President Obama has put a new twist on the Islamic invasion now taking place across Europe and the United States.Speaking to reporters last week during his visit to the Philippines, the president compared Syrian refugees to "tourists," saying they are no bigger a threat than people who come to ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio - How important politically is Ohio? Of the nation's first 10 Republican presidents, seven of them - from Ulysses Grant to Warren Harding - were native sons of Ohio. In fact, no Republican has ever won the White House who did not first carry Ohio. And in the most recent 13 ...
Like most people, I'm thinking of the terrorist trauma in Paris, though with a somewhat different perspective.I was in New York on Sept. 11, 2001, and my thoughts go in this direction: What is the future of cities in which psychopaths have killed crowds of bystanders?In New York, the future as ...
Three days after the Islamic State terrorist attacks in Paris, Americans were primed to hear their president express heartfelt anger, which he did in his press conference in Antalya, Turkey, at the end of the G-20 summit. And they did hear him describe ISIS as "this barbaric terrorist ...
Thanks to the presidential candidates, immigration is once again at the forefront of the national agenda.Unfortunately, the focus on unauthorized immigrants threatens to cast a pall over the whole issue.As we continue the debate, we would do well to remember that a willingness to welcome people ...
WASHINGTON - Once in a great while, a circumstance occurs that poses a clear-cut challenge to our nation and people to demonstrate that we truly are who we say we are.Such is the current public debate over accepting refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria, specifically in the wake of the ...
Since convening 10 months ago, the current Michigan Legislature has cracked down on local minimum wage requirements, authorized commercial quadricycles to serve alcohol, and even addressed (however inadequately) the chronic underfunding of state roads.But state lawmakers have so far ignored ...
Deray McKesson, the professional agitator whose racial rabble-rousing began at tax-subsidized Teach for America, proudly unveiled his new enterprise on the Internet Thursday: A website chronicling "THE DEMANDS" of his radical brothers and sisters on college campuses across Northern America."We ...
This is Republican Gov. John Kasich explaining in March why he expanded coverage for Ohio's Medicaid recipients:"The conservative movement - a big chunk of which is faith-based - seems to have never read Matthew 25. ... There's so much we have to do to clean ourselves up. ... So instead of ...
WASHINGTON - We shouldn't be surprised that many Americans fear the fresh arrival of Syrian refugees in the wake of last week's Paris slaughter by jihadists, including at least one who appears to have entered Europe posing as a refugee.It's pretty natural. Horrified by the savagery perpetrated ...
Just hours before the terrorist attacks in Paris last week, for which ISIS has claimed responsibility, "Good Morning America" broadcast an interview with President Obama. In it, the president told host George Stephanopoulos, "I don't think they're gaining strength. What is true is that from the ...
Yes, it is true that, as a political reporter, you do find yourself liking some people you cover a lot more than you like others. For example, in my 50 years in Washington, of all the House members I have met, the late Henry Hyde - a conservative Illinois Republican probably most widely ...
In the course of human events, many things need fixing. One of them is the cost of Medicare, climbing rapidly as baby boomers enroll in large numbers.We can argue over how to contain this major federal expense, and we should. But assigning blame for the problem on anyone born between 1946 and ...
Tuesday night's Fox Business/Wall Street Journal debate in Milwaukee provided clues as to why Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have been climbing, not by wide margins but perceptibly, into the top-polling positions of the candidates behind the two poll leaders, Donald Trump and Ben Carson.The ...
WASHINGTON - As the presidential campaign season intensifies, managers for the various competitors and some of the candidates themselves have angrily turned on the moderators and the television networks that host the debates.Predictable whining has come from the GOP front-runners, Donald Trump ...
There was a much-beloved quote circulated among leftists, often attributed to Sinclair Lewis, that "when fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." In light of recent episodes of mob action on American campuses, the quote needs updating: When fascism comes to ...
The road bill passed by the Legislature this week is the least possible deal they could have crafted, but at least, after four years of struggle, they finally found a majority.Make no mistake, it is worth celebrating that this package should eventually raise up to $1.2 billion to fix Michigan's ...
How much are your teeth worth to you? How much would they be worth to the random stranger idling next to you on Pine Grove Avenue waiting for the signal to turn green?Weird question; let's try a different one.How much is your car worth? That's easier. It has a Blue Book value and a relatively ...
Every day brings new headlines, ignored by the Washington press corps, of U.S. workers losing their livelihoods to cheap H1-B visa replacements.Just this week, Computerworld reported: "Fury and fear in Ohio as IT jobs go to India."Yet, it remains an article of faith among Big Business flacks ...
When the Republican presidential debate began Tuesday evening in Milwaukee, I was still in my car heading home, so I listened to the first part on satellite radio.As Richard Nixon learned after his 1960 televised debate with Jack Kennedy, listening to a debate without the distraction of ...