Author: Dave Blount

That didn’t take long: Marco Rubio says he plans to attend the Republican convention, will release his delegates to vote for Donald Trump and would be willing to speak on Trump’s behalf. Rubio has tweeted using the resolute #NeverTrump hashtag. Apparently he meant to use the tag #NeverTrumpUntilItLooksLikeEveryoneElseIsKnucklingUnder. At least he isn’t groveling for a […]

Many have supported Donald Trump because they took seriously his preposterous assertion that he would bar Muslims from entering the country — even though he first started barking this lie soon after averring that we had to allow the flood tide of “refugees” pouring out of the Middle East and Africa into the USA on […]

Until recently, we were in a training camp, not on an actual battlefield. We were engaged in practice maneuvers that did not entail live ammo. No one on the right was going to lose their audience or their career by hurling practice grenades at the authoritarian progressives in the other party. So the grenades were […]

Trump’s Supreme Court list is hardly the only patently fake promise he has made. Prominent among the others are the Great Wall along the Mexican border and the ejection of illegal aliens. Already we learn that Trump was referring to a virtual wall and virtual deportations: Rep. Chris Collins was the first member of Congress […]

Trump consigliere Roger Stone has admitted, contrary to Trump’s denials, that the Donald and his supposed spokesman John Miller (a.k.a. John Barron, John Baron) are one and the same. According to Stone, this shows the similarity between Trump and the Founding Fathers. No really: Stone, a former [and now apparently informal] Trump political hand, said […]

How would you feel about a candidate who promises to hit the average American household with an extra $6,000 per year in taxes? This is not the looting of “the rich” that Trump has admitted he might (i.e., would) inflict, but a totally separate tax that hits every American who buys anything made in certain […]

Reasons for supporting Donald Trump’s megalomaniacal quest for personal glory continue to fall by the wayside. As predicted, he is abandoning his absurd, pandering promise not to let any Muslims into the country: The planned ban, Trump said on Fox News Radio’s “Kilmeade and Friends,” is only “temporary.” “It hasn’t been called for yet. Nobody’s […]

One problem with electing an authoritarian strongman certain to expand Big Government is that he will do it at your expense: We Americans own almost $5 trillion in Treasury bonds, all told. That’s more than twice as much as China, Japan and all the oil exporting countries put together. And so when Donald Trump monkeys […]

There is only one chance left to avoid severe, long-term damage to the Republican Party, the conservative movement, and the country as a whole. The toxic and preposterous candidacy of Donald Trump must be stopped at the Republican Convention. RedState is circulating a petition calling for this politically difficult yet necessary step that makes a […]