Comprehensive tax reform would be a wonderful thing – something agreed upon, at least in theory, by both the Republican Congress and the Obama administration – but there is little realistic hope that it will come to pass anytime soon in the poisonous atmosphere of today’s Washington. What our leaders …
Read More »Danger Ahead for Democrats If Health Care Passes
Washington is preparing for a House “vote” on the current health care plan, but unfortunately Congress isn’t listening to the rest of America. Aside from the fact that hardworking citizens won’t appreciate the use of parliamentary gimmicks in the forms of the “Slaughter Rule” and reconciliation, Americans simply don’t like …
Read More »3 Reasons Why Gitmo Will Not Close Under Obama
Three key developments over the past 10 days have all but assured that Guantanamo detention facilities will remain open during the Obama administration. First, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) report to Congress this week on ex-Gitmo detainee recidivism rates shows a jump to 25%, or 150 …
Read More »Atheists demand Navy chaplain. Should they get one?
Didyou hear the joke about the atheists who claimed to be religious? Well, it’s not a joke, it’s a lawsuit. On June 22, an avowed secular atheist and member of the Humanist Society, stood in court and—with a straight face—asked to have his group recognized as a religious organization so …
Read More »The Time Is Now to Act Against Iran
According to The Wall Street Journal, the United States is considering watering down latest U.N. sanctions proposal in order to get China and Russia on board. We’ve already had three rounds of sanctions without teeth that accomplished little, it’s the definition of insanity to keep doing the same thing again …
Read More »Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer and the great mommy debate
I’ve been reluctant to weigh in on the Mommy Wars, since I’m of that generation of trailblazers that didn’t dwell on the career/family/fulfillment balance. We were like explorers in the uncharted wilderness in the 1970s and 80s. There were no maps to guide us, so we just set off in …
Read More »Five years later, Dodd-Frank is a failure
Tuesdaywill mark five years since President Obama’s signing of the Dodd-Frank law, the most sweeping rewrite of the country’s financial laws since the New Deal. Obama told the country that the legislation would “lift our economy.” The statute itself declared that it would “end too big to fail” and “promote …
Read More »Why most Americans oppose more gun control
A new Pew Research Center survey finds that, for the first time in their surveys, the majority of Americans oppose more gun control. Gallup and CNN polls tell a similar story. Opposition to gun control has been increasing over at least the last couple of decades. Gun control groups have …
Read More »What's a conservative?
It sounds like the setup of a joke — likely a bad one. What do Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Rand Paul have in common? For that matter, what do any of the 17 candidates for the Republican presidential nomination have in common that they would all belong on the …
Read More »Prescription for a healthier nation: Support our most vulnerable (foster) kids
It’s midnight, and a tired and hungry fourteen-year-old girl walks down the street alone and scared. Where will she sleep tonight? How will she survive on her own? She knows that leaving home was her only choice, since staying with the abuse was not an option. That fourteen-year-old girl was …
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