Year: 2012

This country is at a historic crossroads, and the path we choose can determine our future far beyond the next four years. Our children and grandchildren may someday bless us or curse us for what we do this Tuesday. Against that background, it is painful to see the petty talking points and gross misconceptions that […]

With the troubling devastation of Hurricane Sandy on our nation’s doorstep — and so many people in need of food, shelter and emergency services after the storm — I encourage Americans to reach out to our neighbors and help them through this challenging time. Sometimes it feels as if America is living through an Armageddon […]

Mitt Romney was very wise to pivot on Barack Obama’s impromptu statement that “voting is the best revenge” and frame the campaign in the final days as a choice between that negative message and Romney’s “love of country.” I wouldn’t say that if I thought Obama’s statement was merely a slip of the tongue. Rather, […]

I spent the last week of October speaking to thousands of Mitt Romney supporters in four “battleground” states: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida and Virginia. I travelled with my Salem Radio Network colleagues Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved, and the actor Jon Voight, one of the few Hollywood stars who is a politically outspoken conservative. During the […]

Natural disasters usually follow the same political trajectory: First the incumbent experiences a bounce as he tours the impacted area, shows his concern and pledges help to his beleaguered constituents. Then reality sets in and the shortages, delays, mishaps, deaths and devastation become apparent. People turn against the incumbent. George W. Bush had his Katrina. […]

The government has the power to seize your assets for a crime you did not commit. That’s essentially the argument being made in a Boston federal court this week as the U.S. Department of Justice and Tewksbury (Mass.) Police Department work to take Motel Caswell away from its owner, Russ Caswell. The libertarian-leaning legal team […]

Presidential elections decide only who wins the White House and a congressional majority. They don’t by themselves solve the nation’s problems. George W. Bush had a majority Republican Congress and did little with it. President Obama had a majority Democrat Congress during his first two years in office, but appeared to let ideology trump solutions, […]

The assumptions behind the latest poll from CNN are surprisingly typical and it tells you everything you need to know about why people are so skeptical about the polling data that they’re seeing. The top line is Barack Obama 49 vs. Mitt Romney 49. Looks close, right? But then, you look at the crosstabs: and see […]

This past week a YouTube video of: a crying four-year-old little girl named Abigail: went viral. In the video Abby’s mom asks her why she’s so sad. Abigail replies through a steady stream of tears and mucus that she’s “tired of Bronco Bamma and Mitt Romney.” Well, little sister, I feel your pain. Now, mind you, I’m […]

Well, this is it. Two days till we know who wins. Two days till we know in which direction our country will travel — toward liberty and a constitutionally limited government, or further down the rabbit hole of a new normal where the president does an end zone dance on an uptick in the unemployment […]

Fundamentals usually prevail in American elections. That’s bad news for Barack Obama. True, Americans want to think well of their presidents, and many think it would be bad if Americans were perceived as rejecting the first black president. But it’s also true that most voters oppose Obama’s major policies and consider unsatisfactory the very sluggish […]

President Bill Clinton used his presidential pardon power in July 2000 to commute the sentence of Serena Nunn, who was sentenced to 15 years for a first-time nonviolent drug offense when she was 19. The pardon shaved three years off Nunn’s sentence. Nunn told me over the phone, “I thought then that it was a […]

I am a born and bred New Yorker and have lived nearly my entire life in this great city. I love New York — and raise my kids here today in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the Upper West Side.: : I have never seen New York City in such devastation, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy […]