How the gay-marriage mob slimed Manny Pacquiao
Boxing champion Manny Pacquiao is guilty -- of being true to his Catholic faith.

Extend the Bush tax cuts now
In Boehner's efforts to prevent the Bush tax cuts from expiring, he is aggressively taking on President Obama's leadership ineptitude on the economy.

Has the bell begun to toll for the GOP?
Republicans now depend on the vanishing majority of the population for fully 90 percent of their votes in presidential elections.

Same-sex marriage: Empathy or right?
There are two ways to defend gay marriage. Argument A is empathy...

Recent news could cause panic for Obama campaign
Is it panic time at Obama headquarters in Chicago? You might get that impression from watching events -- and the polls -- over the past few weeks.

The menace of bipartisanship
Bipartisanship, the supposed scarcity of which so distresses the high-minded, actually is disastrously prevalent.

Sacrificial scams
The real class warfare in this country isn't rich vs. poor, it's government employees vs. we, the taxpayers, who pay their salaries.

A gold nugget as big as the White House
F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote a story about a family that discovered a diamond as big as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel sitting beneath a mountain in a remote corner of Montana.

Obamacare's patient-dumping, privacy-meddling scheme
A shadowy $10 billion Obamacare agency with zero oversight just awarded first lady Michelle Obama's pet patient-dumping scheme at the University of Chicago Medical Center a $5.9 million taxpayer-funded grant.

The War Next Door
Every single day, atrocities take place just south of our border in Mexico that are nearly unimaginable in the United States.

Making life fair
A free market will create big differences in wealth. That wealth disparity is simply a byproduct of freedom -- vastly diverse individuals competing to serve consumers will arrive at vastly diverse outcomes.

Should we obey all laws?
Let's think about whether all acts of Congress deserve our respect and obedience...

Remembering police officers who gave their lives in the line of duty
We should always be mindful of the good peace officers do to protect our country and her laws.

As the boomers head for the barn
Only 63.6 percent of the U.S. working age population is now in the labor force, the lowest level since December 1981.

A censored race war?
When two white newspaper reporters were driving through Norfolk, and were set upon and beaten by a mob of young blacks, that might seem to have been news that should have been reported, at least by their own newspaper...

Obama is the extremist, not conservative talkers
Some conservatives believe that other conservatives are damaging the cause of conservatism by dishonestly overstating their case against President Obama.

No time to run from marriage issue
Republicans usually stand to benefit whenever cultural issues arise in an election campaign. But they too often run away from debates over issues related to marriage, life and religion.

Changing the world one city at a time
Given the nation's deep fiscal problems, many Americans of the Right and Left are so frustrated about the political process that they are jumping on Tea Party buses and occupying city parks.

A campaign of shiny objects
The politician who campaigned for change now wants to change the subject.

Three different ways to look at the 2012 campaign
Last week, I wrote about the standings in the presidential race and said it looked like a long, hard slog through about a dozen clearly identified target states, much like the contests in 2000 and 2004.