Year: 2014

The Hill, the newspaper that covers Congress, says this year, there will be a major policy battle over “climate change.” Why? We already waste billions on pointless gestures that make people think we’re addressing global warming, but the earth doesn’t notice or care. What exactly is “global warming” anyway? That’s really four questions: 1. Is […]

At one time in our nation’s history, blacks feeling sorry for whites was verboten. That was portrayed in Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” This is a novel published in 1960 — and later made into a movie — about Depression-era racial relations in the Deep South. The novel’s character Tom Robinson, […]

To turn Henry Kissinger’s famous quote around, even those with enemies can be paranoid. So it is with Hillary Clinton. Few were surprised by recent revelations that her staff labored for weeks after her 2008 campaign to amass an “enemies list” of those who received Clintonian largesse and failed to reciprocate. Like Nixon, she wanted […]

Teachers unions supply the Democratic Party with money and foot soldiers. But if Democrats intend to make income inequality their issue in 2014 and 2016, they will have to give up their slavish devotion to these unions, which deny inner-city kids a shot at a quality education and an escape route from poverty. A few […]

The post-apocalyptic sci-fi stories I liked best as a boy weren’t space operas on distant planets, involving warlike aliens who (weirdly enough) spoke guttural English, as if they were KGB officers in some action movie. The sci-fi I loved took place right here, on Earth, our Earth, the Earth of the future after the fall. […]

Dedicated readers of The Wall Street Journal have recently been offered many dire warnings about a clear and present danger that is stalking the global economy. They are not referring to a possible looming stock or real estate bubble (which you can find more on in my latest: newsletter). Nor are they talking about other usual […]

PARIS — What’s the point of intervening in a foreign country under the guise of humanitarianism, or sending aid, if you’re just going to end up importing its citizens en masse anyway? Isn’t the whole idea to shape up the place so that its people can safely remain there? The Obama administration is in such […]

Jenelle Evans, 22, had an abortion this year. Originally featured on MTV four years ago as a pregnant teenager, Evans, who loves to party, had a son, gave the son to her mother to raise, got into heroin, got married and went to jail; her husband ended up in jail as well on drug charges. […]

On paper, “liberal intolerance” is something of an oxymoron, like “jumbo shrimp,” “loyal opposition” or “conspicuous absence.” But what makes oxymorons funny is that they are real things. There are jumbo shrimp. Absences can be conspicuous, opponents can be loyal, and liberals can be staggeringly and myopically intolerant. Last Friday, in a public radio interview, […]

Words seem to carry far more weight than facts among those liberals who argue as if rent control laws actually control rents and gun control laws actually control guns. It does no good to point out to them that the two American cities where rent control laws have existed longest and strongest — New York […]

Someone summarized Barack Obama in three words — “educated,” “smart” and “ignorant.” Unfortunately, those same three words would describe all too many of the people who come out of our most prestigious colleges and universities today. President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried […]

With the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade this week, it’s time to blow the whistle on the greatest advocate of abortion in the modern age: President Barack Obama. To date, it is still unknown when U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will rule on whether or not Obama and Obamacare will force a group […]

It’s time for your latest Obamacare update, and it will come as no surprise to you that things are not getting any prettier for this monstrosity. Let’s just take a jog down Obamacare Avenue and see what is popping out at us from the storefronts this week. Roll down your windows so you can get […]

What do young Americans want? Something different from what they’ve been getting from the president they voted for by such large margins. Evidence comes in from various polls. Voters under 30, the millennial generation, produced numbers for Barack Obama 13 percentage points above the national average in 2008 and 9 points above in 2012. But […]