Category: Column

Nowhere has there been so much hand-wringing over a lack of “affordable housing,” as among politicians and others in coastal California. And nobody has done more to make housing unaffordable than those same politicians and their supporters. A recent survey showed that the average monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco was just […]

Establishment Republicans inside and outside Washington miss the grassroots’ point. Even if we don’t eventually prevail with defunding Planned Parenthood, we need to take this issue to the American people. Establishment types believe that just as we are finally poised to recapture the White House, crazy tea party extremists are about to mess everything up […]

I am going to miss John Boehner as speaker of the House. The GOP looks like the fun party with its ring-a-ding leader and his dash of Dean Martin. Boehner even sauntered into his resignation news conference Friday while crooning, “Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay. My oh my, what a wonderful day.” The speaker chose not to cling […]

In November 1964 a crowd of 5,000 attended the opening of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, then the longest suspension bridge in the world. Presiding were New York Mayor Robert Wagner, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and transportation and parks czar Robert Moses. Also in the crowd was a teenager named Donald Trump. Trump later told a New […]

In a new viral video starring Bill Nye, the famed “Science Guy” declares that laws protecting “unborn people” are “based on ignorance” and reflect “a deep scientific lack of understanding.” He also says that if you support such laws, you “literally or apparently literally don’t know what you’re talking about.” Nye’s video was released during […]

So we, and the conservatives we support, are false prophets. We and our candidates are evidently just “spreading noise.”   At least that’s what outgoing Speaker of the House and head congressional hack, John Boehner thinks. And I’m sure he’s not the only one that thinks this. Every establishment Republican in both the House and […]

The announcement by House Speaker John Boehner that he is retiring at the end of October stunned Washington where life is all about grabbing power and holding on to it, often until death they do part. At a meeting with reporters, Boehner said, “My first job as speaker is to protect the institution.” Really? Is […]

Well, he’s gone. More correctly, he’s going. Speaker of the House John Boehner announced Friday that he’s resigning effective Oct. 30. My reaction, similar to that of most conservatives, was a resounding “good!” And it is good, even though we’re unlikely to get the truly new blood we need in this position. Barring some miracle, […]

I interrupt the reality TV shows that are the Republican GOP Presidential Race and, on alternate days, the Barack Obama Show or Hillary’s Hilarious Magical Email Mystery Tour, for this public service announcement: Buried under the Jeb Bush rhetoric is a lot of big government covered up by a thousand point of light. As much […]

In this new Jamie Glazov Moment, Jamie discusses Ben Carson: Heroic Truth-Teller About Islam,  commending a courageous American for having the guts to lift the veil off of Sharia. Don’t miss this special Jamie Glazov Moment: And don’t miss the previous BLOCKBUSTER Jamie Glazov Moment, in which Jamie discussed Our Death Through Jihad-By-Immigration, exposing how […]

What’s a teacher to do if he sees a wired briefcase that looks like a homemade bomb in the classroom? Obviously not apply the Obama administration’s “If you see something, say something” rule. Nor should they follow the school’s zero tolerance policy to keep students safe, like school administrators in Irving, Texas did after 14-year-old […]

Scott Walker’s abrupt withdrawal from the Republican presidential race Monday afternoon shows how different, in ways noticed and unnoticed, this campaign cycle is from those of recent years. One obvious difference is the size of the Republican field — 17, before Walker’s withdrawal and Rick Perry’s withdrawal 10 days before. That has made debates unwieldy […]

Several days ago I wrote  http://commonconstitutionalist.com/current-events/the-case-of-the-irving-islamaphobes/ about a 14-year-old Muslim boy in Irving Texas, who, by all accounts at the time, was just an innocent Texas high schooler. I wrote that he built a clock from scratch out of parts he bought. Unfortunately, due to the appearance of the “homemade clock” (it looked like a […]

John Boehner needed resigning. His leadership has consisted of acting as an intermediary in the ongoing surrender negotiations of the conservatives we elected to Congress and the president we were trying to circumscribe. If Donald Trump wrote a book on “The Art of the Deal,” Boehner could write one on “The Art of the Sellout.” […]

The Glazov Gang is proud and excited to run the third episode of its new feature: The Unknown. The producer of the Gang, Anni Cyrus, has now entered the stage. Below is the new edition, My Islamic Court Date and No Way Out,in which Anni shares her horrific ordeal of trying to escape an abusive forced […]

“Anyone who has watched this videotape, I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.’ This is about the character of our nation, and if we will […]

Not always. Not everyone. But enough. This week, for example, while thinking about the pope’s take on global warming, I tweeted out this comment: “Celebrate climate change, an externality of the greatest poverty destroying program in the history of mankind.” There is plenty to disagree with in my observation, I admit. Although I believe what […]

Two white cops entered as Mary and I were enjoying coffee in Starbucks. Mary suggested we pay for their purchase. I’m an American who happens to be black. I approached the officers, “Excuse me. May my wife and I pay for your purchase? It is our way of saying we think the Black Lives Matter […]

There is only one guaranteed way to get fired from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Falsifying records won’t do it. Prescribing obsolete drugs won’t do it. Cutting all manner of corners on health and safety is, at worst, going to get you a reprimand. No, the only sure-fire way to get canned at the VA […]

Last week, Muslim 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed made national news after being detained by police for bringing a deconstructed clock to his Texas school. The clock, to inexpert eyes, looked like a bomb. Ahmed’s English teacher thought so and called the police; when they questioned Mohamed, he reportedly stonewalled them. They released him after realizing that […]

American soldiers are being punished for blowing the whistle on the systematic rape and enslavement of young boys at the hands of brutal Afghan Muslim military officials. Honorable men in uniform risked their careers and lives to stop the abuse. Yet, the White House — which was busy tweeting about its new feminism-pandering “It’s On […]

“A pope that mentions Dorothy Day is a pope that rocks,” tweeted Neera Tanden of the left-leaning Center for American Progress. Tanden might have wished to reel back that praise if she had known that Day, though a prominent pacifist and socialist, was also a fervent opponent of abortion, birth control, Social Security and the […]

We all know why the federal government has long ago injected itself into the American education system. Big government progressive’s knew they couldn’t control what schools were teaching, and of course progressives must have control over every facet of our lives.    So they began offering carrots to the states in the form of federal […]

Normally, the issue of the pope’s infallibility wouldn’t much concern me, but it does get my attention when opportunists attempt to leverage his heft to advance their political agenda. As an evangelical Christian, I don’t subscribe to the view that the pope is infallible, but I respect Catholics who do and have no desire to […]

This special edition of The Glazov Gang was joined by Dr. Bruce Thornton, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center who is a columnist for Frontpagemag.com.   Dr. Thornton discussed Europe’s Muslim Refugee Fiasco, unveiling how the catastrophe was completely predictable — and all the reasons why. Don’t miss it! And make sure to […]

“I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain,’” quoth Carly Fiorina at the Republican presidential debate last week. “This is about the character of our nation, […]

Merriam-Webster’s definition of a bully is: “a blustering browbeating person; especially one habitually cruel to others who are weaker.” Sound familiar, Congress? That’s because this is what General Electric’s Jeffrey Immelt has been doing to you for months, first by threatening to leave the country and withhold contributions and now by threatening to move jobs […]

The bailed-out Greeks are still broke. Now their islands are flooded with a horde of migrants from the Middle East and Africa. Spain, Portugal and Italy are almost in the same boat. Their shared Mediterranean traditions — and vulnerabilities — are far different from those of northern Europe’s more affluent nations. Given the triad of […]