Year: 2012

Insurance is all about risk. Yet neither insurance companies nor their policy-holders can do anything about one of the biggest risks — namely, interference by politicians, to turn insurance into something other than a device to deal with risk. By passing laws to force insurance companies to cover things that have nothing to do with […]

President Obama’s casting of Mitt Romney as extreme is one of the most glaring incidents of political projection in the modern era. Romney doesn’t approach extremism in substance, style or disposition. Obama swims in it. In an interview with The Associated Press, Obama said Romney has locked himself into “extreme positions” on economic and social […]

In 2010, President Barack Obama confessed to ABC News’ Diane Sawyer, “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.” But what if Obama’s one term was not good but bad for the country? The past two weeks, I’ve given the first eight reasons not to re-elect President Obama. Though I […]

My fellow Americans, my fellow Republicans: The 2012 election is not an election between two men but between two entirely different visions of America. President Obama and I are simply the standard bearers of opposing, and may I add, irreconcilable visions of what America is and should be. The Republican Party and I represent American […]

This week when Mitt Romney strides to center stage to deliver his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, he might draw inspiration from an unlikely source: the song “I Am What I Am” from the musical “La Cage Aux Folles.” One of the chief complaints from voters about politicians is that they too often […]

TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney chose Paul Ryan to be his running mate. Since his teens, Ryan has been a big fan of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged.” In 2005, he told The Atlas Society that the novel shaped his “values system” — and that speech has launched a number of recent columns by liberals aghast […]

TAMPA, Fla. — Politics is about pain. Not the pain you feel when you watch it. The pain felt by the candidates. They brush it off, laugh it off, shrug it off. But it kills them a little inside. Presidential candidates are, appearances to the contrary, human. If you prick them, they do bleed. And […]

So in the latest Israel technology app, there’s an Internet app “for those who won’t get off their asses.” Good new idea: at Kfar Kedem — donkey-mounted Wi-Fi.: : It’s intended for tourists to upload photos and emails about their trip in real time while they ride a donkey. www.sizedoesntmatter.com: is a great new website “aimed at highlighting the […]

If Obama were wise he would really ramp up his misinformation machine. He should start giving away free weed, beer, hookers, tanks of gas, kazoos, Vaseline, stretch pants, whirly hats, Flowbees and ShamWows to anyone who promises to vote for him because he just ticked off stacks of Catholics even further by: dissing Cardinal Dolan: for the […]

Our self-described most: transparent administration: in history is at it again. The folks who: claim executive privilege: over documents in the Fast and Furious case yet maintain the president wasn’t involved have decided transparency is overrated. The people who: meet with lobbyists in coffee shops: near the White House to keep unseemly names off the official visitor logs, have decided we […]

Today, the 40th Republican National Convention assembles in hurricane-threatened Tampa, Fla. Seven days later, the 46th Democratic National Convention will assemble in presumably non-hurricane-threatened Charlotte, N.C. Thousands of delegates, many thousands more press personnel and even more political enthusiasts will be on hand. Vendors will sell political buttons to collectors (does anyone wear them anymore?), […]

A story is told of Natan Sharansky, before he was arrested in the former Soviet Union for the crime of studying Judaism and wanting to emigrate to Israel. On July 14, 1978, Sharansky stood before a Soviet court about to sentence him to fifteen years in prison and said, “For 2,000 years the Jewish people, […]