Year: 2013

Amid all the heated, emotional advocacy of gun control, have you ever heard even one person present convincing hard evidence that tighter gun control laws have in fact reduced murders? Think about all the states, communities within states, as well as foreign countries, that have either tight gun control laws or loose or non-existent gun […]

Recently, I wrote a column arguing that the world is upside-down — by which I meant “our” world, America. Today I offer more exhibits in support of my case that our culture is unraveling. I realize that in today’s America, the notion that we should seek to preserve and promote the traditions, values and ideals […]

Last week, a USC student released 15 minutes of excerpts from videos he had made of his political science professor, Darry Sragow. Here is some of what the USC professor said to his students: “California Republicans [are] really stupid and racist.” ” … Republicans are 82 percent white. Losers.” “The Republican Party in California … […]

USC lecturer Darry Sragow dismissed California Republicans as “really stupid,” “racist” and “angry old white people” before his political science class last fall. Those remarks wouldn’t be news — except that student Tyler Talgo secretly videotaped Sragow, and the bias-watchdog group Campus Reform posted 15 minutes of excerpts from the 2 1/2-hour class, which the […]

In the opening years of the last decade, most mainstream investors sat on the sidelines while “tin hat” goldbugs rode the bull market from below $300 to just over $1,000 per ounce. But following the 2008 financial crisis, when gold held up better than stocks during the decline and made new record highs long before […]

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has prompted reactions from Britain’s far left that takes bad taste to new extremes. During its Top 40 music countdown Sunday night, BBC Radio 1 was “forced” to play a seven-second clip of “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” from the 1939 […]

“Without legislative language,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy declared in a statement March 20, “there is nothing for the Judiciary Committee to consider this week at our markup.” The subject of the statement was immigration legislation, and his irritation was understandable. “For months, I have urged the president to send his proposal for comprehensive […]

According to the: Department of Defense: and theDepartment of Homeland Security, evangelical Christians are now a national security threat. I’m talkin’ at the top of the list folks. As Gomer Pyle used to say, “Surprise, Surprise, Surprise” eh, Christians? Under the New Rules enacted by these agencies under this administration’s tutelage the following acts are now to […]

When the massacre in Newtown occurred, it received wall-to-wall coverage, as well it should have. We’d never seen anything like this before — a mentally ill gunman shooting tiny children and their teachers in an elementary school. It shocked the senses and dominated the national conversation — as well it should have. And aside from […]

Margaret Thatcher, who served as prime minister of Britain from 1979 to 1990, is most famous for teaming up with my father Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II to peacefully end the Cold War and bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union. But at home, the “Iron Lady’s” intellect, political will and love […]

Back when I was still writing speeches and giving policy advice to naive candidates foolish enough to listen to me, I once told a young, first-time congressional candidate who was depressed about all the negative attacks coming his way that you can tell a lot about a man by the enemies he attracts. Such was […]

A physician murders babies. His unlicensed assistant is horrified to find a newborn discarded on an office shelf, crying, among more aborted babies, jars filled with legs, arms and unidentifiable fetus body parts. While local media in Philadelphia and Delaware have covered this true story, ABC, CBS and NBC news have decided other stories are […]

When Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., visited the San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial board in February, he essentially predicted that Washington would end up where it is today. Asked whether an assault weapons ban had a realistic chance of passage, the longtime gun owner, Vietnam vet and Democrats’ point man on crafting legislation in the wake of […]