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Thursday, June 16, 2016
Preventing Another Orlando
The Boston Marathon, San Bernardino and now Orlando. It goes on and on, as Donald Trump might say. And it will continue to worsen, as Trump has already said. He is the most prescient campaigner in this race for the presidency. Hillary Clinton made progress Monday when she enunciated the words “radical Islamism,” words that she thitherto refused to utter and her old friend and boss President Barack Obama still will not utter. However, she then reverted to calling for gun control, misrepresenting the gun control laws of the state of Florida and prescribing vague palliatives for times when action is needed.
Happy Father’s Day, Jean
Father’s Day invites us to ponder the father figures we have known — not just our biological fathers, but any man who has blessed us with fatherly action at some point in our lives.
Yes, It Matters to Say ‘Radical Islam’
President Obama took to the microphones on Tuesday to rant about the great evil facing Western civilization: Donald Trump’s insistence that Obama use the phrase “radical Islam” in describing a radical Muslim’s killing of 49 Americans at a gay club in Orlando, Florida. Obama’s original comment on the attack consisted of some platitudes about gun control and some happy talk about “various extremist information that was disseminated over the internet.” You know, like in those rogue “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” chat rooms.
Job-Killing Red Tape for Thee, Not for Me
If you think that all members of Congress have to comply with all of the laws that we common citizens have to obey, think again. Over the years, Congress has passed thousands of bills and statutes that dictate how we should or shouldn’t live our lives, but its members often fail to comply with these rules. In many instances, they actually exempt themselves from those burdensome constraints.
Politics, Not Personalities, Will Likely Determine Presidential Election
At first glance, 2016 sizes up as no other election year in American history.
The Enemy Is Radical Islam, Not the National Rifle Association
Over the past eight years, the Obama administration has never let a crisis go to waste. The Orlando terrorist attack was no different.
Why ‘Brexit’ Makes Sense
Full disclosure: I’m an Anglophile. In other words, I admire all things British.
Our Enemy Is Political Islam, Not Each Other
Around 2 a.m. Sunday morning, a 29-year-old man named Omar Mateen walked into a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and killed 49 people, wounding 53 more. It was the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11. Mateen was an American-born Muslim and the son of Afghan immigrants.
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Purdue Has the President America Needs
Mitch Daniels, former governor of Indiana and current president of Purdue University, knows that no one in the audience is there to hear a commencement speaker. When, however, he addressed his institution’s class of 2016, it heard him distill into a few lapidary paragraphs a stance toward life that illuminates this political season.
Latest Assault on Religious Freedom: Illinois Abortion Bill Restricts Doctors and May Violate Federal Law
In the latest assault on the First Amendment right of Americans to freely exercise their religious beliefs, the Illinois Legislature has passed a bill that will force doctors to violate their religious convictions about the immorality of abortions. Illinois SB 1564 has passed both houses and is headed to the governor to sign or veto.
Orlando Updates
The Orlando terrorist attack continues to dominate the news. Here is an update on some of the latest headlines.
Mourning in America
Tuesday’s observance of Flag Day has been a somber one, as thousands of stars and stripes now fly at half-mast — a grim reminder of the weekend’s tragedy that took the lives of 49 Americans.
Trump vs. Reagan: What Is a Conservative?
Many of Donald Trump’s supporters have compared him to Ronald Reagan. It is quite instructive that Trump himself picked up the 1980 Reagan campaign slogan, “Let’s Make America Great Again.” Trump speaks positively of Ronald Reagan, and, like Reagan, claims to be a conservative.
Secure Our Border and Our Freedom
One of the fundamental questions facing Americans today is: Will our government ever secure our border? Judging by recent history, the answer would be: No.
Dear Washington Post: Get Over Yourself
The Washington Post defined the old term “high dudgeon” when Donald Trump took away its press credentials for being “phony and dishonest.”
Obama: Whose Side Is He On?
Whole doctoral dissertations could be devoted to the question of what makes President Obama angry and what does not. His Tuesday broadside against Donald Trump stood in marked contrast to Sunday’s somewhat-cold response to the Orlando massacre. This is a pattern.
Florida: America’s Jihad Playground
The home of the “Happiest Place on Earth” has been breeding killer jihadists and Muslim zealots for years.
Why Can’t We Stop Terror?
Once again, the repulsive face of terror has appeared on our homeland, our own soil. It is not a headline in the news about what has happened in some other place in the world.
Orlando Shooting Reaction Has the Feel of Eternal Recurrence
Friedrich Nietzsche, that great sage of despair, asked, “What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it ...?’” Nietzsche called this idea of eternal recurrence “the heaviest weight.”