SecurityCommentary
The Post-9/11 Cycle of Cynicism
Remember. Forget. Repeat. For 17 years, America has engaged in a collective ritual every Sept. 11: hang flags, light candles, bow heads, and make vows… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Remember. Forget. Repeat. For 17 years, America has engaged in a collective ritual every Sept. 11: hang flags, light candles, bow heads, and make vows… Read More
LawCommentary
At this unique moment in American history, liberals and conservatives have something in common: an abhorrence of government prosecutors run amok. Republicans are livid at… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
It’s quite simple: Some political relatives are more equal than others. Agenda-driven journalists love to exploit familial dysfunction when a prominent politician is conservative and… Read More
LawCommentary
“If it wasn’t for my artwork and God, there’s no way we’d be having this conversation right now.” I’m in Colorado on a three-way phone… Read More
SocietyCommentary
To commemorate my 25th wedding anniversary this week to my husband, Jesse, I asked readers on Facebook to share their own secrets to a long… Read More
SocietyCommentary
I thought we had seen it all from radical feminists—and what we’ve seen is way, way more than anyone other than a gynecologist needs to… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Amid all the raging political headlines and hyperventilating tweets of the Summer of Resistance, a searing ember of news stopped me in my tracks this… Read More
SocietyCommentary
“No ban. No wall. No borders at all.” That is the radical rallying cry of the Democratic Socialists of America. Waving desecrated U.S. flags, grubby… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Confirmation bias damages reputations. It ruins credibility. It destroys lives. When researchers ignore contradictory data that undermines their assumptions, junk science prevails. When police conduct… Read More
SocietyCommentary
“I also have a dream.” This rallying cry, handwritten on a simple white placard held up by an Asian-American mom at a protest this week… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Quick, grab the smelling salts and clear the fainting couches. President Donald Trump’s pardon of conservative author Dinesh D’Souza last week violently triggered Beltway media… Read More
EducationCommentary
Educrat (ED-yoo-krat): noun, usually pejorative. A government school official or administrator whose primary function is to spend tax dollars telling other parents what to do… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Need more evidence that there are two Americas? Here: Left-wing hatred of Melania Trump is inversely proportional to flyover admiration for the first lady. In… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The impossibly fickle, selective, and whimsical rules of cultural appropriation are hard to keep straight. (Oops! I said “straight.” Apologies to whomever. Oops, can I… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Here is a short list of prominent conservatives and independent thinkers who’ve been accused by their critics of being an “Uncle Tom” or some other… Read More
SocietyCommentary
When British hospital officials tried to pull the plug on 23-month-old toddler Alfie Evans on Monday night in arrogant defiance of his parents’ wishes, many… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Move over, Trump Derangement Syndrome. Another unhinged liberal pathology is back: Chick-fil-A-phobia. Perhaps, in the interest of public health, the Centers for Disease Control and… Read More
EducationCommentary
While congresscritters expressed outrage at Facebook’s intrusive data grabs during Capitol Hill hearings with Mark Zuckerberg this week, not a peep was heard about the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth to have a despotic pediatric dentist. Parents who decide, for whatever reason, that they don’t like their children’s oral… Read More
SecurityCommentary
A sickening act of youth violence in Florida glinted across the news headlines last week, and then disappeared from view. There will be no CNN… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Here is my homework assignment for all the fist-clenching, gun control-demanding teenagers walking out of classrooms this week (and next week and next month) to… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Will the VA scandal never end? While the Department of Veterans Affairs secretary lives high on the hog and his lying chief of staff resigns… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Open government isn’t just good government. It’s the public’s right. In Florida, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office and Broward County school district are fighting to… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Where are all the grown-ups in times of crisis and grief? Don’t bother searching America’s prestigious law schools. Two adult men, occupying lofty perches as… Read More
LawCommentary
As the Oklahoma attorney general’s office fights to keep hidden from public view the results of secret hearings on the DNA science flaws and falsehoods… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Old liberal media liars never fade away. They just rage, rage against the dying of their dinosaur industry’s light. I’m looking at you, Dan Rather…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
Xinran Ji, 24, had big dreams. But demons demolished them. The bright hopes of young Ji, a University of Southern California engineering student from Inner… Read More
EducationCommentary
It’s elementary. Education control freaks will use any excuse to crack down on competition. With 2 million K-12 students now educated at home (including our… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Se acabó el tiempo. Seventeen years after granting “temporary protected status” to nearly 200,000 Salvadoran citizens who had fled earthquakes in 2001 or who were… Read More
SocietyCommentary
There are talkers and doers, sowers of dissatisfaction seeds and agents of lasting change. Much of my column work over the year is dedicated to… Read More