Right Opinion
The best of conservative opinion and commentary, updated daily.
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Generous to a Default?
If you thought your credit was a mess, you should see the government's! With daily payments as high as $60 billion, America has been testing the brakes at the brink of spending crisis after spending crisis. Now, days away from maxing out the government's virtual credit cards, the House and Senate are in a mad scramble to put another financial fire out: the prospect of defaulting on America's loans.
Hillary Clinton: No New Lies Equals a Victory?
There is not a scintilla of doubt that Hillary Clinton knowingly lied to the American public about Benghazi. "Two of our officers were killed in Benghazi by an Al Queda-like [sic] group," Clinton wrote in an email to her daughter at 11:12 pm. Sept 11, 2012. "We know the attack had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack, not a protest ... Based on the information we saw today, we believe that the group that claimed responsibility for this was affiliated with al-Qaeda," she told Egyptian prime minister Hisham Kandil that same night. "There is a gun battle ongoing, which I understand Ansar as-Sharia [sic] is taking responsibility for," she told the Libyan president while the attack was going on.
Hillary Escapes Again
A special House committee investigating the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012 that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans may have helped Hillary Clinton become president of the United States. The former secretary of state refused an invitation to testify in private, as other witnesses had done, probably because she thought her appearance would benefit her presidential prospects in at least three ways: She could make the Republican committee members look inept; the major media would protect her, and average people would not pay attention; if they did, they would believe what the media told them. She was right on all three counts.
Hillary 2.0
Many people may share Senator Bernie Sanders' complaint that he was tired of hearing about Hillary Clinton's e-mails. But the controversy is about issues far bigger than e-mails. One issue is the utter disaster created by the Obama administration's foreign policy in Libya, carried out by Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.
Women Have Suffered More Under Obama Policies
Now that Hillary Clinton has, by default, sewn up the Democratic nomination, expect Democrats to play the gender card for all its worth. In August, Clinton lashed out at the GOP field: "extreme views on women, we expect from some of the terrorist groups ... but it's a little hard to take from Republicans who want to be the president of the United States."
Would Rabin Have Pulled the Plug on a 'Peace Process' That Failed?
Had Yitzhak Rabin lived, would the Oslo Accords have nurtured genuine peace between Israel and the Palestinians? It has been 20 years since the assassination of Israel's fifth prime minister in Tel Aviv by Yigal Amir, a right-wing Jewish fanatic who considered Rabin a traitor and bitterly opposed the Oslo process. The murder traumatized Israel and its friends, and the recriminations still reverberate.
Monday, October 26, 2015
Lessons From Patricia
Failing to bring about the kind of devastation a 200 MPH hurricane does because (a) it did not have 200 MPH winds when it reached the coast and (b) it hit a sparsely populated area, Hurricane Patricia immediately became an example of how hurricanes have become a ping-pong ball between two different climate agendas, as I wrote about a few days ago.
A Heated Debate Over Climate Change Continues
Debate. It's the hallmark of an open society. We may hold different points of view on a certain topic, but we can express those views freely, without fear of repercussions. Unless, that is, you dare to question the idea of man-made global warming. That, apparently, puts you beyond the pale. You can insist the 1969 Apollo moon landing was staged, or that 9/11 was an "inside job," and it's "live and let live" time. But disagree with the view that climate change is not only occurring but is caused by human activity, and you invite a stay in a rubber room.
It's Choosing Time for the GOP
Maybe Joe took my advice. I told a friend of the VP's recently that he should not run for president in 2016 but instead should leave the political stage as an elder statesman. No matter why Biden really decided to let Hillary Clinton have the Democrats' presidential nomination without a fight, it's great news for the GOP. At least it should be.
A Constitutional Conservative for Missouri and America
I've spent a good part of my working life contemplating the importance of the rule of law in making America the most prosperous society in the history. First as a public official (mayor of Cincinnati, treasurer and secretary of state) and now as a senior fellow at the Family Research Council and American Civil Rights Union, I've come to believe that none of the many factors that contribute to our astonishing prosperity is more important than the rule of law over the rule of special interests.
In Ego, Obama and Trump Are Two of a Kind
Are you crazy about Barack Obama? Do you fervently hope the next president of the United States will be as similar to the current president as possible? Then Donald Trump may be the candidate for you.
The Harpy & the Hapless
I realize that some of you assume that we pundits live glamorous, exciting lives, filled with galas where we get to rub elbows with equally bright and beautiful people. Well, sure, it's mostly that way. But every once in a while, we have to hop off the merry-go-round and check up on the little people.
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Why Inequality Is the Democrats’ Dilemma
Strike up a conversation with any taxi cab driver or any fry cook at a roadside diner and the word "inequality" is unlikely to ever come up.
Fix the Criminal Justice System
The Republican Party, like Sisyphus, is again putting its shoulder to a boulder, hoping to make modest but significant changes in the Electoral College arithmetic by winning perhaps 12 percent of the African- American vote. To this end, they need to hone a rhetoric of skepticism about, and an agenda for reform of, the criminal justice system. They can draw on the thinking of a federal appellate judge nominated by Ronald Reagan.
Saturday, October 24, 2015
What We Learned
Contrary to the consensus media narrative that nothing new was learned at [Thursday's] Benghazi hearing, there were in fact a number of revelations.
Obama Plays Veto Games With American Lives
For the first time ever, a President has vetoed funding for our military because of his desire to increase funding for domestic social program.
Fruit Fiasco: High School Students Face Punishment for 'Racist' Fruit Basket
The hullabaloo started on Oct. 16 when the marching bands from Atascocita High School and Summer Creek High School exchanged gifts before a football game. ... The youngsters from Atascocita gave their counterparts a Halloween basket that included canned pineapple, a whole coconut, a small watermelon and some candy. An adult sponsor for the band raised concerns and those concerns were forwarded to school administrators.
Hillary Offers Disastrous ObamaCare 2.0
When ObamaCare was enacted, President Obama promised Americans that health insurance companies would be held accountable for providing affordable, quality health care to patients. He assured us that competition in the marketplace would increase and that consumers would be given a range of options. Today, more than five years after this disastrous law's passage, we have yet to see any of these promises delivered.
The Disposable Society
I'm not sure how long people have been complaining that ours is a disposable society, but it's been a long time and things are not getting any better. At least in the beginning, it was usually clocks, razors and small kitchen appliances, they were referring to, pointing out that it was cheaper to replace these things than to repair them.
Friday, October 23, 2015
The Anti-Establishment Front-Runner
If we had been told at the beginning of the year that in October a Republican presidential candidate would be leading the polls nationally and in almost every state, drawing support from across all factions of the GOP and sucking up all the oxygen in the race, most people would have guessed Jeb Bush was going from strength to strength