Category: Column

Karl Rove almost sounds like he thinks: Romney has this election in the bag. “The Obama campaign has pulled down all of its negative advertising. And is now running virtually all positive ads in the battleground states heralding all the success of the last four years. This is very unusual because they have been constantly beating […]

Mitt Romney’s quote about 47% of Americans voting for Obama because they’re dependent was inelegantly phrased, but it expressed a truth that’s being ignored by far too many Americans; When you steal from Peter to pay Paul, Paul isn’t likely to get too upset about the whole arrangement…and, buddy,: we have A LOT of “Pauls” in […]

Liberals are whining because President Lying Liar said Mitt Romney wasn’t telling the truth and his son Tagg: took exception to it. Bill Lumaye:: I’m gonna ask something I know a lot of people want to know, or at least I do. What it is like for you to hear the President of the United States call […]

The best question at the second presidential debate came from Michael Jones, an African-American who said: “Mr. President, I voted for you in 2008. What have you done or accomplished to earn my vote in 2012? I’m not that optimistic, as I was in 2008. Most things I need for everyday living are very expensive.” […]

Almost everything we have been told about Libya over the last two years is untrue. A free Libya was supposed to be proof of President Obama’s enlightened reset Middle East policy. When insurgency broke out there, the United States joined France and Great Britain in bombing Muammar Gadhafi out of power — and supposedly empowering […]

My theory as to why President Barack Obama fell flat during the first debate: He looked at the crowd and the cameras and thought: “I’ve been saying this stuff for five years, and I don’t believe myself anymore. I don’t have a strong plan to jump-start the moribund economy. Come on, everyone knows that presidents […]

In form, President Obama came back strongly in Tuesday’s debate with Mitt Romney, but substantively he continues to lag behind the Republican candidate. That’s because the president has a record to defend and it isn’t a good one. Television being what it is, the president looked and sounded good, but the air seems to have […]

An interesting story from last winter: An email friend who lives in an affluent suburb far from Washington, a staunch Republican, was watching one of the Republican debates with his wife, a staunch Democrat. He was surprised by her response to Mitt Romney. “He’s a grown-up. He’s someone who is reliable,” he told me she […]

Perhaps the most intriguing moment of the second presidential debate came late in the contest when a rock-ribbed undecided voter asked both candidates, “What do you believe is the biggest misperception that the American people have about you as a man and a candidate?” And really, this is the sort of compelling inquiry that makes […]

Municipal bonds have long been viewed as a staple asset class for conservative, income-seeking investors. “Munis,” as they are known, are a large, liquid market of credit-rated securities that provide tax-exempt (from Federal taxes) income to millions of American investors. Towns, school districts, and other public sector authorities across the country have issued an estimated […]

During the second presidential debate, moderator-turned-Obama-advocate Candy Crowley helped President Obama make the case for why he’d been a true leader on the murder of our ambassador and three other brave Americans in Benghazi, Libya. Obama was asked a simple question: “We were sitting around, talking about Libya, and we were reading and became aware […]

Yesterday,: we had a CEO telling his employees that they might lose their jobs if Obama is reelected. Today,: we have a doctor talking about the consequences we’ll face if Obama is reelected: and his health care reform goes into effect. You see, there comes a point where we doctors can no longer afford to stay in practice. […]

Americans justifiably take great pride in the fact that we’re the only nation ever to walk on the moon. When we did that back in 1969, it wasn’t just one of the most incredible moments in our history, it was one of the most astonishing moments in human history. Now, fast forward four decades from […]

7) You’ve seen, as middle-income people in this country, incomes go down $4,300 a family, even as gasoline prices have gone up $2,000. Health insurance premiums, up $2,500. Food prices up. Utility prices up. The middle-income families in America have been crushed over the last four years. 6) We don’t have to settle for what […]

The Hollywood Women for Obama Club wants you to vote with your “lady parts.” I want the women of America to vote with their lady : smarts. The latest ad from a trio of Tinsel Town actresses spreads one of the stupidest lies about Mitt Romney this election cycle. Fantasyland needs a fact check. According to […]

We take free speech for granted in America, unlike elsewhere. The furor over that anti-Muslim video is the latest reminder of that. But freedom of speech is never safe, even here. Many colleges now impose “civility codes.” Civility is nice, but enforcing a “civility rule” against offensive speech would put an end to lots of […]

Apparently, Paul Ryan and Joe Biden are both theocrats willing, nay eager, to use state power to impose their religious views on the rest of us. In last week’s vice presidential debate, moderator Martha Raddatz asked the two Roman Catholic politicians “to tell me what role your religion has played in your own personal views […]

Here’s a recent statement frequently suggested by leftist academics, think tank researchers and policymakers: “People were not just struggling because of their personal deficiencies. There were structural factors at play. People weren’t poor because they made bad decisions. They were poor because our society creates poverty.” Who made that statement and where it was made […]

Originally, the Mitt Romney and Barack Obama campaigns chose which swing states to focus on by comparing election results from previous years and figuring out which were most or least likely to vote for each candidate. The result was a consensus that North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Ohio, New Hampshire, Nevada and Colorado were the most […]

The people of France have spoken on the subject of the U.S. presidential election. Naturally, you couldn’t care less about what anyone else (let alone the French) thinks about you or your electoral choices, right? The French aren’t particularly interested in appearing too keen on America, either. A Harris Interactive poll found that 66 percent […]

In recent decades politicians have increasingly followed the Keynesian prescription of economic growth through continued government borrowing and the creation of undreamt of amounts of fiat money by central banks. To facilitate this process, the larger commercial banks have acted as the central banks’ de facto distribution system, and as a result have grown ever […]

One of the key indicators that people refer to when they talk about the economy is the jobless rate. The problem with that metric is that the jobless rate is an extraordinarily imprecise measure because people who’ve stopped looking for jobs are no longer counted. So theoretically, the jobless rate could be zero if every […]

Random thoughts on the passing scene: Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic. Economist Edward Lazear has cut through all of Barack […]

Does voter fraud actually exist? If you ask members of the Obama administration, Democratic lawmakers or the left-leaning media, they often argue it’s a myth concocted by Republicans to suppress Democratic turnout. Even U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has called voter fraud “a problem that does not really exist.” But what you won’t see in […]