Category: Column

In 2008, Barack Obama’s great victories in February primaries — Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Virginia and Wisconsin — gave him an unstoppable delegate lead for the Democratic nomination. In 2012, Mitt Romney’s wins in Florida (technically on Jan. 31) and Michigan sent him on his way to the Republican nomination. This year, with the foreshortened schedule, […]

Heed the cry of an entitled young American hipster: Woe is me, me, me, me, me! Talia Jane, a 25-year-old melodramatic millennial, made social media waves last week with her “open letter” to the CEO of crowd-sourced review website Yelp. The indigent English major in smart glasses lamented her deplorable plight toiling in the company’s […]

According to Betfair.com, Jennifer Lawrence probably won’t win best actress at the Oscars Sunday. I’m rooting for her, though — not because of her acting, but because the movie she stars in, “Joy,” celebrates the difficulty of entrepreneurship. Lawrence’s character is based on real-life entrepreneur Joy Mangano, who invented the self-wringing Miracle Mop and other […]

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), satirist, essayist and political pamphleteer, is a favorite of mine. He wrote “Gulliver’s Travels.” One of Gulliver’s voyages was to Laputa, where he visited the grand academy of Lagado, whose scientists have visions not unlike today’s politicians who exploit mankind’s gullibility. Before getting around to our politicians, how about a quick synopsis […]

Now that Chris Christie has crashed, John Kasich has been ghettoized, Scott Walker self-destructed, and nobody bought the idea of Jeb Bush, all the king’s horses and all the king’s men — as well as Fox News — are trying to shove Marco Rubio down the throats of the Republican electorate. But they’ll never make […]

Well, that didn’t take very long, did it. Just days after Justice Scalia’s untimely death and an even shorter period of time since Republican leadership declared its intention not to consent to an Obama nominee; moderates within the Republican Party are going wobbly. I guess that is not entirely accurate. The ones going wobbly were […]

As things stand, Donald Trump is the presumptive GOP nominee. That’s awful news, and depressing to contemplate. But terrible possibilities don’t become less terrible if we refuse to contemplate them. Rather, they become more likely. The GOP’s collective desire to look away has been a problem for months. Nearly everyone, including yours truly, believed that […]

PARIS — A stunning photo has emerged from this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It shows a conference hall full of attendees with View-Master-style virtual reality contraptions strapped onto their faces, computers teetering on laps, and a beaming Mark Zuckerberg walking past them all. At first glance, the photograph is reminiscent of one of […]

This special edition of The Glazov Gang was joined by Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center who writes the blog The Point at Frontpagemag.com. Daniel discussed Reports Showing Obama’s Failed War Against ISIS Deleted, exposing yet another cover-up of a cover-up. Don’t miss it! And make sure to watch the special Glazov […]

Amid all the media analyses of the prospects of each of the candidates in both political parties, there is remarkably little discussion of the validity — or lack of validity — of the arguments these candidates are using. It is as if what matters this election year is the fate of a relative handful of […]

I don’t believe I’ve ever presumed to offer unsolicited advice on campaign strategy to a presidential candidate, especially in a public forum, but I’ve decided to make an exception today. I am an unabashed Ted Cruz supporter and believe he is a man of character, integrity and strong principles who is as close to the […]

During a CNN town hall last week, Donald Trump offered up that he probably works too hard and if he had worked “a little bit less,” he “probably wouldn’t have had two marriages that didn’t work out.” Moderator Anderson Cooper then thanked Trump for participating in the event, and the last town hall before South […]

Since religious language has again infected this unpredictable and turbulent political season, here is a verse that could describe the followers of Donald Trump. It is found in Paul’s second letter to his protege Timothy (or as Trump might call it, Two Timothy): “For the time will come when people will not put up with […]

Yesterday I was in the car with my youngest son, the budding political pundit. We were discussing the fallout of the latest Republican primary in South Carolina. Surprisingly, he is a Ted Cruz guy also. I don’t know where he got that from. He like me doesn’t understand the results in South Carolina with Trump […]

Operating under the mistaken belief that a modest dose of inflation is either a prerequisite for, or a by-product of, economic growth, the nation’s top economists have been assuring us for quite some time that inflation will stay very low until the currently mediocre economy finally catches fire. As a result, they believe that the […]

The Obama administration will tell any lie and break any law to prevent the president’s signature health program from collapsing. Insurance companies, such as UnitedHealthcare and Aetna, are losing billions trying to sell Obamacare plans, and the risk is they’ll drop out at the end of 2016. No insurance companies means no Obamacare. In 2014, […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is doing the nation a service by announcing he will work to block President Obama’s appointment to replace Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia and delay until after the election. The inevitable resulting clash between the Senate and the White House, made sharper in the midst of an election, is […]

As the dire threat of ISIS to the West continues to escalate, with recent reports now indicating that 5 thousand ISIS jihadists are at large in the EU, we continue to witness mass denial within the West’s leadership, media and culture about the Islamic nature of the Islamic State. Nonetheless, the Islamic nature of the […]

When President Bill Clinton’s affair with intern Monica Lewinsky was exposed, it was a new low for the office of president. It wasn’t the first affair by a president (or Clinton), not by a long shot. But the fact it was with an intern and he committed perjury behind it demeaned the office in a […]

I view Apple with almost as much loathing as I save for overzealous federal prosecutors. My last Apple phone was a lemon. The “Genius Bar” isn’t. When I hear Apple extol its vaunted regard for privacy, I think of all the invasive personal questions my iPhone used to ask before I could download a free […]

The upcoming presidential election is being hailed as the most important in our lifetimes – possibly in the history of this nation.   We always hear this type of thing every election cycle. This time however, the claim is absolute due to the recent passing of Justice Scalia and the subsequent tipping point in the […]

The provocative statements made on social media about Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death is a sign of the times. Shortly after news of the conservative judge’s death, the Twitter “universe” lit up with over-the-top comments about this man, Scalia, who loyally served on the Supreme Court since his appointment by Ronald Reagan many years […]

With the likelihood that the Supreme Court vacancy will not be filled this year, voters’ minds are going to turn to questions of electability, writes my Washington Examiner colleague David Drucker. The November elections will arguably determine which side will control all three branches of the federal government, and many of America’s strongly partisan voters […]

In 2008, even before the dark ages of Obama, mankind was so concerned about the catastrophic effects of human-caused climate change that governments and scientific experts got together and launched a global network of storage facilities to house plants, sprouts and seeds of every possible kind on the planet. These “seed banks” were placed in […]

A recent bill in Pakistan sought to ban child marriage, but it miserably failed — after a prominent religious body declared the legislation “un-Islamic.” The UN also recently voiced alarm at the growing number of forced child marriages in Iran. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child denounced laws permitting sexual intercourse with […]

We get it already. The Iraq war was a mistake. Indeed, on this point pretty much everyone agrees. Jeb Bush, the brother of the president who launched the war, has said so. So has Hillary Clinton, the only presidential candidate in either party to have actually voted to invade Iraq (though she refused to admit […]

Republicans need to ask themselves a couple of questions before they battle over Barack Obama’s eventual nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. Is there any good reason to allow this president to change the ideological composition the Supreme Court radically? What is the political downside of denying him? For one thing, […]

In Springfield, Ill., last week, President Obama commemorated the ninth anniversary of his bid for the White House. He admitted that one of his “few regrets” was his inability “to reduce the polarization and the meanness in our politics.” To conservative ears, Obama’s comments fell somewhere between risible and infuriating. Obama has always done his […]