October 18, 2021

Parents vs. Educational Wokeness

In the last couple of weeks, concerns about the nation’s education system have become a major factor in the Virginia gubernatorial election. Democratic Virginia candidate Terry McAuliffe launched what National Review called a “War on Pare...

November 2, 2020

Last-Minute Voting Advice

With the 2020 presidential election nearing the corner of Mayhem and Catastrophe, most people have made up their minds.  Many millions have already voted.  With the social and professional isolation effected by the government resp...

November 1, 2020

For Biden: Three Strikes... You’re Out!

The expression, “Three Strikes! You’re Out!” we learn from baseball in grade school or even earlier. It can come about in two or three ways. If a batter with two strikes swings and misses, it’s strike three. If the batter tips...

October 7, 2020

Defending Trump from a Tornado of Liberal Lies

The fog of lies clouding the current political climate has all but completely hidden the truth.  Let's clear some things up so the American public can see what's going on.  Here are just a few of the major lies and the iss...

September 30, 2020

The Cleveland Brawl: First Presidential Debate Was a Cage Fight

See also: Two crucial things that emerged from the first presidential debate;  Fact-checking Biden: Did Trump lie to the American people about COVID? Before the first presidential debate, the consensus was that it would be a consequenti...

August 14, 2020

Kamala Has Already Struck Out

Even before the Democrat presidential candidate, Joe Biden, named his choice for vice president, a group of Democrat Party activists released an unprecedented document outlining their "rules" for how the media could address issues surroundi...

June 5, 2020

Donald Trump, St. John's, and Symbolic Leadership

The media has had a field day attacking President Trump for his walk across Lafayette Square to pay his respects to St. John’s Episcopal Church that was set afire by rioters. Certainly, as so many commentators noted, the rioters setting a fire ...

May 17, 2020

Unmasking the Illegalities of the Obama Administration

Well informed citizens have been rocked by revelations from recently unclassified documents that clearly show that President Obama "was aware of the details of wiretapped conversations of then-incoming National Security Advisor Michael Flyn...

March 25, 2020

Deborah Birx Brings New Era of Feminine Gravitas

Our eyes have become accustomed to the visual clichés of the media. The male news anchor is a man of expertise and experience paired with a promising young woman who is smart but not yet accomplished. He has the gravitas of a person at the pin...

March 7, 2020

Are We a Nation of Bigots?

Pundits of all political stripes are taking note of the fact that the 2020 election is bringing to the fore just how deep and bitter are the cultural divisions within our nation.  The glaring decline in political comity rivals that of the d...

February 28, 2020

Leftist Bullies Attack AG Barr

The recent headlines about Attorney General William Barr sounded ominous. The Washington Post claimed, “Trump is making Barr look like his Stooge.” CNN, NPR and MSNBC had “sources” who declare that Barr is ready to resign over...

January 29, 2020

That Trio of RINO Rebels

You’ve got to hand it to the Democrats -- they can hold their caucus together for the flimsiest of causes.  The GOP, though, has all these RINOs who have to establish their independence; they’re willing to break party unity when it s...

January 18, 2020

Opening Blind Eyes to the Truth about Sex-Trafficking in America

Some 20 years ago, I was invited to a meeting to discuss "human-trafficking."  Held at the Salvation Army Center on D.C.'s New York Avenue, only 10–15 D.C. policy analysts were invited — feminists, conservatives, e...

January 5, 2020

Gertrude Himmelfarb: Role Model for Young Women

In his City Journal tribute to Gertrude Himmelfarb — who recently died at age 97 — Myron Magnet called her "our foremost historian of ideas and one of the nation's greatest historians of any stamp." ...

December 9, 2019

The Anti-Trump Resistance Is Really against the Deplorables

The impeachment hullabaloo is clearly revealing the Left's virulent hatred of President Donald Trump.  The Trump Derangement Syndrome is blatantly on display for everyone to see, especially among the obnoxious Ivy League law professors ...

November 28, 2019

Millennials Want to Get Rid of Thanksgiving

Just days before our national Thanksgiving holiday, a report explained that Millennial students in their wisdom say, "It's not okay to celebrate Thanksgiving." What would we do without these young people correcting the rest of us, th...

November 24, 2019

Attorney General Barr Stands athwart History

Shakespeare made famous the phrase "There is a tide in the affairs of men" ("Julius Caesar," Act IV, Scene III), that acknowledges that certain situations gain momentum and become ripe for influencing the future, determining fate....

November 22, 2019

After the Impeachment

Last week, I summarized the Resistance that began even before Donald Trump was elected President in 2016 and the movement’s goal of overturning the election by impeachment as Democrats explicitly stated before Trump even took office. What I did...

November 16, 2019

If the Resistance Wins

In early May 2017, Hillary Clinton declared herself "an activist citizen and part of what she called The Resistance.  Later that month, May 17, 2017, she officially launched a "political organization aimed at funding 'resistan...

December 2, 2018

Writing speeches for President Bush 41

Sometimes, I have a hard time believing that I was a presidential speechwriter for former president George Herbert Walker Bush, affectionately known as Bush 41.  The other speechwriters were nationally recognized journalists, while I was a ...

October 2, 2018

It's Time to Hear from #UsToo

In the days since the Ford-Kavanaugh hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, social media as well as opinion editorials have been filled with the angst of women “triggered” by their emotional distrust of men and their past exp...

September 29, 2018

Kavanaugh's Watershed SCOTUS Testimony

As the Kavanaugh family walked into the hearing room for the SCOTUS hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the stakes could not have been higher, the challenge more daunting.  Dr. Christine Blasey Ford had already presented her test...

June 1, 2018

Is 'Sex Work' Pro-Woman?

"Sex work" advocates promote prostitution as a legitimate occupational choice for women.  Leftist activists equate sex work with workers' and women's rights.  The recent SESTA legislation (Stop Enabling Sex ...

February 17, 2018

Time's Up: Anti-Trump Forces Face Their Day of Reckoning

Let's suppose for a minute that Hillary Clinton and all her fellow Resisters, along with all their allies in the Deep State, had accepted the results of the 2016 election, as has been the tradition and expectation.  Remember Hillary...

February 1, 2018

Trump’s Tour de Force

Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address -- President Donald Trump’s first -- was, in the view of many clear-minded, experienced observers such as Newt Gingrich and Powerline’s John Hinderaker and Scott Johnson -- a tour de force....

January 12, 2018

Soros and the Exploitation of Women

George Soros, 86-year-old multibillionaire hedge fund-operator, is famous around the world for promoting far-left causes.  Or, as his website puts it, he is "a prominent international supporter of democratic ideals and causes for more ...

December 22, 2017

The #MeToo Tipping Point

The cultural and overall societal impact of the deluge of sexual assault and harassment accusations has only just begun to be realized.  Already, careful observers – both men and women alike – are noting that the broad and fuzzy defi...

November 23, 2017

Where Is the Common Ground Anymore?

I've served on more than half a dozen broad right-left task forces to find common ground on various issues from theological to social.  These well intentioned efforts sincerely tried to find areas of agreement among people with vastly differ...

July 6, 2017

Our President Is a Street Fighter

George W. Bush is a gentleman and his father, George H.W. is too, even more so. Both were attacked maliciously and aggressively by the media and by their political opponents. I admired the civility of both presidents who were above the fray. But thei...

March 16, 2017

The UN’s Role in Exporting the Feminists’ Agenda

The Left’s route to promoting their radical agenda around the world is engineering the enactment of a United Nations treaty that contains their distorted “women’s rights” policies that can then be used to impose their alien fe...

December 20, 2016

The Christian Left Has Become Unhinged

Michelle Obama says she can “feel the difference” since the election. She claims that with her husband leaving the White House the nation is entering a “period of hopelessness.” With the election of Donald Trump, the Left in g...

October 4, 2016

Why a Well Read Woman with an Earned Doctorate Will Vote for Trump

Pundits, increasingly, are saying that both major party candidates are targeting college-educated white women, but Hillary is ahead in that demographic. Some conservative elites are asking how any intelligent person can vote for Trump. I see those re...

September 29, 2016

Does the Present Culture of Uncertainty Favor Trump?

You don’t have to travel very far outside the Beltway to encounter a lot of folks who feel like that “these are the worst of times” –– if not “worst,” then very much in the running. Some 70 to 80 percent o...

August 10, 2016

Finding a Sense of Community

Due to the perennial construction on I-85, we were a good hour later than we had hoped on our long 650-mile annual trek from D.C. down to Georgia. For the last hour or so our grandson who had slept much of the trip kept asking about our ETA. If we ha...

July 3, 2016

Microaggressions: Political Correctness Run Amok

About to compliment a co-worker on her new haircut? Think again, that’s microaggressive behavior that implies all you see is her looks, devaluing her professional accomplishments. In a discussion about candidates for a position at your workp...

March 24, 2016

Will Election 2016 Restore E Pluribus Unum?

Though certainly not the first to do so, Obama vividly demonstrated in 2008 and 2012 the effectiveness of bare knuckle politics in destroying the idea of a unified nation. Many citizens agree with the assessment that during his presidency, Mr. Obama ...

February 27, 2016

How Did We Get Obama and Trump?

Many Americans shook their heads in 2008 wondering how in the world President Obama was elected when he had told us plainly that he wanted to “fundamentally transform” our country. Then, the perplexity increased when he was reelected in 2...

January 29, 2016

The Extraordinary Ted Cruz

The social, cultural, and political chaos of the U.S. after 7 years of the Obama administration make Election 2016 a critical, historic election. Only one candidate has the credentials and character necessary to deal with the elites’ hostility ...

January 15, 2016

The 2016 SOTU: A Delusional Denial of Reality

Of all the descriptions of President Obama’s last State of the Union address, the most apt and succinct that I’ve seen comes from Dr. Everett Piper, President of Oklahoma Wesleyan University. He simply called it a “delusional denial...

March 15, 2015

Susanna Wesley: Heroine for Women's History Month

Susanna Wesley would have been noteworthy simply for giving birth to John Wesley and thus being the mother of Methodism. In this Women’s History Month, she is unique, according to Edith Deen, in her 1977 classic, Great Women of the Christi...

December 21, 2014

Urbi et Orbi Shows How We Can All 'Just Get Along'

My experience of attending meetings billed as opportunities for persons of different beliefs to seek common ground has, more often than not, been an exercise in one group attempting to batter the “other” into submission to a not-so-hidden...

December 4, 2014

Women and the Myth of Marriage Declining

It has become a truism that marriage rates are in decline. The Pew Research Center, Forbes, and many others spotlighted the fact that matrimony has been on a decline for decades. Some researchers call it “The Marriage Crisis,” but are hap...

November 7, 2014

Were Women a Factor in the Democratic Shellacking of 2014?

Stung by the Democrats who abandoned him during Campaign 2014 by telling voters that President Obama wasn’t on the ballot, the president insisted that his policies were and that those Democrats voted consistently for his policies. At that point...

October 29, 2014

Will Women Vote for Effective Change?

Perhaps a glimpse back at an earlier cultural shift can bring into focus the facts regarding the 2014 election. In 1992, Bill Clinton ran on a moderate platform, famously pledging to “end welfare as we know it.” Like a lot of things he sa...

October 15, 2014

Another Look at Abstinence and Declines in Teen Sexual Activity

I suppose the reactions are predictable: the data are clear that pregnancy rates, birthrates, abortion rates, and sexual activity among teens have all declined. Now, liberal researchers are torturing the data to make it confess to their desired concl...

September 19, 2014

Learning from Russia's Return to Its Historical Roots

Having swept all before them in the aimless societies of the west, the LGBTIQ crowd is in a howling fury with Russia’s pro-family movement for its refusal to capitulate to their gay marriage agenda. They are calling for federal investigations o...

August 28, 2014

Finally, Abstinence Triumphs!

The latest information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates continued dramatic declines in teen births, but the “news” regarding the CDC report is the general acknowledgement that abstinence efforts are cont...

August 19, 2014

Unemployment or Free Contraception?

Those who question whether supplying young women with free contraceptives and government-subsidized abortions should be the federal government’s responsibility -- along with providing for the national defense and regulating commerce -- are atta...

August 13, 2014

The Uncommitted 'Survivors' of the Free-Sex Revolution

  No wonder today’s Millennials are such fans of TV’s reality and survival shows! They relate! They are starring in their own personal reality dramas where life has boiled down to survival of the fittest. The values of loyalty...

August 8, 2014

Coulter's 'Idiotic' Response to Christian Missions

One of the essential lessons of clear thinking is to avoid specious “either/or” dichotomies.  Ann Coulter violated this basic standard in her intentionally sensational article, “Ebola Doc’s Condition Downgraded to ‘...

July 2, 2014

Fresh Wind of Liberty Blows Across the Land

Is anyone surprised that the left is hyperventilating and bouncing off the walls over the SCOTUS decision in the Hobby Lobby case? Planned Parenthood and others are decrying the “health risks” women face and the loss of “reproductiv...

April 24, 2014

ObamaCare Destroying Marriages (before They Begin)

We haven’t heard much lately about the “marriage penalty” in ObamaCare.  That’s the provision designed to placate and cement the support of the 70 percent of unmarried women who voted for President Obama in the 2008 elect...

April 16, 2014

Can Election 2014 Put the Nation Back on Track?

The latest Rasmussen poll, released on Monday, April 14, indicates that more than half of Americans (52%) disapprove of President Obama’s job performance; worse, 58 percent view ObamaCare unfavorably (the highest level of disapproval in several...

April 3, 2014

Exposing the Myths of Recreational Sex

There is a mountain of media out there promoting a phony philosophy about the joys of recreational sex – casual, risky sexual encounters that do not involve commitment.  One need look no farther than the junk advice featured in magazines l...

March 15, 2014

Are the Millennials Reliably Leftist?

According to exit polling data, in both the 2008 and 2012 elections, Millennials (young adults 18 to 33) were a reliably leftist demographic, both in their voting and their views.  Now, it appears that – even though they remain decidedly l...

February 4, 2014

Pro-Life Movement Victorious at Curbing Abortions

In their most recent report, released Monday, the Guttmacher Institute finds that U.S. abortion rates are at their lowest levels since 1973. They claim there is "no evidence that the decline was linked to a drop in the number of abortion providers." ...

January 9, 2014

Sad Truths about Teen Suicide

Teen deaths for any reason are tragic losses of life and potential.  According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in five teenagers in the U.S. seriously considers suicide annually, and approximately 1,700 die by s...

December 6, 2013

ObamaCare for the Vast Majority

ObamaCare was sold to the nation as a compassionate response to the approximately 47 million uninsured Americans. Yet, 30 million Americans will still not be insured even after the frenetic misrepresentation and bribery required to pass the bill and ...

November 22, 2013

Remembering JFK in the Summer of 1963

In the academic year 1962-1963, my husband and I were graduate students at the University of Kentucky. We applied and were selected for a special internship program in Washington, D.C. I worked at the Securities and Exchange Commission during the day...

November 6, 2013

It's Time to End ENDA

It's no secret that the true purpose of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is to "help bring marriage equality closer." ENDA would elevate sexual orientation to a protected status under workplace nondiscrimination laws. Indeed, laws have al...

November 6, 2013

The White Trash World We Live In

Charlotte Hays' book comes out this week, but I read an early release on Kindle, and it was delightful!  Her hilarious comparisons of Old White Trash vs. New White Trash are very entertaining for a Southern-raised lady like me!  She traces ...

October 31, 2013

The Obama Facade Cracks at Last

Only now -- five years into his presidency -- are we seeing some cracks in the protective shield surrounding President Obama, and then only after the abuse of reporters' privacy has been threatened. Mainstream journalists have not scrutinized his con...

October 22, 2013

ObamaCare's Rose Garden Band-Aid

The precedent goes quite a ways back; Sarah Palin probably would label it as "putting lipstick on a pig."  Remember the Greek columns from the 2008 campaign?  Remember the fake doctors in white lab coats in 2009?  Now, w...

October 18, 2013

Media Shapes Views of Low-Information Voters

A funny television feature by Dan Joseph on MRCTV prompted me to question how public opinion could possibly be so distorted these days. In man-on-the-street interviews, the reporter asked numerous people whether President Obama or President Bush was ...

September 14, 2013

Child Brides and Too-Early Sexual Activity

Recently, the world read with horror about the death of a Yemeni 8-year-old child bride who died of internal bleeding and uterine rupture on her wedding night to a man five times her age. According to UN and other reports, nearly 14% of Yemeni girls ...

August 31, 2013

Government Spending Is Ruining Families

The economic picture in the United States gets worse with each passing day of the Obama administration, and families are especially hard-hit.  While the damage is already devastating, the ramifications will continue wreaking havoc on today's chi...

August 22, 2013

The Democrats' Anti-Gun Manual Exposed

A shocking new report reveals a deliberate plan by Democrats to exploit incidents of gun violence to their advantage.  As Rahm Emanuel said, "You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things yo...

August 14, 2013

The Close Connections between the Economy and the Family

Some public figures like to dismiss the so-called "social issues" as irrelevant to the economy; many of those same people think that they can address fiscal concerns without any understanding of the pressures and drains put on the economy from the br...

August 7, 2013

Pornography to become even more readily available on the internet

Quietly, with almost no fanfare, the governing board of the internet (ICANN) approved a new .PORN domain on the internet.  The .PORN domain joins the .XXX domain already in existence and others proposed, such as the .SEX and .ADULT domains. ...

August 1, 2013

Repeal ObamaCare: It's Now or Never

When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed Congress in 2010, it was enacted with not one single Republican vote. The Democrats -- all on their own -- rammed ObamaCare into law. The day before taking over one-sixth of the American e...

July 24, 2013

Legalized Prostitution: A Failed Experiment

A recent National Review Online article by Charles C.W. Cooke argued that legalizing prostitution is a good idea because, "There is really no good philosophical justification for forbidding a prostitute and a 'John' - 'Jane,' sometimes, too - from en...

July 18, 2013

Being Schooled About Transgenders

The days are long gone when the public school systems across the country focused on teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic. Education these days involves indoctrination, far more than teaching children to think clearly and to recognize demagoguery...

July 9, 2013

Texas Pro-Aborts Turn Nasty

The pro-abortion activists are at it again in Texas, massing at the state capitol, demanding the right to abortion beyond 20 weeks in the womb, and shouting over any reason and logic -- not to mention mercy and care -- for women and babies. In the...

June 28, 2013

Where are the Boys?

Last week when I attended the graduation ceremonies for a local high school, ironically designated as a "National School of Excellence,"  I noted a distressing fact: the ceremony was dominated by females. In a significant omission, the male stud...

June 18, 2013

Obama's Loss of Trust and Credibility

The latest polls show that President Obama's approval ratings are in free fall like a hot air balloon with the fire extinguished; his approval rating has declined eight percentage points over the past month. CNN reporter Chris Cuomo described the dec...

June 7, 2013

Transforming America One Political Appointee at a Time

Even Democrat partisans like James Carville describe the latest Obama political appointees as "in your face" appointments. President Obama just named two very controversial, radical women to top-level foreign-policy appointments in his administration...

May 10, 2013

Obama's Demeaning Commencement Address

As a presidential speech writer for the first Bush White House, I am always very interested in what presidents say in their formal speeches. They know, of course, that their remarks will be widely covered by the press, studied by analysts, and influe...

May 3, 2013

Census Report Shocker

The issue of "who's minding the kids" is now taking back seat to "who is having the kids." The just-released Census Bureau Report, "Social and Economic Characteristics of Currently Unmarried Women With a Recent Birth, 2011," (SECCUM) describes for th...

April 30, 2013

President Obama: Working Hard or Hardly Working?

Leisure and luxury over hard work -- it's been a problem for this president ever since he first took office. President Obama spends a lot of time golfing; he even famously went golfing with Tiger Woods in Florida, while his family took a ski vacation...

April 26, 2013

Planned Parenthood's Horrific Ironies Exposed by the Gosnell Trial

Kermit Gosnell's name is certain to be recorded as one of the most ghoulish figures in recent history. The revelations about his abortion "house of horrors" have appalled the nation, earning him the title of "human butcher." The graphic images of his...

April 6, 2013

Should the Advice to Find a Husband in College be Controversial?

Feminists are, predictably, having what we in the deep South used to call a "hissy fit."  They are reacting with rage and bombast to a letter published in The Daily Princetonian that advised coeds not to waste their college years where they are ...

March 21, 2013

Advice from Sheryl Sandberg: Lean In to Discover It's Your Fault

In her new book, Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg -- the very successful billionaire female executive: COO at Facebook and, according to Forbes, the fifth most powerful businesswoman in America -- offers up a liberal helping of politically-correct ideology (...

March 18, 2013

Feminist Leaders Compared to Religious Right Leaders

A recent study found that the number of working women who believe that a career is as important as being a wife and mother has fallen 23 percent since the 1970s.  Apparently, women are growing more and more uncomfortable with hardcore feminism a...

February 15, 2013

President Unleashes a Nationwide 'Community Organizing' Campaign

The president's State of the Union address (SOTU) was merely a prelude to a massive undertaking to go nationwide with his community organizing methods and objectives. This is a president who operates in campaign mode 24/7. One can make a strong case ...

January 22, 2013

What Hath Roe Wrought?

On the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade abortion advocates have plenty of reason to be frightened and pessimistic. During 2012, an average of 7 abortion clinics closed each month. No wonder Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider is...

January 9, 2013

Sean Lowe and the First Episode of 2013's The Bachelor

Sean Lowe is one of the more controversial "bachelors" to ever appear on the hit reality television show "The Bachelor." Ironically, Sean is very popular among young women for exactly the reasons that the producers are a bit uneasy.  He is a gen...

December 14, 2012

Educating Ignorance

 See also: Ending Progressive Public Education The best-kept secret in America today is the precipitous drop in the quality of college since the Left seized power in higher education. Every year, various magazines publish a list of rankings for ...

November 30, 2012

How Obama Won (and Lost) The Youth Vote

While young voters overwhelmingly (60%) supported President Obama in the 2012 election, support for the president among 18- to 29-year-olds dropped 11 percentage points from 2008.  According to Generation Opportunity, the youth defection from th...

November 6, 2012

Obama's War on Women Backfires

Women are a central, indispensible part of the Democratic base -- single women, that is, and particularly those being churned out of women's studies programs at colleges and universities all across the country.  Single women favored Obama by a 4...

October 23, 2012

Romney Won by Focusing on the Big Picture

President Obama was well-coached in the final Presidential debate; he came across as an articulate, aggressive debater, but he was trying too hard to dominate and came across as condescending and petty as he repeatedly attacked Romney with a "gotcha"...

October 17, 2012

Romney Wins the Three-Way Debate at Hofstra

Not only did President Obama come into the second presidential debate more aggressive and prepared, but he brought a secret weapon -- the moderator, Candy Crowley.  At two pivotal moments, Ms. Crowley, typically a relatively fair reporter, showe...

September 10, 2012

The Democratic Party's Polarizing Convention

Four lasting impressions remain from the Democratic Convention in Charlotte: (1) Delegates raucously booing the chairman's phony ruling accepting the amendment which put God and Jerusalem as the capital of Israel back into the official Democrat platf...

August 28, 2012

President Obama's Problems with Women

While President Clinton had one kind of problem with women, President Obama has another -- a problem the Democrats are trying to hide by going on offense and creating a faux "War on Women." Much of the GOP convention is designed to counter the Democr...

August 27, 2012

A Campaign of Contempt and Personal Attacks

President Obama is running a campaign advertisement that pointedly asserts that the voters face two distinctly different choices about the future of the country.  The president declares that there are significant worldview distinctions between t...

August 18, 2012

Jailing Pussy Riot in Russia

Russian judge Marina Syrova just handed down a sentence of two years in jail for the Russian feminist punk rock band Pussy Riot as a result of their "hooliganism" motivated by religious hatred.  Judge Syrova called their behavior "blasphemous" a...

August 8, 2012

Demonizing Romney

(See also: "Mitt's Lesson on Discretion") If Hollywood put out a casting call for a leading man to play the president of the United States, Mitt Romney would fit the bill to perfection.  In the looks department, he has a picture-perfect smile an...

June 22, 2012

Checking the APA's Findings on Homosexual Parenting

Since 2005, when the American Psychological Association (APA) issued an official brief on lesbian and gay parenting, political correctness has demanded that all agree with the spurious assessment that children of homosexual parents do fine.  The...

June 6, 2012

Obama Reinvents Sacred Themes for 2012

While his record as president makes it abundantly clear that he does not walk on water, the president is still appropriating to himself many of the religious code words and symbols that ensured his victory in 2008.  Strangely enough, in many res...

May 18, 2012

The 'War on Women' Implodes

See also: Why The Obama Campaign is Blowing the Election The so-called "War on Women" should have been a deadly hit, a fatal blow to the GOP's hopes to cut into the huge majority of the female vote that went for Obama in 2008.  Or so Democrat st...

May 6, 2012

U.S. Leaves Chen in Limbo

Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese human rights activist and self-taught lawyer, is in limbo as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama continue their malfeasance of human rights in the drama unfolding in China. In 2005, Mr. Chen was a...

April 13, 2012

Reviving the Mommy Wars

Hillary Clinton created a firestorm back in 1992 when she remarked in an interview that she guessed she could have just stayed home and baked cookies.  Fast forward to 2012 and Hilary Rosen - who has visited the White House more than 35 times - ...

March 6, 2012

U.N.-Speak at the Commission on the Status of Women

United Nations: New York City - The 56th annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 足continues its attempts to spread its radical interpretations of "women's rights" around the globe.  The U.N. arm promotes "rep...

March 5, 2012

A Bad Law on Life Support

A bad piece of legislation is about to be reauthorized, empowering bureaucrats and tort lawyers and poisoning relations between women and men.  The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) could be fixed, but Senate Democrats will not hear of it. Vice ...

February 16, 2012

Can Michelle Obama's Media Blitz Erase Her 'Angry Black Woman' Image?

While the GOP is preoccupied with selecting a candidate to oppose incumbent Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama is working hard to erase her image as an "angry Black woman" and promote her husband's re-election campaign along the way. While she i...

February 10, 2012

The Political Reality Behind the HHS Mandate

President Obama's policies and politics are focused like a laser on the so-called "women's rights" vote -- the feminist and the single women's vote.  According to Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research (GQR), feminist voters in the 2008 presidential ...

February 4, 2012

The President at the Prayer Breakfast

President Obama, whose church attendance during the three years of his presidency has been as notable for its paucity as his visits to the golf course have been notable for their frequency, showed up -- as he proudly pointed out, for the third time -...

February 1, 2012

Hey GOP! Do You Hear Your Fed Up, Fired Up Base?

In the view of many pundits, the GOP primary has boiled down to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich versus former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.  But the consensus among numerous commentators is that former Senator Rick Santorum won the last...

January 22, 2012

Listen Up Girls: This is the Way Things Work

Scenario:  The girl decides she is going to have sex with her male friend, taking their casual friendship into what she believes will be a romantic involvement.  She follows her plan and comes away thinking the sex is great, and they spend ...

January 13, 2012

Whither Santorum and Those 'Guns and Bible' Voters?

After his stunning surge in Iowa, Rick Santorum's virtual tie for fourth place in New Hampshire is being interpreted negatively by some commentators and pundits who are gleefully declaring that the social conservative and evangelical voters -- those ...

December 17, 2011

Are America's Best Days Behind Us?

It takes more grit to be optimistic about the future, with all its uncertainties, than to be pessimistic.  The greatest sin of today's liberals or progressives is that they refuse to learn from the multiple failures of historic, indeed tragic, a...

December 4, 2011

Sexually Exploited Female Movie Stars?

In this era of supposed female equality, it is surprising to find that sometimes the old clichés are true -- for instance, "the more things change, the more they stay the same." A new study by the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at ...

October 31, 2011

Seven Billion People: Over-Population or Birth Dearth?

In what was perhaps the biggest global birthday celebration in decades, our planet welcomed its seven billionth person. Although no one knew the exact time or day population totals would reach that count, the United Nations declared Monday, October 3...

September 15, 2011

Social Issues Are Not Going Away in 2012

(See also: Conservatism that Assures the Unthinkable: the Reelection of Barack Obama) As America hurtles toward an economic cliff, concerned citizens are -- understandably -- thinking about the financial crisis: the debt, deficit, lack of jobs, out-o...

September 10, 2011

Facing the Challenges of College Today

Two much-loved young family members just left for college. These two special young women are among the 2.6 million freshmen who arrived at the 4,352 colleges and universities across America in the past couple of weeks. These young adolescents on the ...

July 11, 2011

Graph for the Day for July 11, 2011

Non-Martial Births Rise But Married-Couple Parenting Is Not Obsolete "The proportion of all births to unmarried women increased to 41.0 percent in 2009, up from 40.6 percent in 2008. This proportion increased for all race and Hispanic-origin populati...

May 20, 2011

Married Women - Better Sex, More Money

Actress Cameron Diaz recently called marriage a "dying institution."  Then, she declared, "I don't think we should live our lives in relationships based off old traditions that don't suit our world any longer."  Miss Dia...

May 6, 2011

Graph for the Day, May 6, 2011

We have to live within our means, reduce our deficit, and get back on a path that will allow us to pay down our debt.  ... [D]oing nothing on the deficit is just not an option.  Our debt has grown so large that we could do real damage to th...

April 26, 2011

Why is President Obama 'Leading From Behind'?

The latest New Yorker magazine (May 2, 2011) includes an article by Ryan Lizza that hits a bulls eye in describing President Obama's leadership.  Lizza quotes an Obama adviser who describes the president's style as "leading from behind....

March 25, 2011

The Crisis of Modern Male Immaturity

Amidst all the serious problems facing America is a sleeper issue: we haven't come to terms with the crisis of modern male immaturity.  Here is another instance of an oft-neglected axiom: what seems in the moment to be urgent is often not import...

February 2, 2011

Ten Keys to President Reagan's Effectiveness

Former President Ronald Reagan's centennial is just around the corner ­­-- February 6, the date of this year's Super Bowl Sunday.  It is appropriate to review some of the reasons for his greatness.  Here are ten keys to his effectiv...

January 25, 2011

Pillars and Bipartisan Pairs

According to the White House, President Obama is planning to focus on "five pillars" during his 2011 State of the Union address -- innovation, education, infrastructure, deficit reduction, and reforming government.  Poor choice to focu...

January 11, 2011

Graph for the Day, January 11, 2011

"During the last three years, youth employment has taken a large hit, absorbing a significant portion of job losses. One in four unemployed persons is under the age of 25, and nearly one in five young workers is unemployed.  The rate of job...

January 5, 2011

Graph for the Day for January 5, 2011

"[B]ureaucracies with unique goals achieve autonomy when their middle-level officials establish reputations among diverse coalitions for effectively providing unique services. These coalitions enable agencies to resist political control and make...

December 22, 2010

Graph for the Day, December 22, 2010

The Inflation-Unemployment Texas Two-Step"Republican leaders in Congress say they have ‘deep concerns' [i.e., the inflationary potential] about Ben S. Bernanke's second round of quantitative easing. The U.S. stock and credit markets don't ...

December 14, 2010

Graph for the Day, December 14, 2010

"Congress frequently holds hearings on tax simplification so members can denounce the tax code's complexity. Each time, congressional experts and outside think tanks provide useful simplification ideas. Then when the TV cameras are turned off, C...

December 7, 2010

Obama's Blind Spot

Despite the Democratic Party's 2010 election "shellacking," President Obama recently asserted that the election had nothing to do with ideology. He said, "It would be unwise to assume [that American voters] prefer one way of thinking o...

December 7, 2010

Graph for the Day for December 7, 2010

Tax Cuts: Rip Off for the Rich or Stimulus for the Economy?"Let's hope the president holds his ground on not extending the Bush tax cuts to the richest Americans - who don't need it, don't deserve it and won't help the economy if they get it....

December 3, 2010

Graph for the Day for December 3, 2010

Summer of Recovery & Other Fantasies"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."[1] Barack Obama (June 3, 2008) "As the summer heats up, it is becoming clear that it could quite...

November 24, 2010

Graph for the Day for November 24, 2010

Collateral Damage of the War on Poverty"Nowhere was the effect of the white liberalism of the 1960s on the social evolution of black culture more devastating than in the disintegration of the black family. ... "White liberals, instead of co...

November 17, 2010

Graph for the Day for November 17, 2010

Can Marriage Recover from the Assault of Radical Individualism? Married couple households are now less than half of households in the U.S."The Congress makes the following findings: (1) Marriage is the foundation of a successful society. (2) Mar...

November 10, 2010

Graph for the Day for November 10, 2010

Abstinence programs have no effect ... really? "In 1996, Congress authorized $50 million annually for five years to states for abstinence education programs ... authorized under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act...

November 4, 2010

A Broad-Based Conservative Victory

When words like "huge" or "massive" don't seem big enough to describe the scale of the conservative victories of the midterm election of 2010, the pundits reach for words like "tsunami" and "hurricane." Everybo...

November 2, 2010

The Wrong Track Election

One of the more difficult challenges an incumbent can face is a voting public that thinks the country is on the wrong track. Currently, according to the latest Harris Interactive Poll, two-thirds of Americans (66 percent) believe that America is on t...

October 30, 2010

President Obama and the Radical Socialist Agenda

Stanley Kurtz's new book, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, is a detailed look into the forces that shaped Barack Obama. Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, has written a highly detail...

October 27, 2010

Graph for the Day, October 27, 2010

Call it a "hecession." Job losses fell disproportionately on the shoulders of Massachusetts men for the past few years, underscoring the shift in the economy favoring knowledge workers. ... "Over the last 10 or 15 years, more and more ...

October 19, 2010

Graph for the Day, October 19, 2010

Welfare Reform: The Argument Though we cannot know the future, there are also some things we do know -- namely, that the current welfare system in general, and Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) in particular, is a present-day horror. ...

October 15, 2010

Faith and the Rescued Chilean Miners

As the last rescued Chilean miner came above ground -- after spending 69 days deep in the lower reaches of earth and surrounded by 700,000 tons of unstable rock -- the world watched in awe and tears. The men appeared remarkably healthy after their or...

October 11, 2010

Graph for the Day for October 11, 2010

"The number of Americans receiving food stamps rose to a record 41.8 million in July as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government said.  Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases...

October 7, 2010

Graph for the Day October 7, 2010

"And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone ..." Genesis 2:18."A woman needs a man, like a fish needs a bicycle." Gloria Steinhem/Irina DunnIndex of Change in Poverty - 1983 to 2009 :Change in unrelated mal...

August 15, 2010

Who Needs Torrid?

"Torrid" is the word the nearly 60-year-old congressman used to describe his extended adulterous relationship with a married staffer that destroyed his political career. He is possibly the last politician in this town that most observers --...

July 16, 2010

The CBO Warns the Nation; Is Anybody Listening?

Warning signs are everywhere -- most of them carefully phrased and nuanced, but warnings, nevertheless. Greece and, closer to home, California are painful reminders of what could happen. CNBC is reporting that the Dow is repeating patterns that preva...

June 18, 2010

Lesbian Mothers Think Their Children Are All Above Average

The National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS), just published in the online edition of the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and funded by the Gill Foundation and the Lesbian Health Fund of the Gay Lesbian Medical Associati...

May 1, 2010

ObamaCare: An Unmitigated Disaster

Americans are learning that ObamaCare will pile on insurmountable debt and cause government to encroach on every area of our lives.  ObamaCare is, as Yuval Levin said, an "unmitigated disaster -- for our health care system, for our fiscal f...

March 28, 2010

What You Get with Free Health Care

Most of the arguments supporting the health care reform bill just passed by the Democrats in Congress were myths. These myths were exposed as early as 2008 in a book by Sally C. Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute. Her funny li...

March 18, 2010

ObamaCare is Tyranny, Not Legislation

What we're seeing in Washington, D.C. is not "politics as usual" with the arm twisting and "horse-trading" that is typical in getting a bill passed; instead, it is ideological warfare. What Obama, Reid, and Pelosi are doing is not...

March 3, 2010

What's Wrong with Legalizing Prostitution?

Our culture markets the Pretty Woman myth of the glamorous prostitute earning big money from handsome johns. That works occasionally -- as long as the girl is young, beautiful, and lucky. Even then, the ravages of prostitution over time are not prett...

February 20, 2010

Family Breakdown and the Nation's Pocketbook

In the lobby of the Department of Health and Human Services is a large bronze sculpture of a solitary woman playing with her three children. That sculpture is called "Happy Mother." Nothing better illustrates what's wrong with American cult...

February 19, 2010

Tiger's Authenic Apology and Reasonable Demands

In a world of cheap apologies, America caught a glimpse of the real costs of shame in Tiger Woods' public apology.  Instead of a tearful public display of emotion and a quick return to life as usual, the nation saw a man bowed by the weight of h...

February 12, 2010

The Dangerous Linkage of Naïveté and Good Intentions

When people see children in danger or being harmed, everybody wants to do something to protect them. Few people question the good intentions of the missionaries who were arrested in Haiti for trying to rescue children supposedly orphaned by the devas...

February 6, 2010

Abusegate and Children

President Obama's 2011 federal budget, a nearly $4-trillion monstrosity, includes an increase of $117 million for domestic violence programs -- a 22-percent increase. It is time to shine the light of truth on so-called "domestic violence" i...

January 30, 2010

Now, Pew Says, Marriage Is a Better Deal for Men Than Women

After forty years of preferential treatment in schools and the job market, many women are now better-educated and make more money than men. These changes should surprise no one -- especially not social science researchers. Those who work with the dat...

January 28, 2010

Did Obama's SOTU Pass the Women's Intuition Test?

One Fortune 500 CEO commented that he always brings his wife to dinner with potential top executives because he trusts his wife's intuition as a reliable barometer of a candidate's character and trustworthiness -- important characteristics that aren'...

January 22, 2010

Brown's Victory and Obama's Agenda

Everybody is talking about what Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts means for 2010 and 2012. Will the recent spectacular and surprising GOP victories be short-lived phenomena or a major revolution? Clearly, Democrats should be worried -- attractiv...

December 24, 2009

Christmas Hubris and Partisan Willfulness

Today, on Christmas Eve, Congress is scheduled for a final vote on a massive, destructive, and unpopular health care bill that was cobbled together in secrecy and foisted on the American public via backroom deals and unprecedented partisan willfulnes...

December 19, 2009

Stress and Marital Happiness

Every time I write about marriage, I hear from readers who lament their sexless marriages. The comments are all from men, and they tell of years, sometimes decades, of living together without love, affection, or sexual intimacy. The writers describe ...

December 6, 2009

Manhattan Declaration and Mainstream Values

The recently released Manhattan Declaration, a nearly five-thousand-word document, explains how throughout history, Christians have steadfastly, persistently held to certain fundamental truths of their faith. These truths are not political, nor are t...

December 5, 2009

Of Marathons and Marriage

We recently enjoyed watching our granddaughter (age 16) and grandson (age 14) finish the Richmond Marathon -- her second marathon, his first. My husband had expressed concern that our grandson's preparation had consisted merely of playing junior vars...

November 26, 2009

Thanksgiving Links between the Internet and Freedom

This Thanksgiving, I'm grateful for the Internet and the opportunity it affords for free expression. Granted, filth is just a click away, but the opportunity to exercise free will in harmful ways has been present since the Garden of Eden. Time will t...

November 20, 2009

Marriage Versus the Obama/Pelosi Nanny State

Marriage is one of society's foremost incubators of virtue ­­­­­-- those attitudes and habits that promote health and well-being in the individual and all those with whom he or she interacts. Despite all the derogatory jokes about...

November 15, 2009

The Differences Between Marriage and Cohabitation

Marriage rates are at an all-time low, a fact that has ramifications for all of us. Most people have no clue about the differences between marriage and cohabitation, thus they are completely blasé about a trend that undermines one of the ...

October 10, 2009

Liberty First, Security Second

We learned haunting and currently relevant facts about our nation's history while spending an early fall week in Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown.  For those who founded this nation, opportunity trumped concern for personal safety.  It...

September 12, 2009

Being Sexually Deprived in a Sex-Saturated Culture

    According to the popular television personality and psychologist, Dr. Phil --­ who wades through the intimate details of his guests' as well as his professional clients' lives -- there is an epidemic of "sexless m...

August 30, 2009

The U.N.'s Shocking Sexuality Guidelines

During the summer slump, two United Nations agencies -- United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) -- issued highly controversial new guidelines for sexuality education of childre...

August 22, 2009

HPV Vaccine Facts All Parents Need to Know

I sat at a picnic table listening to various mothers discussing their hectic schedules trying to keep up with teenage daughters, all on the same sports team. When one mother told of squeezing in an appointment that morning to get her daughter the HPV...

June 18, 2009

The National Debate about Late-Term Abortions

Bill O'Reilly only thought he opened up a hornet's nest when he coined the term "death mill" for late-term abortion clinics.  But now public figures are blaming Mr. O'Reilly and pro-life advocates for the death of Dr. George Tiller, th...

May 28, 2009

The Crisis of the Disappearing Educated Male

Over the Memorial Day weekend, many college administrators attended a conference about the absence of men on today's college campuses and expressed concern about the negative experiences and unprecedented challenges facing college men today.  Th...

February 14, 2009

The Rhetorical President

The use of language to persuade is a skill much admired since ancient times.  Few people become leaders without the ability to move others to agree with their arguments.  Rightly understood, rhetoric is only one of the tools of persuasion; ...

January 18, 2009

Obama's Crucial Challenge: The Inaugural Address

I am looking forward to hearing what our next president, Barack Obama, will say in his inaugural address.  The real test - the ultimate question - is whether Mr. Obama will be able to rise to the level that circumstances demand and transcend the...

January 3, 2009

Girls Need a Dad and Boys Need a Mom

The latest issue of The Journal of Communication and Religion (November 2008, Volume 31, Number 2) contains an excellent analysis of the importance of opposite-sex parent relationships.  The common sense conclusion is backed up with social scien...

December 5, 2008

Will Obama Become the Statesman That America Needs?

One of the factors that unites a nation is its shared values -- a universal understanding about such things as what is right or wrong, legal or illegal, good or bad.  These commonalities were referred to by Philip Rieff, an author of the 1960s, ...

November 26, 2008

Buyer's Remorse on the Left

One after another, we are learning the names of the future Obama Administration. Behold, they are not new faces, nor are they the change agents that Obama's campaign rhetoric promised. Instead, we are seeing Clinton retreads and a surprising move tow...

June 21, 2008

John Howard and the Inextricable Link Between Freedom and Faith

John Howard is one of the "Greatest Generation of Americans" -- those Americans who fought in World War II.  When I talked with him, I did not learn that he served in a tank battalion of the First Infantry Division, nor did I learn tha...

April 20, 2008

Straight Talk About Casual Sex

It's not news to anybody these days - not if they watch any television or glance at the covers of the magazines lining the checkout counters at the grocery stores - that we live in a sex-saturated society where supposedly the majority of young people...

April 5, 2008

Reflections on Marriage

More and more these days, it seems like the attitude of the younger generation is "Why marriage?"  It's a good question, and I think the answer lies in part because the romantic ideal is still that a man and a woman will fall in love, ...