Category: Column

They’re both iconic figures in American culture who are known by their first names. California’s former governor is Arnold. The GOP presidential front-runner is The Donald. We Californians who lived through Arnold’s two terms in the governor’s office have watched The Donald’s presidential campaign unfold with a sense of deja vu. Donald Trump starred in […]

Is it just me, or do most of the male Trump supporters who call into Talk Radio sound like characters from one of the Godfather movies? It’s like: “Next Caller… Okay – you’re on.” “Yo – this is Vinny and I’m a Trump supportah. And if you don’t support Trump, me and the boys will […]

Perhaps the most important results of the March 22 Republican primary in Arizona and caucus in Utah were numbers that didn’t appear on your television screen, no matter how late you stayed up for the poll closing times. Those were the numbers of votes cast for Marco Rubio in Arizona — 70,587 of them at […]

What do you call one who is unable to feed, cloth or house him or herself without a benefactor? Well, I would call them children.   We bring children into this world, which unlike some in the animal kingdom, can literally do nothing for themselves. We as parents happily (hopefully) provide for all their needs and […]

“Ronald Reagan is dead, and he’s not coming back.” “I wish more conservatives could come to grips with this relatively simple fact. We are now in something like the fifth round of the pin-the-tail-on-the-next-Reagan game and it’s getting old. Catering to the conservative base, the GOP presidential candidates keep trying to put on the Reagan […]

For now, we live in a nation with a well-assimilated, diverse and patriotic Muslim population, but the situation could always change. Like Europe, we could embrace immigrants from places teeming with radicalism. We could disincentivize assimilation. We could dismiss anyone who has legitimate concerns about these threats as bigots. After every terrorist attack, much of […]

Is there any way for Ted Cruz or John Kasich to wrest the Republican nomination from Donald Trump? With every tick of the clock, it looks less likely. The chances differ for the two candidates. Kasich needs a miracle. Cruz may possibly succeed with a new emphasis. Kasich’s claim boils down to this: He’s a […]

Nominating Donald Trump will wreck the Republican Party as we know it. Not nominating Trump will wreck the Republican Party as we know it. The sooner everyone recognizes this fact, the better. Denial has been Trump’s greatest ally. Republicans and commentators didn’t believe he would run. They didn’t believe he could be an attractive candidate […]

It is time to address the canard that endorsements for Sen. Ted Cruz from establishment Republicans damage his credibility as an outsider. It is opportunistic and lazy thinking. As the Republican presidential race has narrowed, it is inevitable that the only two viable contenders remaining, Cruz and Donald Trump, will be receiving more endorsements. This […]

In a real free-market capitalist system, one has the opportunity to succeed beyond his or her wildest dreams, but also to fail miserably. And those successes and failures should be on the person or persons willing to take the risk. The decision should be ours and ours alone and thus the consequence of our decisions […]

The primaries and caucuses to select the Republican presidential nominee are officially scheduled to end on June 7. That’s a big day when five states vote — California, New Jersey, South Dakota, Montana and New Mexico. But it’s quite possible that no candidate will have amassed enough pledged delegates to insure a majority at the […]

This second part of our special 2-part series of The Glazov Gang was joined by Dr. Peter Hammond, the founder of Frontline Fellowship. Dr. Hammond continued to examine Islam’s Hatred of Dogs,unveiling the key traits of dogs — and why Islam can’t tolerate them.  [See Part I HERE] Don’t miss it! And make sure to […]

University students across the country — at Amherst, Georgetown, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, UC Berkeley and dozens of other campuses — are caught up in yet another new fad. This time, the latest college craze is a frenzied attempt to rename campus buildings and streets. Apparently some of those names from the past do not fit […]

In a recent interview with Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, CNN’s Jake Tapper said, “I would just ask, as a fellow American, if you could consider whether or not dialing down the temperature — trying to bring down the temperature — might be a healthier thing both for your campaign and for the nation at […]

At the beginning of his presidency, Barack Obama traveled to Cairo, Europe and the United Nations to “apologize” for past American actions and attitudes, which he claimed helped create divisions between countries. At a town hall meeting before a mix of French and German citizens in Strasbourg, France on April 3, 2009, the president said […]

American presidential politics are certainly vulgar and loud, but what happened in Brussels reminds us that terrorism is politics too. Terrorism is the politics of bodies and blood and the screams of the innocent asking why. The West has been taught this again and again, and Tuesday the lesson was offered by Islamic State in […]

What do Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., President Barack Obama and all the Republican presidential candidates have in common? They all want to fundamentally reform the corporate income tax. President Obama proposed cutting the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent. Sen. Schumer wants a major reduction to taxation of corporate income abroad. Sen. […]

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke to a small room — 135 attendees, not counting journalists — at Stanford University on Wednesday about the need for the United States’ “nimble and far-reaching” response to the Islamic State group, “an adversary that is constantly adapting and operating across multiple theaters.” Candidate Clinton was nimble and […]

The Federal Reserve’s years-long campaign to sheepishly back away from its own policy forecasts continued in earnest last week when it officially reduced the four expected 2016 quarter point hikes, suggested back in December, to just two. Given the deteriorating economic outlook, I believe there can be little doubt that the Fed will soon complete […]

While homicidal, suicidal and genocidal jihadists are busy plotting the next soft-target terror attacks on the West, docile Westerners are busy shedding cartoon tears and doodling broken hearts on social media. European artists rushed to fill Twitter and Instagram with images of Belgian comic book character Tintin weeping after vengeful Muslim terrorists left the Brussels […]

Hooray for Donald Trump! I can ice skate in Central Park because Trump got the skating rink fixed after New York City couldn’t. Couldn’t, you ask? Really? How is that possible? New York City government couldn’t fix an ice rink? Sad, but true. Despite six years of effort and fiddling with 13 million taxpayer dollars, […]

Love him or hate him — and mostly they love him — Donald Trump’s candidacy will have increased Republican primary turnout by 14 million votes over the 2012 levels. With a bit more than half the primaries completed, 19.4 million people have voted thus far in GOP primaries, slightly more than the total of 19.3 […]

What do you get when you ignore a hotbed of jihadism located just a few miles from the base of European government? Tragedy. Belgian authorities have labeled as terrorism a series of attacks Tuesday morning in Brussels that killed more than 30 people and injured dozens of others. Not long after two explosions ripped through […]

In 1959, Fidel Castro and his communist henchmen put a bullet through the head of freedom. Proclaiming the era of equality, they threw dissidents in jail or shot them, cracked down on free speech, closed their markets and seized private property. Thousands of Cubans fled to the liberty of the United States. Over the decades, […]

If you have a retirement fund or pension, or you’re a taxpayer, get ready to have your pockets picked. The Obama administration wants Congress to enact a bankruptcy plan for Puerto Rico, forcing holders of Puerto Rican debt (including New York City pension funds) to settle for less than they’re owed. Puerto Rico is over […]

One of the major platform items of the Ted Cruz campaign is rolling back federal government regulations.   In case you think Cruz is, as some (Trump) would describe him, all talk, no action – early on in Ted’s career at the Federal Trade Commission, Cruz “proposed an ambitious agenda that featured efforts to roll […]

Let’s look at the political angst over trade deficits. A trade deficit is when people in one country buy more from another country than the other country’s people buy from them. There cannot be a trade deficit in a true economic sense. Let’s examine this. I buy more from my grocer than he buys from […]

This short essay is in response to a friend who asked me to explain how Donald Trump is unacceptable to “movement conservatives.” Let’s first acknowledge that many Trump supporters don’t even claim to be conservative — though others do — and Trump himself is rather dismissive on the point, so they may consider this column […]