Political Commentary & Opinion

Every week, I receive at least one heartbreaking letter of regret from someone who was sexually abused as a young person and later underwent a “sex change” in a misguided attempt to heal the pain. The sex-change cheerleaders in the medical profession routinely diagnose these people with gender dysphoria and rush to administer cross-gender hormones…

Just 28 days ago, Nancy Pelosi claimed the speaker’s gavel and promised that her House would be “bipartisan and unifying.” What have we seen since? House Democrats are pushing to open the floodgates of millions of taxpayer dollars to pay for elective abortions—even as Pelosi insists that she can’t offer more than a dollar to build a border wall….

If a woman performs the same job as a man, she should receive the same pay. That’s common sense. The same goes for people with white skin and brown skin, or red hair or blonde hair, or green eyes, and so on. Pay should be based on one thing alone: the work performed. Period. This…

“For people out there who like their insurance, they don’t get to keep it?” That question was asked not of President Barack Obama, whose false reassurance about Obamacare earned him the dubious distinction of PolitiFact’s 2013 Lie of the Year. Rather, it was asked this week by Jake Tapper at a CNN town hall event…

One of the few advantages of changing addresses is that you sometimes discover long-forgotten items. In a recent move, I found an old recording that contained an interview of Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, D-Mont., by Paul Duke for NBC’s “Today” show. The year was 1968. Richard Nixon had just been elected president. Duke asked…

The United States is facing a wave of new threats from abroad. Unlike in previous decades, some of the most serious of these threats are cyber-related. On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats released the intelligence community’s annual Worldwide Threat Assessment, which identifies and evaluates these various threats to the nation. Here are three…

Devotion to and love of flag and country is now considered hateful. At least that was the message given by Santa Barbara City College Board of Trustees President Robert Miller when, according to a report by Campus Reform, he sent an email calling the Pledge of Allegiance “steeped in expressions of nativism and white nationalism”…

Virginia became the latest state to unabashedly attack the sanctity of human life when lawmakers this week considered a bill to legalize abortion right up to birth. The debate produced a chilling exchange between the Republican leader of the Virginia House of Delegates and Delegate Kathy Tran, the Democrat who sponsored the abortion bill. “So…

Every day, we’re confronted by headlines that reveal the ever-widening chasm between left and right in America. What’s driving this hyperpolarization? And are there any solutions? Thanks to a stimulating conversation with National Affairs editor Yuval Levin of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and independent scholar and economist Arnold Kling, I’m learning that there are some pretty…

As state superintendent of North Carolina’s public schools, I often hear from other leaders that standardized tests help hold students, teachers, and schools accountable. Accountability is important for our schools. But it’s also important for our leaders. The truth is that the education-industrial complex has built an elaborate testing system over the past decade that…

Sunday is the Super Bowl. I look forward to playing poker and watching. It’s easy to do both, because in a three hour-plus NFL game, there are just 11 minutes of actual football action. So, we’ll have plenty of time to watch Atlanta politicians take credit for the stadium that will host the game. Atlanta’s…

Rush Limbaugh’s December 2018 “Limbaugh Letter” has an article titled “Demonizing White Men.” It highlights—with actual quotations from people in the media, academia, and the political and entertainment arenas—the attack on white men as a class. You can decide whether these statements are decent, moral, or even sensible. Should we support their visions? Don Lemon,…

A good teacher of history knows that you don’t just stick with the textbook. To really understand an event like the Battle of Gettysburg or Martin Luther King’s March on Washington, you have to read the primary sources—the speeches, handwritten letters, and firsthand accounts of the people who were there. Otherwise, all we’re left with…