Recently someone asked me what sort of people “qualified” as “white trash” given what passes for conventional wisdom in America. My response included such things as lower-income, undereducated whites with a preference for colloquial speech and occasionally, a proclivity toward racking up misdemeanor offenses. A healthy dose of low self-esteem generally helps, too. Indeed,...

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“I’ll go so far as to say that someone who is not keeping an eye on a group of six imams chanting in an airport waiting area and then spreading out on a plane and behaving in a disruptive manner, well that person is swimming so far upstream against the basic human wiring of...

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Don’t think for a minute that I live and die by what goes on at Fox News. I know the far Left thinks they’re the George Bush Network and the far Right thinks they’re too liberal. They may be guilty of imprudence for “giving life” to the Left’s more inane claims; for example, The...

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An article of mine appeared in WorldNetDaily the other day in which I flayed New York Congressman Charlie Rangel over his proposal to reinstate the draft as “class warfare-fomenting propaganda and race-baiting.” No, don’t click over to find it now; the ICBMs from North Korea won’t arrive for some time yet… Anyway, the column...

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“What’s the point? They’re all crooks.” – My father, on voting. As the U.S. Capitol custodial staff scrubs bloody chunks of the Republicans’ former majority from chamber walls, the more informed among us are left to our (hopefully more informed) conjecture. Have we moved into another dark age of far-Left preeminence, or will the...

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It will all be over shortly, for better or worse; many agree that the midterm election of 2006 is (or was, if you’re reading this after 11/7/06) perhaps more significant than will be the general election of 2008. It has been the ugliest, most calumny-ridden election season I’ve ever seen, for reasons that are...

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Once again, credit where credit is due: This column is the result of a conversation with a friend with whom I often discuss geopolitics – and an exceptionally creepy waking experience I had. This may be one of the weirdest pieces I’ve written; let’s just hope for our sakes that weird is all it...

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Some years back, certain recruitment advertising for the U.S. Marine Corps carried the slogan: “We’re Looking for a Few Good Men.” I’m thinking that the above title ought to be the slogan for the secular Left. Here’s why: Let’s presume that the homosexual lifestyle and the gay political agenda carry no deleterious societal effects,...

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On August 23, 2005, Christian broadcaster and one-time presidential hopeful Pat Robertson called for United States intelligence operatives to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, calling him “a terrific danger” bent on exporting Communism and Islamic extremism across the Americas. This was all true; Chavez, who has also made no secret of his desire to...

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It’s amazing what one can learn about politics – and people – from a ten year-old… My son (the ten year-old) saw the horrible condition of the starving people in Darfur (the Sudanese region in which human rights-related atrocities and ethnic cleansing have been going on since 2003) on a television news report. Every...

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The title line is from the vintage Bugs Bunny cartoons; it’s something Bugs would shriek when the irony just got to be too much. Whether or not Democrat operatives were involved in the timing of the release of information concerning former Florida Representative Mark Foley’s indiscretions is hardly germane to the issue of Foley’s...

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In the past week… During the Sept. 24, 2006, edition of “Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace”, former President Bill Clinton made an unequivocal, lavish display of precisely the kind of narcissistic, autocratic elitist he is (and presumably was as President), and how caustic, condescending and high-handed he can be even toward people who...

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idol: (n) 1: a representation or symbol of an object of worship; broadly: a false god. icon: (n) 3: an object of uncritical devotion; see IDOL. star: (n) 1 a: a natural luminous body visible in the sky especially at night. - Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition Movie idol, pop idol,...

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purge: (v) 1. The removal of elements or members regarded as undesirable and esp. as treacherous and disloyal. 2. To rid (as a nation or party) by a purge (n). - Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition Oh, but isn’t this going to conjure up images of cattle cars, gas chambers and Stygian vaults...

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As the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approached, there were some things I began to take note of which I believe merit serious study – but only by those Americans who actually care about the survival of free societies over the next thousand years or so. At the risk of waxing prophetic (and alienating...

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It really could happen, you know. I pray it won’t of course. At present, it is too early to tell whether Hillary Rodham Clinton has a good chance of becoming our nation’s first woman President; what alarms me is that its apparent she’s much more concerned with becoming its first empress. At this point,...

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By Erik Rush Remember Ma Bell? You know, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) and its Bell System operating companies that served America’s communications needs from 1921 until 1984, when it was broken up as the result of a lawsuit brought against the company by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding illegal practices...

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By Erik Rush Last week in my column “Race, Race, and more Race”, I elucidated on the (perhaps obvious) phenomenon of an inordinate percentage of our high-profile news stories inappropriately leaning toward the issue of race. I’m not going to subject the reader to a review of Desperate Housewives, the ABC primetime soap opera,...

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