Category: Column

Just when you think things can’t get much worse with Obamacare, another shoe drops. Correction: This thing has enough dropping shoes to fully fit a centipede. That Obama deliberately lied (please excuse the redundancy, but it is apparently necessary to clarify one’s meaning in this postmodern age) in telling people they could keep their plans […]

The Midas touch is named for the mythological Greek King Midas who is said to have been able to turn everything he touched into gold. The left has the opposite ability: to turn virtually everything it touches into rubble. Sometimes it happens quickly; sometimes it takes generations. But it is inevitable. Almost the only time […]

Berkeley, Calif., City Councilman Jesse Arreguin has recommended that the city ban smoking in single-family homes. Councilwoman Susan Wengraf, who supports an ordinance to ban smoking in multiunit dwellings, is appalled. “The whole point is to protect people who live in multiunit buildings from secondhand smoke,” Wengraf said. Locals have told her they find the […]

The talking heads love presidential analogies. Is Obamacare’s rollout Obama’s Hurricane Katrina or his Iraq? Is Obama’s false promise that you could keep your health care plan like George H. W. Bush’s “read my lips” pledge, or is it like Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”? Iran-Contra anyone? These comparisons […]

“The Affordable Care Act’s political position has deteriorated dramatically over the last week.” That, coming from longtime Obamacare cheerleader and Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein, was pretty strong language. And it was only Wednesday. That was the day after the release of a devastating Quinnipiac national poll. It showed Barack Obama’s approval rating at 39 […]

Fed up with Washington? Angry that elections don’t seem to matter when it comes time to solving problems? Disgusted by the polarization that puts politicians’ careers ahead of taxpayer interests? Frustrated because you don’t think anything can be done about it? Indiana State Senator David Long (R-Ft. Wayne) has experienced all of these feelings, but […]

The Steamboat Institute, a leading non-profit conservative organization based in: Steamboat Springs, Colorado, launched a new academic fellowship, “The Tony Blankley Chair for Public Policy and American Exceptionalism,” named after the late conservative columnist and pundit,: Tony Blankley. Blankley served as: served as executive vice president for public affairs in Edelman’s: Washington: office. The Tony Blankley Chair was recently launched […]

Politics is in the eye of the beholder. Post-mortems now gushing forth about why Ken Cuccinelli, conservative Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, lost to Democrat Terry MacAuliffe, a business-as-usual political retread from the Clinton crowd, tell us more about who produces this punditry than what reality actually might be. We’re hearing that the Tea […]

When President Obama stepped in front of the cameras Thursday to magically waive a wand and arbitrarily change his signature accomplishment, he couldn’t help but lie to the American people…again. But lying about the accomplishments of his administration isn’t a compulsion; it’s a requirement. Looking back on the last five years, what has the Obama […]

Tens of thousands of Americans will gather: : Nov. 19: in Washington for Reclaim America Now, where they will call for President Obama, Kathleen Sebelius and Eric Holder to resign and clear the way so we can reclaim our country. The message will discuss how many are “tired of the NSA spying on us. We’re tired of our […]

In “The Godfather, Part II,” mafia boss Michael Corleone tells a corrupt politician, “We are both part of the same hypocrisy, senator.” Similarly, the same may now be said of Democrats and Republicans in Congress. Let me qualify that opinion by stating that while there still remain a few Republicans whom I would support, there […]

Sheesh, what did they expect? I speak of the backlash to the Affordable Care Act of 2010, which passed along purely partisan lines. Not one Republican in the House or Senate voted in favor of it. More than half of the American people were against it in 2010. In fact, according to Politico, ObamaCare was […]

Massachusetts Democrat Barry Greenfield is pushing for legislation to allow police to enter your home unannounced, without warrant, and take your guns. Greenfield actually believes it is a “problem” that police don’t have the authority to enter peoples’ homes and inspect their firearms to ensure their guns are safely secured. Massachusetts law requires guns to […]

Chaos. “The whole mess has thrown the country, millions of people, the insurance market, into chaos,” wrote Paul Palumbo, one of the million Californians who were notified that because of the Affordable Care Act, their Blue Shield plans would end Dec. 31. When the self-employed research analyst received the notice, he stopped paying his premiums […]

Students For Liberty is a new organization that supports liberty, including economic freedom to choose how to provide for one’s life; Social freedom to choose how to live one’s life; and Intellectual and academic freedom.: Recently joining the board of this organization which is growing rapidly are Dr. Linda Whetstone: of the Network for a Free Society,: Daniel […]

America finally understands Obamacare. Day after day, the president’s signature legislative achievement is proving to be the federal fiasco everyone predicted it would be. Every Democrat — including the president’s liberal cheerleaders in the media, the Democrats in Congress and Bill Clinton — knows it’s become a major political disaster for their party. President Obama […]

A Wall Street friend told me he thinks that the October Bureau of Labor Statistics report’s deceptions are so great that Disneyland must have written it. For the umpteenth straight month, the mainstream media cherry-picked the handful of positive statistics but buried profoundly troubling data. According to the BLS employers’ survey, the one you read […]

The world spins, the seasons change, someone breaks a sweat in November — and the next thing we know, liberals find another excuse to grow the government. This time it’s about climate change; you know… that thing that’s been happening four times per year since the dawn of creation, with rainy springs, hot summers, dry […]

We learned a few interesting things from President Barack Obama’s rambling, analogy-filled news conference Thursday. We learned that there was a fumble. We learned that technology is hard. In fact, the president went on for an extended period of time explaining government’s historical struggles with IT issues. Considering that the entire backbone of the law […]

The silence is deafening. A depraved photographer accused of abusing and exploiting young models enjoys access to the entertainment industry’s hottest female stars, from Rihanna to Lady Gaga to Beyonce to Miley Cyrus. He counts “progressive” feminist celebs among his most intimate friends. He’s even photographed President Obama. But when confronted with his sordid history […]

Watching President Obama’s press conference Thursday, I almost started humming the old ditty the “Farmer in the Dell” because all I could think was: “The cheese stands alone.” The president did his level best to explain that he was as in the dark as anybody about the problems with his signature legislation. He explained that […]

President Obama’s program of misleading the American people continued today when he proposed allowing insurance companies to rescind cancellations of insurance policies for a year. His proposal is a way to have his cake and eat it, too. By leaving it up to the insurance companies to decide on whether or not to cancel, he […]

I don’t know how President Obama could get more surreal. At this point, it’s hard to tell whether he’s more dishonest or delusional. At Obama’s news conference Thursday, CBS’ Major Garrett pressed him, essentially, to admit he’d flagrantly lied when he promised Americans that with the advent of Obamacare, they could keep their health care […]

The World Economic Forum has issued its annual report on the gender gap worldwide, and it has received respectful notice from the usual places (PBS, CNN, The Washington Post). But any report that places the United States below Cuba, the Philippines and South Africa deserves a little skepticism. In fact, the WEF places the U.S. […]

Americans are pragmatic, not ideological. That simple fact explains the growth of federal power following World War II. It also explains why President Obama’s health care law will spur a reversal of that trend. The growth in federal power got started in the New Deal era, but the decisive event took place on the morning […]

Colorado, writes National Journal’s always insightful Ronald Brownstein, is “America, writ small.” “A microcosm,” he goes on, “of the forces destabilizing American politics.” Of course, Colorado is not entirely typical of the nation. It has America’s lowest rates of obesity, for example — because of a young population and because most Coloradans live a mile […]