opinion

For me, last month’s Supreme Court argument in the Harvard affirmative-action case was personal. Growing up poor in Los Angeles, as the son of Colombian immigrants, I faced my share of racist taunts and stereotyping. In high school, I recall my White French teacher asking where I wanted to go to college. I said the Naval Academy. In front of all the other students she blurted, “You can’t go THERE!”   And you know what? She was…

The national debt is on track to exceed record levels in the next few years. Inflation is at a 40-year high. We need to put in place a balanced, bipartisan debt-reduction plan to slow inflation, bring down the debt, and promote long-term economic growth – around $7 trillion in savings would be enough to keep…

Journalism is supposed to be the first draft of history. And any writer can tell you that the first draft is filled with errors. Sometimes, no matter how many drafts you try, everything ends up as clear as mud. Here’s a recent example. According to Fox News, “NBC News national correspondent Miguel Almaguer reported on…

Politicos will be sifting through the results of the midterm election for months to come. I’m far from a pundit, but I am a parent, and one thing is clear: the war on America’s children is the central policy issue of our time. Voters rewarded Republicans who fought to protect children and families, and they…

At the G-20 meeting in Indonesia on Monday, President Joe Biden met with the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping. But while Biden focused on climate change, the Chinese have been cloaking their preparations for war as a green energy push. Rather than follow up on his mostly tough rhetoric on China over…

The 2022 midterm election has come and has not yet entirely gone, because as I write this, there are still a dozen House seats up for grabs and votes are still being cured and counted. As a Democrat, I come away from this election with several thoughts; but here are 5 of my takeaways from this…

A White sign language interpreter claims he was fired from “The Lion King” Broadway musical because producers wanted a person of color translating the dialogue of the mostly Black cast.  If the allegation proves true, there’s NO DOUBT Americans would vote for this as “the most ridiculous social justice crusade of the year.” Although there is…

The federal statutory debt ceiling makes for good policy. Congressional Democrats who want to repeal it to give themselves a permanent blank check to spend American taxpayer dollars are equal parts smug elites and constitutional vandals.   Congressional Republicans should absolutely fight to defend the statutory debt limit this year and leverage it next year to…

The fault lines for the 2024 elections are already taking shape with the two parties in diametrically opposed positions and there is no greater divide than over parental rights. That stark difference was no more evident than in a tweet from Rep. Eric Swalwell, who mocked the notion of parents making major decisions in the…

One week after the 2022 midterm elections, Republicans want to know: what happened? Why were expectations about the midterms so completely wrong? How could a deeply dishonest and unpopular president score one of the best midterm outcomes in recent history?   Like a great many Republicans, I am deeply disappointed, having hoped to see Americans…