Newt Gingrich may have unnerved Mitt Romney by saying “Palestinian” is “an invented nationality”. But he spoke the truth. “Palestine” (from the Greek for Philistine, the deadly enemies of ancient Israel) was a creation of the World War I Allies after they severed it from the Ottoman Empire, or Turkey. It was largely empty, and [...]
Rod D. Martin
The left and the libertarian portion of the right (a moniker they would strongly contest) agree on several things, but among the most significant is this: that America has become an empire. Not all who espouse this position, of course, think that it is a bad thing. The brilliant Niall Ferguson actively argues for it, [...]
The world has been changed many times over by the brilliance of Steve Jobs. I could not begin in these short moments after his death to estimate his impact on me and mine. But a few thoughts deserve jotting down. I first encountered Jobs in the pages of Fortune magazine, in 1982, wherein I first [...]
The downgrade is a deep humiliation for the United States. But it’s a debacle for the Democratic Party. They just haven’t yet realized why. This just became the Suze Orman election. You know Suze Orman. She’s that nice, perky lady on CNBC. The one who likes leather and writes all those personal finance books on [...]
The passage of “Cut, Cap and Balance” in the House of Representatives is a game-changer. It is also the ground on which the GOP must stand, fight and win, especially now that a July 18-21 CNN poll shows that two-thirds of Americans support the House’s approach. Cut, Cap and Balance allows the debt limit to [...]
I don’t have a candidate yet. But I have a field. The legacy media – the folks who in 2008 gloated openly about being “in the tank for Obama” while their viewers and readers melted away before our eyes – tells us that the Republican presidential field is horribly weak, unknown, uninspiring. Already, I hear [...]
Okay, I hate to refer to the great Steve Jobs as “an aging hippie”, but it is what it is, and after all, this is a man who put Al Gore on his board. So it was pretty amusing to see this tidbit buried in a story about Apple’s planned new campus in Cupertino. One [...]
Named the Sixth Most Interesting Daily Caller Op-Ed of 2011.
If you think the Internet revolution encompasses only areas like business, advertising, publishing and entertainment, you are sorely mistaken. In less than a decade, starting from nearly nothing, left-wing powerhouse MoveOn.org created a force that can put a million volunteers on the ground, can raise $30 million in small donor contributions every cycle (several times [...]
DESTIN, FLORIDA — Today, National Federation of Republican Assemblies President Rod D. Martin called on the Republican National Committee to immediately fire Republican National Chairman Michael Steele for comments he made Tuesday night to a student group in which he stated that African Americans “don’t have a reason” to vote for Republicans. The story concerning [...]
My dear friend and former PayPal colleague Eric M. Jackson gave a tremendous speech — despite being quite sick at the time — at the NFRA national convention last month, entitled “The Moral Case for Capitalism”. It is a must-read (or must-watch: we have both text and video), especially for the sort of Christians who [...]
DESTIN, FLORIDA — National Federation of Republican Assemblies President Rod D. Martin today condemned the murder of abortionist George Tiller and called on his killer to turn himself in to police. “No genuine believer in the pro-life cause could possibly support, much less carry out, the cold-blooded murder of another human being,” Martin stated. ”We [...]
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