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The Case for Kash Patel as FBI Director
A distraught anti-Trump hard left and its media choir claim debilitating flaws in Trump’s nominee for director of the FBI Kash Patel. On closer examination, however, these claimed shortcomings reveal themselves to be rare…
20 (or So) Obvious Questions about January 6
Even before Donald Trump ascends to the presidency on January 20, his appointees should ask themselves the questions that follow — all of them simple and straightforward. With Christopher Wray stepping down from the FBI…
DEI’s Dead End Street
Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution or Bill of Rights is equality of outcome promised to Americans. In this new millennium, Democrats have denounced the essence of true American greatness. The fact that this put-upon assemblage continues to…
The Great Drone Scam
Let me begin with a phrase I never used to start a story in 45 years as a TV reporter: “I may be wrong.” This entire piece may be wrong, but those 45 years on the air and 2000+ hours as a pilot tell me I’m right. The MSM floods their…
How Conspiracy Theories Dominate Politics
In his most recent book, The Rise of Blue Anon (the name is a take-off on the supposed right wing, Q-Anon), David Harsanyi has presented an insightful and alarming description of the current Democrat party. He doesn’t make a distinction…
Joe Biden Considers A Scorched Earth Policy On His Way Out The Door
Scorched earth is one of the most brutal strategies in war. It can be an offensive or a defensive strategy and usually leaves a wasteland of destruction and starvation in its wake. It seems that Joe Biden, on his way out of the Oval Office,…
The Meagre Legislative Actions of the Current 118th Congress
The main job of Congress is to enact legislation so that the executive branch can carry out its constitutional responsibilities. I’ve touched on this earlier while addressing shrinking the size and cost of the federal government.Congress…
When Congress Investigated the Scientific Believability of Polls
In the 1950s the Special Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations, informally referred to as the Reece Committee because Brazilla Carroll Reece was its chairman, delved into the activities of the Ford…
Welcome to Orwell’s World
George Orwell, that idealistic socialist disillusioned by the Soviet “Workers’ Paradise” (what the great Ronald Reagan called the Evil Empire), took special note of how communists perverted language. Famous, in 1984, the motto was “War is…
Actors and Singers Make Comedic Political Analysts
This presidential election, Donald Trump unified the most diverse coalition the Republican party has seen in modern political history. In the end, he won primarily on the economy and immigration. The…