Category: Column

“This flag dips for no earthly king.” – American shotputter Ralph Rose At the 1936 Olympics, the: American Olympic team stood up to Hitler. Over 5,000 athletes from 51 nations then marched in according to alphabetical order, with Greece leading the whole parade and the host country, Germany, at the end. But even the opening ceremony […]

Consumer confidence fell to the lowest levels of 2012 this past week. Most Americans believe that both the economy and their own personal finances are getting worse. Just 25 percent believe the economy is getting better, and only 22 percent say the same about their personal finances. Still, the lows of 2012 aren’t nearly as […]

This: sleazy and disgusting lawsuit: is just one more reason we desperately need tort reform in this country to keep parasitic lawyers from playing lawsuit lottery with the lives of innocent people. One of the victims in the James Holmes mass murder spree has lawyered up and plans to file a lawsuit … because he feels the […]

Tom Coburn used to be one of the best Republicans we had in the Senate. Unfortunately, his reputation has started to slip since he voted for TARP and has spent an inordinate amount of time agitating for tax increases. Apparently the fact that most Republicans don’t agree with him must have stuck in his craw […]

Monopolies, whether they’re private or governmental, are not in the best interest of the American public. The same could be said of any company that’s supposedly: “too big to fail”– like: the big banks. Sanford “Sandy” Weill, whose creation of Citigroup Inc. (C) ushered in the era of U.S. banking conglomerates a decade before the financial crisis, […]

I feel awful about what happened in Colorado, but can we stop the hugging and the teddy bears? Just as society can become inured to violence, it can also become inured to sentiment. There is nothing so hackneyed in the world of photojournalism as pictures of the hugging and the shrines with candles and teddy […]

Amid all the stories about the ongoing violence in Syria, the most disturbing is the possibility that Syrian President Bashar Assad could either deploy the arsenal of chemical and biological weapons that his government claims it has, or provide it to terrorists. There are suggestions that at least some of Assad’s supposed stockpile may have […]

Like the ghosts of Shakespeare’s Banquo or Dickens’ Jacob Marley, the specter of the late commie-hunting congressman from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, will always be with us. It is summoned up today, by some on the left, who use it as a tool to thwart legitimate questions about people and ideologies that seek to destroy America. […]

Only a few lonely media outlets responded to the Aurora Mall murders by calling for stricter gun control measures. President Barack Obama and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper made eloquent statements, as did Mitt Romney, but neither the two Democrats nor the Republican called for changes in gun laws. Many conservatives and gun rights advocates took […]

Today the media is yet again attacking billionaire Sheldon Adelson on its front pages; now it is about his effort to target Jewish voters in swing states including: Florida,: Ohio: and: Pennsylvania.:  Such a media infatuation with an established successful, self made man who is doing what any active political advocate does, educates voters to see his point of […]

Amid all the stories about the ongoing violence in Syria, the most disturbing is the possibility that Syrian President Bashar Assad could either deploy the arsenal of chemical and biological weapons that his government claims it has, or provide it to terrorists. There are suggestions that at least some of Assad’s supposed stockpile may have […]

Honest answer: Slim to none.   Here’s a quote from his aunt:: “He bad. He fight but he don’t fight little babies.: He do also have a problem. He take medicine every day and he just a normal: child.” No, this isn’t a: “normal child”: and he isn’t just teasing the other kids or: playing pranks. This is a nine-year-old who […]

It’s one thing for Hollywood moppets and television Muppets to protest Chick-fil-A over the fast-food chain president’s support for traditional marriage. They’re private citizens and entities. But when an elected public official wields the club of government against a Christian business in the name of “tolerance,” it’s not harmless kid stuff. It’s chilling. This week, […]

Over the past few decades, America has locked up more and more people. Our prison population has tripled. Now we jail a higher percentage of people than even the most repressive countries: China locks up 121 out of every 100,000 people; Russia 511. In America? 730. “Never in the civilized world have so many been […]

Academic intelligentsia, their media, government and corporate enthusiasts worship at the altar of diversity. Despite budget squeezes, universities have created diversity positions, such as director of diversity and inclusion, manager of diversity recruitment, associate dean for diversity, vice president of diversity and perhaps minister of diversity. This is all part of a quest to get […]

If ABC News does fire Brian Ross, he could always find a job working for Aaron Sorkin. Ross, a veteran investigative reporter for ABC News, blew it Friday morning when he suggested that the Aurora, Colo., shooting suspect, James Holmes, might be connected with the Tea Party. “There is a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado, […]

Random thoughts on the passing scene: Even squirrels know enough to store nuts, so that they will have something to eat when food gets scarce. But the welfare state has spawned a whole class of people who spend everything they get when times are good, and look to others to provide for their food and […]

Last week, President Obama infamously said that if you built a business in America, you weren’t really responsible — the government was. You didn’t get ahead because you were smart or worked hard, or a combination of the two. Only the government could allow you to rise above your station. Obama took a lot of […]

It’s hip these days for everyone from world leaders to the Occupy Wall Street crowd to attack free-market, limited-government capitalism as wild and in need of control because it’s supposedly the cause of the world economic collapse. This is a myth. It’s too much government-facilitated cronyism that’s causing the mayhem wrongfully attributed to capitalism. This […]

The politicians in D.C. created the housing crisis that tanked the economy with regulations that practically made handing out high risk housing loans a necessity for Freddie, Fannie, and many banks. Of course, you wouldn’t know that from listening to anybody in Congress because the politicians naturally point the finger elsewhere. Unfortunately, they’re alsopushing the […]

Lyndon Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in the sixties and he was about as successful at it as he was in Vietnam. Of course, as the great: Thomas Sowell notes, minorities were on their way up economically long before Johnson ladled an extra heaping helping of socialism into the economy. For example, the usually insightful […]

Hat tip to: LMAObama: for this graphic. Hat tip to: The Looking Spoon: for this graphic.

Since so many in the media cannot resist turning every tragedy into a political talking point, it was perhaps inevitable that (1) someone would try to link the shooting rampage at the Batman movie in Colorado to the Tea Party, and that (2) some would try to make it a reason to impose more gun […]

Who wasn’t shocked and disheartened by yet another tragic mass shooting, this time in Aurora, Colo.? Like millions of Americans, my wife, Gena, and I send our heartfelt condolences and prayers to the victims of this murderous spree and their families. We, too, commend the heroes who gave their lives to save others. Truly, every […]

When a radio host asked me what I thought of the massacre in Aurora, Colo., I had to ask for clarification. I said: “What do you mean? Who could deny it’s an unspeakable tragedy?” What he was really asking me was to address it in a political context. The problem is that I don’t believe […]

James Holmes is a human earthquake. We are as ill-equipped to predict the eruptions of such human beings as we are to predict the eruptions of the earth. But that doesn’t mean that nothing meaningful came out of the Aurora tragedy. Something quite important did, though few Americans are aware of it because it has […]

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper had the right idea when he refused to utter the suspected gunman’s name in the Aurora multiplex theater shootings, which left 12 dead and 58 wounded. Instead of naming the alleged killer, Hickenlooper referred to him only as “Suspect A.” At a prayer vigil Sunday, Hickenlooper read the names of each […]