Category: Column

As the death toll rises to 12 in the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in New York City, health officials all over the nation should learn quickly from the mistakes being made there. New York is the latest city to fall victim to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s do-nothing guidelines. They have given public health […]

The so-called “debates,” among too many Republicans to have a debate, are yet another painful sign of how much words and ideas have degenerated in our times. No one expects these televised sound bites and “gotcha” questions to be anything like the historic Lincoln-Douglas debates on the momentous national issue of slavery. But the mob […]

It’s time that the sophisticated analysts who pride themselves in their ability to discern nuance realized that Donald Trump’s popularity and his defenders are more nuanced than most people imagine. Because Trump is outrageous compared with the usual presidential candidate, Beltway pundits assume his followers and sometime defenders are classless rubes willing to overlook any […]

At American University last week, President Barack Obama gave a vigorous defense of the Iran nuclear agreement. In the belief that every student who was present — indeed, all Americans — should hear the other side, here are responses to claims the president made. (For the information of my readers, I made a Prager University […]

“Conservatives Furious at Fox, Say Trump Wasn’t Treated Fairly,” read the Newsmax headline Friday. Talk-radio show host Mark Levin told Breitbart News it was “outrageous” that moderator Megyn Kelly questioned Donald Trump about his coarse language — “fat pigs, dogs, slobs” — referring to women. Levin complained it was “a National Enquirer debate, not a […]

Killing Babies – Betraying Israel – God Bless America? Josh, in Israel, emailed me. He said they are“living under the specter of the Iran deal and see where this is all heading.” They are extremely concerned. Josh said, “For starters what even gave him the right to lead such “negotiations” on behalf of the world? […]

On the positive side, what can you say about Donald Trump that he hasn’t already said about himself? On the negative side, what can you say about Donald Trump that he or one of his minions won’t attack you for? That’s what Donald Trump is – the Yin and the Yang, the good and the […]

How bad is the urine situation in San Francisco? This is not a joke: Monday night, a light pole corroded by urine collapsed and crashed onto a car, narrowly missing the driver. The smell is worse than I have known since I started working for The Chronicle in 1992. It hits your nose on the […]

The progressive left has cannibalizedthe Democrat[ic] Party to the point that even its chairman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, can no longer differentiate between today’s Democrat and a Socialist. Or, if she can, she’s afraid to explain the difference, which is what likely happened during two recent interviews where she had to change the subject rather than […]

In its debate coverage, Fox News’ recent desire to be accepted into the fraternity of leftist-leaning journalists was on full display. Having built its audience by being fair to conservatives, its anchors now seek to pivot to the left in order to satisfy their professional peers. It is very revelatory that CNN praised Fox News […]

History will remember U.S. President Barack Obama for having unshackled Iran from economic sanctions so it could enjoy the full benefit of its oil revenues — some $100 billion or so on standby, according to U.S. Treasury estimates. Obama has arguably done more for Iran’s energy independence than he has for America’s. “The U.S. is […]

The big winner of the way-too-early first debate of the presidential primary season wasn’t even on the stage for the prime-time event. Carly Fiorina won the “undercard” event earlier in the evening. She did so in convincing enough fashion that the next big question for political junkies will be whether she can make it into […]

Donald Trump won some applause in Cleveland, but Thursday night spelled the beginning of his inevitable decline. It’s fun for his fans to watch Trump flout convention, but eventually they figure out that this man will betray anyone. From the opening, Trump showed what kind of Republican he truly is — the snake variety. Fox […]

Leftists Use Black Lives Matter to Exploit Blacks, Again Recently, my black brother shared an unfortunate incident. Years ago, police in two unmarked cars blocked his car. They jumped out pointing guns, demanding that he exit his car. My brother immediately raised his hands, but did not exit his car because he was frozen with […]

The GOP-controlled Congress is taking up the cause, once again, of defunding Planned Parenthood. This latest effort comes in response to macabre hidden-camera videos shot by the Center for Medical Progress of staff at Planned Parenthood talking about the grisly practice of chopping up fetuses for parts. There’s a debate over whether the videos prove […]

Am I the only one getting tired of President Obama constantly berating his political opponents and accusing them of being bought? Well, he is doing it again, on his Iran nuke deal. You can always tell when Obama is nervous about a policy proposal, because he won’t stop talking about it. As disturbing as Obama’s […]

For decades, I believed that displaying grisly photographs of aborted babies was the wrong way to make the pro-life case. Disturbing images, I thought, would only repel viewers, not persuade them. I now think I was wrong. There are many ways to make an argument. The Center for Medical Progress has demonstrated that a 2 […]

Some Democratic Party groups are renouncing their once-egalitarian idols, the renaissance genius Thomas Jefferson and the populist Andrew Jackson. Both presidents, some two centuries ago, owned slaves. Consequently, the two men have been suddenly deemed unworthy of further liberal reverence. In Connecticut, for instance, the state Democratic Party has removed the two presidents’ names from […]

Socialism, according to Dictionary.com, is defined as: “A theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.” Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, recently appeared on MSNBC’s “Hardball […]

You don’t have to watch those videos of Planned Parenthood officials released by an anti-abortion group. No one will force you. And you’d be right to look with suspicion at anyone who tells you that you must watch them. So I’m not telling you to watch. But I am asking you to ask yourself two […]

Candidates running for president should take the following warning seriously: Years of bad government policies catering to interest groups have created a generation of young people facing tremendous challenges in the labor market and little chance to experience the good old American dream. We can hope that someone will put this government-created generation of disinherited […]

If Joe Biden decides to run, it will trigger a split between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Neither side will necessarily be looking to split from the other, but the inevitable dynamics of the race will tend in that direction. Here’s why. Both Clinton and Biden have a tricky path to navigate. Each has to […]

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Sen. Barack Obama said: “…if somebody wants to build a coal power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them…” He added that under his now defeated Cap and Trade bill, “electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” In 2010, Cap and Trade died in the Senate, but the president’s […]

My town, New York City, enforces rigid gun laws. Police refused to assign me a gun permit. The law doesn’t even let me hold a fake gun on TV to demonstrate something. But New York politicians are so eager to vilify gun ownership that they granted an exception to the anti-gun group States United to […]