Year: 2014

Let’s drop the names “Hamas” and “Israel” and make a list of the characteristics of two imaginary warring entities. We’ll call them Entity A and Entity B. Entity A: –Declares that its raison d’etre is to annihilate Entity B. –Sends missiles to explode in the most populated parts of Entity B in order to kill […]

Whenever Democrats are in real trouble politically, the Republicans seem to come up with something new that distracts the public’s attention from the Democrats’ problems. Who says Republicans are not compassionate? With public opinion polls showing President Obama’s sinking approval rate, in the wake of his administration’s multiple fiascoes and scandals — the disgraceful treatment […]

I discovered someone this week who embodied the practices that I believe would restore our republic to its former heights of glory. He’s not a politician — no surprise there. He’s not a television pundit. He hasn’t written a book. He’s not a household name. He wasn’t a war hero, but he did serve in […]

Attorney General Eric Holder once again played the race card — this time on national television, in an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” claiming that he and President Obama have been targets of “a racial animus” by some of the administration’s political opponents. “There’s a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that’s directed […]

California is in the midst of a sort-of statewide election recount. Will it be like Florida in 2000? Hardly. This isn’t a heated national contest to see which party occupies the Oval Office. It’s about the unsexy state controller’s office and which Democrat — former Assembly Speaker John Perez or Board of Equalization member Betty […]

“The heartlessness and nativist pandering that have broken America’s immigration system must give way to providing proper food, clothing, shelter and medical care to the Central American children streaming into the country,” so pronounced the editors of the New York Daily News. Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. echoed the theme in his “Bordering on […]

The flood of underage — and non-underage — illegal immigrants from Central America coming across the border in Texas is, to paraphrase a former Obama administration official, a “man-caused disaster.” The man who caused it, more than anyone else, is Barack Obama. Speaking at political fundraisers in Dallas and Austin last week — he refused […]

At last, an Obama administration official has come out in favor of a fence. He promises it will bring security to people on both sides of the border. Unfortunately, Philip Gordon, National Security Council coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf, was not speaking of a border fence between the United States […]