June 28, 2016

Trump and Brexit: Time to Dump the Tea in the Potomac

It's the reality, stupid.  Call them what you will – coastal elites, the favored or ruling class, whatever your label for an establishment that has created "a smug culture" of corruption and ineffectiveness.  Donald Trum...

May 13, 2016

Fear the Walking Trump

It’s going to be yuuuuuuuuge! Donald Trump will win for two reasons: First, according to the all-seeing, all-knowing Rush Limbaugh, he will beat Hillary Clinton in a win of “landslide proportions.” As a rule, Rush knows the answer b...

May 2, 2016

Donald Trump, a Rabbi, and Plato Walked Into a Bar…

So it’s come to this in the war of elite America vs. Donald Trump: Kathleen Parker of The Washington Post tells us that “Plato would be horrified by Donald Trump’s rise.” And of course, as Post readers know, that will turn ...

April 21, 2016

Hating Trump is the New Black

Be cool: Hate Donald Trump. It seems that everyone who is anyone these days hates Donald Trump. Mention his name -- or chalk it on a sidewalk -- and our elites break out the smelling salts, pull up their fainting couches, and -- just to make ...

March 14, 2014

My Wife's Last Days -- And the Coming ObamaCare Death Panel

We have been so absorbed by the cavalcade of government incompetence and individual hurt produced by the rollout of ObamaCare that it is easy to forget the tragedy-in-waiting should this federal healthcare takeover stay in place: the death panel, als...

November 5, 2012

Reagan 2.0

Call him Reagan 2.0.  By the end of the week, a thankful nation will settle down to anticipate the hope and change that will accrue from the presidency of a Ronald Reagan for a new generation: Mitt Romney. In online technology, "2.0" is the term...

September 22, 2012

McMahon in Connecticut: She's Baaaaaack!

Linda McMahon, the tenacious and successful business executive, who two years ago beat the Republican establishment in the U.S. Senate primary in Connecticut, is shaping up to be a nightmare for Connecticut Democrats.  The candidate for U.S. Sen...

February 6, 2012

Washington Post Discovers AT Called It On Mitt & Tea Party

We were there first! The AT as Paul Revere! The closet conservative is coming, the closet conservative is coming! That was the premise of "Mitt Romney: Tea Party When Tea Party Wasn't Cool." Romney" In word and deed, Mitt Romney was and is conservati...

January 26, 2012

The Marvelous Meekness of Merely Mitt

"Pit bull, pit bull, pit bull," comes the chant.  And for now a pit bull, a Beltway-bred and media-anointed pit bull -- one Newton Leroy Gingrich -- has come out of the South Carolina fight with a win.  But Mitt Romney, the not-politician a...

December 29, 2011

Mitt Romney: Tea Party When Tea Party Wasn't Cool

"Mitt Romney...is awesome." You could hear the screams from around the room.  In the conservative and evangelical circles in which I travel, that pronouncement has the same effect as professing a hidden fantasy to enter into same-sex marriage wi...

November 30, 2011

No Newt Is Good Newt

He is the king of flip-flops, the emperor of hypocrisy, the czar of opinions a mile wide and an inch deep.  Mitt Romney?  Not by a long shot -- because when it comes to core values, conservative or otherwise, Romney tips the top of the beli...

September 19, 2011

Rick Perry and the Wingnuts for Jesus

Rick Perry came to Liberty University (also known as Christian Wingnut Central) in Virginia just this past week and, despite the fears of the Washington Post and others of the mainstream media resentfully tagging along, the republic still stands. ...

July 7, 2011

Moderates? We Don't Need No Stinking Moderates!

"Badges?  We don't need no stinking badges!" From Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madres to the television comedy classic The Monkees and through the iconic Blazing Saddles, those words have signified the defiance of individuals fi...

June 13, 2011

Weiners, Wusses and Wonks

What hath Anthony Weiner wrought?  Clarity.  It is now crystal clear that our elites -- the ruling class, the insiders who tell us where, when, and how to live our lives--are nothing more than a collection of Wieners, Wusses and Wonks. And ...

June 1, 2011

Everything I Need to Know About 2012 I Learned From American Idol

Country won.  Honesty won.  Decency won.  And good ol' American values won.  They beat hypocrisy and hyperbole, snark and snicker, and the jaw-dropping arrogance of the experts and elites.  No, I'm not talking about the Repub...

May 19, 2011

Eye of Newt, Butt of Donkey

The truth is out.  Newt Gingrich is what so many true conservatives have long suspected, a quintessential Washington insider and board-certified member of what Walter Russell Mead calls an "intellectually and morally" corrupt American ...

May 11, 2011

Maureen Dowd and the Barack Man's Burden

Maureen Dowd has finally discovered the man of her dreams: Barack Obama.  The New York Times columnist -- notorious for her disdain of all things testosterone -- let Times readers know this past week  that she has finally found a man she ca...

May 2, 2011

Professors Gone Wild

Professors gone wild. That is the only conclusion you can come to when you apply Sherlock Holmes' astute dictum to the striking similarities between the widespread failures of American education and government, institutions universally dominated by a...

April 12, 2011

Lindsey Graham: The Little Metrosexual That Could

Call him the little metrosexual that could.  The fussy, fastidious, and pampered senator from South Carolina just keeps chugging along supremely impressed with the face looking out from the mirror in his posh Senate office and his status as the ...

April 6, 2011

Shhhh: Judeo-Christian Culture Is Actually...Superior

Shhh. I am about to say is something so radical that it will jangle every politically correct nerve in your body. And yet...it is true. The founding and traditional culture of the United States, its Judeo-Christian heritage and boots-on-the-ground de...

March 22, 2011

In Praise of Michael Savage, Bible Thumper

You don't care...thump!  You have no morals...thump!  And because you're immoral, we have an amoral president...thump!  This country is dying!  Thump!  Thump!  "Wake up, America!" shouts a most unexpected proph...

March 11, 2011

The Soft Evil of Barack Obama

Evil.  It has always been there, pushed back in the United States by American exceptionalism and the Judeo Christian traditions of what Ronald Reagan famously called -- borrowing from the Bible -- a "shining City on a hill."  ...

January 13, 2011

America: Death by 'Intelligence,' Rebirth by 'Ignorance'

Ignorance.  You gotta love it, because "ignorance" -- as seen by elitists -- is what will save the United States.  Washington needs citizens of average intelligence who can take back government, a horde of drooling dimwits -- the ...

January 12, 2011

Dupnik's Real Outrage: Detroit-on-the-Desert

Clarence Dupnik, extraordinary and courageous law enforcement officer, personally congratulated by our president. That's the portrait of the Pima County sheriff who has become a hero to the national media by blaming the Tucson Safeway massacre on, am...

December 30, 2010

The Return of Obama Gravitas

Stay tuned for 2011, when the political and media establishment will declare that indeed, Barack Obama has found his misplaced gravitas.  Insiders will celebrate an awesomely deep president who will have sharpened his pants crease and will again...

December 22, 2010

A Sarah Palin Christmas

When you think about it, Sarah Palin is the gift that keeps on giving.  Not only does the mere mention of her name send the cream of the political and media elites into spittle-flecked rage, but a cottage industry has arisen in the collectibles ...

December 13, 2010

Sarah Palin and the Haters of American Normal

We are just south of Christmas, and the nation's insiders -- self-proclaimed blue-bloods by birth and/or worldview -- have declared open season on Sarah Palin.  Crazed left and sclerotic right have united in common purpose -- "hellbent,...

November 23, 2010

Rush Limbaugh's Prescience, Donovan McNabb's Mediocrity, and Sarah Palin's Future

Rush was right. He said on cable back in 2003 that NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb was a largely mediocre player whom the elite sports media had tried to elevate to legendary status because he's black -- the football prelude to Barack Obama, so to spe...

November 16, 2010

Sarah Palin, the Biggest Loser?

Sarah Palin, the biggest loser.That seems to be the consensus of the grandees inhabiting Washington and New York and pockets of glitter beyond. There is a variety of interpretations of the midterm Republican wave emanating from the wine bars of upper...

October 29, 2010

Thank You, Lord Barack, for the Great Awakening

It is time to thank Barack Obama -- or Lord Barack, as our media elites might prefer, having declared him a "sort of God." He said memorably in April that the Tea Partiers "should be saying thank you" for the great job he's been d...

October 19, 2010

God Laughs: Sharron Angle vs. Harry Reid

So she loves God and believes He has a plan for her life, that He is the rock upon which she stands. And she is sure that she will prevail, because when "God calls you[,] he also equips you..." OMB (Oh My Barack), screamed media and politic...

October 12, 2010

Obama: Our First Post-Racial Failure

Barack Obama has become the nation's first post-racial failure...and we are all the stronger for it. After almost two years in office, he is living proof that America has managed to safely cross the racial divide. Failure is no longer the sole preser...

October 1, 2010

MSNBC's Ed Schultz Ain't Feelin' the Love

It's official: Even the Obama administration would like to forget about MSNBC's Ed Schultz.Sure, we've known he hasn't connected with viewers, as his ratings attest. On any given night, The Ed Show has consistently failed to reach even 20% of the cab...

September 29, 2010

McMahon and O'Donnell Madden Media Mudslingers

They just don't get it. Mainstream media have thrown everything but the kitchen sink at Republican senatorial candidates Linda McMahon in Connecticut and Christine O'Donnell in Delaware...and still, each is making a race of it in deep blue states. It...

September 21, 2010

Help for the Tea Party Unwashed Masses

-Satire-The elites have spoken: You're dumb. And not just ordinary dumb -- you're Tea Party dumb. This is the kind of dumb that causes life to imitate art (the boob tube, naturally) and pushes Republican insiders Karl Rove and Charles Krauthammer to ...

September 16, 2010

Connecticut's Blumenthal to Obama: I'm With You, Comrade!

Each day brings new stories about Democratic candidates running away from President Obama, insider Washington, and the most radical anti-business agenda ever seen in the nation's capitol. Even Democrats, for example, are running against Obamacare. Bu...

September 13, 2010

Beck: The Pudgy Palin Strikes Back

Who is this creature? Who is this Glenn Beck, this FOX News creation, this pudgy male Sarah Palin who talks about patriotism as if he believes Americans are exceptional, about God as if atheism were not a fact? Who, they ask, is this Pillsbury Doughb...

August 30, 2010

NYT vs. Linda McMahon: Sex, Drugs...and $44 Sea Bass

Sex. Drugs. Violence...and $44 sea bass. It's a fight for the ages, brought to you by the New York Times as it struggles to keep the nation safe for the ruling class. Call it Sarah Palin, The Sequel. Except we're talking about the Republican senatori...

August 13, 2010

Linda McMahon Wins, Ruling Class Mourns

The professional politicians mocked her. The mainstream media spent each week finding new ways to paint her as the greatest threat ever to Obama's government. Never mind that she had built an entertainment empire worth more than $1.1 billion, and cre...

July 23, 2010

John Galt in Skirts in Connecticut

John Galt is alive and well and living in Connecticut. And he will be voting for Republican Linda McMahon for the U.S. Senate, if her reception by beleaguered taxpayers during a recent round of campaign tours is an indication. Or he may very well be ...

July 12, 2010

Sarah Palin Outs Darth Vader

Darth Vader is out of the closet...and we have Sarah Palin to thank.The intrepid crusader from the north cut to the heart of Obamacare a year ago, slashing through the professor-speak and government gobbledygook with a searing summary on Facebook of ...

July 8, 2010

The Dumbest President...EVER!

Barack Obama is the dumbest president...EVER.That is a reasonable conclusion once you've assessed the first nineteen months of his presidency and compared it to the definition of intelligence put together by researchers in the field. Although the mai...

July 2, 2010

Hearst's Modified Limited Hangout

Helen Thomas to the contrary, it is reassuring to know that there is love in the Hearst media empire. They may despise, for example, the Connecticut Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, Linda McMahon, who is the former CEO of cable content giant...

June 24, 2010

Obama's Washington: What Hath Harvard Wrought!

It is time to put together an intervention. Form a new group, call it "Idiots Anonymous," and open it to anyone in the Obama administration with a diploma from an elite university. If you have an Ivy League degree, you get to attend meeting...

June 22, 2010

Linda McMahon and the Triple-Damn Stinger Splash

The knives are out for Linda McMahon in Connecticut. This former chief executive officer of the $1.2-billion entertainment juggernaut, World Wrestling Entertainment, has captured the delegate nomination as the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in ...

June 7, 2010

Barack Obama: Let Them Eat Tar Balls

So many parties, so little time.You are Barack Obama, and you know how to party. And now, as oil hits the Florida beaches and dying wildlife and desperate Louisiana fishermen fill the cable news in searing testimony to what Reuters is calling our ...

June 1, 2010

Sarah Palin and the Multitude of Dummies

We are dumb. So say the folks at the top of our leadership ladder.And they name names: Sarah Palin, taxpayers, Tea Party supporters, viewers turning away from the mainstream networks, newspaper and magazine readers canceling subscriptions, those with...

May 24, 2010

Maureen Dowd: Sex and the Single Kagan

Sex and the single Kagan. That's what the nomination of Elena Kagan is all about for New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who just this past week offered her take on the controversy surrounding the nomination of the elite leftist from Princeton and...

May 20, 2010

America's Death by Professor

Where professors rule, life is cruel.That is the bottom line for the average American in this, the transformative age of the president the New York Times and Washington Post has called "Professor" Obama, who "schools" the ignorant...

May 12, 2010

Elite Media vs. Tim Tebow, Christian

What do women, Tim Tebow, and evangelical Christians have in common? They are all largely despised by the sports journalism division of our media elite. The continuing controversy over the first round selection in the National Football League draft o...

April 26, 2010

Chris Matthews and the Jews

Jews. Everywhere, there are Jews. They have penetrated the highest ranks of government, control vast swaths of the economy, and bend nations to their demonic will. But not to worry: Chris Matthews is on the case. The host of "Hardball with Chris...

April 12, 2010

NYT's Pinch: The 'Poofter' Fights Back

New York Times chairman Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger, Jr. is hurt. It is a bite-your-lower-lip-until-your-eyes-tear hurt, a wrists-at-your-hips-well-I-never kind of hurt. He has publically been called "a girly man" by FOX impresario ...

March 31, 2010

We Have Not Yet Begun to Fight

Okay. Obamanation won this round of the ObamaCare battle. The first of the Democratic equivalent of the Ten Plagues of Egypt has been passed by a president and Congress straight out of a Michael Moore documentary. Harold Witkov of American Thinker ca...

March 17, 2010

Bill Maher to God: Stand Aside for ObamaCare

The way Bill Maher sees it, resistance to ObamaCare is all God's fault. Why? Because so many people believe in this "schmuck" who lives in the clouds...and this belief, in turn, intensifies opposition to ObamaCare. This leftist social criti...

March 8, 2010

Keith Olbermann: As the Spittle Flies

"As the Spittle Flies" is nearing the end of its run.This cable news soap opera -- a.k.a. "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" -- is alienating viewers as quickly as the angry and demanding diva has pushed away friends, family, and co...

March 2, 2010

Obama's Government without Love

God made it official through Paul, the first century rabbi who dabbled in community organizing, that "love is more important than anything else." The Doobie Brothers (neither rabbis nor community organizers) rephrased it for the modern age:...

February 22, 2010

I Am Sarah Palin's Brain

I am Sarah Palin's brain.I'm here, I'm healthy, and I'm doing very well, thank you. Contrary to what you're told by the elites of both right and left, I exist. And unlike the brains of our beltway politicians and pundits, mainstream media and Hollywo...

February 15, 2010

Katie Couric: Return of the Palin Slayer

You know they're worried. Big government, big media, big Barack -- they're all worried. And they've brought in the knight in designer armor, the savior of all that is Washington and New York and Rodeo Drive, privileged and Democratic -- Katie Couric....

February 2, 2010

The Fat Lady Sings for Keith Olbermann

"It ain't over until the fat lady sings." The fat lady is doing more than singing for Keith Olbermann. And, like most of the other women in the life of MS-NBC's premiere leftist sexist, she's not interested in dating him. Rather, she merely...

January 12, 2010

NYT & David Brooks: Intellectuals Я Us

David Brooks is upset. And when the New York Times columnist, this Obama-designated conservative intellectual, the National Public Radio/MS-NBC-anointed voice for America's conservative masses, is upset, he does what comes naturally to those who rega...

December 27, 2009

Seniors Are America's New Jews

They are objects of derision. Influential government officials refer to them as unproductive, of less value than others in society. The political party running the government aggressively denies them access to health services while putting in place b...

October 25, 2009

Nobel Prize: Marxism Goes Mainstream

"Oh, happy day, oh happy day."  That's what gospel musician Edwin Hawkins famously sang about the coming of Jesus. And that's what Nobel Peace Price committee head Thorbjørn Jagland is singing now about another larger-than-life ...

October 9, 2009

Kill the Jews, Save the World

Iran closes in on nuclear weaponry, five million Jews in Israel edge toward Armageddon, and Barack Obama is doing very well, thank you. When it comes to the Jews, he is Alfred E. Neuman happy, imitating the Mad Magazine icon whose solution to the pro...

September 22, 2009

The New York Times Aims Low

"We Suck Less."This is the catchphrase used by New York Times publisher Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. to describe  his operating and journalism philosophy. It is his "pet" expression, throwing out the initials ...

September 17, 2009

Maureen Dowd's Descent into Fury

Angry. Bitter. Desperately trying to avoid irrelevance. Clinging to past glories.  The average American, the beleaguered taxpayer in the age of Obama? No, welcome to the world of Maureen Dowd. Dowd is the signature columnist for The New York Tim...

September 13, 2009

Barack Obama Jumps the Shark

Barack Obama has jumped the shark.This past week was when the forty-fourth president of the United States tugged on his leather jacket, strapped on his water skis, roared off behind a motorboat and fearlessly jumped over a live shark The term "j...

September 2, 2009

Sarah Palin vs. Dr. Death

Ezekiel Emanuel is upset.  The president's health care czar sees the growing resistance to his vision, to his brave new world of government-run "communitarian" health care in which politicians and bureaucrats control one-sixth of the e...

August 19, 2009

Hello ObamaCare, Goodbye Grandma

Oh, look! See Ezekiel. See Ezekiel Emanuel. Zeke is in charge of health care policy for the Obama administration. Policies are the official thoughts that guide the relationship of government and health care. Zeke thinks health care thoughts for the p...

August 13, 2009

Elites Speak, Masses Laugh: Frankie Valli Fights Back

The stranglehold the media and government elites have had on this country is beginning to break. And the proof comes not just in the pudding that is resistance to Obama health care, but at a Frankie Valli concert in Brooklyn just a few short weeks ag...

August 2, 2009

Maureen Dowd: Sarah Palin Scared

You're Maureen Dowd, and you're scared. The self-doubt, the "Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas," the whole Robert Frost thing --you know, "The Road Not Taken" -- relentlessly nibbles at the edge of your consciousness.You're Maureen Dowd and ...

July 24, 2009

Hating Sarah Palin - and Us

Any way you look at it, it's us vs. them.The media elite hate Sarah Palin with a passion -- the same passion they have used for decades to rant about us. We are the "primitive strain," the "booboisie," or, as The New York Times pu...

July 18, 2009

Peggy Noonan: Sarah Palin Jealous

You're Peggy Noonan and you're jealous. But it's not the normal kind of jealous, the kind reserved for girlfriends who can squeeze into size 2 jeans. No, it's the kind of jealous that hurts, that grabs your gut and twists, that has you howling with r...

July 12, 2009

God and Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin loves God. God loves Sarah Palin. And that is why they hate her...and Him.And why she -- and He -- will be back.That love, an essential part of her everyday life, holds out the hope of a return to the nation envisioned by the unapologetic...

July 5, 2009

'Them Jews' of Obama: From Kvell to Kvetch

"Them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me."That's the complaint of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the anti-Semitic, radical minister who was Barack Obama's spiritual mentor for two decades. In other words, a nefarious group of people around Obam...

June 26, 2009

Sarah Palin: Revenge of the Vagina (Monologues)

Sarah Palin is Eve Ensler's worst nightmare.That's all you need to know to understand the dramatic impact of the individual who continues to be the target of a cultural and political elite that looks for "anything that will criminalize and/or hu...

June 15, 2009

Obama to Jews: I'm Just Not That Into You

American Jews and Israel would do well to take a page from the book of Saul Alinsky, who provides the radical underpinning for much of how the Obama left sees the world: "As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would ...

May 31, 2009

God, Gays and Mayberry

The same-sex marriage battle now being fought can best be described by a twist on a Homer Simpson toast: Here's to power, the cause of -- and solution to -- all life's problems!The same-sex marriage push is not about sex, culture or, especially, lovi...

May 13, 2009

Unrequited Love: Evangelicals and Jews

Who would have thought that the key to battling the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Obama's United States lies in these words: "Jesus loves me! This I know, For the Bible tells me so."The children of Evangelical Christians sing this hymn in...

April 26, 2009

Singing the Jews Blues

They're singing the blues, the Jews Blues. And with it the stage has been set for the elimination of the Jewish state and a grim future for Jews in the United States.  If the result sought is that "we are all anti-Semites now," then th...

April 7, 2009

We are all anti-Semites now

"We are all socialists now"  Newsweek famously declared in a February issue this year, letting the nation know that our Knowledge Elites -- the cultural establishment that dominates higher education, media, government and entertainment...