Michael D. Brown

Occasionally you come across a video that is so powerful that it merits sharing. Roger Simon of PJ Media recently noted this video on his Facebook page, and after watching it, realized that Roger was correct – the video needs to go viral. So, I’m doing my share by posting the video here and asking [...]

President Obama is giving his third State of the Union speech as I write this. I’m barely listening to it because it will be the same platitudes from all of his other speeches. This annual spectacle is truly a nonevent, and I would prefer Presidents resort to the pre-television tradition of simply submitting a written [...]

Today Barack Obama went to Kansas, Osawatomie to be exact, and channeled Theodore Roosevelt. He failed miserably, but not for the reasons you might suspect. Despite Roosevelt’s antipathy toward the “robber barons” of his day, the dreaded trusts of Rockefeller, Carnegie, et al, Roosevelt understood the free market, and despite his affinity for government intervention [...]

Occasionally I run across an article in my readings that captures the essence of what so many people believe or feel, and which so succinctly articulates a “gut feeling” that I want everyone I know and more to read it. Shelby Steele, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, penned an article [...]

As you may know I am in Seoul, South Korea this week participating in the Korea Foundation’s Second Global Seminar, the topic of which is “Global Cooperation for Disaster Management: Toward A More Secure World.” The focus on this year’s conference is on disaster management, pandemic outbreaks, and nuclear disasters. This morning I moderated a [...]

Perspective. Sometimes a little dose of perspective reminds us how the United States is truly exceptional. Bill Whittle over at Pajamas Media does an incredible job in the following video. I don’t have much to say here, except please, watch the entire video. It will give you perspective.