You Tell Me Texas by Paul Gleiser

Socialism’s dismal and bloody record notwithstanding, according to recent polls, as many as two thirds of Democrats now think it’s a good idea.

With respect to a potential deal with Iran, critics from both sides may yet be proven right.

The threat Iran has posed for nearly a half century must be decisively neutralized and the Strait of Hormuz must be open to the free passage of maritime commerce.

We all saw Joe Biden shaking hands with invisible people, and his inability to exit a stage, and the garbled sentences, and the vacant stare and the inability to complete a thought.

In earlier times, the senior Republican senator from Texas could have held his seat for as long as he wanted.

The United States of America is $39 trillion in debt. That is a real problem and bad on its face. But the debt burdens being carried by deep blue states could actually be worse.

The United States of America is $39 trillion in debt. That is a real problem and bad on its face. But the debt burdens being carried by deep blue states could actually be worse.

Decades of Democrat policies have brought once great California to the brink and yet no Democrat and no one in the leftist dominated media ever connects the dots.

The once-trusted legacy media are using the last shards of the credibility they once enjoyed to intentionally and shamelessly lie about Trump, his policies and his accomplishments.

If Pope Leo XIV has as pointedly condemned Iran as he has the United States and Donald Trump, I can't find it.

In the same week the United States has made war and human spaceflight look easy.

A nation's prestige has a great deal to do with its ability to shape world events.

"Ordinary Americans" about whom Democrats constantly purport to care languishing in airport security lines for hours is acceptable collateral damage.

As much as I'd like to believe otherwise, I am skeptical of the idea that Operation Epic Fury will be quick and easy. War never is.

Senate Republicans are about to blow it again.

Much good can come from this kinetic action in Iran. But wars can destroy presidencies.

Churlishness is a lot of things. One thing it certainly isn't is policy.

Put out a product that both sides are willing to trust, and you have a business. Write off half of your potential universe, and you have a problem.

Trump is doing what he was hired to do.

When you boil down Naziism and communism you come to understand that they are two sides of the same coin.

A society cannot long survive as a patchwork of competing identities, cultures, languages, and customs.

There are good reasons for the U.S. to want to control Greenland. Missile defense is reason enough.

If it has done nothing else, the Minnesota welfare fraud scandal has served to reveal the business model of the far-left wing of the Democratic Party.

Most of the people in the heartland are filled with pride when American military forces succeed in a bold operation.

If a Christian is touched only once a year, the touching is still worth it, and maybe on some given Christmas, some final quiet morning, the touch will take.

What's obvious to the discerning eye yet remains unrecognized on the left is that dependency on government forecloses access to the middle class.

Tim Walz is a bad guy. We know that. But he's not the real story.

Few ever point out the irony that the least affordable places in America are the places run by Democrats.

For six weeks the federal government was shut down because of a bad law that passed  Congress 15 years ago without a single Republican vote.

It is simultaneously astonishing and horrifying that a person with a resume that will fit comfortably on one side of a cocktail napkin is now in charge of a city of 300,000 employees, a budget of $120 billion and responsibility for the safety and welfare of more than eight million souls.

You midwifed this entire fiasco.

Hatred of Donald Trump far transcends any dislike Democrats have ever had for any other Republican president.

Capitalism and socialism have both been around long enough to have created a record. And that record is unmistakable.

Credit to Paramount for catching a whiff of the grim reality now facing the legacy network news business.

Literally hundreds of federal programs, agencies, offices and bureaus that you have never heard of are "shut down" and yet life in our great land continues apace.

It's clear that to a very high and culturally significant degree, high school and college-aged kids that were exposed to Charlie Kirk's message liked it.

While it is appropriate to celebrate the Constitution every year, prudence demands that we acknowledge that it is under assault.

How many more people - black, white, brown, whatever - is The Narrative going to kill?

Unlike a prior generation of Dems, today's Democrats are fighting from the lopsidedly losing side of some very basic and straightforward issues.

Cracker Barrel just got a lesson that the Democratic Party also needs to learn.

If Barack Obama or Joe Biden had accomplished what Donald Trump just accomplished, the partisan hacks that populate the legacy media newsrooms would be in full swoon.

Elites in government, almost all Democrats, have committed outrageous acts against the American people and have done so secure in their belief that they would never be punished.

"Russiagate" isn't really about Trump. It's about the fact that with respect to deciding who should be president, a tiny cabal of political elites in very powerful positions arrogated to themselves the presumptive right and power to substitute their judgement ahead of the expressed will of the American people.

Though the American Declaration of Independence was published in 1776 and the Bastille was stormed 13 years later in 1789, on the scale of the grand sweep of history, the events are essentially concurrent. But there the similarity ends.

The "Art of the Deal" may be more than just a book title.

Cities like Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Philadelphia have been under the total control of Democrats for decades.

It's easy for the chattering classes and agenda-driven politicos to say they have it figured out.

If your total news intake comes only from the rabidly ideological, fact-averse legacy media, you likely believe things that are demonstrably untrue.

These once revered organizations have devolved into predictable, boring, monolithically left-wing propaganda organs where agenda has taken the place of mission.

It looks increasingly as if the swamp has drained DOGE.