Right about Dan Quayle being right

Right about Dan Quayle being right

Family |  Dan Quayle was on hand last January for the swearing-in ceremony of his son, newly elected Rep. Ben Quayle (R-Ariz.). The senior Quayle, who once represented…

True marriage defenseless?

True marriage defenseless?

Marriage |  The Obama administration is lending support to Congress in an effort to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. The president, instead, is backing something…

Obama's peace prize two years later

Obama's peace prize two years later

Middle East |  There was an audible gasp in the audience when the Nobel Peace Prize committee announced its choice for 2009. President Barack Obama had been in office less…

The <em>real</em> bridge to the 21st century

The real bridge to the 21st century

Politics |  I wanted to reach over and give Chris Matthews a wedgie . He kept referring to the 2004 Ohio marriage ballot initiative as a "wedge" issue. The host of Hardball on…

From Strong Horse to Hobbled Horse

From Strong Horse to Hobbled Horse

Middle East |  President Obama's May 19 speech on foreign policy concentrated on the Middle East. He spoke quite correctly of Osama bin Laden in his address, billed as…

Ending instead of mending marriage

Ending instead of mending marriage

Marriage |  The specter of socialism is haunting America. Fiscal conservatives think that the Great Shellacking of 2010 put that specter to flight. But many of my…

Do Gray and Brown want fewer blacks in D.C.?

Do Gray and Brown want fewer blacks in D.C.?

Abortion |  Washington's new mayor, Vincent Gray, and the new chairman of the D.C. City Council, Kwame Brown, were arrested this week at the U.S. Capitol. They were…

Champion of choice in education

Champion of choice in education

Education |  House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has personally intervened to help rescue Washington, D.C.'s schoolchildren and their parents from the neglect of President…

Are Christians humans, too?

Are Christians humans, too?

Religion |  President Obama, on those rare occasions when he defends his Libya policy at all, focuses on Col. Muammar Qaddafi's threats of "no mercy" to the rebels in his…

Uncommon eloquence

Uncommon eloquence

Congress |  I had the privilege of attending the swearing-in of the 112th Congress this week. I came in from Ohio to see our Buckeye favorite son, John Boehner, take in…

The persecution of Christians in the 'Muslim world'

The persecution of Christians in the 'Muslim world'

Religion |  The New York Times this week ran a front-page article on Christian persecution in Iraq, noting, "A new wave of Iraqi Christians has fled to northern Iraq or…

Why pay for more population control?

Why pay for more population control?

Issues |  The late British writer Malcolm Muggeridge once puckishly observed: "There's a bright lining to this terrible abortion cloud. In a hundred years, there will…

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