Year: 2013

Dear Mom and Dad, It’s been less than a week since you dropped me off at summer camp. You better come get me ’cause I’m in big trouble. On my first day, I was feeling homesick. So I found a piece of wood and began carving it with my Swiss Army knife the way Daddy […]

How about a cheat sheet that you can carry around during the summer cookout season to help you strike up conversations with friends about some topics worth worrying about? While people have been contemplating the possibility of New York City being run by mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, whose underwear seems to be engaged in an […]

It’s been nearly a year since the election, and there is still a lot of soul-searching among conservatives and Republicans. Columnists and consultants are waxing philosophical about why Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney and how to win in 2016. Lots of ink has been spilled, column inches eaten and, most importantly, cash burned trying to […]

David Brog, executive director of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), recently published an: essay: in the: Middle East Quarterly: discussing “the failure of the: American Jewish liberal left” to maintain liberal support for Israel. Brog notes that support for Israel among the liberal base of the Democratic Party has been steadily declining for well over a decade.: Brog finds the solution […]

First, a disclaimer: I love Steve King. Steve King is a good friend of mine and has been for a decade, ever since I was privileged to work for him during his first term in Congress. That said, I would defend him whether he was a friend or not. My hometown newspaper, the Omaha World-Herald, […]

Get this: Happiness among human beings peaks at age 23, tanks at 55, then peaks again at 69. So says a study by the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, as reported by the U.K.’s Daily Mail newspaper. The findings make sense to me. At 23, you are brimming with life. […]

Before you join Jay Leno and Susan Sarandon and sign an open letter to Gov. Jerry Brown to protest “solitary confinement” in California prisons’ security housing units, there are a few things you should know. Start with the criminal records of the leaders of the Short Corridor Collective — the four inmates who, despite their […]

Rush Limbaugh fielded a phone call the other day that even he couldn’t answer. “What’s happened to the country I live in?” asked the frustrated woman. “And what do we do now?” The Great Rushbo was understandably flustered. Coming up with a cure for what ails America after five years of Barack Obama and decades […]

Paul Ryan, U. S. Representative, Chairman of the House Budget Committee and former vice-presidential candidate recently declared that the federal war on poverty “has failed miserably.” No one argues. During the fifty years since President Lyndon Johnson first promised to end poverty, the United States has wasted $15 trillion; 46 million Americans live in poverty […]

In an interview with the president of Watchmen Broadcasting television network, international Christian broadcaster and journalist, Earl Cox, urged Christians, “not to abandon support for: Israel: as a result of recent actions by the Israeli government giving concessions to Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, to enter in to peace negotiations. Instead he is urging the tens of millions […]