Philip V. Brennan

A Nation of Wimps

What a bunch of wimps we are. We sit idly by, emptying our wallets to pay for costly foreign oil – a commodity always subject to potential disruption thanks to the ongoing and never ending political instability of the Middle East.

The blame game

It starts with an attempted murder by an unbalanced Arizonan but quickly escalates into a cause célèbre where, depending on your political orientation, it was either a senseless, unprovoked assault on a partisan politician or the act of a politically motivated activist.

Where Were Your People, Sheriff?

By the way Sheriff Dupnik while you are busy trashing some of the people of your state of Arizona as right wing extremists, you might just take the time to explain just where your people were when a left wing nut shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

There’s Always Hope

In the early fall of 1944 when I was in Pearl Harbor, en route back to the States to attend the Naval Academy Prep School, a front page story in a Honolulu newspaper caught my eye.

Climbing the Hill

A whole slew of brand new members of Congress are swarming into Washington, eager to begin what many hope will be a long career in the United States Congress. I have a few words for them.

Bye 2010 and a Tentative Welcome to 2011

The year that ends at midnight was, like all years, a mixed blessing. On the good side, it was a year that saw the Republican party win control of the House in the incoming Congress, while on the bad side it saw aberrations such as Obamacare squeeze through Congress, saddling the nation with a massive and expensive health care program we can’t afford.

You Can’t Say I Didn’t Warn You

Piers Corbyn is one smart cookie. The British meteorologist, astrophysicist and owner of Weather Action makes forecasts most weather experts deride but also invariably turn out to be uncomfortably accurate.

Christmas, 1777

I understand that times are tough with unemployment rising and the economy shaky at best, but things were a lot worse for our ancestors this time of the year at a place in Pennsylvania called VI understand that times are tough with unemployment rising and the economy shaky at best, but things were a lot worse for our ancestors this time of the year at a place in Pennsylvania called Valley Forge..

It’s Christmas Time – Celebrate!

We are about to celebrate a very special national holiday that evokes joyful memories of past Christmases and anticipation of the joys we will experience this December 25th.

Remembering the Enquirer and Generoso Pope

Tomorrow I am having lunch with a group of fellow former inmates of a journalistic insane asylum known as the National Enquirer. It will be an event similar in some ways to the reunions of survivors of wartime prison camps.

Who runs America?

(Note: I wrote this some time ago but it remains pertinent, especially now when the Federal Reserve is inflating the dollar on a massive scale.) "The real truth of the matter is, and you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. Since the days of Andrew Jackson." Franklin Roosevelt in a letter to Edward M. House (President Wilson's closest aide), dated November 23, 1933.

Lame Duck Session

As December arrives the 111th Congress, still in the hands of the Democrat majority, prepares to pass into history and the Democrat’s future as a decided minority in the House of Representatives.

The Constitutional Right to Travel

When a would-be dictator wants to rein in the rights of the citizenry one of the first steps he needs to take is restricting the public's right to travel. The ability to move around freely within your nation's borders is the ability to congregate with like-minded individuals all across your country who share your views, one of which may be opposition to the ruling powers.

Looking back

When I was a youngster, Veteran's Day was known as "Armistice Day" -- a day originally called that because is marked the end of the First World War. Now it is celebrated to honor all who served in past wars.

Opportunity to rein in the federal government and Barack Obama’s thirst for power

Speaker in Waiting John Boehner faces quite a few daunting challenges as he goes about the job of organizing the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives, not the least of which will be forging an overall consensus on the direction his GOP membership wants to take over the next two years.

Where Do We Go From Here?

It happened, thank God it happened - with the help of God and an army of angry and determined Americans, the United States of America can now begin to reclaim this nation from the hands of a power crazed horde of deranged socialist progressives.

A last Hurrah

Most satisfying outcome of yesterday's election is the resultant end of Mrs. Pelosi’s speakership along with the change in Committee chairmanships from Democratic to Republican which on the Hill is no small thing. Those chairmanships are where the real power on Capitol Hill lies.

50 Years & Counting

Fifty years ago today - Thursday October 28, 2010 - I was counting the final days until the Presidential election between Dick Nixon and John F. Kennedy was to take place on November 8th, 1960. I was just 34 years old and it was my first foray into national politics. Prior to that campaign all my efforts had been at the local level such as Congressional contests or just plain grass roots politicking, and I had thrown myself into my job as assistant to Jack Styles who headed the Nixon/Lodge Registration and Get-out-the-vote project. My work was just about done and my teeth were on edge since I was convinced that that election might be considered the most important in my lifetime and that the fate of the nation hung in the balance.

Who Really Done it?

Barack Obama has been barnstorming the country trying to prevent the onrushing electoral tsunami due to swamp his party on November 2nd when an angry electorate exacts their revenge against a president and Democratic party they believe betrayed them.

The Lady is no Tramp

She’s no Joan of Arc, brazenly presenting herself before her King and informing him she’d been sent by Divine authority to save his throne, but in presenting herself before Delaware’s voters, Christine O’Donnell has shown herself to be made of the same courageous stuff as the Maid of Orleans.