Lamar Alexander
Detroit’s bankruptcy is about numbers: a 26 percent drop in population since 2000, 78,000 abandoned properties, $10 billion in underfunded pension and health care obligations for public employees and billions more in bond and other debt that make it impossible…
Last month Washington Post columnist Katrina vanden Heuvel derided Republicans in Congress for treating women like children. Their crime: passing legislation to ban abortions after 20 weeks. The legislation, The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, passed 228-196 in the House…
If anyone dies as a result of protests following the Zimmerman verdict, the Justice Department should charge Al Sharpton. The self -anointed civil rights leader and talk show host has done everything but cry “fire!” in a crowded theatre to…
“His redemption is your redemption.” That is the Daily Beast’s spot-on satirical assessment of Anthony Weiner’s campaign ad for New York City Mayor. But it also is the message of both Eliot Spitzer and Mark Sanford, two other adulterers trying…
Wendy Davis is no Kim Kardashian. She is famous for something: standing up for a woman’s right to kill an unborn baby up to 24 weeks old at substandard medical clinics. For this the Democrat from Fort Worth who last…
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said recently at a private event in Toronto that electing a woman president would send “exactly the right historical signal to girls, women as well as boys and men.” What “signal” is she talking…
Twenty years from now I’m betting historians will look back and classify the modern abortion debate into two time periods: before Kermit Gosnell and after. The Philadelphia doctor convicted May 13 of three counts of first degree murder in the…
The high priests of liberalism must be tossing and turning in their organic cotton bedding and downing more small-batch artisanal whisky each night trying to cope with the abject failure of their cause. They know, even if the masses do…
News reports from the past month reveal a chasm between Americans’ perception of their freedom and their actual freedom. To those who thought the rule of law still protected them, the IRS targeting conservative groups for special scrutiny and Justice…
