Forget 1984, It’s 2018
In the last week, Antiwar.com editorial director Scott Horton, former State Department employee and author Peter Van Buren, and Dan McAdams, the executive director of […]
Free Speech
Free Speech: The Right to Be a Moron
For many, the most arduous aspect of supporting free speech is the principled requirement to defend disagreeable speech; moreover, the degree of difficulty in defending […]
The Day of the Slap Drones
Some of them, the big ones, will intrude the old fashioned way, beating down the door. Maybe others will look like insects, crawling innocuously across […]
The Coordinated Purge of Right-Wing Sites Has Begun
It’s no secret that the major social media sites and tech giants, almost entirely controlled by the Left, are silencing right-wing voices in the wake […]
The Elites’ War on the Deplorables
Recently, Politico reporter Marc Caputo was angered at rude hecklers at a Trump rally who booed beleaguered CNN correspondent Jim Acosta. So Caputo tweeted of them, […]
The University of Virginia Comes Up Short
Recently, a senior aide to the Trump Administration named Marc Short left the White House. The reasons for his resignation were not obscure. According to […]
The Trump Effect in Florida
Donald Trump’s support of Florida gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis has propelled DeSantis in front of the early establishment favorite, Adam Putnam. Far from being a […]
The Children’s Hour: American Journalism Today
Having thrown in its lot with #TheResistance, the media now faces its inevitable, if not actually imminent demise. Jobs in the newspaper industry continue to […]
Watch What You Say, Or You Might Get Cohen’ed
Roads that were once less traveled are quickly becoming major thoroughfares. If you as a person, a human being, and an American are OK with […]
Progressive Regression
Donald Trump has certainly changed the rules of presidential behavior, through his nonstop campaign rallies, tweets, and press conferences. What his critics call lowering the […]
Do Fake News and Corruption Change How We Think?
The release this week of the redacted Carter Page FISA warrant has generated metric tons of fake news and confirmed just how corrupt our institutions […]
Nikki Haley Undermines Her Own Audience
When a major political figure actively undermines her own base and somehow gets applauded for it, it is difficult to imagine a more absurd spectacle. […]
Brett Kavanaugh’s America
There’s so much being said about Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s choice for the Supreme Court. How can anyone keep up? If you’re reading American Greatness, […]
#Walkaway from the Real Fascists
Brandon Straka walked away from the Democratic party after tiring of its surge into what he calls a “fascistic” bent. A lifelong liberal, and gay, […]
The Rise and Fall of ‘Buttnik’
Given CNN’s breathless coverage, you’d think it was the launch of Sputnik. But, no, it was the launch of “Buttnik”—the orange, diaper-clad “Trump Baby” balloon […]
Nunes Targets the Real Collusion: The Media and DOJ
Congress is finally closing in on the biggest perpetrator of the Trump-Russia election collusion hoax: the American news media. After taking an eight-year break from […]
Free Speech Showdown in Dixon, California
July is the first “Straight Pride American Month” (SPAM) by proclamation of Ted Hickman, vice mayor of Dixon, California, a town of some 18,000 a […]
Unaccountable Big Media Personified
As Americans were finalizing their holiday plans on July 3, the New York Times quietly announced that Ali Watkins, the reporter caught up in a […]
Normal Makes a Comeback
Trump supporters who work in intellectual zones have to laugh at the latest efforts to discredit the president because he is allegedly “not normal.” It […]
The Heck with Civility—This Is War
At least since the appearance of my book, Rules for Radical Conservatives—originally written under the name and in the voice of my radical leftist character […]