Ted Noel

Ted Noel


  • In Congress, It’s Time To Use the Dems Against Themselves

    December 27, 2024

    In Congress, It’s Time To Use the Dems Against Themselves

    Speaker Johnson failed to get the debt limit extended with his “negotiated” Continuing Resolution. His 1,500-page “compromise” fell afoul of Grok’s prodigious abilities. Count on it: Elon didn’t read the entire bil...

  • Quick Fixes For The DOGE

    November 23, 2024

    Quick Fixes For The DOGE

    It’s easy to say that stuff has to go. Unfortunately, lots of Swamp critters have burrowed deeply into the muck surrounding the White House. And while Vivek and Elon are really smart, there are a couple of blind spots that can be fixed. Maybe m...

  • How Donald Trump Can Achieve His Second Most Important Accomplishment

    November 18, 2024

    How Donald Trump Can Achieve His Second Most Important Accomplishment

    President Trump’s signal accomplishment during his first term has to have been appointing and confirming judges who actually respect the Constitution. Now, he is moving quickly to set up an executive branch that will actually drain the Swamp. H...

  • What Now? There Are Things Trump Can Do Both Now And After The Inauguration

    November 9, 2024

    What Now? There Are Things Trump Can Do Both Now And After The Inauguration

    While Kamala Harris is asking for the number of the truck that hit her, Donald Trump should put that trash truck in gear. And don’t tell me he’s not inaugurated, so he doesn’t have any power. Not so fast! What would this not-so-humb...

  • The Un-American Socialist Dream

    November 1, 2024

    The Un-American Socialist Dream

    Kamala Harris says that “the idea of the American Dream was something that previous generations could count on. Not as much anymore.” She sounds like an astute student of the obvious. When Americans have seen their disposable income go do...

  • To Reach Non-Traditional Republican Voters, We Must Speak In Non-Traditional Ways

    August 6, 2024

    To Reach Non-Traditional Republican Voters, We Must Speak In Non-Traditional Ways

    Ronald Reagan told fellow Republicans to “paint in bright colors.” But if you listen to most people with “R” after their name, you’d have a hard time separating them from academics. Most of the arguments are lifeless, an...

  • Donald Trump And ‘That Moment’ In Time When He Was Saved

    July 22, 2024

    Donald Trump And ‘That Moment’ In Time When He Was Saved

    The books that became the Bible were originally written in Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic. After years of study, I can now pick my way through the original Greek text but don’t accuse me of being fluent. Unlike my older brother, who sleep-talked in...

  • The Left Has Sold Out to Evil

    July 16, 2024

    The Left Has Sold Out to Evil

    Democrat mega-donor Reid Hoffman’s top political advisor, Dmitri Mehlhorn, demonstrates the utter depravity of the Left. And it’s not just today’s Left. It goes back to the days of the Revolution. Before I get into that, I must put ...

  • Essential Information For Understanding Why Trump’s Appeal Will Succeed

    June 3, 2024

    Essential Information For Understanding Why Trump’s Appeal Will Succeed

    Donald Trump has been convicted by a jury in Manhattan. “I was convicted. I’m appealing!” Most of us have a TV legal drama perspective. I rise to shine light on this process so that we can properly understand how a guilty verdict wa...

  • Living with Climate Change

    April 30, 2024

    Living with Climate Change

    It’s really easy to think that the whole world is like home. I live in Central Florida, so warming seems like a threat. In the summer, it’s hot enough to threaten my ability to play golf, and it’s “hydrate or die.” Any w...

  • January 30, 2024

    Grammar for Attorneys

    I just received one of my daily emails from “Justia Verdict,” a legal blog. In it, Dean Falvy lays out a number of legal questions regarding the Supreme Court case to resolve the Colorado effort to remove Donald Trump from the ballot. His...

  • January 19, 2024

    The Final Four Cases Against Donald Trump

    There are four major legal actions underway attempting to drive Donald Trump off ballots and into jail. When we parse the left-wing legalese and talking points, they translate into one thing: The Left is petrified that Donald Trump will win, and, whe...

  • January 8, 2024

    The Twists and Turns of Trump’s Legal Journey

    Rather than walk through all the convoluted bits of Trump’s active Federal cases, it’s probably better if I simply hit the bullet points on the ones being heard right away. I’ll try to skip over lots of legalese on the way to giving...

  • December 28, 2023

    'Under the United States'...

    Left-leaning legal scholars have been climbing over each other to identify the Ring of Power that will allow them to prevent Donald Trump from being elected in 2024. Their latest pennant-waving exercise comes from the Colorado Supreme Court. Four jus...

  • December 18, 2023

    A Republican House Can Impose Order On Colleges

    “College.” It sounds so good. “Everyone needs to go to college.” Sounds good again. But we know that’s a crock. We all need plumbers, electricians, carpenters, welders, and a host of other tradespeople just to keep life ...

  • December 16, 2023

    Leftists And The ‘Imperial Presidency’

    The Constitution created a chief executive who was supposed to have very few powers. His remit was foreign policy. Individual states weren’t allowed to deal directly with foreign powers, so that was left to the President. No police power exists...

  • October 14, 2023

    You Cannot Coexist With Evil

    To use an expression that politicians love when covering their lies, let me be perfectly clear: Israel cannot coexist with evil. It’s just that simple. The Apostle Paul put it this way: “Do not be unequally bound together with unbeli...

  • August 5, 2023

    The Essential Impeachment

    “There comes a time in the life of every man when he must take the bull squarely by the tail and face the situation.” —W.C. Fields Our elected representatives in D.C. are faced with just such a circumstance. To impeach Joe Biden ...

  • July 1, 2023

    Justices Thomas And Jackson Help Us Understand Judicial Activism

    The ink is barely dry on the Supreme Court’s decisions on religious freedom and affirmative action. That hasn’t hampered instapundits from offering their own decisions. “An extremist minority” has “displayed a willful ig...

  • June 27, 2023

    Time for an Abortion Reality Check

    There’s a lot of loud noise on both sides of the aisle on the abortion question. Let’s start with the Left. Put bluntly, the Left is demanding abortion on demand at any point in gestation. In Virginia, the former governor, a pediatrici...

  • June 19, 2023

    The Republican House Must Make The Senate Offers It Can’t Refuse

    To quote W. C. Fields, there comes a time in the life of every man “when he must take the bull squarely by the tail and face the situation.” A more appropriate description of the fetid swamp that is D.C. could hardly be made. Democrats ar...

  • June 7, 2023

    Is Trump The Best Candidate For 2024?

    When Trump burst on the political scene, his smashmouth style was, shall we say, off-putting. Dan Bongino, also from Queens, told us this was just the normal style of speech in that area. And many of us voted for the Donald, knowing that the alternat...

  • May 16, 2023

    We've won the culture war, but that's not enough

    Many are complaining about how we've lost the culture war.  The rise of cancel culture, Alphabet Soup genders, "safe spaces," and so on makes it seem that the left has successfully overwhelmed America.  But the very ...

  • March 15, 2023

    The J6 Committee’s Obstruction of Justice

    We are all familiar with the fact that members of Congress are constitutionally immune from prosecution over what they say during the time they are debating in the House or Senate (Article 1, §6, clause 1). So, Pencil Neck Schiff was free to lie...

  • February 27, 2023

    The Puzzle That Is Kevin McCarthy

    Many of you will note that I tried to give the Turtle the benefit of the doubt since he got Trump’s judges confirmed. But since then, his actions against Trump showed his true Swamp colors, complete with their unsavory olfactory component. Whic...

  • February 3, 2023

    Are the Memphis cops in the Tyre Nichols case really guilty as charged?

    As I browse through headlines and social media posts about the death of Tyre Nichols, the vast majority indicate that the five police officers “killed him.” Please allow me to suggest that, in the words of the Bard, “the lady doth p...

  • January 7, 2023

    There’s something better than the A-10 aircraft Ukraine wants

    Ukrainian President Zelenskyy wants A-10 ground attack aircraft in his fight against Vladimir Putin. In a strictly military sense, there is a bit of logic behind the request. The Warthog refuses to die in the US military for one simple reason: It...

  • December 26, 2022

    Kari Lake failed to meet a standard that is impossible to meet

    Kari Lake has just lost her trial to overturn the election in Arizona.  She presented uncontroverted testimony that the dimensions of the ballot on Election Day were changed from the dimensions that were tested before the election. ...

  • December 21, 2022

    In Elections, It's Not The Votes That Count, It’s The Ballots That Count

    Politics may be a blood sport, but frankly, when the stupid party (Republicans) insists on “issues,” the evil party (Democrats) quietly laughs. When you’re at war, you must overwhelm the enemy, and that’s what Dems do. With ba...

  • December 19, 2022

    Government Should Get Out of the Marriage Business

    There is a way to undercut the left’s sustained attack on religion, expressed most recently through its assaults on traditional heterosexual marriage. The answer is to take government out of “marriage,” while continuing to allow it ...

  • December 9, 2022

    Congress Can Make Special Prosecutors Actually Responsible For Justice

    28 Code of Federal Regulations § 600.1 Grounds for appointing a Special Counsel. The Attorney General, or in cases in which the Attorney General is recused, the Acting Attorney General, will appoint a Special Counsel when he or she determines...

  • November 14, 2022

    Viewing DeSantis Versus Trump Through The 2022 Election Filter

    Readers of this page will recall that I firmly promoted the idea (here and here) that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis should be the Republican 2024 Presidential nominee, not Former President Donald Trump. After the Mar-a-Lago raid, I changed my view an...

  • November 11, 2022

    Tuesday Was Underwhelming But It Doesn’t Have To Be That Way

    Underwhelming is, perhaps, the most polite way to describe the midterm election results for Republicans. Around 70% of the public believe that the country is going in the wrong direction. Inflation has stripped thousands of dollars out of everyone...

  • October 27, 2022

    Is Fetterman’s stroke a legitimate issue?

    For a long time after Brandon’s Installation, I got emails asking me to review his medical condition. My reply was that I had already done that, and it didn’t take a physician to tell you that he was not well. Those requests followed my f...

  • October 20, 2022

    Fentanyl: The Untold Part of the Story

    Dr. Joseph Alton’s recent piece in AT—“What You Need to Know About Fentanyl”—is best represented by his comment, “I’ve known of fentanyl my entire medical career.” He’s a medical preparedness spec...

  • October 18, 2022

    Flood Insurance: A Modest Proposal

    I live in Florida, home to numerous hurricane hits. I was without grid power for eight days when Hurricane Charlie came within a mile of my house in 2004. Later on, Frances and Jeanne were nearly as impressive, and I live in Central Florida, over a h...

  • October 4, 2022

    The Founders’ wisdom—and their warnings—are undimmed by time

    In our overheated political atmosphere, short memories are everywhere. Democrats forget what they said weeks ago, even to the point of denying that they said certain things at all. And we forget that politics has always been a blood sport. We don...

  • September 5, 2022

    California Goes Over the Edge

    We’ve known for a long time that California is the land of fruits and nuts. Many of us have thought that it would be difficult for them become more insane. But recent actions by the Democrats in Sacramento lead us to understand that there is no...

  • August 19, 2022

    Truth Matters And Never More So Than With the Mar-a-Lago Raid

    With the bungled raid on Mar-a-Lago by Voldemort Garland’s minions, we must turn off the valve on his gaslight and blow away the stench being spread by the lamestream media. To do this, we must unequivocally declare that words actually have mea...

  • August 12, 2022

    Elections Belong to the States

    With Governor DeSantis’s firing of Soros-backed rogue Florida 13th Judicial Circuit State Attorney Andrew Warren, a very real question arises: “What business does a New Yorker have to do with elections in Florida?” Yes, Soros has US...

  • August 10, 2022

    Donald Trump Must Be The 2024 Republican Nominee

    I’ve written twice that Donald Trump should not be the next Republican nominee for President (here and here). I intended to write a counterpoint essay extolling Donald Trump as a devil’s advocate’s exercise. But with Inspector Javer...

  • July 10, 2022

    While SCOTUS is at It, The National Firearms Act is Largely Unconstitutional

    During Prohibition, Al Capone’s Chicago gang made the Thompson submachine gun a symbol of gang violence. The “Chicago Typewriter” could empty a hundred-round drum magazine in under ten seconds, and make headlines, while occasionally...

  • July 7, 2022

    It’s Really Time for SCOTUS to Put Restrictive Gun Laws to Bed

    With Bruen, SCOTUS made it clear that citizens in all fifty states must be permitted to carry guns. But in its zeal to make narrow rulings, the Court just made more work for itself. The Court overruled New York’s “may issue” carry p...

  • July 6, 2022

    With its New Gun Law, New York is Just Begging to Get Slapped Down

    Every so often a problem child does something wrong just to get punished. Maybe it’s testing the limits to see where the boundaries are. But in the case of New York State, it appears to be much more malignant. Space prohibits an exhaustive revi...

  • June 27, 2022

    The Return To Constitutionalism Is Hidden In Plain Sight

    The Supreme Court has just released two monumental decisions. Predictable responses have ensued from the expected interested parties. And the widely publicized legal analysis goes something like this.... Bruen overturned New York’s century-o...

  • June 16, 2022

    The Republican Party Is Preparing To Learn The Wrong Lesson This Year

    In 2018, Donald Trump lost forty seats in the house. Pundits spent lots of ink pointing out how this was within the realm of ordinary midterm losses for the President’s party. A careful examination shows how vapid this is. Politics is regarded ...

  • June 8, 2022

    It’s Time for the Supreme Court to Put Restrictive Gun Laws to Bed

    (Note: I am not a lawyer. This article is not intended to provide legal advice about the types of guns discussed or the laws that apply to them.) The case brought by the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association before the Supreme Court presents...

  • May 28, 2022

    Imagining life without any fossil fuels

    So many truly intelligent people on the "right" side of the petroleum issue love to point out how electric cars need lots of rare earth materials for computers, motors, batteries, and so on.  The amount of oil required to power th...

  • May 28, 2022

    A Series Of Critical Failures Led To The Uvalde Tragedy

    With all the noise about the massacre in Uvalde, Texas, it’s easy for the voice of reason to be lost. Gefühl über alles! Emotion above all! The only thing that matters is our anger. That’s how Hitler launched the Holocaust. He d...

  • May 23, 2022

    Drain The Swamp

    “The task of every dedicated employee is to carefully consider the goals of the company, evaluate obstacles to their achievement, and formulate detailed plans to overcome those difficulties. However, when you are up to your ass in alligators, i...

  • April 25, 2022

    A Fix For The Regulatory State

    In doing research for my manuscript of “The Law of the Bureaucrat: How an Incompetent Virologist Nearly Destroyed America,” I have been digging through the history of the various federal “health” bureaucracies. They all seem t...

  • April 7, 2022

    Russian Discontent

    A couple of years ago I traveled through the Baltic States, finishing up with three days in St. Petersburg, Russia. It’s an amazing city, having sprung from the ashes of the siege of Leningrad in World War II. The evil done by the Nazis is almo...

  • April 4, 2022

    To Save America, Ten (or Eleven) Point Plans Aren’t Enough

    In 1994, Newt Gingrich put out a ten-point plan called The Contract with America. It was a primary feature of that year’s mid-term Republican wave. Every part of that plan was implemented. And today it’s a dead letter. We have hard-Leftis...

  • April 2, 2022

    Democrats Have Painted Themselves into a Corner

    As I watch the Hunter Biden saga unfold, I’m reminded of a dog my family had when I was in grade school. It was a beautiful Irish Setter, and it loved to chase the UPS truck… until one day it caught it. You can finish the story for yo...

  • February 10, 2022

    One Way to Fix the Gerrymander Problem

    The subject of gerrymandered Congressional districts is once again front and center in American politics. But if you go back to one of the Founders’ original plans, the answer is obvious: decrease the ratio of constituents to congresspeople, ma...

  • February 2, 2022

    Why Donald Trump Should NOT Be the Republican Nominee

    Before you throw a MAGA hat or a Let’s Go Brandon flag at me, let me make one thing perfectly clear. I voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. If he is the nominee in 2024, I’ll vote for him again. But when we consider him in the context...

  • January 21, 2022

    On Crime, You Must Ask The Right Questions To Get Good Answers

    Herman Cain was fond of saying that you need to ask “the Right Questions.” His point was simple. If you saw a car slammed into a tree, you didn’t worry about what color it was. You needed to be sure that the occupant(s) of the car h...

  • November 28, 2021

    Real bail reform might have saved lives in Waukesha

    The Waukesha incident has once again (and again, and again, and…) raised the specter of societal disintegration from the Defund the Police and Criminal Justice Reform movements. While bail is admittedly set too high in some cases, the outrageo...

  • November 19, 2021

    What Kind of Game are We Playing?

    No, I’m not going to talk about fiddling, tiddlywinks, or playing some other triviality while Rome burns. Rather, it’s time to have a very serious talk about what the Republican Party is. Or is not. And for that, I turn to Simon Sinek...

  • October 26, 2021

    Beating the Mandates in Court

    Thousands of people are challenging the vaccine mandates. For them the “get shot or get fired” ultimatum is a bridge too far. Southwest Airlines recently discovered that such pressure isn’t working when they had to cancel a lot of f...

  • October 11, 2021

    Why Is the COVID Case Count So High?

    The CDC used to define a “case” as a patient whose characteristic signs, symptoms, and physical examination matched a disease. Labs were only done if clinically needed. Since the “pandemic,” however, the move to boost case num...

  • October 9, 2021

    Sen. McConnell actually did a good thing with the debt ceiling

    Let’s do a little thought experiment. The Turtle got eleven Republicans in the Senate to vote for cloture on the debt limit extension. Many Conservatives are screaming that he surrendered and all is lost. But what would have happened if he hadn...

  • September 10, 2021

    Is Afghanistan impeachable?

    There have been a host of calls on the right to impeach the occupant of the White House for bungling the Afghanistan exit.  (I'm using that polite term in place of a host of more proper, but ultimately inflammatory expressions for what ...

  • August 7, 2021

    Fraud alert!

    I'm sorry if you were expecting election news with that headline.  Instead, this is a bit of a public service announcement.  It seems that what is old is new again.  My banker confirmed that what I'm about to des...

  • June 7, 2021

    The Great American

    "Jesus said, 'I among you am as one who serves' (Luke 22:27).  And he also said, 'Whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant' (Mark 10:44). By the way, it is dreadful to see this recommended as only a...

  • May 18, 2021

    Donald Trump Should Not be the 2024 Republican Candidate

    I voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020 because he was the best candidate. I did not vote for him because he was perfect. If he is the Republican candidate in 2024, I will vote for him again, because it is inconceivable that any Democrat Marxist in...

  • April 27, 2021

    Where to get straight news

    There can be no doubt that the drive-by media are pure propagandists.  "Orange Man Bad" was just the latest installment in the slander campaign against patriots by those who have mostly achieved little, built little, and hate thos...

  • February 7, 2021

    Taking another crack at campaign finance reform

    Democrats regularly scream about "big money" and "dark money" in campaigns, yet they brought truckloads of such money into Georgia and South Carolina in the last election cycle.  Democrats lost badly in South Carolina, b...

  • January 8, 2021

    Time for Trump to start the Great American Party

    Vice President Mike Pence is an honorable gentleman.  We know from Jenna Ellis, a constitutional law scholar and Donald Trump's legal counsel, that he is fully aware of the unconstitutionality of the Electoral Count Act.  He i...

  • January 3, 2021

    What comes next in these 'interesting times'?

    "May you live in interesting times." —Ancient Chinese Curse There has been considerable discussion since Trump attorney Jenna Ellis tweeted out my proposal for Pence to do his constitutional duty and refuse to accept any electo...

  • December 26, 2020

    It's for Mike Pence to Judge whether a Presidential Election Was Held at All

    On January 6, a joint session of Congress will open with Vice President Pence presiding as president of the Senate.  His power will be plenary and unappealable.  You heard that right.  As president of the Senate, every o...

  • December 15, 2020

    Essential steps to retrieve Georgia

    It looks very bad for the lawsuits seeking to Stop the Steal. That doesn't mean that there wasn't massive fraud.  The evidence for that is strong, regardless of the legal sophistry used by courts to deny relief.  But while...

  • November 8, 2020

    What the Layperson Can Make of Election Law

    Election law is neither criminal nor civil, making it neither fish nor fowl, even though many of the shenanigans in this election have been truly foul.  Examples include Las Vegas letter-carriers supplying ballots to fraudsters, Detroit and Phil...

  • October 27, 2020

    Trump: A Flawed Champion

    Many pundits suggest that if you haven’t made up your mind by now on your choice for President, you haven’t been paying attention. They’re largely correct, but there are some (a minority) who are paying attention and are seeing a ri...

  • September 9, 2020

    The Tour de France goes off track

    Sometimes the insanity gets so far off the planet that you have to re-check the focus on your telescope.  The announcement that the governing bodies of bicycle racing have delayed the Tour de France, and then may send teams home f...

  • August 22, 2020

    No, Joe's Health is NOT Out of Bounds

    During the 2016 election campaign, Dennis Prager told me Hillary's health was not a legitimate subject for discussion.  He seemed to think it was somehow similar to FDR's paralysis.  That disease produced a physical disabi...

  • December 21, 2019

    Impeachment: Tactics vs. Strategy

    Nancy Pelosi has mumbled (again) through an announcement that the House will not send the impeachment resolution to the Senate for trial until Mitch McConnell tells her how the trial will be structured. Welcome to Tactics 091. This isn't even a f...

  • November 19, 2019

    Can Dems go back to the future on Trump impeachment?

    Mad Maxine Waters was screaming "Impeach 45" before the Electoral College even met to complete Donald Trump's election as our president. Left-leaning news outlets joined the chorus.  It was almost impossible to hear anyth...

  • November 17, 2019

    Democrats are Serving Word Salad as their Main Course

    Recently Bret Baier commented that some of Joe Biden's answers at the last Democrat debate were "word salad." Sleepy Joe's malapropisms have been well known for some time, and probably suggest on-going mental difficulty. None of us ...

  • October 31, 2019

    Hillary's Health Coming Up Again

    In August of 2016 I was persuaded, somewhat against my will, to publish an assessment of Hillary Clinton's obvious health problems.  I had been content to complain about politics over the lunch table with friends, but once I was convinc...

  • October 11, 2019

    The Great Triggering

    With the revelation that a "second whistleblower" has firsthand knowledge of Donald Trump's call to the president of Ukraine and was upset at what he heard on the call, the left-wing legacy media are all a-Twitter.  At this po...

  • October 5, 2019

    A Way for Trump to Drain the Swamp

    When you enter the Everglades, you know you'll find alligators and pythons.  You just don't know how many.  And no matter where you are, you can see only a few that are close to you. There can be an alligator right under y...

  • September 4, 2019

    The American Dream beats the Socialist Dream every time

    As we approach yet another election, we find ourselves listening to a host of voices trying to get our attention.  We tune most of them out as noise.  Even though my wife and I are strong Trump-supporters (in most areas), we'v...

  • September 4, 2019

    Government should get out of the flood insurance business

    As Hurricane Dorian churns through the Bahamas and starts chewing on the Florida coast, a vast number of people are greatly relieved that they are insured through the National Flood Insurance Program.  But even Politico has noticed that thi...

  • April 4, 2019

    How May I Close the Border? Let Me Count the Ways.

    With the recent admission by Jeh Johnson that there actually is a crisis at the border, it seems even more likely that the spate of lawsuits against the president's emergency declaration will fail.  But that has no effect on the multitu...

  • February 10, 2019

    Some math to get the point across: The Green New Deal is insane

    New Jersey junior senator Cory Booker was, at one time, the mayor of Newark, and so he had considerable incentive to balance a budget.  After all, cities generally can't run deficits.  His degree from Yale Law was little help ...

  • November 3, 2018

    The Democrats' Leadership Crisis

    As we approach the midterm elections, the "leaders" of the Democratic Party sign on to a variety of hard-left proposals, including "Medicare for All."  The fact that many of the proposals are brutally expensive and would...

  • October 6, 2018

    How to Prevent Another Kavanaugh Circus

    Willie Sutton, a bank robber during Prohibition, is famously quoted that he robbed banks "because that's where the money is."  His insight has become known as "Sutton's Law," or "follow the money."...

  • August 21, 2018

    Brennan's security clearance has nothing to do with his free speech

    By now, we're all familiar with former CIA director John Brennan's unhinged tirades against President Trump.  But in that activity, he simply joins the chorus of Jimmy Kimmel, Maxine Waters, and others too numerous to mention. ...

  • July 17, 2018

    Why Do We Have Courts and Judges?

    With the Democrats in full scream over the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, it's worthwhile to consider just why we have courts and judges. It took a long time to get from Moses appointing faithful men to hear disputes (Exod...

  • July 4, 2018

    What is America?

    Every July Fourth, we enjoy Lee Greenwood's song, "God Bless the USA." That chorus brings many of us to tears. "I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free." And when we hear "I won't forget th...

  • June 28, 2018

    The Left's Alternate Universe

    A tweet by Judd Apatow caught my eye this morning. I wouldn't know any of his work unless you showed me credits with his name in them, so I'm not picking on him in particular. And I don't follow him -- it was a retweet by someone els...

  • June 25, 2018

    The Horowitz IG Report: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

    The Inspector General of the FBI said that he found "no documentary evidence of bias" in the prosecutorial decisions made during the Hillary Clinton email investigation. The Left celebrates, and the Right explodes. As good Rabbis would sugg...

  • June 8, 2018

    What the NBA Can Teach Justice Kennedy

    In the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, Justice Kennedy crafted an opinion that avoided the consideration of two bedrock constitutional principles: freedom of speech and the free practice of religion.  Instead, he went to the Fourteenth...

  • May 26, 2018

    A History Lesson for the 'Trump Is Hitler' Crowd

    Leftists love to claim that President Trump is the reincarnation of Hitler and that he's a Nazi, or maybe a fascist.  They never supply any facts to substantiate their claims. They seem to be immune to logic. Yesterday, I visited the...

  • May 11, 2018

    Is Hillary Turning into Quasimodo?

    When Hillary Clinton lost her bid to become President, I thought she'd realize that her time was over and that she should enjoy her sunset years with her family and friends. Little did I expect that she'd embark on a second career by making h...

  • April 6, 2018

    Starbucks in the Land of Fruits and Nuts

    Last week, a judge in California decided that Starbucks had to put cancer warning labels on coffee. He declared that Starbucks and other companies failed to prove their case that a chemical found in coffee posed no significant harm. Give me a brea...

  • February 21, 2018

    Do We Really Love Our Kids?

    I voted for Marco Rubio, but it was basically a vote against a horrible Democrat.  Now the junior senator from Florida has re-affirmed what I thought in the beginning: Liddle Marco is no leader. When Nikolas Cruz killed seventeen people ...

  • February 9, 2018

    Single Payer is Doomed Before It Starts

    Donald Trump tweeted that Britain's National Health Service is "broke and not working." All too true: expenses have forced 40% of walk-in health centers to close, all elective surgery in January to be cancelled, and primary care has bee...

  • October 11, 2017

    The NFL Doesn't Know Who or What It Is

    Chicago Cubs fans endured decades of futility but stuck like glue to their team.  Ditto for the Golden State Warriors.  Both teams were awful for what seemed like forever but never had any shortage of loyalty.  And when the teams final...

  • September 28, 2017

    Educating Colleges: Free Speech Isn't Free

    The University of California at Berkeley, the "birthplace of the free speech movement," has again shown that it cannot tolerate free speech.  While accusations and counter-accusations fly like spitballs, it is crystal-clear that the ad...

  • July 19, 2017

    Charlie Gard Is the Face of Single-Payer

    I woke up very early this morning with the tortured picture of an infant running through my mind. Charlie Gard has a tube through his nose into his lungs, connected to a machine that breathes for him.  He has all the latest electronics monito...

  • June 28, 2017

    Democrats Insulting the Public with Dire Claims of Deaths from Obamacare Repeal

    There are times when I want to scream at the radio. One commentator or another has just declared that, according to the CBO, 22-million people will lose their health care. In response, the senior Democrat in DC declared that “hundreds of thousa...

  • June 7, 2017

    Kathy Griffin reveals how the radical left thinks

    During all the flap over Kathy Griffin's severed head stunt, she let something slip while she was trying to turn her vile actions around into injury at the hands of others.  "So many people have expressed to me personally at my shows ac...

  • April 25, 2017

    Asking the Right Questions about Health Care

    If I set out to accomplish a task, I have to start with the basics. What is the job? What steps are involved? The list goes on. The same concept applies to ObamaCare. It's broken. Whether we repeal it or fix it, we have to start with foundations....

  • April 22, 2017

    I Was Fake News before Fake News Was Cool

    On March 26, CBS aired a “60 Minutes” story on "Fake News." Within that story was a two minute plus segment with Mike Cernovich of www.DangerandPlay.com. Scott Pelley declared that Cernovich had published "stories with no b...

  • January 23, 2017

    The Filibuster in the Era of Trump

    The filibuster may seem a weapon of obstruction in the hands of Senator Schumer, but the Minority Leader may find himself in a trap of his own making when he uses it. During the Obama years, Republicans campaigned on the promise that "If we cont...

  • December 15, 2016

    Fentanyl is not a problem. Drug laws are the problem.

    Robert Charles, a political appointee of George W. Bush, sounds the alarm that "we are nearing the falls."[1] Supposedly all we need to do is "care." Apparently this will miraculously cure "the problem." Others have d...

  • November 19, 2016

    How America Won the Election

    As pundits pontificate about why Donald Trump became our next President, one salient fact stands out. Most of those pundits live in big cities on the coasts. As Henry Kissinger reportedly said, "You have to live off the intellectual capital you ...

  • October 16, 2016

    What if Trump is Right About the Women?

    We have a media frenzy that declares Donald Trump to be guilty of molesting women at the same time that he emphatically declares his innocence. Hillary Clinton's demand that a woman should be believed the moment she speaks is being heard. But is ...

  • October 10, 2016

    Why Hillary's sickness matters

    There's a Democrat meme that says, "So what if Hillary Clinton is sick? So were JFK, FDR, and a few other presidents." Left at face value, it seems to brush away all of Hillary's neurological signs. But there is a lot more to the st...