Mark Ellis
PJ Media
Portland, OR, United States
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Greg Abbott's Buses: a Second Look
Last week, PJ Media published “Greg Abbot’s Buses: A Great, Unconstitutional Idea.” Fellow contributor Rick Moran reported on the same topic over the weekend. The posts generated the kind of interest... → Read More
The Greg Abbott Buses: A Great, Unconstitutional Idea
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, in recently announcing his unfortunately unconstitutional in-your-face plan to bus border-jumping illegal aliens to Washington’s doorstep, fired a contemplative states’ rights... → Read More
Is Conservative Commentary Getting Too Cocky About the Midterms?
Don’t get cocky. It is a worn-out phrase catapulted into common parlance by the Star Wars franchise. It is also a good idea not to get cocky in any struggle. But a lot of important and influential com... → Read More
Leave Stormy Alone
Stormy Daniels tangled with the wrong customer and got taken to the cleaners. → Read More
The Still-Masked Among Us
They are everywhere, and most of them are not elderly, obese, or suffering from compromised immune systems. They never needed the face masks they wear, as most human beings never needed the COVID-19 m... → Read More
Michael Savage Praises Biden Restraint on Ukraine
This week on Newsmax TV, conservative commentator Michael Savage said something conservative cable news consumers may never have expected to hear: praise for President Joe Biden’s restraint with regar... → Read More
The Democrat's Energy Gallows
The Democrat Party is standing before the scaffold, ready to ascend to the gallows on energy policy. There’s a way to avoid the sentence, but it is expensive to their political prospects and to the Am... → Read More
DeSantis's Time Will Come, but Trump Has Unfinished Business to Attend to First
Trump loyalists get it about Gov. Ron DeSantis. You can be committed to a candidate and still need good potential prospects in the wings. → Read More
The Big Lift: It's Not Going to Work
You don’t have to be a cynic to believe that the lifting of the mask mandates has to do with the 2022 midterms. The masks were never really scientific; they were always a Democrat-crafted bridle.... → Read More
Fantasy Retail: The Great Unmasking
On March 31, or possibly sooner, Oregon will officially lift its mask mandate for indoor public places—one of the last states to do so. The Big Lift could come sooner if a low-end maximum hospital bed... → Read More
Watergate and the Russia Hoax: Getting It Right
I’m not one to overuse Rush Limbaugh-esque I-told-you-so-isms, but I never, for a fraction of a second, believed the Russia collusion story. That is the degree to which my contempt and disregard of th... → Read More
Enough Already With the Leftist Talking Heads
While I thank conservatives for their indefatigable scrutiny of what the leftist media are doing and saying, many of us have seen enough. → Read More
Move On From Trump? Zip, Zero, Nada, No
There’s a fight for the soul of the country brewing. To move on from Trump at this juncture would be to walk away from the fight. → Read More
Trump Maxim Must Guide GOP Going Forward
“Democrats are bad people, but they stick together.” —President Donald Trump. How many occasions did we hear the former president say some variation on this? It was part of his stump speech, and the... → Read More
2022-2024: America First or Go Home
There was a Trump rally last Saturday. In Arizona, the state Fox News called early. The state whose Maricopa County election results were suspect in the extreme.... → Read More
Herd Immunity Now!
The headline for this column—Herd Immunity Now!—is absurdist on its face. Herd immunity is a scientific, microbiological process. It cannot be called for in a political or rhetorical sense, like “Deat... → Read More
Playbook 2022 and Beyond: Take No Prisoners
(Trigger warning: This piece contains an extended sports metaphor.) Newsmax TV political commentator Dick Morris told a vast majority of conservative and Republican viewers pretty much everything they... → Read More
The 'No More Trumpers'
Too soon to be discussing Trump and 2024? Unless you want another column about how bad things are under Biden, no; it's fair game for discussion. → Read More
The Gifts of Christmas Present
‘Tis the season to be jolly, and in the final analysis, it is better to give than to receive. Visions of sugar plums (whatever the hell they are) along with Dream Seeker Dolls and Treasure X Dino Gold... → Read More
In Trump We (Still) Trust
As a Dickensian Christmas approaches, amid a nasty pandemic backstory, with inflation as the ominously settled fog and malaise besetting the middle and working classes, we count the costs of one year... → Read More