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Monday, November 13, 2017
Finding Relief on the Streets and at the Office
Terrorists are much weaker than we feared in 2001. And sexual harassers are suddenly more vulnerable.
Alabama Rolls Toward a High-Stakes Skirmish
But for the bomb, the four would be in their 60s, probably grandmothers. Three were 14 and one was 11 in 1963 when the blast killed them in the 16th Street Baptist Church, which is four blocks from the law office of Doug Jones, who then was 9.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman: A Harbinger of Hope to Saudi Youth
As much as we try to paint things black and white in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), nothing is ever that simple.
Islam Is Not a Religion
It is high time that we in the West acknowledge that for the past 1400 years, Muslims have been at war with us. Sometimes, you’d hardly be aware of it.
Hope on Display in Texas
The first thing I noticed when I recently flew into Texas is the flags at half-staff. The second thing I noticed is churches with open doors.
Sunday, November 12, 2017
Repeal and Replace the Tax Code
The Republicans’ tax bill would somewhat improve the existing revenue system that once caused Mitch Daniels (former head of the Office of Management and Budget, former Indiana governor) to say: Wouldn’t it be nice to have a tax code that looked as though it had been designed on purpose?
Saturday, November 11, 2017
A Taxing Week for Republicans
“Tax reform is a noble goal but an ugly process,” Howard Kurtz said, almost sympathetically. He won’t have to convince Republicans of that, as they slog through one of the biggest tax rewrites since Ronald Reagan.
Communism vs. Fascism
It has long mystified me that Communism has a stranglehold on so many people. When you stop and think about it, there’s little difference in the reality of life under the thumb of Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Mao Tse-tung, Hugo Chavez and Benito Mussolini.
Honoring Our Veterans
Saturday is Veterans Day. Communities across the country will honor our military veterans for their service and sacrifice.
Friday, November 10, 2017
Rolling Stone: Sacred Text of the Left?
On Nov. 9, Rolling Stone magazine celebrated the 50th anniversary of its first issue, published in the hippie Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in San Francisco. True to form, liberal journalists — who claim to care so deeply about the menace of fake reporting — honored founder Jann Wenner and dismissed as insignificant the magazine’s 2015 “A Rape on Campus” story scandal.
There Is No ‘Without Trump’
Ed Gillespie went from potential vindicator of Trumpism to “cuckservative” in the space of a couple of hours.
Fake News From Virginia
Will someone please throw an ocean of ice water on the Pelosi-Schumer-MSM axis of evil?
Postcards From Jordan
It’s good to be back on American soil! Despite all the problems and challenges our country faces, America is still a blessed nation.
Dueling Tax Plans
Senate Republicans met yesterday to hear the outlines of a tax reform plan being drafted by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. The broad outlines generally mirror the House plan, but there are some significant differences.
GOP’s Virginia Loss Tells Us Little About the State of American Politics
Before it’s all over, President Donald Trump may well obliterate the Republican Party’s prospects for the coming decade or longer. But despite much wishful thinking among liberals, the big GOP losses in Virginia do not prove this contention.
The Louts and Dunces Party
Just a couple of weeks ago, it seemed that the Republican Party had thrown in the towel on maintaining any sort of Donald Trump-free identity. Sen. Jeff Flake announced that, rather than defy the Trump-supporting base in Arizona, he would not seek reelection.
2016 Is Looking Like the New Normal
If you wanted to predict the results of Tuesday’s gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, you would have been wise to ignore the flurry of polls and campaign events. You would have paid no heed to the conventional wisdom that Republican Ed Gillespie had a solid chance to beat Ralph Northam in Virginia.
GOP Can’t Afford to Chase Away Its Own
Politics is about addition, not subtraction. I don’t know who first said it (the internet offers many possibilities), but it’s an iron law of politics, not just democracy.
Don’t Mock Prayer. Pray
Critics lash out at prayer and God, mainly because they associate prayer with the type of person who blocks their gun-grabbing crusade.
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Communism’s Century of Devastation
President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Dec. 7, 1941, “a day that will live in infamy,” and with good reason. The date that Tojo’s Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor heralded America’s entrance into the bloody fighting of World War II.