Category: Column

For years, many of us have warned the “green energy” craze would throw First World countries into blackouts, factory knockouts, more deaths among the elderly and all manner of avoidable tragedies. It nearly happened to Britain in January, as bitterly cold weather put a massive strain on Britain’s creaking power plants. London’s Sunday Express says […]

Texas is a right-minded red state, where patriotism is still a virtue and political correctness is out of vogue. So how on earth have left-wing educators in public classrooms been allowed to instruct Lone Star students to dress in Islamic garb, call the 9/11 jihadists “freedom fighters” and treat the Boston Tea Party participants as […]

What can you do with a man like Chris Christie? The answer, according to many with the conservative movement: Throw him overboard. And while we’re at it, let’s toss the gays over the side too. The popular governor of New Jersey has certainly angered many conservatives, including this humble scribe. During the crucial final days […]

It’s most gratifying that people are beginning to wake up to the bullying tactics of the White House toward those in the press who occasionally stray from the government-owned media model, but this has been going on for a while. Veteran reporter Bob Woodward has said in interviews with Politico and CNN that a White […]

To borrow a phrase, Mainstream America and Washington’s Political Class have become two nations separated by a common language. This gap was highlighted by a recent Pew Research Center poll showing that “for 18 of 19 programs tested, majorities want either to increase spending or maintain it at current levels.” On the surface, those results […]

Having given up on trying to persuade Americans that taking guns away from law-abiding citizens will reduce the murder rate, Democrats have turned to their usual prohibitionary argument: “Why does anyone: need: (an assault weapon, a 30-round magazine, a semiautomatic, etc., etc.)?” Phony conservative Joe Manchin, who won his U.S. Senate seat in West Virginia with an […]

As I noted yesterday, I’m putting together the Nominees For The 11th Annual Blogger Awards (Sponsored by Right Wing News & TheTeaParty.net) at CPAC 2013. There is one category, however, that will be voted on by the general public. That’s “The People’s Choice Award.” The voting in that category closes on Friday, March 1 at […]

Republicans and Democrats are blaming one another for impending cuts to the defense budget brought about by sequestration. But with serial annual deficits of $1 trillion-plus and an aggregate debt nearing $17 trillion, the United States — like an insolvent Rome and exhausted Great Britain of the past — was bound to re-examine its expensive […]

When Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., met with the San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial board last week, she said reasonable people could pass a bill to apply $85 billion in sequester cuts more surgically. Too bad she’s a member of Congress. When Editorial Page Editor John Diaz asked whether she considers the scale of the cuts to […]

Weeks before the Oscars, Sony Pictures, the studio behind “Zero Dark Thirty,” put out this statement: “We are outraged that any responsible member of the Academy would use their voting status in (the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences) as a platform to advance their own political agenda. The film should be judged free […]

In an effort to remove the hot-potato issue of excessive government spending from the 2012 presidential campaign, and calling the bluff of congressional Republicans who always seem to favor domestic spending cuts but increased military spending, President Obama suggested the concept of “sequester” in late 2011. His idea was to reduce the rate of increased […]

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is looking beyond Friday and the beginning of the sequestration. In an interview I conducted with him on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Ryan told me he believes a majority of Americans will come to understand how bad the debt is after the rhetoric gives way to reality. “Mitt (Romney) […]

Barack Obama is said to believe that he can win the political fight over the sequester. That’s certainly the conventional wisdom. And there is some evidence to support it. When you ask voters who will be to blame if the sequester occurs, Obama or “congressional Republicans,” they’re much more likely to say they’ll blame the […]

As China enters the “Year of the Snake,” Singapore stands as a beacon of sound currency in a world gone mad. China’s renminbi remains pegged to the US dollar, while even steadfast Switzerland has followed the US, UK, EU, and Japan into an impoverishing strategy of currency debasement. Singapore, alone, has been able to sustain […]

Traffic alert: There’s a massive clown car pileup in the Beltway. And with the White House court jesters of sequester behind the wheel, no one is safe. Fiscal sanity, of course, is the ultimate victim. President Obama has been warning America that if Congress allows mandatory spending “cuts” of a piddly-widdly 2 percent to go […]

Last week, Conservative pundit Ann Coulter told me and a thousand young libertarians that we libertarians are puss- — well, she used slang for a female body part. We were in Washington, D.C., at the Students for Liberty conference, taping my TV show, and she didn’t like my questions about her opposition to gay marriage […]

The never-ending Obama campaign announced this week that it was raising funds from big donors — only a relative handful — to put together a $50 million fund for an army of grass-roots activists in swing states to go after Republican Congressmen and Senators who dare to vote against the president’s wishes. Over the next […]

PARIS — When Ben Affleck’s “Argo” — a film based on the true-life, CIA-assisted Canadian operation to rescue American diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979 — won the Oscar for Best Picture, all I could think about was how badly Iran blew a prime opportunity to keep quiet for once. Iranian Culture Minister […]

President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed president — his economy is bleak, his foreign policy bleaker, his vision for American even bleaker still. But he wins. He wins by losing. President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package […]

I can only hope that the scourge of racism is finally purged from Stewartstown and Pinkham’s Grant. These are two of 10 New Hampshire towns covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which requires local officials to get permission, or “preclearance,” on any changes to their election laws. Stewartstown has just […]

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama proposed raising the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9 an hour. That would be almost a 25 percent increase. Let’s look at the president’s proposal, but before doing so, let’s ask some other economic questions. Are people responsive to changes in price? For […]

For awhile last year, I wrote for the Tea Party News Network, I’m going to be covering CPAC for TPNN this year, and I’m in regular contact with Scottie Hughes and the rest of the crew over there. The Tea Party News Network folks have a very cool, new blogosphere-centered website design coming out later […]

Last year at CPAC, Right Wing News and TheTeaParty.net hosted blogger awards. This year, we’re doing the awards again. The nominees for each category are listed below and, with two noted exceptions, the winners will be selected by their fellow bloggers. On Friday, March 15th at 11 AM at CPAC, we’ll have big name conservatives […]

John Stuart Mill’s classic essay “On Liberty” gives reasons why some people should not be taking over other people’s decisions about their own lives. But Professor Cass Sunstein of Harvard has given reasons to the contrary. He cites research showing “that people make a lot of mistakes, and that those mistakes can prove extremely damaging.” […]

To commemorate Presidents Day and Washington’s Birthday, last week I highlighted the first four of the top 10 reasons I wish George Washington were still alive: 10) Washington was a role model for many, even as a youth. 9) Washington epitomized courage. 8) Washington wasn’t afraid of public opinion or challenging the status quo. 7) […]

President Obama told a meeting of the National Governors Association: “At some point, we’ve got to do some governing. And certainly, what we can’t do is keep careening from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis.” Really? Yes, really. He added, referring to the sequestration: “These cuts do not have to happen. Congress can turn them off […]