
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is now conscious and being nursed back to health by hospital staff, just days after opening fire on crowds of unarmed American soldiers at the Fort Hood Readiness Center. Maj. Hasan reportedly shouted "Allahu Akbar!" - a phrase meaning "God is great!"- before discharging 100 bullets at some 300 unarmed U.S. troops who had gathered for pre-deployment processing. By the time his rampage ended, Maj. Hasan had massacred 13 servicemen and women, and injured 29.
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009
It has famously been said that America is a nation of laws not people. That is not the case when it comes to applying the laws of this country to its elected leaders. Amazingly, members of Congress are not covered by many of the statutes that they apply to the rest of the country.
Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009
We are nearly a year into the Obama presidency now. Yet, with each passing day, this administration becomes increasingly focused on the issues that matter less, not more, to the average man on the street. Instead of building on big ideas with concrete details and personal leadership, the White House has chosen to focus instead on its fringe agenda.
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009
In modern liberal society, it is OK to be a bigot; just so long you are a bigot for the left.
Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009
The social engineering of liberal policymakers often has the unintended consequences of making life more difficult for the people it is trying to help. They justify liberal policies by correctly highlighting real institutional barriers like racism and historical poverty that have historically held back the disadvantaged. However, instead of teaching the disadvantaged to fish so they can feed themselves for a lifetime, they merely give them a fish to eat.
Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009
Over the past month, President Obama has continuously and naively put America's security at grave risk. At the U.N. General Assembly meeting in September, Mr. Obama unintentionally announced his "Hope Doctrine" to promote world peace. In "our efforts to promote peace ... the most powerful weapon in our arsenal is the hope of human beings."
Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009
The countdown to war between Israel and Iran has begun. Earlier this week, Tehran announced that it test-fired long-range missiles capable of striking Israel, Egypt, parts of Europe and American bases in the Persian Gulf.
Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009
When I was growing up during the postwar prosperity of 1960s, my parents continually reminded us about how fortunate we were to mature in the relative prosperity of an upper-middle-class farming family community in Marion, S.C.
Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009
As serious debate on health care reform heats up, Democrats have taken to outright accusing those who oppose President Obama's health care reform plan as borderline racists.
Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009
As Congress returns from its August recess, the political debate on health care reform revolves around four basic issues. First, how should the government provide health care for uninsured Americans? Second, how can reform reduce overall medical costs and improve health care? Third, who should pay for reform? Fourth, should there be a single-payer government health care option?