Category: Column

“I don’t understand how Jews in America can be Democrats first and Jewish second and support Israel along the line of just following their president,” vented Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) on Boston Herald Radio last week. It was a small controversy in the grand scheme of things, easily overlooked during a week when: a German […]

The ambush-prone mainstream media (MSM) has difficulty trapping Sen. Ted Cruz, not just because he is mentally agile and verbally adroit. He has truth and authenticity on his side, and it is much harder to trip up someone of that description. Media watchdog Newsbusters shares a litany of examples of MSM hosts doing their best […]

I made one big oversight last week when passing on simple approaches you can take to keep your immune system in check as well as deal with gut dysfunction and inflammation. I failed to mention, in fact left off completely, the one proven tonic that is now being touted as this winter’s new miracle drink: […]

The death of Leonard Nimoy saddened millions of Trekkies around the world (including me). But it wasn’t just Trekkies who mourned. In the past month, it has become clear that Mr. Spock — the character Nimoy brought to life — had become a cultural icon extending far beyond the Trek universe. The president of the […]

From Creation, on, mankind has proven time and again that rules are necessary to keep society in check. Chaos reigns in places where the definition of right and wrong is not clearly defined. On March 21, the UK Telegraph had an interesting article about a child psychotherapist who thinks a growing number of kids are […]

The snarky quip attributed to 19th-century French Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand — “It was worse than a crime; it was a blunder” — has recently been making the rounds to deride a letter written by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and signed by 46 other senators. They wrote to the Iranian theocracy that any […]

“In your heart you know he’s right,” was Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign slogan in 1964. The critics of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who announced Monday he is running for president, are effectively saying of him: “In your head you know he’s nuts.” Even before his announcement, Cruz was labeled with the typical modifiers the left […]

There is a unicorn lair in North Korea. We know this because the Dear Leader of North Korea, Kim Jung Un, tells us so. According to the official Korean Central News Agency, archaeologists have “recently reconfirmed” the existence of the unicorn lair dating back to the Koryo Kingdom (918-1392). President Obama has his own unicorn […]

They just can’t help themselves — and their agenda-driven media enablers never, ever learn. This week, the NAACP made national front-page headlines with a local press release demanding that the feds investigate the hanging death of a local man in Port Gibson, Miss. Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP Mississippi State Conference, immediately invoked the […]

No matter what you do, modern liberals will tell you you’re wrong. For decades, liberals complained that American society is segregated because rich, white people don’t want to live in ethnically mixed neighborhoods. Sometimes, liberals had a point. From the 1930s to 1960s, as rich white people moved into New York City, urban planner Robert […]

While the GOP nominating process is just beginning, CNN/ORC International issued a poll this week that sheds light on how it is unfolding. The survey tested the GOP candidates in a head-to-head: CNN/ORC Poll of all Republican Primary Voters –Jeb Bush 16 –Scott Walker 13 –Rand Paul 12 –Mike Huckabee 10 –Ben Carson 9 –Chris […]

White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough recently spoke to J Street, a left-wing organization that fancies itself the headquarters of the tough-love-for-Israel crowd. J Street’s critics would phrase it a bit differently. In a charitable mood, they’d say J Street is all about loving Israel to death. Regardless, J Street is the perfect think […]

PARIS — The Green Berets need to throw more tea parties, don’t you think? The federal government is requesting public-sector proposals from contractors to train U.S. Special Forces in ethnography and cultural work. That includes, according to the wording of the government tender, “the distinct cultural and societal differences and engagement considerations between U.S. Country […]

It is not often that the leader of a small city-state — in this case, Singapore — gets an international reputation. But no one deserved it more than Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of Singapore as an independent country in 1959, and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990. With his death, he leaves behind […]

Janet Yellen channels Billy Flynn? Last week the Fed Chairwoman treated us to a master class of rhetorical misdirection which produced some memorable examples of doublespeak, including the soon to be classic “Just because we removed the word ‘patient’ does not mean we’re going to be ‘impatient.”‘ But perhaps more surprising than her new heights of verbal dexterity was the […]

Years ago Rush Limbaugh called me a liberal sportswriter, suggesting I was the harbinger of death to football in America. Happily, though, loyal readers know that I’m not even remotely liberal. Just ask my editors, or the legions of Obama’s peeved off hopium smokers or the perpetually angry Clintonistas. But it is true that I […]

It is amazing how a simple question can cause a complex lie to collapse like a house of cards. The simple question was asked by Bill O’Reilly of the Fox News Channel, and it was addressed to two Democrats. He asked what has Hillary Clinton ever accomplished. The two Democrats immediately sidestepped the question and […]

Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential announcement was immensely gratifying in numerous ways, including the venue he chose for it. He made his announcement at Liberty University, which is a conspicuously Christian institution located in Virginia, the veritable birthplace of the United States of America. In the world of political commentary today, we usually see analysis focusing […]

American Jews on the left were beside themselves last week. Israel’s Jews did something that utterly infuriated these American Jews: Israel’s Jews overwhelmingly voted for a man of the right (or for other right-of-center parties). And not just any right-winger, but the only leader in the Western world to publicly differ from their hero, President […]

Rahm Emanuel heads into a runoff April 7 in his bid for a second term as mayor of Chicago. He’s the favorite going in, having won 46 percent in the Feb. 24 first round against longtime local officeholder Chuy Garcia’s 34 percent and topping 50 percent in recent polls. Emanuel, President Obama’s first White House […]

In 1982, during one of many visits to Israel, I had the opportunity to speak with Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who told me, “Israel needs friends.” He added that in the end, his nation could not trust any nation with its fate and security. The protection of Israel, he said, was ultimately the responsibility of […]

A Pumphrey Tale Black former middle schoolmate Jackie Felton recently came to mind. In the seventh grade, we were among a bus load of black students from the neighboring black community of Pumphrey, Maryland, integrating Brooklyn Park Jr/Sr High School into the early 60s. I still remember the day our school bus pulled into the […]

Would you like a lecture on race with your latte? That may sound like the name of a breakout session at a “White Privilege” conference or a new class at an Ivy League university, but it’s the new corporate policy at Starbucks. You now can be lectured by an otherwise unemployable gender studies graduate while […]

Freedom House, which publishes an annual report measuring freedom around the world, rating nations based on political rights and civil liberties, has recently issued its 2015 report. According to this report, there is only one free nation in the Middle East region. It so happens that it is the one nation that seems to trouble […]

The Beck Thing Candidly folks, I am uncomfortable with what I am about to say. Like Ronald Reagan’s 11th commandment of never speaking badly about a fellow Republican, I never speak-out against fellow conservatives. With the Left lead by Obama daily assaulting our freedoms, principles and values, the last thing we should be doing is […]

White Guilt with your Over Priced Coffee In case you have not heard, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz wants employees to write ”Race Together” on every coffee cup they serve to spark a national conversation about race with customers. Despite it being another example of liberal arrogance and condescension, it is another installment in the liberal’s […]

St. Patrick’s Day celebrations are getting a wee bit out of hand. St. Patrick’s Day occurs every year on March 17, the date when St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, died in 461 A.D. According to The History Channel, St. Patrick was born in Britain in 385 A.D. to a well-to-do family. Captured by […]