‘Phil Brennan’ Archives
The Japanese Quake: An Ice Age Prercursor?
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway Back in the summer of 1997 I wrote a nine-part investigative report on climate change: Global Warming or Globaloney. It attracted a lot of attention at the time, but given the fact that the nation was being barraged by advocates of the socialist global warming propaganda [...]
IT’S CHRISTMAS TIME – CELEBRATE!
Perspectives with Phil Brennan We are about to celebrate a very special national holiday that evokes joyful memories of past Christmases and anticipation of the joys we will experience this December 25th. I say we, but tragically the we does not include a lot of very unhappy people who consider celebrating Christmas an affront to those who do [...]
Nostalgia
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Tomorrow I am having lunch with a group of fellow former inmates of a journalistic insane asylum known as the National Enquirer. It will be an event similar in some ways to the reunions of survivors of wartime prison camps. The central figure in our memories is the late Generoso Pope, sole proprietor of a notorious [...]
And the Next Step
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway When a would-be dictator wants to rein in the rights of the citizenry one of the first steps he needs to take is restricting the public's right to travel. The ability to move around freely within your nation's borders is the ability to congregate with like-minded individuals [...]
It’s In Their Hands
Perspectives with Phil Brennan I’m trying to find a period in our history when circumstances mimicked those we are now experiencing and I can’t find a single instance that is even similar. There have been periods of near hyperinflation but none of them approaches the present era where the Federal Reserve recklessly uses the printing presses [...]
No Compromising, None
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway Speaker in Waiting John Benoir faces quite a few daunting challenges as he goes about the job of organizing the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives, not the least of which will be forging an overall consensus on the direction his GOP membership wants to [...]
Where Do We Go From Here?
Perspectives with Phil Brennan It happened, thank God it happened - with the help of God and an army of angry and determined Americans, the United States of America can now begin to reclaim this nation from the hands of a power crazed horde of deranged socialist progressives. On Tuesday the voters cast a whole slew of Democrats in the House of [...]
The Lady is No Tramp
Perspectives with Phil Brennan She’s no Joan of Arc, brazenly presenting herself before her King and informing him she’d been sent by Divine authority to save his throne, but in presenting herself before Delaware’s voters Christine O’Donnell has shown herself to be made of the same courageous stuff as the Maid of Orleans. And like St. [...]
Disintergration
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Fans of the Buck Rogers comics will recall that his favorite weapon was the Disintegrator – aim, fire and demolish. It’s beginning to look as if someone has aimed such a weapon at the White House. The place isn’t, of course, falling apart, It’s still structurally sound thanks to Harry Truman who [...]
Brennan: Are We Really All That Stupid?
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway It is fashionable in left wing circles to depict their fellow Americans as stupid ... too dumb to know what is good for them. Given that assumption, it is only obvious that the small number of leftist elites are obliged to do our thinking for us. Not obvious, however, is [...]
Brennan: Eat, Drink, and Be Bankrupt
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway It is being called one of the most crucial Congressional elections in our nation’s history, and given the excesses of the Obama administration and its henchmen in Congress, it probably is. Somebody has got to put the brakes on the out-of-control spending by Congress before [...]
Just What is Barack Obama
Perspectives with Phil Brennan It is being called one of the most crucial Congressional elections in our nation’s history, and given the excesses of the Obama administration and its henchmen in Congress and it probably is. Somebody has got to put the brakes on the out-of-control spending by Congress before the nation’s economy collapses, [...]
The Department of Education: Who Needs Them?
Perspectives with Phil Brennan To the horror of some members of the media a couple of Republican candidates including Nevada’s Sharon Angle are pledging that if elected they will fight to abolish the Department of Education. From the howls from the media and the nation’s long-coddled educrats you’d think the candidates were proposing to [...]
How About Some Old Ideas Mr. President
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway Republicans are about to fall into an old trap cleverly set by the President. It concerns what in my days on the Hill was known as CRAP -the Constructive Republican Alternative Program - and Mr. Obama and his fellow Demagogues - oops, I mean Democrats - simply lust over the [...]
The Yanks are Coming!
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway Over there, over there, Send the word, send the word over there - That the Yanks are coming, The Yanks are coming, The drums rum-tumming Ev'rywhere. So prepare, say a pray'r, Send the word, send the word to beware. We'll be over, we're coming over, And we won't come back till [...]
Just What Is Barack Obama?
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway There's something of a modest firestorm building over the question of Barack Hussein Obama's religious faith. Some insist on taking his word that he is a Christian while others say he is, like his father and his Kenyan relatives, and his step-father, a Muslim I beg to [...]
The Gods Are Angry
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway It is said that whom the Gods would destroy they first drive mad. It is becoming increasingly obvious that they are really enraged at us mortals – we’re about an inch away from the loony bin portals. I’m not going to waste your time chronicling the instances of [...]
If You Don’t Build It, They Won’t Come
By Bryan Fischer The last apparent procedural roadblock to building a monstrosity of a mosque at Ground Zero was cleared yesterday, as a New York city landmark preservation commission voted 9-0 to allow the project to proceed. This mosque will be a 9/11 memorial all right, a memorial to the brave, benighted Islamic martyrs who gave their lives [...]
Dissing the Media
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway Anybody who accused members of the media of being little short of dedicated advocates of the liberal propaganda machine and adjuncts of the left wing of the Democratic party were routinely dismissed as right-wing nuts. Critics who dared to suggest that a large number of [...]
November is a Long Way Off
By Phil Brennan It is the common wisdom that Republicans will score a significant victory in the coming Congressional elections and it has them salivating over the prospect of taking over control of the House and perhaps even the Senate. Unfortunately, this may well turn out to be a case of counting your chickens before they hatch. There's a [...]
Two Biographies — Phil Brennan
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway General McChrystal Biography Commander, International Security Assistance Force/ Commander, United States Forces Afghanistan United States Army SOURCE OF COMMISSIONED SERVICE: USMA EDUCATIONAL DEGREES United States Military Academy - BS - No Major United States Naval War [...]
Steele Wasn’t All That Wrong — Phil Brennan
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway Michael Steele has an unfortunate tendency frequently to insert one of his feet into his mouth. Recently, during a speech at a Connecticut fund raising event, he shoved a foot all the way up to his ankle and as a result has now come within a hair’s width of losing his job [...]
Memo to Glenn Beck! Joe McCarthy was Right – and the Left was Viciously Wrong — Brennan
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway There are few people who I admire more that Glenn Beck. As a latter day Paul Revere he is alerting the American people to the real perils inherent in the Obama Administration’s drive to deliberately wreck the economy and impose a Marxist regime upon the United States. But I [...]
BP: Perfidious Albion? — Phil Brennan
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway The wild Celtic blood that courses through my blood vessels tends to make me view anything amiss connected with the British as just another aspect of Perfidious Albion, (treacherous Briton) the cynic’s time honored way of describing our English cousins. It certainly [...]
Death By Obamacare — Phil Brennan
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway It occurs to me that someone else might be writing my column - more appropriately my obituary,- if Obamacare were in effect now instead of four years hence. Last Wednesday night I had a heart attack. 911 responded promptly and summoned an ambulance to transport me to the [...]
Just What Did You Expect? — Phil Brennan
By Phil Brennan Like a weed caught in a swirling eddy and drawn into the vortex of a powerful whirlpool, Barack Obama is being sucked into the depths of political inconsequence, joining such other notable presidents as James Earl Carter. The messiah capable of causing tingling sensations in the lower limbs of such worshipful acolytes as [...]
Democract Desperation Evident in Rand Paul Attack — Phil Brennan
By Phil Brennan If any proof that Democrat's panic and desperation over the prospects of losing their control over Capitol Hill this coming November is required you need only look at their reaction to Dr. Rand Paul's landslide victory in the Kentucky primary election. Seen as a harbinger of things to come, Dr. Paul's crushing defeat of a more [...]
It’s Over The Top Time — Phil Brennan
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway Marine Sgt. Maj Dan Daly won the Medal of Honor twice in WWI but he's probably better known for his battle cry when his 5th Marines attacked the entrenched enemy at Belleau Wood on June 6, 1918. "Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?" he shouted at his [...]
Remembering A Marine — Phil Brennan
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway I've been watching NBC's "The Pacific" - series which follows the storied First Marine Division from Guadalcanal to Okinawa, with special focus on the career of Medal of Honor winner Sgt. John Basilone. I didn't know Manila John even though he was a fellow member of the 5th [...]
Panic Equals Trouble — Phil Brennan
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway If anybody doubts that panic is setting in at the White House let them contemplate the meaning of reports that President Obama plans to call out his rag-tag army of voters who gave him the presidency in 2008 in an effort to save his job when the voters go to the polls for [...]
The Dog Died — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway There's an old story about a farmer who upon returning home from a week in the city was met by his handyman with some bad news. Asked if anything had happened while he was away, the handyman said, "Not much except that the dog died." "The dog died?" : the stunned [...]
Eight Crucial Months — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway The November Congressional elections are roughly seven months away, with the end of the year 2009 coming a month later. These eight months could be among the most dangerous in U.S. history. I'm going to assume that the Republican Party is poised to drive the [...]
Apocalypse Now — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway Many decades ago, in the 30s when I was a student at St. Francis of Assisi school in Brooklyn, our two-fisted eighth grade teacher known not quite affectionately as "Sister Slug" warned us that we would live to see the United States as we knew it overcome by [...]
Utter Dependence — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway Throughout most of the day, this past Monday, March 15, unless you had my cellphone number, I was unreachable. My phone service, my internet connection including my television service and my cell phone were all out. I couldn't get e-mail. Only my radio worked. I was [...]
Counting Time — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway A couple of things keep reminding me that I am as old as the hills, an artifact of things long past, and, thankfully, well on the way towards the exit. One is watching previews of the upcoming series "The Pacific" which shows actual combat films of United States [...]
A Lot of Hooey — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway Al Gore is at it again, ranting and raving in the pages of the New York Times, America's equivalent of the Soviet era's propaganda vehicle Pravda. Despite winters of increasing severity and the recent disclosures of outright trickery by the avatars of the global [...]
This is War — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway If current speculation is on target, there is going to be a wholesale slaughter in the congressional elections in November, with angry voters across the nation venting their anger at incumbents they believe have betrayed them by supporting the Obama health care scam [...]
What Presidents? — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway Yesterday was President's day. We used to celebrate George Washington's birthday on February 22, the day he was born in 1732 and Lincoln's birthday on February 12, at or at least that's what February 15th used to be known as before the barbarians decided it wasn't [...]
Quo Vadis, Tea Party? — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway It was a dismal time for the Republican party. We had just been crushed by the decisive victory Lyndon Baines Johnson scored over Barry Goldwater in 1964, facing an 89th Congress where Democrats outnumbered Republicans in the Senate by 68 to 32, and in the House by a [...]
Tebow, Gridiron Saint — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway A commercial planned for broadcast during Sundays' Superbowl has stirred up a controversy among avid abortion supporters - the video shows superstar Florida Gator quarterback Tim Tebow telling the story of how his mother risked her life to give him birth when doctors [...]
Global Warming Stone Cold Dead — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway The validity of the Global Warming alarm, long on life support, is now dead and awaiting burial, and it's long past time to bury its rotting corpse before it helps bankrupt the United States. With the nation mired in an economic slump, widespread unemployment, and [...]
Time to Knuckle Down — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway Feeling giddy now that the invincible Barack has been proven vincible? That s fine, but it's time to knuckle down and resume the fight against the cabal now using the White House under Barack Obama as the command past in the war to impose Marxism on the United [...]
Crucifixion of Michael Behenna — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway There is something seriously wrong with the execution of this nation's code of military justice - it is being used against the very people it is meant to protect. Case in point: the imprisonment of an heroic Army officer for killing a murderous Iraqi insurgent who had [...]
