The Election: What’s “Like” Got to Do With It?
A wise person knows that extreme likeability — especially in a person who wants something from you — can be a red flag. For an honest, sincere person will...
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When Michelle Obama Starts Starving the Kids
Unprecedented school-lunch regulations have just gone into effect, and they suggest a new answer to the question “Where’s the beef?”: not on students’ plates — or on their bones....
Olympic Hypocrisy: Jokes and Jews Need Not Apply
Evident in Olympic rule application is something I wrote about mere days ago: the triumph of Muslim absolutism over Western relativism. Whether Muslims are right or wrong in a...
Al-Qaeda and Liberals Agree: Kill Kids for the Cause
Liberals are no strangers to using children to relate political messages, as the 2008 videos of kids singing for and paying homage to Obama prove. And conservatives certainly complained...
Proposal: Force Citizens to Own Guns
Conservatism is defensive in nature, being concerned with conserving the status quo, but never builds its ramparts high enough to be unscalable or wields its sword boldly enough to...
Rahm and Co.’s Chicken-headed Intolerance
When people such as Emanuel and Moreno call Chick-Fil-A and its defenders intolerant, consider something. Chick-Fil-A is a family-owned business informed by biblical values, yet it serves homosexual customers....
Aurora and Romanticizing Evil
We may never know what was going though Aurora shooter James Holmes’s mind when he committed his heinous mass murder. We don’t know what kind of psychosis or precisely...
Bill O’Reilly’s Anti-gun Blarney
We expect anti-gun nonsense from people such as Bill Moyers and Little Big Gulp Bloomberg, but we might hope that Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly wouldn’t evoke an eye-rolling “Oh,...
How Is Penn State’s Punishment Fitting?
Harming Penn State University's football program does nothing to advance justice. It simply means that the NCAA is going to punish a large number of people, such as the...
Handicaps and Handicapped Thinking
Fairness is ensured only when we recognize and apply eternal principles. More and more, however, they — and even obvious physical reality — are denied in the name of...
Where Obama is Right about Unearned Success
When Barack Obama said recently, “If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own,” he wasn’t all wrong. In fact, he knows well someone whose life thus...
Why Equality Must Die
In another example of how leftist dogma is undermining America, the Department of Justice is forcing New York City to hire, and pay damages to, unqualified firefighters — all...
“Gay Pride” Parades Attract Exhibitionists — and Obama’s Attention
Obama's activities at this past weekend's "Gay Pride" parades in cities such as New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, prove again that the Democrats are no longer the party...
Inciting the Idiot Vote
Many unthinkingly subscribe to the notion that polling-place quantity means political quality at election time. But low turnout isn’t to be lamented; it’s to be applauded. After all, if...
North Dakotans Refuse to Fight for the Sioux — or the Culture
Change you can't believe in: This past Tuesday North Dakotans decided that property taxes were in but a traditional school nickname was out. It's yet another case of maintaining...
Is Bill Clinton a Caine Mutiny Coward?
Don't be fooled by Bill Clinton's candor about Mitt Romney and Bain Capital. There's something that always comes first in the Clintons' universe, and it's not the country. ...
Democrats and Republicans: No, Both Parties Are Not the Same
Democrats and Republicans do have certain similarities, but are they really the same? Well, to believe so is like thinking that Mother Teresa and Mullah Omar are the same...
Trampling Freedom of Speech: State Tries Censoring Online Advice Column
Can the government prohibit you from giving diet advice to family and friends? If the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition is to be believed, the answer is yes. ...
Michelle Obama’s Food Desert Myth
Michelle Obama claims that poor people can't eat a healthful diet because their neighborhoods are "underserved" by free enterprise. But this is a myth — and one she wants to...
The Left, the Right, and the Wrong Side of History
After the North Carolina vote upholding marriage, the Left claimed that the state was on the wrong side of history. But what is the Left really on the side...