Commencement Season
This is the season of college Commencement speeches — an art form that has seldom been memorable, but has increasingly become toxic in recent times. ...
This is the season of college Commencement speeches — an art form that has seldom been memorable, but has increasingly become toxic in recent times. ...
Today one can literally go from kindergarten to becoming a graduate student seeking a Ph.D., without ever hearing a vision of the world that conflicts with the vision of the left....
Currently there is much indignation being expressed by Democrats because the Republican-controlled Senate refuses to hold confirmation hearings on President Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy caused...
Much is made of the fact that liberals and conservatives see racial issues differently, which they do. But these differences have too often been seen as simply those on the right...
The presidential election prospects for the Democrats are so bad this year that only the Republicans can save them — as Republicans have saved them before. ...
Amid all the media analyses of the prospects of each of the candidates in both political parties, there is remarkably little discussion of the validity — or lack of validity —...
Who would not want to live in a world where college was free, along with many other things, and where government protected us from the shocks of life and guaranteed our...
During this election year, we are destined to hear many words that are toxic in the way they misrepresent reality and substitute fantasies that can win votes. One of these words...
The best New Year's Resolution I ever made was to stop trying to reason with unreasonable people. That may be especially valuable during an election year. ...
The latest tempest in a teapot controversy is over a lack of black nominees for this year's Academy Awards in Hollywood. ...
Those of us who like to believe that human beings are rational can sometimes have a hard time trying to explain what is going on in politics. ...
Those who have been marveling at Donald Trump's political showmanship were given a reminder of who is the top showman of them all, when President Barack Obama went on television to...
Engineers who design computerized products and services seem to have an almost fanatical determination to avoid using plain English. ...
The political left has been trying to run other people's lives for centuries. So we should not be surprised to see the Obama administration now trying to force neighborhoods across America...
The case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court, involving racial double standards in admissions to the University of Texas at Austin, has an Alice-in-Wonderland quality that has been all too common...