Category: Column

  Churchville, VA–The U.S. Navy says it is a global force for good. President Obama doesn’t seem so sure. However, the freedom of the seas that encourage trade and prosperity has only happened when some strong military force has protected safety on the high seas. That always has meant fighting off the bandits, pirates, and […]

Expecting Syria to live up to an agreement between Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for the cataloging, inspection, removal and eventual destruction or sequester of chemical weapons is a subtle seduction. Why would a dictator like Bashar al-Assad relinquish his most potent weapon in the midst of a civil […]

The Egyptian army’s crackdown on: Mohamed Morsi’sCairo: supporters unleashed the largest attack on Egyptian Christians and Coptic houses of worship in the country’s modern history. In recent weeks, international news outlets and human rights groups have reported Christians have been beaten, threatened and even killed, forcing millions of Christians, primarily from the Coptic Orthodox community, into hiding. […]

Whether we are talking about respect for a nation or for an individual, nothing undermines respect more than duplicity — saying one thing and acting differently. I think it is a big reason why President Barack Obama’s Tuesday speech to the nation, in which he attempted to explain why he has proposed military action in […]

It’s a sad day for the United States when the president of any other country, but especially Russia, can outmaneuver our president and successfully claim the moral high ground on anything. But that’s exactly what happened thanks to President Obama’s feckless “foreign policy by gaffe” — if you can even it call it policy — […]

Jumpstart’s release of: Connected to Give: Key Findings,: the first in a series of reports detailing the giving habits and motivations of American Jews across all: ages, economic groups and geographies, garnered international media attention from diverse news and broadcast outlets.: Connected to Give: findings: are based on a survey of nearly 3,000 American: Jewish households plus 2,000 households from other religious […]

On September 11, 2001, I wrote a column entitled “Now We Know How Israel Feels.” Now, 12 years later, with a community organizer in the White House who has no idea about the proper use of America’s military might, who believes our only real ally in the Middle East, Israel, is the cause of all […]

I became upset when I got word. Jeep, reports Automotive News, is shifting its focus away from hearty off-road 4X4’s to, mostly, dinky little two-wheel-drive cars that ride smoothly on paved roads – the kind of cars Europeans like to drive. This is what happens when an iconic American brand is sold to a European […]

My fellow Americans, I’ll be honest. I screwed up. Again. But we may have lucked out this time. Foreign policy is not my strength. That “reset button” with the Russians was amateurish and they’ve used it against us time and time again. I shouldn’t have said the Polish people gassed Jews. I shouldn’t have used […]

In 2012, the federal government paid some $5 billion in direct payments to farmers of wheat, corn, barley, oats, cotton, rice, soybeans, peanuts and other crops — except the recipients cannot all be farmers. According to the Environmental Working Group, 116 of those tillers of the earth reside in San Francisco. For their farming activities, […]

Did you see the hopeful breaking news about Syria? “Russia takes control of Syrian chemical weapons.” That was the headline I saw on the Daily Kos website. The story quoted Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, announcing that Syria’s chemical weapons, which had been consolidated in one or two locations to allay fears that they might […]

Here’s how the Obama folks have been starting to spin Syria. The president made a credible threat to use military force in Syria. At the same time, he worked behind the scenes to get Russia’s Vladimir Putin to push Bashir al-Assad to give up chemical weapons. These two seemingly discordant initiatives, brilliantly coordinated, combined to […]

When Secretary of State John Kerry, apparently irritated by a lack of sleep, gave a snippy and what he thought was an unrealistic reply to a reporter’s question at a London press conference last weekend, he hardly could have imagined the world’s response. Asked whether there is anything Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could do at […]

COLORADO SPRINGS — Quick, call the CDC. We’ve got a Rocky Mountain outbreak of Acute Sore Loser Fever. After failing to stave off two historic recall bids on Tuesday, two delusional state legislators and their national party bosses just can’t help but double-down and trash voters as dumb, sick, criminal and profligate. The ululations of […]

In Washington, D.C., the city’s department of health wants to subject people seeking a tattoo or body piercing to a mandatory 24-hour waiting period before they can go through with it. That’s just one of the regulations in a 66-page proposal of new rules for the tattoo and piercing industry. Reasonable people may differ on […]

You may say that there is no discrimination against Christians in America or casually dismiss it because Christians need no protection here because this is allegedly a Christian nation. But there is plenty of such discrimination, as I documented in my book “Persecution” a few years back. During the publicity tour for the book, I […]

2013 has been a tough year for the political class. The most recent evidence comes from Colorado. Earlier in the year, the political elites in Washington were certain gun control would be enacted following the horrific massacre at a Connecticut elementary school. When nothing passed, they expected politicians who refused to support more gun restrictions […]

The: American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) — which represented 41 members of Congress and nearly 90,000 Americans in an: amicus brief: — today called a federal district court decision dismissing a lawsuit aimed at removing the national motto — “In God, We Trust” — from U.S. currency and coins a “welcomed and well-reasoned” decision. A federal […]

Americans unsure what to think about President Obama’s plans for Syria should remember that all military action undertaken by Democrats for the last half-century has led to utter disaster. (With the possible exception of the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” video, which I say still holds up.) Democrats are gung-ho about deploying the U.S. military provided only […]

Are the recent raves about a new California renaissance true? Rolling Stone magazine just gushed that California Gov. Jerry Brown has brought the state back from the brink of “double-digit unemployment, a $26 billion deficit and an accumulated ‘wall of debt’ topping $35 billion.” Unfortunately, California still faces existential crises. The unemployment rate just went […]

Given the evidence of the superiority of capitalism in achieving prosperity, isn’t it astonishing we still debate its merits? Filmmaker Michael Moore actually made an anti-capitalism “documentary” called “Capitalism: A Love Story.” Moore says: “Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is […]

“One does not sharpen the axes after the right time; after the time they are needed.” — Russian Proverb The late Ukrainian violinist Mischa Elman is considered one of the greatest of all time, but he has nothing on Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has played the Obama administration better than any musician. Washington is […]

Sen. Barbara Boxer had been appealing to my better instincts as she never had before. The Democrat from California provided a crucial vote in favor of a resolution sought by President Barack Obama to authorize the use of military force in Syria. Boxer voted for military force even though that position was highly unpopular among […]

Hovering over the congressional debate on whether to authorize the use of military force in Syria is the specter of Iraq. It hung even more menacingly over the debate in the British House of Commons Aug. 29 when a 285-272 majority voted against granting the government such authority. The prevalent idea is that America and […]

CSI-USA’s: CEO, Dr.: John Eibner: urged President Obama to present guarantees of the rights of: Syria’s: religious minorities, and religious freedom and parity for all Syrians as central tenants of his: Syria: policy. He added that credibility of such guarantees depended on public endorsement by: Washington’s: Islamist region allies, such as: Saudi Arabia, and: Syria’s: armed opposition. Writing to the President following a visit last week to: Syria, […]

Before we head to Syria to avenge the mass murder of their kids, how about we finish avenging ours: ? When I say “finish,” of course I really mean “start.” A dozen years after the 9/11 attacks, the trials against the jihadist plotters who incinerated pregnant women, firefighters, grandparents, newlyweds, toddlers and schoolkids on their first-ever […]

Some things you just: have: to do, in spite of great uncertainty. Launching missiles at Syria isn’t one of them. Many pundits talk about going to war as if all we have to do is make up our minds about what “ought” to happen — who the bad guys are — and the rest is just details. […]

No one can blame you if you start out in life poor, because how you start is not your fault. If you stay poor, you’re to blame because it is your fault. Nowhere has this been made clearer than in Dennis Kimbro’s new book, “The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires.” Kimbro, a business […]