Dave Seminara

The easiest way into America

29 October 2024 2:33 am

There has been no shortage of coverage of the 10 million-plus illegal aliens who have stormed our borders, the 5…

Weathering the storm: on the ground in hurricane-ravaged Florida

10 October 2024 3:17 am

Fort Lauderdale, Florida I’ve lived in seven US states and five countries, but when I arrived in St. Petersburg, Florida…

Vance proved he has what it takes to lead the GOP

4 October 2024 11:44 pm

The media told us that Trump made a colossal blunder in picking JD Vance, the childless cat lady hater and…

It’s not too late for the press to start doing their jobs

1 October 2024 12:00 am

One night last week I got a robocall asking me to participate in a candidate town hall. “If you’d like…

The joy of watching terrible athletes compete at the Olympics

7 August 2024 8:00 am

When I was sixteen, my dad took me along to a conference he attended in Calgary just days after the…

The Trump-Harris unpopularity contest

31 July 2024 1:29 am

Now that the Democrats have toppled the president in a bloodless coup, the bases of the Republican and Democratic parties…

Republicans are embracing the left’s victim culture over antisemitism

7 May 2024 12:13 am

For years, Republicans have claimed that theirs is the party of free speech. They have correctly amplified instances of the…

Newsom’s diversity pick is a depressing sign of the times

6 October 2023 3:49 pm

California governor Gavin Newsom’s recent appointment of Laphonza Butler, a black lesbian, to the late Senator Dianne Feinstein’s seat generated…

A month in the Baltics

21 September 2023 1:11 pm

On Joe Biden’s first day in Lithuania, he skipped the opening dinner of world leaders at the NATO summit and…

Escaping the city in Argentina

30 July 2023 7:30 pm

Planning a foreign trip is a bit like watching a trailer for a film. The research is a preview of…

In praise of cruises

23 March 2023 2:57 am

While many travel addicts went into hibernation during the pandemic, as public health scolds around the world turned our joyful…

Trump’s ultra-MAGA crew needs a reality check 

18 March 2023 1:28 am

In 2020, Democrats made a pragmatic if uninspiring choice in nominating Joe Biden. If this month’s Conservative Political Action Conference…

Should I have had a sensitivity reader review my book?

7 March 2023 3:23 pm

Reason magazine reported last summer on the rise of sensitivity readers, and publishers have made headlines for their plans to…

Kamala Harris’s top ten word salads

7 February 2023 12:52 am

No assessment of Vice President Kamala Harris’s first two years in office would be complete without her word salads and…

Halfway through Harris: our remarkable VP

26 January 2023 2:18 pm

John Nance Garner, a Texan who served as Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s vice president for eight years, famously quipped that the…

How DeSantis can de-program the blue states

10 January 2023 2:34 pm

Four years ago this week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis presciently warned in his first inaugural address that big-spending, high-taxing states were…

Why are we ignoring the GOP’s popular vote win?

3 December 2022 12:56 am

The midterm bloodbath conservatives were salivating for devolved into, at best, a red tide. The Democrats held the Senate and…

My travels in DeSantisland

1 December 2022 4:06 am

Long before he became a darling of the right and the left’s second favorite villain, Ronald Dion DeSantis was just…

Our leaders will learn nothing from these elections

15 November 2022 4:40 am

Elections are an opportunity for us to deliver messages to political leaders most of us will never meet. We can’t…

What I learned making calls for Democrats and Republicans

10 November 2022 2:28 pm

I’m a registered Republican in Florida yet the only email offer I received to be a campaign volunteer this season…

How Democrats’ open border policies alienated Hispanics

5 November 2022 2:13 pm

Remember the outrage when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent 50 Venezuelan asylum seekers to Martha’s Vineyard? Apparently Florida Hispanics, many…

Why are Democrats more focused on rape and incest than inflation?

2 November 2022 1:52 pm

Amid 40-year-high inflation, dwindling investment portfolios, and 20-year high mortgage rates, the Democratic Party appears most concerned with protecting the…

Why does the media never call world leaders ‘far left’?

15 October 2022 1:33 pm

Italy is about to have its first female leader and the American left is furious. Giorgia Meloni grew up in…