Category: Column

So, are the Dems being racist by requiring ID to get into #DNC2012 or were they hypocritical when they said requiring ID to vote is racist? – John Hawkins (@johnhawkinsrwn) September 3, 2012 Seems like a fair question, doesn’t it? And the Democrats sure don’t seem to have: any qualms about demanding ID at their convention. […]

I have no beef with Muslims participating in an open-air prayer ceremony before the DNC. I’d have been just as happy to see a similar event before the RNC. Yes, this is a Christian nation founded on Christian principles, but in this country, we believe in the “free exercise” of religion. It’s one of our […]

After reading Barack Obama’s book “Dreams from My Father,” it became painfully clear that he has not been searching for the truth, because he assumed from an early age that he had already found the truth — and now it was just a question of filling in the details and deciding how to change things. […]

“One by one, we have lost the freedoms that our forefathers, our brothers in arms and my son died for,” says the main character in a movie that my wife, Gena, and I have been waiting eagerly to see in theaters. It opens nationwide Friday, Sept. 14, coinciding with the Sept. 11 commemoration of Patriot […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — On the door of my home office hangs a collection of press passes I have amassed since I attended the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta in 1988. When I return home at the end of this week, bruised, blistered and tottering from lack of sleep, I shall hang my new trophies with […]

My first political convention was in 1964 when Democrats convened in Atlantic City to nominate Lyndon Johnson for a full term as president. I was a young copyboy at the NBC News network bureau in Washington. We arrived from Washington aboard a chartered DC-3 plane that also carried the late anchor/reporter Frank McGee and his […]

The international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP is the first, as they call it “.. real full-service international law firm on the ground in Israel is an idea long overdue.” “Because they attract capital from all over the world and operate in countless jurisdictions, Israeli businesses know no boundaries. Neither should their law firm.” Another […]

The Republican convention has ended, and it was a rousing success. We know this because of the amount of venom spewed on MSNBC. On the Chris Matthews Flying-Spittle Meter, it rated at least an 11 out of 10. In a desperate attempt to distract from the positive vibe coming from Republicans in Tampa, Matthews, who […]

The 40th Republican National Convention is now history, and political strategists and pundits are poring over the poll numbers to see whether Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are getting a post-convention bounce in what have been very closely divided polls. Romney’s convention managers made some correct and some interesting decisions. First, don’t relitigate 2008, as […]

TAMPA, Fla. — You could say that the film “2016: Obama’s America” is the GOP equivalent of Michael Moore’s “Roger and Me.” The documentary is based on conservative firebrand Dinesh D’Souza’s 2010 book, “The Roots of Obama’s Rage.” As the film’s narrator, D’Souza argues that Barack Obama’s philosophy is “anti-colonialist,” a legacy passed on from […]

TAMPA, Fla. — Clint Eastwood put on an odd skit Thursday night at the Republican National Convention. It was awkward to watch and hard to hear, but I have to hand it to Eastwood. He achieved the impossible; he made the gaffe-prone Mitt Romney come across as supremely tactful. Four years ago, when Barack Obama […]

Ze’ev Jabotinsky: who is considered one of the most influential Zionist thinkings ever: wrote in 1932: “ The work of the publicist is a legacy from the Prophets of Israel…Our passion is to speak, to proclaim–“Shouting” is what the same audience calls it, ‘we have no need for words, give us actions.’ One thing that audience forgets […]

Missed the convention? Catch up with our: countdown of the top ten speeches…:  10) Grant Bennett 9) Pam Finlayson : Chris Christie 7) Artur Davis 6) Rick Santorum 5) Condi Rice 4) Mike Huckabee 3) Ann Romney 2) Mitt Romney 1) Paul Ryan

Well, obviously, because you need to find out what all those “racist dog whistles” you heard at the Republican National Convention actually mean. Take this zinger from Mitch McConnell, for example,: “(Obama) hasn’t been working to earn reelection, he’s been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!” Did you know that’s actually a coded […]

Thumper the Rabbit’s parents always taught him, “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.” If the left’s self-appointed Omniscient Diviners of True Meaning have their way, conservatives in the public square won’t be left with anything at all to say. Ever. It’s a treacherous business exercising your freedom of speech in […]

In 2004, Arnold Schwarzenegger, then a popular figure in the Republican Party, gave an exciting, upbeat and surprisingly funny speech at the GOP convention. He covered a lot of territory: the story of how he came to America, how he became a Republican after listening to Richard Nixon, and other highlights of his life story. […]

The Democrats and their mainstream media cheering section can huff and puff at Paul Ryan’s convention speech, but they can’t blow his house down. It was built on a solid foundation. So powerful was the speech that the liberal establishment is reduced to wailing about alleged lies the speech contained — dishonest and easily refuted […]

Political junkies get excited about the Republican and Democratic national conventions, but for many Americans they provide a stark reminder of how out of touch our political system has become. The strange rituals and bad jokes seem oddly out of place in the 21st century, almost as strange as seeing an engineer use a slide […]

With the RNC under way, and the election only a few months away, some exciting quotes on public relations & politicians I gathered, together with commentary: “Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the: publicity. But then, we elected them.” […]

Live by the wacky, whiny interest group,: die by the wacky, whiny interest group. Because the Democratic National Convention has just banned children from the convention floor – including breastfeeding babies – unless those children have convention credentials. Which, needless to say, is relatively unlikely. It is not clear what motivated this particular policy. However, in […]

It’s not really a shocker that Charlie Crist endorsed Obama or that he’s: speaking at the Democratic National Convention. It’s also probably not going to ultimately be any more helpful than an endorsement from Arlen Specter, Lincoln Chafee, or Scozzafava or any of the other politicians who’ve made it clear they’ll say and do anything to […]

I was not a Mitt Romney fan during the primaries. Hell, I was one of the co-founders of NotMittRomney.com and I would have been thrilled with a brokered convention. But, it didn’t work out that way. Mitt Romney collected the delegates he needed to win. In other words, the game’s over and all the Republicans […]

Poor Mickey Kaus. He’s the liberal intellectual (not an oxymoron — he’s the last known living “liberal intellectual”) lefties on TV are usually stealing from, but now that this welfare reform maven has concluded that Romney’s welfare ad is basically correct, liberals refuse to acknowledge his existence. The non-Fox media have formed a solid front […]

TAMPA, Fla. — What do you think of the media coverage? That’s what I asked California Republican Party Chairman Tom Del Beccaro. “I’m weathering it,” he quipped. For the second time in a row, weather caused the Republican National Committee to cancel its first night. Some delegates believed that certain reporters wanted nothing more than […]