Once upon a time a boy would meet a girl and fall in love. But fast forward to the present. For Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o, the age old “boy meets girl” scenario has been turned on its head. In Te’o’s case, it was boy virtually meets girl, falls in …
Read More »Gretchen's Take: Why did US swap for Bergdahl, not others?
It’s heartbreaking to hear the parents of American hostage Kayla Mueller wonder in an interview if their country did enough to try and bring their 26-year-old daughter home. They claim they were in frequent contact with her ISIS captors and that they believe the terrorist organization may have been willing …
Read More »America's Most Wasted: A wake-up call for Congress about out -of-control spending
Unnecessary, wasteful government spending is today putting America on a dangerous path, as we burden future generations with a mounting national debt – now totaling more than $18 trillion. The future of the American dream is at risk, due to Washington’s bipartisan spending addiction. For years I have fought alongside …
Read More »GREG GUTFELD: Trump derangement syndrome evolved into a disease
By now you’ve heard the phrase Trump derangement syndrome, but maybe it’s time you graduated from syndrome to disease, because while a syndrome refers to symptoms, a disease refers to an established condition, and Trump derangement is just that. It’s a disease much like alcoholism, where what defines it is …
Read More »Why Jewish students belong at anti-Israel Ivy League schools
Amid risinganti-IsraelsentimentatIvyLeagueuniversities like Harvard and Yale, someJewishparents arepledgingnot to send their children there, and commentators like Bill Maher and Ben Shapiro are encouraging it. This is misguided.The economic considerations of investing in anIvyLeagueeducation are valid, as families must weigh the financial burden against potential long-term benefits. However, boycotting these institutions …
Read More »The disturbing connection between BLM and antisemitism in the classroom
In the summer of 2020, nearly every sector of American society – from academia, corporations and government entities – rushed to bend the knee to a radical left-wing mob. To signal their obedience, institutions began paying fealty to the Black Lives Matter organization with funds, store window displays, and, most …
Read More »Chemical abortion harms women. Supreme Court can't ignore them
On Dec. 13, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would hear a caseto challenge the FDA’s actions to remove commonsense safeguards for women and girls who take the chemical abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol. It was filed by my organization, three others and four doctors via our Alliance Defending …
Read More »Biden anti-consumer crusade targets 4 more types of appliances
2023 was an unusually bad year for appliance regulations, and future years won’t be much better unless Congress finds a way to stop the nonsense. It all started last January when Richard Trumka Jr., a commissioner on the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), announced an investigation into the safety of …
Read More »Why Rick Perry deserves a second look
Thursday in Dallas, Rick Perry will declare his candidacy for the presidency of the United States. It is his second time. Last time, Perry announced his intentions at the RedState Gathering in Charleston, S.C. in August of 2011 and surged quickly in the field to first place with almost a …
Read More »Why They Are High-Fiving at the Obama White House
With the president’s speech Tuesday in Kansas, we now have a clear and arguably definitive sense as to where the 2012 Obama campaign is going. To be sure, it has been clear for a while that the administration was planning to take a populist tack. But now, with the president’s …
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