The State of the Union

Iran is not the final threat to avoid or despair over. Newt Gingrich is not the answer to our nation’s political problems, either, a religious man whose chronic failures have evinced a capacity for opportunism, not opportunity. Mitt Romney is not real, simple as that….

“The gospel of God creates the sense of need for the gospel. Is the gospel hidden to those who are servants already? No, Paul said, “But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who…

By empowering a federal judge to shred current employee contracts and permit the city to redraw its pension outlays, the City would save itself from certain political and fiscal disaster, while forcing the nasty and unpopular decisions on an unelected representative,…

They want the UK out of the Eurozone. With the looming collapse threatening the Common Market, the British public are growing weary of their attachment to the Continent’s financial misfortunes. They have long opposed casting aside the British pound, still…

According to recent reports from the state budget offices, stripping public unions of their collective bargaining rights has enabled cash-strapped school districts and other government agencies to cut costs. Requiring that public employees contribute more toward their…

The reason for one’s optimism makes all the difference.If a man trusts in his own effort or his own chance, then he is doomed to fail:”Trust in the LORD with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding.” (Proverbs 3:5)If we are…

On the contrary, Columnist George Will has argued time and again. Advertising interest a beer drinker to drink a different beer. Whether he will or not is a matter of inner conjecture and cost-analysis, a process which many elitists dismiss as non-existent among the…

Everyone wants to believe in a knight in shining armor, one who typifies all the greatness that man thinks he can create of himself. People want to be powerful; minorities want to feel that they can take down an enemy, as many have brought up in liberal-elitist public…

Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, is unveiling his proposal to overhaul California’s public employee pensions Thursday. Here are highlights of the plan, according to a draft report obtained by The Associated Press: Require all new and current employees to contribute…

He is a capitalist exploiter, one who cashes in on the anti-American chic that pervades academia and Hollywood, a wasteland of hyper-equality dedicated to playing up the downtrodden only because they are such. Rather than balancing out the inherent inequalities in the…

Now trying to shore up support from the 18-49 demographic which swept him to power on the frothy fumes of “hope and change,” the Vanity in Chief wants to reinforce the of his modish telegenic aura, now tarnished with the frustrating reality that the…

Once again, government is attempting to manipulate market practice, not so much to improve the suffering economy, but to score votes with fickle demonstrators attacking feckless institution as the cause of the economic malaise that has slowed this country down….

Governor Perry, please avoid such empty parries and thrusts. Mitt Romney is on the ropes, having been unable to raise his polling numbers above the low 20s. But caving in to populist fears of “not having enough” will not be enough to re-persuade an…

Is that too harsh? How about “Sell-out self-aggrandizing politician?” Then against, that’s quite redundant. I respect Mr. Lieu’s actions on behalf of veterans and streamlining review for new constructions projects, but what about the rest of…

All I can say is: “I am Laffing my A—- off!”We need tax neutral adjustments to our taxcode, not added burdens to consumers and the states. We need to cut spending, cut spending, cut spending. We need to adjust entitlements, offering private options…

An animatronic innovation with actors in large Dinosaur suits, with voice-overs from more prominent actors, the sitcom was a short-lived hit, dressing up current concerns in thte prehistoric trappings of a working-class dinosaur family, with father Earl Sinclair,…

That is the genius of the free market. To a lesser extent, republican government has instituted the same mechanism. If we do not approve of our leaders’ policies and programs, we indicate through petition, redress, and assembly. If the political class still…

“Do something!” is their exhortation, usually with bated breath or beating hearts. When things are not going according to plan for a Progressive, which is pretty much all the time, they must do something. Politicians get into office in order to “do…

The symbolic parallels of a world of senses and a world beyond captivated many viewers. Some read Platonic or Neo-Platonic overtones, others pointed out similarities in Kantian or Objectivist philosophies. One author published a Christian analysis of the movie. I…

The worst of straw men, the non-issue shuts many people down because they feel compelled right away to explain that they are not racist. How does one prove a negative? If I married a black woman, had black kids, attended a black church, some black people would still…

With one student in particular, it was a nightmare. Every day in one class, I would have to send this student out. He would play with his textbook, distract other students, make insensitive comments toward me, or he would find other ruthless ways and means to be…

At one of the local high schools, a student would not stop talking with another groups of students. When I asked him to move his seat three times, he refused, calling me a “N—–er”. I fired back, ” I am not a slave! Don’t call me…

My first day at Central Juvenile Hall, near Downtown Los Angeles, one of the students shouted at me:”Are you scared, sir?”Of course I was, but you never let a student in on that, especially criminals on trial trying to fight their fitness hearing. I got…

Obama and Reagan are great communicators. They both knew how to light up a crowd with soaring rhetoric. They both knew how to appeal to the innate vanity of the crowd:Ronald Reagan called the American people “heroes.”Obama declared, “We are the…

Older people are not going to be able to retire when they want to; and every state who has made this argument refuses to demand that seniors extend their working life beyond a meager few years, an inadequateWork longer, old People! Here are the reasons why:1. You wil…