Year: 2013

Amid all the heated cross-currents of debate about the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance program, there is a growing distrust of the Obama administration that makes weighing the costs and benefits of the NSA program itself hard to assess. The belated recognition of this administration’s contempt for the truth, for the American people and for […]

Though deadbeat dads and high-school dropouts might pervade some communities, there are still far more models than mess-ups across our country, and some stand head and shoulders above the rest. Let me tell you about a few stellar examples. I understand that the fact that 1 in 4 U.S. students do not receive a regular […]

Are Americans becoming more libertarian on cultural issues? I see evidence that they are, in poll findings and election results on three unrelated issues — marijuana legalization, same-sex marriage and gun rights. Start with pot. Last November voters in the states of Colorado and Washington voted to legalize marijuana, by a 55 to 45 percent […]

Amine Gemayal, the former president of: Lebanon, warned during a recent speech that Christians in the: Middle East: face an “existential crisis,” due to the “dangerous phenomenon of religious cleansing.”: : He said “Christians are often victims of persecution by both the state and society in the: Middle East.”: Gemayal delivered a speech, entitled, “The Future of Religious Minorities in the: Middle East,” […]

You’ve seen them on television and heard them on the radio, those commercials boasting that “conservatives” like Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan are working to make sure we have a tough, enforceable immigration system that closes our borders and makes all those illegals go to the back of the line to await possible future citizenship. […]

“Admit it. You’re a dirty rotten conservative!” “That’s false. I eat tofu for breakfast.” “But we found your name on a donor list of a group that sought 501(c)(4) status to promote the founding principles of the U.S. Constitution!” “You’re mistaking me for someone else with the same name. I listen to Barry Manilow records.” […]

Liberals are slurping at a new yet familiar theme trough: Republicans are hypocrites because they’re against NSA surveillance now but were all for it during the Bush administration. It’s a simplistic verbal backslap designed to make lemmings feel good about themselves. The real truth is more nuanced and reasonable. During the Bush administration, the program […]

Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla, D-Calif., believes that if her Assembly Bill 926 passes, researchers will be able to pay egg donors as they develop medical advances that can help all women. To her, the bill is an issue of simple fairness — gender equity, really. Since a well-intended 2006 bill banned researchers from paying egg donors […]

Churchville, VA–: I just took part in a remarkable event: a public debate over manmade global warming in which both sides appeared–and the Associated Press reported on it! I have been invited to many of these events over the past six years, but the warmists always canceled when they found a skeptic was part of the […]