Category: Column

The arrogance of this president is staggering. He is so convinced he is immune from accountability that he thinks he can thumb his nose at Republicans and refuse even to come to the table and negotiate. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor sent a memo to his party membership providing an update on the government shutdown, […]

The families of two slain Marines from Camp Bastion finally got some answers this week. But their battle for full accountability in the 9/14/12 Taliban attack is far from over. Two top U.S. military leaders will get early retirement and full pensions for their fatal negligence. But one American mom wants to know: What about […]

Shutting down the government in an effort to use a budget fight to get rid of Obamacare is not the strategy I would have recommended for the GOP. And while Republicans can be blamed for starting the shutdown, it’s increasingly apparent that President Obama and the Democrats deserve the lion’s share of blame for not […]

If Republicans were smart (I know, but stay with me) their focus during the Obamacare debate should have been less on blocking its implementation and more on a page they might have taken from the Democrat’s playbook, which is to rally the country to its side by use of sentimentality and the threat of impending […]

The political stalemate leading to the so-called shutdown of the federal government has shown with devastating clarity how official Washington is consumed with symbolism over substance. The symbolism begins with the word shutdown itself. Despite the noise and fury in Washington, the vast majority of Americans haven’t noticed any change in their daily lives because […]

Even when it comes to something as basic, and apparently as simple and straightforward, as the question of who shut down the federal government, there are diametrically opposite answers, depending on whether you talk to Democrats or to Republicans. There is really nothing complicated about the facts. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted all the […]

Anyone who bought the media buzz about a September reduction of QE – called the “taper” – was very surprised when the Federal Reserve announced that stimulus would continue unabated. According the the official narrative, inflation is under control and the labor market is steadily improving. Why wouldn’t a modest taper be announced? The reality […]

The family entertainment network INSP, whose CEO is: David Cerullo: expanded its commitment to veterans recently by partnering with: The United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration and providing the Commemoration with the network’s video, entitled: “Thank You For Your Service,” a moving homage to Vietnam Veterans.: :  The video, part of INSP’s critically-acclaimed: Moments: series, is presented throughout the country by […]

When — not if — is the only mystery about an Iranian nuclear bomb. All the warning signs are there. ‘Game changers’ In 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama on two occasions went out of his way to warn the Iranians that the development of a nuclear weapon “would be a game-changing situation, not just in […]

If the House Republicans come away from the shutdown exercise with only one accomplishment — the end to the taxpayer subsidy of health plans for Congress, its staff and federal appointed officials — it will be a very, very big win which will resonate throughout the land. Voters who right now hold the government shutdown […]

Note to congressional Democrats: You can change your mind on Obamacare. It’s allowed. Really. You can. We won’t tell. If MSNBC’s anti-gun lefties like Ed Schultz can do a 180 on a hot-button issue like guns, then Democrats can change their minds about President Obama’s signature Obamacare. More on this later. President Barack Obama promised […]

The media have proclaimed the end of civilization for the third time this year. Sure, the mail will still run on time. Sure, the police will still fight crime. Sure, you’ll still receive your Social Security check and your Medicare and your food stamps. But by golly, if we don’t get this horrific government shutdown […]

Democrats are happy because they believe Republicans are destroying themselves by shutting down the government over Obamacare. They are right. But the problem is that so are the Democrats & so is President Obama. House Republicans need to stop the bleeding over their government shutdown. By letting things get to this pass, they are prejudicing […]

When you write a column, you hear from people who think they have a clever magic-wand solution to intractable political issues. Washington has run up $17 trillion of debt? Pass term limits. Throw the bums out. Take away their pensions. Sure, these ideas sound as if they might help, and it must feel good to […]

Welcome to ObamaWreck! Americans nationwide spent: Tuesday: struggling with the much-hyped “Affordable Care Act” health insurance exchanges. Server meltdowns, error messages and security glitches plagued the federal and state government websites as open enrollment began. But when taxpayers discover exactly who will be navigating them through the bureaucratic maze, they may be glad they didn’t get through. […]

People say public schools are “one of the best parts of America”. I believed that. Then I started reporting on them. Now I know that public school — (START ITAL) government school (END ITAL) is a better name — is one of the (START ITAL) worst (END ITAL) parts of America. It’s a stultified government […]

The House Republicans are not presenting their case well to the public. They engage in Washington-speak and talk about the “individual mandate.” But most people don’t get that under the Republican plan to end the shutdown, the Obamacare exchanges will remain open and will invite all who wish to come in and sign up. It […]

PARIS — Boy, was that ever painful, watching Russian President Vladimir Putin attempting to pry U.S. President Barack Obama’s fingers off the Tomahawk missile trigger and convince him not to go ahead with an attack that Obama most likely didn’t want to launch in the first place. America won, and so did Russia. I realize […]

Every time there’s a shooting tragedy, there are more calls for gun control. Let’s examine a few historical facts. By 1910, the National Rifle Association had succeeded in establishing 73 NRA-affiliated high-school rifle clubs. The 1911 second edition of the Boy Scout Handbook made qualification in NRA’s junior marksmanship program a prerequisite for obtaining a […]

Michelle Obama wants you to drink more water, at least one more glass a day. Frankly, I think it’s great. Sure, the science behind some of her claims is somewhere between iffy and debatable. If you’re not dehydrated, drinking more water won’t give you more energy or cure your headaches, as her office vaguely claims. […]

Despite evidence from around the world that minimum wage laws can price low-skilled workers out of jobs, the U.S. Department of Labor is planning to extend minimum wage coverage to domestic workers, such as maids or those who drop in from time to time to do a few household chores for the sick and the […]

While gridlock is the game in Washington, pilfering and degradation apparently are the pastime of some unpatriotic thugs at war memorials across the country. For me, that is about as low as a nation and its people can go. This past week in Natick, Mass., veterans and other law-abiding citizens were stunned to discover that […]

In Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle, reporter Stephanie M. Lee delivered a down-the-middle story about a Bay Area couple, Jennifer Benito-Kowalski and Steve Kowalski, 40 and 41 — who paid an Indian woman to help them attain their goal of making a baby with their own DNA. To many moderns, this arrangement presents a win-win formula. […]

Why is it just assumed Republicans will automatically be blamed for any government shutdown over a budgetary impasse between Obama and his Democratic Party and Republicans? More disturbingly, why do so many Republicans and right-leaning commentators surrender before we’ve even begun to fight? Do our moderates believe there is any position President Obama and the […]

This past: Friday: CNN conducted an interview with Richard Dawkins, the British biologist most widely known for his polemics against religion and on behalf of atheism. Asked “whether an absence of religion would leave us without a moral compass,” Dawkins responded: “The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible.” This is the […]

The Republican Party should temporarily retreat from the brink of a government shutdown and retrench to wage a battle over the debt limit increase two weeks hence. It was unwise of House Speaker John Boehner to insist on linking Obamacare to the bill to keep the government open rather than to the debt-limit increase in […]