Category: Column

Donald Trump is like a contagion who infects everyone around him. Once you’ve kissed, you can never wipe his saliva off your face. Consider the venerable (in its own view) NBC. This year, the network fired Trump, only to find it is Trump Lite. On June 16, when Trump was announcing his candidacy for the […]

For practically the whole of the past century, President Woodrow Wilson has consistently ranked in the top ten of greatest U.S.presidents. One the fathers of modern-day progressivism, Wilsonhelped usher in the new era of anti-constitutional big government. All the collectivist/socialist things the left loves were embodied inWilson. Yet his legacy, despite our insistence, has weathered […]

Three days after the Islamic State terrorist attacks in Paris, Americans were primed to hear their president express heartfelt anger, which he did in his press conference in Antalya, Turkey, at the end of the G-20 summit. And they did hear him describe ISIS as “this barbaric terrorist organization” and acknowledge that the “terrible events […]

As another Islamic terrorist attack occurred in Mali’s capital of Bamako, where Muslim gunmen attacked a luxury hotel full of foreigners, killing innocents and taking 170 people hostage (see update), reports confirm that the terrorists demanded that hostages recite the Shahada (the Muslim declaration of faith) and that those who were able to do so […]

Deray McKesson, the professional agitator whose racial rabble-rousing began at tax-subsidized Teach for America, proudly unveiled his new enterprise on the Internet Thursday: A website chronicling “THE DEMANDS” of his radical brothers and sisters on college campuses across Northern America. “We recently launched http://thedemands.org which compiles the college demands from across the country,” he tweeted. “Check […]

In the wake of the ISIS attacks, Donald Trump has moved to a clear lead over Ben Carson and the rest of the GOP field. Carson’s laidback style and his reluctance to use force against terrorism — he said that he would not have sent troops to Afghanistan after 9/11 — is costing him support […]

“You’re all suckers.” That has to be what Barack Obama is thinking as the country falls for his head-fake. Let’s recap. George W. Bush’s surge reduced the Islamic State’s precursor, al-Qaida in Iraq, to a paltry 700 members, according to CIA Director John Brennan. Its membership has grown by something close to 4,000 percent. As […]

Throughout the last third of George W. Bush’s presidency, opinion leaders were obsessed with the question of mistakes. Among most members of the press and among Democratic officeholders (even, or perhaps especially, those who voted to approve the Iraq War), the appetite was strong to hold President Bush in a half nelson until he admitted […]

Unbeknownst to many in our culture, including even some Christians, the God of the Old Testament is the God of the New Testament. God, the Bible assures us, is unchanging. Our secular culture mischaracterizes Jesus as a hyper-tolerant, nondiscriminatory liberal who is indifferent to sin and passes judgment on no one. But Jesus is not […]

According to the New York Times,   http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/us/politics/ben-carson-is-struggling-to-grasp-foreign-policy-advisers-say.html the paper of record don’t cha know, Dr. Ben Carson is utterly clueless, because he said the Chinese were in Syria. What a maroon! (hat tip Bugs Bunny)   Now the first thing I noticed about the New York Times piece is their outright refusal to call Ben Carson doctor. […]

Two items in the news this week highlighted a reality that politicians hate to admit. While they pretend to lead the nation, they are not in charge. The first event, of course, was the attack on Paris. The horror and shock has dominated the public dialogue from the moment it took place. It changed everything, […]

President Barack Obama wants the United States to take in 10,000 Syrian refugees next year — but in the wake of last week’s Paris attacks and reports that one of the terrorists may have had a valid Syrian passport with a stamp from Greece, more than half the governors in this country, a mostly Republican […]

Sometimes a candidate must fit his talents and image to suit the needs of the day. At other times, the dominant issue rises to demand just the skill set he already has. Who knows what the future holds, but America, the West and the GOP need Donald Trump’s leadership right now. The Paris bombings beg […]

Earlier this month, premier Fox newsman Bill O’Reilly became unhinged on live television. A red-faced O’Reilly loudly and repeatedly called his invited guest, Washington Post columnist and fellow conservative Fox News journalist George Will, a “hack” and accused him of lying. It was a surreal moment, with stunned viewers no doubt muttering to themselves, “Is […]

Several days ago, Paris was struck again by Islamic terrorism. Innocents enjoying a night on the town were brutally gunned down or blown apart by a malicious blood thirsty cult. They kill for sport. As I write this, the death toll exceeds 130 and many more severely injured. But whomever it was, one fact is […]

In the wake of the Paris attacks, let’s examine the rise of ISIS. During the last Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton gave this unchallenged “explanation” of why we left Iraq — without a stay-behind force. She said, “I think that what happened when we abided by the agreement that George W. Bush made with the Iraqis […]

There’s no choosing between guns and butter in Washington. With virtually no limit on what the federal government can spend other people’s money on, policymakers have been loading up on both for decades, and they aren’t about to let limits that they themselves created get in the way. The pesky budget caps that were accidentally […]

The heinous ISIS attack in Paris is a game changer in Europe. In addition to the horrific amount of individual casualties, the attack has also threatened severe damage to the long term survivability of the European Union as a political entity. Based on the unpopularity and unfeasibility of immigration controls under the EU’s Schengen Plan, the events […]

College campuses are again in turmoil. According to The New York Times, “Racist, sexist and anti-Semitic incidents on and near college campuses from Dartmouth to Wisconsin to Stanford this fall have provoked worries by education and civil rights leaders that such acts are on the increase.” That wasn’t a story in yesterday’s newspaper. That was […]

Well, my man Ted Cruz, who has now vaulted past Marco Rubio into third place in the latest Fox News poll, has echoed the thoughts of many of us right thinking Americans. He said in response to Obama’s continued want to bring jihadists, I mean refugees, to the U.S.: “I have to say particularly in […]

Back in May, with ISIS ascendant, the Obama Pentagon ordered U.S. military bases here at home to raise their force protection condition status (FPCON) to “Bravo” amid a “general increase in the threat environment.” FPCON is the military’s security posture to protect troops, their families, civilian employees, information, equipment and facilities against terrorist threats. FPCON […]

After a terrorist attack, it’s natural to ask: What can politicians do to keep us safe? One thing they could do is actually focus on keeping us safe rather than devoting so much time, energy and hot air to the many things government does instead of protecting lives and property. My state’s politicians are particularly bad. […]

The 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress report, also known as The Nation’s Report Card, shows that U.S. educational achievement, to put it nicely, leaves much to be desired. When it comes to reading and math skills, just 34 percent and 33 percent, respectively, of U.S. eighth-grade students tested proficient or above — that is, […]

The Paris attacks could have the effect of empowering the Bernie Sanders campaign and confronting Hillary Clinton with an unsolvable dilemma. The vicious attacks will trigger demands by reasonable Americans for an increased commitment to defeating ISIS. Many, like me, will call for a Third Gulf War to battle for civilization. But the left wing […]

If you stand out on Michigan Avenue in the evening — on that Magnificent Mile we also call Boul Mich — you’ll hear many languages spoken on our most international of streets: Italian and German, Russian and Turkish, Chinese, Arabic and many other tongues, including that most beautiful of all: French. But the other night, […]

I’m getting tired of living in a guerrilla terrorist war zone and having friends ask me if I’m all right. If you think that I’m exaggerating in describing Paris as such, consider the 129 civilians killed (at last count) and 352 injured here in coordinated Islamic State-inspired terrorist attacks — mass shootings, suicide bombings and […]

According to legend, if not actual historians, Harold Macmillan was once asked what he most feared could derail his agenda. The British prime minister allegedly said, “Events, my dear boy, events.” Macmillan may never have actually said it, but the quote endures because it gets at a fundamental truth of politics (and life). Facts on […]

On Friday, Muslim terrorists murdered 129 people in Paris. At least one of the ISIS perpetrators apparently entered Europe as a “refugee” from Syria — he was found with a refugee ID. ISIS has already claimed that they have infiltrated the Syrian refugee population to the tune of thousands of terrorists. On Monday, President Obama […]

At least one of the bombers in the Paris massacre last weekend allegedly sneaked into France posing as a Syrian refugee. ISIS is infiltrating refugee camps to penetrate Europe and the United States. But on Monday, Obama dismissed the danger, doubling down on his plans to settle at least 10,000 Syrian refugees here. The White […]

We’ve learned some important things about the attacks and the attackers of the Paris massacre. We’ve learned that ISIS evidently either coordinated the attacks or granted operational authority to what I’ve coined Wilayat Paris. And it appears the coordination efforts came through Belgium, where at least two of the radical Islamists have been discovered to […]