Reviews and Reflections on Life In America
By R. Cort Kirkwood In the category of “you can’t make this up,” one of the far-left Democratic U.S. congressmen who landed in El Salvador to secure the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal alien and MS-13 terror gang associate deported in March, was an illegal alien himself. That congressman is California’s Robert Garcia, 45, now a citizen. He was just a wee shaver when his family...
By Wayne Allensworth On Easter Sunday before the service, I was sitting in church and watching the congregants come in. What I saw gave me some cause for hope. A few of the ladies wore hats — “Easter bonnets,” we called them in the past — and low and behold, a few of the children were dressed up. Dresses, ties, little jackets. It’s not that I think God cares what people wear. It’s about us...
By R. Cort Kirkwood Two new reports offer new details about deported Salvadoran illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The news should further embarrass far-left Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen and those who follow him to El Salvador to secure Garcia’s release from the nation’s terrorist confinement center. But alas, that news likely won’t dampen their ardor for Garcia. The Tennessee Highway...
By Wayne Allensworth A scene near the end of David Lean’s The Bridge on the River Kwai resonates with the older me. Colonel Nicholson, played by the great Alec Guiness, is walking the length of the bridge built by British soldiers in a Japanese POW camp under the colonel’s supervision. He pauses and looks out over the waters of the river and notes that he has had a good life and career, but that...
By Wayne Allensworth This piece originally appeared in Chronicles Magazine some years ago. I thought it appropriate to repost it as Holy Week begins. On Palm Sunday, I took a walk. It’s the first day of spring and the sky shows China blue, decorated with small cotton-like puffs of clouds. Flowers are blooming and the ducks at the pond have laid their eggs. The beaver are back—I can tell by the...
By R. Cort Kirkwood Far-left crackpots on social media have normalized the idea that President Donald Trump and Tesla tycoon Elon Musk should be assassinated. The frightening news comes from the Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University, which reports that almost 60 percent of leftists polled have no problem with someone murdering Trump. And almost 50 percent have no problem with...
By R. Cort Kirkwood The U.S. Supreme Court has vacated a district court’s order to stop deporting illegal-alien Venezuelan criminals and terrorists under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The high court ruled 5-4 yesterday that federal Judge James Boasberg, of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., erred in blocking the Trump administration from deporting five detainees. The...
By Wayne Allensworth If one knows even a little recent history, watching the legacy media, Democrats, and establishment Republicans melt down over the “Trump tariffs” has been amusing. Just take a look at Representative Nancy Pelosi speaking in 1996 on the unfairness of China’s tariff policy. She’s got charts, comparative rates, the whole nine yards, and she seemed to be reading from a script...
By Wayne Allensworth Legacy media is making far too much of “Signalgate.” It’s another example of the Blob’s Media Megaphone blaring away about a single incident, shorn of context or anything comparable, then manufacturing a crisis and attempting to set the “news” agenda. I doubt that it works so well this time. Anyone with a sense of even recent history knows better. If you want an enormous...
By R. Cort Kirkwood When President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport illegal-alien members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, The New York Times’s propaganda machine whirred to life. The order argues that Tren de Aragua is part of narco-terrorism operation sponsored by the regime of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. No, the Times’s scribes...
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