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Worried About Privacy? How About Common Core?
There’s an intense debate right now over “Common Core,” an effort to implement a set of education standards in public schools nationwide. The Common Core State Standards thus far have been adopted by...
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A Memorial To Ronald Reagan’s Top Hand
The most important adviser to President Ronald Reagan in his takedown of the Soviet empire has died at the age of 81. His name was William P. “Bill” Clark, known to many as simply “Judge Clark,” and...
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Tax Cuts And Deficits: Fact Vs. Fiction
In my previous column, I underscored the 1920s lessons that President Obama and fellow “progressives” need to learn. These include the value of tax cuts — lessons that the president and his allies...
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The Progressive Income Tax Turns 100
Maybe it’s a measure of progressives’ refusal to look back, to always move “forward.” Otherwise, they should be celebrating right now. In fact, President Obama and fellow modern progressives/liberals...
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Privatize the National Park Service
The behavior of the National Park Service during the government shutdown has been truly shocking. As has been widely reported, Park Service employees have been told to make life as uncomfortable as...
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Who Killed the Kennedys? Ronald Reagan’s Answer…
This year marks not only the 50th anniversary of the shooting of John F. Kennedy but also the 45th anniversary of the shooting of Robert F. Kennedy, which occurred in June 1968. Was there a common...
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Pete Seeger, Marxist Minstrel
Editor’s note: A shorter version of this article first appeared in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Pete Seeger’s death at age 94 is a cultural catharsis for the American left. The New York Times...
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Ronald Reagan On Religious Tolerance
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at American Spectator. February is the month that we recognize our presidents. It has also become the month that Republicans remember Ronald Reagan. Reagan’s...
View ArticleIgnoring Reaganomics At Our Own Peril
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Last Tuesday, The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College hosted its eighth Ronald Reagan Lecture, a...
View ArticleThese Examples Show Why Religious Rights Are Almost Done For…
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at TheBlaze.com. Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock, you’ve noticed the growing clash between religious freedom and issues like same-sex marriage and...
View ArticleThe Five Bailey Brothers Of World War II
Every Memorial Day, I attend a parade in the little town of Mercer, Pa. It’s pure Americana: flags, kids, the snow-cone stand, marching bands, local clubs and rotaries, and veterans of wars past...
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What Was The Point Of WWI Again?
On June 28, 1914, a Bosnian-Serb student named Gavrilo Princip killed Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, the duchess. It was the shot-heard-round-the-world, unleashing a series of events...
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God And Dick Scaife
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in The American Spectator. I was saddened to wake up the morning of July 4 and learn that Richard Mellon Scaife, Pittsburgh billionaire, conservative...
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Watch: This Is How A REAL President Would React To MH17
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared at The American Spectator. This generation has its KAL 007. The stunning downing of Malaysian flight 17 is strikingly similar to the...
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Do We Have A President Who Doesn’t Seek Advice?
The Government Accountability Institute reports that President Obama continues to skip the majority of his Presidential Daily Briefings. This is a stunning fact, first reported two years ago and now...
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Here’s The Guy Rudy Is Talking About: Frank Marshall Davis, Communist Party...
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. Rudy Giuliani is being roundly criticized for several recent statements he has made about President Barack Obama, including the...
View ArticleHere’s The Man Who Could Redefine Marriage…
A recent profile of Justice Anthony Kennedy begins with this: “The Irish Catholic boy who came of age in Sacramento after World War II is an unlikely candidate to be the author of the Supreme Court’s...
View ArticleExposed: The Clintons’ Pornographer
“When Larry Flynt is feeling righteous, he describes himself as a crusader: for civil liberties in general and free speech in particular.” So begins a profile of porn king Larry Flynt in Bloomberg....
View ArticleJoe McCarthy: Despicable Or Prophetic?
A recent column I wrote on communism in Hollywood in the 1940s elicited strong reaction toward the person of Joe McCarthy. This was somewhat perplexing, given that McCarthy was not the...
View ArticleSeven Brothers? A Remarkable World War II Story
Image for representational purposes only. This time last year, I did a commentary on five brothers who served in World War II. Very impressive. Imagine my surprise when someone who caught the...
View ArticleLarry Flynt’s Endorsement Of Hillary Clinton: No Laughing Matter
“I’m endorsing Hillary Clinton for president.” So declared Larry Flynt, founder of the Hustler magazine empire that has made millions photographing nude women. Flynt proffered his enthusiastic...
View ArticleBarack And Valerie’s Great Communist Party Marriage
In my current book, Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage, I write of the phenomenon of Communist Party marriages. “Theirs was the first ‘party...
View ArticleBlack Pastors Protest Margaret Sanger At Smithsonian
Margaret Sanger is a saint in the feminist church. She is a charter member of the progressive hall of fame. Liberals revere this woman who preached “race improvement” and denounced what she called...
View ArticleResting Place Of A Humble Man … Remembering Bill Clark, Reagan’s Right-Hand Man
William P. Clark died two years ago this month. When he passed, I wrote a tribute here at The American Spectator, aptly titled “Bill Clark’s Divine Plan.” For those unfamiliar with Judge Clark, he...
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Was Margaret Sanger A Racist?
(Editor’s note: this piece originally appeared at VisionAndValues.org.) When I write about Margaret Sanger’s May 1926 speech to the women’s chapter of the KKK in Silverlake, New Jersey—as I did again...
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‘The Crucible’ You Never Knew … Arthur Miller At 100
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. October 17, 2015 is the centenary of the birth of Arthur Miller, one of the literary left’s shining lights and righteous crusaders...
View ArticleHollywood’s Blacklisted Communist: The Truth About Trumbo
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at Investor’s Business Daily. A long-touted motion picture on prominent Hollywood screenwriter and communist Dalton Trumbo debuts in theaters this weekend. I...
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Surviving Hitler’s ‘Hell-Hole’ … Remembering Frank Kravetz
“Just existing became what was important.” So said Frank Kravetz, World War II veteran and former captive of Nuremberg Prison Camp, or what Frank called the Nazi “hell-hole.” “Yet even as I struggled...
View ArticleParis, Brussels, And 21st Century Europe
Some time ago a former student emailed me a video clip that I now show my Major European Governments course. It’s a five-minute news piece by Dale Hurd of CBN News, a conservative Christian outlet—the...
View ArticleGiving Thanks At Thanksgiving…But Not To God
In 1789, America’s first president proclaimed a “day of public thanksgiving and prayer.” George Washington implored the heavens to “pardon our national and other transgressions” and urged the...
View ArticleWhen Hollywood Celebrated Christmas And Marriage
A few days before Christmas, I checked the schedule for Turner Classic Movies, one of the few TV channels I watch. I was looking for Christmas movies, maybe the 1938 Reginald Owen version of “A...
View ArticleThe Gift Of Ignorance And Sophistry
Another “Holiday Season” is behind us. And every such season, the purge of religion in our public schools just gets worse. In fact, the season now serves to remind us of one thing for certain: the...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood And Hillary Clinton
In what is being embraced by Hillary Clinton as the highest praise, Planned Parenthood, America’s longtime leading provider of abortion, is enthusiastically endorsing Clinton as president. Clinton can...
View ArticleDonald Trump On Bush’s WMD ‘Lie’: Ludicrous Canard
“George Bush made a mistake,” said Donald Trump in the South Carolina debate last week. “We should have never been in Iraq.” Trump added that “we destabilized” the larger Middle East. Those are...
View ArticleThis GOP Ticket Is The Only One That Can Beat Trump And Hillary
How to stop Trump? That’s the collective mantra of the mass media. It’s a natural question to ask of a man curiously portrayed as some sort of Republican juggernaut, which he’s not. I sat in...
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