Category: Column

Could one imagine if Ron Paul supporters in: England: were considered to be influential voices on American politics, and offered a blog by a major British paper? Would one ever think, say that a Lyndon Larouche movement in: Canada: would be offered a major online media outlet on which to espouse Larouche views by one of the largest Canadian […]

This week, President Obama spelled out just how much he hates American business in an off-prompter moment in Roanoke, Va. If “you’ve been successful,” said Obama, “you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just […]

There’s a little good news out there for Ford Motors today: Barack Obama’s favorite souped-up golf cart, the Chevy Volt, is: such a hopeless failure that it makes the Edsel look like a Mustang. The Press has for the most part failed to mention how pathetic this “second-best sales month” actually is. And even when one […]

“The president clearly demonstrated that he has absolutely no idea how the American economy functions. The men and women all over America who have worked hard to build these businesses, their businesses from the ground up is how our economy became the envy of the world – it is the American way. I wish this […]

If you set out to design a written test that racially discriminates against black and Hispanic Americans who want to be firemen, how could you do it? Keep in mind that we’re not quizzing people on pop culture here; we’re talking about a test for firemen. How could you ask about how to put out […]

Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod and his hatchet people are still yammering about GOP presidential rival Mitt Romney’s overseas investments. It’s time for the Romney campaign to educate voters about all the shady financial institutions embraced by Democrats right here on American soil. The fat-cat narrative attacks on Republicans won’t go away by making nice […]

What was your first job? I stuck pieces of plastic and metal together at an Evanston, Ill., assembly line. We produced photocopiers for a company called American Photocopy. I hated the work. It was hot and boring. But it was useful. It taught me to get good grades in school so I might have other […]

The agendas of liberals, progressives and assorted tyrants desperately depend on the aspects of human nature they often condemn, such as acquisitiveness, profit motive, self-interestedness and greed. This crossed my mind while reading “How Departures From Economic Freedom Can Affect Freedom In General,” by Dr. John Taylor, a Hoover Institution scholar. Taylor tells how former […]

It was one of Barack Obama’s best lines — and best moments — in the 2008 presidential campaign. He had said we could save as much oil as we could get from domestic drilling if everybody properly maintained their cars and got their tires inflated. Now, that was hyperbole. But when conservatives, including his opponent, […]

Determined to destroy Bill Clinton’s signature achievement, President Barack Obama’s Administration has opened a loophole in the 1996 Welfare Reform legislation big enough to make the law ineffective. Its work requirement — the central feature of the legislation — has been diluted beyond recognition by the bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services. […]

When I was a little kid, there was a game I used to play while out and about with my family. Every time we came upon an escalator, I’d run ahead and charge up it as fast as I could, just so I could then stand at the top and “pull” everyone else up by […]

The other night on Twitter,: I: went back and forth with: Dustin Stockton: about whom Mitt Romney should select as his VP. Over on Right Wing News, I’ve already written an article that goes: 30 picks deep: cataloguing the candidates from which Mitt Romney is LIKELY to select his VP. If you were laying odds, there’s probably a 95% chance that […]

Here’s Barack Obama channeling Elizabeth Warren about how all of those: awful successful people in America owe the government all of their money because it built roads and street signs. There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me – because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t – look, […]

Want to know how to make bullying worse? That’s easy: get: Congress involved. No one believes children should be bullied in school, no matter what the genesis of the bullying. But to think that somehow Congress could stop playground taunting, middle-school teasing, or insults leveled through social media is illogical. Yet Representatives Sheila Jackson Lee (D—TX) […]

When I first saw a book with the title, “White Girl Bleed A Lot” by Colin Flaherty, I instantly knew what it was about, even though I had not seen the book reviewed anywhere, and knew nothing about the author. That is because I had encountered that phrase before, while doing research for the four […]

Last week, I summarized how President Barack Obama has not lived up to his campaign promises to lower the national deficit and debt and get our nation’s fiscal house in order. So now I’m calling on him to heed the economic advice of our nation’s first eight presidents. Before I highlight some of the Founding […]

If I didn’t know better, I might conclude that President Obama is trying to validate my book. His personal attacks on Mitt Romney have been so harsh that Romney called them “beneath the dignity of the presidency.” Not only did I devote several chapters to documenting Obama’s practice of bullying and attacking his political opponents […]

According to conventional wisdom, the older the person, the less young people are inclined to listen to him or her. This is probably true for some of you. But I do not believe that it is true for most of you. Most young people have tremendous respect for older people’s views. I saw this firsthand […]

D.C. Democrats are pushing the DISCLOSE Act again. “DISCLOSE” stands for “Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections.” The American Civil Liberties Union and the National Right to Life Committee oppose this bill because they fear it would chill free speech. As far as the anti-abortion group is concerned, “DISCLOSE” stands for […]

Mitt Romney’s speech to the NAACP convention in Houston was — according to one’s political perspective — a “calculated move on his part to get booed…” to help his white base (Rep. Nancy Pelosi), or a presentation to “independent thinking adult citizens” whom he treated as equals (Rush Limbaugh). Having an adult conversation in a […]

The Fourth of July week brought unwelcome birthday gifts to the United States in the form of poor domestic jobs data and similarly gloomy information from other major economies. Amidst the heat and festivities, it has become difficult to deny that the economy is deteriorating. Politicians appear helpless, thrashing about for a solution and blaming […]

When I was a young dork growing up in West Texas in the 70s and 80s, my folks raised me to believe that making good money via righteous and industrious means was actually a good thing–y’know, something to aspire to. Remember that notion? My folks would point out people in the neighborhood and community who […]

Warren G. Harding was corrupt, as was Richard M. Nixon. Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy were like blind golfers, looking for a hole, any hole, every hole. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt were power-mad narcissists convinced they knew best how everyone else should live. Jimmy Carter was clueless. But as we approach the 100-year […]

LONDON — 1776 is a number with great resonance for Americans, but not one you expect to be featured on a British government website. But there it is, on the home page of the United Kingdom’s Department of Education: “As of 1 April 2012, there are 1776 academies open in England.” Academies, as you might […]

Some random interesting media readings of the last few days: Interesting story by MJ Rosenberg on “Jewish Vote: Still Liberal After All These Years” in The Huffington Post.: : Statistically, with the exception of: Florida, American Jews really don’t live in swing states and their votes aren’t as important as media makes them out to be.: : Israel does continue […]

There are some ideas so convoluted that only an expert (or wannabe expert) could love them. For example: collateralized debt obligations, which seemed like a good idea until the mortgage meltdown swamped the U.S. economy. Into this hallowed territory comes a new instrument, playing its siren song. San Francisco startup Mortgage Resolution Partners has come […]

Chile’s accession to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development in 2010 was more than just a confirmation that they’d earned the right to join: the world’s top ranked economies. As the first South American country to be accepted into the OECD, it was also a symbolic affirmation of several decades worth of market-oriented reforms that […]