Author: CBD

Like many others around these august pages, I grew up respecting the armed forces, was the son of a veteran, and had immense respect for the dedication and sacrifice of our military. My default was that it was competent and intelligent and patriotic and understood its place within our society and our political structure. It…

Every time I think that the Republican party has reached Peak Impotence, they come out with a startlingly dumb and feckless statement that reaffirms my conviction that the party as currently constructed is beyond saving, and is a significant impediment to any serious plan to save America from the Democrat/Progressive machine. GOP: If We Win…

We may have a potentially dangerous situation, as two massive centers of stupidity rotate around the same event. Were they to meet, the resulting stupidity could create a singularity, in which the laws of intelligence and logic break down, IQs are postulated to be negative, and a James/Griffin 2024 campaign is possible. The event is…

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.  — George Orwell, 1984 It’s everywhere. The slaughter of the English language on the altar of political correctness…

It’s a quaint and probably naive observation to make, but the United States Constitution speaks rather forcefully on the topic of an overreaching central government: Amendment XThe powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. I…

Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.  — Heinrich Heine It is the degradation of the sanctity and value of life, and it is one of the most powerful tools in the totalitarian playbook. They start with the unborn, who…

Voting against self-interest is a rara avis, so why should we be surprised when people don’t act against self-interest? The lovely and romantic and unfortunately naive supposition that the majority of the rank-and-file cops is secretly on our side is just that…a pipe dream. They are on the side of their paychecks, and that means they will…

Wayne LaPierre is the fifth-highest paid non-profit head in the United States, according to Charity Watch. They give the SPLC an “F” grade, so they can’t be all bad. The recent revelations about out-of-control spending at the NRA, coupled with internal struggles and a conspicuous absence of the NRA in the 2020 elections has me…

Our current miasma of constantly changing rules of political conduct and mushy language make it almost impossible to identify any coherent structure in the thinking of the current occupiers of the halls of power. In fact, it’s difficult to figure out exactly who they may be? Is it Dementia Joe and his grasping harpy of…

Lord Acton (and others) understood very well that: Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And nowhere in the free world is it more evident than Israel, and the interminable rule of Benjamin Netanyahu. He has been Prime Minister since 1996! 25 years is far too long. He has become corrupt, venal, and…