To help the federal government annex medical care, President Obama recently turned to women. Not just any women but some reliable allies and supporters of the White House Office of Women and Girls. That office, you may remember, was launched…
Imagine this: a campaigning lawmaker speaks to a rally and here is what he says: “Vote for me, folks, and I’ll make you dependent! That’s right, my fellow countrymen, you won’t have to do anything more than cast that ballot…
Long ago when I came to Washington to change the world, I ran smack into a brick wall. That wall was called the election of 1964 and if you weren’t there, let me tell you about it. A very liberal…
There are lots of things I don’t understand — monetary policy, electrodynamics, or the TV show called “Dirty Jobs” that features sewer cleanings — to name a few. Here’s something else I don’t understand: the “undecided” voter. We are…
As long as everyone else is putting in his or her two-cents worth on Sarah Palin, here’s mine: the placement of a strong, no-victim, conservative woman on a presidential ticket is the best opportunity I’ve ever seen to counter (or…
Thank you, Joseph Epstein. Thank you for being the first to openly write — as you have recently done in the Wall Street Journal — of an addiction to anything to do with the Democratic primary race. You have opened…
Does anybody remember the White House Office for Women? It was a Clinton-era relic officially called the White House Office for Women’s Initiatives and Outreach. When the Bush Administration closed the office and moved women to the custody of the…
What’s this? A conservative hero and a liberal icon are out stumping for the same issue? It’s true. Conservative-Republican-Reagan-cabinet member-and-author Bill Bennett, and liberal-Democrat-Al Gore-advisor-and-author Naomi Wolf are both worried that Americans are not learning their own history or civics….
It’s farm bill time in Congress and I have to tell you I don’t like it. I don’t like it for all the usual reasons — farm supports are a relic of the Depression; most foods don’t get and don’t…
Last week — in the role of Elvira the Witch — I hosted a spooky-fun Halloween party for my grandchildren. A few days later I saw in the newspaper that Condoleezza Rice was at a Halloween party, too, at which…