Category: Column

Darkness abounds. Nonetheless wisdom beckons, reminding those who’ll listen to make the very best of the dark days we’re in rather than allowing these dark daysto get the best of us. However, that’s not easy. Darkness is easier to adapt to than light. Here in Alaska, summer’s glaring midnight sun is pretty offensive at bedtime. […]

The filings last week of campaign finances reveal that Sanders has $27 million cash on hand, just slightly short of Hillary Clinton’s $33 million. When funds earmarked for the general election are subtracted from each total, the gap will probably be even narrower. Clinton has outraised Sanders by more than 2:1, but she has spent […]

Going into the Democrats’ first presidential debate Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton seems to have banked on one thing: that far fewer Americans would be watching than watched the Republican debates in August and September. That assumption proved correct. Early Nielsen ratings indicate that 13 million viewers tuned in. That’s more than the previous Democratic record […]

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 […]

In this new episode of The Unknown, Anni Cyrus shares a Nightmare of Being a Woman Under Islam, telling  a heart-wrenching true story. Don’t miss it. And don’t miss one of the most powerful episodes of The Unknown,in which Anni discusses To Be Raped Under Islam, revealing the horror she endured under the Islamic Republic […]

Democrats and their supporters in the media are congratulating themselves for a job well done in the first Democratic debate. Both Martin O’Malley and Hillary Clinton included in their closing remarks canned celebrations of how civil and morally superior the Democratic debate was compared with the earlier GOP donnybrooks. The New York Times began its […]

When Democratic Party presidential hopefuls were asked by CNN’s Anderson Cooper to list the enemies they have made during their careers that they are most proud of, the only candidate who didn’t include any fellow Americans was Jim Webb. Webb — who, it should be noted, didn’t exactly answer the question — explained that it […]

The fit finally hit the shan for Sacramento mayor and former NBA star Kevin Johnson. His latest troubles are a stark reminder of the despicable White House role in railroading a vigilant government watchdog who red-flagged Johnson’s corruption years ago. Sports fans buzzed last week after ESPN shelved a documentary celebrating Johnson’s efforts to keep […]

Think of today’s Democratic Party as the little village of Hamelin. A piper called Bernie Sanders toots his socialist tune, and all the little Democrats skip along behind him to … where exactly? According to the medieval legend, the Pied Piper of Hamelin led the children away and drowned them. “Socialist” was once an epithet […]

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 […]

The scuttlebutt in Washington is that Vice President Joe Biden is going to throw his hat into the presidential race, which means there is at least a 50 percent chance that he will. I mean, when is the Beltway scuttlebutt ever wrong? Under different conditions, I’d guess that, if he does announce, Biden has almost […]

This special edition of The Glazov Gang was joined by Dr. Mudar Zahran, a leader of Jordan’s opposition. He came on the show to discuss how he is a Muslim refugee in Europe who sees great danger in Muslim refugees flooding Europe. He gives a dire warning about The Nation of Islam Coming to Europe. […]

In Wall Street parlance they call it a “dead cat bounce”. That’s when a stock that is getting killed briefly pops back up giving investors hope that the cat really isn’t dead, but resurrected. And that hope makes investors do the worst of all possible things: Bet more money on a stock that’s already dead. […]

People initially were in disbelief that a card-carrying socialist such as Bernie Sanders could make a competitive bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, but I trust it’s now obvious how wrong they were. Pointing to the rise of Donald Trump and Ben Carson in the Republican race, some say Sanders is doing well because this […]

In 2008, underdog candidate Barack Obama gained prestige by defeating a heavily favored front-runner to win the Democratic presidential nomination. Defeating such a worthy opponent in a head-to-head matchup gave Obama a tremendous boost in stature. Along the way, he debated Hillary Clinton countless times, and those debates prepared soon-to-be President Obama for the rigors […]

Elections change how Americans think and talk. Nowhere was the shift in the conversation more evident than in Las Vegas on Tuesday night at the Democrats’ first debate for the 2016 presidential campaign. Since President Barack Obama took office in 2009, federal immigration law has been pretty much what it was under President George W. […]

There are now 340 sanctuary cities — and the list is growing. All of them choose to ignore federal immigration law by refusing to report detained undocumented immigrants to federal authorities under most circumstances. Partly as a result, deportations of those who entered the U.S. illegally are at a 10-year low — even according to […]

While all the insider pundits proclaimed a Hillary Clinton victory, it is evident to those who truly understand the Democratic electorate that Bernie Sanders is the one who actually won. The result of the debate will be evident soon enough: Look for Sanders to move up in the polls and close much of the lead […]

Dr. Ben Carson, now second in most polls for the Republican presidential nomination, naturally finds himself under attack by threatened lefties. GQ published an anti-Carson article with the headline “F–k Ben Carson,” except it spelled out the f-word. Comic actor Seth Rogen tweeted “F–k you” to Carson. And a Daily Beast column accused him of […]

With the Cubs in the playoffs as the plucky darlings of the nation, behold the mayor of Chicago. Is Rahm Emanuel just about the luckiest big-city mayor in the world, or what? It’s all Cubs all the time, and the perfect look-over-there moment for a mayor with some serious issues. His Chicago cops, he says, […]

Watching the Democratic candidates’ presidential debate Tuesday night one might think a Republican has been in the White House since 2009. These political Lilliputians could find little to say that was positive. The economy is bad, too many people aren’t working (whose fault is that?), we should spend trillions more we don’t have because everything […]

Those who take a principled stand in our nation’s capital often find themselves alone with the crickets. Unless you’re the latest cause celebre of the left (see Sen. Elizabeth Warren), taking a stand against business-as-usual big government on Capitol Hill typically means being labeled a radical extremist who is out of touch with the rest […]

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 […]

It’s deja screwed all over again. In the fall of 2013, our family received notice from Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Colorado that we could no longer keep our private health insurance plan because of “changes from health care reform (also called the Affordable Care Act or ACA).” We liked our high-deductible preferred provider organization […]

Support for the idea that it’s good to hear all opinions, even offensive ones, is thin. A plurality of Americans now support laws against “hate speech.” Conservatives once wanted to ban Playboy magazine, violent rap lyrics and offensive depictions of Jesus. Leftists then were right to fight such bans, but today leftists encourage censorship in […]

The rapid rise and equally rapid fall of Carly Fiorina deserves our attention. Before the most recent debate, she was languishing in the polls with only 4 percent of the vote (CBS, Sept. 9-13). After a smashing performance in the second debate, she soared into second place with 15 percent (CNN, Sept. 17-19). Now the […]

Dr. Thomas Sowell, my colleague and friend, told me several years ago that he wasn’t going to write any more books, but that was two books ago, and now he has just published his 45th. The man writes with both hands, as can be seen from his website (http://tsowell.com), which lists his 45 books, 19 […]

After a preliminary hearing, Army officials are recommending Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl get off without jail time or a punitive discharge for walking off his Afghanistan military base in 2009. He could even get back pay and lifetime disability payments. The recommendation leaked out Sunday, infuriating some of Bergdahl’s former platoon-mates. Instead of examining Bergdahl’s crimes, […]

This week, 2016 Republican presidential contender Dr. Ben Carson bore the brunt of the media’s ire for his politically incorrect take on the evils of gun control. “Through a combination of removing guns and disseminating propaganda, the Nazis were able to carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance,” Carson writes in his new […]