Year: 2012

“Mandatory sentences breed injustice,” Judge Roger Vinson told the New York Times. A Ronald Reagan appointee to the federal bench in Florida, Vinson was railing against a federal system that forced him to sentence a 27-year-old single mother to prison life without parole because her dealer ex-boyfriend had stored cocaine in her house. Note to […]

Round-up of a week that I was angry a lot — of course end of year tax time is here for those of us who pay quarterly taxes, and it’s a time for me to be angry as I realize more than half the year I work for the government.: : Is that right? Welcome your thoughts […]

By upping the ante once again in its gamble to revive the lethargic economy through monetary action, the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee is now compelling the rest of us to buy into a game that we may not be able to afford.:  At his press conference this week, Fed Chairman Bernanke explained how the […]

My latest Townhall column is called, 5 Myths Liberals Have Created About Themselves (Part 2). Here’s an excerpt from the column. Greek mythology, with its tales of Zeus, Apollo and Hera doesn’t have a thing on the mythology that liberals have created around themselves. There’s Bubba, the President who can feel your pain, BO the […]

We now have more than one instance of a gang of white men violently attacking a black man for no reason and using racial slurs. The first wasKenneth Gladney who was attacked and called a n*gger by SEIU thugs.Sadly, neither of those creeps went to jail for that hate crime. Encouraged, union racists in Michigan: recently […]

  Sure,: this may sound insane even for California,: but there’s a good reason to support it. Legislation introduced Tuesday would give about 400,000 undocumented immigrants in California the same rights as citizens to unemployment benefits and various other government services. Very expensive unemployment benefits for non-Americans who are illegally in a state that’s headed towards bankruptcy? […]

One of the foolish assumptions of the Left is that we can raise taxes sky high with no consequences whatsoever. This shows a rather remarkable lack of understanding of human nature — but, of course, if liberals understood how the world really works, they wouldn’t be liberals. Here’s a little lesson about human nature for […]

Here’s more evidence that government “cures” are inevitably worse than the “diseases” they seek to wipe out. Buried in the trillion-dollar stimulus law of 2009 was an electronic medical records “incentive” program. Like most of President Obama’s health care rules, this top-down electronic record-sharing scheme is a big fat bust. Oversight is lax. Cronyism is […]

To understand why Republicans have a “branding problem,” you first need to understand how the system is rigged against conservatives. Such is the schizophrenic dysfunction of our politics: We constantly demand “conviction” politicians who will “do what’s right” and then condemn them, often in the same breath, for being unwilling to put aside their conviction […]

At this stage of the fiscal cliff pseudo negotiations, do the American people have any idea what the Republicans stand for other than to protect the wealthy and cut Medicare and Social Security to harm the sick and aged? People constantly invoke Ronald Reagan, but one thing is certain and very relevant: If Reagan were […]

Having survived the Supreme Court and the November elections, President Obama’s health care law now faces an even bigger hurdle: the reality of making it work. Implementation of any massive new program requires cooperation, something the health care law can’t count on. Overall, just 46 percent of voters nationwide have a favorable opinion of the […]