Mar 17, 2010
The president and the Democratic congressional leadership are fighting furiously to pass, with no Republican votes, the ever-less-popular health bill.
An Associated Press poll last week shows that four in five Americans don't want the Democrats to pass a healthcare bill...
Mar 10, 2010
The publishing of the Declaration of Independence 233 years ago by our Founding Fathers was responded to in London by two of the 18th century's greatest minds: Dr. Samuel Johnson (after whom a literary age was named) and Edmund Burke (the intellectual father of modern...
Mar 3, 2010
One of the sadder categories in the history of human misfortunes is the list of those things that are obvious, but wrong. By definition, if something is obvious, most people agree with it, and thus, it is likely to win the day but lose the verdict of history. The earth is...
Feb 24, 2010
If you want to see broken government, consider the fall of the constitutional Roman Republic and the rise of Julius Caesar:
Fortune turned against us and brought confusion to all we did. Greed destroyed honor, honesty, and every other virtue, and taught men to be...
Feb 10, 2010
No new ideas. That was the most prominent of the criticisms of Sarah Palin's speech at MSNBC's too-cool-for-school Morning Joe on Monday.
The more general critique of former Gov. Palin's future was that while she certainly had star power, she could never speak to more...
Jan 27, 2010
As I was preparing to write a column on the ludicrous maligning of the tea party movement by liberals, Democrats, and the mainstream media, I started thinking about one of the key objectives of the tea party people: strict enforcement of the 10th Amendment.
I hope to write...
Jan 20, 2010
As a general rule, diagnosis should precede treatment. But last week, we saw in both the legislative and executive branches examples of the treatment before diagnosis mentality.
In Congress, the first hearings of the congressionally created Financial Crisis Inquiry...
Jan 13, 2010
Anti-anti-Islamic radicalism is growing amongst Western elites. In the aftermath of the Fort Hood Islamist terror attack on our troops by United States Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and the Christmas day airline Islamist terror attack attempt, it is becoming ever more obvious...