Year: 2015

What is holding up Hillary Clinton? With all the negatives piling up at her door, why is she still dominant among Democratic voters. Do the erased emails, the mounting evidence that she lied about Benghazi, the mountains of cash that have poured into the Clintons’ pockets make no difference? Have our Democratic cousins lost their […]

For a time, reset, concessions and appeasement work to delay wars. But finally, nations wake up, grasp their blunders, rearm and face down enemies. That gets dangerous. The shocked aggressors cannot quite believe that their targets are suddenly serious and willing to punch back. Usually, the bullies foolishly press aggression, and war breaks out. It […]

On November 11, 2011, Congress voted to award a Congressional Gold Medal for the 20,000 black Marines of Montford Point, the first blacks to serve as Marines. I write about Staff Sgt. Elder — and my struggle to understand him — in my latest book, “Dear Father, Dear Son.” On August 13, 2013, Col. Jason […]

“Black lives matter!” was the chant heard at recent demonstrations in cities and towns from Ferguson, Missouri, to Baltimore, Maryland. Yes, they do matter, but apparently not so much to some other blacks. Only when a white police officer shoots or engages in other behavior that results in the death of a black man do […]

I’ve found the perfect place for Sen. Rand Paul to campaign for the presidency of the United States. It’s right here, the city by the lake: Chicago. Paul, the libertarian-leaning Kentucky Republican, is running his presidential campaign against what he calls “The Washington Machine.” Paul was scheduled to appear in Chicago on Wednesday to juxtapose […]

After the recent Amtrak train crash in Philadelphia, some politicians and pundits used the terrible tragedy to perpetuate the misleading claim that the federal government’s passenger rail operation suffers from a lack of taxpayer assistance. This rush to judgment was unsurprising, given that misfortune is sometimes synonymous with opportunity in the eyes of the political […]