Category: Column

Much of the establishment’s criticism of Donald Trump comes from its failure to comprehend the reasons for his soaring popularity. Establishment types seem untroubled by the problems facing America, so they can’t understand the urgency that fathered Trump’s rise. Minor adjustments to the Hindenburg’s dining room menu just aren’t going to get it. Their overwrought […]

The non-event this week of whether the Fed will or won’t raise interest rates, symbolically, metaphorically, or categorically, will make headlines whether we like it or not. And, it will make headlines whether it matters or not in the long run to the market and the economy. That’s just the nature of the news, the […]

Allowing millions of Syrians and others from the Muslim Middle East into Europe will end up a catastrophe for Europe, and therefore for the West. This may be the most difficult sentence I have ever written. Little seems more obviously moral than to allow these benighted Syrians, Iraqis and others to flee from hell into […]

The most recent poll to chronicle Hillary Clinton’s collapse — this one by the Washington Post/ABC News — shows that there is no difference between her vote share among men and among women. No gender gap. Clinton gets the support of 42 percent of Democratic primary male voters and an identical percentage among female voters […]

Rarely and perhaps not in modern times has a presidential campaign more resembled the classic 1957 film, “A Face in the Crowd.” Written by Budd Schulberg and starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal and Walter Matthau, the storyline follows an Arkansas hayseed named Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes (Griffith), whom Marcia Jeffries (Neal) discovers in a county jail. […]

California Gov. Jerry Brown convened a special session of the Legislature to fix a $1 billion shortfall in health care funding — and the bill the Legislature sent to his desk would legalize physician-assisted suicide. Supporters of the measure made this argument last week: The Legislature needed to pass the End of Life Option Act […]

This special edition of The Glazov Gang was joined by Stephen Coughlin, the co-founder of UnconstrainedAnalytics.org. He came on the show to discuss his new paper: “Exploiting Ignorance in the Post Subversion Phase: Assessing “What ISIS Really Wants” in Light of the ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ Narrative.” He focuses on the question “Is Al-Qaeda Really the Moderate Alternative […]

President Obama’s foreign policy has not only been a disaster, it’s been a disgrace. The man who campaigned to “restore America’s image abroad” has utterly failed to do so. Not even Iran views the United States more favorably since he came into office, and he sent the Iranians $150 billion in terrorism funding and permission […]

The Rowan CountyKentucky elected official Kim Davis was jailed unjustly. Unjustly, because we live in a societywhich promotes “right” as “wrong,” and wrong as right and laws are applied to some and not others. I guess we should ignore that top-down, this country is filled with leftist ideologues who violate laws yet are not thrown […]

On the anniversary of 9/11, an attacked aimed at the financial infrastructure of the country, it’s important that we don’t forget the fight going on in Iraq. It’s the single biggest threat to the U.S. economy, as I mentioned to David Williams on our daily webinar at RansomNotes.tv. Turns out that maybe, given what happened […]

Yesterday, I did a lunch alert video called “Hillary Collapsing”. It was based on a poll showing her at only 42 percent among Democratic primary voters. Now, a new CNN poll has her at 37 percent with Bernie Sanders 10 ten points behind at 27 percent. And against Republican rivals, she is either behind or […]

Some time in the early evening of Wednesday, London time, Queen Elizabeth II broke a record: she became the longest-serving monarch in British history, beating her great-great-grandmother Victoria’s reign of 63 years and 216 days. She is also, at 89, by a solid stretch the longest-lived British monarch. And still busy at work, with hundreds […]

Imagine you are a “Black Lives Matter” student organizer at a university. Let’s just pick any college – say – Boise State University in Idaho. And just say you are organizing a two day “Black Lives Matter” event and wish to get the word out to other students and faculty.   You contact the student […]

Most of the Syrians we see on the nightly news and on newspaper front pages are not fleeing war-torn Syria. The 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi (whose real name is Alan Shenu) whose heartrending death was broadcast around the world was not fleeing Syria. He’d lived his whole short life in Turkey, where his parents had been […]

It’s probably true that Republicans won’t be able to force Planned Parenthood to shut down its human organ harvesting business. Not this year. Maybe not any year. And it’s probably true that Republicans won’t be able to stop the flow of over $500 million to the abortion conglomerate — at least not until the GOP […]

A new survey of Harvard business alumni is exhibit Number One on why our ruling elite just can’t manage to understand the gravity of the crisis that this country is facing. The study of 2,716 Harvard Business School graduates, some of the most powerful people in the U.S economy, shows that by a large margin […]

This special edition of The Glazov Gang was hosted by Ari David, the host of the Ari David Show Podcast, and joined by Dr. Mark Christian,  a former Islamic Imam who converted to Christianity, an act for which he now lives under the perpetual threat of death. He came on the show to discuss Mosques of […]

What if this is as good as it gets? You have to wonder if that’s what Hillary Clinton’s handlers are saying to each other right about now. Of course, that’s not what they’re saying in public — or on background to the press. The New York Times reported this week that Clinton plans to be […]

Why do so many who castigate Kim Davis for flouting the law routinely cheer on President Obama for actions far more lawless and consequential? Why are those demonizing the Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk so indifferent to the Supreme Court’s rank abuse of power that created the atmosphere of conflict from which her actions arose? Who […]

On the anniversary week of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Obama is rolling out the welcome mat to tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees. What could go wrong? There’s no need to hypothesize. Our nation remains utterly incapable of screening out legitimate dreamers from destroyers, liberty-seekers from liberty-stiflers. Indiscriminate asylum and refugee policies rob […]

There is one absolute constant in the world. It doesn’t discriminate between black, white, yellow or red. It doesn’t care what gender you are or you’re preference. It’s not concerned how much money or status you have, or where you hail from originally. This constant is human nature. It’s the same no matter where you […]

The key to understanding the 2016 Republican presidential primary process is recognizing how completely the GOP establishment has lost touch with reality. The first signs of cluelessness were evident in the infamous GOP “autopsy,” an effort to figure out what went wrong in 2012. Released just months after President Obama’s re-election, the report began with […]

Last week the government bragged about how the deficit would be much smaller this year than anticipated. “In a report providing political ammunition to both parties,” reported the Associated Press,“Congress’ official budget analyst projected Tuesday that this year’s federal deficit will drop to $426 billion, the lowest shortfall of Barack Obama’s presidency.” So it stands […]

Do you remember Lewis “Scooter” Libby? In 2003, the Department of Justice appointed a special counsel to investigate allegations that Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, unlawfully disclosed the covert status of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Yet Plame may not have been a covert undercover agent, based on the formal government definition of […]

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee complained on ABC’s “This Week” that both Gavin Newsom and Kim Davis broke marriage laws but there’s a double standard. The GOP presidential hopeful put it this way: “You’ve got Democrats who ignored the law when it was the law to have traditional marriage. Gavin Newsom, in San Francisco as […]

Anyone with any common sense would know not to attempt to strike a deal with the number one sponsor of worldwide terror – any deal, unless you are also interested in weakening the United States and Israel, like say Russia and China.   No one who has the slightest concern for the security of Israel, […]

Hillary Clinton has now decided to re-relaunch her flailing campaign. She’ll do so by showing “more humor and heart,” according to The New York Times. In other news, the Wizard gave Joe Biden a brain and Bernie Sanders courage. The Wizard also apparently gave Biden and Sanders better poll numbers: In the latest Monmouth poll, […]

Despite the lack of evidence that there is an increase in cops shooting blacks, let alone shooting blacks unlawfully, a few recent killings of blacks by cops has spawned the so-called Black Lives Matter movement. But over the past 45 years, per the Centers for Disease Control, police killings of blacks are down 75 percent. What are on the […]

The Democratic Party has been weak-minded on defense for decades, but with the Iran capitulation, they’ve achieved a new threshold of cowardice and treachery. While it’s true that an honorable handful of Democrats have resisted the president’s pressure, the overwhelming majority have chosen to go over the cliff with Barack Obama, a president who never […]