Even on the hottest nights of the summer, my father knew how to make our house ice cold. We lived in a modest two-story home typical of the ’60s and ’70s – red brick on the bottom, white aluminum siding on the top. There were four bedrooms upstairs and a master bedroom downstairs (my parent’s […]

While the media has remained obsessed with the trial of George Zimmerman, they systematically ignored the stories of three other men simultaneously being brought to justice. In a courtroom in Boston, the Islamic radical who set off lethal bombs at the Boston Marathon was being arraigned. Meanwhile, the editors at Rolling Stone magazine decided it […]

The name is: Monday. Agent: Monday. I have an important job to do. Back in 2011 President Obama issued an executive order to root out security violators within the federal government – people like Edward Snowden, our most recent leaker of government secrets. The president ordered federal employees to report suspicious activities among their co-workers – any […]

Janet Napolitano has finally used her political connections to land a job for which she’s qualified. The problem with Napolitano’s tenure as the inept secretary of the Department of Homeland Security is not the list of failures that could mar even a competent professional’s service record in that position. It’s her ideology. It’s the ideology […]

Democratic California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has written a bill that would require public schools in his state to allow students to choose which bathrooms, locker rooms and sports teams match their gender identity. Both the Assembly and state Senate have passed Assembly Bill 1266. It now sits on the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown. If […]

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ),: which has filed a federal: lawsuitrepresenting 41 conservative groups that have been unlawfully targeted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), said today it is rejecting the government’s offer for “expedited review” of applications for some conservative groups which have been waiting for years for a determination on their tax-exempt […]

In a better world we should never have been subjected to the Zimmerman trial. But politically motivated prosecutors in Florida turned a local tragedy into a race crime, and then the media turned a murder trial into a primetime soap opera. The trial accusing George Zimmerman of murdering Trayvon Martin wasn’t about seeking justice. It […]

Those of you who think the Zimmerman case is a distraction are wrong. Dead wrong. It’s all a part of the plan, the agenda and has been so from day one. Obama knew, Holder knew, they all know there was no case. They knew that there wouldn’t be a conviction. That was all a part […]

In 2005, Senate Republicans floated the idea of altering Senate rules to eliminate the filibuster for judicial nominees. The proposal, dubbed the nuclear option, involved breaking Senate rules to change Senate rules. (The rules require a two-thirds vote for rules changes, but the nuclear option changes the rules by simple majority.) Democrats fought back against […]

If the IRS Tea Party scandal is at all reminiscent of the Watergate debacle that brought down a president in 1974, we may have just discovered the latter-day G. Gordon Liddy, the man who oversaw the chain of events that led to Nixon’s resignation. Who would that be? Well, a good guess would be William […]

July 8, 2013 marked the beginning of the end of the Rick Perry era in Texas. Middle school children have never known another Texas governor in their lifetime. Anyone in office 14 years will have good and bad in their record. Unquestionably, Gov. Perry is viewed in partisan terms in Texas. From my perspective, his […]

The Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman tragedy has become one of those transcendent events that dominates the national discourse and throws light on dimly lit aspects of our society. Obviously, the case touches most closely on issues of race relations, media culture, and the politicization of the justice system.: It also reveals how preconceived emotional commitments to a […]