Opinion

Among the thousands of emails recently divulged by “villainous” WikiLeaks, a few were especially disturbing but received little attention from the media. The emails were between the top finance guy of the Democrat Party and a big personnel official at the White House. The party guy sent a list of big donors for the White […]

Random thoughts on the Hillary Clinton email scandal, which recently ended with her not being indicted. Imagine if you could suck all the political gas from this. You would be left with a pure impartial situation. Suppose you then asked: Did this senior government executive break a bunch of laws? Of course, she did. Should

The race for the presidency is set. So this seems a good time to step back and consider just what it is that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are fighting about. I don’t mean where they stand on the issues, or whose vision is more compelling. I mean the office itself. The modern presidency is

What happened? Did earthquakes churn Europe into rubble? Did the Plague descend upon Britain? Did skyscrapers topple? Did the Queen scamper naked around Piccadilly Circus? Europeans are screaming at the Brits. Calling them everything but Nazis. Half the British are screaming at the other half. In fact, calling them Nazis. What cataclysmic event has brought

The START-UP NY report badly missed its deadline and the program is completely missing its goals. Taxpayers have invested millions of dollars to promote a job-creation initiative that has turned out to be long on promises but woefully short on actual jobs. With only 332 jobs created in 2015, it is time to reevaluate the

Gunshots, sirens, and more police than March in the St. Patrick’s Day parade. In the wee hours, folks in a village I knew woke years ago to several shotgun blasts. Next, 20 police cars wailed down their streets. Villagers stumbled onto their lawns in bathrobes and confusion. They learned that a guy from a neighboring

The elections process is not usually grist for inflammatory rhetoric. But this year has been different. Republican Donald Trump labeled the GOP primary process “crooked.” Democrat Bernie Sanders suggested his party’s use of super delegates made its nominating process a “rigged system.” For many voters, the intricacies of voting rules quickly became a topic of

Can we discuss contempt today? Contempt for you. Many of us complain that our Congress people are elitist. That they often vote in legislation that a majority of Americans don’t want. Obamacare is a prime example. The accusations go beyond Obamacare. Many feel the way Congress taxes and regulates us shows our lawmakers are out

Do you feel you are well-informed about what is going on in the country? If you answered yes, you probably read a newspaper. And you probably watch network news. Or maybe you check out the news on a network’s website. Suppose you do no more than that. If so, my guess is that you miss

It has been 35 years since Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural speech as president — he one in which he said, “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Over that time, hostility toward government seems only to have grown, led by politicians and embraced by millions of