(Opinion) I don’t want to ever talk about “gun control” again. But I want to talk about school safety every minute of every day until it is a reality in our country. As long as the school safety debate is solely a debate about gun control, we will never make any progress. Gun control is […]

    If your workplace is a union shop, are you forced to pay union dues? Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about that. When I worked at CBS and ABC, I was ordered to join the American Federation of Radio and TV Artists. That union had won a vote that gave them the right […]

    When another school shooting claims the lives of innocent victims, the conversation gets loud. We find ourselves engaging strangers on social media imparting our views about the right to bear arms and what that means. We become emboldened when the innocent die. The conversation zigzags to mental health and violent video games, and […]

    Where are all the grown-ups in times of crisis and grief? Don’t bother searching America’s prestigious law schools. Two adult men, occupying lofty perches as law professors, argued this week that the voting age in the U.S. should be lowered to 16 because some high school survivors of the Parkland, Florida, shooting who […]

  Social media may be one of the largest reasons young people are acting more and more frequently as victims, explains an expert on the rise of victimhood around the country. Jason Manning, co-author of “The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars,“ points to social media as a major factor in the rise […]

If someone asked you what a Congressman does on a daily basis, I can imagine what would come to your mind: voting on bills, attending committee hearings, holding meetings with others in Washington, and lots of time debating and arguing. Those are in fact major parts of the job, but there is so much more […]

  The gun control debate is complex. It pits rights against duties. It pits individualism against communitarianism. It pits gun owners against anti-gun activists, and law-abiding citizens against one another. Most of all, it pits “common sense” against evidence. The vast majority of gun control proponents keep talking about “common sense” gun control, as though […]

A recent article in The Guardian dons the foreboding title “Robots will destroy our jobs — and we’re not ready for it.” The article claims, “For every job created by robotic automation, several more will be eliminated entirely. … This disruption will have a devastating impact on our workforce.” According to an article in MIT […]

In the world of “woke” Twitter, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana is a white supremacist, fundamentalist, homophobic, NRA lackey who has tested God’s patience by opposing gun control. Comedy writer Marcella Arguello was blunt, responding to breaking news when Scalise was seriously wounded in an attack on the GOP baseball team. She tweeted that […]

    This episode of Executive Lion’s Living Life On Purpose shows Matt Wilson and Andrew Wells talking with Todd Gerelds, author of the books “Woodlawn” and “Always Fall Forward”. Todd has not only been successful in his business career but he has also felt called to write two books that have great purpose and […]

“Enough is enough!” “This can’t go on!” “This has to stop!” These were among the comments that came through the blizzard of commentary after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County. We have heard these words before. Unfortunately, such atrocities are not going to stop. For the ingredients that produce such […]

  Attorney General Jeff Sessions propped up civil asset forfeiture last week, claiming the program is a “key tool” that allows law enforcement officers to effectively fight the drug war. “Civil asset forfeiture is a key tool that helps law enforcement defund organized crime, take back ill-gotten gains, and prevent new crimes from being committed. […]

  “TRAINED BY THE NRA.” That’s the bombastic and misleading headline running in The New York Daily News’ Saturday print edition about Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old man who confessed to murdering 17 high school students and faculty in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. The rampage, in which Cruz used an AR-15, sparked a typical debate […]

  The majority of Americans in 2017 did not identify themselves as Protestants, according to Gallup surveys conducted during the year, and the differing religious denominations tended to be concentrated in certain geographical areas.    “About half of Americans (48 percent) identify as Protestants or other Christians who are not Catholic or Mormon,” said Gallup […]

    I’ve repeatedly said that though President Trump gives his leftist enemies plenty of fodder in his tweets to attack him, they would malign any Republican president unless he totally capitulated to their demands — and switched parties. Indeed, they always have. The liberals say Trump is such an awful person, which apparently excuses […]

  Speaking to the Major County Sheriffs’ Association last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed to study “the intersection” between mental health and criminality” in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. He noted that in the first quarter of the Trump administration after he was sworn in, there was a 23 percent increase […]

  This article was first published in February 2016. A wonderful article appeared in the Federalist this past December by D.C. McAllister titled “How To Stop Sexualizing Everything.” It tapped into the schizophrenic character of our modern age, particularly in American culture, that surrounds our expressions of intimacy. Essentially, she posited, we either fearfully avoid touch and […]

  Candidate Donald Trump may have promised to extricate us from Middle East wars, once ISIS and al-Qaida were routed, yet events and people seem to be conspiring to keep us endlessly enmeshed. Friday night, a drone, apparently modeled on a U.S. drone that fell into Iran’s hands, intruded briefly into Israeli airspace over the Golan […]

If the plan works out, Alabama red snapper anglers will have access to the prized reef fish for more days than last year’s extended season. The plan entails exempted fishing permits (EFPs) that allow the five Gulf states to set seasons that will keep the snapper harvest within the overall quota for the recreational fishery […]

  As the Oklahoma attorney general’s office fights to keep hidden from public view the results of secret hearings on the DNA science flaws and falsehoods in former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw’s case, two prominent experts have stepped forward to shed bright light on the government’s myriad mind-boggling failures. Forensic scientist, criminal profiler […]

  You’ve heard the phrase over and over again: “This isn’t normal.” We’ve heard it about President Trump’s rhetoric, and his Twitter usage. We’ve heard it about his attacks on the media, and we’ve heard it about his legislative ignorance. We’ve heard it about his running commentary on the Mueller investigation, and we’ve heard it […]

  I read and re-read books. It’s said that words create worlds, and the stories we tell and re-tell have a profound impact on our personal worldview. If this is true, then I am forever grateful for Marilynne Robinson’s novel Gilead. I first read Gilead, after the birth of my first daughter. I remember the […]

      This week I had the privilege of meeting with some of Alabama’s leading lawmakers and policy experts to discuss an issue of urgent importance: protecting the property and due process rights of Alabamians by reforming the state’s civil asset forfeiture laws. Twenty-five states and the nation’s capital city have already done so, […]

    Kids who attend New York City’s Success Academy charter schools do remarkably well. “We are No. 1 in student achievement in the state,” says founder Eva Moskowitz, “outperforming all the wealthy suburbs.” They do. Although they teach mostly poor kids, 95 percent pass the state math test, and 84 percent pass the English […]