Real Patriots Cut Taxes, Not Raise Them

On Tax Day this year, about a dozen left-wing millionaires joined with some of the most liberal Democrats in Congress for a Washington, D.C., press conference. The luminaries included Abigail Disney, Walt Disney's ...

On Poking Dragons

I wonder how many Americans quite understand what the US is facing in its aggressive confrontation with China. Washington clearly prepares the public for another unnecessary war. Given America’s routine defeat in war and ...

The Diversity Recession

Uncovering the roots of the disastrous home mortgage bubble that popped last year will keep economic historians busy for decades. Yet, one factor has so far been largely overlooked: the bipartisan social engineering crusade ...

The Judge’s Dilemma

I knew what to expect when I voted for Donald Trump. Although I never directly interfaced with him or any of the business entities he controls, as an attorney for the IRS I did handle cases of taxpayers who had dealings ...

Stacy McCain is a Neoconfederate Lesbian!

...and some other rumors too good to deny.  “Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible. . . Such tactics will win every time.” ~Lt. Gen. Thomas Jackson My habit of citing such ...

License to Bitch

Is John Ziegler a misogynist? So says blogger Fireweed, based on the dating-show video I posted a three weeks ago, in which the documentary filmmaker spoke of his "€œdream woman"€ thusly: Someone who is informed and ...

Evolving Theories

A recent find in Indonesia confirmed that 700,000 years ago humans stood just over three feet tall, around the same height of Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, and the late Princess Margaret, sister of the late Queen Elizabeth ...

Sputnik Moment—or GM Moment?

What America was to the world in 1950, General Motors was to the nation. It was the largest and most successful company with the largest number of employees. It paid the highest wages and contributed more in taxes than any ...

April Fools’ Day—Every Day!

In this Year of Our Lord 2024, it is now becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real news stories from the fake-news spoofs. I recently saw a story with the headline “Gay Jewish man claims lesbian couple ditched him ...

Democrats, Not ‘Democracy,’ at Risk Today

"Make no mistake -- democracy is on the ballot for us all." So declaiming in his Union Station speech to the nation on the real stakes in the 2022 elections, President Joe Biden, who was immediately echoed by Barack Obama, ...

The Judicial Shakedown

Last week, Wilson-appointee George authored the decision codifying homosexual marriage in California, finding for gays and lesbians (and perhaps unnamed others) a "€œfundamental constitutional right to form a family ...

The Mexican Flu

If the swine flu is as bad as the media is implying then ignoring the potential damage due to illegal immigration from Mexico is not only journalistically irresponsible, but immoral. And yet nothing, not even this latest ...

Actually, Senator

For the first time in decades, I caught some of the Sunday morning political shows last weekend. Who knew there still were Sunday shows? Since the advent of cable news, you can get the same programming anytime you want, 24 ...

Return of the Gilded Age

Despite the pain of the past year and a half, will the signs of what smacks of a second Gilded Age "€œcontinue on their merry way,"€ as one Vanity Fair editor recently proposed? Indeed, as the rich keep getting richer ...

Obama vs. the U.S. Army

In confiding to Rolling Stone their unflattering opinions of the military acumen of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones, Dick Holbrooke and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, Gen. Stanley McChrystal ...

Requiem for the Duke Fake Rape

It was nice to see Crystal Mangum, victim of the nonexistent gang rape by Duke lacrosse players in 2006, admit last week that it was all a fake-out. Many of you were happy, though bored, and moved on. But cruel people like ...

Survival of the Fattest

Enter a London coffee house or restaurant, check into a hotel, or wander by a building-site, and you will find the workforce almost exclusively foreign. Yet British unemployment continues to surge towards 2.5 million. ...

The Genuine Article

Austin Bramwell says that I argue, "€œthe Constitution grants the Federal government [sic] a handful of limited powers, but leaves the states free to govern as they like."€ He adds that I assert, "€œnobody who ...

Who Fed the Tiger?

Missiles fired from the Chinese mainland could destroy five of the six major U.S. air bases in the Far East. So states a new report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, adding: “Saturation ...

The Impresario

William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) was many things, but centrally he was one of the great American journalists, whose historic achievement was the creation of National Review. Historians will look to his magazine when they ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Mingling, Singling, and Kris Kringling Headlines A DINGBAT ATE ME BABY Remember the good old days when Australians and New Zealanders were thought of as rugged individualists? And then came Covid and we ...

New Russian Roulette

In the 1930s even some of the older and more intellectual Russians, including those who had seen a bit of the world in their youth, believed that the United States was the land of the Yellow Devil, meaning gold. It was ...

The Congressional Effect

In times such as these, people everywhere are seeking investment advice.  Even my dentist was quizzing me on alternatives the last time I was in. In a broad sense, there is little to get excited about.  The S&P 500 ...

All Soul’s Day

From where I am writing, I can, by turning a little, see the complete set of Bossuet's books stacked up on the shelves familiar to me, and I have on this table, the Histoire des Variations, that I can open at my liking, ...


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