President Obama now commands center stage following his formal announcement that, yes, he supports same-sex marriage. For perspective on how we got to this point, we should shift our sights to three days before the president's announcement. Secretary ...

House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., provoked some angry push-back when he claimed that not only is his proposed sweeping revamp of the U.S. budget fiscally sound but also morally sound. In a CBN interview, Ryan said he draws inspiration from his ...

Media personality Tavis Smiley and Princeton philosophy professor Cornel West have just published their latest contribution to American poverty propaganda, "The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto." The book should have a second subtitle: "H ...

Spokespersons and pundits stick their foot in it all the time. But rarely do we see public-relations heavy artillery brought out to do damage control to the extent provoked by Hilary Rosen’s recent remark that Ann Romney “never worked a day in her li ...

Give credit where credit is due. President Obama has laid out the core message of his reelection campaign. It is a message whose claims are blatantly false and whose point is irrelevant to what is of greatest challenges we face. Yet it appears to be ...

National Journal’s Ron Brownstein provided an eye-opening reminder in a column last week about the impact of changing ethnic demographics on America’s political landscape. The flashing red light of Brownstein’s message is pointed to the Republican Pa ...

What are the ramifications if the Supreme Court finds the individual-mandate provision of Obamacare unconstitutional? This is the provision that requires individuals to purchase government-defined health insurance or pay a fine. I hope it will serve ...

As the Supreme Court starts its three-day marathon to hear arguments on the constitutionality of Obamacare, let’s be clear about their challenge, and ours. The challenge before the Court, a challenge it has often not lived up to, is to keep perspecti ...

Mitt Romney told Fox News after Rick Santorum's victories in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries, "We're not going to go to a brokered convention." But those who put their money where their mouth is, buying contracts on the Intrade.com online predi ...

In 1993, then Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., published a paper in which he coined the phrase "defining deviancy down." He was ringing an alarm about what he saw as a dangerous social unraveling as result of our redefining deviant behavior as n ...