Category: Column

In yet another attempt to seduce more Americans into dependence on: government, the Obama Administration is: waiving the work requirements: for welfare. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sent: an “information memorandum” to states this afternoon exercising waiver: authority under the Social Security Act for the provision that “parents and: caretakers receiving assistance under the [Temporary Assistance for Needy: Families (TANF)] […]

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the: baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” — Adam Smith In a prosperous country like America, you shouldn’t see any long term shortages: of a product. You might not be able to afford a product or it […]

The Obama administration’s loathsome cowboy, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, won’t take no for an answer. He’s been smacked down repeatedly by federal courts for imposing a draconian, junk science-based moratorium on the oil and gas industry. Yet, the job-killing zealot and his boss just introduced another ruinous offshore drilling ban two weeks ago. The White […]

Those of us who believe the United States would be best served by pulling out of the United Nations and starting up a more morally and politically serious clubhouse for morally and politically serious nations are often accused of tilting at windmills. The phrase “tilting at windmills” was inspired by Cervantes’ novel “Don Quixote,” and […]

So what about the GOP House vote to repeal that legislative monstrosity that masquerades under the misleading title of “Affordable Care Act”? Was the vote more than symbolic? Will the vote have any impact on the presidential and congressional races? What about the GOP proposals to replace Obamacare? A host presented those three questions, and […]

There are plenty of reasons that the economy is the most important issue of Election 2012. Unemployment has remained high for a long time, and even 27 percent of those who have a job are worried about losing it. Only half of homeowners now believe their home is worth more than what they still owe […]

Liberals have been trying to bind America with the Law of Sea Treaty since Reagan was in office, and conservatives who care about our country’s sovereignty have been fighting it the whole time. In all fairness, the treaty has been improved over time. This is why you’ve seen the National Association of Manufacturers, the Chamber […]

Know what’s so great about the excerpts flaying Obama that you’re about to read? It’s that they’re coming from: R. Donahue Peebles, an Obama fundraiser who’s on track to raise between: “$100K and $200K”: for Obama’s reelection. “What I get concerned about is the message from the Obama campaign that we only want someone who has not been […]

Is there a “fairness” factory somewhere out in Middle America producing self-sustaining jobs? If not, President Barack Obama’s obsession with ending Bush-era tax cuts makes no sense as either policy or politics. To begin with, Obama — and nearly all media coverage of the decade-old tax cuts — continues to discuss the “cost” of tax […]

We are witnessing a seismic shift in global affairs. The shake-up is a perfect storm of political, demographic and technological change that will soon make the world as we have known it for the last 30 years almost unrecognizable. Since the mid-1980s there have been a number of accepted global constants. The European Union was […]

NAACP members booed Mitt Romney when he spoke at the group’s annual convention in Houston on Wednesday. The audience heckled the former Massachusetts governor three times, once after he promised to repeal Obamacare if elected. It’s also true that the audience cheered Romney repeatedly, if not wildly. Why did he bother to attend? Barack Obama […]

In order to get the correct answer to anything, one must ask the right question. That is what former ABC News and current Fox News TV host John Stossel does on his weekly program. If ever there was “must see-TV,” this is it. Stossel’s show on Saturday, June 30 was a classic. It was called […]

This week, the city of San Bernardino, Calif., went bankrupt. It followed hot on the heels of Vallejo and Stockton, Calif. And they’ll be followed, no doubt, by Los Angeles — and then, shortly after that, by California. Let’s take a look at the numbers. San Bernardino has an annual budget of $258 million; it […]

In mid-March, I wrote an article entitled “Peter Beinart: Represents Zionism Like a Black KKK Member Represents African-Americans” — and sure enough today it’s widely accepted that Peter Beinart is well outside the consensus of the Jewish community. Why does: any synagogue or Jewish organization allow this dangerous man to speak ? This shameful man shouldn’t be […]

LONDON — The best view of London’s Olympic Park is from the picture windows at the top floor of the John Lewis department store in the vast Westfield Stratford mall five miles east of the Tower of London. It’s not the London tourists usually see. Westfield Stratford is an upscale American-style mall, and the sleek […]

Know what irony is? It’s the: NAACP demanding journalists show an ID to see Eric Holder speak: even as Holder and the NAACP fight to prevent states from asking for voter ID. *******MEDIA ADVISORY******* ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER TO DELIVER REMARKS TOMORROW TO NAACP NATIONAL CONVENTION WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder will deliver remarks at the […]

According to James Earl Jones,: the Tea Party is racist. JAMES EARL JONES: I think I have figured out the Tea Party I think I do understand racism because I was taught to be one by my grandmother. My grandmother was part [tribal affiliation] Indian part black, she hated everybody and she taught all of her […]

If you’re a Christian who wants to exercise your 1st Amendment right to engage in the free exercise of religion by holding a Bible study at your house,: you may end up in a jail cell if you live in Phoenix, Arizona. Michael Salman, who’s been squabbling with Phoenix for years over his home-worship services, says […]

Hollywood and the American left love diversity, except when it offends their “progressive” value system. Witness the reaction to actor Brad Pitt’s mother, Jane, who publicly opposed President Obama’s re-election. Mrs. Pitt’s pro-life, anti-gay marriage statement to her local paper last week enflamed the Tolerance Mob. And her mere expression of dissident political views exposed […]

Nothing produces more of a sense of the futility of facts than seeing someone in the mass media repeating some notion that has been refuted innumerable times over the years. On July 9th, on CNN’s program “The Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer, commentator Gloria Borger discussed President Obama’s plan to continue the temporary extension of […]

Last year, Congress agreed to $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts, unless politicians find other things to cut. They didn’t, of course. So now, with so-called sequestration looming in January, panic has set in. Even the new “fiscally responsible” Republicans vote against cutting Energy Department handouts to companies like Solyndra and subsidies to sugar producers. […]

Anyone who wants to study the tricks of propaganda rhetoric has a rich source of examples in the statements of President Barack Obama. On Monday, July 9th, for example, he said that Republicans “believe that prosperity comes from the top down, so that if we spend trillions more on tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, […]

One of the more difficult lessons to teach economics neophytes — and, many times, trained economists — is that economic theory cannot say anything definitive about subjective statements, such as what’s better, good, bad or worse. Let’s try a few examples to make the point. Cabernet sauvignon wine is better than fume blanc. Turkey is […]

Testifying before a Senate committee a few months ago, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lamented that America was “in an information war, and we are losing that war.” This week, she blew a fuse at the “Friends of Syria” meeting in Paris, saying that Russia and China should “pay a price” for not supporting […]

With all of the talk about the “occupied” West Bank, one would assume that Israel is “occupying” the area from the Palestinians, right? A major problem with that concept is that while there are 22 Arab states that surround Israel, the “Palestinians” never controlled the so-called “West Bank.” That being the case, how exactly are […]

The media is now fixated on an apparently new feature dominating the economic landscape: a “fiscal cliff” from which the United States will fall in January 2013. They see the danger arising from the simultaneous implementation of the $2 trillion in automatic spending cuts (spread over 10 years) agreed to in last year’s debt ceiling […]

Why aren’t more people furious about the Libor scandal? That’s a question mostly being asked on the political left these days, and they’re right to ask it. Here are the basics: Barclays is the second-largest bank in Britain and one of the largest in the world. It has admitted to U.S. and British regulators that […]