Author: CBD

American Exceptionalism! What a grand and glorious thing…driven by (among other things) the self selection of exactly who comes here. Until fairly recently it was incredibly difficult just to arrive on our shores. Weeks or months-long voyages with no guarantee that one would survive the trip, only to arrive in America and have to fend…

We have all seen it, ad nauseam. The ardent leftist screaming and ranting and raving about the topic de jour, because the left has convinced its shock troops that emotion and feelings and simple volume, complete with weird body language and gestures is a perfect replacement for considered, rational argument. Sadly, that is not limited…

Anyone who trusts the government to respect his privacy and his rights is a fool. And all governments (federal, state, local) are the same…an insatiable desire for power and control and — this is the big one — knowledge of our innermost secrets, or how many garbage cans we fill each week. It doesn’t matter;…

On April 15, 2019, Notre Dame de Paris, one of the glories of Western culture, burned. Not to the ground, but the devastation was a shock. The magnificent spire, or flèche, was destroyed, as was the wooden supporting structure of the lead roof, which collapsed. Seeing the destruction soon after the fire was a depressing…

What to do when traditional conservative belief that government should not involve itself in markets, runs smack into national security concerns? Every time the government tries to pick winners and losers, the taxpayer loses. From sports stadium subsidies to redevelopment zones to ridiculous subsidies for favored industries like “Green Energy” and EVs, the only people…

Fordow, the underground facility where most of Iran’s centrifuges are hidden is the key to destroying their nuclear weapons program. It is under a mountain, supposedly 300 feet deep, and therefore very, very difficult to destroy with conventional bombs. Israel has the GBU-28, which is a 5,000 pound “bunker buster,” but it is thought to…

The rule of law. It is a simple concept, but it is one of the foundations of Western culture. From the Magna Carta to the United States Constitution, Aristotle to John Locke to Montesquieu to Hayek; the even application of the law buttresses the theoretical freedoms the West has developed and fought for. The drift…

Vice President Vance recently said that the United States was “governed by complete morons” before Donald Trump took office. He was talking about the catastrophe of the Biden administration and their ignorance of the fragility of supply chains, but Gavin Newsom has stepped in admirably to fill in the gaps with not just ignorance, but…

There are women who are honorable, vociferous defenders of the apparently revolutionary concept that men and women are different and should compete in athletic endeavors in their own categories. I know…I know… that’s crazy talk! Why shouldn’t a 6’4″ man who grows his hair and tucks his junk be able to compete against a woman?…

It is difficult to be sanguine about the current Supreme Court’s chaotic approach to the clear and unambiguous 2nd Amendment. Aside from the two stalwarts — Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito, the court whipsaws back and forth with competing rulings. The decade began well, with a solid ruling in the Bruen case, slapping…