Author: CBD

The paradigm of the brave and strong political maverick is mostly cover for rebellion and faithless behavior. We have far too many examples of it on the right side of the aisle, and the tiny number of examples on the left is telling. John Fetterman is the only one I can think of, and his…

For some unfathomable reason, President Trump announced on Tuesday that military aid to Israel would end this year. His explanation is a mess of the rational and the irrational. Is it a good idea? Absolutely. Was it announced without any thought and without any political advantage? Absolutely. Here is the transcript of the interview, and…

France is burning, and it is a direct result of the post-modern disgust with nation-states, cultural superiority, empiricism, and an unwavering moral code. Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jean-François Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Roland Barthes, Hélène Cixous, and a dozen more anti-Western-culture “philosophers,” created the mindset that is currently running France. The irony is vast, as France…

The lives that many of our ancestors lived before they made the sometimes arduous trek to America were difficult for many reasons. Poverty of course, but religious persecution figured prominently, and the simple almost world-wide limitation on upward mobility was a huge driver of immigration. No matter our great-great-grandfather’s intelligence and drive and desire to…

As gratifying as the prospect is of a Marine Le Pen and National Rally win in April’s National elections in France, it is dangerous to assume that she will lead from the right in all matters. Her economic philosophy is protectionist more than anything else, and her fiscal policies focus on redirection of government spending…

Tip O’Neill famously, and accurately said, “All politics is local.” Well…mostly accurate, but it’s good enough for government work. State parties are where the heavy lifting is done, and solid ones have tremendous influence over the direction their states — and the country — go! But let us discuss the lousy ones! Yes, there will…

Navi Pillay just won the Nobel Peace Prize, and for those of you who are thinking…”Who,” (I’m one of them) you would be entirely correct. She is an apparatchik in the international justice racket, first serving as a judge in South Africa..a well-known bastion of the rule of law! She then moved on to the…

Cutting taxes is always…ALWAYS…a good idea. The leviathan needs to be fed to live, and cutting taxes decreases what our feckless and cowardly legislators can spend. Except…it doesn’t. they are happy to spend money we don’t have, simply by borrowing from the world. And $40 trillion later, that is one hell of a bill coming…

The klown kar that is the United States Senate regularly belches forth a gaggle of meticulously coiffed morons in $2,000 suits who spout carefully crafted non sequiturs and focus-group-tested punch lines about the topic de jour. Then, without another word they pile back into the kar to be driven to a corporate cocktail party to…

The standard — and correct — complaint about the immigrants of the last few generations is that they do not assimilate. Never mind the illegal ones…even legal immigration policies have lost sight of the basic concept that preservation of our traditional culture is a good thing. We need no justification to try to protect traditional…