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Ray Lewis, Former NFL Player, Denounces Black Lives Matter

Sometimes in football, you get bad calls from the refs. But a former football player for the Ravens, Ray Lewis, has mad an impeccable call against #blacklivesmatter and the detriment that they are causing to the black community: If you want to get the ire of a handful of black sellouts, just denounce the bogus […]

Seattle Sued Over Use Of “Green Police”

But, does this have any merit? Oh, and it is amusing that the uber-Progressive citizens of Seattle are suddenly upset when the far left politicians they voted in to office institute a policy that comes back and negatively effects those same citizens (Fox News) When it comes to garbage, the city of Seattle has launched […]

McConnell To Hold Second Vote On Iran Deal

Last week, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell attempted to hold a vote on a measure of disapproval for the Iran deal, which failed, as all but 4 Democrats voted to refuse to allow that vote to proceed. McConnell promised that he would hold another vote, and it looks like that is happening today (AP) Senate Republicans will […]

Why Have Elections?

In a country with more than 300 million people, it is remarkable how obsessed the media have become with just one — Donald Trump. What is even more remarkable is that, after six years of repeated disasters, both domestically and internationally, under a glib egomaniac in the White House, so many potential voters are turning […]

The Amazing Abnormal Fed and the Amazing Abnormal Economy

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 […]

The Establishment Birthed Trump

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 […]

Europe Is Making a Fatal Mistake

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 […]

Bad News for Hillary: No Gender Gap

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 […]

Trump is ‘Lonesome Rhodes’

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. […]

Will Sacramento Enact This Bad End-of-Life Bill?

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 […]