August 19, 2023

The Puppeteers reveals who's pulling the strings

Whoever designed the cover of Jason Chaffetz's newest book The Puppeteers did a terrific marketing job, putting focus not on the five silly puppets now trying to distract us (The A Team), but on "The people who control the people w...

May 1, 2023

The Real Gavin Newsom

Thousands of scathing op-eds and blog posts have appeared about our sick puppy in the White House. Residents of California, however, should probably be more concerned about their current governor, Gavin Christopher Newsom. After all, he plans to toss...

November 28, 2022

Is The View the best we get?

The View is the oldest all-female talk show program on commercial TV, now celebrating 26 seasons in 25 years.  The program premiered in 1997 with four co-hosts: Meredith Vieira as moderator, Star Jones, Debbie Matenopoulo, and Barbara ...

July 8, 2022

In the Kill Zone

With the publication of Battle  for the American Mind, Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin have opened a Pandora's box of troubles for parents and educators nationwide.  In the first chapter, titled "OUR COVID-(16) 19 MOMENT,...

September 13, 2021

Schooling in America: We Need More 'Stuff'

Increasingly of late, parents all across the country seem to be getting pretty upset about how children in both public and private schools are being indoctrinated with Critical Race Theory (CRT). Both the National Education Association (NEA) and the ...

August 22, 2021

However bad things were before, they're worse now

They're doing it again—scrabbling through the dustbins of recent history in search of solutions that have never worked. The Bible says it best: "As dogs return to their vomit, so fools repeat their folly" (Proverbs 26:11). Sinc...

March 8, 2021

Lords of the Flies: Wokism and the University

Let’s begin with the understanding that there is no “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment. That has been settled law since the Founders first signed the Constitution of the United States in 1787. Yet, on college campuses al...

February 1, 2018

Identity Politics and the End of Meaning

It has been more than a year since Madonna proclaimed at the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. that: “Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House. But I know that won’t change anything.” Her rant that day...

June 27, 2016

A Twilight for Entitlements?

It has often been said that Obama’s greatest shortcoming is his lack of business experience. In addition to the failed multi-billion-dollar rollout of ObamaCare, consider a short list of the president’s other signature miscalculations: ...

March 11, 2016

Is history repeating itself again?

In doing research for a book about a member of the Greatest Generation, I’ve found some fascinating parallels between what was happening to America’s economy in the late 1930s and now.  As a result, I have come to the conclusion that...

January 31, 2016

Pope Francis: Killing Us Softly

For six days straight during his visit to the United States last year, Pope Francis was, to borrow a phrase from Norman Gimbel, “killing us softly with his words.” The boulevards of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. were lined ...

August 6, 2015

Hot Stuff

No, this isn’t about sex. It’s about carbon footprints -- yours, mine and that of just about every other living creature that walks, crawls or flies over the face of God’s green earth. Once the California state legislature passed Am...

June 27, 2015

The Diversity Diversion

Most of us can understand why a big company might need a CEO, CFO, CIO, and COO. But a top-level diversity boss? What’s that about? Today there are CDOs in the executive suites of most U.S. corporations, including AT&T, Dell, Bank o...

November 5, 2014

On Desexing Anglo-Saxon

“Book publishing,” Ann Coulter once astutely observed, “has long been another method for the ruling class to take in one another’s laundry and give each other jobs.”  [Ann Coulter, Slander (New York, 2002), pp. 96-9...

August 10, 2014

Transgenderism and Unemployment: What Really Matters

In his introduction to Things That Matter (New York, 2013), Charles Krauthammer makes an important distinction between the classical liberalism of John Stuart Mill and the progressive liberalism of the 20th century: “Mill held that truth emerge...

February 18, 2014

Spectrum Dot Gov

During a September 2001 NPR interview, then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama criticized our Constitution for failing to address what he called "redistributive justice." Way back then, nobody paid much attention to this obscure wunderkind. Most of...

January 20, 2014

Jenny One Note

In the 1920s, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in The Great Gatsby: "There is nothing more dangerous than a man with only one idea." Little did Fitzgerald realize then how prophetic his statement would prove to be. For less than a decade later, Adolf Hitler...

October 26, 2013

The New Patricians

During a recent PBS panel on Washington politics, This Town author Mark Leibowitz said our Founding Fathers were like the patricians of ancient Rome -- prosperous landowners who returned home as soon as their civic duties ended. Unlike the Founders, ...