The 2,315 page Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill that passed the Senate 60-39 on Thursday and will be signed by President Obama next week should not be called “financial reform.” Instead, it should be called what for what it is: pages and pages of massively costly, counterproductive and possibly unconstitutional mandates …

On December 1 Salon.com published an article that suggests that exposure to pornography can help protect children from exposure to sex abuse. — This is something like teaching children to be pickpockets in order to prevent them from living a lifetime of crime. — The article’s headline “Could child porn …

With regard to our energy independence, the BP oil disaster should be a call to action. Everyone knows we are dependent on fossil fuels coming from foreign sources yet; no one to date has the will to do anything serious and credible about it. Nuclear energy is the Holy Grail …

As one of the almost million volunteers who went to help after Hurricane Katrina (about one out of every 230 adults in the United States) I have seen the devastation and recovery first hand. At first it seemed totally unbelievable, as if the country had moved from first world status …

Greenpeace and other radical green groups are big on “corporate social responsibility” (CSR). What constitutes CSR, you ask? Among other things, the willingness to let the “green” agenda trump sound business practices. Of late, the greens have taken to pressuring Western multinational companies to forswear buying paper and palm-based products …

Dramatic developments in Europe in the past few weeks have graphically demonstrated the importance of America’s upcoming November 2 elections. Coming midway through President Obama’s term, there is little doubt these elections constitute a referendum on his philosophy, policies and performance. Any U.S. citizens who doubt the significance of their …

Come tomorrow, Nov. 3, what will the headlines across the country read, other than reporting on a Republican landslide election? If history is any guide, the headlines will blare the rebirth of the “angry white male.” You might remember him. We last saw the “angry white male” in the aftermath …

Once again, Barack Obama is a happy pitch man. He’s on stage with a microphone, jacket off, sleeves rolled up, his voice rising and falling as he tries to whip the big crowds into revival-tent fervor. He’s still peddling Hope & Change, although now he calls it health care reform. …

As we survey the wreckage of President Obama’s first year in office, one thing is clear: it’s all George Bush’s fault. The Obama administration has not confronted an obstacle yet that they have not blamed on the 43rd president – including the loss Tuesday of Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. While …

Who says you can’t teach an old, well, older dog new tricks? The U.S. military seems to have mastered a few, or at least learned a few lessons from previous encounters in Afghanistan and Iraq. So, too, have the Taliban, but so far, it seems to be doing them little …