Wes Vernon column
Wes Vernon is a Washington-based writer and veteran broadcast journalist.
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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 primed . . .
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 the . . .
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 government . . .
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 of . . .
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 the . . .
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 around . . .
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 do . . .
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 to . . .
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.
. . .
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. Senate. . . .
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 evidence . . .
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 speaking . . .
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 in . . .
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 Arizona . . .
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 (for . . .
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 House . . .
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 Soviet . . .
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
. . .
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 "this . . .
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 . . .
Wes Vernon
October 30, 2008
Horrors! The Barack Obama campaign has encountered a reporter who does not treat its candidate as royalty? What's the matter with this woman? Can't she "go with . . .
Wes Vernon
October 27, 2008
Confident an Obama victory will give them even more wind at their backs, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid anticipate a post . . .
Wes Vernon
October 23, 2008
Barack Obama has all but telegraphed his intent to shut up anyone who dares to blow the whistle on his connections to terrorists and crooks. Accordingly, Jerome . . .
Wes Vernon
October 20, 2008
"Our time has come...I can see a role for the Communist Party USA in the next period." Those words from Libero Della Piana, an operative speaking at the . . .
Wes Vernon
October 16, 2008
There are secretive Muslim military compounds right here in America. We're not talking about Mosques in our midst (where more than a few "Death to America" . . .
Wes Vernon
October 13, 2008
Just when John McCain gets up a good head of steam in this campaign, he pulls a switch and reverts to his futile posture of "reaching across the aisle" only to . . .
Wes Vernon
October 6, 2008
On January 21, 2009 after the inaugural balls of the night before regardless of whether the transition period between election and inauguration will have . . .
Wes Vernon
October 2, 2008
The style that emerged in the Sept. 26 debate between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama is exactly what presidential debates should have used right from the . . .
Wes Vernon
September 25, 2008
If Congress seriously wants to come to grips with the underlying causes of the credit crisis, there are some obvious starters available. We did not get into the . . .
Wes Vernon
September 22, 2008
Both presidential candidates took a few days to get their bearings and talking points in order after the beginning of the wild week on Wall Street.
McCain
. . .
Wes Vernon
September 15, 2008
The number one issue in this presidential campaign is Barack Obama and whether his ascension to the Oval Office in January will be good for the United States. . . .
Wes Vernon
September 8, 2008
The propaganda carpet-bombers keep telling us that Governor Sarah Palin's lack of foreign policy experience makes her unfit to be "one heartbeat away" from the . . .
Wes Vernon
September 6, 2008
Any party that has to fight the enemy right on the floor of its own convention is going into political battle with one hand tied behind its back.
Media and . . .
Wes Vernon
September 3, 2008
When the elite media forms a lynch mob to destroy not just someone's career but that person's life, they don't want any voices in their midst to sass them . . .
Wes Vernon
September 1, 2008
John McCain hit a home run right out of the ballpark with his pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. It has been a real shot in the arm to . . .
Wes Vernon
August 27, 2008
The Biden selection for VP on the Obama ticket apparently was enough to dissuade many Hillary Clinton supporters not to fight until the last dog is hung at the . . .
Wes Vernon
August 25, 2008
In taking the second spot on the Obama ticket, Senator Joseph Biden, Jr. adds a measure of assurance to Democrat party elders. The Delaware lawmaker is a . . .
Wes Vernon
August 18, 2008
If you're feeling a sudden excruciating pain in your back, you can be sure the label on the knife embedded there bears the names of five Republican senators who . . .
Wes Vernon
August 11, 2008
All rise! Queen Nancy Pelosi's version of the "People's House" is you agree with her or you shut up.
All hail, Your Majesty! We humble commoners are . . .
Wes Vernon
August 4, 2008
Rush Limbaugh has led the charge to penetrate and ultimately break up the liberal monopoly in the national media. Had that not happened, there would today be . . .
Wes Vernon
July 21, 2008
Let's not kid ourselves. We need to drill for more oil.
That is the crux of the message in the $4-plus per gallon at the pump. But the six-figure salaried . . .
Wes Vernon
July 14, 2008
This week's column started out as an attempt to sum up Jesse Helms' pivotal place in history and all that he has done for America. Soon came the realization of . . .
Wes Vernon
July 13, 2008
Though he never ran for public office or expressed interest in doing so, the late Robert Anthony "Tony" Snow had all the qualifications of a successful . . .
Wes Vernon
July 7, 2008
Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) has been in Congress for barely a year, and already his activism on behalf of America's values has marked him as a lawmaker destined for . . .
Wes Vernon
June 30, 2008
It is now a matter of record. The Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of America is against your right to free speech as guaranteed in . . .
Wes Vernon
June 23, 2008
The media have been criticized for their wall-to-wall coverage of the death of NBC's Tim Russert. But in truth, the Meet the Press anchorman genuinely was one . . .
Wes Vernon
June 16, 2008
The late Natalie Grant Wraga once wrote, "Protection of the environment has become the principal tool for attack against the West and all it stands for. . . .
Wes Vernon
June 9, 2008
(See Part 1)
In a normal world, anyone who says the best way to deal with bad economic times is to raise taxes would elicit some not-too-polite snickers. But . . .
Wes Vernon
June 2, 2008
First off, this is a column about national security period.
It is not about homosexuality per se. I don't want to know about whatever lawful activity two . . .
Wes Vernon
May 26, 2008
The frontrunner for this year's Democrat presidential nomination burst upon the scene from out of nowhere only in recent months. Two or three years ago, Barrack . . .
Wes Vernon
May 19, 2008
It is time to wipe the slate clean of campaign "reform" legislation enacted since Watergate gave us the scandal habit. Examples of "reform" failures abound.
. . .
Wes Vernon
May 12, 2008
Hey! You don't mind paying another 53 cents a gallon to fill up your car's tank, do you? Obviously you're feeling a little guilt-ridden at getting away with . . .
Wes Vernon
May 5, 2008
Senator John McCain the presumptive Republican presidential nominee remains an enigma. He stands up to those who want us to soft-pedal the source of the . . .
Wes Vernon
April 28, 2008
One could spend all his waking hours trying to unsnarl the multiple misconceptions and outright lies about Senator Joe McCarthy that have been spread over the . . .
Wes Vernon
April 21, 2008
Last week's Clinton/Obama debate opened a new door on an old coalition: What is it about Marxists (violent or otherwise) that attracts liberals (well-meaning or . . .
Wes Vernon
April 14, 2008
Let's start with the assumption that the "global economy" is here to stay.
Let us also entertain the notion one that we used to take for granted that the . . .
Wes Vernon
April 7, 2008
Through our crystal ball
The year is 2025 or thereabouts; pick another year if you wish, because this hypothetical scenario is a real possibility.
Russia . . .
Wes Vernon
March 31, 2008
The two-year presidential campaign has crashed and burned.
The Democrats
In this corner, ladies and gentlemen the party that is stuck with two badly . . .
Wes Vernon
March 24, 2008
The Clintons are at it again. There is no length to which these scheming affronts to plain decency will not go in order to protect themselves i.e., his . . .
Wes Vernon
March 17, 2008
"Man-made Global Warming," thy name is fraud.
Yet, fraud is precisely what the nation's indoctrination centers excuse me, schools are drumming into the . . .
Wes Vernon
March 10, 2008
Three events in my young life set me on a path that ultimately led to an adult-lifelong fascination with the writings, theses, and activities of the recently . . .
Wes Vernon
March 3, 2008
Dr. Bernard Lewis a British-American who is one of the most widely read authorities on the Middle East says, "Current trends show that Europe will have a . . .
Wes Vernon
February 25, 2008
In sum, Senator John McCain's problem is simply this: He has antagonized the wrong people in his party.
The Republicans
Not to take anything away from the . . .
Wes Vernon
February 18, 2008
On the issue of party responsibility, it appears we are back at square one.
The Democrats
Remember the "smoke-filled room." Those were "the bad old days." . . .
Wes Vernon
February 11, 2008
If there is anything the jackboots cannot take, it is humor at their expense. They don't like it when you sass them back in serious discourse, either. But a . . .
Wes Vernon
February 4, 2008
On the eve of Super Tuesday, conservatives nationwide were coming smack up against the prospect of their worst nightmare.... Hillary Clinton vs. John McCain. . . .
Wes Vernon
January 28, 2008
Another top leader in the Reagan coalition and the conservative movement says he will not vote for John McCain if the Republicans nominate him as their . . .
Wes Vernon
January 21, 2008
This is the story of what may turn out to be another chapter in the nearly 90-year-long crusade by the Highway Lobby to stifle dissent on the part of anyone who . . .
Wes Vernon
January 14, 2008
Back in August of 1968, Senator George McGovern delivered of himself a diatribe at the National Press Club here in Washington. In it, the South Dakota Democrat . . .
Wes Vernon
January 12, 2008
Herewith, the classic example of a humanitarian and selfless effort linked in a very meaningful way to our strategic interests in a far-off part of the world, . . .
Wes Vernon
January 7, 2008
Many conservatives are disheartened by the choices they perceive in the lineup of Republican presidential candidates.
Let's start off with acceptance of the . . .
Wes Vernon
December 10, 2007
(See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8)
So as recorded in M. Stanton Evans' new book Blacklisted by History Senator Joseph . . .
Wes Vernon
December 3, 2007
(See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7)
If a Drew Pearson radio commentary of the era is to be believed (and credibility of that hate . . .
Wes Vernon
November 29, 2007
(See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6)
In the spring of 1954, Americans sat glued with fascination to the black and white screens of the brand . . .
Wes Vernon
November 26, 2007
(See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)
The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy, spent the . . .
Wes Vernon
November 19, 2007
(See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)
When Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed on June 19, 1953, the spy ring through which they committed espionage did . . .
Wes Vernon
November 15, 2007
(See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
Under the Senate's "50-year rule," today's Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released in 2003 the closed-door . . .
Wes Vernon
November 12, 2007
(See Part 1 and Part 2)
As we read today's headlines about how China can trigger a 360-point plunge in the American stock market and threaten our economy . . .
Wes Vernon
November 7, 2007
(See Part 1)
Senator Joe McCarthy famously prefaced many of his anti-Communist speeches (including his very first in Wheeling, W. Va.) with "I have in my . . .
Wes Vernon
November 5, 2007
Much of the history of the Cold War has been blurred and obscured almost always in the direction of downplaying it. "Not to worry" was the mantra of the era. . . .
Wes Vernon
October 27, 2007
Pssst! Hey, middle class taxpayers: Congressman Charlie Rangel has good news for you. He's going to provide tax relief for 90 million "working families," as . . .
Wes Vernon
October 22, 2007
This column hopes to awake from a bad dream any minute now. Bad enough two of our protectors are in solitary confinement. But enemies who want to kill us are . . .
Wes Vernon
October 15, 2007
(See also "What's the rush?," Oct. 1, & "The World Dictatorship Treaty," Oct 8)
The problem here is the Law of the Sea Treaty, translated by this column as . . .
Wes Vernon
October 8, 2007
Only three Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee knew what the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) is, according to a recent survey. Only 3 out of . . .
Wes Vernon
October 1, 2007
Every time Americans tune out the chattering political class, that's when the one-worlders rush in for the kill.
The Law of the Sea Treaty
As Americans . . .
Wes Vernon
September 24, 2007
House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-NY) wants to raise taxes. Hillary Clinton wants to "pay for" her thinly disguised socialized medicine scheme by . . .
Wes Vernon
September 17, 2007
The late Fulton Lewis, Jr. one of the 20th Century's most astute radio commentators (for the benefit of our younger readers) grew impatient with "moderate . . .
Wes Vernon
August 27, 2007
Can Rupert Murdoch's New York Post switch its editorial policy from conservative to liberal? Sure, it could. The popular tabloid switched from liberal to . . .
Wes Vernon
August 20, 2007
Russia's bold move to plant its flag on the seabed of the North Pole is only the latest step in its ongoing assault on American property in the entire Arctic . . .
Wes Vernon
August 13, 2007
Some forty years ago when the civil rights movement eliminated legally enforced segregation (Jim Crow), we were told repeatedly that this would end ethnic and . . .
Wes Vernon
August 6, 2007
The president of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) has written a threatening letter to a scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) . . .
Wes Vernon
July 30, 2007
The Senate has been wrestling with legislation that the media echo chamber has framed as "helping sick kids," but which in reality is a step toward universal . . .
Wes Vernon
July 23, 2007
(See Part 1: The Plame affair, and Part 2: Mud-wrestle over peace talk sabotage?)
Looking back over a half century of reporting in Washington, Robert Novak . . .
Wes Vernon
July 17, 2007
(See Part 1: The Plame affair)
Syndicated columnist and TV commentator Robert D. Novak took a journey from a "middle of the road" flirtation with liberalism . . .
Wes Vernon
July 16, 2007
Republicans have been playing the role of the stupid party again. The Bush Justice Department (DOJ) tripped all over itself and got its own administration tied . . .
Wes Vernon
July 9, 2007
The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) whose U.S. operation conducts its business in secrecy in the bowels of the U.S. Department of Commerce is . . .
Wes Vernon
July 2, 2007
You struck a blow for citizen activism this last week. As we prepare to celebrate Independence Day, we can take comfort in the fact that "government of the . . .
Wes Vernon
June 25, 2007
The other night, Hannity's America on Fox replayed a tape of a public prayer offered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt for our sons who were fighting freedom's . . .
Wes Vernon
June 18, 2007
When the framers of the Constitution settled on that document that would guide this great nation in a way that would separate it from all others, a woman asked . . .
Wes Vernon
June 11, 2007
Not only should Scooter Libby be pardoned, Valerie Plame Wilson should be made to face charges of perjury.
The Senate Intelligence Committee a few days ago . . .
Wes Vernon
June 4, 2007
Imagine all the money we've wasted putting bank robbers behind bars. After all, they just "wanted a better life." How else are they going to feed their families . . .
Wes Vernon
May 28, 2007
Just as First Amendment supporters were uncorking the champagne bottles and toasting a victory in Seattle, along came the Capitol Hill commissars with plans to . . .
Wes Vernon
May 21, 2007
If we learn nothing else today, let's get this straight:
Denial of seating at a lunch counter because of one's skin color is a civil rights issue.
. . .
Wes Vernon
May 14, 2007
Those who scheme night and day to curb America's sovereignty never never ever ever give up. Possessed with something akin to the patience of the Asian mind, . . .
Wes Vernon
May 12, 2007
Let's see if we have this straight.
1 Six terrorists right here on U.S. soil plot to kill American soldiers. Those are the charges.
2 Thankfully, they . . .
Wes Vernon
May 9, 2007
As of this writing, nobody nobody in the mainstream media has seen fit to ask President Bush a fundamental question about the six identified "Islamic . . .
Wes Vernon
May 7, 2007
Ralph de Toledano told me not long ago that he had started to work on his memoirs. What a shame he did not live long enough to finish that work. It is a great . . .
Wes Vernon
April 30, 2007
It's not rocket science.
America's population is aging. That means a larger drain on Social Security, Medicare, and private pension funds.
It also means a . . .
Wes Vernon
April 23, 2007
It was December 1980 a month after the presidential election of that year and six weeks before Inauguration Day. The scene was a weekend cocktail party in . . .
Wes Vernon
April 16, 2007
The speech police bereft of ideas they are willing to subject to open debate want you to stop pestering your congressman and senators with letters, e-mails, . . .
Wes Vernon
April 9, 2007
This column, with the benefit of legal advice, proposes specific legislation to cut ambulance-chasing prosecutors down to size not to protect the guilty, but . . .
Wes Vernon
April 2, 2007
Under the Constitution, this nation's capital city is not entitled to have full representation in Congress. Many residents of Washington, D.C., complain of . . .
Wes Vernon
March 26, 2007
A hush-hush meeting held in Banff, Canada, last year seriously explored the issue of how to sneak (yes, that is the right word) sneak a North American Union . . .
Wes Vernon
February 26, 2007
Let's stipulate this up front: The U.S. health care system has its problems, and we cannot ignore them. It does not follow, however, that the answer is the . . .
Wes Vernon
February 19, 2007
The late Reed Irvine, founder of Accuracy in Media, a few years ago labeled as "The Scandal of the Century" the revelation that Harry Hopkins, alter ego of . . .
Wes Vernon
February 12, 2007
When a columnist gets angry, it is usually a good idea for him to count to 10 before putting it in writing. I've counted to 100 and still can't shake a total . . .
Wes Vernon
January 22, 2007
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum
"About the dead, say something good or nothing at all."
In observance of that Latin admonition, this column had planned to . . .
Wes Vernon
January 15, 2007
So the polls say Americans want us out of Iraq. Of course, the pollster rarely asks his interviewee to think through the consequences of whatever position he or . . .
Wes Vernon
January 11, 2007
Suppose someone told you 25% of this nation's oil production is threatened by polar bears? Would you deem that person a bit daft?
Well, brace yourselves, . . .
Wes Vernon
January 8, 2007
The cover-up of the trail linking Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime and/or other terrorists to the Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995 (last week Part 1: The . . .
Wes Vernon
January 1, 2007
As the hangman's noose gripped Saddam Hussein's neck for the murder of his own people, less well-known is credible evidence that his regime ordered an attack . . .
Wes Vernon
December 18, 2006
Maybe it's because I grew up during World War II, when we had a clear understanding that we were "the good guys" and our enemies were "the bad guys," and that . . .
Wes Vernon
December 11, 2006
Sources in a position to know say President Bush will not go along with any Social Security scheme that involves anything that remotely smacks of a tax increase . . .
Wes Vernon
December 5, 2006
Since this country is so sue-happy, maybe some trial lawyer can do something constructive for a change: Take legal action holding most of the federally-elected . . .
Wes Vernon
November 27, 2006
The late Defense Secretary James Forrestal famously remarked that if our "leaders" only made mistakes, they would occasionally make one in our favor.
Ralph . . .
Wes Vernon
November 20, 2006
Dιjΰ vu
Oh, no! Not this again! Say it isn't so, Mr. President!
Are we about to witness another wrenching period when a Bush falls all over himself to . . .
Wes Vernon
November 13, 2006
It pains this column to revive an old stereotype especially one that we thought Ronald Reagan had consigned "to the ash heap of history" along with the Soviet . . .
Wes Vernon
November 6, 2006
You are earnestly urged to believe that the attacks and dirty tricks used against Congressman Curt Weldon, a Pennsylvania Republican seeking re-election, have . . .
Wes Vernon
October 30, 2006
For decades, liberals and their media echoes have pounded home their sacred gospel of Act alike-Do alike-Think Alike. Their thoroughly racist doctrine says, . . .
Wes Vernon
October 23, 2006
Voters in Arizona's 8th Congressional District have an opportunity to send someone to Congress who shares their pro-American values. These people living right . . .
Wes Vernon
October 16, 2006
The late Speaker Sam Rayburn used to tell newly arrived congressmen that "around here, you've got to go along to get along."
It's not certain whether . . .
Wes Vernon
October 9, 2006
Here's what the denizens of the political class are doing right now:
Standing at the front door, they're saying, "Look here! See this new border security . . .
Wes Vernon
October 2, 2006
On the morning of Wednesday, November 8th, don't be surprised if you wake up, turn on your radio or TV, and hear the voice of billionaire George Soros saying . . .
Wes Vernon
September 25, 2006
Part 1: Clinton
Let's see if we have this straight. Bill Clinton was Commander-in-Chief for eight years, but in all that time he could not pick up the phone . . .
Wes Vernon
September 18, 2006
Ooops, sorry! The taxpayers of America you and I have shelled out hard-earned money to pay for the Valerie Plame hoax. What did we get for our money?
. . .
Wes Vernon
September 10, 2006
Five Democrat senators have sent a thinly veiled threat to Disney's ABC: Pull The Path to 9/11 or we will put you out of the broadcasting business.
The . . .
Wes Vernon
September 8, 2006
A talkshow host for ABC's radio station in Washington says he may resign if the Disney-owned network cancels the planned programming of The Path to 911.
. . .
Wes Vernon
September 4, 2006
Next time you stop at the pump and pay through-the-stratosphere prices to fill your car's tank, just ponder this: We are not repeat, we are not running out of . . .
Wes Vernon
August 27, 2006
You won't believe this. Or maybe you will if you run and hide when you hear, "Hi, we're from your government, and we're here to help you."
In this case, the . . .
Wes Vernon
August 21, 2006
Thomas Howard Kean, a Republican, is the last governor of New Jersey to leave office with his head held high.
His successors left legacies of either defeat . . .
Wes Vernon
August 14, 2006
"I don't know whether you guys know it yet, but this country's at war."
Those words in the new movie "World Trade Center" were uttered on 9/11 in a law . . .
Wes Vernon
August 7, 2006
As the one-time mayor of Chicago, Harold Washington, used to say, "Politics ain't beanbag." It's a contact sport.
We recently saw another example of that . . .
Wes Vernon
August 3, 2006
It's "the most brilliant strategy of the last century," according to one seasoned Capitol Hill watcher.
He was talking about the move by Senate Republicans . . .
Wes Vernon
August 2, 2006
Senator Rick Santorum is coming under vicious attack for his insistence that we stop calling our current conflict a "war on terror."
"Terror" is the merely . . .
Wes Vernon
July 24, 2006
Both houses of Congress need to set up committees or subcommittees to investigate treason that threatens the United States.
The internal threat
Nearly . . .
Wes Vernon
July 17, 2006
Like the clown-faced jesters that dance out onto the front of the stage during a classic Shakespeare performance, as if to say, "Don't forget us! We're here!", . . .
Wes Vernon
July 10, 2006
"Six scuds and a dud" is the way Fox News anchorman Brit Hume describes the North Korean missile tests.
That is true, but it should serve as a wake-up call . . .
Wes Vernon
July 4, 2006
Much of the mainstream media has a simple formula for dealing with an author's arguments it can't answer: Ignore them.
Or better yet focus on a . . .
Wes Vernon
June 12, 2006
Trying to make a dispassionate assessment of Louis Freeh's stormy tenure as FBI director is not something for those who lack an appreciation for varying shades . . .
Wes Vernon
June 5, 2006
As Congress returns this week, two very dangerous threats to this nation are on the table. Taken together, they facilitate a pattern: an attempt however . . .
Wes Vernon
May 29, 2006
Read my lips: Citizenship in this country is not a "civil right." It is a privilege. When 10 to 12 to 20 million illegals cross our borders and take to the . . .
Wes Vernon
May 22, 2006
Let's cut right to the quick. Porter Goss was sent to the CIA to clean up the mess there. As an old Washington hand, Goss had to know that, more often than not, . . .
Wes Vernon
May 9, 2006
Robert B. Carleson, a man who was as responsible as anyone for the presidency of Ronald Reagan, passed away late last month. Though his friends and fellow . . .
Wes Vernon
May 8, 2006
Robert B. Carleson, a man who was as responsible as anyone for the presidency of Ronald Reagan, passed away late last month. Though his friends and fellow . . .
Wes Vernon
May 1, 2006
"I love you! I love you more than anything!"
Those terrified last words into a cell-phone to a loved one from a woman passenger on the doomed United Flight 93 . . .
Wes Vernon
April 24, 2006
Both parties on Capitol Hill are on record: They are against free speech for you and me. Don't misunderstand. They are lions at the gate to block anyone . . .
Wes Vernon
April 17, 2006
The Republicans in Congress need help.
With only a little more than six months before the mid-term elections, there is growing concern the GOP may lose its . . .
Wes Vernon
April 10, 2006
Oooooooooooooh! Stop speaking the plain English language. Calling a spade a spade is so mean!
Once again, George Orwell's prophesy has reared its ugly head.
. . .
Wes Vernon
April 2, 2006
A Pentagon official who has been causing much discomfort to powerful people in two administrations has received lucrative job offers. One of them required his . . .
Wes Vernon
March 27, 2006
Picture a naοve, clueless, out-to-lunch person paying someone for the privilege of digging his own grave. That is not half as ridiculous as what the U.S. is . . .
Wes Vernon
March 26, 2006
Enjoy this website while you can. The enemies of free speech ever ready to shut up anyone with whom they disagree are out to terminate free-swinging . . .
Wes Vernon
March 19, 2006
Whenever the Democrats regain control of the White House (maybe about 2050) we should hope that the Republicans will at a minimum have a large minority in the U . . .
Wes Vernon
March 13, 2006
They buried Jack Anderson not long ago. Parkinson's disease caught up with him as, of course, he knew it would. A close relative of mine died of the same . . .
Wes Vernon
March 5, 2006
What? A former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban gets into Yale University on a U.S. student visa? You're kidding. This is a joke, right?
And you say not . . .
Wes Vernon
February 26, 2006
In the name of "tolerance," some of those protecting illegal immigration are becoming most intolerantly violent.
In Maryland, a leader of the Minutemen group . . .
Wes Vernon
February 22, 2006
February 20th, being the third Monday of the month, was George Washington's Birthday.
February 22nd was George Washington's real birthday.
There is not and . . .
Wes Vernon
February 20, 2006
The free world may soon learn it has just been bamboozled by one of the most clever and well-organized propaganda campaigns in the history of this planet. No . . .
Wes Vernon
February 12, 2006
Run for the hills! The "reformers" are about to invade our liberties. This time the excuse is "lobbying reform."
Much of the noise on Capitol Hill about "going . . .
Wes Vernon
February 5, 2006
The antique wing of the Republican Party once again is saying to Americans, "Hey, don't forget about us. We're here."
For years these RINOs (Republicans in . . .
Wes Vernon
January 30, 2006
House Republicans have an opportunity this week to do something meaningful to keep their majority.
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay decided not to . . .
Wes Vernon
January 29, 2006
To say that Iran's nuclear program is "scary" would be an understatement. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that Saddam Hussein was even more of a . . .
Wes Vernon
January 22, 2006
President Bush sent Porter Goss to be CIA Director so he could clean up the mess there. We knew it would take time. You can't do that overnight. But in wartime, . . .
Wes Vernon
January 15, 2006
With our hidden microphones, we now take you to the inner sanctum of a high-level meeting between the denizens of the fever swamps of the left and their puppets . . .
Wes Vernon
January 9, 2006
Editor's Note: What's it like to raise a family in Hollywood? To be a Christian in Hollywood? Wes Vernon put those questions to longtime pop recording and box . . .
Wes Vernon
January 8, 2006
The Senate confirmation hearings on President Bush's nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court will be contentious . . .
Wes Vernon
January 1, 2006
Intriguing, is it not? The inside-the-beltway liberal establishment was utterly scandalized that someone dared to leak to columnist Robert Novak the name of a . . .
Wes Vernon
December 18, 2005
For more than two years, we have witnessed the spectacle of a special prosecutor spending millions of dollars to haul reporters and government officials before . . .
Wes Vernon
December 11, 2005
Many of us who grew up with the "Christmas spirit" at this time of the year, and assumed it would always be there are more than a little tired of having to . . .
Wes Vernon
December 4, 2005
During World War 2, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to lock up some prominent isolationists, even though they had no connection with any subversive . . .
Wes Vernon
November 27, 2005
In 1978, incumbent Republican Congressman Newton Steers was targeted by a whispering campaign among his constituents in Montgomery County in Washington's . . .
Wes Vernon
November 17, 2005
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is "under a cloud." That Washington term means you may be pure as the driven snow, but as long as someone somewhere is . . .
Wes Vernon
November 13, 2005
The movie "Good Night and Good Luck" is a classic case of the winners writing "History" at the expense of the losers. There is no question that in the public . . .
Wes Vernon
November 6, 2005
The movie "Good Night and Good Luck" enshrines with a vengeance the myth that the late Edward R. Murrow was a White Knight who came to the rescue of an America . . .
Wes Vernon
October 30, 2005
Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the anti-free speech McCain-Feingold so-called Campaign Finance "Reform" Law, it was only a matter of time before there . . .
Wes Vernon
October 27, 2005
Mr. President: Accepting Harriett Miers' withdrawal had to be difficult for you.
Let me say I was not among those of my fellow conservatives who called on her . . .
Wes Vernon
October 24, 2005
On many fronts, the new alternative media is fighting off attempts to undermine and/or destroy it.
There is legislation on Capitol Hill aimed at driving . . .
Wes Vernon
October 16, 2005
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist took a 300-mile helicopter tour of the U.S.-Mexico border the other day, and vowed the Senate would deal in a meaningful way . . .
Wes Vernon
October 9, 2005
Columnists Charles Krauthammer and William Kristol have urged President Bush to withdraw the nomination of his counsel Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court and . . .
Wes Vernon
October 3, 2005
Senate Democrat leader Harry Reid has issued a statement, "I like Harriet Miers."
That is not a good sign. Any liberal senator who likes a nominee for the . . .
Wes Vernon
October 2, 2005
When New Orleans was flooded, looters took advantage of the crisis and grabbed such life-saving necessities as cameras, TV sets, and computers. Now a second . . .
Wes Vernon
September 26, 2005
The high-powered liberal establishment that runs Manhattan from the salons of the East and West sides and wields more than its share of clout across America is . . .
Wes Vernon
September 18, 2005
The people of the Gulf Coast need our help. Americans, as always, are opening their hearts and their pocketbooks to help those in need. Of course, we would. We . . .
Wes Vernon
September 13, 2005
If President Bush said what he meant and meant what he said during the campaign about the kind of judges he will appoint to the U.S. Supreme Court, he can make . . .
Wes Vernon
September 5, 2005
The Political Correct police have tried every which way to divide this country by gender, race, ethnicity, sexual preference, religion, and background.
They . . .
Wes Vernon
August 24, 2005
I don't want to die in 2010. I would hope to be around a long time after that. But I don't want to die for the IRS or for Warren Buffett. Huh? Read on, I'll . . .
Wes Vernon
August 22, 2005
We are at war. Hello? What part of "We are at war" does the Disney Company not understand?
ABC-Disney has fired Michael Graham, a talkshow host on Washington's . . .
Wes Vernon
August 15, 2005
QUESTION: What do liberals and hard core Marxists have in common?
ANSWER: They both wake up each morning wondering how they are going to punish success and . . .
Wes Vernon
August 9, 2005
Conservatives have two choices in dealing with President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court. They can assume Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. is a conservative . . .
Wes Vernon
August 2, 2005
So President Malaise has done it again.
Former President Jimmy Carter has trashed his country on foreign soil.
This man, whose blip on the historical radar . . .
Wes Vernon
July 22, 2005
There are three overriding issues involved in Washington's Summer theatre of the absurd: 1-The question of whether Karl Rove (President Bush's top aide) or . . .
Wes Vernon
July 18, 2005
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor chose to announce her forthcoming retirement just days after she had written a brilliant dissent to an outrageous . . .
Wes Vernon
July 11, 2005
WASHINGTON A huge insult to the heroes of 9/11 is in the making. And despite the wall of silence erected by much of the mainstream media (beyond a few local . . .
