Political Junkie

In the 1960s, the left began its “long march through the institutions”; where it infiltrated many of the major institutions in our country; most notably the media, Hollywood , Academia and the courts.   These institutions have a lot of power to shape public opinion.   Therefore, it should come as no surprise that the infiltration of these institutions by radical leftists has allowed the progressive agenda to advance at a much faster pace than it would have otherwise.   Until recently, the military remained one of the few institutions left untouched by the social justice warriors.   The left has allowed the military to become a laboratory for social engineering; first with the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and then with the introduction of transgender soldiers into the military.   Until about two years ago, I would have said that professional sports remained the only apolitical major American institution.   At that time, San Francisco 49er...

Judge Roy Moore defeated Luther Strange by a margin of about 10 points in last night’s Republican Senate Primary Runoff in Alabama .   Strange, who formerly served as the State’s Attorney General, has filled the vacancy caused by Jeff Sessions’ appointment as Attorney General since February.   President Trump campaigned on Senator Strange’s behalf late last week; holding a campaign-style rally in Huntsville .   This particular Senate primary runoff has created a rift between the President and some of his most vocal supporters.   Sarah Palin, Dr. Ben Carson, Dr. Sebastian Gorka and Steve Bannon campaigned on Moore ’s behalf.   No doubt about it, the media has a desire to make the rift seem bigger than actually it is to advance their narrative that the Trump Presidency has reached crisis mode.   Many of these people simply believe that Moore would serve as a better steward for the Trump agenda, which they steadfastly support, than Strange.   Perhaps...

As Charlie Kirk pointed out on Hannity last week, “free speech isn’t really so free anymore.   It’s actually quite expensive.”    After all, it cost the college $600,000 to pay for all of Ben Shapiro’s security at his event at UC Berkeley earlier this month.   The left wants to make it so difficult and inconvenient for conservative speakers to give speeches at college campuses that many of them will not even bother trying anymore.     To a degree, the left’s attempts to deter conservative speakers have succeeded.   Two conservative recording artists, Kaya Jones and Joy Villa, had initially planned to attend Free Speech Week at UC Berkeley but ultimately declined to so after receiving death threats.   Villa had previously angered the lefties in Hollywood by wearing a Trump gown to the Grammy Awards earlier this year.              Speaking of Free Speech Week, The Berkley Patriot, the Campus’...

The 72 nd General Assembly of the United Nations has officially begun as leaders from all over the globe convene at the organization’s headquarters in the Big Apple.   The United Nations is one of the many supra-national organizations created after World War II with the intention of preventing the breakout of World War III.   Will more accomplishments come out of the 72 nd UN General Assembly than the 115 th United States Congress?   At this point, it would not surprise me if the answer to that question turned out to be yes.                 On Tuesday, President Trump gave his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City .   His speech managed to win some praise from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, one of our closest allies on the world stage; as well as some of his Republican critics, including Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney.   In his speech, he promised to put America...

The folks in the Southern United States have had a rough couple of weeks.   Residents of Texas and Louisiana had to evacuate their homes as Hurricane Harvey dumped feet of rain on their states.   About a week later, residents of Florida had to deal with the wrath of Hurricane Irma; whose storm surge caused massive flooding in parts of the nation’s third most populous state.   Hundreds of thousands of people in Florida have yet to have their power restored.   Both hurricanes cost billions of dollars in damage.   It certainly didn’t help that liberals suggested that people deserved the wrath of hurricanes because their states voted for President Trump in last year’s Presidential Election.     In the minds of the snowflakes at Berkeley , they will have to deal with something far worse than a natural disaster next week:   Free Speech Week. These people probably take trigger warnings more seriously than hurricane warnings.   Brittany...

Yesterday marked the 230 th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of the United States of America .   On September 17, 1787, the Constitutional Convention came to a close.   One by one, each of the thirteen states ratified the document; beginning with Delaware in December 1787 and ending with Rhode Island in May 1790.   Let’s take a look at some of the most important provisions in the Constitution and the attempts of the radical left to do away with them.         After the 2000 and 2016 elections, the Electoral College has become one of the Democrats’ least favorite provisions of the Constitution.   Even before the 2016 Election, a bunch of states were trying to form the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.    This group of states would automatically grant their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote, regardless of how the state voted.   Currently, ten reliably liberal states totaling 165 ele...

The Thousand Islands is one of the most notable tourist attractions in Upstate New York.   Located on the border with Canada along the St. Lawrence River , the site draws thousands of visitors each year. Those who participate in the boat tours have the opportunity to tour Boldt Castle .   Boldt Castle ’s first floor is completely finished, decorated with ornate furniture reflective of the time period when its construction first began.   George Boldt, the castle’s namesake, intended to build the castle as a present for his wife.   After his wife died, Boldt ordered the construction workers to stop working on the castle. To this day, Boldt Castle ’s upper floors remain unfinished.       Unfortunately, Boldt Castle serves as a perfect metaphor for the Republican agenda in Washington .   The finished parts of Boldt Castle represent the Neil Gorsuch appointment to the Supreme Court, by far the biggest success of the GOP-held S...

It takes a lot of courage for those who work in Academia to publish anything that contradicts liberal orthodoxy.   Two law professors recently demonstrated that courage.   Professor Amy Wax of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor Larry Alexander of the University of San Diego made liberals’ heads explode when they published an op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer last month titled “Paying the Price for the Breakdown of the Country’s Bourgeois Culture.”   The article argues that many of the country’s social and economic problems, including the opioid crisis, the epidemic of inner city violence, and low labor-force participation, stem from the breakdown of bourgeois culture.     The authors define bourgeois culture as the set of ideas that reigned supreme from the late 1940s until the “cultural revolution” of the 1960s.   These ideas included getting married before having children, respecting authority and avoiding substance abuse and cr...