Michael D. Brown

I received an email from “Nick” this evening during the show, which I read on air. Nick is a regular listener and his brother is in Afghanistan, serving you and me and the United States of America. Here it is for you to read, too: My brother, a SSGT in the USMC emailed me tonight. [...]

The Reverend Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, President of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod testified today before Congressman Issa’s (R-CA) House committee looking into the Obama Administration’s contraceptive mandate for religious institutions. His testimony is excellent and along the lines of The Rev. William Lori who told the committee, “It is absurd for someone to come [...]

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 [...]

Debate has quietly gone unnoticed about S.1867, the Defense Authorization Act for FY 2012 which provides for defense appropriations and other matters, including, shockingly, language befuddling language that may actually authorize the United States Armed Forces to detain U.S. citizens on American soil. When I started hearing about this language I was skeptical, believing that [...]

Swag. I never realized the answer to the nation’s fiscal problems was so simple. President Obama today signed an Executive Order which, among other things, prohibits departments and agencies from spending money on swag. For those not familiar with the convention world, or the gift shops in the CIA, EPA, DHS, or other places, swag [...]

The headlines are almost overwhelming. Americans are accused of Islamaphobia, Jews are persecuted around the world, Holocaust deniers continue to push their garbage, and honor killings in the United States continue but rarely reported. And in my own backyard, the Air Force Academy capitulates to political correctness over a toys for tots program sponsored by [...]

The headlines in today’s news are not encouraging: Treasury Secretary Geithner says jobs created by the stimulus program cost an average $200,000 but were worth it, a super-rich doofus from Google shouts out to Obama at town hall meeting to “raise my taxes,” and Gallup reports that a new survey says half of Americans think [...]

The President’s former Chief of Staff and now Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanual, once quipped that you should never let a crisis go unused. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner must believe that, too, based on his appearance today on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. The administration has no plan, has not contributed to the discussion, [...]

Let me state up front – this article is not meant to blast FEMA or my former colleagues at the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. A recent article from the UK’s Daily Mail is a classic example of why our continued dependence on the federal government, whether it be for [...]