1689 or 1776?
The Enlightenment Era did begin in 1689 and America is the quintessential Enlightenment nation, but 1776 is still the right choice for America’s founding year.
2020 and the Brilliance of the Founders
An aroused American public refusing to accept this attempt to steal the election will make it possible for those in Congress to do what they generally try to avoid doing—their constitutional duty.
A Reminder About Us
Republicans need to get real and put up the kind of all-out political fight that can save them from political extinction—and save the Constitution while they are at it.
Welcome to the New Democratic Party
For the new Democrats, the more Joe Biden is failing, the better.
John Brennan ‘Imagines’ a Post-American Future
Could it have crossed your mind that a former CIA director would promote an American presidential candidate with a popular song about a world without America?
Understanding the Founders’ Understanding of Equality
The further we as a people drift from the Founders’ idea of equality, the nearer we come to being a once-free people who have lost our liberty.
A Lesson from Texas
The arrival of the Chinese flu has given those who think of themselves as our rulers a new opportunity to exert control over those of us who are simply going about our daily lives. But in Texas, people are on to it.
The ‘Knives’ Are Out for You
Rian Johnson’s 2019 all-star “mystery” is propaganda, not a warning.
Turn to the Founders to Remind Ourselves of What We Stand to Lose
Let’s read The Federalist Papers from now until Election Day.
Common Sense About China
China’s goal, Brian Kennedy writes, is “demoralizing the United States to the point where America believes that further resistance is futile.” They can’t succeed without the help of America’s elite.
The Common Sense of the American Mind Can Prevail
The Founders pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to create America; it is their gift to us. If we care to preserve what they have given us, we must recognize that the hour is late and the peril is real.
The Common Sense Alternative to Fauciism
We needed the common sense approach of a robust public debate about how to address the Wuhan virus.
Following Up on Fauciism
A useful shorthand term for “expert-induced panic,” much in the way “McCarthyism” is shorthand for “anti-Communist hysteria.”
Fauci-ism: Dream or Nightmare?
The Founders’ focus was liberty. Progressivism, by contrast, is all about restoring the old order of rulers and ruled.
The Perils of Philosophy
Self-evident truths are the foundation of common sense realism; for Thomas Reid, common sense is the human faculty which enables us to grasp self-evident truths.
Common Sense vs. Corruption (Again)
Trump is once again likely to be running against a Democrat who is the very embodiment of political corruption, even the most outstanding current example we have of American political corruption, aside from the Clintons of course.
Obama Fundamentally Transformed Our Two-Party System
Only time will tell if the Democrat insiders will be able to stop Sanders this time around. Perhaps they will, perhaps they won’t. But in either case, it is now clear that Obama succeeded in fundamentally transforming America’s two-party system. We now have an openly anti-American party and an openly pro-American party.
New Year’s Eve: Marxism-Lennonism Revisited
If you doubt that Lennonism has a powerful hold on the thinking of many Americans, consider how “Imagine” has become the more-or-less official anthem of New Year’s Eve in the United States.
Clint Eastwood Portrays the American Greatness of Ordinary Americans
Eastwood’s project of demonstrating the greatness in the American character is again exemplified in “Richard Jewell.”
Michael Horowitz Conned the American Public
The Justice Department inspector general’s con job before the Senate Judiciary Committee is a significant milestone in the war on common sense.