Philip V. Brennan

How About Some Old Ideas?

Republicans are about to fall into an old trap cleverly set by the President. It concerns what in my days on the Hill was known as CRAP - the Constructive Republican Alternative Program - and Mr. Obama and his fellow Demagogues - oops, I mean Democrats - simply lust over the thought that House Minority leader John Boehner falling for it anew.

A Very Live Tiger

"If you are trying to sell books or magazines or get clicks for your website, Republican Party star Sarah Palin is the gift that keeps giving." The Christian Science Monitor

After November, What?

It seems that a Republican takeover of the House is already seen as a fait accompli with a similar result in the Senate a remote possibility.

The Yanks are Coming

That the Yanks are coming, The Yanks are coming, The drums rum-tumming Ev'rywhere. So prepare, say a pray'r, Send the word, send the word to beware. We'll be over, we're coming over, And we won't come back till it's over Over there. -- George M. Cohan, WW I Glenn Beck has transformed that stirring WW I battle cry to read "Over Here."

Just what is Barack Obama?

There's something of a modest firestorm building over the question of Barack Hussein Obama's religious faith. Some insist on taking his word that he is a Christian while others say he is, like his father and his Kenyan relatives, and his step-father, a Muslim

Let the Good Times Roll

I suspect that most folks reaching an advanced state of years like me tend to spend a lot of time recalling the past and wringing their hands over what has become of the nation since they were born.

Pipsqueaks with Nukes are still Pipsqueaks

"North Korea's military threatened Sunday to launch the "severest punishment" against South Korea for staging massive joint war games with the United States this week."

If Obama Goes …

(Tell it to the preacher, and the blessings flow Tell it to the teacher, but he don’t know) Tell it to the poor man under the hill, Tell it to the rich man makin’ his will, Tell it but you won’t know, Till the day of Jubilo. Till the day..of..Ju..bi..lo'

The Gods Are Angry

It is said that whom the Gods would destroy they first drive mad. It is becoming increasingly obvious that they are really enraged at us mortals – we’re about an inch away from the loony bin portals.

Dissing the Media

Anybody who accused members of the media of being little short of dedicated advocates of the liberal propaganda machine and adjuncts of the left wing of the Democratic party were routinely dismissed as right-wing nuts.

November Is A Long Way Off

It is the common wisdom that Republicans will score a significant victory in the coming Congressional elections and it has them salivating over the prospect of taking over control of the House and perhaps even the Senate.

The Passion of Mel Gibson

I don’t know Mel Gibson. A colleague who does tells me that Gibson admired my columns, notably the one I wrote about his last motion picture, The Passion of the Christ, for NewsMax.Com. And in my conceit I like to think that my book “Sindone: on the Shroud of Turin and what it tells us about Christ’s passion and death was among his research materials.

Mr. President, Karl Marx is Dead.

If you were President of the United States and determined to change our system of government from one that promotes and protects our cherished free enterprise system to one of a Marxist-based coercive regime you would recognize the need to do so without seeming to do so.

Howard is Dead!

Howard Atkins died last night. I know that most of you never heard of Howard, but if you lived anywhere between Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida you probably heard of him or shopped at his store, Howard’s Market in suburban Boca Raton.

Steele Wasn’t all that Wrong

Michael Steele has an unfortunate tendency frequently to insert one of his feet into his mouth. Recently, during a speech at a Connecticut fund raising event, he shoved a foot all the way up to his ankle and as a result has now come within a hair’s width of losing his job as the Chairman of the Republican National Committee.

G.O.P.: Use Kagan to Practice Your Filibuster skills this week. You’re going to need them late

If things go where they appear to be heading in November, you might have to hire a private eye to find a Democrat who managed to survive the coming onslaught – it looks like they’ll be a rare species on Capitol Hill after the first of the year when the hordes of victorious Republicans swarm over Capitol Hill and begin to give America back to the American people.

Memo to Glenn Beck: Joe McCarthy was Right - and the Left was Viciously Wrong

There are few people who I admire more than Glenn Beck. As a latter day Paul Revere he is alerting the American people to the to the real perils inherent in the Obama Administration’s drive to deliberately wreck the economy and impose a Marxist regime upon the United States.

Disarray

It’s no longer a matter of perception based on one’s partisan leanings – the disarray in the Obama administration is not only highly visible to the president’s growing host of critics, but to just about everybody not wearing rose colored glasses.

Hold them accountable

Last night during his address to the nation from the Oval Office, Barack Obama urged the Senate to pass what has become known as the Cap & Trade bill now awaiting action in the upper body.

BP: Perfidious Albion?

The wild Celtic blood that courses through my blood vessels tends to make me view anything amiss connected with the British as just another aspect of Perfidious Albion, (treacherous Briton) the cynic's time honored way of describing our English cousins.