Opinion Columns
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A real plan for economic growthFeb 06, 2015 12:00 am - “Today, thanks to a growing economy, the recovery is touching more and more lives.” So said President Obama in his State of the Union address. At first glance, this appe...
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Seeking a vaccine for ignoranceFeb 05, 2015 12:00 am - Flashback: Galileo is under house arrest pondering the unyielding ignorance of The Church for refusing to consider his heliocentric proposition that the Earth circled th...
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Do liberals really have a free-speech problem?Feb 05, 2015 12:00 am - This just in: "Study Finds Fruitcake Right, Anti-gravity Left Share Similar Traits, Tactics." OK, so I made that up, although I'm confident that there's no end of psycho...
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Anti-Semitism: The most durable conspiracy theoryFeb 04, 2015 12:00 am - The title of my recently published book is "Israel: Is It Good for the Jews?" When I started writing it I did not know how I was going to answer that question. The more ...
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Public opinion left out of picture in Obama immigration driveFeb 04, 2015 12:00 am - Gallup recently asked adults around the country a very simple question about immigration: Are you satisfied, or dissatisfied, with the level of immigration into the Unit...
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An invasion of artificial outrageFeb 03, 2015 12:00 am - The invasion, evidently, has begun. “What's not acceptable,” Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana explained recently, “is people that want to come and conquer us.” Yes, the c...
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It's time to be practical about multiculturalismFeb 03, 2015 12:00 am - Following the murders in Paris at the Charlie Hebdo magazine and the kosher supermarket, one could hear the comforting sound of tens of thousands of footsteps marching i...
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Free tuition at community college should just be the startFeb 01, 2015 5:00 am - It's good that many Republicans have joined Democrats in declaring the growth of economic inequality a problem. And some are even looking to solutions beyond making the ...
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Deflating Putin best done with money, not mightJan 30, 2015 5:15 am - Last year, noted President Obama in his recent State of the Union address, his critics were saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin's aggressive moves into neighbor...
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The sacrifice of Sarah PalinJan 30, 2015 4:30 am - WASHINGTON — When Democrats were looking for evidence of a Republican war on women, they overlooked Exhibit A — Sarah Palin. This isn't to say that Palin was part of the...