Have you ever noticed that the majority of the activist movements in this country are almost always about liberal causes?   While I am not aware of any empirical evidence on the matter I believe it's because the left sees government as the vehicle to implement...

Whenever I hear the phrase, “democratic socialism” I’m reminded of Woody Allen’s comment about restaurants in the Catskills, i.e., “The food isn’t very good, but at least the portions are small.” Democratic socialism is the ultimate oxymoron.  But the scariest thing...

Many years ago I made a comment at the dinner table about the telephone answering machine (remember those?) being the greatest invention since sliced bread.  My daughter who was probably eight at the time responded, “Dad, if that’s the greatest; then what was the...

An honest media is absolutely essential to the health of the republic.  An honest media informs the citizenry about public affairs and monitors the processes of government.  The Founders understood when the press examines the actions of government—the nation...

I don’t get carried away when politicians shade the truth because after all, they are politicians; besides, sooner or later everything comes out in the wash.  I didn’t get too upset when former President Obama told us we could keep our doctors, and I’m not going to...

It’s the political season and not surprisingly the question of reparations for slavery has again reared its ugly head.  Now before reading further allow me to make a carte blanche statement—reparations aren’t going to happen, and the current crop of democrat...

Writing for the CATO Institute, economist Daniel Mitchell wrote, the reason our government wastes so many of our tax dollars is because government programs are magnets for fraud. Mitchell makes a valid point, but fraud isn’t the only cause of wasteful spending,...

For the most part I don’t think our underlying political differences are as great as they appear; rather I suspect they’re more a consequence of where we get our information. If equality and fairness are the two words that best describe liberal orthodoxy, then freedom...

Memorial Day is not a holiday in the usual celebratory sense of the word.  Rather, it is a commemoration of selfless sacrifice by many patriots and comrades-in-arms, who remain “forever young” in the memory of those of us who had the privilege of serving alongside of...