During a recent lunch in a restaurant, someone complimented my wife on the perfume she was wearing. But I was wholly unaware that she was wearing perfume, even though we had been in a car together for about half an hour, driving to the restaurant. My sense of smell is very poor. But there is […]

It is always in poor taste for modern Americans to liken their ideological critics to Nazis. So when venture capitalist Tom Perkins wrote a letter to The Wall Street Journal that equated “the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the ‘rich,’” with “fascist Nazi Germany,” he opened his double doors to the cable […]

Only 28 percent of respondents to a recent Harris Poll say they plan to watch the State of the Union address. Some of those are lying. It’s clear the Obama charm has worn extremely thin. The rapturous excitement President Barack Obama once elicited was based, at least in part, on the idea that he had […]

I understand the arguments for the legalization of marijuana: It can generate tax revenue. It can reduce illegal supply and demand. It can strip power from cartels and lessen crime across and at our borders. And it isn’t so dangerous as other illegal drugs or alcohol. President Barack Obama even claimed one of those arguments […]

The Irish Stock Exchange Quotient (ISEQ), gained 33.6% in 2013. Close behind were the 28% jump in the Athens General Share Index, and the 21% rally in Spain’s IBEX 35 Index (IBEX). Factoring in the 4% rise of the euro over the calendar year and these returns look even better from American eyes. Europe was […]

President Obama’s policies continue to produce results that are the opposite of what he promises, yet he brazenly cites the abysmal state of: his: economy to announce — indignantly — that he will double down on his failures. Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven — notorious leftist professors who devised a sinister plot to overburden the American […]

Just about everyone agrees that 2013 was not a good year for President Obama. His job approval plummeted as the Obamacare rollout cratered. His oft-promised pivot to Asia was as much of a dud as his oft-promised pivot to the economy. But it must also be said that the Republican politicians who have been touted […]

In both personal and public life, you can know a great deal about a person or a group if you know what most bothers them — and what doesn’t bother them. A news item this past week made this point with glaring clarity. It reported a meeting that the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human […]

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry seeks forgiveness. On a recent program, she participated in discussion poking fun at Mitt Romney’s Christmas card, which featured him holding his new, adopted African-American black grandchild. : The race of the newest Romney was the key focus of the jokes. Days later, and after a firestorm of criticism, Harris-Perry tweeted an […]

Anyone in the news business will tell you that a side benefit is the diverse number of people one gets to meet. Jay Leno, who leaves “The Tonight Show” on: Feb 6: after a 22-year run (retire is not the right word in his case), is one such person. The circumstances surrounding our first meeting involved a […]