Claiming that the GOP has repealed Obamacare by proposing the AHCA is like claiming that government had repealed slavery by proposing indentured servitude. America survived from 1776 to 2010 without government-controlled healthcare, and our experience under the ACA proves we were better off without it. Discussing what is wrong with the House...
I’ve often been reminded that you can easily figure out what you really want by examining the choices you tend to make. In economics class, this was called “revealed preferences.” There has been a lot of discussion recently about what some Americans are revealing by moving between states. Politicians ought to...
Elliot Rodger’s gruesome Santa Barbara killing spree will dominate the news for the next few weeks at least. Elliot was clearly a deeply troubled, mentally ill young man. Everyone wants to figure out how to prevent such episodes in the future, and calls for gun control and better care for...
As we roll into Memorial Day 2014, every American should indeed pause to give earnest thanks to the American service men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Those men and women were sons and daughters, dads and moms, brothers and sisters, and each left a hole in a family that...
At Haverford College’s May 18th graduation this year, replacement commencement speaker William G. Bowen used the opportunity to lambast those in the student body who successfully protested the originally invited speaker, Robert Birgeneau. Bowen, the former president of Princeton, called the Haverford protesters’ approach “arrogant” and “immature.” His remarks drew...
Dear Virginia Voters, Your vote in the Virginia governor’s race on November 5th means so much to Americans in the other 49 states. There is a widespread and growing national angst about our country, a sense that something is very wrong. It is a feeling that our country is being taken over...
For many throughout world history and today, the idea of a holiday celebrating work would be at least bizarre. Hard workers the world over, slaves in anti-bellum America and in other countries, medieval serfs in feudal Europe, powerless peasants coerced to work in collective farms and factories under communism, and...
Seventy-one years ago this month, on December 7th, 1941, the Japanese attacked American forces at Pearl Harbor, killing 2,402 Americans, wounding 1,282, destroying 188 aircraft, sinking four Navy battleships, and, as the world later found out, awakening a sleeping giant. Tribute to the victims and to those who fought courageously...
Conservative talk show host Mark Davis interviewed me one week before Election Day 2012, about my new book Ladies, Can We Talk? America Needs Our Vote! You can hear the interview here. The very popular Mark Davis hosts the 7am to 10am show daily on KSKY/660AM in Dallas, and occasionally...
Yesterday, the day before Election Day 2012, after completing my last “knock on door and distribute literature” assignment as part of the Mighty Texas Strike Force, I drove from the Cleveland suburbs into the city, to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections building. This election location was open for Early...