Author: Derek Hunter

What a novel concept that a country would decide who gets to enter it and who doesn’t. Actually, it’s not novel at all. In fact, it was the standard for most of American history. But in 2016, progressives absolutely have lost their minds over the prospect of ensuring those who seek to come to the […]

That didn’t take long. It was beyond question Hillary Clinton would play the race card. The only issue was when. Progressives are born without forearms, which affords them the ability to have so many such cards up their sleeves. But playing it this early and this forcefully does not demonstrate strength on Hillary’s part; it’s […]

Oh yes, there is significant racism in America today. It is alive and well, and it is systemic. Not in the way progressive activists would have you believe – that it’s “open season on young black men,” for example – but in the way the Democratic Party views and treats black Americans. It’s every bit […]

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times… Luckily for Donald Trump, the current time matters less than the future. But the future is coming fast, and right now it does not look good for him. Polls since the Republican and Democratic conventions show him slipping toward a Mondale-level defeat. A […]

Do you want to be punched in the face or the gut? Would you rather be pushed down a flight of stairs or thrown off a garage? Would you rather vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump? Most Americans have decided who they are voting for, but those who haven’t must wonder if they’re trapped […]

We’re in the midst of a war, but you’d never know it by watching the news or listening to the White House. The JV team keeps piling up bodies and Western leaders continue pledge to stand together as the blood dries. That’s all well and good, but when “standing together” is the entirety of the […]

Hundreds of innocent people have been slaughtered by IslamoNazis, our national debt is greater than our GDP, and much of the national political dialogue is about men who “identify” as women and vice versa, and which pronouns we must use to address them. We’re insane. I don’t claim to be an expert on what it’s […]

President Obama famously said of ISIS, “The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think it is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.” His flippant attitude toward the terrorist group that formed and grew into a global threat on his watch is but one […]

Why? That question has dogged human existence for all of time. We’re the only creatures who can ask it and the only ones who spend a lot of time wondering about it. It’s not just, “Why are we here and what does it mean?” It’s also the far more complicated “Why do bad things happen […]

A stench of hatred was in the air, so palpable you could taste it. How anyone could feel such animosity toward people they’d never met, who’d done nothing but lead their lives in a way that harmed no one but did not conform to the world view of the man who wished to see them […]

The media could not contain its joy after Tuesday’s primaries – Democrats had finally nominated a woman for president. There wasn’t an overpaid mainstream media teleprompter reader who didn’t utter the word “historic” at least once in the ensuing 24 hours. They are right. Hillary Clinton is historic – but not just for the way […]

If there’s one thing at which progressives always have excelled it is intimidation. For all the talk against “bullying,” the political left has engaged in coercion since its inception. Under every left-wing despot from Stalin and Hitler to Mao and Chavez, those who dared differ with state-approved orthodoxy were threatened, beaten or simply killed. American […]

No question, the deterioration of modern society is a subjective thing. What some consider problematic, others cheer. What some see as economic stagnation, others call “recovery summer.” But some things are, or at least should be, beyond refute. They aren’t, not anymore. Katie Couric, formerly of the Today Show and now apparently host of a […]

The media narrative for the last six months has been about how the Republican convention in Cleveland was going to be a fight, a mess, a second “mistake by the lake.” Journalists reveled in the prospect of a GOP floor fight and protests in the streets. What was missed, or more likely ignored, was the […]

Hi, I’m Derek Hunter and I’m a straight, white male. I’m 6 feet 5 inches tall, have brown hair and two different color eyes. At least, that’s how I actually am. But thanks to an insane group of pandering, division-loving progressive leftists, I am now free to claim to be, or “identify” in the current […]

There are cases to be made both for and against the candidacy of Donald Trump. Thursday I let my thoughts be known, but judging by the feedback I received, some clarity is in order. As such, I will lay out those cases, as I see them, so you can decide for yourselves. The Case For […]

Thursday night I got some sad news: My old boss, Conrad Burns, had died at 81. Burns served as U.S. Senator from Montana from 1989 till 2007 and had major influence over telecom policy and increasing domestic energy production. Although he was Senator Burns for 18 years, he was always Conrad to those who knew […]

It’s 2016, right? I hope so because that’s the year I put on my check when I paid my taxes. That’s means we’re at around 6,000 years or so of recorded human history, right? Add to that that thousands of years unrecorded before that, and you realize people have been around here for a while. […]

You hear it all the time: “The system is rigged.” On so many issues, people wrap themselves in this abdication of individual responsibility to insulate themselves from the negative consequences of their decisions and actions. Still others use it to empower themselves, acting as political Pope and absolving others of their mistakes. Context matters. In […]

As the media focuses on what promises to be “The Mistake On The Lake 2: Electric Boogaloo,” also known as the Republican convention in Cleveland, there’s another tire fire heating up in the City Of Brotherly Hate. The GOP convention looks like it will be a mess, but the Democratic convention a week later could […]

Can we just shut down the White House for four years? In many ways it’s been as vacant as Clint Eastwood’s chair for the last 7½, so how different would it be to just close up shop? There’s no shortage of wannabe occupants, but there is a shortage of candidates who can win the Republican […]

What happened in Brussels was disgusting and cowardly, but it wasn’t a surprise. Terrorists commit acts of terror; their existence, although disturbing, is not a surprise. What is a surprise and, perhaps most disturbing, is how the free world is reacting. After decades of radical Islamic terrorism and the wholesale slaughter of the innocent, world […]

On Friday at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, President Obama said: “We’re the only advanced democracy in the world that makes it harder for people to vote. “It’s sad,” he said. “We take enormous pride that we’re the oldest contingent democracy, but we systematically put up barriers and make it as hard as […]

Just about the time I was getting ready to write this column, news broke from Chicago that a Trump rally was canceled because of threats. Not surprising, I thought. Sad, but not surprising. Welcome to the 2016 election. I’m not a Trump fan by any stretch of the imagination. If you’ve been reading my columns, […]

Some weeks are eventful, others boring. But only a few in the political world are like the one that just ended – full of stupid. It started with Donald Trump taking a break – not from the campaign trail but from condemning David Duke and Ku Klux Klan. He’d done it plenty of times in […]

There he was, stripped bare and standing in the middle of the debate stage. Donald Trump was eviscerated in Thursday’s debate. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz took turns pummeling the founder of Trump University with his own words, his own history, and delivering body blow after body blow. It was more than enough to convince […]