“I will — listen now — I will cut taxes — cut taxes — for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.”
– Obama’s acceptance speech at the 2008 Democratic convention.
Whether it was to save himself from being [...]

Victory for Free Speech on Campus: Mississippi College Reverses Punishment of Student for Swearing Outside of Class July 28, 2010 JACKSON, Miss., July 28, 2010—Isaac Rosenbloom is again able to pursue advanced training as a paramedic at Hinds Community College (HCC) now that the school has reversed its punishment against him for swearing a single [...]

The title of this post comes from one of Rush Limbaugh’s classic callers, a lightly-accented South Asian immigrant to the United States, thanking the talk radio guru for spreading the truth about free enterprise and American values.
It turns out that India — a nation so riddled with class & caste warfare, poverty, bureaucracy and tribalism, [...]

The pundits, the chattering classes and the Beltway elite are all worried about Afghanistan. They think it’s a hopeless cause, a “quagmire,” and, most damning of all in their minds, “Vietnam all over again.” But the new commanding general of U.S. Central Command, General James N. Mattis, says these worrywarts are all wrong about Afghanistan.

It’s an oft repeated truism that those who won’t learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them. While this is undeniably true for most of us at one time or another, there remains a special class of people—largely resident within the beltway—who have elevated it to an art form.
Consider Robert Reich, former [...]

Being force-fed a single side of the story is only half of the problem with classroom indoctrination; the other half is silencing the other side. At Chicago Now, Emily Zanotti has a simply unreal story about a professor who was fired for discussing the Catholic Church’s teaching on homosexuality—in a class about the Catholic [...]

Here is yet another in the apparently endless string of stories about how Muslims in Pakistan use that country’s blasphemy laws to terrorize and victimize their Christian neighbors. “Lahore: Christians accused of blasphemy flee extremists and police,” from Asia News, July 9 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Lahore (AsiaNews) – A…

As we all know, the Left and particularly its kudzu-like strangling of all aspects of academia is very fond of its “isms.”  Feminism, racism, whateverism–all purportedly designed to “call out” the oppressive white male and to tear down sexist walls, crash through glass ceilings, and break out of the cycle of oppression.
So imagine my surprise [...]

The sleazy politics behind the pending federal lawsuit against Arizona.

Since I read the latest racial rant from Barack Obama’s spiritual mentor, the Irreverent Jeremiah Wright, I can’t stop thinking of Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers.
Erin Gruwell’s first classroom as an idealistic, new teacher brought her face to face with a microcosm of the gangs of Long Beach, California. These freshmen, many with learning [...]