As Congress debates "fixing" the Ponzi scheme we call Social Security, consider a few things: Congress established Social Security with a little-known loophole, allowing states and municipalities to exempt their public employees from Social Security. In 1981, two...
Did Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill commit a "gaffe" of epic proportions? Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich certainly thinks so. In an interview with Financial Times, O'Neill said, "Able-bodied adults should save enough on a regular basis so that they can...
Why don't they preach what they practice?Non-conservatives dominate the mainstream media. In the media magazine Content, a poll showed that nearly 75 percent of Republicans found a liberal bias in the media, while nearly 50 percent of Democrats found the press "more...
Whatever happened to the presumption of innocence? California Attorney General Bill Lockyer apparently missed that lesson in law school. As Californians face rolling blackouts in the grip of their so-called energy crisis, the state's top politicians busy themselves...
"America's Greatest Problem: Not Crime, Racism or Bad Schools -- It's Illegitimacy," reads Chapter 5 from my book, "The Ten Things You Can't Say in America." Absentee, non-involved fathers are the primary reason behind recent Department of Justice statistics showing...
Ebony, a monthly black magazine, puts out an annual list of the "100+ Most Influential Black Americans." First, the magazine's criteria. Influential means, "1. Does the individual transcend his or her position and command widespread national influence? 2. Does the...
I'm confused. Director Spike Lee calls racism America's "No. 1 problem." So he makes a film called "Bamboozled," which argues that white network executives intentionally put on the worst images of blacks. Yet, when Lee asked to use seldom-seen "racially insensitive"...
"Can I please have some more arsenic in my water, Mommy? More salmonella in my cheeseburger, please." So begins a Democratic National Committee commercial attacking George W. Bush's policy on arsenic levels in water. In the commercial, a cute little girl fills a glass...
" ... Here, the environment is not an issue -- it's an ethic. It's protecting creation." In criticizing President Bush's environmental policy, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., made that pronouncement. Echoing a similar theme, a former official with the Wilderness...
The shooting of a 19-year-old black, unarmed man by a Cincinnati police officer brings the number to 15 -- 15 black males killed by the Cincinnati police since 1995. The latest death occurred on April 7, when a police officer chased and shot Timothy Thomas, a teenager...
The reparations for slavery movement got an airing on a recent "60 Minutes." America, argue several "black leaders," owes reparations to blacks for the enslavement and forced labor of black ancestors. America's "black plight," they insist, stems from slavery -- that...
Summer is here, and again we awaken to the smell of magnolias, honeysuckle and hypocrisy. Anti-gunner Rosie O'Donnell certainly deserves whatever personal protection she deems necessary. She fears for her child's safety and thus hired a bodyguard to accompany him. But...
Look in the dictionary, under the word "gall." You might find a picture of defense attorney Johnnie L. Cochran. If it doesn't appear, it should. June 12, 2000, marks the sixth anniversary of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. On "Larry King Live,"...
Fire the Men! The government repeatedly informs us that women remain oppressed in the workforce, earning "only" 76.5 cents on the dollar compared with men doing the "same" work. "Wage discrimination," says Labor Secretary Alexis M. Herman, "remains an unfortunate...
"Don't they have any shame?" thundered Robert De Niro to Congress in "Guilty by Suspicion," a movie about the Hollywood Blacklist. But toe-tag -- don't-confuse-me-with-the-facts -- liberals show absolutely no shame, regret, or remorse, even when proven wrong. Some...
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin's statement remains true today. But the absence of rule of law produces anarchy. In the most far-reaching corruption scandal in its history,...
On Sunday May 14, as many as 750,000 people, mostly mothers, gathered in Washington, D.C., as part of the Million Mom March. What a tragic collection of emotionally driven, self-righteous but utterly wrongheaded people. These "gun control supporters," as commonly...
It's official. Beer drinking causes gonorrhea! Don't laugh. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just released a study concluding that many young people get drunk before engaging in unprotected sex. Solution? A beer tax. The study found that a 20 cents tax...
A study at the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania indicated that women know less than men about political issues, economics, and current events.
A courageous University of Tennessee professor finds herself under fire. Her crime? Dr. Linda Bensel-Meyers, who teaches English, puts the student part of the so-called student-athlete first, the athlete part second. In 1995, the professor first informed the...
So many "problems," so many Feds needed to "solve" them. Fighting exhaustion from having invented the Internet, Al Gore strikes again. He seeks to conquer that age-old, cruel, unfair dilemma --- whether to work outside the home or stay home and raise the children. The...
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