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Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Immigration the Common Thread Between French, American Elections
In case you’ve been confused by the last few days of punditry, let me say outright that France is not America.
Will GOP Fund Planned Parenthood but Not Border Wall?
When Donald Trump stood in the lobby of Trump Tower on June 16, 2015 and announced he was running for president, he told all who listened to “mark” his words.
Obama: Iran’s Washington Lobbyist
Months ago, I argued that the Iranian nuclear deal was so bad that it was hard to see how Barack Obama was acting as anything other than a lobbyist for the Islamic Republic. Tehran got virtually everything it demanded. Time and again, the U.S. constantly gave in to Iranian demands for more concessions.
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Reining the Big-Government Stampede
Most Americans don’t expect the federal government to stay out of their lives altogether. What they expect is minimal involvement: Let Washington be the last resort, the one Americans turn to only when they truly can’t devise any alternative.
Trading Replaces: House Rolls Out New Health Plan
When members of Congress flew back to DC yesterday, they had some interesting reading material: A new Obamacare replacement bill. After a seesaw month that saw Republicans write and rewrite the text, the GOP is hinting that it may have the plan voters are waiting for. In the language that ping-ponged over to the House from the Senate Budget Committee Saturday night, conservatives will be happy to know that the plan empties more than $390 million from Planned Parenthood’s federal bank account.
Weak Dollar Won’t Make America Great Again
President Donald Trump’s assertion this week that the “dollar is getting too strong” led to a sharp decline in the value of the greenback.
Fake News Poll
Sunday’s Washington Post eagerly reported that as President Trump “nears the 100-day mark of his administration” he is “the least popular chief executive in modern times.” According to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, just 42% of Americans approve of his job performance, while 53% disapprove.
The Cowards of Academia
Now that student mobs at universities around America (and elsewhere in the West) have silenced conservative speaker after conservative speaker, it has dawned on a small number of left-wing professors that the public is beginning to have contempt for the universities.
The Police vs. the PC Police
As is almost always the case, signs of trouble preceded the latest shooting in Paris, which left one police officer dead and wounded two bystanders before police killed the gunman, later identified as French national Karim Cheurfi, a known criminal with a long, violent record. ISIS claimed to be behind the attack. According to police, a note praising ISIS fell out of Cheurfi’s pocket when he fell.
Monday, April 24, 2017
It Takes All Kinds
We have all grown up hearing people say, “It takes all kinds” as if that’s a good thing. That sort of thinking inevitably led to the mess we find ourselves in today, where far too many people on college campuses, in the halls of Congress and in our daily lives, talk up the glories of multiculturalism and globalism.
The First 100 Days to Securing America
President Donald Trump is nearing his 100th day in office. Unlike his predecessor, President Trump doesn’t spend much time on the golf course. He’s busy issuing executive orders, appointing strong conservatives, bombing Islamist terrorists, and safeguarding our borders.
Sunday, April 23, 2017
Attention Must Be Paid
“If ‘never again’ means anything, I had to be here today.” The words came from a rabbi, calling to mind the Holocaust, standing among Christians outside a church in New York on Good Friday evening. The rabbi spoke at a former Catholic church, now being leased to Coptic Christians.
The ‘Oh, Never Mind’ President
In his first annual message to Congress, John Quincy Adams, among the most experienced and intellectually formidable presidents, warned leaders against giving the impression that “we are palsied by the will of our constituents.” In this regard, if in no other, the 45th president resembles the sixth.
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Sorry 4/20 Smokers: Legalizing Weed Is a Dangerous Idea
Those pushing for legalization of marijuana constantly push the notion that it is no different than alcohol. But extensive medical studies and the experience of nearly every human culture shows that isn’t true — legalizing marijuana is a dangerous idea.
We Already Have School Choice
Although it is often viewed as a radically new idea, the vast majority of parents in this country have been participating in a system of school choice for years.
Preying Silently: The Crisis of Christian Persecution
It was 5:30 a.m. when Friar Najeeb Michaeel looked out his window and saw what every Iraqi Christian feared: trucks filled with ISIS soldiers. Dozens of families were fleeing when the terrorists cut in front of them and stopped. “I gave everybody the last rites,” the Friar said. “I thought it was finished for us.” Instead, people abandoned their cars and started running. Miraculously, they survived. But, like most Christians in the Middle East, they don’t know for how long.
Does Steve Bannon Have Something to Offer?
In 2014 the beleaguered White House aide raised important moral questions about today’s capitalism.
Dunning & Kruger Explain the World
It was only recently that I learned of a study conducted in 1999 by two psychologists at Cornell University, David Dunning and Justin Kruger, that sheds light on how it is that half the people in America are proud to call themselves Democrats.
Don’t Dismiss Dr. Dean
Former Vermont Gov. Dr. Howard Dean has weighed in on the Ann Coulter/Berkeley controversy. He tweeted, “Hate speech is not protected by the first amendment.” When leftists like Howard Dean say hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment then the first question we should ask is, “What does Howard think is hate speech?” We just went through an entire election cycle in which the left told us every day what hate speech was.
Southern Schools: Let Us Eat Grits!
When President Obama promised to fundamentally transform America, we had no idea he was secretly plotting to ban biscuits and grits.