Year: 2013

The press has framed Ben Bernanke’s valedictory press conference last week in heroic terms. It’s as if a veteran quarterback engineered a stunning come-from-behind drive in his final game, and graciously bowed out of the game with the ball sitting on the opponent’s one-yard line. In reality, Bernanke has merely completed a five-yard pass from […]

I wouldn’t volunteer to be Phil Robertson’s speechwriter. He chooses his words too carelessly. But with Christmas arriving, it’s worth pausing a moment to consider two other faces of Christianity today. Many who are hostile to religion are eager to portray the “Duck Dynasty” star’s comments about homosexuality as the essence of Christianity. Because the […]

Once again, liberals demand an increase in the minimum wage. President Obama said raising the minimum wage – the lowest amount, by law, most employers can pay – is a step in addressing rising income inequality, something he called “the defining challenge of our time.” Data on income inequality does not lie… when the goal […]

Lee Strobel earned a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School, became the award-winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune and was a spiritual skeptic until 1981. I recently read his short 91-page booklet titled “The Case for Christmas,” in which he viewed the sacred holiday as an investigative journalist and interviewed […]

A&E’s suspension of Phil Robertson for expressing his politically incorrect, Bible-based opinion on homosexual behavior has turned out to be a blessing in disguise and serves as an object lesson for Christian and other social conservatives, as well as other lovers of liberty. The politically correct left has built a culture and network of intimidation […]

As a Jew, and a religious one at that, I want to wish my fellow Americans a Merry Christmas. Not “Happy Holidays.” Merry Christmas. I write, “my fellow Americans” because, as reported by the Pew Research poll released just last Wednesday, nine in 10 Americans say they celebrate Christmas. Apparently, many Americans have forgotten that […]

Sometimes it seems like things are upside down. Barack Obama and his Obamacare administrators are continually making laws, through blogpost (suspending the employer mandate) and bulletin (suspending the individual mandate). This, even though the Framers of the Constitution said that it was Congress that would make the laws; the president is just supposed to faithfully […]

The Department of Justice should get a new name — like the Department That Can See No Evil, the Department of Dungeons or the Department of Cover-ups. Once a bad law becomes the law of the land, it takes years of activism engaged by countless voices to force Washington to patch things up for a […]

Each year during the period of conspicuous consumption known as Christmas shopping, I try to think of a gift that will not be returned, exchanged or forgotten before next Christmas. One year it was a goat for a poor African farmer through World Vision. Another year it was a sewing machine for a woman in […]