Year: 2013

Too many of our political leaders see government as the solution to our challenges. If only they paid more consideration to what some of our great minds had to say about government. My favorite quotations reveal a general wariness of government — a key principle upon which our republic was founded: “A government that is […]

A lot has changed in the 12 years since I graduated college. I’m no longer roofing for $8 an hour. I’ve gone from listening to talk radio all day to hosting a daily radio show and the national debt has climbed from less than $6 trillion to more than $16 trillion. One thing that hasn’t […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), one of the largest and oldest Jewish organizations in the U.S. condemned President Obama & The State Department to stop referring to Eastern Jerusalem as “Palestinian Territories”. The: ZOA wants an error in a U.S. State Dept. press release identifying East Jerusalem as part of the “Palestinian Territories” corrected immediately […]

Anyone who has even bothered to read my columns over the last decade-plus knows I was never a huge fan of George W. Bush. I have always believed that the 43rd president was a decent man who tried to do the right thing but often failed, either because of bad advice or flawed ideology – […]

Boy, are some Americans losing interest in marriage these days. According to a National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR) study, the U.S. marriage rate is on the decline. Whereas 92 out of 1,000 single women married in 1920, only 31 out of 1,000 are marrying today. In a 2011 study, the Pew Research […]

Eric Holder, America’s first African-American attorney general, and his boss, Barack Obama, the first black president, haven’t been shy about pointing out racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Racial profiling? It’s real, they say. State “stand your ground” laws? Obama says they don’t work for minorities. Yet both have been conspicuously absent when it […]

Last week the Supreme Court refused to delay the release of thousands of inmates from California state prisons. Severe overcrowding in the prison system has, in the court’s eyes, led to substandard medical and mental health treatment. Despite Governor Jerry Brown’s argument that setting dangerous prisoners free would create mayhem and put residents at risk, […]

What is the most intellectually dishonest profession around? My nomination: the admissions officers at highly selective colleges and universities. Evidence in support of this comes from, of all places, a recent article in The New York Times. The writer is Ruth Starkman, and the subject is her experience as a reader of applications to the […]

In the first Democratic primary debate Cory Booker deigned to participate in, he placed an unwise bet on his economic record in Newark. On every economic question, Booker responded with a confident “we did it in Newark!” But does his record in Newark qualify him for promotion to the United States Senate? The facts say […]

Major media outlets have featured him as representative of a new generation of “patriot hackers.” He sent an old laptop to the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., where it’s now on display. He claims to have launched hacking attacks on websites ranging from jihadist forums to WikiLeaks. Last week, a guest on the syndicated […]

The marginal economic strength that was described in the most recent GDP release from Washington has caused many to double down on their belief that the Federal Reserve will begin tapering Quantitative Easing sometime later this year. While I believe that is a fantasy given our economy’s extreme dependence on QE, market observers should have […]