The “Swamp” is no myth!

Repeated references by Donald Trump and others to the corrupt swamp underlying the sanctimonious public affectations of honesty and integrity adopted by most politicians, are generally dismissed as just so much misinformation. I am a “conservative” because I subscribe to its fundamental values, not because I naively deem “conservatives” to be above corruption. That includes, …

Diversity vs. Genuine Values [i.e. intelligence, integrity, etc…..]

On Jan 9 The Free Press [formerly Common Sense with B.] published an article by John Sailer concerning the recent history of Gordon Klein, a longtime professor at UCLA. In June of 2020, in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, a student apparently emailed Klein imploring him to grade students of color more leniently than …

A Wonderful Rational Feminist

The Aug. 20th edition of Common Sense with Bari Weiss concerned Louise Perry’s recently published book “The Case Against the Sexual Revolution.” Headlined “I’m 30. The Sexual Revolution Shackled My Generation,” it was subtitled “Sexual symmetry between men and women was, is, and always will be a lie.” Insisting she remains a feminist and not …

Today’s McCarthyism

The Woke Left is utterly lacking in self-awareness, utterly unaware of the irony of its habit of cancelling/firing/destroying anyone who disagrees with its “enlightened” agenda. On Friday, Dec. 30, sports broadcaster Gary Hahn, in reporting the score of the Sun Bowl being played in El Paso, Texas, preceded it with the adverbial phrase: “Amongst the …

The Cancer of Environmental Fanaticism

Larry Summers is an economist who held positions in both the Clinton and Obama administrations. Certainly no “conservative,” he nevertheless seems committed to a rational as opposed to slavishly ideological perspective. Interviewed on Wall Street Week on Oct. 7, he willingly admitted that Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone XL Pipeline as well as his hostility …