Wesley Pruden
Articles by Wesley Pruden
Democrats have given up on 2020, focused on 2016 instead
Nancy Pelosi seems to be getting her wish. Mrs. Pelosi's tutorials to her girls gone wild about how the world works, and in particular how the world of Washington works, may be having an effect. The tutorial required a lot of remedial readin,' writin' and 'rithmetic. The impeachment fever is clearly subsiding. Trump Derangement Syndrome is reasserting itself as the preferred narcotic in the Democratic congressional salons. Published May 6, 2019
Far-left attempts to impeach Trump will destroy Democratic Party chances in 2020
In the beginning, it was collusion with the Russians that the Democrats were counting on to send the president to obscurity, or worse. When that partisan fantasy dissolved like snow on a sunny day, the Democrats seized obstruction of justice as the crime of the century. The special counsel concluded there was not enough there, either. Published May 2, 2019
Joe Biden won’t be able to win over far-left voters
Joe Biden is a game kid. He thinks sex-change surgery might fix things with the crazies in the party if it has to come to that. Anything to get another shot at the White House. Published April 29, 2019
Joe Biden shakes up the Democratic primary
The Democrats are the gift that never quits giving. Twenty-five Democrats (depending on who's counting) think they're capable of running the country and Thursday the party that can't shoot straight gave us a presidential primary within a presidential primary. Published April 25, 2019
We’re all snowflakes now
When Muslim terrorists brought down the World Trade Center 17 years ago, the Paris newspapers, in a fit of empathy, declared that "we're all Americans now." The sentiment was meaningless treacle, and it quickly evaporated. American citizenship, even if honorary, is too great a burden for Frenchmen to bear. But it was a nice gesture. Published April 22, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand, other Democrats deserve coal in their stockings after Mueller report findings
It was Christmas again this week and all the Democrats got in their stockings were two or three lumps of coal. Or maybe it wasn't Christmas, but Groundhog Day. Published April 18, 2019
An imaginary look at an imaginary 2020 election
The polls haven't yet opened, and it's already time to count the ballots. Everybody wants to know who won next year. It's not much of a horse race yet, but we've got a lot of horses, even if most of them will eventually run straight to the glue works. Published April 15, 2019
Julian Assange is about to face melancholy music
Finally being called to account for crimes and other outrages ruins any villain's day, and Julian Assange's bad day started early Thursday, when he was pulled out of bed at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and packed off to considerably smaller and less plush living quarters in the pokey. He did not go gently into that rainy English morning. Published April 11, 2019
Joe Biden’s presidential candidacy is toast after one foolish remark, like so many others
Robert Burns wrote his famous tribute to skewered intrigues — "the best-laid schemes of mice an' men gang aft a-gley, and leave us naught but grief an' pain for promised joy" — and paid it to a disappointed mouse. But it's apt consolation to politicians who run their mouths in the wrong direction. Published April 8, 2019
Pete Buttigieg, Beto O’Rourke, other no-name Democrats unlikely to make any kind of impact
It's the first rule of politics that you can't beat somebody with nobody, but the Democrats are determined to repeal that rule in the year 2020. If anybody can do it, the Democrats think they can. They've got a lot of nobodies to choose from. Published April 4, 2019
Allegations against Joe Biden show that the only way to save women is to keep them from men
Segregation can be effective, and properly applied might cure many cultural diseases to the benefit of all. What we need now is a return to a segregated society. This time, not segregation by race. We've been there, done that, and it was evil and cruel. No one wants that. Published April 1, 2019
Electoral college deserves all the respect it can get
The Founding Fathers dreamed up a way to elect a president by overriding the popular will, and some people -- many of them unfamiliar with what they're talking about -- want to fix something that ain't broke. Published March 28, 2019
Robert Mueller’s news is good for everyone but the press
Good news for President Trump continues to accumulate in the wake of the announcement by special counsel Robert Mueller that he could find no evidence that the president colluded with the Russians, or anyone else, to fix the 2016 presidential election. Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the usual way. Beastly foreigners didn't have anything to do with it. Published March 25, 2019
Donald Trump speaks fluent political prose regardless of whether you like him or not
Plain speech is the most effective way to persuade the most people to do what a speaker wants them to do. Every successful politician knows that, and Donald Trump learned the lesson early. Published March 21, 2019
Beto O’Rourke, other candidates must learn their pasts are never past
What all our politicians need, if not necessarily deserve, is a reliable statute of limitations. Published March 18, 2019
Chief Justice John Roberts’ flirtation on the dark side
Great expectations is a game that everybody in Washington is eager to play. The players are particularly passionate when the prize is the U.S. Supreme Court. Published March 14, 2019
Customers entitled to their fears after two Boeing 737 Max 8 crashes
Sometimes you have to wonder who's in charge at Corporate Central. Certain airlines aren't being very sympathetic to customers who are nervous about flying -- no doubt unnecessarily -- on the Boeing 737 Max 8 after two of them have crashed over the past five months. Published March 11, 2019
Joe Biden, Martha McSally rages return to ride again
There's no new thing under the sun, as Ecclesiastes tells us, and the politics of the nation proves it. A senator's declaration that she was raped many years ago recalls the struggle of feminists to send women into combat. Some of the arguments survive to be ventilated again. Published March 7, 2019
Legacy media’s failure to understand religious belief exacts terrible price
It's too bad so many of the reporters and correspondents of the mainstream/legacy media never went to Sunday school. Not for what that might have done for their immortal souls (many of them don't believe they have one, anyway), but for their educations, which many of them have yet to complete. Published March 4, 2019
Nancy Pelosi, Robert Mueller and Democrats searching for unicorns
The unicorn is an elusive beast. Though intemperate, sometimes ferocious and on occasion even savage, often unable to control itself, such a beast is exceedingly rare. No one has ever captured one. Nancy Pelosi, however, claims to have seen at least one in her garden. So have other Democrats. Published February 28, 2019
