Year: 2013

Ida Ayres never served a day in the armed forces, but she knows a thing or two about the sacrifices of war. When we think of war and conflict, we think of the men and women who put themselves in harm’s way, as we should. But what about the parents, children, siblings and spouses who […]

When you bait a hook, you hope to catch a fish.: Thursday I baited a hook, and I caught a lot of fish. I had intended to write today’s column with the title “The Problem With Conservatives,” because there are some too. But I enjoyed the feedback I got from poking the bear so much I […]

A decade ago, my son, a talented writer in his own right, with a dry, self-deprecating sense of humor, published as his senior university thesis a series of original short stories, which he dubbed with the tongue-in-cheek title, “All the Things in the World.” Similarly, I occasionally feel there is so much on which to […]

Dear American citizens: Millions of you are asking why your health insurance policies are being canceled and the premiums and deductibles for your new policies are, for the majority of you, doubling, tripling or worse. You are particularly upset because President Obama said over and over again that your premiums would go down and you […]

Ideology is such an abomination, President Obama rages against those he believes are guided by different ideas of governance. Campaigning for now-Governor Terry McAuliffe, who is the subject of two federal investigations and an unindicted investor in an illegal scheme to profit from fraudulent life insurance policies on the lives of dying people, the President […]

The federal Healthcare.gov website, serving 36 states that chose not to build their own sites, has been – to quote its boss, Kathleen Sebelius – a “debacle.” Its estimated cost to taxpayers stands at $394 million so far and will likely rise as the “tech surge” pours millions of additional taxpayer dollars into trying to […]

What do Tuesday’s resounding re-election of Republican Chris Christie as governor of Democrat-friendly New Jersey and the excruciating defeat of tea party stalwart and gubernatorial wannabe Ken Cuccinelli in once reliably Republican Virginia say about Republican chances of retaking the White House in 2016? Christie won by 22 points after bad-mouthing the federal government shutdown, […]

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), founded by Jay Sekulow: today asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take a case involving a challenge to the ObamaCare HHS Mandate — urging the high court to permit companies and corporations to bring religious liberty claims in challenging the Mandate. The ACLJ filed a Petition for Writ […]

At the very core of Liberalism is the idea that good deeds can only be achieved by legislating them. Strong arguments can be made that these “do-gooder” policies achieve the opposite and actually serve to hurt those they intend to help. We see this today with politicians in Washington who believe that a big government […]

U.S. Representative and former vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan (R-WI) avidly supports comprehensive immigration reform. Maybe Ryan isn’t the fiscal conservative he proclaims to be; analysts estimate that the Senate immigration bill, versions of which the House has under consideration, will cost $6 trillion within 50 years, increase unemployment and further depress already stagnant wages. […]

Most market watchers expect that Janet Yellen will grapple with two major tasks once she takes the helm at the Federal Reserve in 2014: deciding on the appropriate timing and intensity of the Fed’s quantitative easing taper strategy, and unwinding the Fed’s enormous $4 trillion balance sheet (without creating huge losses in the value of […]

The Virginia election returns confirm what political insiders have known for many decades — that the real gap in our politics is not between men and women but between married men and married women on the one hand and single men and single women on the other. It doesn’t matter if you are divorced, separated, […]

In an August Washington Examiner column, I argued that this year’s governor elections in New Jersey and Virginia would have little precedential significance, unlike some other off-year elections in those states. Boiled down, my argument was that in New Jersey you had a governor who could not lose and in Virginia you had two governor […]

Because of a regulation designed to make nearly every plan rapidly lose grandfather status, millions of Americans have received letters informing them their health plans have been canceled. Many of them are unable to even get through the first steps of Healthcare.gov to see what their options there are, and others who are able to […]

Forget the acceptance speech. If you want an example of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s imposing political IQ, watch the nine-minute impromptu speech he delivered in Sea Bright a few days before the election. The impeccable populist instincts that make Christie such a formidable politician were all in play — authenticity, empathy, combativeness. It’s the […]