John Stossel, the Fox Business News commentator, devoted his Creators Syndicate column the day before Thanksgiving to a little known story about how the Pilgrims tried socialism and learned a lesson still useful today: Long before the failure of modern socialism, the earliest European settlers gave us a dramatic demonstration of the fatal flaws of [...]
Dammit! In 2008, citizens yearned for government to change its corrupt ways. Obama exploited that sentiment and rode it to the presidency. In the midterm elections, voters rejected Obama’s policies and showed that they yearn for change more than ever. Like Obama two years ago, senate Republicans this year promised they would fight for change. [...]
Tony Blankley, the esteemed Washington columnist, had an interesting piece on Nov. 4 pondering the implications of the election two days before. He made some comments that are of interest here, considering that the Tea Party is a new movement outside the traditional political structure: (T)he way many Americans are looking at their lives and [...]
Two days after the historic midterm election, syndicated columnist George Will wrote an insightful op-ed about the deeper meaning of the resounding conservative victory. He included comments on the problem of what has been called the ruling class or the elites, the rulers championed by progressives (who constitute most of today's liberals). Will said, “The [...]
The first principle of the Tea Party is “constitutional adherence.” On the left, however, many believe that the constitution has outlived its usefulness. Few politicians on the left will say this openly, since most Americans disagree. So it’s notable that one of them, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), admitted in front of a camera at a [...]
An eminent physicist recently resigned from the American Physical Society (APS), the professional association of physicists and one of the world’s leading scientific organizations, charging the body with supporting the man-made global warming “fraud” in order to make money at the expense of scientific truth and integrity. His resignation letter reinforces the view that man-made [...]
Tony Blankley, one of the most astute political commentators, published a column on Sept. 29 titled “Tea Party Has Elites on the Run.” He believes that the Tea Party, by stressing virtues that the elites disdain, has started an "inexorable" movement that will restore power to the middle class. His argument: The elites (aka the [...]
A favorite trick of the ruling class is to sneak laws that benefit them at the expense of the public into legislation that has nothing to do with the sneaky new law. One such law regulates how citizens can buy and sell gold. It removes restrictions on government power while restricting the freedom of the [...]
Dr. Victor Davis Hanson said in his Sept.23 column that the U.S. is retrogressing into a “nation of peasants.” Hanson, who until recently was a professor of classics at Stanford, works three jobs: Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford, columnist, and working farmer. In his column, “A Nation of Peasants?” Hanson said: Traditional [...]
The old media and many commentators, including many Republican savants, have been saying that candidates endorsed by Tea Parties cannot win in November. The old-guard Republicans whine that RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) and “moderate” Republicans have been defeated in primaries when “they are the only candidates who can win.” The conventional wisdom says that [...]
The lead editorial in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, Sept. 13, was titled “Sebelius Has a List: Political thuggery from HHS.” In slightly abridged form, it reads: ….The White House was always going to blame insurance companies for any cost increases, even when its own policies cause them. Witness Kathleen Sebelius's Thursday letter to [...]
Caroline Glick was born in America and immigrated to Israel, where she is now Deputy Managing Editor and columnist for the Jerusalem Post. This week, she wrote a long column, picked up by Townhall.com, about the importance of the Jewish creed to Israel. She began her piece with an insightful introduction about the importance of [...]