Russell Allyn

In Israel, the threat of Iran going nuclear is the only issue

Tel Aviv, IsraelOn the last day of our trip to Israel this past weekend, our group attended a lecture by Sheldon Shulman, a national security aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Mr. Schulman sardonically joked that after our lecture...

The Occasional Brilliance of Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich is an ideological bomb-thrower posing as a presidential campaign on a book tour. When he is not downright “zany,” as his primary rival Mitt Romney would say, planning for a lunar colony by...

Rick Santorum’s certainly no Jack Kennedy

Why is Rick Santorum purposely misreading JFK’s 1960 speech to Baptist Ministers about the separation of church and state? Santorum said over the weekend that Kennedy’s famous speech almost made him throw up because its...

State of the Union: Obama rejoins tax debate with Buffett rule

While the GOP presidential candidates are in a bidding war to see who can propose the lowest tax rates, President Obama tonight proposed what amounts to a new “alternative minimum tax” for millionaires. (Call it an...

Does the First Amendment Protect “Occupy” Tent Cities?

The First Amendment protects both symbolic speech and peaceable assembly – both of which rights are implicated in the “Occupy” tent cities that have been set up from the East to West coasts, including in Los Angeles. ...

California circumcision ban and the free exercise of religion

Voters in San Francisco and Santa Monica may soon decide whether their cities will ban circumcision for boys from birth through the age of consent – thus making illegal the practice of religious circumcision which is required in Judaism and...

Obama Pulls the Trigger on Bin Laden

Finishing a gym work-out in Los Angeles this evening, I noticed people looking up at the television monitors anticipating a special but as yet unknown announcement coming from the President. As the monitors then read “Osama...

Elections Have Consequences for Wisconsin’s Scott Walker

No, not that election. Scott Walker won the last election in November for governor. He then promptly began acting as though he never expected to face another one. In point of fact, he started to dismantle his...

Can Jerry Brown Be the Anti-Scott Walker?

Governors Jerry Brown and Scott Walker both took office in January facing an economic pinch. If anything Brown has it worse: California’s budget deficit is projected to be $26.6 billion for the next fiscal year...

Conservative Judge Stays His Ruling on Health Care Reform's Unconstitutionality

Federal District Judge Roger Vinson of Pensacola on Thursday stayed his own previous ruling striking down the Health Care “Affordable Care” Reform Act pending what he hopes to be a fast-tracked appeal. In doing so, he...

In Israel, the threat of Iran going nuclear is the only issue

The Occasional Brilliance of Newt Gingrich

Rick Santorum’s certainly no Jack Kennedy

State of the Union: Obama rejoins tax debate with Buffett rule

Does the First Amendment Protect “Occupy” Tent Cities?

California circumcision ban and the free exercise of religion

Obama Pulls the Trigger on Bin Laden

Elections Have Consequences for Wisconsin’s Scott Walker

Can Jerry Brown Be the Anti-Scott Walker?

Conservative Judge Stays His Ruling on Health Care Reform's Unconstitutionality

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