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Besides the fact that Iam recovering from major hand surgery,I am finding it difficult to write these days. I am using a dictation program, as well as utilizing Fancy Assistant Brandon’s typing skills, so it’s not that I have no way to communicate with the outside world. The problem is …

We’re only 16 days into June and already it’s been the biggest month of the year for Republicans. Last Tuesday night House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was defeated by his primary challenger Dave Brat. The week before Iowa State Senator Joni Ernst defeated her challenger in the state’s Republican primary. …

Tuesday the U.S. Government’s Global Change Research Program released its latest “National Assessment” report on climate change impacts in the United States. As with previous editions, the new report is an alarmist document designed to scare people and build political support for unpopular policies such as carbon taxes, cap-and-trade, and …

American colleges have been hotbeds of racial grievance and enablers of violence since the 1960s. It should come as no surprise, then, that college students and professors are now celebrating terrorism and threatening Jewish students on their own campuses. Just on Thursday, the Department of Education announced that it isinvestigating …

Britain’s arrest Tuesday of WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange on sex crime allegations is a little like getting Al Capone on income tax evasion, but at least he’s now behind bars. He has been denied bail and will remain in Britain until at least December 14. While Assange fights …

I’ll admit it: Democrats are on the defensive when it comes to crime. President Donald Trump’s takeovers of Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles aren’t making America any safer, but they’re effective stunts — designed to put Democrats on the back foot and distract from his administration driving our country to …

It just keeps happening. NPR’s leadership keeps tripping over its microphone wires and then asking everybody else to plug them back in. I know everybody thinks I must be in a vindictive mood, celebrating the sudden departure of NPR CEO Vivian Schiller after her hand-picked personal fundraiser was caught on …

You know the country is in deep trouble when frustrated voters turn to reality TV celebrities for leadership. Multi-millionaire and brightest star in the constellation of celebrities Donald Trump is getting closer to seeking the Republican Party nomination for president. It is the first job in his life that he …

The response to the death of Usama bin Laden by the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, and two “experts” appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council ought to be ringing a lot of alarm bells right now. Just last month, Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United …

Compared to his State of the Union speech a year ago, President Obama seemed almost humble, polite, somewhat bipartisan and he in stealth fashion switched some of his positions nearly 180 degrees. He should also be congratulated on not insulting the visiting members of the Supreme Court. But that’s a …