Editor’s note: Tuesday afternoon the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that the Romeike family will not be deported. Christians in an east Tennessee community are vowing to engage in civil disobedience if the Obama administration initiates deportation proceedings against a Southern Baptist family from Germany who sought asylum in …
Read More »Jet-setting Obama can't flee foreign policy failures
Having done his darndest in The Hague, Barack Obama is taking his “cast of 100s” caravan to the sands of the Saudis. Riyadh may seem a strange place to end a European tour, but Mr. Obama often does the unexpected. What he does not do when travelling, however, is deal …
Read More »Let's have real tax reform — get rid of IRS, income tax altogether
Americans desperately want a fairer tax system and relief from arbitrary treatment by the IRS. True reform requires simply junking the personal and corporate incomes in favor of a consumption tax. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp estimates tax filing, recordkeeping and the like amount to $168 billion …
Read More »Syria’s Christians – who will help them?
It all started during the early days of the Arab Spring — another “peaceful” protest defying another despotic regime. Today, nearly three years later, that protest has exploded into Syria’s ferocious civil war. Radicalized Sunni warriors have swept across the borders, seized control of moderate forces, and are waging jihad …
Read More »NFL hypocrisy — Bloomberg anti-gun ads ok but ad about ‘protection’ is banned?
New York City Mayor and gun control advocate Michael Bloomberg sure knows how to get his way. This week the NFL, after featuring anti-gun ads during the last two Super Bowls, it decided that an ad offering the opposite point of view in the upcoming Super Bowl XLVIII on February …
Read More »President Obama, is a 'substandard' health plan really substandard?
When I worked in the government, I lived only two miles from the White House. As a result, I decided that my transportation needs were minimal so I bought a no-frills Ford Focus. The car had a standard, stick shift transmission, roll-down windows and manual locks. My car was “substandard” …
Read More »We need a militarily strong, morally confident America — it's time for smart power
The national security debate in Washington is a muddled affair. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu warned us Tuesday at the U.N. that conciliatorygestures from an Iranian regime bent on nuclear domination of the Middle East are a ruse. But in Washington, no one seems to be listening–or preparingfor the dangerous new …
Read More »Obama's strategic drift plays into Russian hands
Editor’s note: an earlier edition of the following op-ed incorrectly described TMK IPSCO as a Russian owned company. TMK IPSCO is the Americas Division of TMK, a public company based in Russia which is Russia’s main pipe producer. It was founded and is headed by a Russian citizen, but has …
Read More »Will Obama fall for Rowhani's deception?
He’s been portrayed by the mainstream media as the anti-Ahmadenijad—a pragmatic moderate who’s set to strike a grand bargain with the United States and save the world from a looming military showdown over Iran’s nuclear weapons program. But as Iranian president Hassan Rowhani takes center stage at the U.N. General …
Read More »Let's not play racial politics when the bigger problem is violent criminal behavior
In a sharp political divide separating liberals and conservatives, the shooting death of an Australian man by three teenage boys in Oklahoma is being advertised by the right as a race crime. There are two problems with that theory. First, the boys who committed this atrocity are black, white and …
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