Category: Column

Professor Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He recently wrote an article titled “The hypocrisy behind the student renaming craze.” Students, often with the blessing of faculty, have discovered that names for campus buildings and holidays do not always fit politically correct standards for race, class […]

The Supreme Court decision in Evenwel v. Abbott, harkens back to how our original Constitution enshrined slavery in power until the Civil War. The Evenwel decision holds that states may apportion districts — and presumably Congress can apportion Congressional representation — based on total population rather than based on those eligible to vote. So immigrants […]

There was an old “Saturday Night Live” fake movie trailer narrated by horror movie veteran Christopher Lee. John Belushi played a houseguest who couldn’t take a hint from a couple that just wanted to go to bed. The husband tells Belushi, “Look, I don’t want to be rude, but my wife is VERY tired!” Belushi […]

The largest data leak in history — 11.5 million documents, coined the “Panama Papers” — is providing a glimpse into the one-percenters’ world of offshore banking. So far, data obtained from Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that specializes in setting up offshore shell companies (more than 200,000 of them, allegedly), has been linked to […]

“Did ‘Hope and Change’ really mean: ‘Arguably, better than the very worst?’” political science professor P.S. Ruckman Jr. asked in his Pardon Power blog last week. With 61 new presidential commutations making the total to date 248, President Barack Obama had reached a number of commutations greater than those of the “past six presidents,” the […]

This new special edition of the Glazov Gang was joined by Nonie Darwish, the author of The Devil We Don’t Know. The discussion focused on Moronic Questions After Brussels, analyzing why the media keeps searching for a “motive” in Islamic terror attacks — and asking the same stupid questions since 9/11. Don’t miss it! And make […]

Every year, more than half a million patients in the U.S. are unknowingly put at risk of contracting a superbug infection during a common medical procedure. A doctor threads a tube-like scope down your throat and into your digestive system to treat cancer and other problems. You assume the tube is clean. Think again. The […]

Our Conservative Campaign Committee team has been up here in Wisconsin campaigning for Ted Cruz; numerous boots-on-the-ground initiatives. Please volunteer with Miss Lulu to do last minute get-out-the-vote phone calls. To volunteer for our Phone From Home program, simply send an email (including your name) to: PhoneFromHome@ConservativeCampaign.org Candidly, we have been freezing our butts off […]

Donald Trump’s victories in the Republican primaries may make him seem like a sure winner. But those victories have been achieved by receiving either somewhat less than 40 percent of the votes or somewhat more than 40 percent, but never a majority. The fragmenting of the Republican vote among many candidates in the primaries made […]

The most profound thinkers in America are conservative. There are, of course, bright liberal and leftist thinkers, but I can’t think of one who approaches the depth and wisdom of the best conservative writers and thinkers. What liberal historian, for example, approaches the understanding of life and history that author Paul Johnson has exhibited in […]

What you hear when you listen to many fervent supporters of Donald Trump is that they are victims — victims of globalization and trade agreements that have sent their jobs to Mexico or China. Victims of competition from illegal immigrants from Mexico willing to work for starvation wages. Victims of a Republican establishment that promised […]

“Sometimes I think we’re so liberal that we’re OK stepping over dead people on our sidewalks,” Daniel Bergerac of the Castro Merchants Association and Castro Cares told me as we discussed the state of the streets of San Francisco. As he knows, people stepping over dead people does happen in San Francisco. Baghdad by the […]

Occasionally I am asked if I ever considered running for political office. My response: “I did once, but I took two aspirin, lay down for a while and the feeling went away.” Besides not wanting to accept a pay cut, why would I want to put myself through the agony of exposing the smallest misdeed […]

With the extraordinary Cruz vs. Trump battle for the GOP presidential nomination sucking up all of the political oxygen, it is easy to miss the fact that awesome conservative and retired Air Force colonel Rob Maness is running for the U.S. Senate in Louisiana. Folks, please allow me to cut to the chase. Our country […]

Although the current colorful, for want of a better word, presidential campaign is attracting attention from voters, indicators are that this attention reflects voters being turned off to the whole process. According to new polling data from Gallup, in the first three months of 2016 the percentage of Americans who say they have given “a […]

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 […]

Well, I have to tell you – I thought very few of us real conservatives recognized the apparent waffling and double-speak by big-time national Talk Radio hosts regarding Donald Trump. But evidently this is becoming a growing issue and frankly it’s nice to see.  Independent-minded true Constitution-first conservatives are beginning to call out these hosts.   […]

Well folks, it has been quite an exciting, fun, grueling and productive trip campaigning for Cruz up here in Wisconsin with our Conservative Campaign Committee team. Along with our other campaign initiatives, our team has attended Cruz events and sign-waved in Rothschild, Wausau, Madison and Fond Du Lac. Carly Fiorina and Heidi Cruz hosted events […]

As the world mourned the dead and wounded in Brussels and President Obama was doing “the wave” at a baseball game with commie dictator Raul Castro in Havana, ISISwas asking its followers on social media to choose which country’s colorsthey wouldlike next displayedon the Eiffel Tower. At a press conference in Argentina from his next stop […]

Remember when Ted Cruz posted to his Facebook page the now infamous statement regarding Muslim neighborhoods? “We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized,” he wrote on the 22nd of March.   Later the same day, due to backlash from the spineless set on the left and […]

On June 23, when Donald Trump will or will not have won the 1,237 delegates he needs to be nominated, voters in Britain will decide an issue as divisive as Trump’s candidacy: whether the United Kingdom will remain in or leave the European Union. It’s not a decision that has attracted much attention in the […]

The United States is facing the most important election since its founding. Will a leftist President hell bent on fulfilling the Obama Doctrine of depleting our liberties be elected? Or, will we elect a President determined to return the USA to its rightful leadership position in a troubled world? America is a powder keg of […]

With apologies to Buffalo Springfield, there’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear. Here’s Bill Clinton in Spokane, Washington, making the pitch for his wife last week: “But if you believe we can all rise together, if you believe we’ve finally come to the point where we can put the awful legacy of […]

I really worry that the Trump movement is a misguided reaction to the abuses of power by the ruling class in Washington, D.C. In our dire predicament, we need to be very thoughtful about our remedy. Some presumably well-intentioned people are convinced that because federal politicians have caused the problems threatening America, only an “outsider” […]