Originally posted June 20, 2016. Former CIA bin Laden Unit Chief Michael Scheuer has a plan that many Americans can embrace in a heartbeat. Dr. Scheuer would send a select group of what he refers to as “arrogant and sniveling anti-Americans” on a one-way trip no American would ever forget. Now is the time – […]
Harry Reid Paved the Way for a Conservative Judicial Resurgence
Republican appointed judges at the federal district and appellate court levels are underweight. Right now 60% of district court judges are Democrat appointees, and 57% of appeals court judges are Democrat appointees. Only at the Supreme Court level do Republican appointees make a slight majority, 56% of judges. That’s about to change. With Democrat Senator […]
Erik Prince: Slash the Pentagon by 40%? Easy
Originally posted December 9, 2013. The founder of Blackwater and former Navy SEAL Erik Prince offers this startling assessment, Mr. Prince explains that the Pentagon budgets $2.1 million for every active duty soldier. Blackwater, by comparison, could put a highly trained operator on the field of action for just $400,000/yr. Regarding Benghazi, Mr. Prince believes that […]
Fillon Best For France!
The election in France is heating up and the race is close between four leading candidates, Les Republicains candidate François Fillon, Front National leader Marine Le Pen, center-left independent Emmanuel Macron and a far-left leaning independent Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The idea that either Le Pen or Mélenchon could win is terrifying markets and if it came to […]
American Exceptionalism Turns into an Exceptional Handicap
The West is making a mistake with its obsession with terror. A bigger threat is Dawa and the ideology behind it, warns Ayaan Hirsi Ali (I’ve written about Hirsi’s noble efforts before, such as here, and here), a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Ms. Hirsi Ali implores the West to look at Islam with […]
Trump’s Great White Wall: Part II
National Review contributor J.D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy is a love story. It begins in the Appalachian town of Jackson, Kentucky known as the “holler” where grandparents are not referred to as grandma and grandpa. They are “Mamaw” (pronounced ma’am-aw) and “Papaw.” “These names belong only to hillbilly grandparents,” writes Vance. If you were to […]
How Trump Can Relieve Americans from ObamaCare Shenanigans
In spite of Trump’s campaign promise that his administration would seek “prompt repeal” of ObamaCare, it may be impossible “to undo any, much less all of President Obama’s unconstitutional executive actions in one day,” writes Michael F. Cannon, Cato Institute’s director of health policy studies. Fortunately, Michael has a laundry list of how “Trump-administration officials […]
NRO’s Jonah Goldberg Wows Packed Naples/Ritz Cato Throng
Cato Institute was packed to the walls at their annual conclave-of-the-committed at the Ritz Naples. Cato returns to the Ritz every year for the hotel’s world class logistics, excellent service and overall organization and more than acceptable resort-class fare. Cato’s nearly 500 guests had flocked to this Southwestern Florida semi-tropical outpost to listen to Cato’s […]
Consequences of “I’ve Got a Pen”
Jonah Goldberg, among National Review’s top #nevertrumpers, spoke at the Cato Institute’s always well-attended, enlightening annual event in Naples, Florida. Mr. Goldberg was preceded by keynote speaker Jonathan Turley, lawyer, legal scholar and professor of law at George Washington University Law School. Mr. Turley explained to the audience why he, while very critical of both […]
President Trump’s Exclusion of Aliens from Specific Countries Is Legal
Explains Andrew C. McCarthy in National Review, “Arguments to the contrary ignore the Constitution and misstate federal law. … there is no doubt that the executive order temporarily banning entry from specified Muslim-majority countries is both well within President Trump’s constitutional authority and consistent with statutory law.” But as editors at the WSJ point out, […]
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