“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Red-card the whole thing

The folly of unlimited immigration becomes more transparent by the day: The overwhelming majority of immigration to the United States is the result of our visa policies. Each year, millions of visas are issued to temporary workers, foreign students, refugees, asylees,...

Peace through strength

The Gipper’s core philosophy continues to make sense: As much as I respect and admire Bill Whittle, it is worth pointing out one big problem with his analysis. The reality is that the cancellation of the F-22 is probably one of the very very very...

Getting pimp-slapped by reality

If I still used social media, I’d think strongly about making this my profile picture You know the old saying, “a conservative is a liberal who got mugged by reality”? Well, an ex-CNN anchor discovered just how true that saying is, the hard way:...

“We might have been a great and free people”

That about sums up the state of the culture On this day in 1776, 56 free-born Englishmen signed a document in Philadelphia that became the rallying cry for a new nation. The text itself is a masterpiece of rhetoric. It follows a simple and well understood structure;...

Joint Strike Flopter: flying piano edition

Well, that was some $400 billion well spent, then: It’s the most expensive weapon in history but America’s F-35 stealth jet has been outperformed by a 40-year-old F-16 jet in a dogfight.  A mock air battle was held over the Pacific Ocean between the...

President BAMF

Getting shot by a would-be assassin tends to give one a certain perspective on things… I’ve known for quite some time now that Ronald Reagan was underestimated and written off many times during his lifetime by his opponents- though never by his true...

Someone fetch the smelling salts

Whatever this dude’s smoking, it’s clearly hazardous to your health Clearly, the jug-eared buffoon in the Oval Office has gone round the bend: On Tuesday, former Obama advisor David Axelrod informed an Israeli television channel that President Obama...

Horatius at the bridge

There is yet one Republican in the Senate who understands why freedom is precious, and why it must be defended: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is already back at work after he filibustered on the U.S. Senate floor for about 10 and a half hours on Wednesday. He’s declaring...

How stupid can a neoconservative be?

Joel Pollak over at Breitbart.com inexplicably chose to tie a noose around his credentials as a conservative- and then proceeded to kick the chair out from under himself: Though the execution of the war was deeply flawed, there are at least five reasons it was...