Category: Column

“Washington is an island surrounded by reality,” Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, likes to say. In an effort to inject some reality into the Beltway, Grassley introduced an amendment to the Affordable Care Act to require that members of Congress and their staff get their health care from the new Obamacare exchanges. “Congress should live under […]

The head of one of the most prestigious state university systems in America should have one chief qualification: She should be ideologically inclined toward openness in education for the benefit of the students. Political bias permeates the higher education system throughout the United States, indoctrinating students into the canon of leftism. A huge number of […]

To anyone who has been following the really big stories in the news — and by big, I don’t mean the silliness surrounding IRS, EPA, NSA, ObamaCare or Benghazi — it has become obvious. This is a racist country. Indeed, it is a horribly racist place. It’s not like it used to be, with Klan […]

Its a dangerous time in the Middle East, and the need for peace has never been greater. Right now, there are those who are pushing for peace by dividing Jerusalem with part of this Holy City being controlled by the Palestinians a move that many believe would put Israel at further risk from terrorists. Stand […]

In the Industrial Midwest, the city government of Detroit went into bankruptcy in July. Out in California, the city governments of Stockton and San Bernardino entered bankruptcy proceedings in 2012. But the Detroit and California bankruptcies, like Tolstoy’s unhappy families, are not alike. They suffer from quite different ailments. You can see the difference by […]

“We have met the enemy, and he is us.” – Pogo What’s more chilling than a people oppressed by a Hitler, a Mao or a Stalin? A people that voluntarily oppresses itself, a reality that has now afflicted America. We have watched over the last 40 years as American women have gone – willingly in […]

I’ve been thinking about the sorry state of American culture, and that made me reminisce about the Cold War. You remember the Cold War. It brought us espionage, alliances with cheesy dictators and a devotion to making bombs. And throughout it all, we lived in constant fear that the Soviets were going to blow us […]

It was big news Monday when Attorney General Eric Holder told the American Bar Association in San Francisco, “Certain low-level nonviolent drug offenders who have no ties to large-scale organizations, gangs or cartels will no longer be charged with offenses that impose draconian mandatory minimum sentences.” It was big news because the Obama administration finally […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized Secretary of State John Kerry for stating that this week that “The United States of America views all of the settlements as illegitimate.” Secretary Kerry said this following the announcement by: Israel: of a program of construction of 1,000 new apartments in Jewish neighborhoods in Judea/Samaria and eastern: Jerusalem.:  Deputy […]

Sometimes off-year elections provide insight into national political trends and voters’ views on issues. That was true in 2009, when the issues in the governor elections in New Jersey and Virginia were congruent with the issues facing Congress and the president. In both states the Republicans campaigned for lower spending and taxes, in contrast to […]

On May 11, 2013, Indian President Pranab Mukherhee said “The future prosperity of India in the new knowledge economy will increasingly depend on its ability to generate new ideas, processes and solutions.” He was right not just about India, but indeed about the whole world; we need strong incentives to innovate, invent, and create – […]

There’s a grade-school-level international game being played. It’s like the one you played as a kid when you would have a friend punch you as hard as possible in the stomach to see how long you could keep a fake smile plastered on your face. “Oh, THAT didn’t hurt AT ALL! Hit me harder, you […]

The ACLJ — and Chief Counsel: Jay Sekulow: — believe the constitution is under attack. The Obama Administration has systematically violated the fundamental rights of its political enemies. The Administration is targeting journalists for wiretaps on a scale that’s unprecedented in recent American political history. The Administration’s IRS has directly attacked conservatives, pro-life groups, pro-Israel groups, and […]

Oh, what a tangled web libs weave when first they practice to aggrieve! Let’s review: Democrats and civil rights leaders are busy conducting a ridiculous witch hunt against a harmless Missouri rodeo clown who dared to wear an Obama mask. Oprah played the race card on a Swiss shop owner, whom she dubiously accused of […]

Maybe everyone is misreading America’s views on foreign policy? Among Republicans, there’s a big argument between the so-called isolationist wing of the party and the ostensibly interventionist wing. On the left, there’s a similar debate (though liberals are never described as isolationists no matter how isolationist they might be). Among Democrats, the dividing lines are […]

What are establishment Republicans so afraid of? Why are they so convinced that if they stand up to Obama — even on issues the public agrees with them on — they will be spanked at the ballot box? Playing it safe sure has paid big dividends, huh? Every time we’ve had a fight over a […]

The ZOA Brandeis Dinner will take place: on: November 24, 2013: in New York City.: The Keynote Speaker and Adelson Awardee Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Presidential candidate and popular host of his own TV show, “Huckabee,” on Fox TV.: :  World-renowned philanthropists, Dr. Miriam and: Sheldon Adelson: will be presenting the award.:  Dr. Miriam Adelson is a distinguished physician specializing in drug […]

Do liberals have any arguments for their idiotic ideas besides calling their opponents “racist”? The two big public policies under attack by the left this week are “stop-and-frisk” policing and voter ID laws. Democrats denounce both policies as racist. I’m beginning to suspect they’re getting lazy in their arguments. Stop-and-frisk was a crucial part of […]

In Sam Cooke’s classic 1959 hit “Wonderful World,” the lyrics downplayed formal learning with lines like, “Don’t know much about history … Don’t know much about geography.” Over a half-century after Cooke wrote that lighthearted song, such ignorance is now all too real. Even our best and brightest — or rather our elites especially — […]

The headline at CNN Money was, “Why America’s Youth Aren’t Finding Jobs.” If you expected an analysis of how and why President Barack Obama’s policies hurt the job market for the young, think again. Believe it or not, CNN wrote a piece, supposedly explaining the tight job market, without using the following words: Obama, Obama […]

If House Republicans had somehow erased chunks of the Affordable Care Act — the employer mandate, the ability to screen who gets subsidies and the annual cap on out-of-pocket costs for a year — the Democrats would have blasted those moves as unconscionable acts of sabotage. But the GOP didn’t sneak in those changes. President […]

When I studied the U.S. Constitution in school, I learned that for a bill to become law it first had to be introduced in either the House or the Senate. Today, a cynic might say for a bill to become law a member of Congress must first be introduced to a lobbyist. Much of government’s […]

On July 19, 2009, at a news conference in New Delhi, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proudly announced that “Vital Voices Global Partnership,” an NGO that she said she had “founded,” had partnered with Standard Chartered Bank to promote women’s causes throughout Asia. Unfortunately, Standard Chartered Bank, which also donated generously to the Clinton Foundation […]

The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC), the largest Hispanic Christian organization representing over 40,000 U.S. churches and more than 16 million Evangelicals continues to urge the GOP to support some changes in immigration reform. “Whether this nation secures its borders and values lies in the hands of Republican leaders in the House of Representatives,” […]

Why is gun control the only policy we’re allowed to discuss when horrific murders occur? In the liberal mindset, “root causes” of crime begin and end with the Second Amendment. But who pays the price when our public guardians fail to secure our borders, refuse to deport serial criminal offenders, and enable drug-crazed menaces to […]

Women make only 77 cents per each dollar made by males. Outrageous! Sex discrimination! So say advocates of government-enforced “equality.” But they are wrong. Women today are rarely victims of salary discrimination. If they were, market competition would punish bosses who discriminate. A company that hired women who were “underpaid” by other companies would have […]

Why is it that natural gas sells in the U.S. for $3.94 per 1,000 cubic feet and in Europe and Japan for $11.60 and $17, respectively? Part of the answer is our huge supply. With high-tech methods of extraction and with discovery of vast gas-rich shale deposits, estimated reserves are about 2.4 quadrillion cubic feet. […]