Author: Brent Smith

Western Leftists are really struggling to explain the rise of ISIS, the resurgence of al-Qaeda and radical Islamic terrorism in general. Liberals desperately grasp at anything they can point to as the cause(s) for terrorism – because it just has to be our fault. Somehow we brought this upon ourselves.   Bernie Sanders, the Vermont […]

In a free society which has a free market economy, is there any reason a person shouldn’t be able to pick up a passenger in his or her own car and drive them to their destination for money? The passenger willingly makes the decision that it is safe to enter the vehicle, as does the […]

These days it seems most Americans have a Twitter or Facebook account – usually both. I don’t wish to offend but Twitter is just plain stupid. It’s merely a platform for most to “pop off” about something or someone. On occasion, it has its uses, like a breaking news event, but mostly its just nonsense. […]

It’s just bad news after bad news for the republican establishment.   First it was Jeb Bush, who was supposed to be the heir apparent – as if he were the next man up to carry the establish mantle because everyone just assumed it was his turn. And that’s the way the establishment does it […]

Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin have a couple things in common. Both are domestic authoritarians and both believe themselves to be dictators of their respective countries. Beyond that, they are pretty much polar opposites.   Putin, the ex-KGB agent fancies himself a tough guy, a man’s man, spending a great amount of time shirtless and […]

For practically the whole of the past century, President Woodrow Wilson has consistently ranked in the top ten of greatest U.S.presidents. One the fathers of modern-day progressivism, Wilsonhelped usher in the new era of anti-constitutional big government. All the collectivist/socialist things the left loves were embodied inWilson. Yet his legacy, despite our insistence, has weathered […]

According to the New York Times,   http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/us/politics/ben-carson-is-struggling-to-grasp-foreign-policy-advisers-say.html the paper of record don’t cha know, Dr. Ben Carson is utterly clueless, because he said the Chinese were in Syria. What a maroon! (hat tip Bugs Bunny)   Now the first thing I noticed about the New York Times piece is their outright refusal to call Ben Carson doctor. […]

Well, my man Ted Cruz, who has now vaulted past Marco Rubio into third place in the latest Fox News poll, has echoed the thoughts of many of us right thinking Americans. He said in response to Obama’s continued want to bring jihadists, I mean refugees, to the U.S.: “I have to say particularly in […]

We’ve learned some important things about the attacks and the attackers of the Paris massacre. We’ve learned that ISIS evidently either coordinated the attacks or granted operational authority to what I’ve coined Wilayat Paris. And it appears the coordination efforts came through Belgium, where at least two of the radical Islamists have been discovered to […]

Most everyone, except politicians and those who profit from it (often, one in the same), agree that the Veterans Administration is broken and frankly doesn’t appear to even give a crap about our men and women who have sacrificed in the defense of this country.   Yet I’ve heard that like a lot of “broken” […]

What is the refrain from the anti-second amendment left? Short of confiscating all our guns, we are to lock them all up in a safe and throw away the key, or place impossible to operate trigger locks on them so that our innocent little children don’t kill themselves or other family members.   That’s fine, […]

A few days ago I wrote my opinion regarding the “racial strife” at theUniversity of Missouri. http://commonconstitutionalist.com/current-events/social-justice-warriors-invade-a-university/ Much to my disappointment, but not surprise, the president and the Chancellor of the University have both been forced to resign. Let me rephrase. Both men knuckled under the pressure of their own white liberal guilt. Their collective attempts to […]

“‘Who shut s**t down? We shut s**t down,’ was one of the many chants over a hundred students, faculty and staff shouted duringThursday’s Concerned Student 1950  http://www.themaneater.com/stories/2015/11/5/concerned-student-1950-organizers-and-supporters-t/ walkout in support of graduate student Jonathan Butler’s hunger strike calling for the removal of UM System President Tim Wolfe.”   That’s typical of the college experience these […]

U.S. News & World Report’s http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/highest-acceptance-rate has released their annual college acceptance list. It has ranked some 1257 colleges and universities with their average acceptance rates ranging from 100% acceptance all the way down to 5%.   Obviously 100% acceptance means that if you apply, you’re getting in. I assume all you have to do […]

So your dream is to send your son or daughter off to an esteemed Ivy League School, where they may receive a superior education and be imparted the knowledge that other colleges just can’t offer. Well, maybe you should twice about that. Especially if they decide to take a history class taught by professor Jan […]

Surprise, surprise. MoveOn.org has begun another campaign that could potentially damage our country. Pretty much everything they do is damaging in one way or another, but this damage could have disastrous consequences.   In a blast email I received, they begin with the following:   “Here’s the situation: Millions of families have fled terrorism and […]

After 13 years in captivity, the last Briton has been freed fromGuantánamo Bay. Shaker Aamer has been held at Gitmo since 2002. He was captured in Afghanistan in 2001 shortly after the 9/11 attacks, where he claims he was a simply there doing charity work.   He was accused of aiding Al Qaeda, was handed […]

Depending on whom your candidate of choice was, last nights debate on CNBC, was a rousing success. Oh, it didn’t start out that way – or so I’ve heard. I must admit I missed the first segment or two. Apparently I didn’t miss much. The “moderators” threw out badgering “gotcha” questions and the candidates answered. […]

The Middle East is admittedly a mess. It has been a mess for a while. There has been some sort of war going on over there for decades. However, at least for the time being, the advance of ISIS, or the Islamic State, appears to have been halted. Yet still, thousands more “refugees” arrive in […]

As Jeb Bush cuts salaries and slashes campaign staff, he, through his own actions, has provided us a teachable moment. Jeb’s progressive establishment beliefs of big government spending have run up against the reality of the private sector. It’s a fascinating juxtaposition between the world of government fantasy and that of the real. Jeb is […]

Since 2008, tens of thousands of coal related jobs have been lost – some almost incalculable. As hundreds of coal plants have been closed, it is not just miners who are affected. As power plants close, all employees lose their jobs. Blue collar and white collar employees get the ax – managers, technicians, secretaries, everyone. […]

“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before,” said Rahm Emmanuel, Chicago mayor and leftist hack. We’ve seen this adage demonstrated throughout Obama’s dictatorial reign. Every time there is a shooting incident that involves a […]

“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before,” said Rahm Emmanuel,Chicago mayor and leftist hack.   We’ve seen this adage demonstrated throughout Obama’s dictatorial reign. Every time there is a shooting incident that involves a […]

How is it that people – supposed political experts – can’t figure out why Joe Biden isn’t running? On the radio yesterday, Sean Hannity opened his show with utter astonishment over the announcement by crazy Uncle Joe that he would not be running for president.   Sean said he couldn’t understand what the last several […]

Remember all the way back in February of this year when Rudy Giuliani  http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/rudy-giuliani-president-obama-doesnt-love-america-115309 said this? “I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America. He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way […]

Yesterday I wrote an article  http://commonconstitutionalist.com/political-stuff/americans-have-no-skin-in-the-game/ explaining at least one of reasons why Americans aren’t rioting over the size of the national debt and yearly budget deficit – how Washington is taxing and spending us into oblivion and yet we just don’t seem to care.   Sure, when a pollster calls, we tell him or […]

The Democrat debate was not a debate at all. It was a giveaway forum, where the candidates took the stage to spell out there plans to give free stuff to people who didn’t earn it. It was really no different than any other staged democrat function, whether it’s a debate or a State of the […]

You may not have ever heard of the company Supreme Greens,  http://www.supreme-greens.info/ or the product by the same name. It is advertised as a “a powerful Mega-Food formulation of organically grown grasses and vegetables, sprouted grains, blood purifying and immune enhancing herbs, and antioxidants synergistically blended with MSM (MethylSulfonylMethane). Well, the Company and its owner […]

I guess we’re still at war in Afghanistan. We must be if we’re flying sorties and striking targets from the air. So with that said, one must therefore agree that in war things don’t always go as planned, be it a ground offensive, an air campaign, or a combination of the two.   Mistakes will […]

It’s been reported recently that Israel has made the discovery of a lifetime. They’ve discovered a massive oil field in their Golan Heights territory.   Israel reportedly consumes about 270,000 barrels of oil per day, although other estimates put consumption far lower at around 190,000 barrels. That’s somewhere between 70 and 100 million per year. […]