Judge Jon S. Tigar is back in the news. I wrote about him nearly two years ago: A federal judge ruled recently that an inmate serving a life sentence for murder in California must receive sex-reassignment surgery at taxpayer expense. The inmate was Rodney James Quine, 57, twice married and the father of
Progressives have finally lost patience with the American people. Until recently and on the whole they have been remarkably patient. From their beginning over a century ago, they have been quite far-sighted, keeping their eyes on the prize, always advancing their agenda while at the same time being careful not to unnecessarily alarm
In the run-up to the election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln observed “there is no program intended by the Democratic Party but what will result in the dismemberment of the Union.” As it was then, so it is now. The Democrats in 1864 proposed to end the Civil War by giving the rebelling states
By now you’ve heard that the Santa Barbara, California city council outlawed the distribution of disposable plastic drinking straws. For a moment, it appeared the city would actually send minimum-wage workers to jail for handing out the newly reviled objects. While that sensational detail captured Americans’ imaginations, another crucial admission might have been
Yes, of course you want to go see Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie! And you’re right. Inviting friends, neighbors, family to go with you and then meeting with them over dinner or drinks to discuss “Death of a Nation”afterward would be a splendid idea. You need to know and the people close to you
Isn’t it clear that President Trump really enjoys upsetting the people who claim to report the news? I imagine him occasionally tuning in to CNN or MSNBC for the sheer enjoyment of the latest spectacle as the talking heads try to outdo each other in displaying their outrage and disgust. Trump did it
In Britain, anyway. Pollsters took a deep dive into the British electorate soon after the Brexit vote, and came up with some interesting results. (Hat tip: Christopher Gage). Instead of adhering to a British version of the all-too-familiar approach of polling here in America—which over and over asks voters to self-identify as Democrats, Republicans, or
“America 2.0” considered the plain fact that the America you and I live in is no longer the America the Founders envisioned for us. Over the course of the past century, the Progressives have replaced the Framers’ federal government of limited powers designed to protect the American experiment in liberty with a vast
The government so carefully and brilliantly designed by the Framers and embodied in the Constitution is no more.Don’t believe me? Here is James Madison’s description of that government in Federalist 45:The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments
Have you read Richard Fernandez’s interesting article on President Trump’s decision to withdraw America from the Obama nuclear deal? It is worthy of close reading. Fernandez considers it likely that Trump’s repudiation of the Obama deal will, in fact, dial down tensions in the world’s most unstable region. The simple reason: Obama’s policies were
