Category: Column

I wanted to like Paul Ryan. Before he was nationally known, Rep. Ryan visited me at ABC, and we went to lunch. He was terrific. He was a rare politician, one who actually cared about America’s coming debt crisis and the unfairness of entitlements. He even talked about F.A. Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom”! If […]

If it hasn’t completely vanished down the memory hole, you might recall that last week a man walked into the headquarters of the conservative Family Research Council with a backpack full of Chick-fil-A sandwiches and bullets, said something like “I don’t like your politics” and then shot the building manager. The suspect, Floyd Lee Corkins […]

If I were a Klansman, wanting to sabotage black education, I couldn’t find better allies than education establishment liberals and officials in the Obama administration, especially Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who in March 2010 announced that his department was “going to reinvigorate civil rights enforcement.” For Duncan, the civil rights issue was that black […]

Years, and sometimes decades, pass between my visits to movie theaters. But I drove 30 miles to see the movie “2016,” based on Dinesh D’Souza’s best-selling book, “The Roots of Obama’s Rage.” Where I live is so politically correct that such a movie would not even be mentioned, much less shown. Every seat in the […]

If Justin Bieber or the Rolling Stones suddenly decided to stage an impromptu concert in a public place somewhere in America without a permit, would the authorities ignore it and shrug it off? Doubtful. Even buskers performing in the New York City subway system can’t play without formal authorization from the city. What about taking […]

Do leopards change their spots?: : Want to work for an organization that was deemed a terrorist organization in the US until 1987? A group that in 1970: killed nine children & three adults, and carried out the Munich massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes and has committed many terrorist acts? Well, here’s your chance. According to a: job posting […]

Maybe we’ll have burglars protesting to be called, “Object removal experts”: next. A small group of immigrants gathered in Woodbury Monday to protest the use of the word “illegal” to describe those who have entered the United States without documentation. “By saying illegal, they’re assuming that we broke a criminal law,” said Jackeline Saavedra, 27, of […]

There are some very serious issues at stake in this year’s election — so many that some people may not be able to see the forest for the trees. Individual issues are the trees, but the forest is the future of America as we have known it. The America that has flourished for more than […]

The New York Times reported, “With waning approval ratings and a stagnant economy, the possibility that Mr. Obama will not be re-elected has entered the political bloodstream.” It’s more than entered; it’s flowing strong. Last week in Part 1, I began to list my Top 10 reasons not to re-elect President Obama. Though I would […]

I was on Sean Hannity’s show the other night, and the question was whether Obama’s statement denying his divisiveness is defensible. It’s not. Obama said, “I don’t think you or anybody who’s been watching the campaign would say that in any way we have tried to divide the country. We’ve always tried to bring the […]

Rep. Todd Akin has, unwittingly to be sure, harmed the pro-life movement, his senatorial race in Missouri, the Republican Party, and therefore quite possibly the nation. Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later, will write or say something inappropriate. The game of “gotcha” […]

There are two sides within the anti-abortion movement. On one side, stand men and women who care deeply about human life and fear that abortion devalues society by creating a caste of disposable people. On the other side, lurk crabbed adults who think women should be punished for having extramarital sex and that pregnancy is […]

Dictionary.com defines a “debate” as: “A formal contest in which the affirmative and negative sides of a proposition are advocated by opposing speakers.” That is not what will take place during three exchanges between President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, or the one vice-presidential exchange between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan. The selection […]

So many are good and committed to the right values in this world.: : To name some: The: Irving Moskowitz: Foundation is a charitable foundation which has a simple precept and motto -: : ‘He who has saved one life, it is as if he has saved the world’ and they use that as the simple precept for the many they […]

If Vice President Joe Biden didn’t exist, you couldn’t invent him. You couldn’t invent him because no one would believe such a character possibly could exist. No Hollywood producer ever would believe someone that dumb could rise to that level without an “R” after his name. But if someone did attempt to pitch a TV […]

What is official misconduct? That was the matter before the San Francisco Ethics Commission on Thursday. What is political misconduct in San Francisco? The standard constantly evolves. Ross Mirkarimi, the city’s newly elected but not yet sworn-in sheriff, got in an argument with his wife on Dec. 31. He bruised her arm. She told a […]

If you want to score twenty G’s this summer and garner at least thirty minutes of crazy fame then get busy rooting out Obama’s college transcripts. This past Friday provocateur Brooks Bayne who runs: TheTrenches.us: asked me if I’d help get the word out about his offer of 20k to anyone who could produce what the White […]

Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan was supposed to be a problem for the Republicans. So said a chorus of chortling Democrats. So said a gaggle of anonymous seasoned Republican operatives. All of which was echoed gleefully by mainstream media. The problem, these purveyors of the conventional wisdom all said, was Medicare — to be […]

While it’s original and different, let’s see how it does. Certainly a non-traditional idea.: : Post, “Israel has unveiled the latest weapon with which it hopes to win over the hearts and minds of people in the former Soviet Union: Interpretive dance.” Maybe if Bar Rafaeli and some Israelis who look like her are leading the dance […]

10 great public relations & propaganda quotes compiled by Ronn Torossian, owner of a leading PR Agency: “He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.” Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, 1900 “See, […]

Do you believe in the Kabalistic Jewish tradition of the 36 hidden Tzadikim -:  saintly Jews:  who sustain the Jewish people with their good deeds? Do you wonder if they could really exist in our time? In the age of Google searches, social networks and the prying eyes of mass media, would it really be […]

For much of the past few generations, the debate over balancing the federal budget has been a central feature of every presidential campaign. But over time, the goalposts have moved. As the amount of red ink has grown steadily larger, the suggested time frames to restore balance have gotten increasingly longer, while the suggested cuts […]

Yes, a major media outlet, the AFP ran this week spoke of a Hamas PR campaign — with a headline reading: “PR campaign hits roadblock after Sinai attack”. AFP lauds Hamas for a campaign which reads: “We have carried out 800 open-heart surgeries, regulated traffic, and built 44 schools.” AFP which refers to the “Hamas […]

Barack Obama’s net worth is almost: 12 million dollars. So why does his own brotherhave to beg for money to pay for his son’s hospital bills? A few days ago I received a call from a man I recently met named George. He was a bit flustered, and soon informed me that his young son was […]

Many liberals love Julian Assange because they hate America and he disclosed top secret American documents. How many people died because of what Julian Assange did? We don’t know for sure and intelligence agencies around the world have reason to stay quiet about it, but we do know he put information out that should have […]

Hey, remember when Nancy Pelosi and a gaggle of Democratic women vowed to eradicate Washington’s culture of corruption? Tee-hee. Instead of breaking up the Good Ol’ Boys Club, Capitol Hill’s leading liberal ladies have established their very own taxpayer-funded Sisterhood of the Plundering Hacks. This week, the names of two of Department of Homeland Security […]