“What was that?!” That’s the question my close friend Mark asked his wife Rebecca about 20 years ago as they entered their home after a trip to the grocery store, and heard what sounded like a muffled explosion, followed by…
In the days since the 2018 midterms, where the Democrats smoked the GOP by the largest margin since the post-Watergate election of 1974, Republicans have been laser focused on the 2020 election. It would have been nice to see Trump…
You’ve probably heard this joke before, but how do you know if a politician is lying? Answer: his or her lips are moving. An appropriate response, but when it comes to Trump and the GOP, the answer could also be…
Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and related matters. Mueller apparently found no evidence of Trump collusion with Russia — I say “apparently” because Mueller’s report hasn’t been released yet and all…
Even though Republicans have failed the pro-life litmus test ever since the Republican-nominated Supreme Court decided 46 years ago in Roe v. Wade that women have a Constitutional right to murder their unborn child, they are playing the pro-life card…
My mission at the Strident Conservative is to promote conservative values over political parties and to hold members of every political stripe accountable when they fail to uphold those values. I’m particularly motivated to expose people who fail to defend…
At the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, crowds anxiously waited outside Independence Hall to find out what kind of government had been created for America. According to a diary entry by James McHenry, a signer of the Constitution,…
