Should Bernie Hold or Fold?
So now, even some of the most ardent political supporters of Bernie Sanders – think MoveOn.org – are urging him to pack it in. Reality bites, they say, and Hillary Clinton has won the Democrat...
View ArticleUseful Idiots, circa 2016
Back in the days of the cold war, there was a phrase used by Soviet Communists to describe the many liberals in America who would serve as stooges and apologists for their murderous totalitarian...
View ArticleRethinking W
Isn’t revisionist history great? It allows us to constantly re-jigger the balance sheet on historical figures, events and patterns with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight. It reveals seismic shifts in...
View ArticleMandatory or Forbidden
The distinguishing feature of the emboldened left has increasingly become their thinly-veiled desire for control of as many areas of our lives as is humanly possible. And the most effective way to do...
View ArticleThe Trump Card
You may hate Donald Trump. Or love him. The polls suggest you are probably in one camp or the other. But the talk has already turned from whether he is simply a vehicle for protest to whether he...
View ArticleJim Gilmore: Alive and Kicking
With so much attention focused on the entirely unforeseen popularity of that bombastic billionaire, it is easy to forget that Virginia has its own candidate for the Republican presidential nomination....
View ArticleExploring the Trump Phenomenon
So who are all these people who have come out of the woodwork with their fanatical support for Donald Trump? I attended the largest political rally in the history of Sarasota, Florida Saturday looking...
View ArticleFox News Unmasked
The entire controversy surrounding Donald Trump’s withdrawal from Thursday night’s debate on Fox News has served to confirm – in no uncertain terms – what FNC’s critics have been saying for months:...
View ArticleTrump on 9/11: Unhinged or Shrewd?
Donald Trump has made a living off insulting/plain spoken/inflammatory rhetoric from the moment he announced his candidacy. And so there is a temptation to conclude that his diatribe about the...
View ArticleTrump: A Moderately Respectful and Contempt-free Defense of His Candidacy and...
As seemingly the only man standing at BD willing to offer a defense of the Donald Trump candidacy, and his supporters (you can call me the designated punching bag), allow me to respond to the full...
View ArticleTrump’s Greatest Obstacle: His Own Party
Long ago and far away, Republicans, conservatives and libertarians were united in one singular goal for the 2016 election. Beat Hillary Clinton. The only way to reverse the years of leftward drift...
View ArticleR.I.P. John Taylor, Virginia’s “Godfather of Liberty”
Rare is the man whose devotion to liberty is such that he will never sacrifice his principles for personal gain. Equally rare is the man who will fight righteous battles to the end at the cost of...
View ArticleThe Open and Shut Case Against Hillary Clinton
Through all the twists and turns of this unprecedented election campaign, the enduring question before the voters had remained the same: will America elect a president they don’t trust? Because if the...
View ArticleA Second American Revolution?
There is a common misperception among the American people, especially as they have been subjected to the steady and relentless deconstruction of American history by the iron triangle of government,...
View ArticleElection 2016: The Opportunity of a Lifetime
The Second American Revolution has arrived. And with it, the opportunity of a lifetime. On a surreal election night that historians will be studying for decades, Donald Trump completed his miraculous...
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