Why Does the Left Defend Islam?

Lately, it seems that the contortions exhibited by the Left in defending Islam and marginalizing the atrocities committed in the name of Islam are more incredulous and extreme than the acts of barbarity committed by ISIS. We have been perpetually reminded that Islam...

The Cure, Worse Than The Disease

Bernie Sanders demonstrated a… to call it shocking would imply that we have actual expectations of sense and logic out of him… bit of illogic (not to mention tone-deafness) in last night’s Democratic debates when he declared that: climate change is...

Politial Taqiya

Some political issues have short lives. Some tend to linger, or pop up from time to time before fading to the background. Some are timeless, seemingly never resolved to the point where the players and partisans accept that an outcome has evolved. Among those is the...

Access, Redefined

One of the commonly used terms in the debate over birth control, abortion and other “reproductive health care services,” as such are dubbed, is access. Hillary Clinton used the term recently in a speech at the 2015 Women in the World Summit, where she was...

“Dominate. Intimidate. Control.”

Strong words, these are. They imply elements physical and psychological. As a guiding principle, they seem most apt for prisons or a totalitarian regimes. They were the motto posted at the TSA air marshal training center headquarters post 9/11. In-flight air marshals...