Category: Column

“Character, not circumstance, makes the person.” — Booker T. Washington   The Supreme Court’s narrow 5-4 decision to strike down a central component of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, “freeing nine states, mostly in the South,” writes The New York Times, “to change their election laws without advance federal approval,” is a welcome recognition that […]

The Japanese stereotype of excessive courtesy is being confirmed by the actions of prime minster Shinzo Abe who is giving the world a free and timely lesson on the dangers of overly accommodative monetary policy. Whether or not we benefit from the tutorial (Japan will surely not) depends on our ability to understand what is […]

Which is more dangerous to personal liberty in a free society: a renegade who tells an inconvenient truth about government law-breaking, or government officials who lie about what the renegade revealed? That’s the core issue in the great public debate this summer, as Americans come to the realization that their government has concocted a system […]

Dr. John Eibner, the CEO of Christian Solidarity International (CSI-USA), testified today in a congressional hearing that the Syrian civil war “could lead to the eradication of religious minorities,” including Christians, Alawite Muslims, Shia Muslims and Druze. The hearing was a joint subcommittee hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, held by Representative Chris Smith […]

Meet Ryan Patrick Winkler. He’s a 37-year-old liberal Minnesota state legislator with a B.A. in history from Harvard University and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School. He’s also a coward, a bigot, a liar and a textbook example of plantation progressivism. On Tuesday, Winkler took to Twitter to rant about the Supreme […]

People say America is a free country. But what if you want to drink, have a cigarette or make a bet? Government often says “no” to protect us from ourselves. It’s as if the government is still run by the Puritans who settled this land four centuries ago. They said pleasure and luxury are sinful. […]

There’s a move on to prohibit Washington’s football team from calling itself “Redskins,” even though a 2009 U.S. Supreme Court decision said that it has that right. Now the name change advocates are turning to the political arena and intimidation. The NCAA has already banned the University of North Dakota from calling its football team […]

The only way to grasp the impact of the National Security Agency’s surveillance program is to see it as a wholesale repeal of the Fourth Amendment. The detailed rules NSA analysts follow show the breathtaking reach of its potential for eavesdropping without any of the protections of our Constitution. According to FISA court rulings released […]

PARIS — “A traitor is always useful,” a Russian security service friend said to me while discussing NSA contractor turned defector Edward Snowden’s arrival in his country. Snowden has fallen into the open arms of Mother Russia, where he was greeted at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport by a Russian security service contingent. The plan reportedly was […]

I don’t know how Democrats do it. The immigration reform proposal wending its way through the Senate is tearing the Republican Party to pieces. Poor Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), once the golden boy of the Tea Party and the conservative movement, is being treated like a guy who wants to leave a gang but must […]

The two political parties are in disarray. The Democrats are disheartened. The Republicans are disunited. Start with (because they’re first in alphabetical order) the Democrats. The Barack Obama they were so enthusiastic about in 2008 has been disappointing many of them lately. Not many happy Obama voters envisioned last November that his presidency would be […]

Being about a week away from Independence Day, I was doing a little reflecting upon the history surrounding the Declaration of Independence. And I thought it would be of equal interest to many of my readers to look at some often-overlooked aspects of the declaration’s production and legacy. Several historical websites hold some fascinating facts […]

Perhaps the political environment and world reaction surrounding Edward Snowden can be better understood by examining the Obama administration. There is a sitting American President who has apologized on numerous occasions for perceived American mistakes.: : Obama has played softball with the world, criticized America in France, England, Turkey, Cairo, the CIA headquarters and elsewhere. Obama has […]

“Let’s go, he can’t hit, he can’t hit.” “Stop the game! How dare you suggest that the batter, an innocent 12-year-old child who only wants to make contact with the ball, cannot hit! Have you considered how your ridicule will harm his self-esteem? As the umpire of this game, I forbid you to utter such […]

In a story not told by the mainstream media, ministries have launched efforts to eliminate biblical illiteracy among the Hispanic-American community. A study recently conducted by Barna Hispanics, which has been featured on: Inspiration Ministries, 87 percent of Hispanics own a Bible, yet only 8 percent are reading it regularly or allowing it to inform their […]

The political and cultural stupidity emanating from the television air waves on the embarrassing little NBC News cable outlet known as MSNBC has become absolutely astounding. One can only rationalize any audience at all for this network by realizing that apparently a tiny group of small minded people is driven more by hatred than by […]

Get this: A new study finds men don’t mature until age 43. If only my father could have enjoyed such a luxury. Great Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper reports that the study, commissioned by Nickelodeon UK, examined differences in maturity between men and women. It found both sexes agree that men are far less mature and […]

You come home from serving your country in Iraq or Afghanistan. You’re honorably discharged and considering your next job or career. Meanwhile, you also blog and post personal political views and song lyrics on Facebook. You have threatened no one, but that doesn’t stop the FBI and police from showing up at your door. You’re […]

What the heck is wrong with Mexico? It’s got everything it needs to be a prosperous First World country. It’s got a $1.7 trillion free-market economy — the 12th largest in the world. It’s got 116 million of the hardest working people on the planet. It’s got its own oil, gas, silver and other natural […]

The Arab spring may now be referred to as a time of death — especially for the Christians in this region.: : Dictators have been replaced with militant Muslims who are increasingly focusing efforts on driving Christians out of the region. Many Christian leaders, including the: leaders of the ACLJ: like Jay Sekulow,: David Cerullo: and others have spoken of the […]

For most of the first half of my life, I lived in or near Boston. Usually, I am proud of my hometown, its history, its universities and its spirit. After the Boston Marathon bombings, Beantown united under the phrase “Boston Strong.” I left in 1985. When I go back, I see how much the city […]