Jeffrey Robin

May 8, 2012

California’s New “End the Death Penalty” Initiative Proves Inherently Unjust

By Jeffrey Robin

In the upcoming elections this year — the June primary and the November general — California citizens will have the chance to exercise their rather unique (and, in my opinion, rather silly) ability to exercise direct...

April 18, 2012

Irresponsible Bureaucrats Expect Their Taxpayers to Pick Up the Tab

By Jeffrey Robin

As it seems to be with almost every other “hot button” political issue of our time, a symbolic crescendo in the dispute over labor policy is quickly approaching. Less than two years after his initial election, Govern...

April 10, 2012

The Unconstitutionality of Obamacare and the President’s Inappropriate Response

By Jeffrey Robin

When the Founding Fathers established this great nation, they did so in the name of one principal concept: individual liberty guaranteed by a divine creator. Our Constitution, the “Supreme Law” of our land, guarantee...

April 3, 2012

‘Is George Zimmerman Guilty? I Don’t Know — And Neither Do You’

By Jeffrey Robin

If you didn’t hear about it when it started gaining attention during finals week or Spring Break (if you did, what were you doing paying attention to politics during either period?), the sensation of the Trayvon Martin...

March 1, 2012

Road to “Economic Recovery” Just Might Destory Us

By Jeffrey Robin

Four years ago, a little-known United States Senator named Barack Obama ran for president of the United States against two of the most well respected politicians in the country. Running on a message of “hope” and “...

February 21, 2012

Right Said: President’s Budget Propels U.S. Toward Fiscal Ruin

By Jeffrey Robin

Mobs in the streets, Molotov cocktails being thrown at policemen, numerous businesses being plundered by lawless hooligans, an inept government unwilling to make the choices necessary to prevent destruction; a state of a...

February 15, 2012

“A Contest Over Whether Your Government or the Almighty is the Judge of Your Soul”

By Jeffrey Robin

Over this past week, the United States was drawn back into the thick of the “culture wars” that deeply divide our nation. Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s decision to rescind — for legal reasons, not political — a...

January 30, 2012

Obama’s State of the Union Ignores State of Disarray

By Jeffrey Robin

Last Tuesday, President Barack Obama — in one of his few acknowledgements that he still has an obligation to obey the Constitution — delivered his 3rd State of the Union address before both houses of Congress. Entitl...

January 24, 2012

Pitting Race Against Race Doesn’t End in Diversity

By Jeffrey Robin

“Let us not wallow in the valley of despair my friends. Even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream … I have a dream that my chi...

November 21, 2011

Happy Christmahanukkwanzaakah

By Jeffrey Robin

It’s that time of year again. Soon after reading this article, you’ll probably be heading home to stuff yourselves with turkey and mashed potatoes. Some of you will go temporarily insane over the 4 a.m. deals on Blac...

November 15, 2011

Right Said: Talk Is Cheap, Action Isn’t

By Jeffrey Robin

When Barack Obama was a senator running for presidency in 2008, he promised “hope” and “change” not only for the American people but for the world. Since the day he took office, people polled in foreign lands hav...

November 8, 2011

Voter ID Laws Make for Sensible Policy

By Jeffrey Robin

When the United States was first established under the Constitution in 1787, not all men could vote — much less women, who wouldn’t have the uniform right to vote until 1920. Universal suffrage for all citizens is on...

October 31, 2011

The Outcome of Libya: Just One Less Dictator

By Opinion Editor, Jeffrey Robin

When word came in that Muammar Gaddafi had been summarily executed by a shot to the head at point blank range, I imagine that President Obama must have been rather pleased with himself. After all, how could he not be? Th...

October 24, 2011

Political Columnists Deconstruct OWS Movement – Right Said

By Jeffrey Robin

“Vox Populi; Vox Anon; the voice of the people is the voice of anonymous; WE ARE LEGION” — Anonymous, 10/9 In recent weeks, much has been made of the mindless rabbles known as the Occupy Wall Street movement. They ...

October 18, 2011

Law and Order Necessary in Immigration Reform

By Jeffrey Robin

Right Said: Every American is somewhat familiar with the immigrant experience, most more recently than the Mayflower landing at Plymouth or the Godspeed at Jamestown. My own maternal ancestors came to the United States a...

October 11, 2011

Comprehensive Reform Necessary to Reduce Debt

By Jeffrey Robin

Right Said: As President Obama pontificated to the nation last month about how Stimulus II would renew our economy and restore the middle class he claims has evaporated, he made it abundantly clear that Congress should p...