January 15, 2008

Barack Obama's Race Problem: White Liberals

Barack Obama has a racial problem, but it's not what the media thinks -- it's not rednecks, older voters, or even women offended by attacks on Hillary Clinton. Obama's racial problem is white liberals."I'm OK, You're Not."A central tenet of...

November 27, 2007

A Quiet Defeat for Political Correctness

Maybe this is how political correctness ends; not with a bang, but with a whimper. Across the country, universities that had abandoned in loco parentis in the 1960s because it was too oppressive and intrusive have replaced it with in loco Big Brother...

November 14, 2007

The Strange War on Homework

American students continue to fall behind much of the rest of the world in math and science and recent surveys of their literacy and knowledge of history, civics and geography hover between embarrassing and "Oh my God."But one of the hottes...

November 8, 2007

The Prayers of Clarence Thomas

Predictably, the mainstream media focused on the anger in Clarence Thomas's searing new personal memoir. A front page story in The Washington Post was headlined: "Justice Thomas Lashes Out..." and described how Thomas "settles scores i...

November 5, 2007

Fairness Doctrine

The attempt by Senate Democrats to target Rush Limbaugh over his "phony soldiers" remark backfired badly on Harry Reid team. But it was an early indicator of the extraordinary willingness of Democratic politicians to use their power to puni...

October 30, 2007

I Have Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance Policies

I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler. During dull moments at school, I admit,  I not only drew soldiers shooting one another, but also tanks, bombers, fighters, and even the occasional space ship with ...