Category: Column

Of all the cynical frauds of the Obama administration, few are so despicable as sacrificing the education of poor and minority children to the interests of the teachers’ unions. Attorney General Eric Holder’s attempt to suppress the spread of charter schools in Louisiana was just one of the signs of that cynicism. His nationwide threats […]

A year ago, I wrote a two-part series titled “My Mom’s Advice for America.” Those columns became two of my most read pieces. With both my mother’s 93rd birthday (May 4) and Mother’s Day (May 11) on the horizon, I decided to write a two-part series this year on her mother’s advice for America. Grandmother […]

Please explain this: Obama is incredibly unpopular, and Obamacare is one of the main reasons, yet some Republicans are now saying it’s here to stay. That is flat-out unacceptable. GOP — heal thyself. You don’t have to be a radical to understand that the GOP is afraid of its own shadow half the time, that […]

Well, well, well. Washington seems to have finally taken notice of a problem we parents have been actively worried about — sex crimes against children, college students and those caught up in the despicable practice of human trafficking. Lest you might think this is a subject that only affects females, please, consider this: The Centers […]

A private recording of racist remarks by the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, Donald Sterling, in a telephone conversation was released last week. Among other comments, Sterling said to his former mistress, a black Mexican woman known as V. Stiviano: “It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with […]

Remember poverty? It was once a chief preoccupation of the Democratic Party. Lyndon Johnson made war on it. An entire ecosystem of federal, state and local programs has been created over the course of the past half-century to combat it, costing taxpayers more than $1 trillion annually. Yet the Democratic Party seems to have forgotten […]

Schuette v. BAMN shouldn’t have been a hard case. The Fourteenth Amendment outlaws racial discrimination. Racial quotas and preferences are, by definition, racial discrimination. Fifty-eight percent of Michigan voters in 2006 voted to prohibit racial quotas and preferences in admission to state colleges and universities. As Justice Antonin Scalia asked in his concurring opinion in […]

You know things are bad when you can’t wait for the return of a TV character to demonstrate what resolve and leadership really look like. Yes, after a four-year hiatus, the show “24,” featuring Jack Bauer (played by Kiefer Sutherland), returns May 5 to the Fox network. Bauer displays many of the traits once found […]



Proms sure have gotten expensive these days.: â€¨â€¨According to the San Jose Mercury News, high school kids spend nearly $4 billion annually for dresses, accessories, flowers, beauty products, limos and other prom-related items. The average couple spends upward of $1,000 for the one-time event.:  

That got me thinking about my own prom in 1980.: â€¨â€¨I didn’t know […]

An honest debate with a progressive is almost as rare as a verified sighting of Bigfoot. You’d have better luck getting a devout Scientologist to say L. Ron Hubbard was a horrible writer than you would to get a progressive to admit the “science” behind climate change is not all it’s cracked up to be. […]

A new, sweeping demographic snapshot of the United States, “The Next America,” has been produced by the Pew Research Center. The data and graphs present a stunning picture of how dramatically the United States has changed and how dramatically it will continue to change. The big themes that one walks away with is that America […]

Get this: The U.S. Supreme Court is about to decide whether false accusations and mudslinging during political campaigns are illegal.: As it goes, during the 2010 election in Ohio, an anti-abortion group, the Susan B. Anthony List, sought to launch a billboard campaign that accused then-Rep. Steven Driehaus, a Democrat, of supporting taxpayer-funded abortion – because […]

Oh, wouldn’t Democrats love for Jeb Bush to run for President in 2016!Perhaps that’s why he’s such a popular figure in the national media recently. Most of the reports have focused on his kind words regarding the noble goals of the majority of illegal immigrants to this country, omitting his drive to make big bank […]

If ever there was a city built on the bedrock belief that the government should stay out of the bedroom, it is San Francisco — unless you own the bedroom. Then you are not free to do whatever you want with the bedroom, because people who are not owners control what you can do with […]

It was nice to be away from politics for a week.: It was even nicer to be in the great city of Boston for six days to celebrate the running of the 118th Boston Marathon.: Watching the race with a million people – and meeting so many wonderful Bostonians – was an incredible experience.:  A year after […]

The stupefyingly stubborn John Boehner is at it again. A week ago at a Las Vegas fundraiser, the House speaker audaciously said that he’s hell-bent on passing an immigration bill this year. Then at the exclusive Brown’s Run Country Club in his Ohio home district, Boehner publicly ridiculed his fellow House Republicans for refusing to […]

Quite simply, from pharmaceuticals to motion pictures to software, India is stealing our stuff. India ranks dead last among major economies in protection of intellectual property rights, according to a comprehensive analysis by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. And despite lots of talk and visits from Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joe […]

As I write this, Thomas Piketty’s book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” is No. 1 on Amazon.com. It’s been deemed an “important book” by a bunch of smart people. Why not? It validates many of the preconceived notions progressives have about capitalism: Inequality is growing. Mobility is shrinking. Meritocracy is dead. We all live in […]

Afghanistan is not, as the media calls it, “America’s longest war.” : In reality, that is the government’s “War on Poverty.”In 1986, President Ronald Reagan bluntly said, “poverty won.” : After 50 years, we’re still losing the War on Poverty. The percentage of people living in poverty isn’t much different from when President Lyndon Johnson committed us […]

The Obama administration doesn’t have watchdogs. It has whitewash puppies. The president’s Chicago bullies have defanged true advocates for integrity in government in D.C. from day one. So the latest report by the Senate Homeland Security and Government Operations Committee on corruptocrat Charles K. Edwards, the former Department of Homeland Security inspector general, isn’t a […]

As soon as someone mentions BPA (bisphenol A), I recall the glasses and glass containers our family now uses to replace the plastic containers that previously populated our cupboards.Like many moms, my top priority is keeping my kids safe, so I was concerned about BPA in the past. When the media began reporting BPA might […]

I think we all know what Barack Obama’s foreign policy strategy coming into office was. Step 1: Be Barack Obama (and not George W. Bush). Step 2: ???? Step 3: World peace! (With apologies to “South Park.”) As a candidate, Obama held a huge campaign rally in, of all places, Berlin, touting his bona fides […]

Sonia Sotomayor is a wonderful role model. Truly. Through hard work, brains and rare self-discipline at an early age, she was able to overcome poverty and family dysfunction to become what she is today. She was diagnosed at the age of 7 with Type 1 diabetes, and because her father was an alcoholic and her […]

One of the many ironies surrounding President Obama is that for all his harping on income inequality — his most recent obsession designed to stir Americans against one another — his policies have exacerbated it. Obama, the self-professed bipartisan uniter, is never content to seek remedies to improve opportunity for all Americans. He has to […]

In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ended legal segregation in public schools with a unanimous 9-0 decision in Brown v. Board of Education. While the ruling paved the way for future integration of American society, the court itself was far from integrated. The decision was reached by nine white men. It wasn’t until Thurgood Marshall […]

We should ask Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-Nev.) the same question once posed to Sen. Joseph McCarthy by U.S. Army head counsel Robert N. Welch: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” Reid is back in the news for denigrating the peaceful supporters of Nevada […]