February 20, 2016

The key to understanding Hillary Clinton’s lies

It starts in childhood with our mothers.  “Did you eat that cookie before dinner?”  It continues in the teen years, when our father asks, “Where were you last night?”  And it doesn’t stop there.  It i...

October 26, 2015

Hillary Clinton: American Royalty 2015 Style

Not since Senator Ted Kennedy went on prime time television in a neck brace to spin the reasons for the Chappaquiddick accident have I felt so manipulated by a politician as I did by Hillary Clinton in her testimony before the House Benghazi Committe...

February 20, 2015

Why Secular Elites Ignore Religion

In the midst if another round of beheadings and similar Muslim atrocities, we continue to receive the typical government response focusing on jobs and improving the lives of young Muslim men as the primary solution to terrorism. State Department spok...

April 14, 2014

The American Left is Positively Putinesque

Vladimir Putin’s tactics in both Crimea and now Eastern Ukraine seem transparent to the western media. Using tactics designed to “protect” its citizens, Russia annexed Crimea. Georgia fell to a similar fate when George Bush was pres...

December 9, 2013

Counter-Moves in the American Economy

Did anyone notice the counter-moves emerging in the American economy last week? The week after the President of the United States sat in a Washington DC park with illegal immigrants telling them that "change" would only come about by their continuing...

July 7, 2013

Why We Will Never Win the Argument Against Gay Marriage by Quoting the Bible

Is marriage God's idea? Yes, of course. Will we win the argument by quoting Scripture or arguing marriage as a religious institution? I doubt it. Why? Because marriage is not a religious institution. In the past I have heard a lot of Christians def...

May 23, 2013

Intentional Irresponsibility

The Obama Administration's attempt to deny involvement in any of the recent scandals is both intentional and possibly mortally wounding. The executive branch of the United States government is out of control, while Americans wonder who is responsib...

May 2, 2013

The Great Reversal

The President of the United States comes out in favor of gay marriage. An NBA journeyman player announces that he is gay. The media hails this as a triumphal event. The President of the United States calls the player to congratulate him on his "coura...

January 20, 2013

The 'Diversity' Movement: Defeating Itself, Destroying Society

As America vaults itself into a period of accelerated change in areas of culture, politics, religion (or lack thereof), marriage, health care, and a whole host of other arenas, the term we hear more and more from government, higher education, and bus...

December 10, 2012

Why We Lost: The Big Picture

Critics of the Republican loss in the presidential election, which returned the status quo to Washington for another four years, have spent a number of weeks analyzing the reasons for the debacle. Pundits have put forth demographics, messaging, the O...

November 16, 2012

Liberals Want It Both Ways on Women

Women - that's all we heard about in the 2012 election. Who they voted for and why, married and unmarried, the role of government in their lives, equal pay, government subsidized birth control and on and on. The media told us they were late deciders ...

November 2, 2012

Don't Call Me In a Year Or Two and Say You Didn't Know

One of the most powerful cultural metaphors we possess is the image of the frog in the kettle. But there is one problem with the metaphor. We know when the frog entered the kettle, he was still alive. We also know that when the water rose to a boil t...

October 6, 2012

Myths about the rich, the economy and taxes

I was a financial advisor for nearly twenty years. The two things I learned about the wealthy is 1. They have already made their money and 2. The government isn't going to get a whole lot more of it. The first truth means that the rich don't need to ...

September 7, 2012

President Obama Fails to Make the Case for Re-election in Charlotte

Toward the end of President Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte last night, he said something unusual. He paused and remarked. "I am no longer a candidate. I am the president." The audience cheered. It was as ...

September 6, 2012

Nice Try Bill (Updated)

Last night Bill Clinton made a valiant effort to equate his own style of governing with Barack Obama's. He portrayed the man who was supposed to be the first post-partisan president, who passed the most significant piece of social legislation in a g...

July 6, 2012

Americans Should Treat the Federal Government Like Family

Like a parent taking away a teenager's credit card, Americans must demand that federal spending stop or face financial ruin.  No matter what the justification to continue them, spending programs must be cut. One day, your teenage daughter, witho...

May 20, 2012

Why Obama Touted Foreign Birth

Well it turns out that the person who has been touting President Barack Obama's foreign roots all this time has been none other than...Barack Obama himself. Sure, the record in words was left by his publicist back in 1991 when Obama's brief booklet w...

April 2, 2012

Liberalism Jumps the Shark on Obamacare

One of the greatest sleights of hand in political history has been the cultural coup liberalism has waged on American life since the 1960's, a takeover accomplished with few votes actually cast in its favor. How does a group that numbers a mere 20% o...

January 21, 2012

How our crazy talk about money is endangering our economic future.

Three events this week have clearly illustrated that candidate Barack Obama's promise to "fundamentally change" America may be coming true. All of them deal with how President Obama and many of his followers choose to talk about money. This is a huge...

January 16, 2012

Time to get behind Romney

I wrote a piece a few weeks ago marshalling the case that Newt Gingrich would win the Republican nomination. That case was predicated on two major trends materializing. The first was that the nomination would come down to Newt and Mitt Romney. The s...

January 7, 2012

The media is not giving a clear picture of 'going negative'

Mitt Romney's super-pac spent multiple millions in Iowa attacking Newt Gingrich. In the bizarre "arms length" world of campaign fund-raising, Romney was able to avoid criticism for this behavior by deftly employing a "don't ask, don't tell" response ...

November 24, 2011

Why Congressional Approval Ratings Are Meaningless

A slew of articles are telling Americans that approval ratings for the US Congress are horribly low, in the single digits. The accompanying polls inform us that Congress has lower approval ratings than pornography, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and...

September 22, 2011

Why Liberals Love Compromise

Cheered on by the media, the left demands that politicians in Washington and everyone else "compromise" for the good of the Republic.  But compromise is the problem, not the solution. Since the 1960s, the political game has been set up as an ine...

August 12, 2011

Between Hillary and a Hard Place

Many Americans have concluded that Barack Obama is Jimmy Carter.  The parallels simply flood the mind: economic malaise, pervasive unemployment, a languid stock market, the revival of the "misery index," saber-rattling by Iran met with tepid Ame...

August 7, 2011

The debt downgrade

Someone asked me to reflect on the downgrade of US debt over the weekend. The bottom line is that it is not political.  The rating agencies were established (S & P in 1941) at different points after the Great Depression to give outside opini...

July 31, 2011

Why It's Time to Speak about God Again

America is living under an illusion: the idea that we can expunge God (broadly understood) from our national and public belief system and still operate a moral and accountable government. C.S. Lewis summed up the problem in The Abolition of Man....

December 2, 2010

Liberal Excuses for Conservative Victory

Following their electoral repudiation, the left is handing out very few mea culpas. Instead, we are getting a lot of whining, excuses, spinning, and outright distortions. Other than those 43 House Democrats who wanted someone other than Nancy Pelosi ...