Author: Larry Horist

If ever there was a time to pity House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, this may be the time.  It is a case of being careful what you ask for.  She got her speakership through the election of some of the most rabid left-wing radicals in America.  They are not small-d democrats.  Much like the Nazi experience in Germany, these folks want to use the legal political process to gain a foothold, but they will push aside democratic traditions and institutions to gain permanent power.  That is their goal.  It is part…

The Washington Post has taken upon itself to be the scorekeeper on President Trump’s rhetorical accuracy. They currently claim more than 7000 of what they call “lies” That, in and of itself, is a stretch of the truth. To visualize their score of presidential veracity, the folks of the Fourth Estate have literally tossed one gumball into a large jar for each alleged lie by the President. They further claim that the frequency of these prevarications is increasing exponentially. In his prosecutorial brief, Victor Blackwell, of CNN, presided over several…

When it comes to television ratings, it is too often an example of that old adage that figures do not lie, but liars figure. If you surgically analyze all the variables in the rating matrix, almost any slick-sleeve public relations practitioner can make anything look like a winner. This is done by ignoring the basic overarching statistics and manipulating others to concoct a good sounding – if not totally accurate – picture. In analyzing ratings, the Washington Post suggested that they should be “treated like exposed wiring in a flooded…

A recent poll shows that only eight percent of the American public believe the news media is … believable. The fact that CNN, MSNBC and the New York Times are advertising to promote their self-proclaimed devotion to the truth suggests that they know they have a problem. And well they should. Much of the elitist east coast press is not only on 24/7 anti-Trump mode, but they are descending into hyper nonsensical reporting – torturously spinning every benign action or comment by Trump into a negative. When it comes to…

No, the headline does not refer to some new musical group put together by her new hubby, Joe Scarborough. It refers to a vulgar insult Mika Brzezinski leveled at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and by extension, President Trump. In Mika’s foot-stomping frustration that Pompeo has said that there is no direct evidence to link Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman to the grisly murder of Arab activist and stringer for the Washington Post, Jamal Khashoggi, Brzezinski let loose with a nasty zinger directed against Pompeo. While Pompeo’s comment…

Every time we come to the brink of yet another federal funding crisis, the potential of a “government shutdown” looms. Like things that go bump in the night, we are aroused to heights of unreasonable anticipation and Draconian fears. Imagine … our armies sitting around the barracks, airport control towers vacant, no social security checks, national parks and monuments closed, no more border security, no one to answer the emergency call buttons at the Veterans’ hospitals and all those thousands of federal office buildings looking like scenes from the apocalyptic…

It is very early in what is likely to be his very long, long tenure on the Supreme Court, but Justice Brett Kavanaugh has already disappointed the conservative community generally – and the pro-life folks specifically. This is particularly noteworthy given how viciously the political left and the feminists (but I repeat myself) excoriated Kavanaugh for his pro-life views. The issue at hand was whether citizens could take state governments to court for refusing to cover Medicaid medical services of specific providers. Several federal court cases developed out of the…