Guest Essay
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How is that being elected president is now also a stand-in for "Christian of the Year" award?
The recent shooting inside a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey is the latest example that we Americans are literally killing ourselves with hatred for our neighbors.
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is on to something: Americans could use a big "freedom dividend" — that is, a guaranteed source of income on which they can rely month after month, free from the uncertainties of the job market and employment.
The recent partisan impeachment vote against President Donald J. Trump (with threats of additional impeachments should he be reelected) adds to the concerns many Americans have about the likelihood of a future federal government substantially controlled by leftist, socialist politicians. Some observers believe such control could occur as early as the November 2024 national elections due to, among other things, millions of Millennials voting for socialist, far-left candidates coupled with widespread voter fraud in a few key electoral states.
I thought it was a bad idea from the start. WASDA, the school-board association, had recommended we adopt a transgender policy that would allow students to use the opposite bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers of their biological sex.
Vox recently publish an article by Ian Millhiser in which he proclaimed that Democrats should fear the resurrection of the "largely defunct doctrine" of nondelegation because of the threat it poses to the administrative state run by expert bureaucrats created by progressives and expanded by Democrats. He is correct. Democrats should fear that the Supreme Court will strike down this unconstitutional doctrine, reign in the administrative state, and force Congress to do the hard work of legislating for the national good.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is stronger than ever before thanks to President Trump's emphasis on burden-sharing.
Sitting in my car on the Santa Monica Freeway on my way to an early morning meeting on the west side of Los Angeles, I realized something had to change. My home state for the past 30 years was dramatically a worse place to live. This trip was going to take 2.5 hours in the car to get 45 miles, and that was only one way!
Our national anthem calls our country "the land of the free and the home of the brave." Every country has brave people in it, but to say that this is the home of the brave is saying something different, something more. It means that bravery is an essential part of what it means to be an American. And why would that be?
The Democrat-led impeachment inquisition is a direct threat to the health of every American. The media feigned outrage when President Trump declared, "I wouldn't be surprised if the hoax didn't come a little bit from some of the [industries like pharmaceuticals] that we're taking on. They're very powerful. They spend a lot of money — spend, I think, more money than any other group in the world actually, in terms of lobbying and lobbying abilities. And I wouldn't be surprised." I wouldn't be surprised, either.
In 2020, we will observe the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts. It will highlight a four-century-long tradition of religious freedom in America.
"Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord" — a pretty flat declaration as reported by the Apostle Paul, leaving few gaps for politicians to fill at their own discretion. But you know politicians. Here we go with the impeachment hearings, an intended spectacle meant more as payback to President Donald Trump for winning the election than as a high-minded act of democratic reprobation.
While many Americans despise some of the things President Trump says, scholars and historians generally rate presidents mainly according to their achievements and their ability to sense what the public needs and wants, and their ability to act to satisfy these needs and wants. Less importance is placed on a president's words, mannerisms, and idiosyncrasies.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly slammed the secret impeachment hearings in the Capitol basement as "a totally compromised kangaroo court." Sounds like Speaker Nancy Pelosi got the message.
How can the American people be expected to believe that no one is above the law in America when Hillary Rodham Clinton is a glaring example of exactly the opposite? As described below, the "law" has not equally applied to her — yet.
How worlds apart are two American Jews — me and Rep. Jamie Raskin from the heart of the Democrat Party — on key issues of American civic life? Mr. Raskin clearly disdains our president and the Republican Party. Unfortunately, he joins most of my fellow Jews in that deep lack of wisdom.
Is this the last time we can celebrate Columbus Day? A wave of cities have decided to remove the holiday from the calendar.
Jerry Dickinson is the Democrats' perfect House candidate — and not just on paper.
High-school student Jamie Margolin testified recently before Congress. She was horrified that climate change, unless addressed by destroying the energy supply of the West, will essentially soon annihilate the world.
While campaigning as a presidential candidate in 2016, Dr. Ben Carson stated: "There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run — somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies."