Now that’s a provocative title. Who says equality is bad? Our founders did not seem to. After all, “all men are created equal” is right up there in our founding documents. There was something about equality that our founders got, however. We are all created equal in God’s eyes. However, what we do with that [...]
Naomi Schaefer Riley, often found on the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal, has committed a mortal sin: she has told us that so-called black studies doctorates are not worth the effort. In a controversial post (understatement; see below), she wrote a blog entry in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Among other things, she [...]
The Obama administration, including Barack Hussein himself, wants the Islamic world to love us. But they’re not going to. They may or may not have liked Bush, but I’ll wager they respected him. It’s pretty clear they don’t respect Obama, much less like him. I can only imagine what some of the Arab leaders call [...]
Vacationing here at our digs in Nassau, we landed in the middle of a political hurricane. Elections for the country’s assembly will be held on Monday, and the political rhetoric is, well, steamy is not too strong a word. The two major parties are the Free National Movement (pro business, strong defense) and the Progressive [...]
The term spiked refers to killing a story before it can go to press. It can also mean unsportsmanlike celebration after scoring a touchdown, these days complete with the obligatory animalistic tribal dance in the end zone. Obama is doing the latter on the one-year anniversary of the Navy Seals killing of Osama bin Laden. [...]
Chen Guangcheng, a man much braver than I’d likely be, has apparently taken sanctuary in the American embassy in Beijing. Chen has been pursuing legal means to get the Chinese dictatorship to stop forcing Chinese women to have abortions. And, because he’s run afoul of a brutal dictatorship intent on forcing women to have abortions [...]
If he’s lost Peggy Noonan, he’s lost the squish Republicans. He being Obama. Squish Republicans being a not-quite-nice way of saying RINO, Republican in Name Only. Look, let’s be clear: Peggy Noonan is a smart, refined, country-club Republican. The kind who likely adored George H. W. Bush, and thought his son Dubya too much of [...]
