Global elites are now eagerly embracing the new catchphrase "The Great Reset." If we want to see the power of an ambitious idea when it’s injected into the global jet stream, we might consider the phrase “New World Order.
Why would the city of Seattle hire a professed pimp, one Andre Taylor, to provide “alternatives to policing," for which Taylor--a self-styled “Street Czar"--will be paid $150,000 a year?
Anti-Trump Deep Statists are still veiled behind their anonymity, but they are speaking more loudly and assertively through their pals in the media and in social media.
The fear, of course, is simple: Woke Is Broke.That is, ordinary Americans, especially on the right, won’t pay their hard-earned money to be criticized, even insulted, by the players.
Virgil conducts an imaginative interview with Saul Alinsky, questioning Alinsky on each of his 13 ‘Rules for Radicals.’
As we seek to chronicle everything, we can pause to observe that at one time or another—oftentimes, in fact, for thousands of years—virtually every society on the planet has been a slave-holding society.Indeed, it’s entirely possible that just about every human being on the planet today is the descendant both of slaves, and of slave-holders.
The American people are going to have to stand up for their public monuments, their history, and quite possibly for their very lives against the excesses of the new Woke religion.
Virgil first wrote about the Deep State in December 2016, and he first wrote about the Michael Flynn case in January 2017—and yet he didn’t know the half of it.
The stars are aligning for a major infrastructure bill.President Donald Trump is in favor of it, top Democrats are supportive—and even significant voices in the media are on the train.
On March 27, the object of presidential ire was Massie, who took it upon himself to delay passage of the CARES Act, the lifeline the economy needs in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.
The Titanic proved not to be seaworthy, and the Bloomberg is proving not to be White House-worthy.
If the ads project an Oz-like image of Bloomberg that can’t be sustained—because soon enough, somebody will pull back the curtain—then the ads are misconceived, perhaps even counterproductive.
It’s an article of faith inside the Bernie Sanders campaign that the Democratic establishment is going to do everything it can to stop the Vermonter from winning the Democratic nomination this year.
It’s an article of faith inside the Bernie Sanders campaign that the Democratic establishment is going to do everything it can to stop the Vermonter from winning the Democratic nomination this year.
President Trump has made quite a few changes to the administration since his February 5 acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial.
Is Jeff Bezos just unfaithful or is he also an international provocateur?The answers to these questions are important, because Bezos is not only the richest man in the world; he’s also one of the world’s most powerful corporate and media chieftains.
The billionaires convened at Davos, Switzerland, are getting all the attention this week, but behind the scenes, the Deep State of the European Union is tireless in its efforts to undermine populist nationalist governments on behalf of George Soros' "Woke Capital" empire.
In April 1994, veteran D.C. think-tanker Edward Luttwak, writing in the London Review of Books, argued that trade deals such as NAFTA were hollowing out Middle America—and that the elite didn’t either notice or care.
Virgil has used his powers to channel the thinking of Bill Clinton: “My misdirection plan is working well.”
By recalling George Mason’s definition of impeachment, back in the 18th century, but not recalling that Mason’s definition was rejected at the time, the Democrats are doing some misleading language-chopping.
Virgil channels the thinking of former President Richard Nixon as he watches the latest impeachment hearings.
The Ukraine investigation is far from over.Indeed, by the time it is over—or when the essential facts, at least, are clear enough—the skullduggery of the last decade might start to resemble the skullduggery of the 1940s.
As Democrats ride onto a political battlefield—The Battle of Impeachment—perhaps they are now wishing they had started their mission with more situational awareness.
We’ve learned a lot from the National Basketball Association’s kowtow to the People's Republic of China. Here are five key takeaways.
Today Americans are seeing the distressing spectacle of huge American corporations kowtowing to a new kind of emperor, Xi Jinping, and his Chinese Communist Party.
Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis is a thoughtful fellow, even if his interpretation of the “rules-based international order” shows a certain lack of vision.
President Trump takes Twitter seriously. After all, he can boast of having almost 60 million Twitter followers, and he has tweeted more than 41,000 times. Still, it was interesting to see, on the morning of April 23, that he tweeted out some considerable thoughts on the social-media platform
Jeff Bezos looks a lot like Ernst Blofeld, the fictional villain in several of the early James Bond movies.Is the resemblance just a coincidence? You decide.
If we look at the countries that once possessed nukes, but no longer have them, we see a bitter lesson that you can bet Kim Jong Un has absorbed.
Three related American foreign-policy goals—security for Israel, peace in the Middle East, and a new Middle Eastern alliance against Iran—have just scored major breakthroughs. And if you haven’t heard about these successes, maybe that’s because the Main Stream Media are so busy attacking President Trump that they’ve lost interest in foreign reporting.
The headline in Axios on August 8 demanded attention: “Sputnik moment for U.S. military.” For his part, Virgil paid particularly close attention, since he published a piece with virtually the same headline, for Breitbart News, back on September 16, 2017: “The Threat from China — America’s New ‘Sputnik Moment.
In Part One of this series, we saw how, back in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt chose to look past the serious flaws in the Russian regime of Josef Stalin in order to isolate, and confront, the mortal threat from the German regime of Adolf Hitler.
Every now and then, the leaders of the U.S. diplomatic apparatus actually do something that is in the interest of the U.S.The recent withdrawal of the U.S.
In the wake of his Singapore summit, President Trump is #Gaining in public opinion. For instance, a June 14 poll from Monmouth University offers Trump plenty of good news.
In the wake of his Singapore summit, President Trump is #Gaining in public opinion. For instance, a June 14 poll from Monmouth University offers Trump plenty of good news.
The only thing that’s sure about the shifting U.S.-China trade relationship is that it is shifting rapidly. However, underneath the shifts, there’s an unshifting reality: the economic and strategic threat from China.
A month after Mark Zuckerberg’s April 10 and 11 testimony on Capitol Hill, the chattering class seems to agree that he and Facebook dodged the political equivalent of the grim reaper.
As he scans the news about tech abuses—from violating privacy, to manipulating the news, to mowing down pedestrians with driverless cars—Virgil is reminded that this year marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Frankenstein.
For all of us on the right, it should have been a lightbulb moment on Friday, when David Hogg, the 17-year-old student-turned-gun-control-activist, said to CNN’s Alisyn Camerota, “I think it’s great that corporate America is standing with me and the rest of my friends.
Theodore Roosevelt, our 26th president, left the White House in 1909, and yet his spirit — larger than life and larger, even, than death — is still with us.
Not so long ago, most liberals were not fans of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and yet now, they are quite—quite!—concerned about its wellbeing and good name.
Mark Cuban is another brash billionaire with a popular reality-TV show, an active Twitter feed (7.6 million followers), a habit of giving punchy quotes to journalists, and, yes, national political ambitions.
At some point, the American people are going to conclude, for the sake of their privacy and security, that we can’t let this much power be concentrated into the hands of a few arrogant, irresponsible, and, frankly, neglectful, individuals and their companies.
Yes, the Obamacare issue is ba-a-ack. Congressional Republicans could, in fact, be voting on the fate of the program — formally known as the Affordable Care Act — within days.
Over the last century or two, plenty of seers and scribblers told us that technological advances were a two-edged sword. For all the gains in our standard of living that inventions would bring, so, too, would come dangers—and maybe even more downsides than upsides.
Why have activists on the right and left joined together to oppose the AT&T-Time Warner merger? After all, there have been plenty of big mergers in the last few decades, most of which have attracted little controversy.
This is a rich country: In times of disaster, we can afford to take care of our own, while not sacrificing the working wages of our own—or the safety of all of us.
President Trump has flip-flopped on the war in Afghanistan, in defiance of his campaign promises and also of public opinion. Why the flip-flop? Did the Establishment make him do it? The Deep State? Or both? Meanwhile, we must ask: Does public opinion matter anymore? The answer is yes, but the people will have to work a lot harder to make sure that their voice is heard.
Is this our “Sputnik Moment”? That is, the moment when Americans wake up and realize that they face a grave threat from a foreign power? Sixty years after Sputnik, we see that China, with quadruple our population, is on the move.
According to a 2012 estimate by Gallup, 13 percent of the world’s adult population—640 million people—would move to the U.S. if they could. And of course, under the doctrine of chain-migration, that number of immigrants could easily quadruple in a few years’ time.
Kicking off his tax-reform campaign on Wednesday with a forceful speech in Springfield, Missouri, President Trump got right to the point. Tax reform, including tax reductions, should focus on Main Street, not Wall Street.
As we drill down on the dangers of corporate monopoly, we can observe that the worst offenders are Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple. We might even turn those four companies into an acronym, GAFA.
In his famous “New Nationalism” speech in 1910, the “Great Trust Buster” Teddy Roosevelt described “the struggle of freemen to gain and hold the right of self-government as against the special interests, who twist the methods of free government into machinery for defeating the popular will.
Let’s consider five key realities about the politics of police work confronting America’s law enforcement officers in 2017.
Watching Donald Trump speak in Warsaw today, in the shadow of that city’s memorial to the gallantly doomed Polish resistance heroes of World War Two, Virgil thought of another Western leader of indomitable resolve: Winston Churchill.
Macomb County, Michigan, was home to the famous "Reagan Democrats" who overwhelmingly gave their votes to Trump in 2016. A new report offers insights into the motivations of these working class swing voters that the Trump White House should heed.
Two big corporations, AT&T (worth $221 billion at last count) and Time Warner (worth $66 billon), want to combine to become even bigger, and yet in response, the two major American political parties are not to be found in their usual ideological positions.
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