Year: 2015

I was swapping dad stories with a friend and laughing hard. Then my friend got quiet and said something that hit me hard. “God, I wish my father was still alive.” I’m one of the luckiest sons on earth because my dad is healthy, and I pray he stays so for a good long while. […]

There are some very stupid ideas emanating from powerful people and political wannabes. From the powerful, President Obama wants to put welfare housing in wealthy neighborhoods as a tactic to “end poverty.” He obviously wants to emulate the societal “success” of forced busing. Let’s apply common sense to the President’s plan. Obama wants to diversify […]

Pope Francis is releasing an encyclical Thursday on climate change — a draft of which was leaked to the Italian magazine l’Espresso on Monday. The New York Times reports that the encyclical is “eagerly awaited, especially by scientists and environmentalists” — because the pope agrees with most of them. On the right, it’s not all […]

Poor Jeb. He’s Donald Trump’s first Republican victim, but he won’t be his last. On Monday Bush officially declared he was a Republican candidate for president, something everyone knew was coming. Jeb gave a serious, by-the-book announcement speech, explaining his many qualifications, making his claim that he’s a true conservative and promising to make America […]

PARIS — Two years ago, former NSA contractor and CIA employee Edward Snowden bailed to Hong Kong with a stash of digitized top-secret documents, some of which have since dribbled out into the public domain. According to a newly declassified report by the CIA’s Office of the Inspector General, systemic vulnerabilities in the intelligence community […]

American presidents have greater leeway on foreign policy than on domestic issues. Just see how President Obama is forging ahead to an agreement with Iran opposed by large majorities in Congress and among voters. A president’s personal predilections and core assumptions can have much more of an effect on his foreign policy than on domestic […]

What if a team of Chinese agents had broken into the Pentagon or — less box office but just as bad — the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and carted out classified documents? The next day, the newspapers and morning TV shows would show pictures of the broken locks and rummaged filing cabinets. And if […]

There is a big problem with the prevailing liberal narrative that the phrase describing subsidy eligibility in Obamacare, “established by the state,” could not possibly mean what it says. The problem is named Jonathan Gruber. For years Gruber understood Obamacare precisely the same way the challengers in King v. Burwell do. When the bill passed […]

The Food and Drug Administration issued a final decision this week, giving the food industry three years to phase out bad trans fats, still used in a wide variety of products, such as Pillsbury’s Ready To Bake cookies and cake frosting. Now, if you’re ingesting large quantities of either, perhaps partially hydrogenated oils aren’t your […]