Category: Column

“The most important lesson I’ve learned is that you can’t change Washington from the inside,” Barack Obama said in an interview Thursday on the Spanish-language Univision network. “You can only change it from the outside.” A better way to put it is that Barack Obama has proved he can’t change Washington from the inside. One […]

“No One Murdered Because Of This Image.” That was a recent headline from The Onion, the often hilarious parody newspaper. The image in question is really not appropriate to describe with any specificity in a family newspaper. It’s quite simply disgusting. And, suffice it to say, it leaves nothing to the imagination. Four of “the […]

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a prestigious foreign policy group will host Ali Akbar Salehi, the Foreign Minister of Iran during his NY trip next week. He will be joining: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly and the appearance at the CFR is part and parcel of a […]

This week, a number of House Republicans and House Democrats are trying to force action on the so-called “farm bill” the House Agriculture Committee passed in July. The bill, which includes billions in direct farm subsidies, will cost $100 billion per year for five years if made into law. Approximately 80% of that cost is […]

Normally, I think Republicans tend to be too skeptical of pollsters. Down the stretch in 2008 and 2010, I found most of the polls from reputable pollsters (as opposed to newspapers and colleges) to be on the mark. That hasn’t been the case in this cycle. Once you get past Gallup and Rasmussen, most of […]

If the Palestinians living in the disputed territories are not savages, then the word has no meaning. They’re a people ruled by terrorists, who’re willing to murder their children to kill Israelis, and whose ultimate goal is to exterminate every living Jew in Israel and take their land. This isn’t just what the leaders think; […]

This sums up the philosophy and areas of concern for both of America’s political parties as well as just about anything else you’re going to run across.

New York Times columnist David Brooks is the Eddie Haskell of the Fourth Estate. Like the two-faced sycophant in “Leave It to Beaver,” Brooks indulges in excessive politeness while currying favor with political authority. He prides himself on an oily semblance of maturity and rational discourse. But the phony “conservative” back-stabber, who has spent the […]

The Obama administration’s omnibus answer to why the Middle East (and now much of the Muslim world) is in near open rebellion against the United States: The video did it. The follow-up question no one seems to be asking is: “What if the administration’s explanation is true?” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney insists the […]

So what about the Democrats’ would-be tempest about Mitt Romney’s alleged 47 percent gaffe? Is there any “there” there? Mitt’s statement was made at a private fundraiser, where he was trying to explain that his message of reducing taxes would obviously not resonate with the 47 percent of Americans who are not paying income taxes. […]

Mitt Romney’s comments about 47 percent of Americans being dependent on government and locked in to vote for President Obama highlight a fundamental reality in American politics today: The gap between the American people and the political class is bigger than the gap between Republicans and Democrats in Washington, D.C. Romney’s remarks are the GOP […]

Recently I obtained a classic speech which has not previously been published which “Prime Minister Menachem Begin reported at the grave-site of his boss,: Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Rosh Betar on the 100th: Anniversary of the Birth of Jabotinsky.” Begin gave the speech at Mount Herzl in front of the grave of: Ze’ev Jabotinsky on Har Herzl (Mount Herzl). Ze’ev […]

Here’s the standard mainstream media spin on the: inspector general’s report on Fast and Furious. The 472-page report by the department’s inspector general concluded that Attorney General Eric Holder was not informed of the program’s controversial tactics run by the department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives until after it had been shut down in […]

Only our totally unbiased watchdog media could turn the burning of U.S. embassies in countries where Barack Obama had recently supported mob revolts into Mitt Romney’s blunder. Journalists couldn’t risk having Obama’s campaign slogan “Osama is dead” being amended with “and so is our ambassador.”After our ambassador to Libya was murdered in a preplanned, coordinated […]

Last week, Muslim mobs took to the streets to murder the American ambassador in Libya and three of his staffers. American embassies were attacked from Egypt to Yemen. Embarrassed White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice insisted that these assaults were just reactions to an insensitive video […]

There’s another video, this one of Mitt Romney speaking to donors at a fundraiser in Boca Raton. The video was reportedly “leaked” by James Carter IV, the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter. How appropriate. It apparently was saved for the most politically opportune moment and then published by the liberal Mother Jones Magazine in […]

People, not least himself, have often compared Barack Obama to Franklin D. Roosevelt. You know the narrative. He came to office in a financial crisis and proceeded to take government action to revive the economy and expand government to help the little guy. That narrative was developed by great New Deal historians like Arthur Schlesinger […]

What happens when a free people decides it was never free to begin with? What happens when a nation decides that individual liberty is a myth, that the endless vicissitudes of life form an impenetrable wall to success, that we are all controlled by outside forces? We despair. We turn to the power of the […]

“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what,” Mitt Romney told donors in a $50,000-a-plate Florida fundraiser that was secretly recorded in May and released by Mother Jones this week. In an unfortunate choice of words, Romney described those 47 percent as people who “are dependent upon […]

The recently discovered tape on which Barack Obama said back in 1998 that he believes in redistribution is not really news. He said the same thing to Joe the Plumber four years ago. But the surfacing of this tape may serve a useful purpose if it gets people to thinking about what the consequences of […]

Recently I obtained a classic speech which has not previously been published which “Prime Minister Menachem Begin reported at the grave-site of his boss,: Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Rosh Betar on the 100th: Anniversary of the Birth of Jabotinsky.” Begin gave the speech at Mount Herzl in front of the grave of: Ze’ev Jabotinsky on Har Herzl (Mount Herzl). Ze’ev […]

Get rid of the red, white and blue, replace it all with commie red and an Obama symbol. That’s very Obama. No wonder they’re selling this abomination on his: official campaign website.

You have to go all the way back to the 13th century to find a time when Egypt was a “great nation.” Today, Egypt is just another crummy backwater that’s famous for Pyramids, Islamic radicalism, and rape. Of course, it’s hard to be sorry that the tyrannical Hosni Mubarak was overthrown, but the country is […]

Two days ago, liberal magazine Mother Jones released a video of Mitt Romney talking about the nearly 50 percent of Americans who are dependent on the federal government for at least some of their income. Romney also talked about the 47 percent of Americans who pay no individual income taxes. His conclusion in the video […]

Democrats need to change their party mascot from the donkey to the squirrel. They divert the media’s and the electorate’s short attention spans with fleeting, fuzzy objects — like the main canine character in the animated Pixar movie “Up,” who was easily distracted from his main thoughts and serious duties by every last little moving […]

All political candidates call themselves freedom-lovers, but they are not. Neither major party really opposes government control of the economy or of our personal lives. I’m a libertarian because I see the false choice offered by political left and right: Democrats talk about personal liberty; Republicans talk about economic freedom. But what they do once […]