After the Great Recession of 2008, an unpleasant phenomena resurfaced. Because of financial distress from the recession, a large number of Americans began tapping into their secured retirement savings. African-Americans and Hispanics were the groups that dipped into these sacred ...
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In a National Review piece just out today, food writer Julie Kelly and I review the divisive activism of celebrity chef and MSNBC food correspondent Tom Colicchio. We write that, If you’re looking for practical dinner advice, look elsewhere. I’m confident that ...
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National Center media fellow Steven Crowder is scheduled to be a guest on the Thursday night edition of “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Crowder will be participating in the free-wheeling “Great American Panel” during the second half of the ...
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Senate Should Repeal SGR Without the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System Washington, D.C. - As the U.S. Senate prepares to consider legislation to repeal Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), senators need to know the bill will replace the SGR with something ...
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The word "bipartisan" is considered by many inside the Beltway to be one of the highest honors that can be bestowed on a piece of legislation. That's unfortunate because, too often, bipartisanship means Republicans and Democrats are supporting a bill ...
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Today the House passed the “Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015” which will repeal the dreaded Sustainable Growth Rate. Unfortunately, the bill is not without its problems, not the least of which is it will cost $141 billion ...
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I walked to the corner coffee shop this morning (not Starbucks) and ordered a mocha. I then asked the clerk if she could write #RaceTogether on it. She replied that she didn’t know what I was talking about.  I smiled ...
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Black Conservatives Call Senator Durbin's "Back of the Bus" Comment "Truly Shameful" "True Racial Harmony Is Holding This Woman's Feet to the Fire" Washington, D.C. - Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) last week injected the issue of race into the Senate ...
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The Los Angeles Times editorialists today acknowledged some unpleasant reality about ObamaCare: “…surveys show little love for [ObamaCare]— a view that hasn’t shifted much over time.” But the Times can’t acknowledge that the law is unpopular without prefacing it with a distortion: ...
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In an op-ed for USA Today, I remind readers that radical animal rights activists are to blame for the loss of elephants in the Ringling Bros. circus. For all the families who have yet to take their children to a Ringling ...
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