Category: Column

Appearing in the White House Rose Garden last Saturday, President Obama apparently experienced a revelation. He acknowledged there are constitutional limits on his power, something he has heretofore mostly ignored while issuing executive orders, bypassing Congress on appointments and deciding which parts of the Affordable Care Act to follow and which to delay or ignore. […]

Family entertainment network,: Inspiration Networks, has added more than a million and a half new households as a result of launches on Bright House Networks systems in Florida, Alabama, Michigan and California. “We are delighted that Bright House Networks subscribers can now join INSP’s growing and loyal audience,” said: David Cerullo of INSP.:  “Millions of viewers continue […]

One potential benefit that can come from last week’s March on Washington 2013, which commemorated the 1963 civil rights event, is the various data publicized about the current state of affairs of black America vis a vis the rest of the country. In particular, it has been an eye opener for many to see how […]

Barack Hussein Obama is either the most inept president ever to sit in the White House or he is an enemy of the Republic. He could be both, but I defy anyone to suggest a logical third alternative. For the last ten years, I have watched this man’s uncanny rise to the pinnacle of power […]

“President Bush is the first president to accomplish what?” “He’s the first to propose a budget that tops $3 trillion. He was also the first to propose one that topped $2 trillion. Now the budget is about $4 trillion. America is the proud owner of the largest government on Earth.” “That’s a lot of government.” […]

I love Detroit. Although that’s a minority opinion of late, it’s as true today as it was when I was growing up there. I never knew a vibrant, thriving Detroit, but I’ve heard the stories and seen the pictures. Now it’s broke and desolate, looking for a way out, or at least a way back […]

Across all religions, it is universally reviled that: on Sunday: morning, September 15, 1963, a bomb planted by a racist group in Birmingham, Alabama exploded in the basement of that city’s 16th: Street Baptist Church, killing four young black girls, and embedding in the heart and soul of the American people a resolve to ensure equality and justice […]

I was fifteen in 1963, and I vaguely remember breaking my summer routine to notice that the largest crowd of Americans ever to congregate on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., had gathered to demand their civil rights. They were led by a 34-year-old black preacher from Georgia. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been […]

More than 50 years ago, Cesar Chavez co-founded the United Farm Workers with Dolores Huerta. Today, the UFW and Huerta remain active in their ongoing effort to win citizenship for illegal immigrants. At a recent Bakersfield rally, UFW president Arturo Rodriguez and Huerta joined others outside U.S. Representative Kevin McCarthy’s office to demand immigration reform. […]

I hate to say it, but ObamaCare has been good for me. Now, I know our economy is still struggling – Gallup says the unemployment rate just jumped to nearly 9 percent – and I know ObamaCare uncertainty is making many employers wary of hiring. But I also know that new opportunities exist for people […]

Why would someone who opposes draconian federal mandatory minimum sentences oppose efforts to cut California’s prison population by about 9,600 inmates? Because the federal system and the California system are two different animals. U.S. prosecutors have been known to throw the full weight of the federal government toward putting low-level, nonviolent offenders away for decades. […]

On August 11th, German media got hold of and published an internal Bundesbank report which maintained that Greece would likely need further relaxation of the terms of its rescue bailouts. The report contained revelations that could be deeply embarrassing to the government of Angela Merkel that has maintained forcefully that German taxpayers would face no […]

I don’t know who’s more confused about Syria, President Obama or me. With his alleged use of poison gas against his own people, including women and children, Bashar al-Assad of Syria has crossed our president’s famous red line — again. But unlike the last time Assad crossed the president’s red line, this time President Obama […]

The prospect of a comprehensive administrative amnesty for illegal aliens increased last week.: On Friday, the White House issued a new policy telling immigration agents not to arrest and deport illegal immigrant parents of minor children. The move extends amnesty-in-place to yet another category of aliens. The administration’s step-by-step amnesty began in June 2011 when then-Immigration […]

Republicans have largely squandered an August that should have been spent preparing the American people for a showdown with Democrats over the president’s health care law. Instead, efforts have largely been diverted to a damaging internecine fight between proponents and critics of the defund strategy. Give credit to the defunders for stepping up with a […]

Evidence of the astonishing incompetence of the Obama administration continues to roll in. It started with the stimulus package. One-third of the money went to public employee union members — a political payoff not very stimulating to anyone else. Billions went to green energy loans, like the $500 million that the government lost in backing […]

As if the federal government were not already doing enough to kill the U.S. airline: industry with restrictive workplace rules, over-regulation, and a monetary policy that supports higher fuel prices, earlier this month anti-trust authorities at the Justice Department blocked the merger between American Airlines and US Air. (Unbelievably, the regulatory roadblock was thrown up more […]

Just prior to the “August Recess” Senators: Mike Lee: and: Ted Cruz: along with Representatives: Mark Meadows,: Tom Graves: and others started a battle that would play out over the course of the summer.: This isn’t a battle for the weak at heart. No. This is a battle to save America from the Obamacare “train wreck.” Democrats will stop at nothing to protect […]

The decision of whether to run for president of the United States is unlike any that a human being faces. And yet Rafael Ted Cruz, the junior U.S. senator from Texas, faces it. Not now. Not even soon. Next year probably. Certainly by Thanksgiving 2014. Imagine the discussion a candidate and his or her spouse […]

A military jury sentenced unrepentant Fort Hood jihadist Nidal Hasan to death on Wednesday. But if another murderous Muslim soldier’s case is any indication, Hasan may be sitting in the catbird seat for years to come. And our men and women in uniform will remain endangered by Islamic vigilantes in their own ranks. Remember Sgt. […]

This week the United Kingdom, with the support of the U.S. and France, scrambled — in vain — to get the approval of the United Nations Security Council for a military strike on Syria. I can certainly understand why some see this as a legal or political necessity. International law says that nations should seek […]

This week, I heard a conservative commentator “admitting” that Republicans don’t do enough for black voters. “Why don’t conservatives offer solutions?” asked this person. It bothers me that otherwise-sound conservative thinkers fall into this trap — unwittingly ceding the turf of the debate to their liberal counterparts. The assumption is that unless we offer liberal […]

Official Washington is always a decade or two behind the American people. That was true in 1963 when Martin Luther King, Jr. shared his dream for a better America and it’s true today. The 1963 March on Washington came 16 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball. Robinson did more […]

The media’s fixation on the Trayvon Martin case, while ignoring much more brutal crimes with clearer racial motivations, is a return to pre-O.J. America. The thesis of my book, “Mugged: Racial Demagoguery From the Seventies to Obama” — out in: paperback: this week! — is that after decades of liberals play-acting Racist America, wherein they cast themselves […]

Israel could be forgiven for having a siege mentality — given that at any moment, old frontline enemies Syria and Egypt might spill their violence over common borders. The Arab Spring has turned Israel’s once-predictable adversaries into the chaotic state of a Sudan or Somalia. The old understandings between Jerusalem and the Assad and Mubarak […]

President Barack Obama said that an introduction of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war would constitute a “red line” with “enormous consequences” that “would change [his] calculus.” That was a year ago. This past March, Obama said, “We will not tolerate the use of chemical weapons against the Syrian people, or the transfer of […]

“Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn?” — Peter, Paul and Mary By the time you read this, U.S. missiles and bombs may be falling on Syria. Why? Syria hasn’t attacked us. It does not pose a security threat to the United States. These were arguments made against the Bush […]