Media Power Defining Santorum

Over the past thirty years, a strange thing has happened on the path to the presidency.  With the advent of the twenty-four-hour news cycle and the proliferation of media outlets, potential presidential nominees can no longer control or establis...

February 20, 2012

The Obama Obfuscation Alliance

When faced with an issue they do not care to discuss the Obama administration is doing what any adolescent would do -- change the subject.   With the usual co-operation of the mindless mainstream media, the Obama administration is doing all...

February 13, 2012

Barack Obama: In the Footsteps of Twentieth Century Despots

How many times will the American people have to be hit over the head before they understand that Barack Obama is the most corrupt, dictatorial, and ideologically driven president in American history?  That his entire being and psyche are devoted...

February 9, 2012

The Underlying Issue of the 2012 Campaign

Lost amid the fiction-based stage play that is the Obama re-election campaign and the contentious Republican nomination battle that has been focused solely on the personal destruction of various candidates is the failure to address the underlying fac...

February 8, 2012

February 7 Caucuses: Game Change?

Thus far, the hallmark of the 2012 Republican primary season is voter apathy, with the exception of one state: South Carolina.  It is generally acknowledged, particularly among the Republican base, that this election is the most important in the...

February 3, 2012

Two Bad Days for the GOP

The Democrats and the Obama re-election machine have sat by and watched the Republican Follies over the past 48 hours, and by doing nothing they have gathered manna from heaven for the upcoming campaign. First, Gingrich is carpet-bombed in Florida, r...

January 31, 2012

How Obama created 22 million jobs

I have been forced to concede that Barack Obama is one of the foremost and accomplished economic minds in the US today.   Yesterday he claimed he has created 22 million jobs since becoming president, yet those of little faith quickly belitt...

January 30, 2012

The Republican Establishment's Strategic Blunder

The Republican Party has a tenuous hold on the conservative movement in America.   At present the only home for the 40 per cent of the electorate that identify themselves as conservative is the Republican Party, but it appears that those wh...

January 29, 2012

A warning to America from the future

In Europe, there has been over the past two years a seismic shift in the opinion of the American president, who was once thought of as an agent for "hope and change" (something many in Europe could not explain either). I have often written about the ...

January 28, 2012

'The Year of the Dragon'

This past Monday marked the beginning of the Chinese lunar new year. The Chinese bid farewell to the year of the rabbit and greeted the year of the black water dragon. The dragon is the only mythical beast of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac and ...

January 25, 2012

Overseas bemusement and concern

The Republican nominating process is not only creating a stir in the United States but around the world.   I have the opportunity to talk to clients and associates around the globe on a daily basis and their reaction are one of bemusement a...

January 23, 2012

The Self-Destruction of the Mainstream Media

For the past forty years the mainstream media has become increasingly liberal and more overt in promoting the policies of the Democratic Party.  This evolutionary process reached its zenith in 2008 when the media were instrumental in Barack...

January 19, 2012

Media running interference for Obama with Gingrich and Romney stories

So we have Obama declaring he is rejecting the application for the Keystone pipeline.   He and his people in the campaign know that will be a major news story which will be by and large negative to him.  So, confidently ABC leaks to Gr...

January 17, 2012

Mitt Romney: The Last Republican President?

There now appears to be an inevitability surrounding Mitt Romney and the Republican nomination for president.   Are the American people prepared to sit through another term of George H.W. Bush?   The chances are that Romney would ...

January 12, 2012

The attacks on Bain

There is no question that many of the comments made by Rick Perry and to a lesser degree Newt Gingrich with regard to Bain Capital have been over the top.   But some of those who have vilified both men and defended unbridled capitalism have...

January 10, 2012

Friendly Fire at Bain Capital?

Much of the conservative media and establishment are wringing their hands and wailing about the "unfair" attacks against Mitt Romney and his time with Bain Capital.  It is as if the Obama Army and their cavalry, the mainstream media, would ...

January 6, 2012

Obama: The Mask is Off

The mask is fully off.  Barack Obama is the most corrupt, power-mad president in this nation's illustrious history.  By his actions in bypassing Congress and making appointments that should be subject to Senate approval while the Senate is ...

January 5, 2012

The Left's Rights Scam

The left invariably frames its policy pronouncements under the mantle of so-called "rights" that only the government can guarantee.  The implication being that all citizens are entitled and guaranteed, by virtue of living in the United States, t...

January 1, 2012

Explaining the Iowa Caucuses to Europeans

A conversation I had with some of my business associates from overseas prompted some thoughts on the state of politics here in the U.S.  Among the topics brought up during the conversation was: why is Iowa so important and what is a caucus?...

December 29, 2011

The RomneyCare Blues

The American people, in 2008, were taken in by soaring rhetoric and well-produced theatre resulting in the election of the worst president since before the Civil War.  Today, the Republican primary voter is faced with less than ideal choices in ...

December 25, 2011

Saved by Christmas

Preparations are underway in the United States and the nations of Europe to celebrate Christmas first and foremost as a tribute to materialism.  These increasingly agnostic and secular societies have chosen to ignore the existence of God and ha...

December 22, 2011

Mitt, RomneyCare, and Teddy K

In 1994 Mitt Romney ran for the U.S. Senate.  His opponent: Ted Kennedy.  During that campaign Romney was critical of the liberalism of his opponent even coining s term "Kennedy Country" as means of describing the devastation Kennedy's libe...

December 20, 2011

Am I No Longer Fit to Be a Conservative?

I have often thought of myself as a staunch conservative.  However, over the past five weeks I have come to realize, thanks to a solid majority of the conservative chattering class and their vitriol against Newt Gingrich, that I am, per Glenn Be...

December 14, 2011

Newt and the Pundits

To many people, history is what has happened in the past few years or weeks.  Regrettably,  the American public is woefully ignorant of what has transpired in the past.  Thus they can be easily influenced by those willing to demag...

December 8, 2011

Newt and the Governing Class

I just returned from the belly of the beast, Washington, D.C.  There is not a more parochial or insular city in the country.  While there, I had a conversation with two members of what can be described only as the Republican establishment, ...

December 5, 2011

Vampire Government: How the Left is Sucking the Life out of the Private Economy

The current financial debacle in Europe and the near-bankrupt status of the United Sates have been brought about by an obsessive loyalty to statist doctrine and an inability to admit failure -- traits common to the left on both sides of the Atlantic....

November 23, 2011

Newt and the illegals

I must confess I watched my first Republican debate last night. It was obvious that all eight were head and shoulders above the current occupant of the White House (although Ron Paul's position on the Patriot Act and some of his other foreign affairs...

November 21, 2011

The Tipping Point and the Crossroads

The United States finds itself at a crossroads, facing a stark reality it can no longer ignore or leave to future generations.  We are presently on an irreversible path toward inevitable failure and second-class status.  It all started fort...

November 11, 2011

China's economy showing signs of trouble

Lost amid the Democrat/Media-produced circus side-show of whether Herman Cain is a serial sex-offender and the very real crisis in Europe is the deteriorating economic situation in China.   China, often portrayed as an unstoppable force in ...

November 8, 2011

How Obama bought off the big banks (and vice versa)

Occasionally the Washington Post does some real reporting.  Yesterday Zachery Goldfarb did an analysis of the aggregate profits over the past three years for the major banks and financial institutions as compared to the eight years of the Bush a...

November 4, 2011

Thoughts on the New Jobs Report

The employment situation report was just issued.  The headline for the media: 80,000 jobs created; unemployment rate drops to 9.0%. The reality behind the headline: in October, the number of workers marginally attached to the labor force or di...

November 3, 2011

The Worst President Since Before the Civil War

Three years ago, the people of the United States elected someone who has turned out to be the worst president since the pre-Civil War era.  Barack Obama, whether in economic matters, domestic affairs or international relations, has been an abjec...

October 25, 2011

Newt and the Next-in-Line Problem

The Republican presidential nominating process must break out of its "next-in-line" syndrome.  The party establishment, unable to comprehend the depth of voter angst, the desire for genuine change, and the true extent of America's current dire p...

October 19, 2011

The OWS Dream

The Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, while all over the spectrum in their demands, have one thread in common (beyond their inconceivable level of ignorance): they hate capitalism, are spoiled by living in a prosperous society, and have a socialist/M...

October 17, 2011

Race Betrayal

Yesterday, the United States dedicated a memorial to the life and achievements of Martin Luther King.  The America that exists today is a far different place, thanks to him and many others, as institutional racism and discrimination is a thing o...

October 14, 2011

9-9-9 and the UK

I just returned from London where one of the topics du jour was Herman Cain.   There is a great deal of fascination about a man about whom little is known on the international stage.   However his 9-9-9- proposal is generating a g...

October 3, 2011

Obama's Contempt Bordering on Treachery

The United States, faced with its worst crisis in sixty-five years, has at the helm a radical political class, as personified by Barack Obama, who have chosen a path trod by so many despots in mankind's recent history.  Barack Obama and his fell...

September 26, 2011

The Cynicism of Obama's Soak-the-Rich Policy

Barack Obama is plumbing the depths of cynicism and expedience as he has embarked on a campaign of overt class warfare and demagoguery in order to win reelection and shift the spotlight off the economic and societal failures of his policies. Whenever...

September 21, 2011

Obama's Fascist Economy

Barack Obama and his minions in the administration as well as many Democrats in the Congress are often described as Socialists, or in the extreme as Marxists.  However, their actions and strategy are straight out of the fascist economic playbook...

September 16, 2011

Obama's Unreliable Facts From Reliable Figures

Barack Obama is touting another stimulus dressed up a new "jobs bill."  Beyond the obvious attempt to try and box the Republicans into an untenable political quandary, Obama has hit the road to sell his solution to the economic crisis.  Kno...

September 14, 2011

Religion and the Election

The United States and Europe are on the verge of a massive financial collapse, unemployment is rampant, Western societies are being torn apart, and global leadership is the most inept in many generations, so what is the major concern of the American ...

September 1, 2011

Barack Obama, Man of the People

The portrait of Barack Obama's presidency is that of an egocentric -- not only incapable of leadership, but someone who views the office as a vehicle for the satisfaction of his delusion that the world not only owes him a living, but a sumptuous one....

August 24, 2011

The Income Gap Con Game

Over the past twenty years there has been a noticeable and growing gap between the income and wealth accumulated by the rich versus that of the middle class, a political asset habitually exploited by the Democrats with class warfare rhetoric.  H...

August 20, 2011

Obama and the Class Envy Card

Barack Obama, the Left and the Democrats are determined to continue their never-ending and over-used drum beat of "raise taxes on the rich."  While of little practical value in solving the nation's overwhelming debt and deficit problem, this sir...

August 17, 2011

Obama's Iowa speech lie

About a year and a half ago I reached my limit of being able to listen to or watch Barack Obama deliver a speech.  I choose instead to read the transcripts.  The ever-present obfuscations and lies, the constant demeaning of any opposing voi...

August 16, 2011

The Poisoned Fruit of Social Democracy

It is difficult not to notice that most of the financial, economic and societal problems making headlines in the world today are centered in Europe and the United States.  The reality is that the "West" has finally reached the point of satu...

August 16, 2011

The Debt Ceiling and ObamaCare

The recently concluded debt ceiling debate was celebrated by the participants as a major breakthrough in putting the United States on the road toward solving the deficit and debt problems extant for as far as the eye can see.  The country was to...

August 12, 2011

Making Good on the American Dream

The ever-growing list of nations facing severe budget, debt, and unemployment problems headlined by Greece, Spain, and the United States has two factors common to all its members.  They are all either confirmed to be or determined to turn into s...

August 8, 2011

The Bitter Fruit of Insolvency

The downgrade of the credit standing of the United States by Standard and Poor's was long overdue.  The salient factor in the drop was not the current level of indebtedness but the devastation that can be seen by looking across the landscape of ...

August 4, 2011

Obama and the Looming Financial Crisis

A global financial crisis is becoming more likely, as American political and media elites bury their heads in the sand.  The presumptive leader of the world economy is not even leading from behind.   The members of Congress and President Ob...

August 2, 2011

Will Obama blame 'terrorists' for the Dow decline?

Following Senate passage of the debt limit extension and President Obama's appearance on television, the Dow Jones Average declined 250 points for the day, close to 2%.   Mr. Obama, now that you have revealed to the world and the American p...

August 1, 2011

Obama's Failed Presidency

There comes a time and a point in history which indelibly define a President.  Oftentimes the event may not be of major import in the greater scheme of things but the management of it is of such prominence that the success or failure in the hand...

July 27, 2011

Obama's Ineptitude

At a critical time in its history, the country has as its president a man unqualified and unable to lead.  Even the left has begun to finally question their allegiance to Barack Obama, and more importantly, his allegiance to them.  More Ame...

July 27, 2011

Go for it!

It is time to drop the curtain on the debt ceiling play ongoing in Washington D.C.   The Republicans in the House need to pass the modified Boehner Plan which will include $1.2 Trillion in actual cuts (as verified by the Congressional Budge...

July 22, 2011

The Worst Steward of the Economy in American History

While the debt ceiling dance continues in Washington D.C. and the Republicans in the Senate are going wobbly, they need to understand they are dealing not only with an intransigent party in the White House but also someone that is the most incompeten...

July 18, 2011

The Global De Facto Gold Standard

The spot price of gold reached an all-time high of $1,594.00 per ounce on 14th of July as more countries and individuals turn to gold as an anchor of stability.   This as the two major world currencies and the twin pillars of the internatio...

July 18, 2011

Misreading the new CBS poll

The headlines throughout the mainstream media are trumpeting the latest CBS poll: "71% of the country disapproves of the way the Republicans are handling the debt ceiling crisis." The implication being that the Republicans are at fault because of the...

July 14, 2011

Germany's Giant Green Reversal

The theater of the absurd is not only in production on the banks of the Potomac, but also in Berlin.  Last spring the German Government made a monumental declaration with all the pomp and circumstance included: the country would phase out all it...

July 12, 2011

Terminal Media Delusion

Among the most myopic of the various factions within the American ruling class is what is generically known as the mainstream media.  Over the past ten years it has become painfully obvious that as a group they are determined to self-destruct wh...

July 8, 2011

Budget Deja Vu

As the kabuki theater that is the ongoing debt ceiling battle continues, I get a sense of (as Yogi Berra put it) déjà vu all over again.   Having lived in the greater Washington D.C. area for 43 years, I have witnessed the oft repeated scen...

July 6, 2011

Obama's Class Warfare Harms America

Americans are once again being confronted with irresponsible demagoguery unleashed by the President of the United States.  Mr. Obama, in a truly despicable effort to maintain his and his party's supremacy (which is the power of the purse), spare...

July 4, 2011

Wind Farm Madness

The futility of squandering money on wind farms has been laid bare by the United Kingdom's new budget for windmill construction. Christopher Booker of the U.K. Telegraph in his column yesterday highlighted the folly that is ongoing in the United King...

July 2, 2011

Ominous worldwide decline in manufacturing

Today there are a myriad of economic statistics that only serve to confuse and obfuscate.   Frankly most can be ignored by those who are not involved in the day-to-day market activities.  However there are some statistics that serve as...

June 30, 2011

America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb

Across the landscape that is the United States in 2011, there exists among the citizenry an increasing unease and apprehension about the future of the country.  Unlike many in the gilded halls of Washington D.C., the state capitals or the facult...

June 30, 2011

The Mendacity of Barack Obama

While I have always been wary of and have written about his dishonesty, after the speech the president delivered the 13th of April regarding the federal budget, one that was chock full of lies, deceit, and crass fear-mongering, it must be said that ...

June 27, 2011

The Oil Reserve Plunder Blunder

Until this past week, the International Energy Agency had released oil only twice from the emergency reserves of its member nations.  The first time was during the 1991 Gulf War in response to the loss of Iraqi and Kuwaiti oil production, and th...

June 24, 2011

Dumbest creatures on the planet

One of the prerequisites of being involved in the world of international trade and finance is the necessity to read on a daily basis a number of publications from around the globe.  Fortunately the internet has made that task quite a bit easier....

June 23, 2011

American Denial

Many of us who immigrated to the United States from either war-ravaged or totalitarian countries, where freedom was either unknown or the quintessence of daydreams, find ourselves baffled by a trait common to the majority of Americans: the belief, co...

June 20, 2011

The Insolvency Index

In the early 1970's economist Arthur Okun developed the Misery Index.  This was intended to measure or put in some context the real-world suffering of the individual during an economic downturn.  It was also simple in its nature, as the ind...

June 19, 2011

More UN IPCC Climate Nonsense

The United States contributes 22 per cent of the budget of the United Nations plus a myriad of other fees, the total of which is by far the largest of any nation.  Ever wonder what the average citizen gets for the billions in taxpayer dollars? T...

June 18, 2011

Civil unrest in China

A hallmark of totalitarian governments is the need to promote an image of their populace as tranquil and content under their leadership.  Such is the case with the government of China.  However the image belies the reality. The rapid growth...

June 15, 2011

Obama's America: Prosperity Lost

President Obama, the fellow leftists in his administration, and the Congress, nearly none of whom have ever made a viable contribution to the Gross Domestic Product, are hell-bent on seizing complete control of the economy.  They are making the ...

June 9, 2011

Obama's Libya debacle

President Obama is in deep water, well over his head, in the misbegotten Libya adventure into which he dragged America. His public statements reveal the degree of the debacle. On the 18th of March 2011, ABC News reported: President Obama told a bi-p...

June 8, 2011

Obama and the End of Western Civilization

The global and domestic landscape is one of turmoil, indecision, and uncertainty.  Everywhere one looks there is chaos and potential disaster, whether in the financial, economic, or political sphere.  Since the beginning of the post-World W...

June 8, 2011

OPEC does it again

In another (to quote the most overused word in the English language) "unexpected" move, OPEC today in a meeting in Vienna has failed to agree on an increase in production in spite of oil prices staying above $100.00 per barrel.  This despite Sau...

June 5, 2011

Germany Opts for Economic Suicide

The narrative of the Obama presidency has been a soap opera, with the lead character careening from one dilemma to another -- never resolving any.  Each episode ends on a cliffhanger -- a promise that the next show will grant resolution on whet...

June 4, 2011

The liberal mindset hits reality again

There are two constants in dealing with the liberal or socialist mindset: 1) they can never admit a mistake, always blaming it on others; and 2) regardless of the situation, they can ignore historical facts or the tenets of economics and achieve what...

June 3, 2011

Unemployment rate much worse than 9.1%

Just how dire is the unemployment situation?  The May employment situation has just been released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics  showing an unemployment rate of 9.1%.  But what are the actual statistics that reveal the true depth o...

May 30, 2011

America's Exceptionalism and Destiny

The people of United States, a nation struggling to regain a sense of optimism and confidence, have, over many years, been told by the elites in American society that their country is one of an ignoble nature and history.  That "American Ex...

May 30, 2011

Germany's impending energy suicide

Germany, a nation known throughout its history as having a penchant for national suicide, is about to repeat the process.  The coalition government of Andrea Merkel has decided to scrap all nuclear power generation by 2022.  Additionally th...

May 27, 2011

The silver lining behind the NY 26 cloud

The mainstream media and the Democrats have been positively giddy this week over the results of the special election in House District 26 in Western New York.  Beyond the obvious issues of the impact of a faux Tea Party candidate who spent nearl...

May 26, 2011

The Gold Plated Blunder of the Century

Today virtually all countries that can do so are buying gold bullion as quickly as they can as a hedge against the potential collapse of the US Dollar as well as a means of protecting their own currencies against inflationary pressure.  Even suc...

May 24, 2011

Where are the Democrat Grown-ups?

The United States faces momentous problems, potentially the most devastating issues in its 222 year history.  Yet there is a political party, the Democrats, and their titular leader Barack Obama, who act as of this entire chapter in American his...

May 22, 2011

A Tale ofTwo Betrayals

 The President of the United States has willingly and with forethought placed our long term ally, Israel, whose existence America has guaranteed since 1948, in an untenable situation by his attempt to impose a course of action that, if not follo...

May 20, 2011

The US is Running Out of Ammunition for the Coming Economic Crisis

Lately one of the primary topics discussed among my business associates in Europe is the question: How long before we [the U.S. and the world] confront a new financial crisis?  In fact, an overview of the financial landscape indicates there are ...

May 19, 2011

Obama and Israel

I forced myself to listen to Obama deliver his so-called new Middle East policy speech.  It was exceedingly difficult to do.  During the speech, as Obama declared that Israel should acquiesce to the 1967 borders, my minds eye turned to...

May 16, 2011

The Republican field winnows itself down

Normally the primary season begins with the Iowa caucuses in January of an election year.  However, it appears the Republican Party has decided to start the weeding out process 7 months earlier.  It is not the voters or caucus attendees who...

May 13, 2011

Restoring America's Standing

"I think that we've restored America's standing in the world." - Barack Obama, November 18, 2009 Was this the simply the usual prevarication of a President with a massive ego, or something he truly believed?  In any event, the pan...

May 12, 2011

Obama Demeans Himself on Immigration

The mendacity of Barack Obama continues to know no bounds.  He has now embarked on a campaign to sow the seeds of distrust and animosity within the Latino community on the issue of illegal immigration.  With his "the ends justify the m...

May 4, 2011

Time For Conservatives to Put Aside Documents and Focus on Obama's Performance in Office

Many conservatives are playing into the hands of the Obama re-election machine, falling for the trap of making themselves easily mocked by a sycophantic mainstream media attempting to turn Obama into a victim.The President cannot defend his record, a...

May 4, 2011

After Osama...

Osama bin Laden, while the face of al-Qaeda to the world, was in recent years more of a figurehead than the man behind the curtain manipulating the levers of terrorism.  In fact al-Qaeda, as it was constituted in the 1990 and 2000's, has been so...

April 28, 2011

Trump and the GOP Establishment

Donald Trump is not only causing heartburn within the halls of the White House but throughout many of the well appointed offices of the Republican hierarchy in Washington D.C.  For the first time since Ronald Reagan nearly hijacked the Republica...

April 28, 2011

Bernanke: What, me worry?

While everyone's attention was focused on the release of Obama's birth certificate, another historic event took place Wednesday in Washington D.C.  The Federal Reserve held its first open press conference in nearly 97 years.  Ben Bernanke s...

April 27, 2011

Mainstream Media's Paradise Lost

Over the past ten years it has become painfully obvious that the mainstream media's level of vituperation directed at conservatives has gone up exponentially while their willingness to accommodate and turn a blind eye towards the devastating policies...

April 23, 2011

Gasoline and Dollars: Supply and Demand

Gasoline has exceeded or approached $5.00 per gallon in some parts of the United States long before the normal peak travel season has begun.  Already the politicians, headline writers, and some cable and talk show pundits are pointing to the usu...

April 20, 2011

No Time for Civility

Most of the current leaders and many of the rank and file within the American conservative movement have as their defining characteristic a bottomless pit of pessimism and timidity, combined with an overarching fixation with civility.  Their pol...

April 20, 2011

German press reacts to the Standard & Poor's downgrade

Standard and Poor's downgrades its outlook on America's AAA debt rating from stable to negative.  The President continues his demagoguery against the Republicans and continues to beat the drum of class warfare.  The Democrats in the Senate ...

April 15, 2011

The Mendacity of Barack Obama

Over my 45 years in the business community, both domestic and international, I have dealt with an overwhelming variety of people of all races and political philosophies.  Men and women who were thoroughly honest and many who had no concept of ho...

April 13, 2011

The President's Budget Address and the Reality of Taxing the 'Rich'

The President is going to address the nation yet again.  He apparently intends to unveil another revised plan to fool the American people into believing he is sincere about reducing the deficit and reining in spending after the unserious budget ...

April 11, 2011

Silver and Gold Prices Delivering Terrible News for America

In the United States, the media's interest has been focused on who won the game that was the potential government shutdown.  As usual the reporting is based on a sporting event and not the importance of the change of direction the shutdown repre...

April 7, 2011

Libya gets worse

The initial indecision and later the dithering of Barack Obama which resulted in the lack of any strategy regarding Libya has achieved what many thought would happen: a stalemate and a potential prolonged civil war.  It is becoming increasingly ...

April 6, 2011

Obama Re-Election and the Cult of Personality

Barack Obama has made it official: he is running for re-election. The 2012 presidential election campaign has officially begun.  The election will ultimately be a referendum on Barack Obama regardless of whom the Republicans choose as their nomi...

April 5, 2011

Why we can't tax ourselves out of the deficit problem

Yesterday I was in the belly of the beast: Washington D.C.  At a lunch meeting, which included a number of liberal Democrats, the inevitable subject of the runaway spending and debt came up, particularly in light of Paul Ryan issuing a budget wh...

April 4, 2011

The Perils of a Birth Certificate

Ah, the perils of a birth certificate. Thanks to Donald Trump, the question of Barack Obama's birth certificate is finally worming its way in to the mainstream of America's consciousness. But certainly we can all sympathize with Mr. Obama's dilemma; ...

March 31, 2011

Fear of a Government Shutdown?

Leading Democrats are hoping for a government shutdown over the budget, convinced they will be able to blame Republicans and score political points. "If I was (sic) head of DNC, I would be quietly rooting for it," said Dean, speaking on a...

March 31, 2011

Oil Prices To Stay High

For years the United States and the rest of the oil consuming world looked to Saudi Arabia to stabilize the oil markets by arbitrarily increasing production the whenever wars, natural disasters or other factors occurred which could cause major price ...

March 28, 2011

Panic sets in on the left

Two recent headline stories: 1) Chinese police have arrested prominent writer Ran Yunfei for challenging the ruling Communist Party; the latest in a string of arrests in a deepening crackdown on dissent.   2) the George Soros-funded Media M...

March 27, 2011

Can We Save America?

Sixty years ago in February I came to the United States.  I was classified as a "displaced person" from World War II with no identity or knowledge of when, where or to whom I was born, an orphan who had miraculously survived on the str...

March 26, 2011

Economic danger signs mounting

While much of the world's attention is focused on Libya and the ongoing Washington follies staring Barack Obama, the global markets are the midst of their own struggle with reality.It has long been a truism that the stock markets are a bellwether as ...

March 19, 2011

Second thoughts on Green dogma -- from a surprising source

Germany has long been the titular and emotional leader of the "Green Movement" in Europe.  No country has adopted more so-called environmental friendly policies.  The German population has obediently gone along with environmental ...

March 18, 2011

The Media and the Republicans

The American mainstream media, once the most dominant news gathering entity in the world, has lost its credibility and is in the process of losing its influence.  Yet the Republicans and some conservative intelligentsia in Washington D.C. still ...

March 17, 2011

Higher taxes can't solve the deficit

In the ongoing battle between the fiscal conservatives and the liberal Democrats, there appears little chance of any meaningful movement toward fiscal sanity without the so-called ultimate weapon of a shutdown being employed.   The conserva...

March 14, 2011

Japan's Resilience

One of the frequent comments I hear from American citizens concerning the Japanese people is how they have managed to stay calm and resolute in the face of an unprecedented modern day natural disaster for that or any country.  The fact that ther...

March 13, 2011

Japan's Disaster and US Finances

The catastrophic events in Japan so overwhelming in their visual impact, will also have an influence on the economy of the United States.  The still to be determined cost of rebuilding the devastated area and its infrastructure may well exceed $...

March 12, 2011

Can America Survive a Catastrophe?

Japan has experienced one of the worst earthquakes in recent history, the Middle East is in flames and turmoil,  the threat of a war in that region becomes more of a reality by the day, China is flexing its muscle and plans to dominate Asia and ...

March 10, 2011

When public unions take over

Public sector unions have long been a major thorn in the side of European governments and one of the major factors in their budget woes.  In many countries such as Greece, they have virtually brought the nation to its financial knees and many un...

March 9, 2011

Confiscate Americans' Wealth to Pay Government Workers?

Michael Moore and his fellow-travelers in the American version of the Socialist/Marxist cabal have picked up the mantle of defending public unionism in their demonstrations in Madison, Wisconsin and other state capitals.  They are vocally callin...

March 7, 2011

The Rise of Dollar Risk

The dollar has long been seen as a place of safety whenever there are times of turmoil such as the present upheaval in the Middle East.  Historically soaring oil prices and potential uncontrolled inflationary pressures worldwide have caused a fl...

March 5, 2011

The phony drop in unemployment

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has again issued data that appears to contradict what the average American sees in his neighborhood and instinctively questions.  The official unemployment rate of 8.9% is a factor of data input which reflects how ...

March 4, 2011

The Only Way Out for the American Economy

Economic despair reigns in America, as stagnation and mounting debt make our future look hopeless. Yet America is uniquely positioned to rebound and recover our economic preeminence. All that is necessary is a political decision to reverse our energy...

March 2, 2011

The terrorist who burrowed in

A British native of Bangladesh and a British Airways computer expert has been convicted of plotting to launch a 9/11 style attack on US bound planes originating in the United Kingdom.  He was convicted in a British Court of four counts including...

March 1, 2011

Inflation: What me worry?

Ben Bernanke, in an appearance before Congress on March 1st, told the assembled Senators that inflation worries are overblown.  In regard to the prolonged rise in oil and other commodity prices, he said the more likely outcome is a temporary and...

February 28, 2011

Obama's economy heads further south

Fannie Mae, the now government owned mortgage finance company, has posted a loss of $2.4 Billion for the 4th Quarter of 2010.  They have also requested another $2.6 Billion in aid from the Federal Government.  Since 2008 Fannie Mae and its ...

February 27, 2011

Obfuscating Inflation

The government in Washington D.C. seems to be going out of its way to obfuscate and confuse the American citizens as to various economic factors and what the reality is of the situation the people find themselves in.  Instinctively the people kn...

February 25, 2011

Drawing back the curtain in Wisconsin

Wisconsin, long one of the most liberal of states and along with its neighbor, Minnesota, the incubator of the Progressive movement in America, has at long last made a major contribution to political and economic reality.   The ongoing budg...

February 23, 2011

Will Senate Republicans Snatch Budget Defeat from the Jaws of Victory?

Are the Senate Republicans going wobbly, again?  A CNN report indicates that negotiations are underway after several Republican leaders indicated they might accept a short-term spending bill as long as it included at least some spending reductio...

February 21, 2011

Unions, states, and the stimulus

Since President Obama assumed office on January 20, 2009, the labor unions, in particular the public sector unions, have been the co-president in domestic matters.  One of the major players has been Gerald McEntee, President of the American Fede...

February 20, 2011

Government Worker Unions: The Long Good-bye

The "Madison Uprising" is the beginning of the end of the incestuous relationship between government and the unions.  That fact has been recognized by the public sector unions and the Democratic Party and is why they have pulled out al...

February 20, 2011

Chinese stealth tech acquisition foiled

The Chinese tech firm Huawei has given up on its attempt to purchase American server technology company 3 Leaf. AT warned readers about this February 15 and February 16. From the latter item:It now has been revealed that Committee on Foreign Investme...

February 18, 2011

Obama's Economics of Deception

Barack Obama, perhaps the most dishonest president in modern history, has, in a cynical abdication of leadership, not only proposed a budget that, if adopted, is guaranteed to destroy the financial future of the country, but he has done so while lyin...

February 18, 2011

The Madison insurrection: follow the money

The primary reason the White House and the Democrats are fighting the movement to end collective bargaining is that dues will no longer be mandatory for teachers in the unions once they can no longer bargain.  Therefore there will no massive slu...

February 16, 2011

Outrageous Chinese stealth acquisition of server technology company

The case of Huawei Technology's takeover of server technology company 3Leaf Corporation (see: The Chinese Force Obama's Hand) gets stranger as each day passes.  It now has been revealed that Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States ...

February 15, 2011

The Chinese Force Obama's Hand

President Obama, after his obsequious behavior toward the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, has been placed in a difficult position regarding a Chinese company, Huawei, and their takeover of a U.S. server technology company, 3Leaf Corporation.  Huaw...

February 14, 2011

The Coming Battle for Egypt

The Egyptians, in what has become the first social networking-precipitated revolution, (as described by Google marketing executive Wael Ghonim) have succeeded in the first phase of revolution.  They have forced the resignation of the face of the...

February 10, 2011

The Essential Barack Obama

Today the United States finds itself adrift on a sea of uncertainty; its economy floundering under the weight of oppressive debt and mismanagement, its status in world affairs at its lowest ebb since the beginning of the 20th Century and its citizens...

February 5, 2011

Obama Regime's Cynical Exploitation and Callous Indifference

It has become more difficult as each day dawns to listen to the ramblings coming out of Washington D.C.  It is either a case of abject ignorance or a deliberate attempt to find out how naive and ignorant the American people are.  In the cas...

February 4, 2011

Labor Force Participation at 26 Year Low

The headlines today trumpet a decline in the unemployment rate to 9.0%, however only 36,000 jobs were created.  The rate drop is due to the absurd policy of the Bureau of Labor Statistics not to count those who dropped out of the labor and cease...

February 3, 2011

Driftwood Diplomacy

The demonstrations and the genuine possibility of a radical Islamic state eventuating in Egypt are in part the result of President Obama's foreign policy being reactive and not proactive.  The United States has placed itself in an era of driftwo...

February 3, 2011

NYT continues to sink

The New York Times Company has just issued its 4th quarter financial results.  Their long term trend of slowly sinking into the sunset continues.  Total revenues fell 2.9% from the same period a year ago.  Net Income fell 29% and earni...

January 31, 2011

America and the Middle East Food Riots

Perhaps the most overused but most accurate term used to describe the policies and ideology of the American left is the "Law of Unintended Consequences."  There is virtually nothing that these people espouse that, once put in place, ha...

January 29, 2011

Carter Redux?

For those who lived through the 1979 Iran revolution and the abandonment of the Shah of Iran by the Carter administration, there is a tangible sense of foreboding as to what form the outcome of the current upheaval in Egypt will take.Like Carter, Oba...

January 28, 2011

The Rest of the World and Obama

One of the primary narratives of the Democrats and the media during the entire tenure of the George W. Bush's term was that the United States was held in historically low regard throughout the rest of the world.  This became, after "Bush li...

January 25, 2011

Obama Fakes Right

The country will be treated to yet another orgasmic reaction by the once-mainstream media upon the conclusion of President Obama's State of the Union speech.  On the right, pundits such as Peggy Noonan are swooning once again and offering advice...

January 21, 2011

Now they tell us...

It appears that upon leaving the Obama White House one undergoes an epiphany somewhat akin to St. Paul on the road to Damascus.  This is particularly true for the economic team that the President chose.  Last fall at a luncheon announcing h...

January 15, 2011

Democrat Diversion Strategy Succeeds Again

The Democrats and the left have once again succeeded in their most well-worn, time-tested, and effective tactic: diversion.  For the past six days, the country has been watching the spectacle of the Republicans and those on the right defending t...

January 12, 2011

American Society and Character in the 21st Century

Over the past 65 years, devoid of any meaningful national misfortune, the American social order has undergone a major transformation.  The country now finds itself polarized and its discourse full of vitriol, with many looking to exploit nationa...

January 4, 2011

Marketing 'Climate Change'

A good indicator that a movement ostensibly based on so-called scientific facts has run out of steam is when that crusade must openly resort to crass marketing techniques to sell a flawed product.  As with so many iconic beliefs of the left, it ...

December 31, 2010

The Future and the United States

As the opening decade of the twenty-first century draws to a close, what is the future of the United States in an increasingly complex and fluid world order?In a prospective global scenario in which China dominates and reshapes Asia, India becomes a ...

December 27, 2010

Obama: The 'Temporary' President

In the December Jobs Report the overall news was grim -- the unemployment rate rose to 9.8%, the under-employment rate exceeded 17.2%.  However one notable statistic that was overlooked and under- reported was that the number of temporary worker...

December 25, 2010

Saved by Christmas

Preparations are underway in the United States and the nations of Europe to celebrate Christmas first and foremost as a tribute to materialism.  These increasingly agnostic and secular societies have chosen to ignore the existence of God and hav...

December 23, 2010

Saved by Christmas

Preparations are underway in the United States and the nations of Europe to celebrate Christmas first and foremost as a tribute to materialism.  These increasingly agnostic and secular societies have chosen to ignore the existence of God and hav...

December 22, 2010

The wages of appeasement

Is ratification of the START Treaty akin to the appeasement reflected by the Munich Pact in 1938?  No, it does not arbitrarily divide up a sovereign country in the hope of future peace, but it does reflect the same mindset that justified that pr...

December 20, 2010

Europe, China's New Beachhead

China has made plain their displeasure with the monetary and fiscal policies which threaten to further devalue the dollar and undermine the value of the U.S. debt held by Beijing.   However, as the United States is the largest importer of C...

November 22, 2010

Is There Confusion (or Worse) at the Fed?

The Federal Reserve is scheduled to release its updated economic projections this week.  These projections, along with the minutes of the November meeting, will be released on Tuesday.  This will ostensibly explain why the new round of quan...

November 19, 2010

Irish Sovereignty on the Brink

Ireland, a country to which nearly 40 million Americans can trace their ancestry, is on the brink of insolvency and a loss of sovereignty.   In the 1990s and the early part of this decade, Ireland's growth rate had earned it the nickna...

November 17, 2010

The World Economy Flounders

A worldwide economic crisis is brewing as disturbing news multiplies in Europe, Asia, and, of course, Obama's America, which has defaulted on its traditional leadership role.A headline in the Financial Times on the 11th of November signaled an ominou...

November 15, 2010

Soros and me

Last week I was able to watch the first of Glenn Beck's expose on George Soros.  I found it to be not only necessary but accurate and well done.   I have watched Mr. Soros's activities for many years as I have come across the wreckage ...

November 14, 2010

China's Achilles Heel

China has now assumed, in the mind of many Americans, the role of the unstoppable leviathan about to trample the economy and sovereignty of the United States and much of the free world. The focus, not surprisingly, is almost exclusively economic. Yet...

November 9, 2010

Is the American Dream Over?

A major topic of conversation within the corridors of power in Europe and Asia is the decline and potential end of the United States as a major global economic power. This is in part a reaction to the desperate and foolhardy monetary policies of the ...

November 4, 2010

Fasten your seatbelts!

On November 3 the Federal Reserve announced they will buy back over $600 Billion of the debt being created by the United States, in essence printing more dollars.  Their stated reason is to jump start the economy by making more money available f...

November 3, 2010

A Post-Election Resolution

For those of us who believe in American exceptionalism and individual liberty and freedom, the results of the midterm election have validated our belief in our fellow citizens.This has been, up until November 2, 2010, a dismal twenty months.The peopl...

October 25, 2010

Socialism and Reality

The images on the television screen emanating from Europe are a sobering reminder that socialism has failed wherever it has been tried and will always do so despite the best efforts of the die-hard true believers. The riots in the streets of France a...

October 19, 2010

The Schizophrenia That Is U.S. Economic Policy

The United States, the largest economy in the world, is presently pursuing monetary policies that threaten the stability of the global economy. It is yet another foolish attempt to jump-start the domestic economy while ignoring the other half of the ...

October 11, 2010

Barack Obama: Liar and Demagogue

There are among the population of the country Barack Obama has been chosen to lead those who have experienced firsthand the iron fist of a dictatorial government and who have survived the bloodshed that resulted. Tens of millions died during the past...

October 7, 2010

Those German Terrorists

A recent headline in the news announced the death of eight German Islamic militants in Pakistan as a result of a US drone strike.  This news has begun to force the Germans to at last awake from their decades long slumber and understand the ...

September 30, 2010

Ireland's Doleful Lesson for The U.S.

This past spring, much of the world's attention was focused on the financial dilemma in Greece. While the news managed to slightly penetrate the attention span of the average citizen of the United States, it was largely ignored. After all, it was Gre...

September 21, 2010

The Middle East Arms Race

The lack of any coherent strategy by President Obama with regard to Iran has fostered yet another unintended consequence.  By allowing that country to move ahead unabated with their nuclear weapons program, he has triggered an arms race in the t...

September 20, 2010

Palin, O'Donnell and the Gladiator Games

Throughout the ages, the elites of virtually every civilization have sought entertainment at the expense of the lives of animals and human beings.  Whether it was the gladiator games in Rome, or the blood lust of the Aztecs, or countless other e...

September 15, 2010

Gold and the Obama Administration

On September 13 Gold hit a new high of $1,274.00 per ounce.  Gold has often been the safe haven for investors fearful of future financial downturns and political upheavals.  As such it also serves as a barometer of the success or failure of...

September 10, 2010

Another academic for Obama policy post

President Obama is set to name Austan Goolsbee as the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to replace Christina Romer.Who is Austan Goolsbee?  He has spent his entire career in government and academia.  Among the jobs he held was Se...

September 9, 2010

Is the United States Master of Its Destiny?

The survival of a great nation is contingent on its ability to remain master of its destiny. For the United States, that capability is now in question. The country, with President Obama at the helm, has embarked on voyage certain to end in disas...

September 3, 2010

The Legacy Will Not Be Betrayed

The Obama administration, the Democrats in Congress, the media, and the rest of the Progressive establishment are shocked and surprised by the depth of reaction the majority of the American people have displayed against their statist ideology, as per...

August 31, 2010

Ammunition for the left

With the Obama administration and the Democrats in Congress the "Law of Unintended Consequences" is not just something that rears its ugly head upon occasion; rather it has become standard operating procedure.  The real consequence of ...

August 26, 2010

Crimes Against Liberty

Barack Obama in the 2008 campaign made it clear, to all that were not captivated by his cult of personality, that he was going to "transform America."  In only 19 months he has set the United States on a collision course with national ...

August 23, 2010

Another Economic Reality Check

One thing the Obama administration and the once-mainstream media need to learn is: despite all their "spin" (better known as propaganda) the markets will always reveal reality when it comes to the economy.If one needs another news item to c...

August 20, 2010

The March to Restore Honor

A week from tomorrow, Saturday the 28th of August there will be a rally entitled "Restoring Honor" at the Lincoln Memorial.  It comes on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech and without a doubt...

August 20, 2010

The Economy Must Change

The people of the United States have been blessed to live in a country that has experienced, over the past seventy years, the most sustained period of overwhelming prosperity in the history of mankind. However, due to the staggering growth of governm...

August 15, 2010

Have You Ever Noticed?

The dog days of August have arrived. The "summer of recovery" is evolving into a "winter of discontent" as virtually anywhere one looks, reality overwhelms the rhetoric of the ruling class. It appears that those in the White House...

August 5, 2010

Lack of International Confidence in Obama's America

While the vast majority of Americans go about their daily business, few pay much attention to the value of the U.S. Dollar as compared to other currencies as an indicator of the confidence the rest of the industrialized countries have in the United S...

August 1, 2010

Reality and the American Left

Europe, the birthplace of socialist/Marxist theory, is rapidly retreating from this failed ideology -- and has been for some time. There is now an open discussion among the most die-hard of Leftist ideologues conceding the fact that a political or ec...

July 22, 2010

Character and the American Ruling Class

Angelo Codevilla, in a seminal article entitled "America's Ruling Class" published in the American Spectator, goes into great and accurate detail about the evolution of the current ruling class in the United States and its devastating impac...

July 21, 2010

The great unraveling of the Left

Could it be that we are watching the final unraveling of the old and well-worn playbook of the Left and the ruling class?   One of the oldest tactics is the inevitable shouts of racism which is designed to not only distract the opposition b...

July 17, 2010

The Media are Not Exempt

Recent headlines have proclaimed that many members of the big business community and Wall Street are now filled with buyer's remorse after having supported Barack Obama in 2008 with obscene sums of money.  The true nature of his socialist/Marxis...

July 15, 2010

The Graduate Tax

Politicians are ever on the lookout for new sources of revenue for their bloated governments.  The new coalition government in the United Kingdom is scrambling to find new and creative ways to increase revenues.A proposal made by Vince Cable, Bu...

July 8, 2010

Never-Ending Racial Hostility

I came to the United States in 1952. At that time, this was a segregated country. Discrimination based on race was something I could not understand nor had ever experienced. I lived, once adopted, in a quiet quasi-Southern town where I saw firsthand ...

July 4, 2010

The 4th of July and the Progressive Overreach

On this 4th of July, 2010, when the future of the United States appears to be in serious jeopardy, it should be noted that sometimes in the history of a nation, what appears to be an event that could lead to long-term disaster may, in fact, be its lo...

June 22, 2010

The Character Deficit

When the framers of the United States Constitution completed their work in 1787, they acknowledged that the success and future of the republic as established by that document was dependent on the honor and integrity of its leaders and citizens. ...

June 17, 2010

The BP Shakedown

The Obama administration has just made certain that there will be minimal foreign or even domestic investment in the United States.   Their shakedown and blackmail of BP has major corporate investors looking elsewhere for expansion and expl...

June 10, 2010

The Man Who Would Be King

Over the heads of some of the sycophants in the mainstream media there appears to be the proverbial light bulb turning on. After sixteen months of the Obama presidency, questions are being asked about not only his competency, but what motivates this ...

May 31, 2010

A Thank You on Memorial Day

A soldier, a small American flag on the shoulder of his jacket, slowly walks through the streets of a once-bustling city now lying in rubble. The still-upright walls, their windows and doors blown out, appear as skeletons framed by the blue sky. He s...

May 24, 2010

Socialism's Downfall

Socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried, and it will continue to do so despite the best efforts of the die-hard true believers in the Obama administration and the rest of the world. The most recent example of this failure: Euro-Socialism is...

May 21, 2010

Roiling the Financial System

Last night the Senate passed a new regulatory reform bill, it now must reconciled with the House version.  Among the provisions is one that forces large U.S. banks to spin off or close swap desks and bans the banks from proprietary trading....

May 10, 2010

It's official: Elena Kagan nominated for SCOTUS

President Obama has just formally announced the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. This nomination is hardly a surprise coming from President Obama.  It appears that one of the primary qualifications to be nominated by thi...

May 6, 2010

Confession of an Undocumented Alien Who Loves America

I have a confession to make. I came to the United States as an undocumented alien. More specifically, I arrived as a "displaced person" from World War II. I did not speak English, and I had no name. I did not have a passport, a birth certif...

May 3, 2010

America's Growing Vulnerability to Catastrophe

The major responsibility of those in government is to be certain that a country is capable of surviving a worst-case scenario such as war, massive economic downturn, or a catastrophic natural disaster.It has been predicted that California has a 99% c...

May 1, 2010

The Origins of the Lapdog Media

Noam Chomsky, a self-declared socialist, once said, "Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the US [mainstream] media." Never would he have imagined that his critique would apply more than ever to the present-day relation...

April 20, 2010

The New Front in the War on Wealth

With the current and projected level of unsustainable spending and the determination to control the day-to-day activities of the American people, the Obama administration and the Democrats in Congress will do anything to expand revenue to the Treasur...

April 14, 2010

Obama declares his nuclear summit a 'success'

As I watched  President Obama declare his nuclear summit a resounding success, I began to get a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach.  The vision of Neville Chamberlain and his announcement of "peace in our time" came rus...

April 3, 2010

Despite hype, unemployment news is grim

The Obama administration and their sycophants in the (once)-mainstream media trumpeted the increase of 162,000 jobs in March claiming that the recovery in underway and becoming entrenched.  This included 48,000 part-time workers for the Census a...

March 28, 2010

World's investors vote down Obamacare

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March 25, 2010

Downsizing America's Economy

You can thank President Obama for the lower standard of living coming your way. The numbers tell the story. The electorate in the United States is presently being bombarded from all sides with financial and economic statistics on health care and budg...

March 22, 2010

America Lost

In the 1970s, there was an evocative public service advertisement on television. It showed an old and grizzled Native American Chief with a tear rolling down his cheek as he surveyed the pollution scaring the landscape of the once-pristine land.As th...

March 11, 2010

Obama and the Left at the Brink

President Obama's attempt to paint the Republicans into a corner with his latest health care reform proposal, and his determination to pass health care reform using outright lies and obfuscation, highlights what has become the motto of this administr...

February 17, 2010

Privacy

Remember all the caterwauling by the Democrats and then Senator Obama about the Bush Administration's deliberate attempt to pry into the lives of Americans using the war on terror as an excuse.  The protection of privacy was the battle cry again...

February 14, 2010

Personal privacy in the Age of Obama

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February 6, 2010

Beyond Hope and Change

According to a recent Rasmussen poll (January 24), only 29% of Americans believe the country is on the right track. This loss of confidence is driven not only by the dire prospects of the debt time bomb and the economic and security devastation that ...

January 26, 2010

The Balance of Power Shifts Toward China

An unreported (in the once mainstream media) disclosure by China has taken the international financial world by shock and surprise.  China declared that its foreign exchange reserves had increased to $2.4 Trillion in 2009, a gain of $453 Billion...

January 20, 2010

The Coming Democrat Counteroffensive

The unexpected election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, driven equally by opposition to the Obama agenda and an inept Democratic candidate, will fuel optimism that Republicans and conservatives will recapture the Congress. However, with ten months t...

January 16, 2010

The view from abroad

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January 15, 2010

Reality arrives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

President Obama's announcement this morning to raise taxes on banks and financial institutions, under the guise of repaying TARP money (already repayed by many banks) is a blatant attempt to further class warfare. However, this tactic is indicative ...

January 9, 2010

Al-Qaeda emboldened even by underwear bomber's failure

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January 1, 2010

The Most Important Three-Year Period in History?

The most important three-year period in the history of the United States will start on January 1, 2010. The choices that we as a people make during this time may well relegate our country to secondary status (easily dominated by those who wish to mak...

December 25, 2009

A Christmas Story and Message for Our Time

Many years ago, in a country and a city destroyed by the brutality of World War II, there lived on the streets a young, nameless boy. No one knew his age or to whom he was born. After the death of a woman he had lived with and to whom he did not know...

December 4, 2009

The American Left in Context

The current Left -- or the Socialists -- in Europe were born out of the fire of revolution and war. They came from a determination to change a historical and implacable social order, a drive to ensure that causes of two devastating continental wars i...

November 26, 2009

A Thanksgiving Resolution

For those who believe in American exceptionalism, individual liberty, and freedom, this has been a dismal twelve months.The United States has seen its president go around the world denigrating the sacrifices that have freed untold millions and belitt...

November 25, 2009

Thanks again, President Bush

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November 21, 2009

Real cost of senate reform bill: $1.625 Trillion

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November 17, 2009

Obama's Polls

The political and media world today seems to revolve around polls. A day does not go by without us getting treated to a poll result of some sort on subjects both timely and inane. Among the mainstream media, this now substitutes news and real reporti...

November 16, 2009

The Future Is Now

The credibility and economic future of the the United States as viewed by the international financial community has never been at such a low point as it is today. The rest of the world has awakened to the end result of the economic policies being pur...

November 5, 2009

The Great Mystery

One of the great mysteries in today's United States is how a country founded on the principle of individual freedom, having achieved great wealth and world influence, could have developed a political class bent on transforming the nation into a colle...

October 29, 2009

Divide and Conquer

Next year will see the most important midterm election in many years. The coalition necessary to vote out of office those congressmen who support President Obama's effort to turn the country into a socialist utopia is still fractured and pursuin...

October 27, 2009

Recession working out as planned

Remember last spring, when many Republican governors balked at accepting Stimulus funds?  Governors such as Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal sounded the alarm that these funds came with many unpalatable strings attached.  Well, it hasn't taken l...

October 24, 2009

The Debt Death Spiral

America's economy faces a miserable future, according to an important government report. The media collectively have yawned, and official Washington has barely blinked. The Government Accountability Office recently issued its report to the Congress o...

October 22, 2009

Lost prosperity

Few things cause the eye to glaze over more than economic statistics, particularly when discussing all but incomprehensible sums in the billions and trillions of dollars.  There are two statistics which the public should be aware of more than ot...

October 21, 2009

Divide and conquer

The 2010 will be the most important midterm election in the history of our nation.   The coalition necessary to vote out of office those members of Congress who are supporting President Obama's effort to turn the country into a socialist ut...

October 13, 2009

Is there really a recovery on the horizon?

On October 2 the U.S. Labor Department released its September 2009 jobs report. The sycophants in the mainstream media breathed a sigh of relief that only 263,000 people lost their jobs and the unemployment rate went up a slight .1%.  Per t...

October 5, 2009

Half a president

President Obama apparently wants to do only half of his job -- the part that is the most fun. And he's got his eyes on a higher position.Barack Obama has been the number one topic of conversation among many of my friends and associates in London....

September 25, 2009

Obama and the Last Hurrah of Liberalism

Sometimes in the history of a nation what appears to be an action that could lead to long term disaster may, in fact, be its long term salvation.  A case in point: the election of Barack Obama as President and the Democrats in full control of th...

September 3, 2009

Once lost, never regained

It has become apparent to many that never in our recent history have we had a President so full of himself that even the word "narcissism" can barely describe his ego and sense of destiny.  He has now decided to give yet another speech...

August 29, 2009

This Will Never Be A Euro-Socialist Country

The Obama Administration, the Democrats in Congress and the media are shocked and surprised by the depth of reaction to the proposed overhaul of the health care system and the tax and spend policies of this government.   They had assumed th...

August 23, 2009

The New Third Rail of American Politics? (updated)

It has been acknowledged for the past forty years that Social Security was on a path to inevitable bankruptcy and was in essence unsustainable.  The Republicans in particular have tried to warn the American people, the most recent being Presiden...

July 15, 2009

Why Europeans are turning against Obama

On the 6th of November last, I made a wager with some of my associates in London and Zurich that within a year they would be pining for the return of George W. Bush and his "cowboy presidency".  As of today, my friends have collectivel...

July 1, 2009

Obama's withdrawal symptoms

Yesterday, June 30, President Obama did manage to find some time in his busy social and golf schedule to note the milestone of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the major urban centers in Iraq.   He did praise the bravery of the troops; ho...

June 16, 2009

When a government mandates health insurance

It has been often said that the 50 individual states are an incubator for new ideas and policies.  In Massachusetts, we have an insight to what happens when a government mandates that everyone must have health insurance and thus gets into provid...

April 23, 2009

How to produce high approval ratings for Obama

Just read an AP report: the percentage of Americans that think the country is on the right track rose to 48% in March as compared to 40% in February. In light of the unemployment rising, the debacle in foreign affairs etc, I found it unlikely....

April 6, 2009

Now Is the Time to Put Aside Childish Things

"Divide et impera" (divide and rule) is an ancient maxim that became the basis of Machiavelli's approach to power and political theory.  It is the same modus operandi used by the left in this country over the past 16 years that has giv...

March 23, 2009

Pop quiz for Democrats

Welcome, President Obama, Messrs Frank, Dodd, Reed, Ms. Pelosi and the rest of the Democratic members of Congress, to Economics and Finance 101 with an emphasis on the effect of Government actions on the decision making process....

March 11, 2009

It's the teleprompter, stupid

I have enjoyed reading and watching the English press go into a funk over the shabby treatment of their Prime Minister by Mr. Obama.   Particularly since they too had so much invested in this "clean and articulate"  (thank yo...

February 12, 2009

How to Wreck the American Economy

While the lessons of the 1930's and 1970's are obvious to all except Barack Obama and his amen chorus, there is another major factor that exists today that was not in play in either of those two previous periods.The ideal of a world economy is i...

February 4, 2009

Obama didn't learn about the law of unintended consequences at Harvard

Under pressure from the government and the media, Wells Fargo has announced the cancellation of a conference in Las Vegas for it's nationwide mortgage agents. Bank of America is terminating similar conferences and travel as are almost all large finan...

October 25, 2008

Europe's Sorry Lesson

Seventy years ago last month the democracies of Europe were given their last chance, after four years of missed opportunities, to stop the territorial ambitions of Hitler and the Nazis.  The political and intellectual elites of Europe, convinced...