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Fortunately, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg suffered an embarrassing defeat this week when a judge ruled that his now infamous “soda ban” failed to pass legal muster. Yet the Mayor, far from being disheartened, dug his feet in further and promised to appeal the court’s decision.  He also once more defended his decision for…

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is now Pope Francis.  This son of Italians who emigrated to Argentine became all of the rage on Wednesday when he was elected Pope.  To be sure, for as ardently as its enemies wish its demise, the eagerness with which the world greeted Pope Francis proves that the Church, with its…

Rand Paul remains the talk of the town, and deservedly so.  However, more talk should be centering on his colleagues and critics in the Senate, John McCain and Lindsey Graham.   Recall, the Arizonan senator and former presidential candidate, quoting a Wall Street Journal editorial, said: “If Mr. Paul wants to be taken seriously, he needs…

Rand Paul’s nearly 13 hour filibuster on the Senate floor last week was a stroke of political genius that still has not yet been fully appreciated. Those who compose the base of the GOP lost much of their morale during George W. Bush’s second term.  When the Democrats took back the Congress in 2006 and…

Last week, the president of Emory University, James W. Wagner, was censured by faculty members, and may even be forced to resign when faculty reconvene later this month to decide his fate.       Wagner’s great sin, you see, is that in an article in his school’s magazine, he cited “the three-fifths compromise over slavery” as a…

Among “the rising stars” in the GOP that we hear more and more about, none shines as brightly as Rand Paul. To repeat: if the future of the Republican Party can be said to have a face, those who love liberty should hope that is that of Senator Paul’s.  Paul’s filibuster of President Obama’s nominee…

By way of an assault on the John Birch Society, the Southern Poverty Law Center has taken a shot at yours truly.  Upon reading Don Terry’s, “Bringing Back Birch,” it became painfully obvious that the Center’s reputation for lousy marksmanship is richly deserved.  Equally obvious is that it is the ease with which it smears…

My interest was piqued recently when I encountered at Townhall.com the title of Kurt Schlicter’s article: “Let’s Help Academia Destroy Itself.”  The author, a self-described conservative, levels a visceral assault against the university.   Schlicter offers an essentially two prong attack against academia.  The first we can call “the tick argument.”  Academia, he says, is…

Yesterday, while on Fox News Sunday, Mitt Romney ascribed his defeat in November to his campaign’s failure to take “our message to minorities, to Hispanic-Americans, African-Americans.” Doubtless, this is the conventional wisdom among Republicans. As I write this, I am listening to Bill Bennett’s morning talk show.  The host is speaking with City Journal’s Heather…

The president of Emory University, James W. Wagner, has been censured by faculty members.  He may even be forced to resign.    In his school’s magazine, Wagner, you see, cited “the three-fifths compromise over slavery” as illustrative of the art of political comprise.    In response to the backlash, Wagner issued the obligatory mea culpa…
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