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The Perils of Overreach, Part III

The Perils of Overreach: From Warning to Wreckage In my columns earlier last week-"The Perils of Overreach" on November 6 and its sequel, "The Perils of Overreach, Part II," the following day-I issued a stark warning to Democrats amid the then-37th and 38th days of what was already shaping up to be a disastrous government shutdown. Drawing on Harold Macmillan's timeless quip-"Events, dear boy, events"-I cautioned that their stubborn demands for $1.5 trillion in permanent Obamacare subsidy extensions, fueled by favorable early polls and a premature "blue wave" in off-year elections, risked unraveling under the weight of unforeseen chaos. Thanksgiving travel…

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Acknowledging the Pivot

Thune's Masterstroke Beyond the Smashmouth Sequence Ah, the Smashmouth Sequence-that razor-sharp blueprint laid out October 27, envisioning a brutal, four-day gauntlet of Senate votes designed to hammer Democrats into submission one filibuster at a time. It was a thing of tactical beauty on paper: Tuesday (October 28): SNAP emergency funding Wednesday (October 29): Troop pay Thursday (October 30): FAA safety net Friday (October 31): Clean CR knockout Each step calibrated to peel off 7–15 Democratic defectors, turning the shutdown’s pain points-hunger for 42 million, empty military wallets, grounded flights-into unrelenting headlines that screamed "Dems vs. America." As the column framed it:…

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Democrats’ Shutdown Resistance Is Done

It's All Over But the Shouting The federal government has been shuttered for 28 days-longer than any closure since the 2018–19 standoff-and the consequences are no longer theoretical. SNAP benefits for 42 million Americans expire in five days. Air-traffic controllers are rationing shifts, working double and triple overtime just to keep planes in the sky. And the last Democratic senator who might have held the line on principle-Jon Tester, the plainspoken Montanan who once stared down Trump on rural healthcare-isn’t even in the building anymore. He lost in 2024. The resistance is not merely crumbling; it is already over. The only…

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The Smashmouth Sequence

The Shutdown Is Over. Democrats Just Haven’t Stopped Bleeding Yet. They’ve already lost. Now it’s just pain compliance. In four days, 42 million Americans-17 million of them children-will lose their food stamps. The USDA’s contingency fund is legally barred from covering November SNAP benefits, and states are already drafting emergency plans that will collapse under the weight of demand. That is the SNAP cliff, now 96 hours away. Meanwhile, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)-the largest union of federal workers, representing 820,000 veterans, caregivers, and essential personnel-delivered a stinging rebuke of the Democratic strategy yesterday: “Both political parties have made…

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It’s Time to End Washington D.C. Home Rule

End the Experiment: Repeal DC Home Rule Now In the heart of our nation's capital, where democracy's gears grind daily, a brutal reality unfolded last August. Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, a young staffer for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), was savagely attacked by a mob of up to 10 assailants in the dead of night on Logan Circle. They beat him unconscious, stomped his head into the pavement, and attempted to steal his car-part of a violent spree that left other victims with broken ribs that same night. Only two teenage perpetrators were apprehended; the rest vanished into the urban…

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Democrats Own Jay Jones

Democrats Refuse to Police Their Own, So They Own the Fallout Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals Cut Both Ways The Democrat Party’s refusal to hold its own accountable for violent rhetoric, as seen in Virginia AG candidate Jay Jones’s 2022 texts fantasizing about assassinating Republicans and their children, mirrors a deeper assassination culture problem on the left. Documented by the Rutgers University Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), this trend normalizes political violence, yet Democrats dodge responsibility, inviting the backlash Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals prescribes. By not policing their own, they own the electoral and moral consequences. The Rules "Power is…

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The Democrat Rage Culture

The Blood on Democrat Hands In ancient Rome, the phrase Carthago delenda est-“Carthage must be destroyed”-was a rallying cry that turned a civilization into a target, fueling wars that ended in annihilation. In my earlier column, Democrats Delenda Est, I argued that the modern Democrat Party is fostering a culture where political opponents are not just rivals but existential threats and demands the electoral dismantling of the party’s radicalism to restore classical liberalism. The assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025, and the grotesque assassination fantasies of Virginia AG candidate Jay Jones provide chilling evidence of this rhetoric…

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Once a Terrorist

The Legacy of Marxist Terror: How the Left’s Violent Rhetoric Threatens Today The violent rhetoric emanating from the American Left in 2025, epitomized by the assassinations of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione and conservative activist Charlie Kirk by Tyler Robinson, is not a spontaneous outbreak but a direct descendant of the revolutionary Marxist terror glorified during the late 1960s and 1970s. Figures such as Joanne Chesimard (Assata Shakur), Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, and the Weather Underground, whose heinous crimes were reframed as acts of liberation, have been romanticized by progressive institutions, elected officials, and media gatekeepers. This glorification, bolstered…

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Tipping Point

The Powder Keg Awaits-Republicans Must Go Full Throttle In my September 9 column, "Justice in the Uncivil Society," I exposed the festering wound of "suicidal empathy"-a cultural cancer that coddles criminals while spitting in the face of the innocent, birthing vigilante fantasies from Dirty Harry to The Punisher. I warned that this progressive obsession, peddled by elites who’d rather hug a felon than protect a family, was unraveling civil society. Today, mere weeks later, that unraveling has hit a breaking point-a powder keg primed by soft-on-crime judges, Democrat demagogues screaming "Nazi!" and "Gestapo!" to incite rage, and a refusal to renounce…

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The Left’s Pattern of Violence

Bullets from the Blue Hive In the wake of September 2025's shooting spree-the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a drive-by attack on a Sacramento newsroom, and a "Free Palestine" rampage at a New Hampshire wedding-we see a clear pattern: Violence from the left, enabled by rhetoric and platforms that normalize it. This isn't random. It's the outcome of years of escalation, from 2020's riots to today's targeted hits. As Trump's executive order designates Antifa a domestic terrorist group, and media deflections crumble under scrutiny, the center-left must face facts: Your party's radicals are driving the bloodshed, and it's time to purge or…

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