Year: 2014

Do you remember what President Obama initially said about the Internal Revenue Service scandal? Do you recall his professed outrage? Obama wanted us to know how furious he was. He said, “The misconduct that (the inspector general’s report) uncovered is inexcusable.” “It’s inexcusable,” he repeated, “and Americans are right to be angry about it, and […]

Government just doesn’t work very well. That’s the persuasive thesis of three important books published this year. John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge’s “The Fourth Revolution” takes a historical and international (and British) perspective. They argue that the welfare state, a creation of early 20th-century Brits, has become clunky in comparison to recent reforms in Scandinavia […]

Given how much evil there is in the world; given how many signs of moral, intellectual and economic decline there are here in America; and given the increasing irrelevance of America to world events, it is fair to ask why the American Left is preoccupied with the name Washington “Redskins.” The Washington Redskins have been […]

President Obama appears to have forgotten — or ignored — why we have elections. One reason is to stop, or slow down, an agenda the public doesn’t like. When polls began reflecting buyer’s remorse about Mr. Obama in 2010, voters elected a Republican majority in the House of Representatives and might well have done the […]

The major media’s account of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Hobby Lobby case was typical of the way the case has been misreported from the start. The New York Times headline read, “Supreme Court Rejects Contraceptives Mandate for Some Corporations.” Politico led with “SCOTUS sides with Hobby Lobby on birth control.” Others were similar. […]

by Anna Maria Hoffman and Gabriella Hoffman It’s undeniable that today’s dating culture is a mess. In fact, dating norms have been perverted. What best explains this? Thanks to the rise of third-wave feminism, which advocates the blurring of biological differences of both sexes, our culture has largely influenced young women to take this kind […]

Stars are aligning for a big Republican victory this November — solidifying and expanding the GOP’s majority in the House and perhaps gaining one in the Senate. This is a best-case scenario, and any majority in the Senate would be a slim one. But the importance of removing Harry Reid as majority leader cannot be […]

Incumbent Republican Senator Thad Cochran’s successful game plan, which drove his run-off victory over Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel for Mississippi’s Republican Senate nomination, was unconventional. But most incredible was the success of this game plan — to reach out to liberal black churches and get Democrat black voters to turn out and vote for […]

Ring, ring.: “Hello, this is Tom.”: “Hello, Tom, this is the federal government. We are going to audit your taxes and want to see all of your records for 2011.”:  “Sorry, federal government, but my computer crashed in 2011. All of my emails, electronic receipts and financial records were lost.”: “We’re not buying that, Tom. Anybody with half […]