Category: Column

Another day and another suicide bombing, this time in Turkey. It seems we haven’t time to clean up after one terrorist attack before the next one. In fact, CNN reports that since the two years from its inception, the Islamic State “has conducted or inspired at least 90 terrorist attacks in 21 countries (other than […]

Unindicted co-conspirator: Technically, the term, made familiar in the Watergate scandals, does not apply to Hillary Clinton, since no one has been or apparently will be indicted in the emails case. But if you read the bulk of FBI Director James Comey’s statement, it’s plain that Hillary Clinton and her top aides conspired to do […]

“FBI Director James Comey’s famously independent streak is reportedly ruffling feathers at the White House on issues ranging from cybersecurity to rising crime rates — and the potentially explosive investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server. The Republican, praised for standing up to the Bush administration over a warrantless wiretapping program in 2004, may be proving […]

Believe it or not, you can simultaneously believe a number of things about the Iraq war and its aftermath. You can believe Saddam Hussein wasn’t merely a “bad guy,” but that he harbored terrorists and offered them safe haven and material support. You can believe that the Bush administration genuinely believed Saddam possessed weapons of […]

It was clear from FBI Director James Comey’s congressional testimony Thursday that he thinks Hillary Clinton lied to the American people, even if he was reluctant to say it in so many words. But then he didn’t need to. We’ve known for over a year that Clinton has been lying about her server. She lied […]

It’s no mere academic question: Do we believe in the rule of law anymore? Are we a nation of laws or of men? The cherished idea of the rule of law in our system is about everyone’s being subject to the law in equal measure. The law, including criminal law, applies even to our political […]

FBI Director James Comey testified before Congress Thursday, July 7, that Hillary Clinton lied when she said that she neither sent nor received classified material. And that she lied when she said that nothing was marked classified on the emails on her server. And that she lied when she said her server was not hacked. […]

The Fourth of July is a time to celebrate America’s highest ideals, including our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It’s an exuberant event filled with optimism about how a free and self-governing nation can create a better world. But this year’s celebration was immediately followed by the killing of a black […]

Most have heard the saying regarding terrorism. We have to be right 100% of the time, yet the terrorists need only be right once. It means that we on the receiving end of terrorism must be 100% effective in stopping all attacks before they happen. However, the terrorists may only have to slip through our […]

The Islamic State, you have to acknowledge, is on quite a roll. Over the July 4 weekend, the FBI arrested a northern Virginia neighbor of mine, Mohamed Bailor Jalloh. He was apparently plotting a Fort Hood style attack and told an FBI informant: “I just want to live a good Muslim life and die as […]

There was more of the same old, same old California news recently. Some 62 percent of state roads have been rated poor or mediocre. There were more predications of huge cost overruns and yearly losses on high-speed rail — before the first mile of track has been laid. One-third of Bay Area residents were polled […]

Where to start with actor Jesse Williams’ widely praised rant on police brutality and white racism delivered at this year’s Black Entertainment Television awards show? To his enthusiastic audience, Williams reeled off lie after lie, all in the name of black “resistance” over the “oppressor” — meaning anyone he believes benefits from “this invention called […]

FBI Director James Comey has given Hillary Clinton something better than a get out of jail free card. He’s protected her from indictment by recommending to the Department of Justice that she not be prosecuted for her and her staff’s “extremely careless” handling of emails on private servers that included documents classified as “top secret,” […]

Making a profit by selling goods and services that consumers want to buy at given prices is the first goal of any business. If consumers aren’t interested and the business doesn’t adapt, it will go under. That’s unless you are the U.S. Postal Service. The Postal Service is a major business enterprise operated by the […]

“Affirmative action” will continue to be the routine course of business of college and university admissions for the foreseeable future. That’s the bottom line from the Supreme Court’s June decision in Fisher v. University of Texas. By a 4-3 vote, the Court essentially approved the University of Texas’ “holistic” admissions as not violating the civil […]

Can you believe it? It’s been three years since Aaron & Melissa Klein landed in hot water over the lesbian wedding cake incident. As you may recall, and how could anyone not, the Kleins, owners of Sweet Cakes bakery in Gresham Oregon, were charged with discriminating against a lesbian couple who wished for them to […]

“The arc of the moral universe is long,” shouted the freshly unindicted Hillary Clinton at a Democratic rally in North Carolina, with President Barack Obama at her side and the FBI behind her in her dust, “but it bends toward justice.” She nodded in triumphant agreement with herself, her head moving up and down, chin […]

There is a classic Latin epigram about double standards that resounds in the aftermath of the FBI’s surrender this week to the corruptocracy: “Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi.” Translation: “What is permissible for Jove is not permissible for an ox.” Jove is the Roman god Jupiter, untouchable ruler of the skies, wielder of the […]

It took me years to figure out that markets work better than government. I started out as a typical Ralph Nader-influenced consumer reporter, convinced that companies constantly rip us off. To me and most of my fellow left-leaning reporters, the answer was always: more regulation. Gradually, I figured out that regulation causes many more problems […]

A recent ruling by the U.S. Department of Commerce dramatically increased tariffs on some Chinese steel products, such as cold-rolled steel, which is used to make appliances, cars and electric motors. Tariffs were raised by 500 percent on some other Chinese steel products. President Barack Obama and the major 2016 presidential aspirants, particularly Donald Trump, […]

On Monday America celebrated the 240th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, which condemned King George III for “(obstructing) the Administration of Justice.” On Tuesday the American left celebrated as the federal government obstructed the administration of justice on behalf of one of its ruling families, the Clintons. Last week the attorney […]

Load up on popcorn: The Republican ticket may be poised to go to 11. According to numerous reports, Donald Trump is considering Newt Gingrich as his running mate. And as traffic-baiters like to say on the Internet: You won’t believe what happens next! But first I should come clean. I like Gingrich. My wife worked […]

FBI Director James Comey was right to assert that “no reasonable prosecutor” would press criminal charges against Hillary Clinton. No reasonable prosecutor, former federal prosecutor William Otis, now a Georgetown University law professor, told me, wants to try a criminal case with the potential to tilt a national election. Comey’s remarks were damning. He noted […]

CNN has launched a new television series titled “Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies.” The program, hosted and produced by former U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, is advertised as “revealing the unbelievable true stories of America’s covert operations in the United States and around the world.” In case you think that the CIA […]

On Friday, the Democratic Party unveiled its 2016 national platform, promising to put “a middle-class life within the reach of more Americans.” Unfortunately, the party’s proposals will do the opposite. They will slow economic growth, prevent millions of people from advancing up the economic ladder and hold back their children, too. Democrats claim America’s gravest […]

There was a time when the Fourth of July meant something more than a three-day weekend. Speeches, writings and commemorative ceremonies reminded us of the origins and greatness of America. No matter where in the world our ancestors came from, we today are almost invariably better off because they came to America. Independence Day signified […]

It was May of 1775 and the second Continental Congress met for the first time. Growing weary of King George III’s utter lack of attention towards the petition to redress grievances sent by the first Continental Congress, the colonists decided to act. In June of that year the Congress developed their own currency separate of […]

The Supreme Court’s decision, striking down the Texas abortion law signed by Governor Rick Perry in 2013, is but the latest example of the lost, confused, sick nation we have become. In the words of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, “A country I do not recognize.” The Court, in an opinion written by Justice Stephen […]

President Obama famously said of ISIS, “The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think it is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.” His flippant attitude toward the terrorist group that formed and grew into a global threat on his watch is but one […]