Year: 2013

Those of you who think the Zimmerman case is a distraction are wrong. Dead wrong. It’s all a part of the plan, the agenda and has been so from day one. Obama knew, Holder knew, they all know there was no case. They knew that there wouldn’t be a conviction. That was all a part […]

In 2005, Senate Republicans floated the idea of altering Senate rules to eliminate the filibuster for judicial nominees. The proposal, dubbed the nuclear option, involved breaking Senate rules to change Senate rules. (The rules require a two-thirds vote for rules changes, but the nuclear option changes the rules by simple majority.) Democrats fought back against […]

If the IRS Tea Party scandal is at all reminiscent of the Watergate debacle that brought down a president in 1974, we may have just discovered the latter-day G. Gordon Liddy, the man who oversaw the chain of events that led to Nixon’s resignation. Who would that be? Well, a good guess would be William […]

July 8, 2013 marked the beginning of the end of the Rick Perry era in Texas. Middle school children have never known another Texas governor in their lifetime. Anyone in office 14 years will have good and bad in their record. Unquestionably, Gov. Perry is viewed in partisan terms in Texas. From my perspective, his […]

The Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman tragedy has become one of those transcendent events that dominates the national discourse and throws light on dimly lit aspects of our society. Obviously, the case touches most closely on issues of race relations, media culture, and the politicization of the justice system.: It also reveals how preconceived emotional commitments to a […]

Yes, there’s a war on women in America. But it’s not the phony “war” that tampon-hurling feminists are always shrieking about — as they did last week in Texas to protest tougher regulations on dangerous late-term abortion clinics. No, I’m talking about a real war on women waged by Saudi royals and elites who’ve imported […]

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank recently poked some fun at the GOP and its tenacious — and, evidently, hopeless — insistence on voting to roll back provisions of Obamacare. Surely, you’ve heard about Albert Einstein’s apocryphal quote defining insanity as doing something over and over again and expecting different results. The left, you may notice, […]

If Tom Wolfe were writing “The Bonfire of the Vanities” today, he’d need a scene in the Grand Havana Room in New York City. It’s an Olympian den fit for what Wolfe called “Masters of the Universe” — the super-rich gods of finance who today go by “the one percent.” Taking up the penthouse floor […]

Bless The New York Times for, yet again, selflessly exposing the political fault lines of the GOP and encouraging it to become more like the Democratic Party so it can start winning presidential elections again. I’m trying not to laugh. In his piece “Has the G.O.P. Gone Off the Deep End?”, Thomas Edsall lines up […]

Sixty-four percent of Americans say that it’s possible to have an honest discussion about race in America. I would like to believe that, but I am skeptical. My skepticism is rooted in a painful recognition of the fact that white and black America have different histories and different experiences with our justice system. Consider the […]

You can get agreement from almost all points on the political spectrum that the worst aspect of our political system is the presidential nomination process. It is perhaps no coincidence that it is the one part of the system not treated in the Constitution. That’s because the Founding Fathers abhorred political parties and hoped that […]

I am a well-known “gold bug” because of my strongly voiced opinion that gold has been one of the best assets for protecting yourself from the US dollar’s prolonged decline. Lately, the precious metals have taken a beating, and I’ve been called to defend gold’s future prospects in the media countless times. While I am […]

The American Jewish Congress issued a release announcing dismay by continuing violent attacks on: Egypt’s: Coptic Christian community. Churches have been looted and destroyed, a priest assassinated, and individual Copts threatened in recent weeks. Copts experienced a similar spike in assaults following the overthrow of President Mubarak two years ago. The situation has again deteriorated in recent […]

Black liberals keep bemoaning the danger to their own teenage sons after the “not guilty” verdict in George Zimmerman’s murder trial. To avoid what happened to Trayvon Martin, their boys need only follow this advice: Don’t walk up to a stranger and punch him, ground-and-pound him, MMA-style, and repeatedly smash his head against the pavement. […]