R. EMMETT TYRRELL: Obama’s careless words
“Things fall apart,” as Yeats was wont to say, “The center cannot hold.” The center is most assuredly falling apart today, and who is at the center? Well, his name is Barack H. Obama. He is our...
View ArticleCLIFFORD MAY: Scuttle Obama’s Iran deal, or surrender
The fundamental flaws in President Obama’s deal with Iran have become well known. Among them: Iran’s rulers will have the power to delay or even prevent inspections of suspected nuclear weapons...
View ArticleMARK PERRY: Nonsensical ‘fractivist’ pipeline hysteria
The anti-fracking movement has moved beyond the realm of the petty and unseemly into the ridiculous. Led by Yoko Ono, the avant-garde artist and widow of musician John Lennon, fracktivists are trying...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: American opposition to sanctuary cities
There’s bad immigration news, but it’s leavened by news that is a little better. The bad news is that the Center for Immigration Studies puts the number of illegal aliens crossing the border by the...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Left campaign to restrict free speech, religion
Once upon a time, the idea of giving the First Amendment a haircut never occurred to anyone. The constitutional guarantee of free speech was held to be the cornerstone of the unique American experiment...
View ArticleLETTER TO THE EDITOR: Respect differences
An armed man walks into building, opens fire and kills nine people, all of the same race. Who or what provided this opportunity? Can one walk into a shopping mall, movie theater or restaurant, randomly...
View ArticleDONALD LAMBRO: Donald Trump’s reckless rhetoric
Real estate tycoon Donald Trump has a serious problem with American war heroes. He says he doesn’t like them if they’re captured. The New York billionaire said so last week about one of our most famous...
View ArticleLETTER TO THE EDITOR: Fallout of draft end far-reaching
Discontinuing the draft has been followed by increasing ignorance and disrespect concerning anything military. That is why Donald Trump made his big mistake about Sen. John McCain’s military service;...
View ArticleIreland places the wee cottage from John Wayne film ‘The Quiet Man’ under...
The stone walls were giving way and the greenery was taking over. But what’s left of a famous little home have been saved from the elements – and nostalgic visitors who walked off with a stone or two...
View ArticleDAVID BOAZ: Trump’s real problem
Donald Trump has shot to the top of Republican presidential polls on the strength of his celebrity and his bombastic talk. Elites on all sides of the political spectrum – liberals, conservatives, and...
View ArticleDONALD LAMBRO: Hillary Clinton’s scheme to ruin a recovering economy
Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to unveil an overhaul of the capital gains tax rate this week that she says will strengthen the economy and create more jobs. The only trouble is that her plan calls...
View ArticleBEN CARSON: Obama’s housing rules try to accomplish what busing could not
Remember busing, that brilliant social experiment that was to usher in a new era of racial utopia in America? Undaunted by the failed socialist experiments of the 1980s, the Obama administration has...
View ArticleLLOYD BILLINGSLEY: EPA bans painkiller before proper testing
Last year, Americans spent an estimated $374 billion on prescription drugs, up 13 percent from the year before. These drugs include OxyContin, Vicodin, Percocet and others that the federal Food and...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Protocols reveal Iran deal worse than imagined
The details of President Obama’s deal with Iran continue to leak, like muddy water from a bucket left to rust in the weeds. Several congressmen who lately called on the International Atomic Energy...
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: ‘The Novel Habits of Happiness’
THE NOVEL HABITS OF HAPPINESS By Alexander McCall Smith Pantheon, 24.95, 272 pages Isabel Dalhousie philosophizes the way some people drink. There is nothing that she won’t contemplate, analyze or...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Mitch McConnell adopts Harry Reid tactics to get highway bill
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, whose rage at Democrats for the way they ran the Senate when they were the majority, is using some of their tactics to push a six-year highway bill through the...
View ArticleDAN COATS: Single-parent families, federal benefits a drag on employment
Has America entered a “new normal” defined by lower economic growth and declining workforce participation? Some evidence may suggest that is the case, but a closer look reveals it is too soon to make...
View ArticleLETTER TO THE EDITOR: Organ sale has Nazi overtones
As information grows about Planned Parenthood’s involvement in the sale of aborted-baby organs for institutional profit, concerns abound. Granted, pre-born babies are incapable of protecting themselves...
View ArticleLETTER TO THE EDITOR: Joining military could save lives
The incarceration of thousands of black men in America should not be upstaged by the rash of killings of unarmed black people at the hands of law-enforcement officers across the country. Are there any...
View ArticleHERBERT LONDON: Appeasement here and abroad
After years of inaction, NATO is now attempting to develop a strategy to cope with Russian aggression. A State Department report indicates that Iran has not reduced its global terrorist activity...
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