To the Graduates of 2016

At this point, nobody can say for sure what the toad is going to do.

The New York media (the same that lifted Donald Trump over the Republicans in the delegate race) loves to paint western Americans as a bit unstable. However federal domination of western land is a serious issue, that gives honest people real problems, as Sheriff Marty Gleave described in his powerful testimony. And so it amuses me to hear of Maine activists sounding like western ranchers | Read More »

The polls have now made clear that Donald Trump is enjoying the benefits of having wrapped up the Republican nomination before Hillary has wrapped up the Democratic counterpart. Two polls released in the last three days show Trump with a narrow lead, and another shows a virtual tie. Whereas polls three weeks ago showed Trump trailing by 7-10 points nationally, they now show that the | Read More »

I’m not kidding.

It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. Patrick Henry Are we a nation so far gone that we have no more respect or room for our more virtuous nature? Is God, country, and family a passé notion? For years, I have championed the cause of conservatism, based on not just sound policy, but on the grounds of moral principle. I counted | Read More »

What’s the difference between your widely despised candidate and ours? About three points.

On Thursday, the Oklahoma state legislature passed a bill which would have made abortions in the state a punishable felony. Doctors who performed them would have been stripped of their medical license. On Friday, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin, a Republican who touts her pro-life record, vetoed the bill citing its inability to stand up to a legal challenge, and exclaimed the following. “While I consistently have | Read More »

Austrian Presidential Election Austria is on the verge of electing far right Freedom Party (FPO) nationalist Norbert Hofer as the new President. While largely ceremonial, Hofer plans to push the bounds of his new position. His election would carry huge symbolism. Mr Hofer would be the first far-Right president to be elected in the European Union’s history and – both his detractors and supporters warn | Read More »

If that headline is confusing to you, then I defy you to watch this clip of Donald Trump on Fox and Friends and tell me if you can come up with a better one.

Donald Trump is the last Republican running. That’s a great time for a candidate in the polls, when everyone else is out and the party is supposed to be rallying around you. So why isn’t he winning more states?

Mitt Romney was not serious about finding a 3rd Party candidate. Or maybe he is still afflicted with the same terminal lack of imagination and audacity that doomed his 2012 Presidential run. Because there is no way a serious examination of the prospect would lead anyone to conclude that the three best options for a third party run are Mitt Romney, an until recently cancer-stricken | Read More »

Cuban vs. Kanye 2020

Generally speaking, this writer ignores national presidential polls since we do not elect our President by the popular vote.  Instead, one must do a state-by-state analysis to determine electoral votes with 270 being the goal.  Many pundits have noted the so-called Blue Wall (ironic- Trump has to climb over that wall)- an advantage that the Democratic Party enjoys in the Electoral count. If we look | Read More »

Just when you think the Democrat primary cannot get any more acrimonious, it does. Bernie Sanders has been ratcheting up the rhetoric against DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, claiming that the DNC primary system is rigged and that the concept of superdelegates is inherently unfair. He’s right, of course, but that’s not why he’s losing; he’s losing because Hillary is kicking his butt at the | Read More »

In the last week, two different polls have shown the same thing – 20% of Americans profess a willingness to vote for a generic, unidentified “independent” or third party candidate over Trump and Clinton.