Category: Column

The U.S. District Court decision striking down New York City’s stop and frisk law may condemn the nation’s largest city to a return to the days of crime and mayhem which preceded the administration of Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Since 1992, the number of homicides in the Big Apple has dropped from almost 2,000 a year […]

Recently, leaders from the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC), the largest Hispanic Christian organization representing more than 16 million Evangelicals and over 40,000 U.S. churches conducted meetings in: Washington, D.C.: to discuss comprehensive immigration reform. These included meetings with Republican leadership including Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio), House Majority Leader: Eric Cantor: and House Judiciary Chair: Bob […]

Two recent events — one on the east coast and one on the west coast — raise painful questions about whether we are really serious when we say that we want better education for minority children. One of these events was an announcement by Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., that it plans on August […]

Well, it’s that traditional time of the year again when the president goes on vacation and the conservative world ridicules him for taking time off with his family because of the disarray of our country or the enormousness of expenditures in his doing so. But is there really nothing redeemable or commendable in a father […]

In his new book, “The Liberty Amendments,” my friend Mark Levin is offering a bold plan for the re-establishment of America’s founding principles and a restoration of constitutional republicanism through a series of amendments to the Constitution. I know of no one who has a greater reverence for our Constitution and for the scheme of […]

The online magazine Slate announced last week that it will never again refer to the Washington’s National Football League team, the Redskins, by its name. The name, according to Slate, offends American Indians, and therefore should be dropped. And until such time, Slate will never mention it. It will become, in effect, the R-word. The […]

Attorney General Eric Holder is planning to use his broad executive powers to free tens of thousands of criminals from federal prisons and to encourage states to do likewise. Under the guise of releasing “nonviolent” and “low-level” criminals, the attorney general is going to let drug dealers back out on the street, having completed their […]

“We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.” — Ronald Reagan, March 23, 1983 President Reagan’s speech to the nation 30 ago launched a major arms buildup to confront the expanding military power and political aspirations of the Soviet Union. It followed the disastrous presidency of Jimmy Carter, whose nonperformance during the […]

The American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ), whose Chief Counsel is: Jay Sekulow: in one week has attracted more than 57,000 signatures to an urgent petition opposing the arming of jihadists. As Al-Qaeda once again grows in strength around the Middle East, the Obama Administration is doing the unthinkable: arming jihadists in Syria. American weapons and […]

Too many of our political leaders see government as the solution to our challenges. If only they paid more consideration to what some of our great minds had to say about government. My favorite quotations reveal a general wariness of government — a key principle upon which our republic was founded: “A government that is […]

A lot has changed in the 12 years since I graduated college. I’m no longer roofing for $8 an hour. I’ve gone from listening to talk radio all day to hosting a daily radio show and the national debt has climbed from less than $6 trillion to more than $16 trillion. One thing that hasn’t […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), one of the largest and oldest Jewish organizations in the U.S. condemned President Obama & The State Department to stop referring to Eastern Jerusalem as “Palestinian Territories”. The: ZOA wants an error in a U.S. State Dept. press release identifying East Jerusalem as part of the “Palestinian Territories” corrected immediately […]

Anyone who has even bothered to read my columns over the last decade-plus knows I was never a huge fan of George W. Bush. I have always believed that the 43rd president was a decent man who tried to do the right thing but often failed, either because of bad advice or flawed ideology – […]

Boy, are some Americans losing interest in marriage these days. According to a National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR) study, the U.S. marriage rate is on the decline. Whereas 92 out of 1,000 single women married in 1920, only 31 out of 1,000 are marrying today. In a 2011 study, the Pew Research […]

Eric Holder, America’s first African-American attorney general, and his boss, Barack Obama, the first black president, haven’t been shy about pointing out racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Racial profiling? It’s real, they say. State “stand your ground” laws? Obama says they don’t work for minorities. Yet both have been conspicuously absent when it […]

Last week the Supreme Court refused to delay the release of thousands of inmates from California state prisons. Severe overcrowding in the prison system has, in the court’s eyes, led to substandard medical and mental health treatment. Despite Governor Jerry Brown’s argument that setting dangerous prisoners free would create mayhem and put residents at risk, […]

What is the most intellectually dishonest profession around? My nomination: the admissions officers at highly selective colleges and universities. Evidence in support of this comes from, of all places, a recent article in The New York Times. The writer is Ruth Starkman, and the subject is her experience as a reader of applications to the […]

In the first Democratic primary debate Cory Booker deigned to participate in, he placed an unwise bet on his economic record in Newark. On every economic question, Booker responded with a confident “we did it in Newark!” But does his record in Newark qualify him for promotion to the United States Senate? The facts say […]

Major media outlets have featured him as representative of a new generation of “patriot hackers.” He sent an old laptop to the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., where it’s now on display. He claims to have launched hacking attacks on websites ranging from jihadist forums to WikiLeaks. Last week, a guest on the syndicated […]

The marginal economic strength that was described in the most recent GDP release from Washington has caused many to double down on their belief that the Federal Reserve will begin tapering Quantitative Easing sometime later this year. While I believe that is a fantasy given our economy’s extreme dependence on QE, market observers should have […]

Yuck. Is there a woman in his sights that pervy Democratic San Diego Mayor Bob Filner: hasn’t: harassed, molested, insulted, propositioned, groped, headlocked or slobbered on while holding public office? In less than a month, the number of victims and witnesses coming forward has skyrocketed from three to 13. And the details have grown even more unbelievably […]

The Affordable Care Act — aka ObamaCare — is off to a very rocky start, and according to the law’s biggest defenders, the blame falls squarely at the feet of Republicans. It’s an odd claim. Republicans did not write the law. They did not support the law. And they are not in charge of implementing […]

Instead of the GOP focusing all its energy on infighting over the so-called “tactical” decision of whether to defund Obamacare, how about remembering who the real enemies of freedom are and directing its energies toward the Democrats, who are propping up this monster? It is painful to witness the expenditure of so much negative energy […]

The accused Fort Hood shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, began his court-martial Tuesday admitting he’s guilty. “The evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter,” said Hasan, who faces 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder for those he wounded. But because this is a death penalty case, the Army […]

How is it that the government can charge Edward Snowden with espionage for telling a journalist that the feds have been spying on all Americans and many of our allies, but the NSA itself, in a public relations campaign intended to win support for its lawlessness, can reveal secrets and do so with impunity? That […]

One of the sure signs that political activists have too much time on their hands is all the chatter about who will win the 2016 presidential nominations. The conventional wisdom seems to be that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has a lock on the Democratic nomination and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is the […]