January 9, 2025

A few suggestions for California Republicans

Once again, I’m watching my state burn — family down in SoCal has had to evacuate, and vast numbers of homes, huge swaths of land, are burning. The abject failure of the current government — supermajority D, with our self-serving...

January 4, 2025

Are people ‘neurodivergent.’ or is the world simply too crazy?

I have an acquaintance who tells me I’m neurodivergent, something I’ve never considered before. It’s true that I have a great deal of sensitivity to light, heat, and environment, and I’m uncomfortable in crowds or parties. Doe...

November 13, 2024

Leftist government policies have created many ‘neurodivergent’ young people

Leftists like to toss around the phrase “neurodiversity” to protect from criticism things such as so-called transgenderism and other bizarre and unhealthy behaviors. This abuse of the term creates an inevitable backlash, which denies neur...

November 6, 2024

Time to rise up against new mask mandates

It begins again. Just when we thought we were safe from the demons, five San Francisco Bay Area counties just forced mask mandates down the throats of all healthcare facilities. Both staff and patients now must wear masks, until next March or April, ...

September 20, 2024

The same people who were wrong about all things COVID hate Trump and love Kamala

I’ve been arguing with certain progressives over politics. My attempts to awaken them from stupor have fallen on deaf ears. This is the pivot-point moment. The election’s results will determine our future as a nation, so it seems impor...

August 24, 2024

Climate madness is creating a nation of building code scofflaws

REACH Codes are building ordinances that some local California governments have adopted. They go far beyond the requirements of California’s Energy and Green Building standards codes. They are meant to reach “climate action” goals, ...

July 21, 2024

Medicare, Obamacare, and disappearing healthcare

I recently had a medical scare and was immediately seen by a nurse practitioner who is apparently “the” expert at diagnosis for the doctor I was referred to. Immediately after she saw me, she set me up to take diagnostic tests. That was f...

April 18, 2024

In a world led by lies and hatred, those of us who are normal must speak out

In a world defined by lies from the left, as long as systems seem to function, it’s very easy for ordinary people trying to live their lives to put their heads down and shut out the evil around them. But as COVID showed, we can’t do this ...

January 18, 2024

The world has fundamentally changed, one local retail outlet at a time

“You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization—including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain—wit...

September 28, 2023

The T word

I’m not a constitutional scholar. I’m not sure where all of them have disappeared — maybe staying quiet to save themselves the economically devastating fate of cancellation. I have nothing of that nature to lose. I’m going to ...

September 20, 2023

Ode to clear plastic produce bags and fresh vegetables

Remember clear plastic bags, their rolls hanging above the produce so you could grab a handful of green beans or a dozen limes? Maybe you’re lucky and live somewhere they’re still in use. I am not so lucky, and I miss those ubiquitous cle...

September 10, 2023

As they pressure us relentlessly, they’re laughing at us

When national or world events are compelling, we observe, think, analyze, and reach conclusions. When bombarded by multiple absurdities, our reaction is to become enervated and shut down. Think of it like playing ping pong, going back and forth enjoy...

June 17, 2023

There are more important things than LGBT stuff that deserve pride

We're midway through pride month.  Oy, vey!  Bludgeon me over the head with it a little more!  The AllTrails app wants me to "bring my pride on the trail" — huh?  My gym management wants me ...

June 4, 2023

In a post-COVID world, much of what we touch has QACs

This is a personal story with broader implications. The issue extends from my gym to your children’s schools to senior residences and hospitals, and beyond. We’re being routinely exposed to chemicals that may be dangerous. Besides big ...

May 13, 2023

Is righteous indignation all we get?

How long do the pols and the media think they can get away with it? Do they think their histrionics will carry the day forever? I started writing an essay nearly a month ago that I never completed. It started with the fact that all I wanted to do ...

May 6, 2023

Maskerade

Memo to all: WHO has ended the Pandemic. You are now free to take off your mask and leave the darn thing off. Unless, like so many here in the sunny Bay Area, you’re (a) going to commit a crime and don’t want your face showing, or (b) are...

March 3, 2023

For Ukraine, maps and money tell a story

I continue to wonder what the purpose and rationale are behind our magnanimity towards Ukraine. Perhaps it’s Biden’s payback for Ukraine’s “support” for his family over the years (or maybe a response to blackmail, althou...

November 24, 2022

Are You Connecting The Pandemic Dots Yet?

In mid-March 2020, we got the gift of a 5-alarm virus, one that nobody had noticed during its first four to six months of spread. The terror of COVID began when it was suddenly hyped as dire and deadly. From nothing, it came to dominate all the news....

October 17, 2022

The timeless wisdom of Thomas Paine’s ‘Common Sense’

PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidabl...

October 13, 2022

Are we living in a third-world country yet?

Maybe I’m just old. I admit I grew up in times when it was shocking that Elvis gyrated as he sang on the Ed Sullivan show. I remember how the “hoods” smoked cigarettes, and wore slicked-back haircuts and black pegged pants, much lik...

October 8, 2022

Rubber-stamped elections, California style

Welcome to the Grand Duchy of California, a place run so poorly that the streets and the homeless existing on them are both rotting, citizens have no expectation of public safety, our public schools ranked 38th for quality, and gas costs $6.49 a...

October 3, 2022

Sadly, we've become an idiocracy

When I first started writing for American Thinker, I asked Andrea, my editor, if she had ever watched the movie Idiocracy.  I remember thinking, at the time, that despite it being the stupidest bad movie ever, we were heading in the di...

August 16, 2022

WOKE Education And The Next Generation

What happens when a generation of children is indoctrinated in socialist/communist ideology? What does teaching them that our country’s history is shameful and predicated on slavery rather than on freedom do to young, impressionable minds? What...

August 8, 2022

They're still dropping like flies

I imagine that a lot of people are feeling betrayed right now.  They followed "the science" and got injected with a biologic that has caused, for many, some serious side-effects.  Stuff like myocarditis, fertility and me...

July 30, 2022

Just Who Is This Gavin Newsom Guy?

According to the Wikipedia bio for California governor Gavin Newsom, he seems to have been young when he began to aim for the White House. Only 55, he served six years as a San Francisco supervisor, eight years as San Francisco’s mayor, eight y...

July 16, 2022

There's nothing 'normal' about the new normal

Mental health in the U.S. is demonstrably degenerating.  We older adults clearly see the country being torn apart.  Our youths, "educated" by a broken system, over-reliant on social media, prescribed psych drugs, ingesti...

July 10, 2022

Democrats only look crazy and stupid

I had an “aha” moment recently. I found myself thinking that progressives camouflage themselves by appearing stupid. It serves their purposes perfectly. We underestimate and discount them as fools, and they continue their nefarious agenda...

June 29, 2022

What's going on with our commercial airlines?

Every night, I hear a report on the network news announcing the number of flights canceled. If it’s a slow news day, reporters might interview a couple of irritated, stranded travelers. Thousands of flights are axed on any given day. Many more ...

June 27, 2022

Leftists ignore contradictions regarding abortion and vaccines

The united party of spoiled brats (AKA Progressives) is at it again — tantrums, rioting, destruction.  All because the Supreme Court made a considered, rational decision.  If nobody disciplines these unthinking idiots, when ...

June 18, 2022

A COVID rant about something that should be normalized but isn't

I don't want to go crazy here, but the federal, state, and local governments are driving me off the edge.  My county instituted another stupid mask mandate — a useless, counterproductive exercise, which is being very, ve...

June 13, 2022

Do the American people realize the left is leading us ever downward?

I'm a proud American.  I've always taken pride in the rich culture of our country.  While I loved traveling to other places, I never wanted to move away from the freedom and openness of our constitutional republic. ...

June 8, 2022

If I were to write a dystopian novel...

The plot would be something like this sci-fi scenario: starting over 100 years ago, beings from another world, one that is maybe facing its natural end, infiltrate Earth.  They do it quietly, unobtrusively studying our various continents an...

May 28, 2022

We're witnessing a destructive political machine at work

I'm no political expert — merely an observer of life around me and an avid reader.  I've lived in California for well over 40 years, surviving quietly in an enclave of extreme leftist society.  It's a sad thing t...

May 21, 2022

With electric cars, the nexus between leftist ideals and reality is shrinking

Last week, I looked at our food supply and eating habits, where we have a clash between leftist, utopian ideals such as veganism and the same group's more reachable, yet still unrealistic, ideals about all-natural, organic agriculture. ...

May 14, 2022

When it comes to America's food supply, leftist ideals clash with reality

The illogical leftist mind contradicts its own ideas without a care for their destructive nature.  On the one hand, the greenies want everyone to eat a plant-based diet because meat and milk from animals are evil.  On the other ha...

May 3, 2022

The worst examples ever of Murphy's law

"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong" is the gist of Murphy's law.  For examples, we can't do better than to look at our borders coupled with COVID policy, where we'll see how these current "policies" go...

April 19, 2022

The screens draining our lives away

We are reaping the full harvest from our digital machine age.  Our lives have devolved to depend on invisible technology, which is changing society.  You can see it in every facet of life — a growing zombification, using tha...

April 9, 2022

War, its precursors, and its consequences

In February, when the Ukraine/Russia conflict had just begun, I wrote an article that saw me accused of flacking for Putin — as in being his propagandist.  I thought it odd because the point of the article was to look at our...

March 19, 2022

I have a mandate proposal for you

(This essay is a satire.) Time for us to evaluate our health, then get behind mandating things that would serve us all.  After all, we're only as healthy as the government tells us we are — and we've been taught over the pa...

March 14, 2022

Democrat leadership has devalued America beyond recognition

Elections have consequences.  How many times have you heard that?  It's certainly true.  The world has been watching our country tilt to the dark side, which set things in motion that have consequences far beyond our...

March 7, 2022

California doubles down on COVID legislation

The California legislature is now pushing to make our state the most COVID-restricted in the country.  This, despite Governor Newsom stating he's moving to treat the virus as endemic.  There are eight bills in all, and ev...

March 3, 2022

Tell me a story, Uncle Joe

I know much has already been written about the "State of the Union" speech.  I must admit, I heard only one pair of sentences live, "on accident," as the kids say.  It made me want to hold my hands over my ears...

February 28, 2022

It's Ukraine gaslighting time!

They're all scrambling, visibly uncomfortable, all the pundits coming on all the talk shows on cable news, contradicting one another and stepping on one another's narrative.  The hosts have become so used to having a storyline to pa...

February 27, 2022

The COVID narrative continues, regardless of facts

Very early in the pandemic, I started comparing what was happening nationally to the movie Idiocracy. I once thought it a terribly dumb movie. Turns out, it wasn’t—because now we’re living a present-day version of some aspects of th...

February 20, 2022

America’s cognitive dissonance continues to deepen

Our schizophrenic national divide is reaching a point at which the fabric of society is being shredded. The willful adherence to false “facts,” by both media and government actors is impossible to miss. Yet those in power plow forward wit...

February 19, 2022

More word vomit, more racism, more pork

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced his new SMARTER plan yesterday.  It purportedly moves our state forward to a COVID policy that acknowledges that the CCP virus is endemic rather than pandemic.  I'm betting ...

February 16, 2022

California's problems jump out after a road trip

I just returned from a solo trip that gave me a break from California's mask and vaccine mandates.  I drove a lot through both Nevada and Idaho, spent five days in Idaho, and then made the return trip home.  Leaving ...

February 15, 2022

Reveling in the free life outside of California

Last week, I wrote about the beginning of my journey, driving to Boise, Idaho from the San Francisco Bay Area in California.  I subsequently spent most of the week exploring the city, where I enjoyed myself very much.  I thin...

February 10, 2022

A road trip becomes a metaphor for trucking and America's COVID policy

I decided to take a solo road trip.  It was an eye-opening trip because it made me very aware of our nation's truckers, the work they do, and how much we need them.  Also, getting lost with no way to go but forward made me thi...

February 2, 2022

In the San Francisco Bay Area, we're at the breaking point

After two solid years of COVID restrictions, many of us have reached a breaking point.  Witness the mass exodus to other states from sunny California.  Who wouldn't want to get out of here, away from this strangling, prison-li...

January 30, 2022

The world’s elite: Tone-deaf, willfully ignorant, or malicious?

Are the world’s elite tone-deaf, willfully ignorant, or truly malicious? I must contemplate this question because, on a very human level, it points to where we’ve gone wrong, and what we must do to fix it before it’s too late. I thi...

January 29, 2022

Have you ever prayed to be wrong?

From the time COVID started, I've been a bit of a maverick.  I didn't stay home.  I never have worn a mask that wasn't easy to breathe through — one thin layer, and only where I'm forced to wear it. ...

January 27, 2022

Buyer's remorse versus the State of California

A new bill has been proposed in California's Legislature.  State senator Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) wants to require COVID "vaccination" for all the state's schoolchildren, K–12, ostensibly to make schools "safe...

January 23, 2022

Our current leaders have outlived their usefulness

Listening to Joe Biden—something I forced myself to do for a few minutes of his “news conference,” was definitively awful. It seems that most Americans agree. The man has lost what small modicum of sensibility he once possessed. No ...

January 19, 2022

The system is set up for hospitals to profit from COVID

If you had a financial incentive to do something that wasn't exactly honest, would you abandon your principles and take the cash?  Apparently, that's what many medical providers and hospitals in America have been doing, especially s...

January 18, 2022

Abandon your principles, all ye who enter here

I feel as if "abandon your principles, all ye who enter here" is the motto, not just of the U.S., but of much of the world right now.  The shame that will ultimately come to our zealot oppressors can't arrive too soon, and it...

January 7, 2022

Mass Formation may explain America's crazed COVID reaction

Have you, like me, struggled to figure out how we have arrived at such a horrific impasse in society?  Dr. Robert Malone may have the answer: mass formation.  Here's what I understand that to mean. Twenty twenty-two sees so...

January 5, 2022

Two brilliant doctors explain what's really going on with COVID

I've just completed a marathon of listening to six hours of Joe Rogan interviewing two doctors — first Peter McCullough, then Robert Malone.  Both, uncensored on Gettr and Spotify, are worth your time.  Listening certain...

January 3, 2022

Three-card monte and the CDC

The Moronic phenomenon (otherwise known by its anagram, omicron) is sending the country into a panic, just as they — the American power brokers — want.  Long lines for testing, at the same time they again let us know of problems...

December 23, 2021

We must have light to end these dark days

There's only one way we're going to win this war against COVID totalitarianism, and that is to shine the light — focused, brilliantly clear light — on the evil being done to us.  We live in the computer age, and we need ...

December 20, 2021

When living in a blue state, we can only dream of freedom

What's it like, living in the saner parts of the country?  I think about it.  There's a reason everyone with a shred of motivation is leaving California.  I imagine living without the level of paranoia about COVI...

December 18, 2021

Leftists are using our children as pawns for all their policies

The disrespect for our children among this country's "intellectual class" is a manifestation of the disrespect they have for the rest of us and their deep desire to marginalize and ultimately destroy people guilty of "wrongthi...

November 29, 2021

A commonsense approach to COVID

If you've been reading my essays here, you may remember back to January 10, when I wrote about Munchausen by (government) Proxy.  Turns out I was absolutely right.  Below is the first paragraph — go read the rest if...

November 27, 2021

Biden's rope-a-dope autocracy

The American public can't seem to pay attention to more than one or two things at a time, and the extreme leftists are using our lack of ability to multi-task effectively.  By bombarding us relentlessly with bad news, our ever-pragmatic...

November 20, 2021

The Kyle Rittenhouse verdict should redefine 'restorative justice'

As I listened to the Rittenhouse verdict, the phrase "restorative justice" popped into my head.  I was pretty sure I didn't have the definition right, so I looked it up.  Turns out, it's yet another phrase co-opt...

November 17, 2021

Self-induced genocide

"Climate change" was, and still is, a training wheels concept, albeit a terribly dangerous one.  It's a testing of the waters, if you will.  It set the stage perfectly for the current pandemic phenomenon.  ...

November 12, 2021

Oops! Cal Berkeley did the unthinkable!

CBS News reports that 44 Cal football players "tested positive" for COVID on Wednesday, after undergoing mandatory testing.  Their weekend game is postponed.  They were contact-traced after "someone" ...

November 9, 2021

It doesn't take a crystal ball to see what's coming — a satiric parable

If you think of America's two competing political belief systems as two trains heading towards each other on a single track, a clear picture emerges — a satiric parable. There are two trains on the track, moving from opposite directions....

November 6, 2021

The establishment is attacking those who oppose vaccines. Where’s the truth?

A reader objected to my last post in which I questioned "vaccinating" children.  I'd cited Steve Kirsch in the article, linking his slide deck of facts, which is rich with documentation and live links to sources...

November 3, 2021

How do we draw the line on caring?

I realized I've hit the wall.  I must save my sanity, and the only way to do that is to say, "Hey, people gotta be stupid, and there's not much you can do about it."  Let it all go.  Engaging the folks ...

October 31, 2021

Probable causes for the supply chain mess in California ports

I’ve lived in California for nearly 50 years, certainly long enough to know the state is wacko. It’s become a self-immolating mess, with policies growing more disastrous as the years go by. Remember the old adage to “cut off one...

October 29, 2021

COVID is relentlessly used to kill Americans' spirit

Chipping away at our sanity, self-worth, autonomy, and, as Que Mala would say, "fweedom," undermining our basic rights, destroying our souls — that is how I would describe the box we've been forced into.  That ...

October 20, 2021

Sometimes it pays to have a vacuum at the top

I remember when my dad, a high-powered New York attorney and senior partner in a large, prestigious law firm, started losing it.  As his Alzheimer's progressed, he could no longer track the work he'd done all his life.  Hi...

October 16, 2021

What happened to the pilot?

I watched the video, horrified, knowing the end of the story, yet fascinated as it unfolded.  The small plane's camera focused out the windshield, as the pilot, Dr. Sugata Das, routinely communicated with the tower.  A 64...

October 14, 2021

Can facts be misinformation?

Here's an actual, true fact for you: "misinformation" is the new "in" meme, a label for whatever inconveniently true, accurate fact those in authority don't want to let people see or contemplate.  When an en...

October 11, 2021

Conspiracy or greed? That’s the big question

Way back when, in the very beginning of Pandemic Time, March of 2020, I found an article that described a think-tank exercise determining how we might respond to a pandemic. It played out four response scenarios, with outcomes for each, from shutting...

October 9, 2021

How does COVID compare other things killing Americans?

We have vastly different responses to our current “master” disease (pun intended), the COVID virus, versus our more “mundane” diseases. Of course, COVID is contagious, like the flu or chickenpox, and the others are not. Yet CO...

October 8, 2021

Who should take responsibility for your wellbeing?

I had a long phone conversation with a friend last night. We talk every month or so, covering a range of subjects. He’s a scientist, so we’ve argued quite a bit about science, as well as politics. He’s also a writer, so we talk abou...

October 1, 2021

America's descent into totalitarianism advances unabated

If you look around, you can't find a single thing America is doing right, unless "right" means to deliberately destroy the nation.  In light of the comprehensive assault against Americans, we who notice are told we're craz...

September 27, 2021

Fox guarding the henhouse? Yes, indeed!

The compulsion to find out whether the Wu Flu started in the Wuhan lab, and at whose behest the research was done, has been almost as strong as the desperate drive to stop anyone from finding the answer.  On Sunday Morning Futures, Mar...

September 24, 2021

The vaccination noose around our necks

The COVID police have tightened the noose around the necks of the unvaccinated.  No longer do you have to wear a useless mask only indoors (unless you're London Breed, the Mayor of San Francisco, or partying with her).  T...

September 21, 2021

I take no pleasure in being right

I have been reviewing my oldest posts about COVID, which started with an anti-lockdown diatribe last December.  I called the lockdowns government-imposed victimhood and naïvely called for the small business equivalent of the ...

September 8, 2021

The administration seems to be acting with malice aforethought

A legal term, malice aforethought identifies intentional murder or malicious bodily harm.  From the election to COVID policy to how we left Afghanistan to inflation and the budget to energy policy to our lawless border, there is n...

September 4, 2021

California can't see the forest for the (burning) trees

That old adage about missing the forest for the trees can apply to many things right now, but let's take it literally.  California's forests (and everything else) are burning up rapidly.  More rapidly than ever. ...

September 2, 2021

Events in Afghanistan are about to destroy our American complacency

"When you're dead, you're a dead peckerhead." —John Prine We humans struggle with the realities of life and death.  Whether you're religious or not, the death of someone with whom you're close profoundly a...

August 31, 2021

When the victims abet their oppressors, the end is near

Despite glaring uncertainties, we must not deviate from orthodoxy on COVID.  Vaccinations = good.  For everyone, no matter the rate of death or other serious adverse reaction from COVID versus from the vaccine....

August 29, 2021

Trying to decode an article about vaccines and COVID breakthrough

The headlines are scary. Australia, locked down and people arrested for leaving home. Camps being set up for internment. In Chicago, a mother stripped of parental rights because she won’t get the jab. Teen athletes, stricken with myocarditis an...

August 28, 2021

Reality bit us, and the wound is festering

Last night, I reread a letter I sent our children last November, shortly after the election.  I expressed my concerns that Biden's "win" was a farce, that his numbers were impossible, and that there was ample evidence of fraud...

August 26, 2021

Are we helplessly witnessing America's destruction?

"In government, the secret is Integrity. Use it, and you'll be like the polestar: always dwelling in its proper place, and other stars turning reverently about it. "If you use government to show them the Way and punishment to keep th...

August 24, 2021

There are lots of reasons to question the FDA's greenlighting Pfizer's vaccine

According to VAERS, 3,079 people have died after receiving the Pfizer vaccine, and nearly 3,900 have suffered a permanent disability.  Many more thousands have been hospitalized with post-vaccination side-effects.  Think...

August 22, 2021

Where there’s smoke, hopefully Newsom gets fired

Waking up this morning, the PurpleAir.com smoke/air quality measurements were in the 150s. That’s only the “red zone” of unsafe air and not nearly as bad as the various gradations of purple but still considered a hazard for sensitiv...

August 20, 2021

Biden exhibits classic dementia symptoms

One of the hallmarks of dementia is an inability to feel empathy.  This study explains that cognitive decline causes significant impairment in identifying with the emotions and experiences of others.  There are many others, as wel...

August 19, 2021

Fear porn incorporated

I took a step back from writing about the Wu Flu for a few weeks because there were so many people already writing what I was thinking.  But now the country and the world around us are spiraling downward into panic, and officials are feedin...

August 17, 2021

Fools, meet the evil you elected

We tried before the election, to get you to see Biden for what he is.  Evil, arrogant, self-centered, and bereft of any qualities of statesmanship or even good judgment.  You didn't listen.  You believed the media st...

August 10, 2021

Eight questions for the California recall candidates

We have an election coming up in California. Yes, it’s a recall, so the current administration is invested in ignoring it, hoping it’ll go away. The large slate of candidates wishing to replace Governor Newsom, I guess, would prefer not t...

August 9, 2021

Will the California recall election be a farce?

In California, ballots go out in one week, mailed "to every registered voter" 29 days before the September 14th recall election.  You can even register to vote on Election Day. An article said California is going to allow...

August 5, 2021

When it comes to COVID, the truth is hard to find

Prosecutor: So, you're saying that the supernatural is your exclusive province? Peter Venkman: Kitten, I think what I'm saying, is that sometimes, s--- happens, someone has to deal with it, and who ya gonna call? —Ghostb...

August 2, 2021

On COVID, the left's own facts show the establishment is lying again

We put doctors on a pedestal in this country. Watch any panel with a medical doctor on a cable news show. You’ll see everyone else addressed by first name, but the doctor is always Dr. Whoever. We’re trained to defer and show respect. Wha...

July 30, 2021

Doubling down on stupid is lethal

"If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." —Will Rogers The ventriloquist who speaks through Biden is about to dictate that all government employees must be vaccinated for COVID.  This despite dire warnings about the...

July 27, 2021

An Olympics without fans struggles to survive

We've started the 2021 Japanese Olympic games without much fanfare, other than on NBC.  The shell of a once-interesting celebration of human tenacity and prowess goes on, hollowed out by lack of fans in the venues and marred by masked f...

July 24, 2021

Truth and consequences or California recall politics?

It's mind-boggling how quickly we've gone back to mask mandates and COVID scares.  Almost as quickly as the rise of Larry Elder as a viable and attractive replacement for California governor Gavin Newsom in the upcoming recall elect...

July 20, 2021

The last six months have seen a lot of leftist wish fulfillment

How far can someone be goaded and bullied before he fights back?  Most bullies are sociopaths and narcissists, adept at shifting the blame to their victims.  They manipulate situations so the victim is the one who gets p...

July 18, 2021

The missing link in the COVID vaccine equation

Before I get to the missing link subject of this article, I want to be clear that I think there’s a broader missing link in the leftist brain. That link is for logical thinking and truth recognition. We’ve been asked — no, it’...

July 16, 2021

Delta, delta, delta, can I help ya, help ya, help ya?

Last night, the 11 P.M. CBS local newscast interviewed an apparently healthy, fit-looking man.  He seemed to be in his mid-30s, and the thrust of the interview was that he'd gotten the COVID Delta variant, so we all had better hurry and...

July 15, 2021

When companies go woke

We live in an age of both public and private tyranny.  Self-determined parameters no longer define our lives.  We used to feel secure, with family, friends, work, and shared histories and beliefs.  Now artificial constra...

July 12, 2021

California's disastrous one-party rule is affecting the Newsom recall effort

If you've ever run a business, you know you can never rest on your laurels.  There's always competition trying to beat you at your own game.  There's an ever-changing marketplace, where you must deal with supply chain,...

July 10, 2021

First, do no harm!

It's time for us to demand some real, factual information about COVID and vaccines, and not let "officials" squirm out of it with the usual platitudes.  About half the population of the country is fully vaccinated, over 1...

July 8, 2021

The left is fomenting hopelessness

We're simply meant to give up.  That's the conclusion I've come to, as I see the pile-on of absurdities we're being asked to accept as normal.  We're standing under a giant dumpster, and somebody's upended ...

July 5, 2021

Forgetting history is so convenient

Because today is a federal holiday that celebrates the moment at which the Founding Fathers officially broke away from Great Britain to start a nation "conceived in liberty," I got a message from my "representative" in Congress, R...

July 2, 2021

Can you say 'ivermectin' in the USA?

Ivory Hecker, an astute and brave local Fox reporter, interviewed Dr. Joseph Varon, despite Fox threatening her job if the unedited interview went live.  It's worth listening to in its entirety, but here's some of what it says....

June 27, 2021

Let’s drop progressives into the black hole they’re trying to dig for us

The “progressive” left has done us a solid. I just want to be humble and thank them. They didn’t have to do it. They just couldn’t resist. They acted like kids in the candy store. Or, more accurately, low-intelligence looters ...

June 24, 2021

Science on the dotted line

Two recent articles in American Thinker alarmed me and, at the same time, validated things I've said about COVID and vaccines on these pages since I began writing here in January.  The first showed clearly, with photographic e...

June 24, 2021

In Biden's world, when it comes to gun crime, it's the gun's fault

President Biden has formally announced his gun crime strategy.  His new, trailblazing initiative blames gun violence on inanimate objects, the guns themselves.  He also blames "rogue" gun dealers, who apparently knowingl...

June 21, 2021

The left is pursuing an agenda that benefits just a few leftists

For each topic dominating the news, we are asked to suspend credulity, believe lies, go along with a story that makes no sense.  The alternative is to get canceled as if we don't exist.  We are required to subjugate ourselves ...

June 18, 2021

California, liberal COVID sinkhole

It's day three of "open" California.  For me, "open" would mean I had the freedom to leave the face rag behind, go about my business unimpeded, and resume normal life.  But wait!  Newsom didn'...

June 9, 2021

The cost of squelching normal discourse

Yesterday, Steve Karp, M.D. presented the facts of COVID as we know them, right here on American Thinker.  His list included all the mind-boggling contradictions we've been fed for the last 17 months.  My immedi...

June 7, 2021

California's upcoming COVID disaster

I was not surprised to see graphic evidence, in the form of a winning photo contest entry, that shows floating in the ocean one of the 129 billion disposable face masks used since the pandemic started.  Seventy-five percent of them, al...

June 4, 2021

In tune versus tuned out

Even as California is finally, slowly opening, some restaurants are still closing.  Lex Gopnik-Lewinski, who owns the popular Augie's Montreal Deli in Berkeley, is closing for four to five months because of a supply chain issue. ...

June 1, 2021

The ever-changing orthodoxy of COVID

The CDC acts as if COVID bends to its will. When it doesn’t do so, the bureaucrats simply change their rules and manipulate data so the result becomes what they expected. They fit the “facts” to their hypothesis. A recent CDC doc...

May 31, 2021

Blue state, blue mask blues

Back in April, I wrote an article on masks here on American Thinker.  Part of the article was just me, kvetching about having to wear the useless face diapers, especially outdoors.  Since then, the CDC has come out ...

May 28, 2021

The huge, destructive green lie

I've always thought the green energy movement was BS.  I read, early on, about birds dying because of solar "farms" and wind turbines.  Reading about it again today as I started to write, I learned that the number of...

May 25, 2021

Exercising our legal right to freedom from medical tyranny

I had a thought that, maybe, some of you who are in the legal profession can expand upon.  I'll just put it out here and hope you all can give both me and our American Thinker readers some free expert advice.  My lit...

May 24, 2021

The Democrats' equity scam

National policymakers and blue state government entities have wholeheartedly embraced the concept of equity. It goes hand-in-hand with the assumption that systemic racism is a de facto structural pillar of US society. Too bad both are such bad constr...

May 19, 2021

The border joke may be on the Democrats

Do you want to bet the border is closed pretty soon?  All you have to do is read American Thinker, or even the New York Times, to discover a startling truth: the people surging over the southern border, the very future voters the ...

May 17, 2021

Common sense isn't common anymore

I'm on vacation.  No TV, no computer, just my phone, my iPad, my kids, and my grandchildren — although, of course, I still skim the headlines every day.  I am also seeing how eerily familiar the way people in another sta...

May 8, 2021

How to fundamentally re-transform California

The biggest problem with being a conservative in California is that we hide.  We're surrounded by people who hate us.  They would key our car or worse, and this fear is enervating.  So many times, I've wished the...

May 2, 2021

The shifting human tide

We’re hyper-aware of the shifting mass of humans pouring over our border and finding their way into our lands. Immigration from below the border has swelled over the last 60 years, more than half of it legal. It’s not the first time, nor ...

April 30, 2021

Why I'm not getting vaccinated — yet

I think the new mRNA COVID vaccines could be a wonderful breakthrough — maybe a whole new way of treating disease.  Researchers are talking about the technology possibly being used for immunizing against malaria and curing viral ...

April 28, 2021

There's no joy in Mudville

I've developed a simple test for determining if an idea is woke.  You simply ask the question "does this add to the joy of life or detract from it?"  The wokerati have the immutable characteristic of sucking the plea...

April 24, 2021

Ennui, anyone?

A strange thing happens to me lately when I sit down to write.  For the last month, I have had a compulsion to put my thoughts on paper that was powered by a sense that by doing so, I was contributing to efforts to return our country to the...

April 22, 2021

The sci-fi book I’ll never write

I tell you I can visualize it all This couldn't be a dream For too real it all seems But it was just my imagination, once again Running away with me I tell you it was just my imagination Running away with me. —The Temptations ...

April 19, 2021

The evidence shows that cloth and those blue paper masks don't work

When it comes to masks, I've reached my limit, not that it matters; I'll just have to set a new one.  I realize there's not much I can do about my frustrations, except vent (such an ironic word!), given life in sunny California,...

April 18, 2021

Is this the USA?

I came upon an article yesterday about Operation Homebound, in Los Angeles County, which forcibly injects vaccines into homebound people, including the mentally disabled and those with dementia. I learned that there’s been a lot writt...

April 17, 2021

Our leaders need some moments of doubt

Every once in a while, we all need to have moments of self-doubt.  To be humbled by a reminder that no, we don't know it all. That maybe we don't know much at all.  That the things we are sure of are as transient as life i...

April 16, 2021

Yesterday wasn't Tax Day after all

Did you even know you have until Monday, May 17 to file taxes?  I'm guessing a lot of people have no idea.  I keep getting "tax-day sale" junk mail, so I guess many businesses don't know it, either. I started ...

April 13, 2021

When 2 2 = 4,000, we might just be in trouble

It's important to pay attention to financial reality.  I see a red flag raised when grocery store prices rise precipitously.  Inflation is rapidly escalating.  Look at the Weimar Republic, where hyperinflation...

April 10, 2021

Now there's even more reason to resist the masks

Making sense of COVID is something I continually struggle with.  I started writing about it here in January.  I wrote an essay about Munchausen by (government) proxy, which I've just revisited, months later, and I still s...

April 8, 2021

Woke me to sleep, why don't ya?

Our English language has always fascinated me.  The way we use it informs culture and, in large part, sets the mores of society.  Our near instant communication, combined with the wokesters' ability to censor us, makes termino...

April 5, 2021

The Repressive Party

Merriam-Webster defines "progressive" as "relating to, or characterized by, progress; making use of, or interested in, new ideas, findings, or opportunities."  There are other definitions, but that's the first. De...

April 4, 2021

How can they do this to the children?

Let’s close our eyes and take an imaginary journey together. Imagine you’re a kid from Guatemala, perhaps someplace in the countryside. Your family is poor, and its native language is Indio, not Spanish. Maybe you’re old enough to h...

April 1, 2021

The American ship of state: Lost at sea, storms on the horizon

Seeking an analogy for how I see the state of the USA right now, I'd say we're like a ship, lost in a roiling sea, with a series of storms approaching and lots of icebergs off in the distance.  We have a captain who hasn't notic...

March 29, 2021

We need to pull back from the chaos and look for the big picture

“The past is the only thing we know. The present is no more than an illusion, a moment that is already past in an instant (or, rather, a moment in which past and future slot into each other). And what we know about the future is nothing else th...

March 27, 2021

Normalizing 'The Squad'

Do you remember three years back, when newly elected AOC and Ilhan Omar were silly-seeming novelty representatives?  We thought the American people wouldn't put up with their supercilious attitude and nonsensical ideas for long. ...

March 26, 2021

Biden's 'News' conference lite

We finally had our Biden news conference.  I suspected it would be performance art, nothing more.  I was correct. Biden obviously had a stack of well ordered notes on his podium.  No paper was flipped.  He b...

March 24, 2021

Will our politicos ever fight for us?

I've had it.  I'm pretty sure we've all had it, collectively.  How long do we have to get nothing from Congress besides emails asking for money?  Republicans in Congress seem to make begging a business, just ...

March 23, 2021

A decade ago, a prescient think-tank document predicted 2020

Nearly a year ago, after COVID hit us hard, I spent my endless at-home time online, looking at whatever I could find on pandemics.  I found one treatise on possible methods of dealing with a pandemic.  One method was presented as ...

March 21, 2021

Are we following the science?

I’m a cynic. Always questioning, never happy with simple answers. Always watching what is going on, asking “why?” When it comes to COVID, I’ve had more questions than there are real answers. I currently have two main quarre...

March 19, 2021

Are we headed toward cultural doom?

This cancel culture phenomenon that's been foisted upon us is a manifestation of true evil, of both intent and results. I have no doubt that, if it's allowed to continue unchecked, we will be headed for a fate as bad as that of other once-gre...

March 18, 2021

Legalizing election fraud, forever

H.R. 1 is Nancy Pelosi's signature bill, and exploring it is like taking a deep dive into political depravity.  A partisan House passed it on March 3, without any Republican votes.  While it's currently before the Senate, ...

March 16, 2021

The American left is playing 'Nancy says'

I found myself, in a quiet moment, wondering about how childhood games apply to adulthood.  I found some interesting parallels, especially when it comes to schoolyard games and modern politics. Remember playing Simon Says?  One...

March 14, 2021

California is engineering woke children

After reading the American Thinker article about California’s plan to teach school children Aztec worship chants, I found the California Department of Education website, freshly updated on March 8th. The “woke” curriculum it outline...

March 13, 2021

Biden, the cigar store Indian of the White House

Watching Biden's first official address to the nation on Thursday night, I was reminded of nothing so much as the lifelike carved wooden Indians that, beginning in the 19th century, used to grace the sidewalk in front of the tobacconist's sto...

March 12, 2021

The nanny state is not your friend

If you think our current nanny state is there to look out for you and make sure you are safe, you've got a problem.  The actual message of our helicoptering elite is that we are not to be trusted; we are unreliable and discountable, and...

March 9, 2021

Junkyard dogs of DC

We all know what a junkyard dog is.  It's not meant to be friendly, but rather to intimidate anyone thinking of breaking into the yard and stealing the junk inside.  Nancy Pelosi's junkyard dogs, sadly, are humans — ...

March 4, 2021

California Wildfire Season Is Just Around The Corner

In 2020, California had a nightmare forest fire season, made worse by our total COVID shut-down. The fires were so extensive that, to escape them, one would have to have left the state entirely. No place was spared, coast, inland, north, or south. Wi...

March 4, 2021

Messing with Mother Nature to virtue-signal can be deadly

The myriad stories you can find online about babies fed vegan diets who died from malnutrition point to a dangerous trend in our virtue-signaling and misguided society.  As a former chef, I receive a lot of newsletters from various culinary...

March 1, 2021

The leftists' arrogance will be their downfall

The left has grown drunk with power.  All subtleties have been shoved aside in favor of feeding the insatiable beast of leftists' own success.  You know all the examples — you've heard them, seen them, a hundred time...

March 1, 2021

Listening to Mark and Ron — a taste of America as it used to be

Mark Levin's interview with Governor Ron DeSantis on Sunday night struck me as so sane, so normal, that it almost had me weeping.  Just when I'd despaired that common sense has flown the coop completely, they held a conversation whe...

February 27, 2021

Women's rights are about to be erased by statute

The misnamed "Equality" Act, currently having passed the House and now headed to the Senate, is a giant leap backward for all womankind.  It may just pass unless you and I do something about it. The Federalist outlined...

February 25, 2021

Why do they want us all vaccinated?

Our vaccine is experimental, and we, the people, are being herded into a mass drug trial such as the FDA has never before attempted. That is the unembellished truth.  Nobody in authority wants to mention this truth.  Instead, t...

February 24, 2021

Our federal ruling class is disinterested in the American people

"Theirs not to reason why...theirs just to do or die." —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade This awful quote refers to a communication error that sent a light brigade of 600 men to near certain death du...

February 22, 2021

Reopening America is going to bring a reckoning

Yesterday's headlines about John's Hopkins, not yet quashed and canceled, are that COVID will be "over" by April.  That is alarming news for our California government, I'm sure, and for the other blue states that are s...

February 21, 2021

California, land of delusion

The latest verbal gymnastics our local San Francisco Bay Area, 11 o’clock news team tried and failed to explain was why, when COVID cases are rapidly plummeting, we are not opening the state. There are only five counties that have “gradua...

February 19, 2021

Our Democrat-run institutions are in a big hurry to vaccinate the young

Last night, on the 11 P.M. report, the newsreader mindlessly said, "The objective is to get the vaccine to every Californian over the age of 16 by the end of the year."  My brain froze at this news.  This is an expe...

February 18, 2021

State and federal governments' job-killing rules normalize idleness

The federal government is promising to enact higher minimum wages and strict pro-union rules that will destroy the gig economy.  Some of these rules are already in effect in blue states.  The young will be especially hard hit. ...

February 15, 2021

A suggestion for Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico

Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico could make one major policy change that would have a profound, immediate effect on national policy.  It would be far more effective than a lawsuit winding through the courts and awaiting a sympathetic judge...

February 14, 2021

De-Branding America

A traditional Carnival mask allowed freedom for the wearer not to be identified. He could break free of cultural and societal norms, if only for the moment. The Carnival mask hid the eyes and left the mouth free to expound and play and enjoy. Carniva...

February 10, 2021

What if there was a protest and you never knew?

What we used to call "the news" is no longer actually news.  It's a thought-free regurgitation of what the newsreaders are told to say.  They can have the same intonation talking about a fire burning someone's ho...

February 10, 2021

Will the COVID boogie man get you?

I asked my friend if she knew what treatment she'd be offered if she got COVID.  She'd recently lost her second husband to cancer, and watching her experiences with his hospitalization and death had awakened my need to understand me...

February 8, 2021

How to create a surveillance state

In our technological age, we've all participated in creating our surveillance state, whether as enforcers or self-censoring victims.  Thanks to the technology in our smartphones, each one of us has the capability to contribute, and many on t...

February 2, 2021

Slowing Killing The American Frog

If you grant credence to the contention that the election was at least manipulated, methodically, toward the end achieved, it is only a small step to seeing the rest of the story unfold. The election was one crucial part of a much larger and longer-t...

January 28, 2021

Mama told me

Our newly minted Theater of the Absurd government is making one bone-headed decision after the next, running around like a chicken with its head cut off, something my mother used to accuse me of doing.  In the name of purging every single t...

January 26, 2021

Educating our sons and daughters about the new gender realities

"Any school that receives federal funding—including nearly every public high school—must either allow biological boys who self-identify as girls onto girls' sports teams or face administrative action from the Education Departme...

January 24, 2021

After four years of Trump, the establishment is again pulling the same levers

Sometimes I think it’s all going according to a mad plan, that the country runs like a giant machine. The gears turn, the engine runs and what is produced is just right. Just enough war to enrich those meant to be enriched. Just enough strife t...

January 22, 2021

Getting sick in times of COVID

Yesterday, my normal healthy life took a turn downward. I started getting a super stiff neck, then a bad headache, then chills (but no fever), and a runny nose. My fear took over immediately. Was this COVID? Would I survive it? What should I do now? ...

January 18, 2021

What’s going on in Washington, D.C.?

The last time I checked, this was the USA. A free country. A country where, when mobs of thugs were destroying Minneapolis, Portland, Kenosha, and other cities, the media reacted in horror at the suggestion that a few National Guard troops might help...

January 15, 2021

The COVID response — lots of questions but no answers

Making ends meet during the COVID nanny-state takeover of our lives is difficult for many people I know who are not classified as "essential" workers.  Losing one's livelihood and the means to care for our family is more than ...

January 10, 2021

Munchausen by (government) Proxy

Munchausen by Proxy is an official mental health diagnosis given to someone who, as a caregiver, convinces the person in his care that he is ill when he really isn’t. The net result is the caregiver has total control over his charge and ca...

January 5, 2021

Why do we keep hearing about deaths but not about treatments?

My friend buried her husband today.  He didn't die from COVID, but he died all alone, a few days after Christmas. Here in the wasteland of fear that California has become, if you enter a hospital, you may never be seen again. ...

December 18, 2020

Fighting back against government-imposed victimhood

For those paying attention, the general feeling seems to be despair and disgruntlement tempered by a thin layer of hope that things can still be righted.  We see the truth.  We hear the truth.  But fa...

December 4, 2020

It's up to the Supreme Court to hold America together

The best outcome for maintaining a constitutional America is for the Supreme Court to make a unanimous finding of fraud that allows it to remedy the current election outcome.  Otherwise, the Democrats will succeed with planned, blatant frau...

November 24, 2020

Fighting back against that hopeless feeling

Does God write straight with a crooked line, will Good trump Evil, or are we simply to give up hope?  These are questions that so many of us are wrestling with right now.  Recent history can be disheartening: four-plus years of a co...