Sorry About Calling You ‘Uncle Tom’

The Rev. William Barber, head of North Carolina’s chapter of the left-wing NAACP, recently said this about black, tea-party-supported Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, S.C.: “A ventriloquist can always find a good dummy.” Sounds like Barber might have mentored an ex-high school classmate with whom I recently had the following exchange: Ex-Classmate: “Uncle Tom in […]

 

Cuomo to conservatives: Leave New York

Everyone “knows” it is conservatives who are mean-spirited, intolerant, censors of speech with which they don’t agree, anti-gay, anti-black and anti just about everything else, right? We know this because the left keeps telling us so. Which is why in this era of increasingly corrosive language — note the overuse of the f-word in the […]

 

The Happy State of Gov. Jerry Brown

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown is in an enviable position. He delivered a State of the State address Wednesday that did not require hand-wringing about ugly shortfalls and painful cuts for public schools. As he prepares to run for re-election, he doesn’t even need to announce that he is running for re-election. No Democrat […]

 

Lessons for Shove Guv Andrew Cuomo

Not so fast, Andrew Cuomo. We see what you did there. After publicly bashing conservative New Yorkers as “extreme” people who have no place in his state, the intolerant Democratic governor wants to blame the media for his unmistakable contempt for those who oppose abortion, support gun rights and defend traditional marriage. Newsflash: Crapweasel politicians […]

 

Chill Out

The Hill, the newspaper that covers Congress, says this year, there will be a major policy battle over “climate change.” Why? We already waste billions on pointless gestures that make people think we’re addressing global warming, but the earth doesn’t notice or care. What exactly is “global warming” anyway? That’s really four questions: 1. Is […]

 




The future is now: A sci-fi geezer’s lament

The post-apocalyptic sci-fi stories I liked best as a boy weren’t space operas on distant planets, involving warlike aliens who (weirdly enough) spoke guttural English, as if they were KGB officers in some action movie. The sci-fi I loved took place right here, on Earth, our Earth, the Earth of the future after the fall. […]

 


Syrian refugee plan poses security risks

PARIS — What’s the point of intervening in a foreign country under the guise of humanitarianism, or sending aid, if you’re just going to end up importing its citizens en masse anyway? Isn’t the whole idea to shape up the place so that its people can safely remain there? The Obama administration is in such […]

 


A New York state of mind: Illiberal liberal values

On paper, “liberal intolerance” is something of an oxymoron, like “jumbo shrimp,” “loyal opposition” or “conspicuous absence.” But what makes oxymorons funny is that they are real things. There are jumbo shrimp. Absences can be conspicuous, opponents can be loyal, and liberals can be staggeringly and myopically intolerant. Last Friday, in a public radio interview, […]

 



5 Reasons Marijuana Should Remain Illegal

How did we end up in a world where Big Gulps are being banned in New York while the welcome mat for potheads is being rolled out in Colorado? How is it that cigarette smokers are pariahs, while people smoking weed are being cheered? This is despite the fact that potheads are almost universally recognized […]

 




Millennials Unhappy With Obama’s War on the Young

What do young Americans want? Something different from what they’ve been getting from the president they voted for by such large margins. Evidence comes in from various polls. Voters under 30, the millennial generation, produced numbers for Barack Obama 13 percentage points above the national average in 2008 and 9 points above in 2012. But […]

 

Conservative Latinas Need Not Apply Here

The Hollywood blacklist, according to Wikipedia, is the term for “the mid-20th-century practice of denying employment to screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other U.S. entertainment professionals because of their suspected political beliefs or associations.” The blacklist spirit is alive and living in San Francisco, but here and now the enemies of free thought have a […]

 

The shame of Benghazi

When anything bipartisan comes out of a polarized Washington, one should be grateful. That’s why a Senate Intelligence Committee report on the September 11, 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans represents progress of sorts. The committee, chaired by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D-CA), faults the State Department […]

 




Did Orwell and Jones See Google and Obama Coming?

Dystopian science fiction has many works to recommend it. Huxley’s “Brave New World,” Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle,” and, more recently, Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” are prime examples. However, two of my personal favorites have always been George Orwell’s well-known “1984” and D.F. Jones’ much more obscure “Colossus.” In 1948, Orwell peered four decades […]

 

Huge Immigration Bill Would Destroy King’s Dream for Black and Hispanic Americans

The Congressional Black Caucus doesn’t share Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream for African-Americans. Fifty-one years ago, King outlined his hopes: that black as well and white men would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. King despaired that blacks were exiled in their own American land and too often […]

 

Yes, Virginia, There is a Liberal Press

Chris Christie knew. So did Barack Obama and Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe. All have been described by insiders as top-down leaders running a tightly controlled office. Conservatives realize the New Jersey Governor had to know the alleged “traffic study” foisted upon thousands of commuters by his closest advisors was at some point known to Christie […]

 

Would You Trust the System if Your Kid Were On Trial?

Clarence Aaron described his time in federal prison serving life without parole for a first-time nonviolent drug conviction as “a walking death sentence on” his head. Before President Barack Obama commuted his sentence last month, Aaron faced a longer sentence than some fellow inmates with multiple felonies — even murder. Aaron was hardly the only […]