Year: 2012

Betrayal is hard to take, whether in our personal lives or in the political life of the nation. Yet there are people in Washington — too often, Republicans — who start living in the Beltway atmosphere, and start forgetting those hundreds of millions of Americans beyond the Beltway who trusted them to do right by […]

As we approach the Fourth of July and contemplate its glorious significance, recent events have brought into sharp relief the precarious condition of America’s unique liberty tradition. Our Constitution is the best written guarantor of human liberty in human history, but its safeguards do not make it completely bulletproof against systematic assaults undermining its integrity. […]

Given how many more Americans define themselves as conservative rather than as liberal, let alone than as left, how does one explain the success of left-wing policies? One answer is the appeal of entitlements and a desire to be taken care of. It takes a strong-willed citizen to vote against receiving free benefits. But an […]

In the court of public opinion, Republican officials cannot win. It’s a known fact, made more evident with each news cycle, that many campaign issues are lose-lose for the GOP. If the Supreme Court had overturned Obamacare, the public no doubt would have turned against the GOP for being too obstructionist, the GOP-led Supreme Court […]

When is a tax not a tax? When President Obama says it isn’t, or when the Supreme Court says it is? Obamacare was sold on several fraudulent lines. The president knows the country doesn’t want to pay higher taxes, given the deplorable way their government spends the money. And so the administration packaged it as […]

Here are my 10 Commandments for my daughter’s potential boyfriends. Please facebook, email and tweet this list and my accompanying: new video: to dads who do not want their daughters to ever date or marry Lil Wayne, Charlie Sheen, Beavis or Butthead. Commandment I. Thou shall understand that your presence doesn’t make me happy. And know this: […]

Many have weighed in on the Supreme Court decision on ObamaCare much better than I could. Two of the best were: Rush Limbaugh’s: and Mark Levin (download the June 28th show for free and share it widely). But a few things remain unmentioned as far as I can tell. First, the SCOTUS decision means the low-income uninsured […]

The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision upholding the Obama administration’s health care legislation was a victory for the president, his administration and his party. Their most ambitious legislative achievement has not been nullified, and they are not left in obvious disarray. But it is only a partial victory and in some ways not a victory at […]

Let’s start with all the things San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi did wrong: 1) Mirkarimi bullied his wife, Eliana Lopez, when he grabbed her right arm and bruised it Dec. 31. 2) When police first contacted Mirkarimi about the episode, the sheriff did not cooperate with the investigation. Instead, he circled the wagons. 3) He […]

I vividly remember the 1st time I met Yitzchak Shamir – He was the Prime Minister of the State of Israel and I was 16 years old.: : The year was 1990, I had recently joined the Betar movement of: Ze’ev Jabotinsky, and Shamir was visiting NYC and spoke to a small group of Betarim. The man spent […]