Category: Column

In 1995, Barack Obama released “Dreams From My Father,” a compelling memoir full of stories about his life that — though often not exactly true — persuaded many people that this young man had a great political future ahead of him. Nearly a decade later, Obama introduced himself to the country with a stirring speech […]

Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won’t primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins. Besides, the economy and entitlements are wholly integrated issues: […]

The current environment for investors is perhaps one of the most confusing that many have ever encountered.:  Unpredictable markets now appear to take no clue whatsoever from underlying economic data, and maxims long cherished by traditional money managers are being abandoned in favor of seemingly illogical choices.:  We are in a world in which apparently […]

One of the things Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate ensures is a series of polling questions over the coming months asking voters what’s more important: creating jobs or cutting government spending; helping the economy or cutting deficits; repealing the president’s health care law or focusing on the economy. These questions […]

It’s a special world where a lot of people give charity.: Some interesting good people and their impetus for giving. Elie Hirschfeld: “My personal history of giving began when I was a student at Brown University. In my sophomore year, I became President of Brown’s Hillel chapter and was inspired by that organization’s commitment to enriching […]

If you call the Family Research Center a hate group, you’re calling Christianity a hate group, because what they do is tout Christian values – John Hawkins (@johnhawkinsrwn) August 16, 2012   I’m not going to do the same thing that liberals do after every shooting and accuse them of being responsible for the kook […]

My smash best-seller “Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America” has just come out in paperback — and not a moment too soon! Democrats always become especially mob-like during presidential election campaigns. The “root cause” of the Democrats’ wild allegations against Republicans, their fear of change, their slogans and insane metaphors, are all explained […]

Driving across California is like going from Mississippi to Massachusetts without ever crossing a state line. Consider the disconnects: California’s combined income and sales taxes are among the nation’s highest, but the state’s deficit is still about $16 billion. It’s estimated that more than 2,000 upper-income Californians are leaving per week to flee high taxes […]

Some interesting recent: Public Relations: news: 14-time Grammy winning recording: Ricky Skaggs appeared: on theJay Sekulow: show to discuss media bias against Israel at the Olympics. The Evangelical artist discussed the importance of the American-Israel relationship — and the continued strengthening of Israel by the Evangelical community is vital. The Begin Center in Jerusalem has unveiled the: Harry Hurwitz Memorial “Hasbara […]

With words like “radical” and “extreme” being liberally flung around, it’s probably time to define our terms. After all, vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan, I am assured, embodies both words in deed and spirit. These days, radical ideas appear in many forms: a plan offering future seniors a choice of health care insurance or one […]

Israel: is in a tough neighborhood — thankfully many work tirelessly to ensure the country remains safe. A few years ago, The Moskowitz Prize for Zionism was established by Dr.: Irving Moskowitz: and: Cherna Moskowitz: as an expression of support for people who put Zionism into action in today’s Israeli society. Winners this year included Tzvika Slonim, founder of the: Ariel: University: Center, […]

When women complain about men who can’t commit, they can thank — or blame — two people: Playboy magazine publisher Hugh Hefner and the former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown, who died this week at age 90. Brown was the flip side of Hefner, offering women permission, even encouragement, to embrace a female […]

Vice President Joe Biden played the race card this week when he drawled Southern-style to a racially mixed audience that if Mitt Romney takes the White House, he’ll “unchain Wall Street. They’re going to put y’all back in chains.” Last week, a super PAC run by a former aide to President Obama released an ad […]

When my husband: Irving Moskowitz: was a young man he would go door-to-door around Milwaukee with a blue box collecting money to redeem property in the Land of Israel. Even though it was during the Great Depression, everyone put in what they could afford: pennies, nickels and dimes. In the 19th century, wealthy Jews like Rothschild were […]

The government wants to control what TV you watch, what light bulbs you have in your house, how big a soda you can buy, and apparently,: you can’t even feed poor kids in this country without having some useless government official sticking his nose into it. Angela Prattis has spent part of the summer distributing meals […]

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t have a particularly high opinion of Mitt Romney’s skills as a politician, but: this may be the single most clever thing he’s done since he came on the national scene. “There’s another promise he made. You know that every time you get a paycheck you see there’s […]

.@speakerboehner Calling people who opposed TARP knuckle-draggers says a lot about your mentality & none of it’s good. You should apologize – John Hawkins (@johnhawkinsrwn) August 15, 2012     Did you think we shouldn’t have handed hundreds of billions of dollars of your money to well connected corporations and bankers who wanted capitalism on […]

Looks like Vice President Joe Biden has been taking extracurricular Democratic jive-talking lessons. The results of condescending liberals’ cynical racial pandering attempts are, as always, seismically cringe-inducing. At a campaign event in Danville, Va., the gaffetastic veep dropped his g’s and picked up a bizarre twang in front of an audience of black voters. Middle-Class […]

I’m a libertarian in part because I see a false choice offered by the political left and right: government control of the economy — or government control of our personal lives. People on both sides think of themselves as freedom lovers. The left thinks government can lessen income inequality. The right thinks government can make […]

President Barack Obama recently wrote an executive order that established a White House initiative on educational excellence for black Americans that will be housed in the Department of Education. It proposes “to identify evidence-based best practices” to improve black achievement in school and college. Though black education is in desperate straits, the president’s executive order […]

With all of the pressure: Israel: faces regarding: Iran, today’s media reports may be the most absurd one has heard yet.:  News has emerged that the United Nations Secretary General Ben Ki-moon is angry with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for disclosing information of a phone call between the two regarding the UN chief’s planned visit to: Tehran.: Netanyahu asked […]

Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate has utterly unhinged the Obama campaign. Last week they were happily jabbering about Romney’s record at Bain Capital, implying that he had killed a man’s wife, stating that he was a tax cheat and blaming him for outsourcing jobs. This week they’re stuck defending Barack […]

A recent intelligence leak confirms something that regular readers of this column already know: that the Obama administration has officially authorized covert support of local “rebel” groups, through government agencies like the CIA, with the goal of destabilizing and subverting the Bashar al-Assad regime. The interesting consequence is that al-Qaeda is among the groups President […]

Although Mitt Romney has given the thumbs up to Paul Ryan’s Plan, he has also made it clear he has his own plan that’s not identical. Even so, there has quite naturally been a lot of talk about the Ryan Plan. It has been called “radical,” “extreme,” “scary,” yada, yada, yada. Thing is, Ryan’s Plan […]

That’s the line the Obama Administration is peddling about GM and Chevrolet, isn’t it? The unions poured massive amounts of money and labor into Obama’s 2008 campaign and in return he handed them your money. For a “success,” it sure doesn’t look like it went so well. In fact, the last person to win that […]

Welcome to bizarro world AKA right now in America where: illegals receive a get out of jail free card if their home country refuses to take them back. Based on a 2001 Supreme Court decision, U.S. immigration officials are only allowed to hold someone for six months after their incarceration. If the immigrant’s home country refuses […]