Year: 2014

A source tipped me off last week to a curious occurrence: It seems that two planeloads of illegal aliens were recently shipped to Massachusetts. The first reportedly landed at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford. According to my tipster, approximately 160 illegal immigrants arrived on that flight and stayed nearly a week before being transferred […]

Both libertarians and conservatives want to keep America safe. We differ on how best to do that. Most libertarians believe our attempts to create or support democracy around the world have made us new enemies, and done harm as well as good. We want less military spending. Some conservatives respond to that by calling us […]

Darcy Olsen, president of the Arizona-based Goldwater Institute, and Richard Garr, president of Neuralstem, a biotech company, wrote “Right to Try experimental drugs” in USA Today (5/28/2014). They pointed out that “this year, more than 5,000 Americans will lose their battle with ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.” Up until recently, there was no […]

Hillary Clinton likes to present herself as an everywoman, facing the same challenges that bedevil all families, living in sync with their trials and tribulations, overcoming adversity as we all try to do. The latest iteration of her wish to downplay her wealth so as to be just plain folks was her bald assertions to […]

In the past week, Govs. Nikki Haley of South Carolina and Mary Fallin of Oklahoma evicted Common Core from public schools, even at the risk of losing hundreds of millions of federal dollars promised to states adopting it. Haley and Fallin initially supported Common Core, but public outrage is forcing them to reverse course, and […]

President Barack Obama believes he is above the law. That’s because he is. This week alone, Obama announced that he would unilaterally change student loan rules, allowing borrowers to avoid paying off more of their debt; he signaled that he would continue his non-enforcement of immigration law, even as thousands of children cross the border; […]

PARIS — On June 6, the Central Intelligence Agency joined the social media platform Twitter with its first tweet: “We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.” Presumably this is an attempt by the agency to develop its “brand.” Here’s why this is a really bad idea: — The CIA doesn’t […]

Hillary Clinton’s State Department memoir, “Hard Choices,” has just come out, and who among us can contain their excitement? Not Mike Allen, author of the incestuously insider Politico column “Playbook.” In Monday’s installment, he began, “Welcome to Hillary Week!” But the exclamation point was ironic, for Allen immediately dropped what he calls a “truth bomb”: […]

Recently, as I waited in line at the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, my eyes drifted to a sample license plate on the wall that said “Education Begins At Home.”It made me think: “Not if they continue with Common Core and these new SAT standards.” If they do, public school education will be reduced to […]