Category: Column

The polls say we no longer fear man-made global warming very much. However, now that the scaremongers can’t make us afraid of GW they’re recycling their most reliable scare–overpopulation. Two new books, Ten Billion, by Stephen Emmot and Population: Ten Billion, by Dan Dorley, claim too many people will bring on disaster. They claim humanity […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin cares a lot about what you think — about NSA contractor-turned-defector and Russian asylum seeker Edward Snowden, and pretty much everything else — to the point of spending $300 million of state funds last year on the external audiovisual service RT, designed primarily to spoonfeed the Kremlin worldview to a global […]

In the movie “Animal House,” the Deltas are put on trial for their antics. When offered a chance to defend themselves, the best argument the fraternity’s president can come up with is, “But sir, Delta Tau Chi has a long tradition of existence to its members and to the community at large.” The line came […]

Join the: ACLJ & Jay Sekulow: and sign the: Petition to Delay, Defund, and Defeat ObamaCare right here. ObamaCare’s failures are impossible to deny. The bloated federal bureaucracy simply cannot implement its provisions on time, and now the Obama Administration has decided to favor corporations over individuals by delaying the employer insurance mandate while enforcing the individual mandate […]

Random thoughts from wise thinkers: “We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.” (F.A. Hayek) “Many respectable writers agree that if a man reasonably believes that he is in immediate danger of death or grievous bodily harm from his assailant he may stand his ground and […]

Before Indiana became a state in 1816, territorial Gov. William Henry Harrison organized the Indiana Rangers in 1807 to safeguard the Buffalo Trace — the main travel route between Louisville, Ky., and Vincennes, Ind. The Indiana Rangers were a rough and tough band of men and women who were well-trained and ready to protect new […]

It seems to me that almost every time President Obama talks publicly about race, he stirs things up rather than calms them down. Whether intentional or not, it’s unfortunate — and damaging. It’s difficult to express opinions on race that don’t conform to the politically correct narrative, because race baiters are always lying in wait […]

The George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin issue has been manufactured by the left — the black left and the white left — and by the left-wing (mainstream) media. For most Americans, their entire informational and intellectual universe is shaped by the left — from elementary school through graduate school, and of course, in the news media. They […]

It just so happens that when President Barack Obama gave his moving speech on racial disparities and the death of Trayvon Martin on Friday, it was a year almost to the day since the White House said it wanted to review the commutation petition of a black man sentenced to life without parole in 1993 […]

The first volume of Charles Moore’s authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, covering her life up to Britain’s victory in the Falklands, is out, just weeks after her death. It takes its place among the finest political biographies of all time. Thatcher gave Moore full access to her papers and to all her friends and relatives, […]

Tribune Content Agency President Obama rarely misses an opportunity to insert himself into an issue. Last Friday, he appeared in the White House pressroom to comment on the George Zimmerman verdict. The president said he could have been Trayvon Martin. Not likely, given his private schooling and the way he was fast-tracked to success. The […]

Even on the hottest nights of the summer, my father knew how to make our house ice cold. We lived in a modest two-story home typical of the ’60s and ’70s – red brick on the bottom, white aluminum siding on the top. There were four bedrooms upstairs and a master bedroom downstairs (my parent’s […]

While the media has remained obsessed with the trial of George Zimmerman, they systematically ignored the stories of three other men simultaneously being brought to justice. In a courtroom in Boston, the Islamic radical who set off lethal bombs at the Boston Marathon was being arraigned. Meanwhile, the editors at Rolling Stone magazine decided it […]

The name is: Monday. Agent: Monday. I have an important job to do. Back in 2011 President Obama issued an executive order to root out security violators within the federal government – people like Edward Snowden, our most recent leaker of government secrets. The president ordered federal employees to report suspicious activities among their co-workers – any […]

Janet Napolitano has finally used her political connections to land a job for which she’s qualified. The problem with Napolitano’s tenure as the inept secretary of the Department of Homeland Security is not the list of failures that could mar even a competent professional’s service record in that position. It’s her ideology. It’s the ideology […]

Democratic California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has written a bill that would require public schools in his state to allow students to choose which bathrooms, locker rooms and sports teams match their gender identity. Both the Assembly and state Senate have passed Assembly Bill 1266. It now sits on the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown. If […]

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ),: which has filed a federal: lawsuitrepresenting 41 conservative groups that have been unlawfully targeted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), said today it is rejecting the government’s offer for “expedited review” of applications for some conservative groups which have been waiting for years for a determination on their tax-exempt […]

In a better world we should never have been subjected to the Zimmerman trial. But politically motivated prosecutors in Florida turned a local tragedy into a race crime, and then the media turned a murder trial into a primetime soap opera. The trial accusing George Zimmerman of murdering Trayvon Martin wasn’t about seeking justice. It […]

Those of you who think the Zimmerman case is a distraction are wrong. Dead wrong. It’s all a part of the plan, the agenda and has been so from day one. Obama knew, Holder knew, they all know there was no case. They knew that there wouldn’t be a conviction. That was all a part […]

In 2005, Senate Republicans floated the idea of altering Senate rules to eliminate the filibuster for judicial nominees. The proposal, dubbed the nuclear option, involved breaking Senate rules to change Senate rules. (The rules require a two-thirds vote for rules changes, but the nuclear option changes the rules by simple majority.) Democrats fought back against […]

If the IRS Tea Party scandal is at all reminiscent of the Watergate debacle that brought down a president in 1974, we may have just discovered the latter-day G. Gordon Liddy, the man who oversaw the chain of events that led to Nixon’s resignation. Who would that be? Well, a good guess would be William […]

July 8, 2013 marked the beginning of the end of the Rick Perry era in Texas. Middle school children have never known another Texas governor in their lifetime. Anyone in office 14 years will have good and bad in their record. Unquestionably, Gov. Perry is viewed in partisan terms in Texas. From my perspective, his […]

The Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman tragedy has become one of those transcendent events that dominates the national discourse and throws light on dimly lit aspects of our society. Obviously, the case touches most closely on issues of race relations, media culture, and the politicization of the justice system.: It also reveals how preconceived emotional commitments to a […]

Yes, there’s a war on women in America. But it’s not the phony “war” that tampon-hurling feminists are always shrieking about — as they did last week in Texas to protest tougher regulations on dangerous late-term abortion clinics. No, I’m talking about a real war on women waged by Saudi royals and elites who’ve imported […]

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank recently poked some fun at the GOP and its tenacious — and, evidently, hopeless — insistence on voting to roll back provisions of Obamacare. Surely, you’ve heard about Albert Einstein’s apocryphal quote defining insanity as doing something over and over again and expecting different results. The left, you may notice, […]

If Tom Wolfe were writing “The Bonfire of the Vanities” today, he’d need a scene in the Grand Havana Room in New York City. It’s an Olympian den fit for what Wolfe called “Masters of the Universe” — the super-rich gods of finance who today go by “the one percent.” Taking up the penthouse floor […]

Bless The New York Times for, yet again, selflessly exposing the political fault lines of the GOP and encouraging it to become more like the Democratic Party so it can start winning presidential elections again. I’m trying not to laugh. In his piece “Has the G.O.P. Gone Off the Deep End?”, Thomas Edsall lines up […]

Sixty-four percent of Americans say that it’s possible to have an honest discussion about race in America. I would like to believe that, but I am skeptical. My skepticism is rooted in a painful recognition of the fact that white and black America have different histories and different experiences with our justice system. Consider the […]

You can get agreement from almost all points on the political spectrum that the worst aspect of our political system is the presidential nomination process. It is perhaps no coincidence that it is the one part of the system not treated in the Constitution. That’s because the Founding Fathers abhorred political parties and hoped that […]