Category: Column

The political left has been trying to run other people’s lives for centuries. So we should not be surprised to see the Obama administration now trying to force neighborhoods across America to have the mix of people the government wants them to have. There are not enough poor people living in middle class neighborhoods to […]

President Obama’s reckless neglect of America’s national security is a rapidly growing malignancy on this nation, and there are no signs it will get better. Some might attribute his arrogantly inaccurate assessment of the Islamic State group as “a JV team” or his delusional assertion, hours before the terrorist massacres in Paris, that the Islamic […]

The nearly universal change from wishing fellow Americans “Merry Christmas” to wishing them “Happy Holidays” is a very significant development in American life. Proponents of “Happy Holidays” argue that it’s no big deal at all, and that proponents of “Merry Christmas” are making a mountain out of a molehill, especially when proponents say that the […]

Some observations on the 2016 presidential race as we head into the dark period, i.e., the two weeks of Christmas and New Year’s holidays in which no one has ever dared, at least in the past, to conduct any polls. Those of us who pick over poll results will have to fly blind until the […]

With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan. (With Donald Trump performing as Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, with his little list of people who never will be missed.) As next year it must happen that some losers must emerge — I’ve got a little list. I’ve got a little list. Of Republican contenders most deserving of […]

Since nearly everyone else seems to be employing “Star Wars” metaphors these days, permit me to use some of my own. To conservatives, the Republican congressional majority was supposed to be the good side of “The Force,” as opposed to what they regard as the Democratic “dark side.” And yet, unlike the film, “dark side” […]

Two of the oldest and most venerated public policy institutes in Washington, D.C., the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution, have produced a new joint report dealing with the issue of fighting poverty in America. The report, “Opportunity, Responsibility, and Security: A Consensus Plan for Reducing Poverty and Restoring the American Dream,” is noteworthy […]

God bless them, Atheistsare at it again. It is Christmas time, the season of good cheerwhere we celebrateJesus’ birth, but rather thandoing that,a group called American Atheists invite us by way of their new billboard campaign to “Go ahead and skip church! Just be good for goodness’ sake.” As if that’s even possible. Sure, anyone, […]

All around the political blogosphere you can find folks smacking their lips over the prospect of a “brokered” Republican national convention. They look forward to the spectacle of delegates assembling in Cleveland with no candidate having a majority, of multiple ballots with governors, floor demonstrations after nominating speeches, congressmen running as favorite sons and delegates […]

The republican “Democracy Project” was on full display in Tuesday night’s debate. The establishment candidates from Bush to Kasich and Christie all espoused virtually identical views on the Middle East and particularly the handling of Bashir al-Assad in Syria. But now you count newly crowned establishment wunderkind, Marco Rubio as having the same policy preference. It […]

After the latest Republican presidential debate, The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin argued that Ted Cruz had undone himself “courting” the “Trumpkin base,” sinking “further into the far-right brew of isolationism and xenophobia.” And to prove this contention, Rubin grabbed hold of two words Cruz used, “America” and “first,” to claim that the senator from Texas […]

On May 1, 2003 on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln then President George W. Bush, after becoming the first U.S. president to land on an aircraft carrier in a fixed wing aircraft (in a dashing olive drab flight suit), declared underneath an enormous “Mission Accomplished” banner that “major combat operations” in Iraq had been […]

“We have people across this country who are scared to death,” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie declared loudly at this week’s Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas. Virtually the entire debate was based upon this premise. Which is understandable. Since the bloody Islamist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, terrorism has shot up as the […]

Political analysis of the Las Vegas debate immigration dust-up between Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio is missing a key ingredient: the money factor. You can read the lips of the candidates till the cows come home. But you’ll get to the truth much faster when you learn where pro-amnesty power brokers have placed their […]

In December 2011, the candidate who led in the Iowa polls was not Rick Santorum (who ultimately squeaked out a victory there), nor Michelle Bachmann (who had driven Gov. Tim Pawlenty from the race by winning the Iowa straw poll earlier in the year), nor Mitt Romney. No, the leader was Ron Paul, with 23 […]

I’ve long said that the differences between so-called establishment Republicans and grassroots conservatives are about more than tactics in budgetary battles with President Obama and congressional Democrats. The current Cruz-Rubio flap validates my position. Establishment Republicans have been enormously frustrated with the grassroots for wanting to call Obama’s bluff in these budget battles to the […]

Americans today talk of how technology and tech firms are changing the world. That’s true, but it’s nothing new. One hundred-twelve years ago, on Dec. 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright changed the world by accomplishing the miracle of flight. It’s hard for us to appreciate how radical that concept was at the time. Just […]

After breakfast you’re about to put the kids on the bus when you hear about a note that threatens terrorism at your children’s school. There isn’t much time to ponder, just like there wasn’t much time for reflection early Tuesday when the threats to school systems in New York City and Los Angeles came in. […]

Why does Donald Trump repeat talking points that he knows are untrue? During Tuesday night’s debate, The Donald asserted that before 9/11, terrorists put their “friends, family, girlfriends” into planes, and “they were sent back — for the most part to Saudi Arabia. They knew what was going on. They went home, and they wanted […]

The following story is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. I drove past the outdoor parking-lot-turned-Christmas-tree-store several times before I decided to buy my Christmas tree from there. It was fairly close to my home in the Westside of Los Angeles, and business seemed brisk. Must be a nice place. Soon […]

For quite some time others and I have been saying that the flood of refugees into Europe and America was for a variety of reasons, but least among them is the war raging in Syria and Iraq. Yet this is the sole reason given by the left both here and abroad. These poor Muslim refugees […]

Each of the Republican presidential candidates brings something good to the race for the GOP nomination and some things not so good. In the fifth and final GOP debate of the year, the candidates on the main stage, and even a few on the “undercard,” presented ideas and positions that many Republican voters would consider […]

The Islamic State continues to perpetrate its barbaric terror right before our eyes, referencing Islamic texts and teachings as it commits its evil acts. The Obama administration and the U.S. media, meanwhile, continue their leftist mantra after each Islamic terror attack: “This is not Islam.” In response to this mass denial in our government and […]

Gaping holes in the K1 fiance visa interview process. Reckless bans on scrutinizing visa applicants’ social media posts. Ignored alarms over marriage fraud. New details keep seeping out about all the “red flags” Obama’s immigration officials missed in the case of the San Bernardino jihadists. Color me unshocked. The American public and Capitol Hill politicians […]

I wish I were as confident as many politicians and news commentators. They know what America should do about ISIS and terrorism. Donald Trump, who says he can feel terrorism “like I feel a good location … I have an instinct for this kind of thing,” says he would “bomb the s—” out of ISIS strongholds, ban […]

Money doesn’t matter … much. In this year’s Republican nominating race, the standing of the candidates is in inverse relationship to the amount of money they have spent. Earlier this month, the front-runner, Donald Trump, had spent about $220,000 on television advertising. His runner-up, Ted Cruz, had invested just shy of $1 million. In third […]

While Americans fret over Donald Trump’s plans to ban Muslim immigration to the United States temporarily thanks to the government’s inability to keep us safe, the government continues to prove its inability to keep us safe. This week, we found out that President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security prohibited agents from screening foreign citizens applying […]

PARIS — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump got into an interesting war of words on Twitter last week with a Saudi prince. “Dopey Prince (Al-Waleed bin Talal) wants to control our U.S. politicians with daddy’s money. Can’t do it when I get elected,” Trump tweeted. Trump’s social-media salvo was truly provocative, and not because he […]

In the wake of the San Bernardino attack, liberals are in a total panic over guns. The New York Times broke a 95-year precedent to editorialize about gun control on its front page. But the Times seems restrained compared with the full-on meltdown at the New York Daily News, which has taken to calling the […]