David L. Hunter

Blended politics and befuddled ideas

In this day and age of tenuous labeling of human behavior, fluid gender identity—and bathroom usage based on the whims of personality—now a self-described Socialist (the badly electorally challenged presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) isn't really what he says he is?

2016: "Nice" Losers, Nasty Winners

The presidential candidate of Midwestern nostalgia, Ohio governor John Kasich, is a nice man. Unfortunately, the 2016 election cycle is a meat-grinder: equal parts unpredictability and contentiousness, not decency. Therefore, “nice guy” candidates like the highly likable and eminent Dr. Ben Carson, in the same Kasich mold, trail badly in the polls.

Unearthing first president's slavery bones

In Courtland Milloy's “Washington's birthday got spotlight right: On his slaves” he fails to practice the ancient wisdom in the Latin phrase De mortuis nihil nisi bonum: “of the dead (say) nothing but good.” Last Monday—on what would have been George Washington's 284th birthday—our intrepid race-scribbler visited our first president's home, Mount Vernon.

President as celebrity-in-chief

TV's “The Apprentice” P.T. Barnum-style pitchman Donald Trump is riding the high tide of politician as celebrity. It may lead to an exclusive Pennsylvania Avenue address, but if so, he's not the first to get there.

Rare political football fumbles

Generally, I swear by the learned views of Washington Times columnists rather than at them. But these political "bedfellows" must have collectively got off the wrong side of the mattress Tuesday morning.

Missing toilet paper and asinine Democrats

In America, toilet paper is so plentiful, it's like it grows on trees or something. It's literally available everywhere. From big-box stores with industrial-sized multi-packs to conventional local retailers to neighborhood convenience stores. It's even available in dollar stores for the frugal. Likewise, it is found in unexpected places such as technology specialists like Staples. (Why does one need to buy toilet paper with one's new internet-ready laptop? Let's not speculate.) Yet, regardless of the quality of the business, all of these vendors have the same thing in common: all are for-profit, Capitalist enterprises.

Democrat primaries: Soviet style

Your name is Hillary Clinton. You run for president. Six different dead-locked precincts tossing tie-breaking coins all fall your way. Per Las Vegas oddsmakers, six consecutive appearances of heads-or-tails is a statistical probability of 1.5%. That's 64-to-1 against, an exceedingly lucky outcome.

Trump may be Citizen Kane, but not Lonesome Rhodes

Marc Fisher's Washington Post comparison of Donald Trump to 1957s A Face in the Crowd fictional movie character Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes, an anti-hero played brilliantly by Andy Griffith, is a superficial one at best.

The Corrupt Ivory Tower of Socialism

If elected leaders were fundamentally altruistic--unselfishly devoted to the empowerment of their fellow man--the theory of collectivism might have promise. The widespread sentiment would have to be consistently along the philosophical lines of JFK's "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." But it's not. The present generation of "Democrats" promote the polar opposite perspective.

Confusing Republicans with radicals

Why does The Washington Times give voice to the know-nothing Oren M. Spieglers of the world? As habitual liar Hillary is not exactly godly, why does Mr. Spiegler lean to support her?

Obama's faith: hidden in plain sight

As a so-called Christian Mr. Obama should easily recognize Romans 2:6 in which it is written: “God will repay each person according to what they have done.” Applying colloquial language to Scripture it means 'evaluate every person by their behavior not their words'.

D.C. government's dysfunctional lemonade stand

The D.C. license plate slogan "Taxation without Representation," just scratches the surface of the Orwellian farce that is the local D.C. government. Local politicians have been griping about statehood for the District for decades. Apparently to them, a mayor, a 13-member city council and a non-voting member in Congress, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), doesn't rise to the level of "representation" they seek.

W-a-l-m-a-r-t does not spell welfare

Apparently the liberal MSM and politicians confuse the name Walmart with the concept of welfare. The first is a publicly-traded retailer with stockholders that expect the company to remain profitable. The second is a government-sponsored entitlement program for the needy. The two are examples of entirely different economic animals: the first provides purpose, the semblance of independence and potential upward mobility, the second guarantees Socialistic stagnation and the status quo.

Angry voters' choice: new face or Clinton devil?

In the final analysis (while I affirm Ms. Crowley's optimistic tone) maybe so, maybe not. Indeed, it's scary when such monumental world-shaping choices are seemingly left to the whims of fate. Recall 2012, despite obvious foreign and domestic policy disasters, Mr. Obama--an utterly failed, ultra-Constitutional, pathological liar of a 1984-style despot--was re-elected.

WaPo's spoiled reporting, overt bias

Actual one-day headlines from the primary “news” pages of this Monday's Washington Post, Section A: 'Cuban-Mexican tension is a hurdle for Cruz, Rubio;' 'Rubio and cousin share blood ties but not political ones: He's a Democrat;' 'Rubio's strategic gloom' and 'Some Republican positions do not reflect the party I know.' By contrast, there are zero articles critical of Democrats despite 7 years of the ongoing, ruinous Obama Administration.

Lies, scandal sink relentless Clintons?

With all the 2017 pre-race enthusiasm of a yapping greyhound at the dog track Wesley Pruden is lured by the Pavlovian rabbit--the endlessly wafting pungent hamburger stink that is the many scandals of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Obama's Chicago crocodile tears

By sifting though copiously contrary newspaper reports Chicago has had the dubious and tragic honor of being America's murder capital in 2008 at Mr. Obama's first election and 4 out of the 7 years, 2012-15 of his presidency thus far.

Star Bill Cosby's shameful fall

The reality is that all individuals are fallible. Even those that rise to the status of cultural icons like Bill Cosby. Like all actors, his job depended on being a convincing pretender and player of roles. Mr. Cosby's most famous depiction was Dr. Cliff Huxtable, “America's Dad” in the classic '80s sitcom “The Cosby Show.”

Seeing black and white bookends 2015

At the end of any given year—or the beginning of the next—it is a common practice of many to soul search and reflect on the past. In this preoccupation, Washington Post columnist Lonnae O'Neal is no exception. Her concession—obvious to anyone familiar with her relentless race-based scribbling—is still a real whopper.

Paul Ryan: Democrat's beard

With enabling Republican chumps acting precisely with the fiscal abandon of Democrats, what's the difference? Who needs any of them?