I didn't hear of French until the Townhall group started mentioning his ridiculous opinions in defense of "conservativism". A real sicko with incurable TDS.
I has thought and said years ago that a society can progress when men act like men, true to their nature, but inhibited or controlled by the 10 commandments. When society is feminized to make men and women the same it will not long exist. California tried to make equal pay for equal jobs a reality. But to make equal the pay of male and female workers in the state they had to make working on road equal to working as an office clerk. Same hours same pay. They ended up with lots of clerks and not enough road workers. Who could have guessed. There maybe equally in good marriages but there usually is a division of labor. I joke with my wife every time I open a jar or fix a leaky faucet that I have job security. But when the children were home there were jobs I just wasn’t made to do. People like Sargeant live in a cosmopolitan society and don’t see the men who make the busses work and the subways run and bring water and electricity to their homes. Those men are invisible to them. They only see the men that do the same thing as they. The writers (not to demean writing) the academics lawyers and baristas at their favorite coffee shops. So feminizing the men who already do the same jobs is an easy thought experiment. A society surviving that way in the harsh reality of the world, not so much.
After 09/11, for a very short time, some women started noticing who the real men where - like cops, firefighters, military. I think that's gone - just as folks in NYC have forgotten 09/11.
It is the same reason they do not see God in their lives. If everything around them is man made and the only natural untouched thing they see everyday is the sky overhead, they get an inflated sense of themselves.
It is why we need to spend time outdoors in nature.
As Michael Savage said years ago: “Borders, language, culture.” Without secure borders and a common language our culture and country are at risk for disappearing. Enforcing immigration laws and deporting those who have violated those laws is the only way to preserve our great American civilization.
We are not like other nations. No ethnic purity...not like india, japan, or china...china still engulfing neighbors and trying to homogenize them. America is a melting pot of natioalities...some more melted than others. We are as a nation what we believe... and schools no longer teach a common agenfa. So I believe we are in trouble. Trump is trying to replant and irrigate the roots. Democrats keep digging them up and planting crab grass.
In a country as large as this, there will always be SOME illegals. The problems only become serious when you bring them in by the tens of millions, as FJB, of cursed memory, has proved.
All the more reason to strive for zero illegals, while maintaining the best possible standards and limits on the requirements for legal immigrants.
Someday the USA will wise up on anchor babyhood and chain migration. I looked it up once, and IIRC we are one of only two countries in the world who are so braindead as to allow "birthright" citizenship. I don't recall the other one but it was a very small place in Europe I think.
Actually, the way the 14th Amendment reads, "birthright" citizenship makes no sense; I guess it was snuck in by the Democrats when we weren't looking. The Amendment specifies - subject to the jurisdiction of the United States", which illegals are clearly NOT; by definition. And I have read the Senate debate in 1868 about that part, and what it really meant was that foreign ambassadors and such did not qualify; in those days Illegals were not yet any great concern.
If I remember right the 14th Amendment was solely for making sure that the slaves that were set free were not disenfranchised but that History class was a while back. Ambassadors fell into a different part of the laws.
No doubt about that, although I doubt that FJB understood that. The part he played in the White House was copied from that movie about the dead guy. Weekend with Bernie, I believe it was called.
"...pushing men to shed their sense of autonomy and find their own ways to be as dependent, and dependable, as women.”
Women are more dependable? As in, Randi Weingarten and her hundreds of thousands of public school teacher union members (vast majority of them female) refusing to go back into the classroom, when it was utterly safe to do so, and when remote "learning" was destroying education?
Anecdotally, I see the same thing at my university. It's the female profs who were the refuseniks about going back into classrooms, because the women really loved not having to come to work and "teaching" from a laptop in their comfy breakfast nook. The university disallowed remote "teaching" by the fall of 2021, and many of them kept fighting the rule. Some of them still do it occasionally, when they can get away with it. I don't know any male profs who do this.
I do think that women as a group are more obsessed with "Safety" and "being NICE"; and this is why they now dominate "safe spaces" like government work and education. But they never will dominate in road construction (except to regulate traffic, a task calling for the same level of managerial skills as preventing fights in kindergarten).
Actually they don't care a whit about real safety like the kind Charlie K. needed to have.
They only care about illusory safety. They're the Karens who give showboat lawyers the excuse to increase prices of everything with a battery of unnecessary and laughable warnings.
I love the thing about teachers being afraid to go back and teach their students, and then remember at the same time all I saw when driving around my town was "Thank You Teachers!" I wondered "thank them for what?"
With respect to education at all levels, can all of us just pause the “all education and educators are leftist loons” trope? Can we allow ourselves this moment to see the work of God in all of the affairs and institutions of mankind and rejoice at the progress he has made through his faithful people?
We will never defeat all evil and evil ideologies. But can we be grateful that brave men and women are in the trenches day in and day out suffering the “slings and arrows” of colleagues and administrators because their telos is to convey truth and Truth to our next generations? Secondly, those men and women educators K-Ph.D. candidates become sounding boards, advocates, and islands of comfort to students during turbulent classes or heartless attacks from lefty students, faculty, and administrators all the while deftly navigating hostile territory.
I stand for lighting a candle in the darkness rather than cursing it and abandoning young, conservative students to the looney leftists that want nothing more than to destroy them and their ideas. Charlie Kirk gave his life for those students. One of my daughter’s close colleague works at the university where that occurred and, because he was present, he was able to be with the shocked, grieving students when other professors cheered.
I may have said too much, ineloquently, and much too harshly than my heart intended. If these words have offended, think on this and all is mended…that you can just ignore me.
I know of two. Neither is in my college; one's in Kinesiology and the other in Business. I only know them by chance association. Female conservative profs are as rare as hen's teeth around here. Hell, they might be the only two!
Also, both are in their 60s, so no kids at home. Some of the female profs around me are young enough to have kids at home, and once remote teaching became normalized, they found that no one would begrudge them staying home whenever they wanted to do that for the sake of a sick kid or some other domestic issue.
But the childless ones also play this game. From what I see, many of our female faculty members would teach from home all the time if they could. And all of them will rationalize doing that—saying that many students prefer it, or that it works just as well as in-person teaching, etc.
All of that is horseshit. It is massively irresponsible.
Take heart. I can name you dozens of young (30-40) conservative, female Ph.Ds married with children and unmarried that, not only show up in person to class, but also travel frequently to be on the on the front lines to counter leftist lies with the goal of rightly-teaching political thought, our founding, philosophies, and other disciplines too numerous to list to Master’s students, undergrads, and especially important, high school history and civics teachers. Some are now being elevated to “gatekeeper” status to national, professional associations. More and more young, conservative women are graduating each year.
Yes, conservatives have a disadvantage as you know full well. But money is finally flowing to support especially free, high-school and undergraduate educational programs. For instance, last month The University of Austin, on their dime, invited young Ph.D.s to prepare professors to teach a course to correct nonsense, progressive ideas. And, if the attending professors teach the course in two years at their university/college. The University of Austin will pay each one an honorarium.
There are so many encouraging developments lately especially with young, conservative women. They have learned that progressives are too lazy to investigate their academic papers and assume every young, Ph.D. woman is just as looney leftist as they are. Small candles are being lit in the darkest places. Maybe not Harvard or institutes like it, though. We still have reason to hope.
You are wrong. Tenure protects conservative professors, too. As there currently more leftist professors and administrators, removing tenure will expose conservative professors to unwarranted firing.
There are so few conservative professors it is a statistical non factor. Liberals control higher ed. We are going to have to disagree on this issue I guess. Tenure is a dinosaur that prevents removing propagandists from the ed system. Ask yourself, why do they need tenure to protect them if they are merely teaching facts without undo bias?
You are wrong. Conservative professors are everywhere in academia. You hear and focus on the looney ones because the conservatives work silently beneath the radar. You are welcome to disagree with me because perception is reality. I choose to focus on the “day of small beginnings” and not to despise it and to watch God’s hand nurture the nascent work to his ends and purposes.
In answers to your question: not every discipline involves an objective answer. Consider the Humanities. Consider Theology. Conservative men and women of good faith differ in ideas but they shouldn’t stop talking for fear of dismissal. From where do policies derive? Theology, the Queen of the disciplines, Philosophy, Political thought….and so on. To disagree causes discussion and persuasion. Isn’t that the point?
“Former Walmart CEO Bill Simon has complained that the company now has to pay $14 an hour. He has also called for more immigration to reduce wages and lower inflation.“
If you’re making all your millions selling Chinese good and still upset over $14/hr wages, here’s an idea: Move all your damn stores to China!
Make no mistake, all big business types look for ways to get cheaper labor. There are 43M Americans receiving SNAP in some way. No one believes that they are all truly in need of those subsidies. The real truth is that too many people do not want to work and re-enter the labor force because they can make more money thru government assistance. Wages have not kept up with inflation and prices and this needs to be fixed, but to do so you need to reduce inflation and get the economy's balance back.
True conservatism was never really implemented until 2016, when DJT rode down the golden escalator. Up until that moment the so-called Conservative movement never did a damn thing to conserve anything. So it was not a total shock to watch all the supposed vanguards of the conservative movement come out in force AGAINST Trump, the French’s, Lowry’s, Kristol’s as well as a majority of purported Republicans in Congress. Trump ripped the mask off that Grand Old Party, because that was all they ever wanted: the cocktail parties and endless grift they’d accumulate feigning opposition to the Left.
There’s still many inhabiting Congress who don’t want what this country needs in order to survive. 2026 will seal the deal on this country’s future one way or another, either enabling Trump to lay a foundation for its survival, or the beginning of the end of our last chance in that noble project.
People still don’t feel economically better after living through four years of the Biden administration’s pillaging of the taxpayer, and the devastation wrought by COVID. It will take a while for that to happen, so much incalculable damage has been done for decades. But they’ve been conditioned to want instant gratification, instead of a character willing to endure even the slightest level of patience and sacrifice so necessary in this battle to right all the wrongs that have accumulated over decades of profligate spending, waste and incomprehensible fraud.
All those problems will not be resolved within this year leading up to the election. It’s a very long term project.
Will the American people rise to occasion and show themselves willing to stay the course? Or will they rebel and, like those suffering Hebrews in the wilderness, be led astray by rebels clamoring for them to turn away from our Moses, and go back to worshipping the idols who’d enslaved them?
That’s where we are in this country right now. Stay the course for the Promised Land, or turn our backs on it and return to certain slavery. This upcoming election will determine our fate.
Unfortunately, you have described our predicament aptly. Democrats are terrible, but the very worst are those pretending to be on our side while working to pull the rug out from under us. John Thune is a perfect example with his feigned defense of principle for not eliminating the filibuster.
He wants to stall and block Trump from implementing his agenda, and more importantly, embedding the agenda in law through legislation. Thune wants to run the clock out so the next Democrat can reverse all of Trump's Executive Orders. Thune is Deep State and he needs to be called out on it.
The very first thing Democrats will do when they take control of the Senate is to eliminate the filibuster and ram their wish list of American destruction through with no opposition. Our American Republic will be finished within THEIR first 100 days.
But Trump is a very stable genius. He is exactly correct in his call for a Mid-Term Republican Convention to rally his base and also reach out to those who realize the growing danger from the left's radicalization. He wants to avoid the complacency that leads to low turnout for off-year elections. But Thune needs to be forced into eliminating the filibuster so WE can ram our agenda down THEIR throats for a change. Thune is the titular head of The Stupid Party and he needs to be deposed.
I sincerely doubt that we'll ever get true conservatives in leadership. Way too many RINO's & the choice for the Senate was between Thune & Cornyn - I think Cornyn was a lot worse than Thune. Rick Scott (not really a solid conservative) didn't gain any traction.
2026 has to be done on a local level. The county and state Republican Committees need to Get out the conservative vote. You know the democrats will be promising "sunshine and rainbows". I noticed a few races around the country who had an incumbent ahead on Novemebr 4th only to see their lead slip away with Mail in Ballots that arrived after the forth.
The fact that mail in ballots are even still legal is beyond comprehension to me. And that states like CA can prolong election counting for weeks and weeks is flagrant cheating right in our faces!
Yet, nothing is being done by our feckless Congress to put a stop to it when they have the clear authority to do so.
I really, truly enjoy your column every morning. The problem is that your excellent and accurate description of things often makes my blood boil, which, right after coffee, makes for an upset stomach. We are constantly bombarded during the day with anti-Trump news and 'Breaking News' that may, or may not, be 'breaking'. Where are those that (like the dreaded Chinese) really analyze the 'Long Game'? What are the things we are doing now going to help or hinder us in 5 years, 10 years? If all the dumba** nay sayers would look at the effect of tariffs and control of same over the next 10 years, along with putting out fires of war, bringing manufacturing, oil production, and a litany of other things back to America - land of the free, home of the brave- leader of the free world, maybe they could see the rewards of playing the Long Game. The art of the deal isn't just for right now. It's for our kids and their kids and the world in general. Wake up dipshi**. Get your head out of your short-term a**. Sorry. It's Thursday, and what little patience for stupidity I have had to deal with this week has left me.
These people (on our side!) crying that Trump has to address affordability and high prices...bla, bla, bla. I'm sick of them. You just outlined the miraculous things Trump has already accomplished in less than a year that will bring immense benefits for years to come. Towns that were dying in middle America may spring back to life with new investments in industry. But I guess Trump is supposed to wave his magic wand and make prices return to what they were in 2019?
The left's greatest talent is playing the long game, while the right just reacts to the left. The left see's an imaginary problem & comes with a fix that makes it worse - then blame the GOP. And all the GOP can only do is to offer a solution to ease the problems created by the DEM's. It's like movie that keeps repeating. Obamacare was intended to fail so they could get us to single-payer eventually.
I'm not convinced that so many people on the right blame Trump for the high prices. Remember, if you want to weaken someone you go after parts of his coalition and support and try to convince people your leader is part of the problem. You chip away at his support exactly like what is happening.
This is exactly what is happening Redd, and I am not sure a lot of e-mails and calls are not BOTS or AI generated as Rush proved years ago. Still we must not let our guard down.
I would not say that prices returning to levels of 6 years ago would be unquestionably good, because while that would help some people, it would also hurt many. The best we could hope for would be an inflation level of no more than 1 percent.
And that would be a weighted average of ALL inflation levels, necessarily including many that would be going down. Personally I would cheer for housing prices seeing a substantial crash, something like what happened around 2008. While that would hurt people who incurred debt to buy at the summit, it would facilitate and encourage new family formation, which is always a good thing, except for doomsday-environmentalists.
Liberalism is an incurable disease, Don. Who is Nick Fuentes? Is that Tucker Carlson's sidekick? Being independent is a cultural asset if you have the gonads to take advantage of the opportunity. Good things come from unbridled leadership. One of my favorites in the current landscape is Jen Sey and XX-XY and her crusade to save women's athletics from the insanity of the penis ladies competing against women. The IOC has finally got it. Perhaps one day the NCAA will as well.
He had great success early in his career and now finds he needs to modify his thinking a bit to stay relevant. I think his problem is not that he wants to showcase different views, but the way he goes about doing so. He needs to walk a fine line and be objective without appearing to necessarily support his guest's positions. So far, he hasn't done a good job at that.
I agree Tucker has made some mistakes but I still appreciate his energy and attempt to violate the 'scripted style' of the mainstream media. Give him a chance to adjust if he has overstepped.
My opinion is he is trying really, really hard to be absolutely neutral in his interviews so as to attract equally both left and right guests to his show. That translates to large viewership but is a very difficult - maybe impossible - thing to do. There's no such thing as a 100% neutral human, interview, or answer to a question.
Very well said. I agree with you. He is trying to do the impossible in todays reality. It points out just how fickle and partisan the country has gotten. John Fetterman is another good example of someone trying to see both sides of arguments, but the left has put a hit out on him it seems. Yesterday he was the Dems fair haired boy, today their target.
Who is David French? He's a cuck who insists he's virtuous and we are knuckle draggers.
French, the author, et al have no clue what makes America work. They live in east coast bubbles where faculty lounge theories are spouted as if the gospel of Christ
Interesting how glowbull warming morphed into climate change as world temperatures remained stagnant or actually dipped a bit, leading to and I kid you not a group of scientists talking of a coming ice age[ shades of the 60-70s ] .
Women have been seeking and striving to supplant men since Genesis Chapter 3. In case you forgot, that's where satan beguiles Eve into thinking that God's plan for her and Adam was somehow just not really the way she wanted to do things, so she listened and whaddya know, here we are. And let us not forget either that it was Adam's weakness in resisting Eve's siren song that was the proximate cause of the Fall. Blame is equally shared when men and women abandon their proper roles and indulge in satanic fantasies.
Sergeant and French have overlooked the very important liberal case for silencing Karens any means necessary when encountered in public or private settings. Plucking those annoying hens would have a very soothing effect on the nation, raise test scores of K-12 students, lower crime rates and shrink the size of crowds at protests.
David French is beyond lame. Haven’t paid him a speck of attention for at least 10 years.
Who is this "David French" of whom you speak?
Really?? Google him. Used to be pretty good but he was infected badly with TDS.
Sarcasm. I often comment "Who [or what] is this "Item" of which you speak" on X.
Example:
Who is this "Bruce Springsteen" of whom you speak?
As if it matters.
Who is John Galt???
Now _that_ one matters.
I am with Richard ; I don't recall ever hearing of him .
🤣🤣🤣
French reminds me of some two-year-old in a highchair with Maypo on his head banging his spoon in a tantrum.
I didn't hear of French until the Townhall group started mentioning his ridiculous opinions in defense of "conservativism". A real sicko with incurable TDS.
He's as bad as Bill Kristol.
I has thought and said years ago that a society can progress when men act like men, true to their nature, but inhibited or controlled by the 10 commandments. When society is feminized to make men and women the same it will not long exist. California tried to make equal pay for equal jobs a reality. But to make equal the pay of male and female workers in the state they had to make working on road equal to working as an office clerk. Same hours same pay. They ended up with lots of clerks and not enough road workers. Who could have guessed. There maybe equally in good marriages but there usually is a division of labor. I joke with my wife every time I open a jar or fix a leaky faucet that I have job security. But when the children were home there were jobs I just wasn’t made to do. People like Sargeant live in a cosmopolitan society and don’t see the men who make the busses work and the subways run and bring water and electricity to their homes. Those men are invisible to them. They only see the men that do the same thing as they. The writers (not to demean writing) the academics lawyers and baristas at their favorite coffee shops. So feminizing the men who already do the same jobs is an easy thought experiment. A society surviving that way in the harsh reality of the world, not so much.
After 09/11, for a very short time, some women started noticing who the real men where - like cops, firefighters, military. I think that's gone - just as folks in NYC have forgotten 09/11.
It is the same reason they do not see God in their lives. If everything around them is man made and the only natural untouched thing they see everyday is the sky overhead, they get an inflated sense of themselves.
It is why we need to spend time outdoors in nature.
As Michael Savage said years ago: “Borders, language, culture.” Without secure borders and a common language our culture and country are at risk for disappearing. Enforcing immigration laws and deporting those who have violated those laws is the only way to preserve our great American civilization.
We are not like other nations. No ethnic purity...not like india, japan, or china...china still engulfing neighbors and trying to homogenize them. America is a melting pot of natioalities...some more melted than others. We are as a nation what we believe... and schools no longer teach a common agenfa. So I believe we are in trouble. Trump is trying to replant and irrigate the roots. Democrats keep digging them up and planting crab grass.
Great analogy!
Dims are also starting bush fires.
Well put R.B. !!
Illegal aliens also drive up the cost of housing.
They gotta live somewhere while they are here.
They also drive up the cost of medical care. Only so many doctors around ya know.
Basically having illegal in your country is a really bad idea… unless you can pass the cost of them off onto someone else.
Illegals are thieves simply put and theft increases the cost of EVERYTHING !!
Yes, and so are Communists.
Funny that..
In a country as large as this, there will always be SOME illegals. The problems only become serious when you bring them in by the tens of millions, as FJB, of cursed memory, has proved.
Probably true that it would always be >0.
All the more reason to strive for zero illegals, while maintaining the best possible standards and limits on the requirements for legal immigrants.
Someday the USA will wise up on anchor babyhood and chain migration. I looked it up once, and IIRC we are one of only two countries in the world who are so braindead as to allow "birthright" citizenship. I don't recall the other one but it was a very small place in Europe I think.
Actually, the way the 14th Amendment reads, "birthright" citizenship makes no sense; I guess it was snuck in by the Democrats when we weren't looking. The Amendment specifies - subject to the jurisdiction of the United States", which illegals are clearly NOT; by definition. And I have read the Senate debate in 1868 about that part, and what it really meant was that foreign ambassadors and such did not qualify; in those days Illegals were not yet any great concern.
If I remember right the 14th Amendment was solely for making sure that the slaves that were set free were not disenfranchised but that History class was a while back. Ambassadors fell into a different part of the laws.
This was on the orders of ozeros handlers who seek the destruction of the U.S. of A..
No doubt about that, although I doubt that FJB understood that. The part he played in the White House was copied from that movie about the dead guy. Weekend with Bernie, I believe it was called.
This is a good point. Who IS pulling o'bummer's strings?
O's from Chicago where the corruption runs deep. He has many paymasters I am sure.
"unless you can pass the cost of them off onto someone else" - guess that's us.
David French seems to be an illegal alien from the Bizarro World.
“Me think ICE make the street hot.”
Dry ice...
"...pushing men to shed their sense of autonomy and find their own ways to be as dependent, and dependable, as women.”
Women are more dependable? As in, Randi Weingarten and her hundreds of thousands of public school teacher union members (vast majority of them female) refusing to go back into the classroom, when it was utterly safe to do so, and when remote "learning" was destroying education?
Anecdotally, I see the same thing at my university. It's the female profs who were the refuseniks about going back into classrooms, because the women really loved not having to come to work and "teaching" from a laptop in their comfy breakfast nook. The university disallowed remote "teaching" by the fall of 2021, and many of them kept fighting the rule. Some of them still do it occasionally, when they can get away with it. I don't know any male profs who do this.
I do think that women as a group are more obsessed with "Safety" and "being NICE"; and this is why they now dominate "safe spaces" like government work and education. But they never will dominate in road construction (except to regulate traffic, a task calling for the same level of managerial skills as preventing fights in kindergarten).
The safety culture is led by women and followed by beta men. It is creating neurotic children who are afraid of risk.
They just use the safety culture and things like gun control to pick away at our freedoms to get what they really want, total control of society.
I've called them safety nazis for years.
Actually they don't care a whit about real safety like the kind Charlie K. needed to have.
They only care about illusory safety. They're the Karens who give showboat lawyers the excuse to increase prices of everything with a battery of unnecessary and laughable warnings.
I love the thing about teachers being afraid to go back and teach their students, and then remember at the same time all I saw when driving around my town was "Thank You Teachers!" I wondered "thank them for what?"
That's easy: it's the teachers' union that planted those signs, to thank the teachers for their own jobs.
Wow, I never considered that! I bet you are exactly correct.
With respect to education at all levels, can all of us just pause the “all education and educators are leftist loons” trope? Can we allow ourselves this moment to see the work of God in all of the affairs and institutions of mankind and rejoice at the progress he has made through his faithful people?
We will never defeat all evil and evil ideologies. But can we be grateful that brave men and women are in the trenches day in and day out suffering the “slings and arrows” of colleagues and administrators because their telos is to convey truth and Truth to our next generations? Secondly, those men and women educators K-Ph.D. candidates become sounding boards, advocates, and islands of comfort to students during turbulent classes or heartless attacks from lefty students, faculty, and administrators all the while deftly navigating hostile territory.
I stand for lighting a candle in the darkness rather than cursing it and abandoning young, conservative students to the looney leftists that want nothing more than to destroy them and their ideas. Charlie Kirk gave his life for those students. One of my daughter’s close colleague works at the university where that occurred and, because he was present, he was able to be with the shocked, grieving students when other professors cheered.
I may have said too much, ineloquently, and much too harshly than my heart intended. If these words have offended, think on this and all is mended…that you can just ignore me.
Not ignoring here.
Quite a few teachers - good ones - in my circle.
You are too kind! And encouraging you are surrounded by good teachers. What a blessing to treasure!
Do you have any conservative, female professors on campus that show up in person?
I know of two. Neither is in my college; one's in Kinesiology and the other in Business. I only know them by chance association. Female conservative profs are as rare as hen's teeth around here. Hell, they might be the only two!
Also, both are in their 60s, so no kids at home. Some of the female profs around me are young enough to have kids at home, and once remote teaching became normalized, they found that no one would begrudge them staying home whenever they wanted to do that for the sake of a sick kid or some other domestic issue.
But the childless ones also play this game. From what I see, many of our female faculty members would teach from home all the time if they could. And all of them will rationalize doing that—saying that many students prefer it, or that it works just as well as in-person teaching, etc.
All of that is horseshit. It is massively irresponsible.
Take heart. I can name you dozens of young (30-40) conservative, female Ph.Ds married with children and unmarried that, not only show up in person to class, but also travel frequently to be on the on the front lines to counter leftist lies with the goal of rightly-teaching political thought, our founding, philosophies, and other disciplines too numerous to list to Master’s students, undergrads, and especially important, high school history and civics teachers. Some are now being elevated to “gatekeeper” status to national, professional associations. More and more young, conservative women are graduating each year.
Yes, conservatives have a disadvantage as you know full well. But money is finally flowing to support especially free, high-school and undergraduate educational programs. For instance, last month The University of Austin, on their dime, invited young Ph.D.s to prepare professors to teach a course to correct nonsense, progressive ideas. And, if the attending professors teach the course in two years at their university/college. The University of Austin will pay each one an honorarium.
There are so many encouraging developments lately especially with young, conservative women. They have learned that progressives are too lazy to investigate their academic papers and assume every young, Ph.D. woman is just as looney leftist as they are. Small candles are being lit in the darkest places. Maybe not Harvard or institutes like it, though. We still have reason to hope.
Thank you!
You are welcome. As you may have guessed, I have strong opinions about this subject and refuse to suffer unwarranted criticism.
We will never change the makeup of college teaching staffs until we address tenure and remove it as a tool of the left.
You are wrong. Tenure protects conservative professors, too. As there currently more leftist professors and administrators, removing tenure will expose conservative professors to unwarranted firing.
There are so few conservative professors it is a statistical non factor. Liberals control higher ed. We are going to have to disagree on this issue I guess. Tenure is a dinosaur that prevents removing propagandists from the ed system. Ask yourself, why do they need tenure to protect them if they are merely teaching facts without undo bias?
You are wrong. Conservative professors are everywhere in academia. You hear and focus on the looney ones because the conservatives work silently beneath the radar. You are welcome to disagree with me because perception is reality. I choose to focus on the “day of small beginnings” and not to despise it and to watch God’s hand nurture the nascent work to his ends and purposes.
In answers to your question: not every discipline involves an objective answer. Consider the Humanities. Consider Theology. Conservative men and women of good faith differ in ideas but they shouldn’t stop talking for fear of dismissal. From where do policies derive? Theology, the Queen of the disciplines, Philosophy, Political thought….and so on. To disagree causes discussion and persuasion. Isn’t that the point?
Did they ever exist or did they become extinct?
Right-thinking women professors ALWAYS existed. And their ranks are growing. Please see my reply to Shoveltusker.
“Former Walmart CEO Bill Simon has complained that the company now has to pay $14 an hour. He has also called for more immigration to reduce wages and lower inflation.“
If you’re making all your millions selling Chinese good and still upset over $14/hr wages, here’s an idea: Move all your damn stores to China!
Yep, this from an outfit owned by arguably the richest family in the world, the Waltons .
Sam surely did not envision what his humble start was to be come. OR DID HE ??
Make no mistake, all big business types look for ways to get cheaper labor. There are 43M Americans receiving SNAP in some way. No one believes that they are all truly in need of those subsidies. The real truth is that too many people do not want to work and re-enter the labor force because they can make more money thru government assistance. Wages have not kept up with inflation and prices and this needs to be fixed, but to do so you need to reduce inflation and get the economy's balance back.
I would have bought from Walmart at the start when they were all USA but none were in California then.
I’ve never supported them, never been inside or ordered online bc now they are all China.
True conservatism was never really implemented until 2016, when DJT rode down the golden escalator. Up until that moment the so-called Conservative movement never did a damn thing to conserve anything. So it was not a total shock to watch all the supposed vanguards of the conservative movement come out in force AGAINST Trump, the French’s, Lowry’s, Kristol’s as well as a majority of purported Republicans in Congress. Trump ripped the mask off that Grand Old Party, because that was all they ever wanted: the cocktail parties and endless grift they’d accumulate feigning opposition to the Left.
There’s still many inhabiting Congress who don’t want what this country needs in order to survive. 2026 will seal the deal on this country’s future one way or another, either enabling Trump to lay a foundation for its survival, or the beginning of the end of our last chance in that noble project.
People still don’t feel economically better after living through four years of the Biden administration’s pillaging of the taxpayer, and the devastation wrought by COVID. It will take a while for that to happen, so much incalculable damage has been done for decades. But they’ve been conditioned to want instant gratification, instead of a character willing to endure even the slightest level of patience and sacrifice so necessary in this battle to right all the wrongs that have accumulated over decades of profligate spending, waste and incomprehensible fraud.
All those problems will not be resolved within this year leading up to the election. It’s a very long term project.
Will the American people rise to occasion and show themselves willing to stay the course? Or will they rebel and, like those suffering Hebrews in the wilderness, be led astray by rebels clamoring for them to turn away from our Moses, and go back to worshipping the idols who’d enslaved them?
That’s where we are in this country right now. Stay the course for the Promised Land, or turn our backs on it and return to certain slavery. This upcoming election will determine our fate.
Unfortunately, you have described our predicament aptly. Democrats are terrible, but the very worst are those pretending to be on our side while working to pull the rug out from under us. John Thune is a perfect example with his feigned defense of principle for not eliminating the filibuster.
He wants to stall and block Trump from implementing his agenda, and more importantly, embedding the agenda in law through legislation. Thune wants to run the clock out so the next Democrat can reverse all of Trump's Executive Orders. Thune is Deep State and he needs to be called out on it.
The very first thing Democrats will do when they take control of the Senate is to eliminate the filibuster and ram their wish list of American destruction through with no opposition. Our American Republic will be finished within THEIR first 100 days.
But Trump is a very stable genius. He is exactly correct in his call for a Mid-Term Republican Convention to rally his base and also reach out to those who realize the growing danger from the left's radicalization. He wants to avoid the complacency that leads to low turnout for off-year elections. But Thune needs to be forced into eliminating the filibuster so WE can ram our agenda down THEIR throats for a change. Thune is the titular head of The Stupid Party and he needs to be deposed.
I sincerely doubt that we'll ever get true conservatives in leadership. Way too many RINO's & the choice for the Senate was between Thune & Cornyn - I think Cornyn was a lot worse than Thune. Rick Scott (not really a solid conservative) didn't gain any traction.
Thune truly is a turd in the punchbowl ~!!
2026 has to be done on a local level. The county and state Republican Committees need to Get out the conservative vote. You know the democrats will be promising "sunshine and rainbows". I noticed a few races around the country who had an incumbent ahead on Novemebr 4th only to see their lead slip away with Mail in Ballots that arrived after the forth.
The fact that mail in ballots are even still legal is beyond comprehension to me. And that states like CA can prolong election counting for weeks and weeks is flagrant cheating right in our faces!
Yet, nothing is being done by our feckless Congress to put a stop to it when they have the clear authority to do so.
It is sooo beyond exasperating.
The GOPe will never acknowledge that cheating & voter fraud are problems. They love to throw in the word "rare" to describe any exposé.
Excellent, above all your description of the feckless "Conservative" establishment!
I really, truly enjoy your column every morning. The problem is that your excellent and accurate description of things often makes my blood boil, which, right after coffee, makes for an upset stomach. We are constantly bombarded during the day with anti-Trump news and 'Breaking News' that may, or may not, be 'breaking'. Where are those that (like the dreaded Chinese) really analyze the 'Long Game'? What are the things we are doing now going to help or hinder us in 5 years, 10 years? If all the dumba** nay sayers would look at the effect of tariffs and control of same over the next 10 years, along with putting out fires of war, bringing manufacturing, oil production, and a litany of other things back to America - land of the free, home of the brave- leader of the free world, maybe they could see the rewards of playing the Long Game. The art of the deal isn't just for right now. It's for our kids and their kids and the world in general. Wake up dipshi**. Get your head out of your short-term a**. Sorry. It's Thursday, and what little patience for stupidity I have had to deal with this week has left me.
These people (on our side!) crying that Trump has to address affordability and high prices...bla, bla, bla. I'm sick of them. You just outlined the miraculous things Trump has already accomplished in less than a year that will bring immense benefits for years to come. Towns that were dying in middle America may spring back to life with new investments in industry. But I guess Trump is supposed to wave his magic wand and make prices return to what they were in 2019?
His 2019 economy is why Covid was unleashed.
Bingo WT !!
The left's greatest talent is playing the long game, while the right just reacts to the left. The left see's an imaginary problem & comes with a fix that makes it worse - then blame the GOP. And all the GOP can only do is to offer a solution to ease the problems created by the DEM's. It's like movie that keeps repeating. Obamacare was intended to fail so they could get us to single-payer eventually.
I'm not convinced that so many people on the right blame Trump for the high prices. Remember, if you want to weaken someone you go after parts of his coalition and support and try to convince people your leader is part of the problem. You chip away at his support exactly like what is happening.
Correct , mostly misdirection efforts by the Dims .
This is exactly what is happening Redd, and I am not sure a lot of e-mails and calls are not BOTS or AI generated as Rush proved years ago. Still we must not let our guard down.
I would not say that prices returning to levels of 6 years ago would be unquestionably good, because while that would help some people, it would also hurt many. The best we could hope for would be an inflation level of no more than 1 percent.
And that would be a weighted average of ALL inflation levels, necessarily including many that would be going down. Personally I would cheer for housing prices seeing a substantial crash, something like what happened around 2008. While that would hurt people who incurred debt to buy at the summit, it would facilitate and encourage new family formation, which is always a good thing, except for doomsday-environmentalists.
Damn it J.W. , orange man bad doncha know,he be cuttin our gravy train off like a businessman think.
Liberalism is an incurable disease, Don. Who is Nick Fuentes? Is that Tucker Carlson's sidekick? Being independent is a cultural asset if you have the gonads to take advantage of the opportunity. Good things come from unbridled leadership. One of my favorites in the current landscape is Jen Sey and XX-XY and her crusade to save women's athletics from the insanity of the penis ladies competing against women. The IOC has finally got it. Perhaps one day the NCAA will as well.
There was a time when I appreciated Tucker. He made good points. It seems that nowadays he thinks that being "edgy" is his schtick.
I don't think it's working.
Tucker has entered a window 🪟 less room with a leaky toilet.
He had great success early in his career and now finds he needs to modify his thinking a bit to stay relevant. I think his problem is not that he wants to showcase different views, but the way he goes about doing so. He needs to walk a fine line and be objective without appearing to necessarily support his guest's positions. So far, he hasn't done a good job at that.
I agree Tucker has made some mistakes but I still appreciate his energy and attempt to violate the 'scripted style' of the mainstream media. Give him a chance to adjust if he has overstepped.
My opinion is he is trying really, really hard to be absolutely neutral in his interviews so as to attract equally both left and right guests to his show. That translates to large viewership but is a very difficult - maybe impossible - thing to do. There's no such thing as a 100% neutral human, interview, or answer to a question.
Very well said. I agree with you. He is trying to do the impossible in todays reality. It points out just how fickle and partisan the country has gotten. John Fetterman is another good example of someone trying to see both sides of arguments, but the left has put a hit out on him it seems. Yesterday he was the Dems fair haired boy, today their target.
Yes, Fetterman thrown to the dogs by Dems and Tucker by the right.
I wish our Congress had such strong convictions.
Who is David French? He's a cuck who insists he's virtuous and we are knuckle draggers.
French, the author, et al have no clue what makes America work. They live in east coast bubbles where faculty lounge theories are spouted as if the gospel of Christ
Good read today
What is galling about French is his claim to be a "righteous Christian" whose ideas spring from his superior understanding of the Gospel.
Beware false teachers like him.
They have their very own Unholy Trinity: Climate Change, Open Borders, and Abortion
Interesting how glowbull warming morphed into climate change as world temperatures remained stagnant or actually dipped a bit, leading to and I kid you not a group of scientists talking of a coming ice age[ shades of the 60-70s ] .
Yep.
And, old as dirt, I remember every stop on that insanity train. Like you and many here, I’m sure.
The iron fist of tyranny comes sheathed in the velvet glove of compassion.
Women have been seeking and striving to supplant men since Genesis Chapter 3. In case you forgot, that's where satan beguiles Eve into thinking that God's plan for her and Adam was somehow just not really the way she wanted to do things, so she listened and whaddya know, here we are. And let us not forget either that it was Adam's weakness in resisting Eve's siren song that was the proximate cause of the Fall. Blame is equally shared when men and women abandon their proper roles and indulge in satanic fantasies.
And then the devil whispered.... bus rides should be free.... take a bite of that Big Apple
LOL
I must channel what the Scarecrow said to the apple tree about Dorothy:
"Maybe she just doesn't like little green worms."
Bingo! It’s in the curse, too.
Sergeant and French have overlooked the very important liberal case for silencing Karens any means necessary when encountered in public or private settings. Plucking those annoying hens would have a very soothing effect on the nation, raise test scores of K-12 students, lower crime rates and shrink the size of crowds at protests.
Plus lowering everyone's blood pressure.
French cannot make a conservative case for anything because he is not a conservative. He merely says he is for commercial reasons.
It’s like I always say liberalism is a mental disorder. Libs are schizophrenic.