Obama’s Mastery of Rhetoric — and Disregard of Reality
In a recent panel discussion on poverty at Georgetown University, President Barack Obama gave another demonstration of his mastery of rhetoric — and disregard of reality. One of the ways...
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Race, Politics and Lies
You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization — including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility and all the other basic things...
Anti-Trust Law and Lawlessness
Some of us think laws should be clear-cut statements of what you can and cannot do. Indicting people under laws that can lead to fines in the billions of...
Chaos in the Primaries
Even if we cannot predict the outcomes of the primaries this far in advance, we can at least start trying to understand the candidates, the almost candidates and the...
The New Inquisition
Attempts to shut down people whose free speech interferes with other people's political agendas go on, with remarkably little notice, much less outrage. The Internal Revenue Service's targeting the...
Who Trashes Liberal Arts?
An op-ed piece titled "Conservatives, Please Stop Trashing the Liberal Arts" appeared last week in the Wall Street Journal. But it is not conservatives who trashed the liberal arts....
Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015)
It is not often that the leader of a small city-state — in this case, Singapore — gets an international reputation. But no one deserved it more than Lee...
Ruinous “Compassion” and Minimum Wage Laws
Some restaurants and grocery stores in Oakland's Chinatown have closed after the city's minimum wage was raised. Other small businesses there are not sure they are going to survive,...
Ferguson Reports: The “Disparate Impact” Racket
The U.S. Department of Justice issued two reports last week, both growing out of the Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown. Both are worth reading — but for different...
The Gender Gap Is not Nearly as Big as the Honesty Gap
There may be some poetic justice in the recent revelation that Hillary Clinton, who has made big noises about a "pay gap" between women and men, paid the women...
Damaging Admissions
Admitting students strictly on the basis of their academic qualifications, which might seem to be common sense, is rejected by many college admissions committees. ...
Stormy Weather and Politics
It was refreshing to see meteorologists apologize for their dire — and wrong — predictions of an unprecedented snow storm that they had said would devastate the northeast. Unfortunately, we...
Obama Versus America
In his recent trip to India, President Obama repeated a long-standing pattern of his — denigrating the United States to foreign audiences. He said that he had been discriminated...
“Diversity” in Action
We cannot simply let in everyone who wants to come to America, or there will be no America to come to. Cultures matter — and not all cultures are...
The ‘Equality’ Racket
If one racial or ethnic group has a lower income than another, that is automatically called "discrimination" by many people in politics, the media and academia. ...