Wes Vernon column
Wes Vernon was a Washington-based writer and veteran broadcast journalist. He passed away on August 8, 2021. His obituary can be found here
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June 25, 2019
Communist China's seemingly never-ending attempted influence on what you see, read, watch, or do allows no escape at your favorite movie theater. In today's . . .
Wes Vernon
June 10, 2019
Mark Levin, perhaps best known as TV/radio's hell-raising intellectual, has outdone himself in taking down the media for their attitude, sometimes interpreted . . .
Wes Vernon
June 4, 2019
Bernie Sanders and his bride spent their honeymoon in the Soviet Union in June 1988, when he was serving as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, a city of about 40,000 . . .
Wes Vernon
May 30, 2019
Day by day, we are witnessing the build-up of Communist China in pursuit of its ultimate goal to depose the United States as "the world's lone super power."
. . .
Wes Vernon
May 28, 2019
At last! Is America finally publicly off the lure of cheap "Made-in-China" merchandise?
As we highlighted on May 5, a group of American foreign policy . . .
Wes Vernon
May 10, 2019
The left seems to get closer and closer to using its ultimate hammer to tame conservatives into obeisance to its commands.
Years ago, according to a writer . . .
Wes Vernon
May 5, 2019
Yet another chapter is being written in Communist China's 70-year threat to impose a worldwide dictatorship. And again the Chinese ponder night and day how to . . .
Wes Vernon
April 23, 2019
Mitt Romney admits Donald Trump has been cleared of charges of obstructing justice. Yet he still says the president makes him "sick," even though the two men . . .
Wes Vernon
April 18, 2019
The United States is arguably the most anti-Marxist nation on the planet, though to be sure, we do have our own home-grown variety of hard leftists. The . . .
Wes Vernon
April 15, 2019
When you go to the polls and cast your ballot, you are theoretically exercising your right to keep your vote secret if that is your desire. Now it appears the . . .
Wes Vernon
April 8, 2019
For decades, Communist China has been viewed by the U.S. with a wary eye. Recently, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that China has been using . . .
Wes Vernon
April 5, 2019
There were reasons, way back when, that this nation became the United States of America, not the Republic of America. One of several factors that contributed to . . .
Wes Vernon
March 26, 2019
He succeeded in private business, served as governor of Massachusetts, was nominated to run for president in 2012, and was elected by the voters of Utah as . . .
Wes Vernon
March 8, 2019
One hesitates to use the "T" word, even in times like these when arguably treasonous plots are not only publicized, but in some quarters are almost regarded as . . .
Wes Vernon
November 26, 2018
Last week, CNN's Carl Bernstein, of Watergate fame, said news networks should "start editing" President Trump's "propagandist" press briefings instead of . . .
Wes Vernon
November 12, 2018
The 100th year anniversary this month of the end of World War I gave us time to reflect on the worldwide disquiet that ensued after that bloody conflict and its . . .
Wes Vernon
November 5, 2018
My first memory of Chuck Grassley was when he (along with two of his colleagues) showed up in Billings, Montana, as a young congressman to promote a GOP . . .
Wes Vernon
September 10, 2018
For nearly two years, America has been caught up in one of the most crisis-level uproars in its "peacetime" history. The obsession of a
significant movement . . .
Wes Vernon
September 6, 2018
Public commentary on John McCain's death cries out for balance. The senator, whose departure from this planet left behind six or seven days of unremitting and . . .
Wes Vernon
August 13, 2018
You may think you know everything there is to know about the ongoing night-and-day pounding inflicted on the public ear by an angry Hate America left hell-bent . . .
Wes Vernon
July 16, 2018
Edward Griffin, in his Need to Know column, wrote that he has seen the film Revelation: Dawn of Global Government.
Even though he himself was in a part of the . . .
Wes Vernon
July 6, 2018
Supreme Court fight – suppressed information
Everywhere you turn, the media,
including some of our conservative favorites, are touting Brett . . .
Wes Vernon
July 3, 2018
Terror ahead?
"Somebody's going to be hurt or killed," warn the pundits regarding the vile insults and threats coming from the far left these days. Now we're . . .
Wes Vernon
June 25, 2018
On – ahem – respect for opposing views — In what appear to be his waning days, John McCain is preparing to leave a legacy of settling scores. . . .
Wes Vernon
June 22, 2018
As acknowledged by most of the non-communist world, Ronald Reagan did civilization a monumental favor by "bringing down the Soviet Union without firing a shot." . . .
Wes Vernon
June 12, 2018
Scared rabbit alert
Victoria Toensing, one of the insightful attorneys on Fox News, cut to the quick the other night when she spoke with her fellow . . .
Wes Vernon
June 7, 2018
In this century, as our nation appears on the verge of a (mostly, so far) non-shooting civil war brought about by cultural battles and an attempt to overthrow a . . .
Wes Vernon
May 29, 2018
The 1992 Republican National Convention gave a special ovation to the words of one of its speakers, Patrick J. Buchanan, who warned, "There is a religious war . . .
Wes Vernon
May 22, 2018
So let's get this straight: It's just the entertainment properties of 21st Century Fox that the Walt Disney company wants to pick up in another media sale . . .
Wes Vernon
May 18, 2018
John F. Kennedy has been quoted as saying that there are powerful hidden forces at work aimed at moving world events and that he intended to learn their . . .
Wes Vernon
May 11, 2018
President Trump made a logical decision in pulling the U.S. out of the never signed "Iran deal."
As Ambassador
Henry Cooper notes, not only is the document . . .
Wes Vernon
May 4, 2018
So it's all settled: Mitt Romney is Utah's next United States Senator. Right? Not necessarily. There's a conservative alternative in the June primary, but . . .
Wes Vernon
April 24, 2018
Today in the early 21st century, we have for the past four years been living in a period marked by a full 100 years since the starting point of then . . .
Wes Vernon
March 19, 2018
We fought a Civil War to force rebellious states to remain in the Union. Has anyone ever contemplated the possibility that at some point there may be movement . . .
Wes Vernon
February 19, 2018
In case you haven't noticed, there is a media war in America today. Not the usual race for ratings. This is serious business, where the survival of our country . . .
Wes Vernon
January 12, 2018
It says here, in an article by Washington Free Beacon's Bill
Gertz, that China has secretly been supplying missiles to North Korea, and has been bolstering . . .
Wes Vernon
December 8, 2017
The fate of this nation, as some of us see it, now depends (some would say perilously) on the outcome of the votes in several states in 2018. The makeup of
. . .
Wes Vernon
November 7, 2017
This column, in reviewing the enemy's century-old (at least) effort to take over the United States, has tried to shine the light on those who would bring . . .
Wes Vernon
October 31, 2017
There is obviously a crucial race underway in Washington. (Again? Yes.)
This contest is generated by those who are trying to overthrow an election with a . . .
Wes Vernon
October 24, 2017
His name (for the moment) is CS-1 – presumably "Confidential Source-One."
That's the undercover name accorded him for the time being by the FBI and . . .
Wes Vernon
October 19, 2017
Months ago, this column, along with others, focused on a super scandal ignored by the fake news outlets, about the Clintons through
their foundation, which . . .
Wes Vernon
September 28, 2017
So now we have come to the ultimate insult to normal Americans:
You may have noticed that the Hate America Left (H.A.L.) is constantly ordering us around as . . .
Wes Vernon
September 25, 2017
It seems weird that, at this point, one man holds the future of America in his hands.
That man is not an enemy. He is an honored United States Senator whose . . .
Wes Vernon
August 31, 2017
The vast "fake news" effort to hide the truth about Antifa as a "radical anti-American, anti-free market, communist, socialist, hard-left censorial organization . . .
Wes Vernon
August 21, 2017
"Is Truth Dead?" That headline was blazed across the cover of Time magazine in April by a headline writer who stumbled onto what is actually going on.
This . . .
Wes Vernon
August 15, 2017
That kid who rammed his car into a crowd that was protesting a racist rally in Charlottesville will likely get the chair. Assuming he first gets to state his . . .
Wes Vernon
July 31, 2017
America needs to get its priorities straight. Picture this nightmare:
Ex-President Barack Obama did (and out-of-office continues to) do his best to bring . . .
Wes Vernon
July 7, 2017
News and entertainment media, to say nothing of the history books, have inundated Americans with their own political versions of our nation's founding and of . . .
Wes Vernon
June 19, 2017
If you're a conservative, a Republican, a Trump supporter, a dissenter from the edicts enunciated by the Marxist-tolerating establishment, you may be targeted . . .
Wes Vernon
May 26, 2017
The mainstream media apparently have decided the bungling Democrat Party (and some scared rabbits in the GOP) are doing an inadequate job of getting President . . .
Wes Vernon
April 18, 2017
President Trump has let it be known that he's willing to sit down and talk coalition-speak with some Democrats on the Hill – presumably some
"reasonable . . .
Wes Vernon
February 28, 2017
In selecting Tom Perez to head the Democrat National Committee, anti-American leftists have chosen the man to keep the fight going full-speed in their effort to . . .
Wes Vernon
February 21, 2017
If President Trump were to make a mysterious disappearance or die tomorrow (or a combination of both), the enemies of America (within our shores) would not miss . . .
Wes Vernon
January 20, 2017
In the middle of the 20th century, the world made an almost seamless transition from the residue of World War II straight into a highly troubling aftermath.
. . .
Wes Vernon
December 30, 2016
Having been soundly rejected by the American people for his seeming determination to "transform" America into a Marxist socialist state, President Obama's tin . . .
Wes Vernon
November 18, 2016
The left and their backers often argue their case by resurrecting parts of their closetful of smear paint, including the vilification of anyone who disagrees . . .
Wes Vernon
November 15, 2016
Look, you lefties out there are just going to have to suck it up. The heart and soul of America loves America and rejects the America-haters. That is the . . .
Wes Vernon
November 6, 2016
With all the e-mails, leaked documents, and illegalities of many kinds showering down on Americans in the final
stretch of arguably the most upside down . . .
Wes Vernon
November 5, 2016
Will President Obama fire FBI Director James Comey? By following the law and pursuing corruption wherever he deems it within his purview to do so, the director . . .
Wes Vernon
November 1, 2016
Within 10 days of the bitterest presidential election in the memories of many Americans, FBI Director James Comey re-opened an investigation that weeks ago he . . .
Wes Vernon
October 25, 2016
Having witnessed presidential races during much of the 20th and so far in the 21st century, it's hard to figure out what's in store leading up to November 8th, . . .
Wes Vernon
October 21, 2016
"It doesn't seem to matter anymore.
"No matter which way you turn, no matter which exit you try to make a mad dash for (figuratively speaking), you barely . . .
Wes Vernon
October 4, 2016
Donald, this is a quiz:
Whose candidacy for President of the United States threatens to take down this country – if not from an outside attack (because . . .
Wes Vernon
September 9, 2016
The Clintons, in their crimes and misdeeds, have managed for the most part to escape retribution (legal or otherwise).
There are reasons for that – . . .
Wes Vernon
August 12, 2016
The question essentially raised in our last column is: Are the Clintons marching toward ultimate earthly power in a virtual locking of arms with Russia's . . .
Wes Vernon
August 4, 2016
If any one issue can save an otherwise flailing effort to stop Hillary Clinton from her path to the White House, it will be her handing the potential keys to . . .
Wes Vernon
August 2, 2016
Listening to the Democrat delegates in Philadelphia chant "Not a clue," in response to Joe
Biden's charge that Donald Trump doesn't have a clue as to what . . .
Wes Vernon
July 25, 2016
As the Republican National Convention in Cleveland was fading into history, Republican "civilian soldiers" in high positions and at the grassroots of the "blood . . .
Wes Vernon
July 22, 2016
Donald Trump has humbled some of us who cheered the Donald's biting take-down of the haughty, out-of-date, presumptive king-making Republican establishment. . . .
Wes Vernon
July 20, 2016
He apparently was not listed in the role – but, hands down, Rudy Giuliani was the de facto keynoter of the 2016 Republican National Convention.
2016
. . .
Wes Vernon
July 4, 2016
In the aftermath of Brexit, we're seeing – not a new method of "persuading" voters to go back to the polls again and again and repeatedly cast their . . .
Wes Vernon
June 30, 2016
When the British pushed back last week against years-long attempts to form a world government under the radar, few of them realized that the reason their . . .
Wes Vernon
June 28, 2016
A dark, thug-driven side of the Clinton campaign no doubt is keeping an eye on the re-issue of the book Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary . . .
Wes Vernon
June 14, 2016
Every time presidential wannabe Mitt Romney opens his mouth these days, he hammers another nail into the already wobbly campaign to save this country from the . . .
Wes Vernon
June 2, 2016
Soap operas have a history of re-running the same old scripts over and over again.
In the radio days of Stella Dallas and Backstage Wife, some put-upon wife . . .
Wes Vernon
May 12, 2016
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sat down with an ex-president the other day. The purpose was to plot the defeat of the Republicans in 2016.
Okay, so what? . . .
Wes Vernon
May 2, 2016
Why is it that Barry Goldwater went down in flames, but Ronald Reagan came back 16 years a later with essentially the same world view to win the love of the . . .
Wes Vernon
March 26, 2016
It's a good thing the politicians who formed our Constitution more than two centuries ago were not politicians of the cheaper kind. That was a time when they . . .
Wes Vernon
March 5, 2016
President Romney – whose brilliant strategy to ride to the White House by writing off 47 percent of the population fell...er...short of the mark – . . .
Wes Vernon
February 15, 2016
Antonin ("Nino") Scalia was one of the most brilliant justices ever to sit on the United States Supreme Court. His deserved 30-year presence in that lofty . . .
Wes Vernon
February 8, 2016
Beneath the breathless and largely substance-starved wall-to-wall coverage of the presidential debates lies the transformational crossroads of America's post . . .
Wes Vernon
January 21, 2016
Number 1...This column does not endorse anyone in presidential primary races.
Number 2...Anything written during the primary season does not constitute an . . .
Wes Vernon
January 14, 2016
There are several separate efforts under way to make changes in the Constitution of the United States. Two in particular are of immediate concern:
1 – . . .
Wes Vernon
January 5, 2016
Though 2016 is the year we pick our next president, Americans also have good reason to approach that all-important event with another year in mind...2020.
. . .
Wes Vernon
December 15, 2015
The presidential debates this year have reached all-time highs in audience interest. There's a reason for that: Americans know their country is in trouble, . . .
Wes Vernon
November 6, 2015
You have got to be kidding! With all the losers that some backstairs heavy-hitters in the Republican Party have managed to present to us as presidential . . .
Wes Vernon
October 26, 2015
WEALTH, POVERTY AND POLITICS: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
By Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, $29.99, 310 pages
Herewith, please find a persuasive case for . . .
Wes Vernon
October 10, 2015
During this week's turmoil over the Republican would-be successors to House Speaker John Boehner, the Ohioan retracted his earlier timetable for leaving the top . . .
Wes Vernon
October 7, 2015
A lot of congressional "tradition" could be broken later this month when the floor vote is taken to replace House Speaker John Boehner.
By that time, the . . .
Wes Vernon
October 6, 2015
How can things go right in Washington? Lately, there has been little reason for conservatives to think they can. And we're not about to raise hopes only to be . . .
Wes Vernon
September 28, 2015
Help! Somebody rescue Madame Hillary! She is learning big-time what it's like to be on the wrong end of a presidential attack machine.
Recall the days when . . .
Wes Vernon
September 21, 2015
Eight years ago in this space, we raised the question as to whether the Rupert Murdoch media empire could possibly switch its ideological moorings from . . .
Wes Vernon
September 7, 2015
TAKEDOWN: HOW THE LEFT HAS SABOTAGED FAMILY AND MARRIAGE
By Paul Kengor
WND Books, $18.95, 238 pages
If you are puzzled that millions of mainstream . . .
Wes Vernon
August 10, 2015
Well! Well! Well! So this country does have a president who has finally found an "enemy" he can identify that seeks our nation's ultimate destruction.
The . . .
Wes Vernon
August 3, 2015
It is painful to witness the screech of someone suffering from self-inflicted wounds. Such is the case with establishment or "moderate" Republicans who can't . . .
Wes Vernon
July 30, 2015
It's 2018. Chuck Spelvin, American, now faces a dilemma. Last night, he read the riot act to his pre-teenage son, who had just been suspended from school. A . . .
Wes Vernon
July 13, 2015
President Obama's trusted community-organizing mentors have "drawn up a plan to implement one of the most outrageous attacks on free people ever known in the . . .
Wes Vernon
July 6, 2015
Hillary Clinton, the "all-but-inevitable" Democrat nominee for President in 2016, has finally "clarified" what she means when she declares that "Republicans are . . .
Wes Vernon
June 27, 2015
ADIOS AMERICA: THE LEFT'S PLAN TO TURN OUR COUNTRY INTO A THIRD WORLD HELLHOLE
By Ann Coulter
Regnery, $27.99, 392 pages
The subtitle of this Coulter . . .
Wes Vernon
June 8, 2015
MORMON RIVALS: THE ROMNEYS, THE HUNTSMANS AND THE PURSUIT OF POWER
By Matt Canham and Thomas Burr
The Salt Lake Tribune, $16.99, 373 . . .
Wes Vernon
May 4, 2015
It doesn't seem to matter anymore.
No matter which way you turn, no matter which exit you try to make a mad dash for (figuratively speaking), you barely miss . . .
Wes Vernon
March 20, 2015
A great (but humble) man left us last week. M. Stanton Evans: patriot, journalist, prolific author, philosopher, intellect, years-long professor, and clever, . . .
Wes Vernon
February 25, 2015
You are being robbed blind. If you've looked at your tax bill lately, that may not be a great shock to you. But the sheer genius by which American taxpayers are . . .
Wes Vernon
February 23, 2015
Does the President of the United States "love America"? Rudy Giuliani has given voice to the most widely believed, under-publicized "worst-kept secret" in the . . .
Wes Vernon
February 17, 2015
In less than two weeks, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is scheduled to announce its intent to deprive you of your right as a citizen to have access . . .
Wes Vernon
January 29, 2015
'HOLLYWOOD TRAITORS: BLACKLISTED SCREEN WRITERS – AGENTS OF STALIN, ALLIES OF HITLER'
By Allan H. Ryskind
Regnery, $29.99, 506 pages
At last. After . . .
Wes Vernon
January 19, 2015
So we will all live happily ever, right? A U.S. president seems to be giving us that assurance as he's set to make nice with Fidel Castro.
President Obama is . . .
Wes Vernon
January 15, 2015
THE [UN]DOCUMENTED MARK STEYN: DON'T SAY YOU WEREN'T WARNED
By Mark Steyn
Regnery Publishing, $29.99, 441 pages
Mark Steyn's appeal has spread quickly in . . .
Wes Vernon
December 22, 2014
Jon Huntsman, Sr., Utah's wealthiest man, says Mike Lee, Utah's junior senator, is an "embarrassment" to the Beehive State.
It is not unexpected that the . . .
Wes Vernon
December 18, 2014
Former CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson is the kind of intrepid reporter who will pursue the tough investigations no matter how many doors are slammed in . . .
Wes Vernon
November 25, 2014
'STOP THE COMING CIVIL WAR' by Michael Savage
Harper-Collins 334pp. $26.00
Reviewed by WES VERNON
Michael Savage is . . .
Wes Vernon
November 11, 2014
Ah, yes! A sentimental trip once again down memory lane. It's like old times! This movie we have seen before, and count on its return every time Republicans . . .
Wes Vernon
October 27, 2014
Power Grab: Obama's Dangerous Plan for a One Party Nation. By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
210 pp. Humanix Books $24.95
Reviewed by WES VERNON
. . .
Wes Vernon
October 20, 2014
There seems to be no end to the police-state atmosphere that emerges close to home with more frequency these days.
Texas, like most red states, contains . . .
Wes Vernon
October 16, 2014
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is on trial here. Remember that these were the wise old owls of the GOP who lectured grassroots Republicans that they simply . . .
Wes Vernon
October 9, 2014
By Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard 351pp
Henry Holt & Co. $30.00
REVIEWED BY: WES VERNON
"If you have read 'Killing Kennedy,'" . . .
Wes Vernon
October 7, 2014
The media will never let go of its historical narrative of the sainted Roosevelts – Teddy, FDR, and Eleanor too.
Alas, the one man in America who knew . . .
Wes Vernon
October 3, 2014
Conservative Internationalism: Armed Diplomacy under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan.
By Henry R. Nau 329 pp. Princeton University Press
Reviewed by . . .
Wes Vernon
September 19, 2014
Return with us now to the thrilling days of yesteryear with stranded polar bears, drowning Manhattan lecturers, British "editors" of "scientific" studies, . . .
Wes Vernon
September 11, 2014
At the time I'm writing this, President Obama is yet to deliver his anxiously-awaited speech to the nation, and we should soon know whether he is serious about . . .
Wes Vernon
September 9, 2014
This is just too delicious! Somebody wake me up. How long do you think I can take these beautiful dreams, only to reach the real world and find out I'm back in . . .
Wes Vernon
August 15, 2014
Back in the near-insurrectionist sixties, a left-wing pop artist, Barry Maguire, made a smash hit, "The Eve of Destruction." It was counterculture propaganda . . .
Wes Vernon
August 4, 2014
How to save yourself and your family from the criminal conspiracy of the Century. By Wayne Allyn Root Regnery Publishing 390pp $27.95
Within these pages, a . . .
Wes Vernon
July 14, 2014
NOTE: Prior to the 2012 election, this column ran a series raising the question as to whether that election would be our last free one. Then, as now, we were . . .
Wes Vernon
June 20, 2014
The Founding Fathers of the United States knew, and assumed it was a given, that the balanced recipe for freedom they had encoded in the Constitution they . . .
Wes Vernon
June 17, 2014
A veteran investigator and author believes Libyan missiles fell into the hands of Iran's Islamic regime during the disorder that characterized Libya before and . . .
Wes Vernon
May 16, 2014
What would you think of a United States senator who, with malice aforethought, uses his power to sic the IRS on private citizens whose politics he doesn't like? . . .
Wes Vernon
May 13, 2014
No doubt an old parlor game in Washington will emerge now that Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) has been assigned by House Speaker John Boehner to chair a special . . .
Wes Vernon
April 24, 2014
The Benghazi cover-up is opaque, convoluted, multifaceted, and rife with betrayal and heavy-handed efforts to shut people up. Even some of the most . . .
Wes Vernon
April 22, 2014
Apparently, we may conclude that the "core values" tolerated by the eminent Brandeis University include activities such as (for starters) female genital . . .
Wes Vernon
March 31, 2014
HARRIMAN VS. HILL: WALL STREET'S GREAT RAILROAD WAR
By Larry Haeg
University of Minnesota Press, $29.95, 375 pages
At last, someone has written one of . . .
Wes Vernon
February 24, 2014
It took a long time to arrive (about 80 years), but now we are entering what may be the fulfillment of a generations-long dream of aspiring monarchs (or worse): . . .
Wes Vernon
February 14, 2014
February 5, 2014, may go down in history as the turning point in the rescue of mankind from destruction. It was on that date that the Wall Street Journal . . .
Wes Vernon
February 11, 2014
American Civilization wiped off the earth, from the air or from the ground? Either poses a real threat to Americans. In just a split second, a city, state, or . . .
Wes Vernon
January 27, 2014
DOUBLE DOWN: GAME CHANGE 2012
By Mark Halperin and John Heilemann
The Penguin Press, 29.95, 473 pages
This is a book for political animals, especially . . .
Wes Vernon
January 6, 2014
Question: Why have today's Republicans tied themselves in knots?
Answer: Some of it is their own fault, passing up opportunities to go on offense when . . .
Wes Vernon
December 19, 2013
Let's accept certain basics as to what is going on and where we Americans are being led. The goal of those who do not like America or its culture is the final . . .
Wes Vernon
December 2, 2013
IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES: THE CASE FOR REMOVING BARACK OBAMA FROM OFFICE
By Aaron Klein & Brenda J. Elliott
WND Books, $25.95, 336 pages
Nearly everyone in . . .
Wes Vernon
November 21, 2013
On November 22, 1963, I had been employed at a radio-TV outlet in Salt Lake City for just a few days short of five months.
I arrived at work at about 11:30 . . .
Wes Vernon
October 28, 2013
When the Federal Election Commission (FEC) opened its doors 38 years ago, it drew a wary eye from those who feared the agency would end up as another taxpayer . . .
Wes Vernon
October 24, 2013
Here we go again: The Country Class (meaning principled conservatives who are determined not to leave their children and grandchildren permanently impoverished . . .
Wes Vernon
October 10, 2013
KILLING JESUS: A HISTORY
By Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
Henry Holt, $28, 289 pages
Having revealed many little-known facts in the assassinations of . . .
Wes Vernon
October 8, 2013
As I write this, many Americans are discovering (some in very personal ways) that they have been lied to (again) – this time about the heaven on earth . . .
Wes Vernon
September 27, 2013
America needs some serious thought among Republicans and conservatives as to a ticket that will uphold the basic principles of whatever is left of our America . . .
Wes Vernon
September 16, 2013
There is currently underway a concerted effort (step-by-step) to blur America's understanding of the century-long dismantling of the America we have come to . . .
Wes Vernon
September 9, 2013
There may come a day when we and others of the free world will have to confront Iran's nuclear ambitions in a "shooting war." But when that day arrives, it . . .
Wes Vernon
September 5, 2013
ALL THE DUPES FIT TO PRINT: JOURNALISTS WHO HAVE SERVED AS TOOLS OF COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA
By Paul Kengor
Introduction by Cliff Kincaid
America's Survival Inc. . . .
Wes Vernon
August 1, 2013
History may record the second decade of the 21st century as the era in which "the lying (at long last) had to stop." Any one of several factors may serve as . . .
Wes Vernon
July 22, 2013
Author's Note: Below is a lightly updated version of an article I penned for The "Accuracy in Media Report" in 2009. The italicized material is new (except for . . .
Wes Vernon
July 18, 2013
OPERATION SNOW: HOW A SOVIET MOLE IN FDR'S WHITE HOUSE TRIGGERED PEARL HARBOR
By John Koster
Regnery, $19.34, 350 pages
John Koster is not the first . . .
Wes Vernon
July 15, 2013
Inquiries to this column (in person or e-mail) have reflected at least a question in the minds of some Americans as to whether we are in the middle of a . . .
Wes Vernon
July 8, 2013
This is the column I did not want to write.
One despairs at the sight of 14 Republicans who voted for the Senate's Import More Democrats Act (an honest name . . .
Wes Vernon
July 1, 2013
Edward Snowden is everything Dick Cheney and John Kerry say he is. Now there's an "odd couple" for you. But yes, it is widely agreed that Snowden is in fact a . . .
Wes Vernon
June 25, 2013
We have noted in this space the unlovely governmental practice of covering up scandals that are politically embarrassing, with the truth to emerge
years or . . .
Wes Vernon
June 17, 2013
We have been trying in this series to point out the seemingly never-ending chain of lies and deceit to keep Americans in the dark regarding deliberate plots to . . .
Wes Vernon
May 27, 2013
For three years – including the full length of the 2012 election cycle – members of Tea Party groups and other conservative voices were silenced . . .
Wes Vernon
May 16, 2013
This nation, and those the world over who yearn for freedom, suffered a loss last week. Herbert Romerstein, easily one of the world's foremost experts on the . . .
Wes Vernon
May 9, 2013
OBAMACARE SURVIVAL GUIDE: THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU AND YOUR HEALTHCARE
By Nick J. Tate
Humanix Books, $19.95, 229 pages
There . . .
Wes Vernon
May 6, 2013
The Benghazi hearings that should have been held before the November election will now be gaveled to order on Wednesday of this week.
The Obama . . .
Wes Vernon
April 29, 2013
This will be denied – again. But the Obama administration has become so obsessed with covering up its own dereliction of duty in the Benghazi case (where . . .
Wes Vernon
April 25, 2013
Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy: Reforming the Structure and Culture of U.S. Foreign Policy
By John Lenczowski
Lexington Books, 212 pages, $70
. . .
Wes Vernon
April 8, 2013
Amongst the myriad twists and turns and subplots of World War II was the amazing efficiency with which Soviet agents in the U.S.O., Japan, and elsewhere around . . .
Wes Vernon
March 18, 2013
Six months after a terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, survivors of the savagery that left four Americans dead the night of . . .
Wes Vernon
March 7, 2013
(See Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4)
War is hell. Everyone knows that.
It's just that some chapters of any war imposed on innocent civilians are so hellish as to . . .
Wes Vernon
February 18, 2013
(See Parts 1, 2 & 3)
Unless public pressure is brought to bear on Congress, enemy propaganda is likely on its way to millions of American living rooms. The . . .
Wes Vernon
January 28, 2013
(See Part 1 and Part 2)
It is impossible to exaggerate the impact that infiltrators in the U.S. government have had with regard to advancing Soviet interests . . .
Wes Vernon
January 21, 2013
(See Part 1)
During and after World War II, Communists and their sympathizers right here in the United States agitated to bolster Soviet interests throughout . . .
Wes Vernon
January 17, 2013
Alger Hiss, Soviet agent inside our State Department, had far more influence at the Yalta Conference than previously imagined.
That is news, not history. In . . .
Wes Vernon
December 10, 2012
Americans may think that in casting their ballots, as millions of us did last month, they have given the winning candidates policy directions that will be . . .
Wes Vernon
November 29, 2012
Herald Square: A Novel of the Cold War
By Jefferson Flanders
Munroe Hill Press, $14, 380 pages
Capturing the "see no (or little) evil" mentality that . . .
Wes Vernon
November 26, 2012
50 THINGS LIBERALS LOVE TO HATE
By Mike Gallagher, Threshold Editions 319 pages
Taken page by page, this book is a fun read. Taken as a whole, it remains . . .
Wes Vernon
November 12, 2012
SPRING FEVER: THE ILLUSION OF ISLAMIC DEMOCRACY
By Andrew C. McCarthy
Encounter Books, $17.99, 157 pages
This is a scholarly work. When you read it, . . .
Wes Vernon
November 8, 2012
It is said the iconic songwriter George Gershwin's talent had reached such overwhelming proportions in the twenties and thirties that, along with popular . . .
Wes Vernon
October 25, 2012
(See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11)
We Americans don't like to think the unthinkable: a massive . . .
Wes Vernon
October 15, 2012
Every week we are confronted with the burning question: Which kind of tyranny does the Obama administration plan for us if it is granted four more years in the . . .
Wes Vernon
October 8, 2012
(See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9)
Ever since George W. Bush won the 2000 election through the Electoral College, . . .
Wes Vernon
October 1, 2012
President Barack Obama recalls that in his college days, he "sought out" the Marxist professors on campus. Judging by the way he governs, those may have been . . .
Wes Vernon
September 24, 2012
We have tried to make the point in this series: The 2012 race for the White House is not just another presidential election wherein our two-party system . . .
Wes Vernon
September 17, 2012
FOOL ME TWICE: OBAMA'S SHOCKING PLANS FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS EXPOSED
By Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott
WND Books, $25.95, 241 pages
"This is my last . . .
Wes Vernon
September 13, 2012
WHO'S COUNTING?: HOW FRAUDSTERS AND BUREAUCRATS PUT YOUR VOTE AT RISK
By John Fund and Hans Von Spakovsky
Encounter Books, $16.99, 254 pages
America's . . .
Wes Vernon
September 10, 2012
The political conventions do not appear to have changed many minds. The Democrats — having gathered after Labor Day when Americans were back to the normal . . .
Wes Vernon
September 6, 2012
This week's Democratic National Convention has trotted out several speakers capable to providing an object lesson in what a second term for Barack Obama in the . . .
Wes Vernon
September 3, 2012
Some polls indicate Mitt Romney got a 5-point "bounce" from his convention. So far, so good, but such post-convention boosts are usually . . .
Wes Vernon
August 30, 2012
The Republicans were thrown a bit off their stride by having to skip the first night of their convention on Monday, thanks to Tropical Storm/Hurricane Isaac. . . .
Wes Vernon
August 27, 2012
Vice President Joe Biden had planned to show up at the Republican National Convention so as to steal some of the GOP's thunder in Tampa. But we're told the . . .
Wes Vernon
August 20, 2012
(See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)
In diplomatic quarters worldwide, Barack Obama is perceived as either so weak, or ineffectual, or indifferent to . . .
Wes Vernon
August 13, 2012
(See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)
Five members of the House of Representatives have stepped forward and asked the Inspectors General of multiple . . .
Wes Vernon
August 9, 2012
(See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
No alliance — either worldwide or on our soil — is as under-reported as the collaboration between Communism and . . .
Wes Vernon
August 6, 2012
(See Part 1 and Part 2)
Months before Barack Obama assumed the presidency, many Americans seeking substance in lieu of "change" sloganeering had an uneasy . . .
Wes Vernon
July 19, 2012
Tons of cash are behind the giant and hostile metaphorical mowing machine that seeks to take down the United States. Big money. In our last column, we discussed . . .
Wes Vernon
July 16, 2012
A movie is about to be released that portrays what America will be like in 2016 if Barack Obama is re-elected. Will the presidential race of that year have all . . .
Wes Vernon
July 9, 2012
No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades . . .
Wes Vernon
June 25, 2012
As is the case with many others who have followed the uniquely anti-American path of this administration, the shock waves emanate not so much from the man . . .
Wes Vernon
June 18, 2012
Calling on Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, and the senators from your state (details below).
When Ronald Reagan arrived at the White House with an agenda to . . .
Wes Vernon
June 14, 2012
LEAK: WHY MARK FELT BECAME DEEP THROAT
By Max Holland
University Press of Kansas, 29.95, 285 pages
As America approaches the 40th anniversary of the . . .
Wes Vernon
June 11, 2012
Readers were warned at the outset of our our summation of pre-Cold War events that it would require an entire book — rather than a mere column — to . . .
Wes Vernon
June 7, 2012
Ronald Reagan won the Cold War by following his instincts and ignoring a lot of bad advice from establishment Republicans in and out of his administration. A . . .
Wes Vernon
May 28, 2012
It has been a century since Woodrow Wilson reportedly opined that young boys should grow up to be as unlike their fathers as possible. Whether he worded it . . .
Wes Vernon
May 24, 2012
The threat of an accelerated economic collapse after the November election (a concern feared by analysts for months) may be accompanied by rolling blackouts . . .
Wes Vernon
May 7, 2012
It has been 64 years since President Harry S. Truman pulled the upset victory of the 20th century, and historians still can't get enough of it.
Now comes a . . .
Wes Vernon
April 30, 2012
The time has long passed when we could afford to look the other way on the extent to which subversive influences — communist and jihad-oriented Islamists . . .
Wes Vernon
April 26, 2012
It is with a mixture of caution and fascination that one reviews a book by Michael Savage. Some toxic controversies in which he has been embroiled transcend his . . .
Wes Vernon
April 16, 2012
In a crowded field, it takes extraordinary perception (to say nothing of time) to choose the right candidate for public office. No such difficulty exists in the . . .
Wes Vernon
April 9, 2012
Several years ago during the Jesse Helms era, a top staffer for a relatively conservative East Coast U.S. Senator told me that Senator Helms was probably the . . .
Wes Vernon
March 29, 2012
The voters of Maryland's Eighth Congressional District have an opportunity in that state's primary next Tuesday (April 3) to help send to the House of . . .
Wes Vernon
March 26, 2012
TAFT 2012: A NOVEL
By Jason Heller
Quirk / Random House, $14.95, 246 pages
Let your imagination run wild: What if President William Howard Taft suddenly . . .
Wes Vernon
March 19, 2012
This column — here, now, and forever — rejects any and all invitations for membership in a Denounce Club. That is...where we are pressured to . . .
Wes Vernon
March 12, 2012
You may have heard the late Andrew Breitbart was initially alerted to the Democrat/media complex when that collaboration smeared Clarence Thomas as it fought to . . .
Wes Vernon
March 5, 2012
THE SECRET WEAPON: HOW ECONOMIC TERRORISM BROUGHT DOWN THE U.S. STOCK MARKET AND WHY IT CAN HAPPEN AGAIN
By Kevin D. Freeman
Regnery, $27.95, 220 pages
The . . .
Wes Vernon
February 27, 2012
Many viewers scratched their heads during a Republican presidential candidate debate when George Stephanopoulos, an erstwhile Clinton administration official, . . .
Wes Vernon
February 20, 2012
Patrick J. Buchanan has been fired by MSNBC. For years, the longtime author/columnist/commentator had served as that network's lone conservative voice.
That . . .
Wes Vernon
February 13, 2012
The candidacy of Rick Santorum for the Republican presidential nomination is scoring big time as I write. (Who knows if that will be the case by the time you . . .
Wes Vernon
February 6, 2012
The Republicans appear destined to slug it out for a few more rounds before landing on a candidate. But Republican strategists have their eyes on the target: . . .
Wes Vernon
January 26, 2012
What we witnessed Tuesday night on Capitol Hill was the oratorical version of a typical White House that one would expect on a Friday afternoon (i.e., when . . .
Wes Vernon
January 23, 2012
BEING GEORGE WASHINGTON: THE INDISPENSABLE MAN AS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN HIM
By Glenn Beck
Threshold Editions, $26, 351 pages
The life story of George . . .
Wes Vernon
January 16, 2012
In years past, incumbent office-holders more often than not could count on a popular passivity to enable them to get by on name recognition and thirty-second . . .
Wes Vernon
January 9, 2012
(See also: "Where are the rolling heads?" this column Nov. 14, 2011)
There is no effort within the U.S. intelligence community — as far as we know . . .
Wes Vernon
December 29, 2011
When the old (2011) gives way to the new (2012), the longer view comes into focus. All of which prompts the following....
Item 1 — Looking forward: . . .
Wes Vernon
December 19, 2011
The congested and crumbling condition of our surface transportation network is so acute that "almost anything" to bring about short-term improvement "will be . . .
Wes Vernon
December 12, 2011
The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) crowd (with White House ties) is the natural outgrowth of several generations of classroom Marxist indoctrination. Foremost has . . .
Wes Vernon
December 8, 2011
The mainstream media have pounced on every GOP presidential candidate widely perceived (correctly or not) as credibly equipped to articulate conservative issues . . .
Wes Vernon
November 28, 2011
RED ARMY: THE RADICAL NETWORK THAT MUST BE DEFEATED TO SAVE AMERICA
By Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott
Broadside Books, $26.99, 351 pages
America is . . .
Wes Vernon
November 21, 2011
THE ROAD TO SERFDOM: SPECIAL ABRIDGED EDITION
By Friedrich A. Hayek
Edited by Jameson Campaigne
Heritage Foundation, single copy available at no cost, 48 . . .
Wes Vernon
November 14, 2011
Let's just roll out the facts, and see what you think.
Start with the UN report
1 — The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has just confirmed . . .
Wes Vernon
November 7, 2011
For years, the government has been lying to us by low-balling inflation. Oh, but don't worry, you'll be OK. Just don't eat anything or drive anywhere — or . . .
Wes Vernon
October 31, 2011
Hollywood's revolutionary left apparently is willing to shed its fig leaf of respectability to produce a movie glorifying a violent pro-communist terrorist . . .
Wes Vernon
October 24, 2011
Former FBI informant Brandon Darby says the Occupy Wall Street movement "is nothing less than a current manifestation of an international revolutionary push in . . .
Wes Vernon
October 20, 2011
Not a single vote has been cast in the Republican presidential primary. Not one. Yet, the Republican Party establishment has decided for us that Mitt Romney is . . .
Wes Vernon
October 17, 2011
THIS IS HERMAN CAIN!: MY JOURNEY TO THE WHITE HOUSE
By Herman Cain
Threshold/Simon and Schuster, $25, 222 pages
Herman Cain has had little money and . . .
Wes Vernon
October 10, 2011
Cancel elections! "Take out" the "sons of bitches!" Send capitalists to "re-education [read concentration] camps!" Chop their heads off! Kill the bankers! Kill . . .
Wes Vernon
October 3, 2011
With two very high-profile enemies of the United States now out of the way, President Obama can claim — what? Not "Mission accomplished."
It is . . .
Wes Vernon
September 26, 2011
There's a lot of money and political activism idling on the sidelines — held in abeyance by key figures amongst Republican-oriented groups and individuals . . .
Wes Vernon
September 22, 2011
As this is written, we're looking forward to the next Republican debate. It's early in the election cycle, but not too early to be thinking about which . . .
Wes Vernon
September 19, 2011
The unveiling of Martin Luther King's memorial — now set for October 16 — brings to mind all the controversies surrounding his crusade, as well as . . .
Wes Vernon
September 12, 2011
HOLLYWOOD LEFT AND RIGHT: HOW MOVIE STARS SHAPED AMERICAN POLITICS
By Steven J. Ross
Oxford University Press, $29.95, 500 pages
Most Americans who pay . . .
Wes Vernon
September 8, 2011
"America's mayor," Rudy Giuliani, told a National Press Club audience Tuesday that there had been about 40 attempted/planned attacks on America in the ten years . . .
Wes Vernon
September 5, 2011
RAILROADED: THE TRANSCONTINENTALS AND THE MAKING OF MODERN AMERICA
By Richard White
Norton, $35, 515 pages
History has pictured the great railroad-driven . . .
Wes Vernon
September 1, 2011
Ho hum. Another conservative presidential candidate is trashed by the civility-talking media.
Rick Perry shoots to the top of the polls just days after . . .
Wes Vernon
August 22, 2011
Right up front, let us stipulate the following:
1 — I respect Warren Buffett. How can anyone not? Wall Street's most famous investor did not attain . . .
Wes Vernon
August 15, 2011
So how are things going for us in Libya? What's the latest? Haven't heard? Neither have I. That must mean things are going to hell in a rocket-ship, because . . .
Wes Vernon
August 4, 2011
"I love you guys," House Speaker John Boehner is reported to have said at a meeting with the tea party freshmen.
That comment despite the fact that those . . .
Wes Vernon
August 1, 2011
In 2008, Americans wanted a "different kind" of president. They got one, but the buyer's remorse in 2011 is pervasive. The much-maligned Tea Party movement . . .
Wes Vernon
July 25, 2011
"I think he's trying to destroy The New York Times," a newspaper editor opined to me shortly after worldwide media mogul Rupert Murdoch had acquired and poured . . .
Wes Vernon
July 18, 2011
In trying to cope with the debt ceiling, the Republicans are re-learning that the country cannot be run from Capitol Hill — not from both legislative . . .
Wes Vernon
July 11, 2011
Glenn Beck stepped on a lot of powerful toes while at Fox News, so it was no surprise that his three-year contract ended six months prior to its planned . . .
Wes Vernon
June 30, 2011
The "I" word is something one is well-advised to use sparingly lest it be abused and over-used. Impeachment is a constitutional option that has — during . . .
Wes Vernon
June 27, 2011
The timing for release of this book could not be better. The debt ceiling's claimed deadline approaches as Congress wrangles over how or whether to confront the . . .
Wes Vernon
June 23, 2011
The fact that bad people are elected to office and then appoint other people with questionable backgrounds should not shock anyone observing the trends that . . .
Wes Vernon
June 20, 2011
(See "Media Blackout," 6/13/11.)
A key leader of the Cold War-era Communist underground in the U.S. has verified the Communist affiliation of a man (Hugh . . .
Wes Vernon
June 13, 2011
If you have been depending on the mainstream media for your news the past few days, you are probably learning here for the first time that CIA Director Leon . . .
Wes Vernon
June 6, 2011
Not too long ago, a congressional staffer made the argument in a private meeting that in America as a democracy, the majority must always rule no matter what. . . .
Wes Vernon
May 26, 2011
Let's cut to the quick: The Democrats want to let Medicare go bankrupt. An accurate TV commercial would portray a Harry Reid lookalike (or Pelosi or Obama) . . .
Wes Vernon
May 23, 2011
Our signatures on the petition went out with Friday's mail. All we did was urge the state of Maryland to put a new ill-advised "special interest" law before the . . .
Wes Vernon
May 19, 2011
(See this column May 16, 2011.)
As more details emerge in the case of false accusations against Fairfax, Va., elementary school coach Sean Lanigan, it . . .
Wes Vernon
May 16, 2011
So some social workers tell us "Children never lie" about sexual abuse?
Garbage! Totally discredited herewith:
But first some perspective
Dr. Richard A . . .
Wes Vernon
May 12, 2011
(See this column March 24 & 28, and April 14.)
Hussain Al-Hussaini's comments to his therapist suggest there is much he knows about the Oklahoma City bombing . . .
Wes Vernon
May 9, 2011
First the good news: President Obama scored big by authorizing the Navy SEALs to kill Osama bin Laden.
The bad news: The anti-terror policy of President Bush . . .
Wes Vernon
May 2, 2011
Two very horrifying 21st century problems are front and center this week. They are inextricably linked. It is urgent that we deal with one — Obamacare . . .
Wes Vernon
April 25, 2011
There is ample reason to be skeptical that any meaningful solution to the debt crisis will result from the Senate's so-called "Gang of Six."
First of all, . . .
Wes Vernon
April 18, 2011
RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION: EXCUSE ME WHILE I SAVE THE WORLD!
By Andrew Breitbart
Grand Central Publishing, $27.99, 232 pages
Andrew Breitbart is a rebel with . . .
Wes Vernon
April 14, 2011
Terry Nichols, serving life without parole in the supermax prison ADX Florence in Colorado for his part in the Oklahoma City bombing (1995), says "John Doe 2" . . .
Wes Vernon
April 11, 2011
What would "Silent Cal" do? In his time, debt in the billions would have been considered beyond the scope of sanity; forget trillions. So how would Calvin . . .
Wes Vernon
April 4, 2011
There is a high risk — very close to a dead certainty — that no matter what happens in Libya, the results will be bad for the United States. In the . . .
Wes Vernon
March 29, 2011
THE BLUEPRINT: OBAMA'S PLAN TO SUBVERT THE CONSTITUTION AND BUILD AN IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY
By Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski
Lyons Press, 22.95, 304 . . .
Wes Vernon
March 28, 2011
The chairman of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations may soon hold new hearings on the credible allegations that a third man — this one . . .
Wes Vernon
March 24, 2011
So it's really no big deal when a guy is arrested for slugging another guy with a beer bottle, right? In this case, wrong! Police in Quincy, Massachusetts (a . . .
Wes Vernon
March 21, 2011
As Obamacare marks its first anniversary, signs of changes in the insurance and healthcare industries are gradually becoming apparent — even though the . . .
Wes Vernon
March 14, 2011
There were some dramatic and silly moments at the congressional hearings on Radical Islam's war against America this past week.
Homeland Security Committee . . .
Wes Vernon
March 7, 2011
Let's cut to the quick: Two more broadcast commentators dared to speak out on the infiltration of our society by the Radical Islam/far left coalition whose . . .
Wes Vernon
February 28, 2011
A highly interesting flow of information is making its way over the airwaves right under the noses of Washington's "political correctness" establishment. Are . . .
Wes Vernon
February 24, 2011
As far back as the 2008 presidential campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama let slip a vision for his own personal civilian army. Not to protect you and me from . . .
Wes Vernon
February 21, 2011
The lofty, privileged hear-no-evil see-no-evil advantage that Islamofascism has enjoyed in the United States may soon be a thing of the past. For starters, this . . .
Wes Vernon
February 14, 2011
The overwhelming majority of Muslims in Egypt favor the death penalty for those who leave the Muslim religion.
This, you see, is in line with Muslim custom . . .
Wes Vernon
February 7, 2011
Now that the Republicans have kept their promise to vote on Obamacare repeal (successfully in the GOP-dominated House, unsuccessfully — as expected &mdash . . .
Wes Vernon
January 31, 2011
With parts of the Middle East in flames (as I write), it is worrisome to contemplate the possibility that all the rioting in Egypt (however motivated by . . .
Wes Vernon
January 24, 2011
How many American lives are to be sacrificed on the holy altar of "political correctness?" Hundreds more? Thousands? Millions?
Whole new agencies have been . . .
Wes Vernon
January 10, 2011
Anyone who's watched Congressman Peter King on TV knows that he is fearless. The self-appointed gatekeepers of "political correctness" don't scare him.
. . .
Wes Vernon
December 20, 2010
The rejected, tone-deaf leftists in Washington, clinging to their last hours of congressional power, have attempted (with mixed results) to do everything . . .
Wes Vernon
December 9, 2010
Few outrages are so infuriating as a mainstream media blackout of relevant facts that pose threats to its agenda.
The most obvious Pravda-style see-no-evil . . .
Wes Vernon
December 6, 2010
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid remind one of the burglars who hear the footsteps of the house owners approaching the front . . .
Wes Vernon
November 29, 2010
There is a reason we call the current dead men and women walking on Capitol Hill "lame ducks." They have been rejected, discredited, disavowed, and repudiated . . .
Wes Vernon
November 22, 2010
The following is not a prediction. It is presented as a possible scenario for the near future:
The recent move by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to . . .
Wes Vernon
November 15, 2010
The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a Washington-based think tank, recently carried a favorable review of a book by Howard Zinn.
While the reviewer . . .
Wes Vernon
November 8, 2010
The time for reviving the House Committee on Internal Security is long past.
In 1975, the post-Watergate Congress abolished the panel that had functioned . . .
Wes Vernon
November 4, 2010
As of late Wednesday — with just a few close races yet to be settled — the Republicans stood to make a net gain of as many as 67 seats in the House . . .
Wes Vernon
November 1, 2010
The incoming (more conservative) Congress should add one more item at or near the top of its agenda: Bring back the House Committee on Internal Security (HCIS). . . .
Wes Vernon
October 28, 2010
Democrats in Nevada have been accused of using strong-arm tactics best symbolized in recent years by the likes of ACORN and SEIU, so as to steal the election . . .
Wes Vernon
October 25, 2010
The "Ruling Class" has been outed. Their icons are not as threatening as they used to be.
In the old days, if ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, PBS, the New York Times, . . .
Wes Vernon
October 21, 2010
In nation after nation, voters for decades have given charismatic Marxists the green light at the ballot-box. In each case, there were glowing promises of a . . .
Wes Vernon
October 18, 2010
This week, President Obama is spending some time in California trying to rescue the political fortunes of his most bitterly partisan Senate ally seeking re . . .
Wes Vernon
September 27, 2010
Transportation issues — like any other debatable causes — can provide fertile ground for those who dash about with propellers atop their heads. This . . .
Wes Vernon
September 20, 2010
"It is getting increasingly difficult to distinguish between the agenda of the Democratic Party, and the agenda of the Communist Party."
That analysis came . . .
Wes Vernon
September 13, 2010
If you tried to help a "protected" Obama constituency, you had better hope that your best efforts didn't fail. The Gestapo will have you in its crosshairs.
. . .
Wes Vernon
September 6, 2010
(See part 1)
Before Communist Howard Zinn died in January, he was actively spearheading an effort to inject his lying version of American history into the . . .
Wes Vernon
August 30, 2010
Even if the Republicans do well in House races this fall, many good policy moves that result can be undone in the Senate. That means we need to send the very . . .
Wes Vernon
August 23, 2010
The Ruling Class has declared war on the rest of us.
As Angelo M. Codevilla writes in the American Spectator, "Unlike the Ruling Class, the Country Class . . .
Wes Vernon
August 16, 2010
Maybe we should have the right to elect (or defeat) the faceless bureaucrats who presume the right to dominate our lives. Why not?
The problem
Dr. . . .
Wes Vernon
August 9, 2010
The Hate-America left scored big-time with its late Stalinist front man Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States.
Not surprisingly, . . .
Wes Vernon
August 2, 2010
Why am I not surprised that a leading Hollywood director is bemoaning poor, misunderstood Adolf's place in history?
Oliver Stone says his upcoming Showtime . . .
Wes Vernon
July 26, 2010
Denizens of the "liberal" media apparently really do get together and plot their propaganda line to be spread to an audience that — in their dreams — is . . .
Wes Vernon
July 19, 2010
Democrats have filibustered Republican court nominees without the slightest hesitation — for purely political reasons, as leaked memos have indicated. Senate . . .
Wes Vernon
July 15, 2010
Seasoned intelligence veterans are bewildered by the speed with which the U.S. agreed to exchange our 10 accused Russian spies in this country for 4 spies . . .
Wes Vernon
July 12, 2010
Add the free-swinging Internet to President Obama's control-or-destroy targets. That means they are going after you because the Internet is open to everyone. It . . .
Wes Vernon
July 5, 2010
Why should we be surprised to learn of a massive Russian spy ring in the United States? The Soviet Union is gone, but...
1 — The old KGB agent who wields . . .
Wes Vernon
June 28, 2010
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is right out of central casting as a stereotypical example of America's "ruling class" — i.e., out of step with the great . . .
Wes Vernon
June 17, 2010
The recent departure of Helen Thomas from the White House press corps struck a blow in favor of good journalism that has taken a battering in recent years . . .
Wes Vernon
June 14, 2010
As a phenomenon, political dirty tricks should shock no one in the adult world. Nonetheless, not every political precinct is in Chicago, and there is less . . .
Wes Vernon
June 7, 2010
Public outrage over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is quite properly at a high level as we see pictures of dead wildlife and oiled-soaked birds struggling to . . .
Wes Vernon
May 24, 2010
(See Part 1 — last week)
Is a law school dean who plays down Constitutional Law fit for the nation's highest court? Let's connect the dots.
DOT 1: . . .
Wes Vernon
May 17, 2010
President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, should share with us her view of Arizona's controversial immigration law. No excuses. The law's validity . . .
Wes Vernon
May 10, 2010
Two events of the past week serve as warnings to Americans: jealously guard your freedom of speech — it is your right under the first Amendment. Some . . .
Wes Vernon
May 3, 2010
(See Part 1, 9/14/09)
Because of illegal immigration, eighty-two-year-old widow Theresa Murray was a prisoner in her own home in Douglas, Arizona — a town . . .
Wes Vernon
April 26, 2010
President Obama and ex-President Clinton are inadvertently stumbling toward the intersection of two seemingly unrelated events. That combination of . . .
Wes Vernon
April 19, 2010
So here's the problem: The new nuclear START Treaty signed by the United States and Russia in Prague — combined with President Obama's Nuclear Posture Review . . .
Wes Vernon
April 15, 2010
The radical anti-American left is going back to doing what it enjoys best: infiltrating and disrupting gatherings of patriotic Americans, as well as trying to . . .
Wes Vernon
April 12, 2010
The big question is: Will America's head soon be on the chopping block? The world is witnessing a road-map as to how America can be destroyed.
No doubt . . .
Wes Vernon
March 29, 2010
Fake anger and indignation are the oldest weapons in the Marxist arsenal. And the Marxists now running the Washington show are following the "Reichstag fire" . . .
Wes Vernon
March 25, 2010
It's hard to decide the best historical metaphor for Bart Stupak — the "pro-life Democrat" who caved to Marxist-style pressure and gave Speaker Nancy Pelosi . . .
Wes Vernon
March 22, 2010
Lawmakers in the House of Representatives thumbed their noses at their constituents as they voted to provide a glidepath to federal takeover of a very personal . . .
Wes Vernon
March 18, 2010
Since our last visit earlier this week, House Democrats — in collaboration with the White House — have plotted what appears to be the ultimate end-run . . .
Wes Vernon
March 15, 2010
This may be the "make or break" week for America's survival as the free society that we cherish and consider our birthright. Whether the United States of . . .
Wes Vernon
March 8, 2010
Barack Hussein Obama has just presented us with more evidence that his agenda and his ego are so important that he is more than willing to sacrifice his own . . .
Wes Vernon
March 1, 2010
So President Obama invited the Republicans to drop by for a friendly chat on health care. Forget that jobs (Vice President Biden's "three-letter word") continue . . .
Wes Vernon
February 22, 2010
"They won't give up," and neither should you.
That warning was sounded by Glenn Beck, as he rallied the pro-American troops to do battle with the "they" who . . .
Wes Vernon
February 15, 2010
Because of two back-to-back snowstorms, this city of Washington and your federal government were shut down for four days in a row. You can bemoan or celebrate . . .
Wes Vernon
February 8, 2010
"Watch what we do, not what we say."
That helpful hint — once let slip years ago by a high government official — was meant to convey the message that we . . .
Wes Vernon
February 1, 2010
The Constitution of the United States says — "He [The President] shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend . . .
Wes Vernon
January 25, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court struck a huge blow for freedom by effectively saying to the jack boots, "You will not shut-up those who dissent from your perceived . . .
Wes Vernon
January 18, 2010
"We have been chastened," a Republican congressional leader solemnly told this column. After the humiliating defeats of 2006 and 2008, one would hope so.
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Wes Vernon
January 11, 2010
Prior to President Obama's most recent TV appearance to discuss the failed Christmas Day attempt to blow up an international flight at Detroit, his White House . . .
Wes Vernon
December 21, 2009
As this column has written, Washington is buried beneath well over a foot of snow and the city for two days ground to a standstill — except for the U.S. . . .
Wes Vernon
December 14, 2009
Almost any other presidency would by embarrassed by a report from within its own administration that exposes its number one legislative priority as an anti . . .
Wes Vernon
December 7, 2009
Our topic this week concerns enemy tactics against the United States and the urgent necessity to fight back. The occasion is the re-release of Blacklisted by . . .
Wes Vernon
December 3, 2009
The day after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor 68 years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt went before the nation and declared December 7 a day "that will . . .
Wes Vernon
November 30, 2009
The big media may think they can go on forever ignoring the Climategate scandal — whereby "respected" scientists have been caught red-handed doctoring . . .
Wes Vernon
November 23, 2009
The Health Care Reform packages in both the House and Senate — in addition to putting the government between you and your doctor and legislating limitations . . .
Wes Vernon
November 16, 2009
Rudy Giuliani is at his best when he's all fired up. Just as he was "America's mayor" during 9/11, so too — in a different sense — is he a hero when . . .
Wes Vernon
November 9, 2009
The media are playing the role of Mr. Magoo again.
Once more, an act of supreme violence occurs on our soil and the self-censoring media — led by the man . . .
Wes Vernon
November 2, 2009
(See Part 1.)
This (non-consecutive) series explores the danger that communism (in whatever form or cover) is alive and well around the world, albeit without . . .
Wes Vernon
October 26, 2009
In 1993, in the first year of Bill Clinton's presidency, the Republicans scored big, with victories in Virginia, New Jersey, New York City, and Los Angeles.
. . .
Wes Vernon
October 19, 2009
Before we even start this series, let's get one myth out of the way: Ronald Reagan did not "end communism." What Ronald Reagan did was to bring down the Soviet . . .
Wes Vernon
October 5, 2009
Good shot! John Mackey — the boss of Whole Foods — has struck a blow for freedom.
Unlike other businesses that have caved like cheap umbrellas when . . .
Wes Vernon
September 28, 2009
Will the politically radioactive "Cap and Trade" and "Health Care" bills be rammed through and take effect without a full stand-alone up, or down vote by your . . .
Wes Vernon
September 21, 2009
Know all ye who enter these hallowed halls on the Coney Island Boardwalk: You are about to receive a gift of the prescience, insight, and knowledge of the great . . .
Wes Vernon
September 14, 2009
It's bad enough that terrorist-collaborating communists are taking over much of Latin America. Bad enough that their Venezuelan ringleader, Hugo Chavez, confers . . .
Wes Vernon
September 7, 2009
Is it time to explore a new means of keeping parents up to date as to what their children are learning in school? Modern technology should facilitate that. . . .
Wes Vernon
August 31, 2009
"We're seeing the beginning of a peaceful — and I emphasize peaceful — revolt in America."
Thus spoke Senator John McCain at a townhall meeting in . . .
Wes Vernon
August 24, 2009
Robert Novak's most appropriate epitaph would be that he succeeded because he was true to himself. He was an insider's insider who was not swallowed up by the . . .
Wes Vernon
August 17, 2009
This past week, we have witnessed a brainwashing campaign worthy of Pravda from the old Soviet Union. The very ferocity of an Obamacare chorus could not have . . .
Wes Vernon
July 20, 2009
Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! — Get your "health care" snake oil. Right this way, folks! Only a limited time offer!
It's the greatest going-out-of-business sale . . .
Wes Vernon
July 13, 2009
When it comes to reasons why Sonia Sotomayor is not qualified for a seat on the highest court in the land, critics of the judge have an embarrassment of riches. . . .
Wes Vernon
July 6, 2009
America used to be the "shining city on a hill," as Ronald Reagan defined it.
That was then, this is now. Under President Obama, the U.S. is shrinking from . . .
Wes Vernon
June 29, 2009
Grassroots Americans need to use the Fourth of July congressional recess to contact their senators and urge them not to take the Waxman-Markey tax-grabbing . . .
Wes Vernon
June 22, 2009
President Obama should drop the disingenuous line that his plan to put America under the thumb of government-run health care won't interfere with your own . . .
Wes Vernon
June 8, 2009
The Stalinists in and out of government are sending the message loud and clear:
You have questions about President Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia . . .
Wes Vernon
June 1, 2009
(See Part 1)
There was a lot of hair-splitting during last month's two-day conference of the Cold War International History Project at the Wilson Center in . . .
Wes Vernon
May 25, 2009
Since the downfall of the Soviet Union, volumes have been written about that late superpower's penetration of American Society and its institutions before and . . .
Wes Vernon
May 18, 2009
Former Secretary of State James Baker has written an article suggesting the Obama administration "reach out" to (certain kinds of) Republicans on "Climate . . .
Wes Vernon
May 11, 2009
The trouble with many of the past ratings of America's presidents is that the "consensus" has been arrived at by academics who act alike, do alike, and think . . .
Wes Vernon
May 7, 2009
In a classic case of poetic justice, President Obama is getting some flak from his own Democrats in Congress on the issue of shutting down the Guantanamo Bay . . .
Wes Vernon
May 4, 2009
If you hope to leave your small business or your farm to your heirs, you'd better get all your papers in order and plan on dying in 2010. That is the year the . . .
Wes Vernon
April 27, 2009
"Activist" groups lavishly funded by multi-billionaire George Soros — the de facto leader of the Democrat Party — have ordered their puppet in the White . . .
Wes Vernon
April 20, 2009
This column thought it would be necessary for conservatives to make much more headway than they have so far this year before the Obama administration would . . .
Wes Vernon
April 13, 2009
The Obama administration and the Reid/Pelosi Congress are coming at us with so much threatening asininity — obviously aimed at overwhelming critics. Good . . .
Wes Vernon
April 6, 2009
For 32 years, the Soviet Union infused money and know-how into Cuba — its client-state just 90 miles from U.S. shores — until the flag went down on the . . .
Wes Vernon
March 30, 2009
April is "Cuba month" for the Obama administration.
The Observer, the Sunday edition of the UK's left-wing Guardian, approvingly tells its readers that the . . .
Wes Vernon
March 23, 2009
You are earnestly urged to believe that President Obama's Justice Department is seriously investigating a 39-year-old murder case involving his political . . .
Wes Vernon
March 16, 2009
Communist China has America by the throat. North Korea is making new warlike noises. And the Obama White House seems clueless.
One obvious reason our . . .
Wes Vernon
March 9, 2009
(See Part 1 — 2/9/09)
The just-concluded health care "summit" at the White House was so much window dressing, giving the appearance of hearing from "all . . .
Wes Vernon
March 2, 2009
The powers that be in Obama's Washington piously declare conservatism dead, but right under their noses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) drew . . .
Wes Vernon
February 23, 2009
This column reiterates its proposal to grant the citizens of the District of Columbia exemption from paying the federal income taxes that the rest of us pay. I . . .
Wes Vernon
February 16, 2009
Hear ye! Hear ye! Judge, Jury and Prosecutor (JJP) Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wants a "truth commission." Little things like . . .
Wes Vernon
February 9, 2009
President Obama has lost his pivotal health care "Czar." But forget about uncorking the bottles to celebrate. Someone will soon take his place.
Background
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Wes Vernon
February 5, 2009
During the campaign, some of us were concerned that Barack Obama, with his socialist background, would govern accordingly.
Many conservatives therefore . . .
Wes Vernon
February 2, 2009
I've thought long and hard before sitting down to write this assessment of the recently concluded presidency of Bush 43. Sorting it out requires considerable . . .
Wes Vernon
January 26, 2009
"With a stroke of the pen, he [President Obama] effectively declared an end to the 'war on terror,' as President George W. Bush had defined it."
So reads a . . .
Wes Vernon
January 22, 2009
Just a few hours after Barack Obama finished his inaugural address and as he was making his triumphant entry to the Oval Office of the White House, the Dow . . .
Wes Vernon
January 15, 2009
Despite some public relations moves to assuage our doubts, the Obama transition team appears to be formulating an administration that is quite happy to let some . . .
Wes Vernon
January 12, 2009
In Springfield, Illinois, the state House of Representatives voted to impeach Governor Rod Blagojevich for trying to corrupt the electoral process. Illinois and . . .
Wes Vernon
January 8, 2009
Picking up the pieces from the 2008 election is going to be an uphill climb as it is. Add to that an issue deemed so delicate that not one of the six candidates . . .
Wes Vernon
December 22, 2008
The problem with writing a tribute to the late Paul Weyrich is two-fold: (1) Where to begin, and (2) Can anything be said that begins to do justice to what this . . .
Wes Vernon
December 15, 2008
It is perhaps long past time that this column revisits the evidence that multibillionaire George Soros is implementing a well-crafted plan to mold America to . . .
Wes Vernon
December 11, 2008
Barack Obama's upcoming presidency gives many reasons for conservatives to be concerned. All the more reason that we stick to substantive provable issues, as . . .
Wes Vernon
December 4, 2008
The nine (at last count) candidates for the job of Republican National Chairman have been sent an eight-page questionnaire by one of the RNC's members — . . .
Wes Vernon
December 1, 2008
As U.S. counter-intelligence chases down terrorists and fights in the courts and in the halls of Congress to listen in on terrorists' telephoned plots and also . . .
Wes Vernon
November 20, 2008
Thirty states now have spoken through the ballot box against equating same-sex marriage with traditional marriage as it has been accepted for centuries.
For . . .
Wes Vernon
November 17, 2008
xWhen you're talking about taxpayer help for an industry that arguably is the very engine of our economy, flip answers won't do.
One of the considerations is . . .
Wes Vernon
November 13, 2008
He's more than two months away from being sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, and already Barack Obama has surrounded himself with people with . . .
Wes Vernon
November 10, 2008
A wise and longtime conservative leader told me the day after the election that "we will have to start over" but that — in terms of the silver lining — . . .
Wes Vernon
November 9, 2008
Here's a preview of what we're in for in the next four years of the much-vaunted "spirit of bipartisanship":
In the land of the free, we will witness the . . .
Wes Vernon
November 3, 2008
Two columns ago (see "Fixing the Economy," 10/27/08), we outlined policies intended to curb or stop the thirties Great Depression which instead actually . . .
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