Category: Column

The public is steadily losing confidence in undergraduate education, given that we hear constantly about how poorly educated are today’s graduates and how few well-paying jobs await them. The cost of college is a national scandal. Collective student loan debt in America is about $1.2 trillion. Campus political correctness is now daily news. How could […]

The following conversation took place at the Ronald Reagan Library, Simi Valley, California, Friday, Feb. 6, 2004: Larry Elder: Let me tell you what an honor this is. This is like meeting royalty. Nancy Reagan: Thank you very much. Thank you. Elder: Tell me what you consider your greatest accomplishment. Reagan: My greatest accomplishment. Well, […]

In his continuing effort to pit races and classes against each other, Democratic presidential candidate and socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) has said that if you are white, “you don’t know what it’s like to be poor.” He should drive some of the roads I’ve driven in West Virginia, among other places. Some of the […]

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is one of a kind. He is the only self-proclaimed socialist in Congress, and he is also the only Democratic candidate in the presidential race to oppose crony programs such as the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Hillary Clinton, a big supporter of the bank, and Sanders clashed quite […]

I never thought I’d say this, certainly about things political, but in my opinion, Rush is wrong – wrong about Donald Trump. He’s not the only one. Other conservative talkers appear to have the same opinion of The Donald. Trump and Cruz have been labeled by Rush, Hannity and others as the two outsiders – […]

Bay Area Rapid Transit Director Joel Keller wants to pass a bill that would make it illegal for individuals to take up more than one seat on the train. Call it the one-seat-per-butt rule. Keller told the San Francisco Chronicle’s Michael Cabanatuan that the measure is not intended to target homeless people; it’s really aimed […]

Brace yourselves, parents: Hillary Clinton’s Fed Ed jackboot squad is from the government and is here to “help.” Clinton wants a cadre of new government educrats to undo the decades-old damage of old government educrats in America’s worst public schools. She pitched her creepy proposal at the Democratic presidential debate in Michigan on Sunday for […]

In this year’s Republican presidential primaries, Sen. Rand Paul got little traction. In 2012, his father failed. That year, the Libertarian Party candidate, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, got just 1 percent of the vote. We libertarians must be doing something wrong. Maybe our anti-government message is too radical, says Jerry Taylor. Maybe we […]

Claude Frederic Bastiat (1801-50) — a French classical liberal theorist, political economist and member of the French National Assembly — wrote an influential essay titled “That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen.” Bastiat argued that when making laws or economic decisions, it is imperative that we examine not only what is seen […]

Episodic evidence suggests the possibility of a Donald Trump implosion during March. In the latest ABC/Wash Post poll, he wins 34 percent of the national vote — 4 points below his RealClearPolitics.com average of the last five polls — while Ted Cruz runs second with 25 percent — six points above his average Rubio runs […]

Donald Trump’s candidacy is scary. Trump isn’t frightening because he’s anything special personally. He’s just a warmed-over mash-up of Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot, a spoiled brat billionaire eccentric with a history of position flipping and bullying foolishness. He has authoritarian tendencies on a personal level, and no awareness of the Constitution or its importance. […]

In his seventh, and final, State of the Union address this January, President Obama, clearly looking to bolster his legacy as the president who vanquished the Great Recession, boldly asserted that “Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction.” Unfortunately for the President, more and more Americans seem to believe (with an […]

President Obama is heading to Cuba in two weeks, eager to unveil more travel and trade concessions to the country’s Communist regime. But is he too eager to befriend Fidel and Raul Castro, no matter the price? Members of Congress fear the president will cave to Cuba’s demand to hand over the U.S. Naval Base […]

Last week Oregon Governor Kate Brown gleefully signed into law a progressive statewide minimum wage increase. It will be phased in over the next six years, starting this July. “I’m proud to sign into law my top priority of the 2016 Legislative session — raising the minimum wage,” Brown said in a statement. She said […]

What a short, strange trip it’s been for Donald Trump’s conservative supporters. Ever since the Goldwaterite takeover of the GOP, the party has tried to convert voters to conservatism. This orientation has sometimes led it to follow a “better to be right and lose” axiom — hence Goldwater’s disastrous defeat in 1964. Now we seem […]

There is something strange about Trump supporters. I call them Trumpsters. Not all, but many. This feeling was confirmed last week while attending the CPAC Conference in D.C. Their stubbornness and refusal to acknowledge “The Donald’s” flip-flopping, his shifting waves of sand and WWF grade school bullying tactics is strange. It is also strange how […]

Random thoughts on the passing scene: The presidential election prospects for the Democrats are so bad this year that only the Republicans can save them — as Republicans have saved them before. Will a Supreme Court without a single Protestant justice rule that an “under-representation” of any group is evidence of discrimination? Here is a […]

Greece is the birthplace of Western civilization. It’s also the birthplace of the kind of crisis that threatens every Western nation neglecting to pay attention to what’s happening here. Walking through the Greek capital on a sunny afternoon, it’s not readily apparent to the casual observer that this country of stunning natural beauty is grappling […]

It is desperation time for the Republican party establishment. Its extremely well financed favorite — Jeb Bush — never got anywhere with the voters in the primaries, and has already been forced out of the contest. This should at least cause some second thoughts — or perhaps first thoughts — by people who keep repeating […]

A Donald Trump supporter told me she likes Ted Cruz but doesn’t believe he is tough enough to handle the powerful forces he’d face in the general election and asked me to convince her otherwise. Here is a summary of what I told her. I think you overestimate the power of those forces — a […]

I cannot imagine any thinking person who does not believe the world is getting worse. The number of slaughtered and the number of refugees from slaughter is immense and growing. Islamic State now controls territories from Afghanistan to West Africa. Libya is in the process of being added to that list. And other sadistic Islamist […]

The Republican race for president last week converged, suddenly and briefly, in Detroit. In the Fox Theatre, one of the nation’s great 1920s movie palaces, the four remaining presidential candidates fought it out in the Fox News debate. Earlier that day, Mitt Romney, who grew up in Detroit and suburban Bloomfield Hills when the Motor […]

The Republican presidential campaign — and that vulgar candidate debate in Detroit — bring us to the root of the thing. The mandrake root, if you will. The Republican coalition is breaking apart. The GOP establishment’s hold on power and treasure is weakening. The Republican insiders are worried and angry, and they’ve seized on Donald […]

This one may offend some, so for that, I apologize – although not for the content. Most understand what is meant by an a-la-carte Christian. I would venture to say that many Christians world-wide are of the a-la-carte variety. For those unfamiliar with the term, an a-la-carte Christian is one who doesn’t adhere entirely to […]

“Give ’em the old razzle dazzle Razzle Dazzle ’em Give ’em an act with lots of flash in it And the reaction will be passionate Give ’em the old hocus pocus Bead and feather ’em How can they see with sequins in their eyes?” (“Chicago: The Musical”) Looking for someone — anyone — to blame […]

This special episode of The Glazov Gang was joined by Dr. Peter Hammond, the founder of Frontline Fellowship. Dr. Hammond came on the show to discuss Islam’s Hatred of Dogs and Cruelty to Animals, examining the Islamic theological foundations that inspire a hatred of and sadism toward animals.   Don’t miss it! A special Glazov […]

Hillary Clinton is now setting a campaign theme that should provide a golden opportunity for Republicans, if Republicans play their cards right. “We don’t need to make America great. America has never stopped being great,” says Clinton. But this doesn’t reflect how most Americans now feel. The percentage saying they are satisfied with how things […]

Some weeks are eventful, others boring. But only a few in the political world are like the one that just ended – full of stupid. It started with Donald Trump taking a break – not from the campaign trail but from condemning David Duke and Ku Klux Klan. He’d done it plenty of times in […]