The Fraudulent “War on Women” Political Slogan
The "war on women" political slogan is in fact a war against common sense. It is a statistical fraud when Barack Obama and other politicians say that women earn...
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A Halo for Selfishness
The recent Supreme Court decision over-ruling some Federal Election Commission restrictions on political campaign contributions has provoked angry reactions on the left. That is what often happens whenever the...
Republicans and Blacks
Too many Republicans seem to think that the way to "reach out" is to offer blacks and other minorities what the Democrats are offering them. ...
“The Triple Package”: A Tiger of a Book
The Triple Package tells us much that we all need to know about America — especially if we want to keep the welfare state ideology from destroying the American...
The Left Versus Minorities
If anyone wanted to pick a time and place where the political left's avowed concern for minorities was definitively exposed as a fraud, it would be now — and...
Freedom Is Not Free
There may be something to the claim that all people want to be free. But it is a demonstrable fact that freedom has been under attack, usually successfully, for...
The “Fairness” Fraud
If equal probabilities of achieving some goal is your definition of fairness, then we should all get together and stipulate that life has never been fair, anywhere or any...
Republicans to the Rescue?
The latest bright idea among Republicans inside the Beltway is a new version of amnesty that is virtually certain to lose votes among the Republican base and is unlikely...
The Inequality Bogeyman
Despite the preoccupation — if not obsession — of intellectuals with equality, we are all very unequal in what we do well and what we do badly. ...
Fact-free Liberals: Part 4
One of the things that attracted me to the political left, as a young man, was a belief that leftists were for "the people." Fortunately, I was also very...
Fact-free Liberals: Part 3
Fifty years and trillions of dollars after the "war on poverty" was launched, it is painfully clear that there is more dependency than ever. ...
Fact-free Liberals: Part 2
Words seem to carry far more weight than facts among those liberals who argue as if rent control laws actually control rents and gun control laws actually control guns....
Fact-free Liberals
Someone summarized Barack Obama in three words — "educated," "smart" and "ignorant." Unfortunately, those same three words would describe all too many of the people who come out of...
Politics Versus Education
Anyone who has still not yet understood the utter cynicism of the Obama administration in general, and Attorney General Eric Holder in particular, should look at the Justice Department's...
The “Trickle-Down” Lie
If there is ever a contest for the biggest lie in politics, the claim that anyone actually advocates a "trickle-down" policy should be a top contender. ...
Hit Piece Journalism
Like the corrupt French official in the movie classic Casablanca, the New York Times is "shocked, shocked" to discover that consultants get paid defending the kinds of people that the...
A New Year and Old Problems
ObamaCare looms large and menacing on our horizon. What ObamaCare has done, thanks to Chief Justice Roberts' Supreme Court decision, is reduce us all from free citizens to cowed...
Christmas Books
One of the ways of buying gifts for family and friends, without becoming part of a mob scene in the stores, is to shop on the Internet. Books are...
A Challenge to Our Beliefs
The usual explanations about why black students score far below white students in America may need rethinking, in light of radically different news from England showing poor black students...
The War Against Achievement
The very word "achievement" has been replaced by the word "privilege" in many writings of our times. Individuals or groups that have achieved more than others are called "privileged"...