October 2, 2023

Tehran’s shrewd shadow play

In 2014, as the world’s gaze bore down relentlessly on Iran’s covert nuclear ambitions, Tehran launched a clandestine influence operation known as the Iran Experts Initiative (IEI). Departing from the garish spectacle of conventional prop...

August 10, 2023

Is Iran Preparing to Commit Another Massacre?

In 1988, the Iranian theocracy committed one of the worst mass murders in history since World War II.  The majority of the 30,000 victims were political prisoners affiliated with the main opposition, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK).  Amon...

November 28, 2021

Trial of a Mass Murderer Has the Men Running Iran on Edge

During a rendezvous at the United Nations General Assembly, the Iranian regime's foreign minister lodged a formal complaint with his Swedish counterpart about the trial of Hamid Noury, a former Iranian official, in Stockholm.  Hoss...

March 24, 2021

Media companies bill is bait and switch to strangle conservative outlets

The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JPCA) is a bait-and-switch attempt that claims to help conservative news sources but would instead purge them from the marketplace of ideas.  Congress should reject it for the freedom-killer ...

November 9, 2020

Governor Wolf and his legion of darkness must be stopped in Pennsylvania

What is happening in Pennsylvania is a dark moment for America. Under the leadership of Governor Wolf and his liberal regime, the Pennsylvania elections system has been completely compromised. It has become clear the leadership in this state is anti-...

November 4, 2020

A defense of the Electoral College

Without question, the 2020 presidential election is one of the most heated and divisive in recent memory.  Current tensions have brought not only disagreements, bickering, and violence, but also misplaced distrust in the functionality of th...

October 13, 2020

No quicker way to destroy America's fabric than to pack the Supreme Court

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are redefining the words "court packing" in a manner worthy of George Orwell's 1984, ironically previewing how a packed (i.e., expanded) Supreme Court would redefine the Constitution's words, abolishing o...

October 9, 2020

C'mon, man: Biden must answer court-packing question

The Commission on Presidential Debates will become irreversibly illegitimate unless it reverses course on in-person debates, which alone can force Joe Biden to answer the single most important question in this election: whether Biden would pack to th...

October 8, 2020

Trump's health care plan: More to look forward to

Two weeks ago, I was in a meeting with Vice President Mike Pence to talk about some of the issues facing our great nation.  Our discussion ranged from the Supreme Court nomination to the COVID-19 pandemic and included an outline of the...

August 1, 2020

The stealth 'Green New Deal'

We are three months from the Presidential election, and the stakes for the future of America have never been higher. The COVID-19 global pandemic knocked America's robust economy back on its heels. As states cautiously reopen, President Trump ...

July 30, 2020

BLM's popularity is a politically motivated myth

The supposed popularity of "Black Lives Matter, Inc." is a complete fantasy — willfully repeated ad nauseam by the left and the media — that is distorting public discourse around the wave of radicalism that has ravaged our citie...

July 28, 2020

Equal accountability needed for Chinese firms listed on U.S. exchanges

In 2001, Enron, then one of the most admired companies in the United States, collapsed in scandal and bankruptcy. Questions began emerging a year earlier regarding the energy giant’s accounting practices after investors, analysts, and reporters...

July 21, 2020

Memo to Congress: everyone benefits from health care price transparency

Carbery Campbell taught in Spain this spring and unfortunately contracted the coronavirus while traveling back to Florida. She did the right thing and got tested at her local hospital. Thankfully, Carbery beat the coronavirus but was punished with a...

July 14, 2020

Stimulate job growth, not the printing press, in next COVID relief package

U.S. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and the rest of the U.S. Senate are working on a new COVID relief bill the Legislative Branch will consider in July.  This raises the question: what should...

July 4, 2020

Biden's Sister Souljah moment that wasn't

Sorry, Joe.  It's too little, too late. At one of his strikingly rare press availabilities in Delaware, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden did his best to stage his own "Sister Souljah Moment." For tho...

July 2, 2020

Senior living facilities: All the vote fraud we cannot see

Despite prosecutions and public stories identifying vote fraud activists targeting seniors, many in our media and political class continue to deny that our elderly population can be singled out for vote manipulation and suppression.  Vote fra...

June 30, 2020

Trump saves jobs for Americans with visa restrictions that anger globalists

No sooner had the ink dried on President Trump's executive order that broadened his original April 22 immigration pause to include several categories of temporary, employment-based visas than globalists put up a collective howl.  To pow...

June 25, 2020

A focused coalition is primed to uproot Iran's despots

For the past 40 years, Iran's despots have been the primary state sponsors of terrorism around the world and atrocious human rights abusers at home.  Iran has been a dangerous irritant for much of the world.  Millions have bee...

June 15, 2020

We're not buying Joe Biden's 'tough on China' Act

Joe Biden is running away from his record as the "pro-China" candidate so quickly that his defenders in the liberal press can't make heads or tails of it.  Ordinary Americans are equally confused. Biden spent over three dec...

June 8, 2020

Race, Justice, and Religious Liberty

As an African American who has held elected office at the state and local level and served as the U.S. Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Commission, I believe a full and frank discussion on issues of race and injustice is important. I also know to...

May 6, 2020

Honoring America’s Great Generation by Protecting their Votes

America holds its “Greatest Generation” in a unique place of honor. We treasure the enormous contributions the men and women who are now our senior citizens have made to our freedom and prosperity, at home and abroad. Yet the sacred ri...

April 27, 2020

COVID-19 and international best practices for free, fair, and safe elections

This pandemic may seem as though it's changed everything, but it has not changed the rules of our constitutional republic.  Let's keep it that way. At the moment, there is a movement afoot to junk in-person voting, the manner in ...

April 4, 2020

House Democrats reveal plan to attack security of military votes

Since the Minutemen of Lexington and Concord rallied to the cause of liberty in 1775, the American military has held a unique place of respect and affection in our national ethos. Yet in the Coronavirus relief package recently passed by Congress, ...

April 1, 2020

Democrats' Energy Policies Hurt Black Americans

Both Democrat presidential candidates, Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, have bowed to the demands of progressive activists by adopting extreme green energy policies that hurt black American voters.  As a result, leaders of normally progre...

March 13, 2020

Coronavirus Spread Echoes Iran's Destructive Influence

In Iran, official estimates of the infection rate and death toll from coronavirus keep accelerating.  But even after recording 54 deaths on Tuesday alone, the regime's narrative of the local epidemic is still nowhere near reality. Ac...

February 28, 2020

New sanctions turn the screws on Venezuela's Maduro

Vladimir Putin relishes using Russia's political and economic power to destabilize and disrupt nations.  One example of such activity is in Venezuela, where Russia has been propping up Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro...

January 14, 2020

Don't be fooled by liberal dark money influence

Hypocrisy in politics is typical, but every so often, it reaches a new low.  Such is the case with a recent political ad attacking dark money's influence in politics — an ad funded by dark money. ...

July 25, 2019

Democrats Use the Specter of Racism to Sow Racial Discord

Democrats routinely blame Donald Trump for exacerbating racial tensions, but they're the ones who made the stoking of ethnic conflict a hallmark of their electoral strategy long before 2016. President Lyndon Johnson, for instance, reportedly v...

July 18, 2019

Supporting Iran’s Resistance

Bipartisanship is a rare commodity in today’s political environment. And to the extent that members of both parties are able to achieve consensus in principle, it is even rarer for both to lay claim to accomplishments in the same area. Neverthe...

July 12, 2019

New Bestseller Reveals Liberal Women Carried the Day for Kavanaugh

Pundits credit different events for turning the tide on now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s contentious Supreme Court confirmation. Some point to Kavanaugh’s impassioned testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Still others ...

June 18, 2019

Why Do Democrats Have a Secret List of Supreme Court Nominees?

If hypocrisy equals people, Democrats in Washington are China.  The latest example of such bold duplicity by the Democratic Party is the secret "A-list" of potential Supreme Court (SCOTUS) judges Democrats refuse to reveal while t...

June 13, 2019

Lingering Obama-Era Move at CFPB Now Threatens Credit Markets

As college graduates have their commencement celebrations, they certainly hope their hard work will pay off.  After all, in the booming Trump economy and with record low unemployment, there are countless opportunities for entrepreneurship a...

June 4, 2019

Liberals are gunning for your 401(k)

Trump-hating liberal activists know how to cause trouble.  With record low unemployment numbers and a thriving economy, we have seen well organized activists interrupting town halls, blocking traffic in major cities, and using violence. ...

December 20, 2018

Congress Must Follow President Trump's Lead to Reduce Recidivism and Build Safer Communities

Just in time for the Christmas holiday – which symbolizes the opportunity for hope and renewal for tens of millions of Americans – the Senate has delivered another occasion for many across the country to be hopeful: a major, bipartisan vi...

September 20, 2018

Trump: Expected to Advance Religious Liberty at the UN

Every year, without fail, the Islamic Republic of Iran is ranked as one of the worst countries in the world for religious freedom.  Persecution of religious minorities is rampant and deeply ingrained in government institutions, and Christia...

September 11, 2018

Houston, We Have a Problem

Texas has a dramatic history when it comes to voting.  "Landslide Lyndon" Johnson, who went on to become America's 36th president, benefited from blatant fraud to win his first Senate race in 1948.  Following a runof...

August 3, 2018

The Left Wants to Control Ohio Elections

Hyper-partisan liberals once again have their eyes on Ohio.  This time, they want to take over the office in charge of making sure the state's elections are fair, honest and transparent.  Judging from the money they're spe...

July 30, 2018

ACLU Now Defending Etiquette, Not Speech

The American Civil Liberties Union once deserved respect. The organization got a lot of issues wrong, but it consistently backed civil liberties. Today the ACLU appears to be just another left-wing interest group. Civil liberties deserve protectio...

April 14, 2018

Time to Reverse America's Innovation Decline

America's position as the world's innovation leader is in peril.  A decade of bad public policy combined with a judiciary that fundamentally misunderstands the importance of intellectual property protection has driven this downward ...

March 5, 2017

Why the Democrats Sit on Their Hands

President Donald Trump has spoken to Congress and the nation.  He did what Democrats and some Republicans said he could not.  He provided Americans with a positive vision and offered realistic solutions, with an overriding theme to bring pe...

February 12, 2017

Time for Trump to make his acting FTC chair permanent

After a stunning election win, President Trump is off to a fast start implementing major change.  The president and his administration are moving aggressively to implement pro-growth policies that will boost our economy after years of a sluggish...

February 10, 2017

Neil Gorsuch: The President's Home Run for the Supreme Court

  If you listen to the Democrats, they claim that President Donald Trump is out to wreck the U.S. government.  But when leaders of the party begun by Thomas Jefferson talk about Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, they worry that he will...

February 6, 2017

Election Integrity Can’t Wait

For years, Republicans have pushed to improve election integrity. Democrats, aided by the courts, have fiercely resisted efforts to ensure honest elections. But there’s no good argument against making sure that everyone who casts a ballot is el...

November 7, 2016

Hillary Is a Cheater

Not too long ago, Democrats were the ones claiming that elections were stolen. While serving as Ohio secretary of state, I saw wild accusations and ridiculous lawsuits from Democrats and left-wing advocacy groups in an attempt to delegitimize elec...

November 2, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s dream is America’s nightmare

To say the 2016 presidential election is dramatic would be an understatement.  Never before have we had so many revelations, leaks, and shocking moments in an election.  The revelation that Hillary Clinton consigliere Huma Abedin’s es...

August 28, 2016

Hillary Clinton: From Glass Ceiling to Crass Dealing

The world has seen a number of women as top political leaders.  Theresa May is the second female prime minister in Great Britain, after Maggie Thatcher.  Angela Merkel is the long-serving chancellor of Germany.  Years ago, there was In...

July 29, 2016

U.S. Policy Should Work to Transform Iran

In around 100 days America will be witnessing a crucial election. In the meantime, much will be done on both sides of the national divide, and this year we may see more than the usual political maneuvering in the run-up to this election. Regardles...

July 26, 2016

Democratic Platform: Killing the Unborn Is Fine with Us

The Democratic Party is about to approve the most radically pro-abortion platform in its history. It’s a Hillary platform, a Hillary party, and a Hillary convention. Tragically, making it easier to kill unborn children has been a Hillary Clinto...

July 5, 2016

An Iranian Voice Republicans and Democrats Should Heed

Okay, Let’s face it -- the two presidential nominees have effectively been chosen. The Democratic and Republican National Conventions are ahead of us, and the U.S. is on the precipice of a highly contentious several months of campaigning. Di...

January 31, 2016

Can Chris Christie be trusted to appoint federal judges?

It's Republican presidential primary "game time," and where the party's candidates stand on the proper role of judges in our representative democracy could not be a more important – or, in most respects, a more unifying ...

October 21, 2015

Who Is Greener?

We are seeing an interesting phenomenon in Europe and in the U.S.  "Green" candidates and officeholders are vying to outdo one another in boasting of their environmental credentials.  In debates here and abroad, it's not uncom...

July 24, 2015

President Obama to Abortionists: 'Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you.'

Planned Parenthood pays no taxes. Under President Obama, made more than $500 million in profits, but they claim to be a “non-profit” organization. They kill more 800 children every day. And they have from the earliest days targeted minori...

June 24, 2015

Progressivism, Obama, and Islam

Looking at President Obama’s foreign policy toward the Muslim world, especially Iran, makes me feel as if America has followed Alice into Wonderland. Nothing makes sense anymore, as the surreal has displaced the logical. Given Mr. Obama’s...

June 11, 2015

Conference on Iran: Making the case for a different path for Iran citizens

Over 622,000 Syrian refugees languish in squalid conditions just across the border from the homeland in Jordan.  They have almost nothing, they lack the most basic of possessions, they have no opportunity to work, and their futures have been rob...

May 22, 2015

War is a Four-Letter Word Spelled I-R-A-N

House Foreign Relations Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.) recently briefed members of the Israel Allies Caucus on Capitol Hill. He spoke to supporters about Iran. Leading off with a question from decades ago: "What distinguishes the United State...

November 21, 2014

If you like Jon Gruber, just remember Ira Magaziner!

Fans of federal health care takeovers are trying to distance themselves from Dr. Jonathan Gruber.  Even President Obama is now calling Gruber "some adviser."  Well, he sure is some adviser!  He is the one who n...

October 22, 2014

America's Number One Vote Suppressor?

President Obama! When he was first running for statewide office in Illinois, state Sen. Barack Obama said he could not support marriage for same-sex couples because “I am a Christian.” When, just four years later, in 2008, he was asked...

October 17, 2014

Mr. Obama's <em>November</em> Surprise

The phrase “October Surprise” has a long history in American politics.  It refers to that event, policy, or government statement that changes everything in advance of the famous “first Tuesday after the first Monday in November...

September 10, 2014

Secretary Clinton: Stop Digging!

It’s one of the oldest rules in politics. And it’s one that her husband, Bill Clinton, made famous: “When you’re in a hole, stop digging!” So why is Secretary Hillary Clinton continuing to dig away? Her book tour was ...

September 6, 2014

Don't Worry Joe Biden, We'll Remember You!

“Don’t forget about me,” Joe Biden pleaded earlier this summer. With all the focus then on Hillary Clinton’s disastrous book launch, the Vice President wanted everyone to remember that he is standing by, ready and willing to s...

August 13, 2014

So Why Is Hillary Doing Stupid Things?

“Great nations need organizing principles – and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.”  So said former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton in an interview with The Atlantic.  So why is she doi...

June 19, 2014

Hillary's Jugger-Not?

“I’m ready for Hillary,” read the bumper stickers in fashionable Georgetown, the swankIest part of Washington, D.C. These messages are juxtaposed with many a tattered “2012” bumper sticker with the fading Obama logo. Are...

January 8, 2014

They Will Lie to Your Casket

The New York Times recently published a 7,500-word coverup to exculpate the Obama administration in their atrocious dereliction of duty with respect to killing of four Americans at Benghazi in 2012. Like a frightened octopus, the left is exuding a va...

December 6, 2013

Is ObamaCare Barack Obama's Vietnam?

When Vice President Lyndon Johnson returned to Capitol Hill after his first White House meeting with the new team assembled by President John F. Kennedy, he rushed to talk with his mentor, House Speaker Sam Rayburn. LBJ told his fellow Texan how impr...

February 5, 2013

As Hillary Leaves

Softly, I will leave you softlyFor my heart would break if you should wake and see me goSo I leave you softly, long before you miss meLong before your arms can beg me stayFor one more hour or one more day. Hillary Clinton departed the State Departmen...

November 2, 2012

Beggar Off-in-Chief

When the record of the American press is written about this election, and especially concerning the Benghazi debacle, most of the media ombudspersons will issue their predictable clucking noises about how their sheets really should have taken the mur...

September 13, 2012

A Worm in the Apple

Apple is a great American success story, and we can say of the late Steve Jobs: He did build that. But there's a problem with Apple in China. The Beijing government's forced abortion policy is worming its way into the factories of Apple, Inc. Twenty-...

July 29, 2012

The 14^th Victim at Fort Hood

I have written recently of President Obama's "covert zeal" for the spread of abortion.  I took that phrase from Abraham Lincoln's description of how President Franklin Pierce and Sen. Stephen A. Douglas sought -- covertly -- to spread slavery in...

July 27, 2012

Boot Iran from the UN

Every fall, it seems, Americans are subjected to the ugly spectacle of Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad coming to New York to address the UN General Assembly. There, at the podium, he is placed on a par with President Obama, Prime Minister David Camer...

June 5, 2012

The Fate of Syria's Christian Minority

Four years ago, Israeli "dove" Avi Primor cooed over the prospects for a comprehensive peace settlement in the Mideast.  The "key" to peace, wrote Israel's former ambassador to Germany, lies in Damascus.  Amb. Primor wrote that if Israel wo...

December 23, 2011

Obama's Mount Gushmore

Well, that didn't last.  President Obama went out to Osawatomie, Kansas, to deliver what the White House told us in hushed tones was a major address. He proclaimed it "the defining issue of our time."  It's more than that; it's the "make or...

August 7, 2011

Let The People Decide Marriage Issues

Advocates for extending marriage rights to same-sex couples think they are on a roll with New York State's action.  Lawmakers and lobbyists cut a midnight backroom deal to push a marriage bill through Albany.  They would not dare to submit ...

July 15, 2011

Shovel-Ready in the Middle East?

Osama bin Laden famously said that people in his region always follow the strong horse.  President Obama sent bin Laden to sleep with the sturgeons earlier this year in a move widely hailed.  No one but the michaelmoores complained that bin...

April 8, 2011

Mr. Obama's Muddle East

President Obama came into office pledging a new approach to the Middle East.  We were told that his middle name -- Hussein -- would give him unprecedented entrée to the corridors of power in that troubled region -- and to the Arab street....

March 18, 2011

Honoring All our World War I Heroes

President Obama and Vice President Biden this week paid an unannounced visit to Arlington National Cemetery . They went there to offer the thanks of a grateful nation for the service of Frank Buckles, the last known survivor of the American "Do...

January 13, 2011

A Bright Idea: Rescue the Incandescents

Why is Paris known as the City of Light?  Is it because the U.S. Congress banned Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulbs, so he had to take his invention offshore?Well, not actually.  Thomas Edison was an honoree at the 1889 Paris Universa...

December 19, 2010

Obama, McCartney, and the Taxman!

It was a great event at the White House last June.  Sir Paul McCartney came to be honored by President Obama.  And he thrilled the glittering company with his rendering of that classic Beatles hit -- "Michelle." Sir Paul cooed to ...

December 8, 2010

Hillary's Bad Hair Week

Even the Washington Post's Chris Cilizza noticed. He designated Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as having "the worst week in Washington."  This is something of a comedown among liberals, who have been fawning over Hillary.  Cil...

November 11, 2010

Barack Obama: the Most Anti-Israel President!

With his remarks in Jakarta, Indonesia, President Obama made history once again. Sadly, it's a most unenviable title. I believe he is the most anti-Israel President in U.S. history.In going to Jakarta, Indonesia, to launch his latest attack, he liter...

October 30, 2010

John Kerry and the People in the Cheap Seats

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is frustrated. He recently spoke to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and complained that we are in "a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don't weigh in. It's all short-...

October 16, 2010

How to Really Reform the U.N.

President Obama famously responded to a question about "American exceptionalism." Asked by a reporter if he believed in it, Mr. Obama replied, "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British e...

September 30, 2010

President to Parents: "Do As I Say..."

Parents of the 216 students in Washington, D.C. who have seen Mr. Obama's congressional cohorts gut the Opportunity Scholarship program must have found cold comfort from the president's soothing words on NBC. The Heritage Foundation's able education ...

September 23, 2010

November's Coming: Give 'Em Fritz

Fritz Mondale has weighed in. Jimmy Carter's vice president surely has not helped President Obama. He just gave an interview to the fashionably liberal New Yorker Magazine. That famously with-it publication titled its Mondale piece "Back to the ...

July 30, 2010

Gen. Jones is Not a Useful Idiot

Gen. James Jones is not a "useful idiot." He's a well-educated, most respected military professional. He's also a highly decorated Marine. He is President Obama's National Security Adviser. Ordinarily, that would be good news for all Americ...

July 15, 2010

Spy Swap or Spy Flop?

The Obama administration is getting kudos for its quick action in the Russian spy case. Ten Russian spies were apprehended, allowed to plead guilty to a reduced charge of failing to register as agents of a foreign government, and put on a plane for M...

July 10, 2010

Obama's 'Fly Me to the Crescent Moon' Policy

Maybe it's the Dog Days of Summer. Perhaps it's the heat -- 102 degrees in Washington -- that's getting to people's heads. But President Obama's latest policy, announced by his NASA administrator, astronaut Charles Bolden, is about to melt down.Speak...

June 4, 2010

Churchill's Bad Idea

"We must recreate the European family ... a United States of Europe." That's the way former Prime Minister Winston Churchill put it in September 1946, at the University of Zurich. He had just recently been ousted by an election in Britain. ...

May 25, 2010

Dhimmicrats on the March?

What's a dhimmicrat, you say? It's not the same thing as a Democrat. A dhimmicrat is a person who, while not Muslim himself, nonetheless clears the path for shariah law to be adopted and incorporated into otherwise free nations. One prime example of ...

April 25, 2010

Truman Was Right; Netanyahu Would Be Right

President Obama's new Nuclear Posture Review has succeeded mightily in muddying the clear waters. He says that we will not use nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear power. Except Iran. Except North Korea. If we are attacked with biological or chemica...

April 15, 2010

What, No Hillary?

The White House very quickly got out in front of a story. There is no truth to the rumors that President Obama might name Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the Supreme Court. The president has the highest respect for his onetime rival for the Dem...

April 8, 2010

Victory Lip?

Byron York of Washington's Examiner has done us all a great service. His column draws on the unguarded statements of Sen. Max Baucus and former Gov. Howard Dean. (Well, Baucus, maybe. It's hard to say whether Howlin' Howard has ever made a guarded st...

March 19, 2010

What Crisis?

President Obama needs every vote he can get in the House of Representatives for health care this week. So it would not do to have some of his best friends on the Hill think that there is a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations right now. Asked directly by...

March 8, 2010

Guess Who's Coming to Your House!

It's all supposed to be voluntary, those "home visits" that are tucked into the mammoth Obamacare bill. If you have a strong stomach, and a stronger bottom, you can find home visitation on pages 568-595. That's Section 2951 of H.R. 3590, th...

February 27, 2010

Do Liberal Editors Read Their Papers?

Circulation for the New York Times is way down. Some people are seriously speculating that the days of America's great newspapers are over. They may be replaced by Kindle, or iPad, or some other newer technology. This is not a new problem. The bygone...

February 21, 2010

Climate Change Debate Over? It's Just Begun!

Ronald Reagan used to say of the Soviets that they liked the arms race a whole lot better when they were the only ones in it. The same could be said of Al Gore and global warming -- oops, excuse me: climate change. Mr. Gore was much happier to dash a...

January 22, 2010

The Debt Reduction Commission: Another Gergen-Shields Show

Whenever the Establishment in Washington gets a Big Idea about the need to get beyond partisanship, reach for your wallet. The latest Big Idea is President Obama's proposal for an Executive Commission on Debt Reduction. The idea is modeled on the Bas...

January 4, 2010

Letters for Obama

Historian H.W. Brands has done a great service to all Americans in his newly edited version of the letters of Theodore Roosevelt. More than a century ago, in 1905, President Roosevelt basked in congratulations from around the world. He had just negot...

December 20, 2009

Abolishing Marriage in Washington, D.C.

The liberal newspapers are hailing the passage of a counterfeit marriage bill by the District of Columbia City Council as a breakthrough for what they call "marriage equality." It's not. It's abolishing marriage. That's because when everyon...

November 25, 2009

Dismiss General Casey

We don't yet know how bad the Ft. Hood shooter's case was. We do not know -- and we must find out -- how it was possible for an Army medical officer to openly express treasonous statements and not be court-martialed. We do not know if the shooter or ...

November 20, 2009

Obama's Indecision

"Cost of indecision about Afghanistan is mounting." That's not a headline in Human Events or some conservative blog. It's the title of a column by the dean of liberal Washington pundits, David Broder. Even David Broder is concerned about Pr...

November 7, 2009

A New Study on Bisphenol A (BPA)

A brand-new EPA study that was published on October 30th, 2009, is worth noting   In this study a controversial chemical is once again identified by independent research experts to be  danger-free.  Environmental activists and a s...

November 4, 2009

The Gray Lady Goes Gaga

Do the editors of the New York Times do anything these days besides lay off writers? Do they actually read the paper they publish? There was a time when the New York Times -- liberal though it always has been -- was nonetheless read and respected by ...

October 26, 2009

John Kerry to the Rescue

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee's new chairman is John Kerry. He replaced Joe Biden when the latter was installed as Vice President. Kerry was in Afghanistan when the administration impressed him into service to read the riot act to that count...

October 15, 2009

PETA's Peculiar 'Partners'

Will PETA be the next ACORN?  Conservative blogs and websites have been working to uncover a scandal at PETA which has the potential to destroy the credibility of the radical animal-rights organization.  For example, at BigGovernment.com, M...

October 5, 2009

What, Me Racist?

I've been called a lot of things in my long political career. But I've never before been called a racist. I'm reminded of Alfred E. Neumann-the crazy, grinning boy on the cover of the old MAD Magazine. His motto was: What, me worry? What, me racist?H...

September 24, 2009

'Our Time has Come' Or Has It?

Some Muslims are organizing a Capitol Hill Prayer Meeting for this Friday, September 25th. They are claiming that 50,000 American Muslims will peaceably assemble to offer prayers on the grounds of one of the nation's most cherished sites. Their theme...

September 18, 2009

Munich of the Skies

It is very nearly the seventy-first anniversary of the infamous Munich agreement. That was the 1938 summit conference in the strongly Nazi Bavarian city that brought together Germany's Hitler, Italy's Mussolini, Britain's Chamberlain, and France's Da...

September 1, 2009

Obama's Dog Didn't Bark

Many of us remember the Sherlock Holmes story we read in high school. A famous racehorse is stolen from a barn at night. The barn was guarded by a dog.Scotland Yard, England's famous police headquarters, sends Inspector Gregory to investigate, but Sh...

August 15, 2009

Putin's Reset Button: Pressing Ukraine

It's really amazing how soon the Obama administration's chickens are coming home to roost. They made a big deal out of finding a "reset" button for U.S.-Russia relations. They wanted to reject what they saw as George W. Bush's truculence ov...

July 31, 2009

Hope, Change and Iran

Barack Obama took a lot of criticism from John McCain and others for promising to meet with Iran's ruling Mullahs without preconditions. When he was contending with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination last year, Obama's promise to change ou...

July 23, 2009

A Chemical Scare Campaign Is Good Business for Some

Last month, the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS), a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization affiliated with George Mason University, released "Science Suppressed: How America became obsessed with BPA," a report which accuses the ...

July 14, 2009

What's This? Praise for Malaise?

Recently, some misguided Republicans caucused and advised us all to "get over our nostalgia for Ronald Reagan." Is that what they think it is? With such confusion all around, it's no wonder that some liberals are poised to bring back Jimmy ...

July 11, 2009

From Russia -- Without Love

President Obama's recent trip to Russia contrasts sharply with Ronald Reagan's 1988 visit to Moscow. President Reagan reached out to the Russian people, too. He gave the first nationally televised speech ever delivered-uncensored-to the peoples of Ru...

April 8, 2009

Obama's Radical Foreign Policy Sacrifices Sovereignty

While North Korea's missile test shows just how menacing the world can be, Barack Obama has unveiled a radical foreign policy. This policy leaves American troops carrying all the risks in overseas combat, while lowering our defenses at the same time ...