Category: Column

The horror of the massacre of innocents at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. struck at the fabric of the American tapestry. Virtually every American has spent the last few days in a haze — shocked at the nature of evil, confused and frustrated by the inability to prevent such an atrocity, fearful […]

There are no “Blue Dog” Democrats in Congress; there are only Democrats in tough districts who are afraid to show their true colors. Remember Bart Stupak and his gang of pro-life Democrats? He made a big public show of opposing Obamacare because it used taxpayer money to fund abortions. Then, it turned out the liberals […]

In order to pass any new gun control laws, every Democrat would have to vote for it and 17 Republicans in the House would have to cave. Any Republican in the House who caves on gun control might as well switch parties at the same time because his career in the GOP is over. Therefore, […]

Michael is a left-wing fascist who hates this country with every fiber of his being. Want evidence beyond all the other things he’s said over the years? How about: this? “I hate to say it, but killing is our way. We began America w/ genocide, then built it w/ slaves. The shootings will continue — it’s […]

Must every tragic mass shooting bring out the shrill ignorance of “gun control” advocates? The key fallacy of so-called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law-abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available. If gun control zealots had any respect for facts, […]

(Post-publishing note: My wife, Gena, and I join the rest of the nation in mourning with and praying for the families and friends of the 20 children and six adults who lost their lives at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. We are so incredibly sorry for your loss, and want you to know […]

I can’t imagine anything more painful for a person than the loss of one’s child, and so I won’t pretend that I can adequately express the horror of the savage murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. When such tragedies occur, most of us engage in sober reflection about the preciousness of life […]

From the moment Americans learned of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre last Friday, the entire left — editorialists, columnists, broadcasters, politicians — used the occasion to promote one idea: gun control. For the left, the primary reason for just about all American gun murders is the availability of guns. I have no interest in […]

Everyone in Washington, D.C. knows two things: 1. President Obama will try to wriggle out of any spending cuts enumerated in the fiscal cliff deal. We all know from experience that whenever there is a one-to-one ratio between spending cuts and revenue increases the ratio falls apart in reality. The tax increases slow the economy, […]

On Friday, a heavily armed young man walked into a Connecticut elementary school and murdered 20 first-graders and six adults before he killed himself. Even in a country inured to gun violence, this crime is too heinous to contemplate. Now the question is: Does Washington pass a bad law just to do something, anything, even […]

“There are no solutions, only trade-offs.” – Thomas Sowell In a country where we have a constitutional right to bear arms, there is no gun control law: that could have prevented the mass murder at Sandy Hook. There was already a “gun free zone” in place, which Lanza ignored. He stole the weapons and the semiautomatic […]

I’ll leave it to others better suited to comment on the horror of Friday afternoon in Newtown, Conn. I am not yet a parent and would not presume to understand the emotions involved in something like this. But on the media reaction and exploitation that followed the horrific news, I will comment. Simply put, it […]

My heart is sick. I feel so sorry for the children who were murdered, as well as the parents and loved ones of the slain kids and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. All of us here in the U.S.–who still have a soul–pray for those whose lives were just senselessly shattered. […]

Democrats in Washington declare that they will absolutely, positively allow no changes whatever in the nation’s unsustainable entitlement programs — Social Security and Medicare. But out in the states, politicians of both parties aren’t averting their gaze from impending fiscal crises. They are working to change policies that put state governments on an unsustainable trajectory. […]

It’s difficult to believe that our American government is giving the extreme leadership of Egypt – the radical Muslim Brotherhood – 20 American fighter jets.: : More than $200 million in U.S. taxpayer funds will be provided to a Sharia dictatorship. Join the: ACLJ: in opposing this absurdity. Providing the Muslim Brotherhood with these planes is a vast mistake […]

“Mandatory sentences breed injustice,” Judge Roger Vinson told the New York Times. A Ronald Reagan appointee to the federal bench in Florida, Vinson was railing against a federal system that forced him to sentence a 27-year-old single mother to prison life without parole because her dealer ex-boyfriend had stored cocaine in her house. Note to […]

Round-up of a week that I was angry a lot — of course end of year tax time is here for those of us who pay quarterly taxes, and it’s a time for me to be angry as I realize more than half the year I work for the government.: : Is that right? Welcome your thoughts […]

By upping the ante once again in its gamble to revive the lethargic economy through monetary action, the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee is now compelling the rest of us to buy into a game that we may not be able to afford.:  At his press conference this week, Fed Chairman Bernanke explained how the […]

My latest Townhall column is called, 5 Myths Liberals Have Created About Themselves (Part 2). Here’s an excerpt from the column. Greek mythology, with its tales of Zeus, Apollo and Hera doesn’t have a thing on the mythology that liberals have created around themselves. There’s Bubba, the President who can feel your pain, BO the […]

We now have more than one instance of a gang of white men violently attacking a black man for no reason and using racial slurs. The first wasKenneth Gladney who was attacked and called a n*gger by SEIU thugs.Sadly, neither of those creeps went to jail for that hate crime. Encouraged, union racists in Michigan: recently […]

  Sure,: this may sound insane even for California,: but there’s a good reason to support it. Legislation introduced Tuesday would give about 400,000 undocumented immigrants in California the same rights as citizens to unemployment benefits and various other government services. Very expensive unemployment benefits for non-Americans who are illegally in a state that’s headed towards bankruptcy? […]

One of the foolish assumptions of the Left is that we can raise taxes sky high with no consequences whatsoever. This shows a rather remarkable lack of understanding of human nature — but, of course, if liberals understood how the world really works, they wouldn’t be liberals. Here’s a little lesson about human nature for […]

Here’s more evidence that government “cures” are inevitably worse than the “diseases” they seek to wipe out. Buried in the trillion-dollar stimulus law of 2009 was an electronic medical records “incentive” program. Like most of President Obama’s health care rules, this top-down electronic record-sharing scheme is a big fat bust. Oversight is lax. Cronyism is […]

To understand why Republicans have a “branding problem,” you first need to understand how the system is rigged against conservatives. Such is the schizophrenic dysfunction of our politics: We constantly demand “conviction” politicians who will “do what’s right” and then condemn them, often in the same breath, for being unwilling to put aside their conviction […]

At this stage of the fiscal cliff pseudo negotiations, do the American people have any idea what the Republicans stand for other than to protect the wealthy and cut Medicare and Social Security to harm the sick and aged? People constantly invoke Ronald Reagan, but one thing is certain and very relevant: If Reagan were […]

Having survived the Supreme Court and the November elections, President Obama’s health care law now faces an even bigger hurdle: the reality of making it work. Implementation of any massive new program requires cooperation, something the health care law can’t count on. Overall, just 46 percent of voters nationwide have a favorable opinion of the […]

Thankfully, the United Nations negotiations on Internet regulation collapsed yesterday in Dubai when the U.S. and Canada announced they would refuse to support or sign any treaty that gave the U.N.’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) the power to regulate the Internet. They specifically rejected the efforts of Vladimir Putin’s Russia to control the Internet through […]