What’s in a Word?

Renaud Camus, The Deep Murmur, Vauban Books, 2024, 82 pp., $11.95  Where are the “rivers of blood?” We are all familiar with Enoch Powell’s dire prophecy in what he called his “Birmingham Speech” but what history calls the “Rivers of Blood” speech. Powell decried the “madness” of the…

Read More

Democrat Power Depends Upon Open Borders

The Democrat Party’s caterwauling over illegal alien roundups becomes only more shrill by the day.  Last week, California politicians were very upset that federal agents had the temerity to disrupt the workings of a marijuana farm exploiting children for its labor.   It’s always a bit jarring…

Read More

What’s Going on in the ‘Honeypot?’

What goes on in Washington is underappreciated for those of us who like a bit of humor mixed in with our politics. This past week we have been treated to a whole series of malapropisms coming out of the mouth of President Donald Trump, including the questioning…

Read More

Face It, MAGA: Donald Trump Lied to You!

Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters are much like the evangelical supporters of Israel. (In fact, a large percentage of these two groups are one and the same.) Evangelicals defiantly refuse to believe that Cyrus Scofield (and their Dispensationalist pastors) lied to them; and MAGA supporters defiantly refuse to believe…

Read More

Mark Halperin: Democrats Don’t Realize What a ‘Crutch’ Colbert, PBS, NPR Had Become for Them 

Independent journalist Mark Halperin recently offered a pretty good assessment of the cancellation of Colbert, PBS, and NPR. He suggested that there are shows and even entire networks that Democrats have used as a ‘crutch’ for years because they were so reliably anti-Trump. Sean Spicer, who…

Read More

And It’s One, Two, Three, What are We Fighting for? NATO’s Wars

All of you Vietnam vets and draft resisters will recognize where this column’s headline is coming from. Oh yes, this ain’t the late 1960s anymore, so it’s time to revamp it – no AI needed – and expand it: from now on, be assured everyone in the wild, wild…

Read More

Note on New Trump-Russia Disclosures

Thanks to explosive new document releases, the Russiagate hoax is now exposed, commencing a new era that will be about accountability for the guilty. As has been rumored all week, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard began releasing documents this afternoon related to intelligence community shenanigans committed in the…

Read More

‘He’s a Lot of Fun to Be With’: Trump and Epstein Were Close Friends for 15 Years

It was a friendship that spanned three different decades. To Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein was a “terrific guy”. Epstein believed himself to be Trump’s “closest friend”, and praised the future president as “charming”. The relationship would eventually break down, the men falling out over a bidding war on…

Read More

Governmental Self-Preservation: Why We’ll Never See the Real Epstein List

If there’s one characteristic that defines Donald Trump it’s his habit of switching his positions on a dime – leaving many a critic looking rather foolish when they establish an argument against him today, only to discover he mostly agrees with them tomorrow. I’ve learned it’s best to…

Read More

The Protest-Industrial-Complex Isn’t Peaceful, It’s ‘Civil Terrorism’

Ilya Shapiro and Jesse Arm of the Manhattan Institute authored an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, unveiling a plan for the federal government to take decisive action against the rogue permanent protest industry—comprising some Marxist groups and professional agitators—waging continuous color revolutions that have brought chaos to American cities. …

Read More