Category: Column

Bring back French Fries. First, Russia shows the impotence of our Syrian policy, and now France demonstrates how we are appeasing Iran foolishly. It has not been a good year for Obama’s foreign policy. The world is catching on. But for the objections of the newly stand-up French, led by Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, the […]

When American politicians get around to reforming their immigration laws, they tend to look backwards. They seek to address immigration problems in the past rather than look ahead and set policy that will strengthen the nation in the future. That’s true, in my opinion, of the bipartisan majority that supported the immigration bill passed by […]

The 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s murder is being marked, not primarily by retrospectives on his life and accomplishments, and not by reflections on the myth versus the reality of his presidency, but instead by one of the features of our media age that is poisonous to our cultural health — a macabre focus […]

“60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan had to walk back her reporting on the attack that left Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods dead in a Benghazi, Libya, mission Sept. 11, 2012. “We realized we had been misled,” Logan said of discredited source Dylan Davies on Sunday. No lie. CBS News […]

With all the spying the United States has been doing on foreign leaders, possibly including the pope, why is Jonathan Pollard, a former American civilian intelligence analyst, still in prison nearly three decades after being sentenced to life in prison for taking classified documents he believed contained information important to Israel’s self-defense? Prominent individuals support […]

Salem Communications is partnering with a number of womens conferences beginning in February 2014 through November 2014.: : The events will focus on “the Power of Friendship” and be designed on helping women learn how to cultivate positive relationships and friends for life. Loneliness, depression and hopelessness are growing issues for women of all backgrounds.: David Cerullo and […]

Ida Ayres never served a day in the armed forces, but she knows a thing or two about the sacrifices of war. When we think of war and conflict, we think of the men and women who put themselves in harm’s way, as we should. But what about the parents, children, siblings and spouses who […]

When you bait a hook, you hope to catch a fish.: Thursday I baited a hook, and I caught a lot of fish. I had intended to write today’s column with the title “The Problem With Conservatives,” because there are some too. But I enjoyed the feedback I got from poking the bear so much I […]

A decade ago, my son, a talented writer in his own right, with a dry, self-deprecating sense of humor, published as his senior university thesis a series of original short stories, which he dubbed with the tongue-in-cheek title, “All the Things in the World.” Similarly, I occasionally feel there is so much on which to […]

Dear American citizens: Millions of you are asking why your health insurance policies are being canceled and the premiums and deductibles for your new policies are, for the majority of you, doubling, tripling or worse. You are particularly upset because President Obama said over and over again that your premiums would go down and you […]

Ideology is such an abomination, President Obama rages against those he believes are guided by different ideas of governance. Campaigning for now-Governor Terry McAuliffe, who is the subject of two federal investigations and an unindicted investor in an illegal scheme to profit from fraudulent life insurance policies on the lives of dying people, the President […]

The federal Healthcare.gov website, serving 36 states that chose not to build their own sites, has been – to quote its boss, Kathleen Sebelius – a “debacle.” Its estimated cost to taxpayers stands at $394 million so far and will likely rise as the “tech surge” pours millions of additional taxpayer dollars into trying to […]

What do Tuesday’s resounding re-election of Republican Chris Christie as governor of Democrat-friendly New Jersey and the excruciating defeat of tea party stalwart and gubernatorial wannabe Ken Cuccinelli in once reliably Republican Virginia say about Republican chances of retaking the White House in 2016? Christie won by 22 points after bad-mouthing the federal government shutdown, […]

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), founded by Jay Sekulow: today asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take a case involving a challenge to the ObamaCare HHS Mandate — urging the high court to permit companies and corporations to bring religious liberty claims in challenging the Mandate. The ACLJ filed a Petition for Writ […]

At the very core of Liberalism is the idea that good deeds can only be achieved by legislating them. Strong arguments can be made that these “do-gooder” policies achieve the opposite and actually serve to hurt those they intend to help. We see this today with politicians in Washington who believe that a big government […]

U.S. Representative and former vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan (R-WI) avidly supports comprehensive immigration reform. Maybe Ryan isn’t the fiscal conservative he proclaims to be; analysts estimate that the Senate immigration bill, versions of which the House has under consideration, will cost $6 trillion within 50 years, increase unemployment and further depress already stagnant wages. […]

Most market watchers expect that Janet Yellen will grapple with two major tasks once she takes the helm at the Federal Reserve in 2014: deciding on the appropriate timing and intensity of the Fed’s quantitative easing taper strategy, and unwinding the Fed’s enormous $4 trillion balance sheet (without creating huge losses in the value of […]

The Virginia election returns confirm what political insiders have known for many decades — that the real gap in our politics is not between men and women but between married men and married women on the one hand and single men and single women on the other. It doesn’t matter if you are divorced, separated, […]

In an August Washington Examiner column, I argued that this year’s governor elections in New Jersey and Virginia would have little precedential significance, unlike some other off-year elections in those states. Boiled down, my argument was that in New Jersey you had a governor who could not lose and in Virginia you had two governor […]

Because of a regulation designed to make nearly every plan rapidly lose grandfather status, millions of Americans have received letters informing them their health plans have been canceled. Many of them are unable to even get through the first steps of Healthcare.gov to see what their options there are, and others who are able to […]

Forget the acceptance speech. If you want an example of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s imposing political IQ, watch the nine-minute impromptu speech he delivered in Sea Bright a few days before the election. The impeccable populist instincts that make Christie such a formidable politician were all in play — authenticity, empathy, combativeness. It’s the […]

This isn’t just an indictment of the current government or an indictment of government itself. It’s simply a statement of fact. At its core, the government exists to do certain things that people aren’t equipped to do on their own. The list of those things has gotten longer and longer over the years. In 1776, […]

The Zionist Organization of America is proud to announce that former Presidential candidates Gov. Mike Huckabee and: U.S.: Congressmember Michele Bachmann, as well as global philanthropists/humanitarians Sheldon Adelson and Dr. Miriam Adelson, will headline the ZOA Brandeis Dinner on Sunday, November 24, 2013, in: New York City. Mr. Sheldon Adelson and Dr. Miriam Adelson will present the Adelson […]

It’s confirmed: The “F” in John. F. Kerry stands for “Feckless.” Women around the world no longer need to wonder whether America’s secretary of state will stand boldly with them in defense of their basic rights. He won’t. On Monday, Kerry was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Anyone with a phone or an Internet connection inside […]

Many of the president’s supporters are in barely concealed panic over the fact that he didn’t tell the truth when he was selling the Affordable Care Act. In an oft-repeated vow, he told the country that “if you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one […]

Don’t you believe that President Obama’s lies that people could keep their health insurance plans and doctors were his only lies about Obamacare or that these and the other lies were not demonstrably false when he uttered them. In my book “Crimes Against Liberty,” I chronicled Obama’s multitudinous lies about Obamacare and many other subjects, […]

Washington’s political class fundamentally misunderstands the role of politics and government in American society. They act as if government is the central force in American life and that its decisions guide the course of the nation. In historical reality, societal trends embrace new technology and the deep currents of public opinion lead the way. Government […]

The most alarming message for Democrats from Tuesday’s elections was the near obliteration of Terry McAuliffe’s lead over Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia. An October poll, conducted a week after the government reopened, had placed him 11 points ahead. On Election Day, Cuccinelli lost by only 2.5 points. McAuliffe’s precipitous tumble was caused entirely by Obamacare. […]

As a key House Subcommittee reviews the ongoing Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proceeding to implement a voluntary incentive auction of television broadcast spectrum, NRB reiterated its call that the FCC purposefully protect programming choices for Americans, specifically the religious and family programming that NRB TV Members provide free of charge to local communities. David Cerullo,: Dr. […]