Dr. Brad Lyles

Essential Islam

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana Islam: The word, Islam, means submission, not peace. (Yes, Bush got it wrong). Allah commands believers to submit but also to compel unbelievers into submission.

Trump Says "Bye-bye" to FOX

Trump pounded another stake into the heart of today's so-called Mainstream Media.

National Review--a Titanic Failure

It is discouraging to find the National Review, home to a profundity of prominent pundits, attacking the frontrunner, Donald Trump, on the very eve of the first primary contest. "Conservatives against Trump?" Really? Even granting the authors good intentions, they accomplish nothing more than 'rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.'

Is There an Honorable Reason Trump is Trashing Cruz?

In the past few weeks Donald Trump has initiated his anti-Cruz campaign, referring to Cruz as a nasty man, and prior as a maniac, usually referencing the time Cruz called Mitch McConnell a liar--on the Senate floor--even though McConnell had publicly demonstrated serial lying in every arena on the planet.

Grand Slam x 7!

GRAND SLAM x 7! Trump, Cruz, and Rubio were the heavy hitters last night. Each crushed the ball over the fence and into the smirks of contemptuous intelligentsia eating foie gras in front of their 80” big screen TV’s. Christie and Kasich scored impressively as well. Bush and Carson held their own.

Trump for Dictator

A Dictator Trump, if benign, is our only hope for salvation. A President Trump would be bound by his own sense of propriety if not by the Constitution. The current Dictator, Obama, operates without any regard for propriety or the Constitution.

ISIS isn't the point

Sun Tzu and Mohammad agree upon the primary nature of warfare: “War is deception.” Sadly, our media, pundits and Republican candidates all fail to understand this lesson, assuming they are even aware of it.

The rise of Donald Reagan?

Dare we? Is it time to veer out of the sensible lane and into the fantasyland of pondering whether any candidate, much less The Donald, might compare with the greatest President of the 20^th century, Ronald Reagan?

The Liberal Gene

I’m not making this up. Donald Trump’s Muslim Proposal inflamed so much passion among Liberals they unconsciously revealed themselves to be the wild-eyed, emotional, illogical sorts we always knew them to be. The hysteria was so widespread, however, it begged further investigation into the eons-old question: Where do Liberals come from?

Trump’s Proposal Strategically Brilliant

Trump is a political genius! His Monday evening declaration – that we ban Muslims entering the country - “until our representatives can figure out what’s going on,” - is strategically magnificent! And the post-concussion polls tell us this.

Abrogation Explanation for Islamic Conflagration

The Quranic doctrine of abrogation provides a rational explanation for Islam’s mysterious duality, its simultaneous nature as a religion of domination/partnership, violence/passivity, supremacism/egalitarianism, and violent jihad/spiritual jihad.

ISIS Crisis Entices

It is a truism that the most important thing is never the obvious thing --the enticing thing. Currently, ISIS is the most enticing topic in the world of talking heads. Yet even though ISIS entices, far more dangerous events are at play in the world: The coming of a nuclear Iran.

Conflicted We Stand About Islam -- But We Don't Have To

Any reasonable stance about the nature of Islam invites both reasoned and unreasoned Commentary, and from all sides of the spectrum of belief systems.

Why I'm an IslamoVeryPhobe

Always pay attention to the man behind the curtain. Pay especial attention to:

Should We Fear Islam?

Islam conquered most of the known world within 100 years of Mohammed's death in 632, creating an empire larger even than Alexander's. Initially, Mohammed shared his experience of divine revelation peacefully. This was not successful. After 13 years of preaching in Mecca, Mohammed was unable to persuade more than 150 converts to the Faith. The Qur'an from this period, termed the "Meccan" Qur'an, otherwise considered the 'peaceful' Qur'an, contains the bulk of the Qur'an's comforting 'live and let live' passages, including Mohammed's revelations that "you have your religion and I have mine," or "there should be no compulsion in religion."

None so Blind

Americans no longer possess the visceral understanding of nuclear warfare possessed by inhabitants of the '60’s, '70’s and '80’s. Gone too are the days of Dr. Benjamin Spock climbing over nuclear facility fences preaching unilateral disarmament. The current generation of Americans, not seeing, not understanding, do not know they risk everything.

Unicorns and Rainbows

We Conservative Republicans have no more time to 'get it right.' For too long we've been content with the fact our arguments are principled, logical, supported by the evidence and by history. We Conservative Republicans are so right about economic and political matters, yet so wrong in our marketing and sales of Conservative ideas.

Calling and Raising Immigration Exploitation

On the evening of February 16, Federal Judge Andrew Hanen did the unthinkable. He dared thwart Obama’s Imperial Executive Amnesty Order. Judge Hanen went all in. Not only did he enjoin Obama and his agents from operationalizing the Five Million New Democrat Voter Edict, he enjoined them from any and all attempts to slip through any potential vagaries in the Court’s language.

Whither the B in LGBTQ?

The Complicit Media is in a twitter about the ascendance of Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown to the Governorship because she is alleged to be the first “openly bisexual” Governor in history.

"Nuts!" Sometimes it's the only answer

This week one of two Republican FCC Commissioners leaked the new “Net Neutrality” Commandments that will become policy/law by March. At the same time the FEC is mulling increased regulation of the Internet to prevent “politicking” in that medium.