June 2, 2015

What's behind Putin's 86% Approval Rating

Russia’s dictator Vladimir Putin is basking in the glow of an unheard-of 86% approval rating.  But his popularity has not stemmed from the people’s contentment or any monumental achievement of their leader.  His boat has been li...

March 11, 2015

Birds of a Feather: Obama, the Left, and Islam

Is Barack Obama a Muslim or even an Islamist? Or is there another explanation for his open, heartfelt affinity for all things Muslim? There is a veritable mountain of indirect evidence that he is indeed an acolyte of Islam. His late father was a M...

May 12, 2014

Benghazi conspiracy? Hell yes!

The Ben Rhodes e-mail has demolished the Obama administration's defense that the White House had nothing to do with the infamous talking points ascribing the Benghazi tragedy to a spontaneous protest over an American-made anti-Muslim video. ...

February 25, 2014

Obeying the Dog Whistle

In George Orwell's immortal dystopia Animal Farm, the ruling pigs distilled the revolutionary ideology for the stupider animals, such as the sheep, hens and ducks, to a simplistic but highly useful slogan, "Four legs good, two legs bad". Not only did...

October 31, 2013

Republican Opposition: a Flimsy Reed

Many conservatives who have not yet succumbed to political correctness never stop wondering why Republicans are so bad at political warfare. Why don't they vigorously oppose the ruling Democrats and their leader, President Obama, instead of sounding ...

October 30, 2013

Obama and the Willful Blindness of the Conservative Beltway Intelligentsia

Fox News is justifiably proud of its star commentator Charles Krauthammer, widely considered to be the most influential conservative journalist in the country. In an hour-long interview with Fox News 6 P.M anchor Brett Baier that fist ran last Friday...

April 25, 2013

How the Left Thinks: It's All a Game

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman reacted to the Boston Marathon bombing thusly: Until we fully understand what turned two brothers who allegedly perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombings into murderers, it is hard to make any policy recommend...

March 18, 2013

That Dirty, Rotten Racist...Abraham Lincoln

In Stalin's Russia, genetics and cybernetics were treated as the cat's paw of imperialism and officially branded as "whores."  But it was another branch of Soviet science, history, that was a far more deserving candidate to bear that not exactly...

October 2, 2012

Barack Obama: Anticolonialist or Neo-Communist?

Kudos to Dinesh D'Souza.  He's made a much-needed splash with his brilliant film 2016: Obama's America, now the second-highest-grossing political documentary of all time.  D'Souza has developed a plausible theory to explain the original wel...

September 14, 2012

The Real Culprits

The lights in the theater came on, but the spectators sat still in shocked silence, stunned by the revelations they saw in Dinesh D'Souza's documentary, 2016: Obama's America.  As we shuffled toward the exit, an elderly man next to me said shaki...

September 11, 2012

The Miracle of Human Goodness

Looking at what is going on in the world, it's hard not to yield to despair and defeatism.  But every once in a while, a bright ray of sunshine breaks through the dark clouds and dispels the gloom.  The following account, written by a namel...

August 27, 2012

Laying the Groundwork of Obama's Second Term

Barack Obama has great plans for his second term: to bring his golf handicap down to single digits and finally beat the pants off John Boehner.  Considering that Obama's handicap right now is generously estimated at 17 -- i.e., on a good day he ...

August 22, 2012

The Herd of Independent Minds

Just about any gregarious conservative can register the same complaint: his friends of a liberal persuasion firmly believe in evolution, the hydrocarbon menace, technogenic global warming, and the virtues of green energy; they are convinced that raci...

July 12, 2012

Is Mitt Manning Up?

Watching the strange lassitude that engulfed the Republican presidential campaign around the Independence Day break, one couldn't help wondering: where was the Mitt Romney of the primaries, Mitt the Terrible?  That Mitt Romney, vigorous and ruth...

June 5, 2012

The Hillary Gambit: Will She Replace Biden?

In a sign of increasing desperation on the left, speculation is rife that Barack Obama will kick Vice President Joe Biden off his team and replace him with that perpetual presidential wannabe, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.  As Hillary's fa...

May 27, 2012

Gay Marriage: The Hidden Agenda

It is the iron law of "progressive" movements that having achieved their goals, they refuse to fade away.  Rather than disbanding upon completion of their mission, these movements, now fully institutionalized, keep chugging along, and the farthe...

April 17, 2012

Obama's Smart Diplomacy Disaster

In flowing robes of white, his eyes raised heavenward, his arms extended outward, Barack Obama enters the lions' den of world politics roiling with animosity and tensions.  Upon beholding the unearthly figure, the commotion ceases; entranced, th...

March 15, 2012

Birds of a Feather

Is Barack Hussein Obama a Muslim?  Even if he were, it would hardly matter.  For his policies are apparently animated by an ideology that, even though a polar opposite of militant Islam, is little different from it in terms of objectives an...

February 29, 2012

A Guide to the Liberal Mind

As a great fan of Jeff Foxworthy, it occurred to me that it might be a good idea to use his hilarious you-might-be-a-redneck comedy routine in an attempt to characterize the liberal mindset (tweaking Jeff's formula a bit to convert it from the suppos...

February 11, 2012

It's Bush's Fault

Nobody will be surprised if the next time a hurricane hits the U.S., President Obama blames the devastation on George W. Bush.  Whatever the nature of the bad news, Obama invariably points to Bush, who has become Obama's shield against all respo...

February 1, 2012

Project Obama: A Puppetmaster or a Puppet?

Is President Obama the mastermind of the radical-left movement or merely its symbol?  Actually, it doesn't matter.  What matters is that the socialist project, which had been nearly a century in the making, in 2008 came to fruition, winning...

December 14, 2011

They Mean Well. Really?

For the life of me, I can't figure out why conservative pundits, even such stalwarts as Rush Limbaugh, when discussing the virtually inexhaustible supply of liberal follies and blunders, hasten to express their confidence that the perpetrators are "w...

November 28, 2011

Race: The Ultimate Weapon of the Left

"If only Herman Cain were elected president -- it would put paid to the issue of racism and excise it from our polity for good." I couldn't believe my ears hearing this wistful nonsense from a good friend of mine.  How could an otherwise intelli...

October 19, 2011

Why Romney Alarms Me

I like Mitt Romney.  I do.  In fact, how can anyone help liking him?  A vigorous man in the Goldilocks prime of his life -- not too young to scare the electorate by his lack of experience, not too old to worry about the onset of decrep...

September 26, 2011

The Bugaboo of the Left

The rogues' gallery of the far left is enormously spacious, and it doesn't take much to be eligible for inclusion; any conservative worth his or her salt automatically qualifies.  But with the possible exception of that eternal bogeyman, Richard...

August 26, 2011

Hillary Clinton Redux?

As the USS Barack Obama is running into increasingly stiff headwinds, the star of Hillary Clinton is rising higher and higher over the liberal horizon.  Buyer's remorse over Obama's presidency and the prospect of ignominious defeat at the polls,...

August 13, 2011

The Democrats' Big Lie

Charles Krauthammer is doubtless one of the most astute and knowledgeable members of the conservative commentariat. But once in a while even he stumbles while trying to interpret what the far left is doing. Such was the case a few days ago when he wa...

August 6, 2011

It Strikes Me As Odd

As a refugee immigrant to the United States I have expressed amazement at the design of the U.S. political system -- so awkward and unwieldy as to render it almost totally dysfunctional.  What follows is a list of other riddles of American life ...

July 30, 2011

An Innocent in America

It's been quite a while since I came to this country as a refugee.  Over the ensuing decades, I have found my niche in American society; come to appreciate football as the greatest game of all; inured myself to some of the more unsavory aspects ...

June 30, 2011

American Leftism: An Infantile Disorder

In his fascinating essay "The Metaphysics of Contemporary Theft" describing the rising tide of parasitism engulfing the U.S., Victor Davis Hanson suggests that the Obama Administration only pretends to want to destroy the American way of life so as n...

May 6, 2011

Obama's Courage Vastly Overrated in Pakistan Raid

So our valiant President dismissed his generals' suggestion to bomb Osama bin Laden's compound to kingdom come and ordered an extremely risky commando raid on the arch-terrorist's lair. By doing so Barack Obama exhibited incredible courage and showed...

April 25, 2011

Political Shock And Awe, Please

At the 11th hour of the 1994 gubernatorial campaign in Florida, about 70,000 calls were placed to mostly Republican voters in the Tampa area by campaign operatives of the Democratic candidate, Gov. Lawton Chiles, "who said they were from the Flo...

March 21, 2011

Obama, The Accidental President

The world is going to hell in a hand basket; Japan, ravaged by an earthquake and a tsunami of biblical proportions, is teetering on the brink of yet another, nuclear, disaster; the Middle East is aflame; the national debt is skyrocketing while Congre...

March 3, 2011

Europe: The Parasite and the Host

Nature never ceases to amaze by its endless inventiveness. Take, for instance, the Mammoth wasp (Megascolia maculate), the largest European solitary wasp. Its method of perpetuating its species is sure to freeze the blood in the veins of any impressi...

January 27, 2011

I Wish I Were a Democrat

Sometimes I dream of being a Democrat.  Life would be so much more enjoyable.If I were a Democrat and not a Republican, I wouldn't have to dread picking up The New York Times or The Washington Post and reading that I am a lowlife bottom-feeder, ...

December 16, 2010

Why Do They Hate Sarah So Much?

What is the reason why the ruling class, including the GOP establishment, hates Sarah Palin so passionately?  The left and its propaganda machine have always looked down on conservatives, but the attacks on Sarah Palin are unprecedented for shee...

August 18, 2010

Just How Smart Is Obama?

The meteoric rise to the presidency of Barack Obama was fueled in no small part by the widely accepted contention that he was one of the smartest men ever to seek the Oval Office. He is not the first leader to be oversold."As far as Saddam Husse...

January 8, 2010

Obama's Progressive Goose and Our Conservative Gander

Asked by Oprah to grade his own performance during the first year of his presidency, Barack Obama did not hesitate to pat himself on the back: "a good, solid B-plus." The conservatives are genuinely puzzled by the president's blithe confide...

December 17, 2009

On the Brink

After Richard Nixon defused the 1960s student revolt by abolishing the draft, the brain trust of the revolutionary left shifted its strategic focus to Antonio Gramsci's teachings. They realized that it is the intelligentsia, not the proletariat, who ...

July 10, 2009

The Audacity of Conceit

Intelligent idiots, smart fools, multi-degreed morons - lots of monikers could describe a category of individuals dismayingly prominent in the ruling elites of the West. They are the people so divorced from reality, so engrossed in bookish pursuits t...

October 5, 2008

Enough Already!

I have just about had it with the conservative punditry and their plaintive wailings about the unfairness of the self-proclaimed "mainstream media" (I think the designation "Big Media" would be more appropriate as applied to the i...