Category: Column

The Olympics have gone smoothly despite — gasp! — America’s team wearing clothing made in China at the opening ceremony. “I’m so upset,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. “Take all the uniforms, put them in a big pile, and burn them. … We have people in the textile industry who are desperate for jobs.” […]

Having been born in 1936 has allowed me to witness both societal progress and retrogression. High on the list of things made better in our society are the great gains in civil liberties and economic opportunities, especially for racial minorities and women. People who are now deemed poor have a level of material wealth that […]

What drives Barack Obama’s “doubters and haters”? So asks Obama biographer David Maraniss in a recent op-ed article for the Washington Post. By doubters and haters he means the people who think Obama wasn’t born in the U.S., that he’s a secret Muslim or that he’s a closet socialist. He has an answer: “Some of […]

Talk in Republican circles lately has focused on the possibility that Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s relationship with his fellow Floridian Congressman David Rivera could spell trouble for his nomination. Rivera, a solid conservative who was also elected in 2010, is an old friend of Rubio’s, and the two bought a house together that went into […]

The so-called “mainstream” media is constantly and regularly biased against: Israel: — an unfair, terrible double standard.:  On a daily basis, rockets are fired at: Israel, and that’s a non-issue for the media which constantly condemns: Israel.:  Observing the media as owner of a leading: PR Firm, I believe there is no rational explanation for this media bias such as […]

If Milton Friedman were alive today — and there was never a time when he was more needed — he would be one hundred years old. He was born on July 31, 1912. But Professor Friedman’s death at age 94 deprived the nation of one of those rare thinkers who had both genius and common […]

Mitt Romney and I are competing in a new Olympic event that involves proffering unvarnished criticism of the Olympics themselves. We’re the Lochte and Phelps of this event — appearing united when necessary and when it serves us both, and appearing divided when Mitt says something really stupid. Last week, I blamed cronyism for the […]

So says: Buzzfeed: for whatever that’s worth. First, the Columbus Dispatch reported that Rep. Steve LaTourette had abruptly decided to retire. That decision shocked many Republicans, in part because LaTourette — who like Boehner is from Ohio — has had, at least until recently, an extremely close relationship with the Speaker. At the same time, Syracuse Republican […]

It was either Adolf Hitler or his propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, who said that the people will believe any lie, if it is big enough and told often enough, loud enough. Although the Nazis were defeated in World War II, this part of their philosophy survives triumphantly to this day among politicians, and nowhere more […]

President Barack Obama’s recent business-related comments in Virginia (“If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that; somebody else made that happen”) sounded more communistic than capitalistic, especially because the “somebody” to whom Obama referred was in fact the U.S. government. Progressives and the mainstream media were quick to come to the aid of […]

I am pumped up about Mitt Romney’s speech in Israel — for both political reasons and policy ones — and believe it may represent a turning point in the campaign. Politically — and this is important because it is critical that he win, or he won’t be able to implement any policies and set America […]

One of the NCAA’s punishments of Penn State was the vacating of all its football team’s wins from 1998 through 2011. It was in 1998 that Penn State coach Joe Paterno and university officials became aware of the accusation that assistant coach Jerry Sandusky had showered with a young boy. As a result, Penn State’s […]

It doesn’t matter who wins in November; Bill Clinton will end this year on top. The former president will introduce Barack Obama on the penultimate night of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. That’s prime placement for the man who dismissed Obama’s campaign as “a fairy tale” four years ago. In the new USA […]

Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy is in hot water with the LGBT community because he committed the cardinal sin in an age of political correctness: Thou must not speak ill of anything gays, lesbians, bisexuals or transgenders wish to do. In an interview with the Baptist Press and later on a Christian radio program, Cathy, whose […]

Now that the Supreme Court has given its narrow blessing to the Affordable Care Act, the big question is whether it will deliver the benefits that its proponents promise. Unfortunately, as it is now constructed, the plan will backfire causing fewer healthy people to buy insurance, raise premiums for those who do, destroy employment opportunities, […]

“This year will go down in history. For the first time a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient and the world will follow our lead into the future.” –Adolf Hitler, 1935 When I shout at the TV it’s usually because of one of these three reasons: […]

Political pundits often refer to the time we’re in now — a few weeks out from an election — as the “silly season.” It’s a time for obsessing over gaffes real and perceived, faux outrage over harmless statements and a general sense of desperation on the part of one candidate or perhaps both. This cycle’s […]

Does the 2012 campaign look a lot like the 2004 campaign? Many Democrats think so. And there are some resemblances. As in 2004, current polling suggests a close race and shows only about a dozen states in contention. As in 2004, the incumbent has been running negative ads against the challenger, hoping to disqualify him […]

Nancy Pelosi, the: Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives said this weekend that Jews vote Republican because they are rich and want a tax cut.: : The Jewish community will not ignore this — Could one imagine the rightful outcry if a Republican made an offensive statement like “Blacks are democrats because they are poor […]

Owning a: PR Agency, I wanted to offer ten tips for Mitt Romney to observe during his imminent Israel visit: Bowing isn’t customary in the Middle East.: : The Obama: bow to the Saudi King: is not considered customary in Israel nor anywhere else in the Middle East. Shaking hands and being polite is all that is needed. Just as […]

California’s death penalty has been in limbo since 2006, when a federal judge stayed the execution of Michael Morales, who was sentenced to death for the brutal 1981 murder and rape of 17-year-old Terri Winchell. The judge was fearful lest the state’s three-drug lethal injection protocol would cause Morales undue pain. Since then, a number […]

Vice President Joe Biden, America’s textbook Beltway barnacle, still labors under the illusion that he is America’s middle-class Everyman. And now, he’s gone and dragged his adult children into the land of Democratic make-believe. This is a BFD: a Biden Fabulist Dud. As usual with White House class-warfare demagoguery, reality doesn’t fit the wealth-bashing narrative. […]

Every year,: the Hill: puts out: The Hill’s 50 Most Beautiful People. So, just for the fun of it, here are the 10 hottest women on the list. Vote for your favorite and let’s pick the hottest woman on the Hill for 2012! Who is the best looking woman on the Hill for 2012? Alyssa Dack Shelley New […]

In the aftermath of the Aurora, Colo., slaughter, the question went forth on all of the political chatter shows: “Will this reopen the debate over gun control?” That’s the script. When heinous monsters kill people with guns, we tend to talk about the problem of guns. Or rather, people in Washington, New York and other […]

Obama’s desperate protests that his anti-business rant was taken out of context are betrayed both by that very context and because they are a part of a piece — just one more component of his war against the American entrepreneurial spirit. He would have us believe that his words “you didn’t build that” referred to […]

As Hugh Hewitt notes today on Townhall, Texas voters can now: cast their early votes for Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz is very close. The Texas GOP is very close. The entire Lone Star State is very close and the country is very close to a very big win on Tuesday, July 31. Early voting is underway […]

On Tisha B’av, the Jewish day of mourning for: the destruction: of the First and the Second Jewish Temple, the: Betar Fortress: was destroyed by the Roman Empire during the Bar Kochba revolt. The destruction of Betar in 135 put an end to the last Jewish revolt against Rome, and effectively quashed any Jewish dreams of freedom with the […]