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August 2017

August 14, 2017

And now war with Venezuela?

Venezuela, with its leftist dictator Nicolas Maduro, is already a basket-case. The country is in...

August 11, 2017

Latest developments

I'm going to experiment with some short form blogging for the weekend, calling your...

August 10, 2017

Purists vs. Pragmatists

Christian political activists agonized over the last presidential election: Some asked, "How can we support...

August 08, 2017

The Democrats’ war against the working class

Donald Trump would seem to be very vulnerable politically, to say the least. But Democrats...

August 07, 2017

Vatican Condemns U.S. Catholic Conservatives

An official Vatican publication has condemned Catholic conservatives in America for participating with evangelicals in...

August 03, 2017

A man without a party

Before Reince Priebus was President Trump's Chief of Staff, he was the chairman of...

August 01, 2017

Congressional Republicans in rebellion against Trump

It isn't just that the Republican-controlled Senate failed to pass President Trump's initiative to...

July 2017

July 27, 2017

Trump speaks to the Boy Scouts

President Trump addressed the Boy Scouts at their national Jamboree, a tradition for American presidents....

July 26, 2017

Using the legislative process for a Health Care Bill

Though the Republican Health Care Bill, as formulated by the Senate leadership, lacks the vote...

July 25, 2017

Democrats announce their “better deal”

Franklin Delano Roosevelt had his "New Deal." Now Democrats have unveiled their "Better Deal." Senate...

July 24, 2017

Trump’s new director of communications has a liberal background

President Trump appointed Anthony Scaramucci, a Wall Street tycoon, as his new director of communications....

July 20, 2017

The left’s “hamburger problem”

Go to lunch with a progressive and you may well be badgered about how your hamburger...

July 19, 2017

Republicans again fail to repeal & replace Obamacare

Two more Republican Senators announced that they would oppose the latest attempt to repeal and...

July 18, 2017

Trump’s presidency after six months

President Trump will have been in office for six months, as of January 20, so observers...

July 14, 2017

OK, try this health care bill

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has released yet another health care bill, designed to pick...

July 12, 2017

A smoking gun?

Donald Trump, Jr., has released the e-mail exchange that led to his meeting with that...

July 11, 2017

Russian adoptions and the Donald Trump Jr. meeting

President Trump's son, Donald, Jr., admits that after his father's nomination, he met with a...

July 10, 2017

“Make America Great Again”: The Hymn

For the background of this song, see this: Church Choir Debuts 'Make America Great Again'...

July 06, 2017

The Democrats’ dilemma

The Democrats should, theoretically, have a big opportunity running against an unpopular Republican president. But...

June 2017

June 29, 2017

Leftist fundamentalism

David Gushee is a religion journalist, on the liberal side of things, who has long...

June 28, 2017

CNN producer caught admitting its Trump coverage is bogus

James O'Keefe of Project Veritas has been embarrassing the left with his surreptitious videos. Now...

June 21, 2017

Election billed as referendum on Trump goes for the Republican

When Georgia congressman Tom Price was named Secretary of Health and Human Services, that opened...

June 20, 2017

Special rights for eccentricity

More from iconoclast Camille Paglia. In this interview, she discusses transgenderism--its conflict with feminism, how...

June 16, 2017

Liberalism’s obsession with language

Camille Paglia is a feminist, a leftist, a lesbian, an atheist. . . .And yet...

June 15, 2017

Gunman attacks Republican congressmen

Seventeen Republican congressmen, two senators, and various staffers, family members, and friends (26 in all)...

June 13, 2017

Shakespeare is pro-Caesar

New York’s summertime staple “Shakespeare in the Park” is performing the bard’s great tragedy...

June 13, 2017

Elections bring chaos to UK, unity to France

Two European nations, the United Kingdom and France, held parliamentary elections, with radically different results....

June 06, 2017

NSA report says Russia hacked voting technology company

The big news is that a leaker of top secret intelligence information has been arrested....

May 2017

May 31, 2017

Quantum physics is oppressive

Quantum physics is oppressive, according to a feminist scholar, because it promotes "binary and absolute...

May 26, 2017

Why is the left so sympathetic to Islam?

Why are liberals and leftists always defending Islam? They have nothing but scorn for Christians...