The Left is pushing a narrative that violent crime is not increasing. Of course, this contradicts what we see happening on the nightly news with our own eyes. So, who are we to believe? In the words of Chico Marx,…
More than five decades of social psychological data have demonstrated that conservatives report greater levels of happiness and emotional health than liberals. All of this has been so well documented that, for the most part, modern social scientists have given…
One of the few things left in American newspapers that is any good is the syndicated advice column, called “Ask Amy,” that Amy Dickinson writes for hundreds of papers across the country. Dickinson’s advice is a bit old-school, which is…
On June 7, I was one of five panelists, two of us white, to participate in an American Public Square discussion on the subject of reparations for African Americans. The discussion will air multiple times on the Kansas City PBS…
It’s no surprise that California officials have long struggled with basic economic concepts, but it is nevertheless surprising that they would embrace the latest plan to rework the way that the state’s utility companies charge customers for their electricity. Simply put,…
In traditional cultures, elders feel a duty to introduce the young to an education in virtue. In nontraditional modern cultures, adults feel no such duty. They expose children to vice — look at all the moral rot in public schools…
Remember Julia from the Obama campaign years? As she’s aged, she’s been the Democrats’ secret weapon. She is hip to the crisis du jour. She is educated, frustrated, and an agent of societal destruction. Julia champions the leftist life cycle,…
Washington — In the good old days, when the liberals flourished, they undertook many grand designs. Some actually worked, for instance, the interstate highway system that now girdles America. The Cold War was another liberal idea. It worked, at least…
We don’t need to launch into a recitation of examples to prove the reaction by the pro-abortion crowd to the publication of the Dobbs decision has been less than the traditional standard expected of a loser in the realm of…