Rick Moran

2 weeks ago | pjmedia.com | Rick Moran

They're rioting in Los Angeles -- again. For living in a city with great weather, sunshine, a beach, pretty girls and boys, and Hollywood, Angelinos are oftentimes in a foul mood. It doesn't take much for them to turn their coastal paradise into a nightmare straight out of Dante's "Inferno." This time, the riots are because federal authorities have decided to arrest people who are in the United States illegally.

2 weeks ago | pjmedia.com | Rick Moran

The re-election of Barack Obama appeared to confirm those trends. Obama's margins of victory among those key demographic groups had grown from his 2008 totals. For Democrats, "demographics are destiny" was holding true. Until it wasn't. “For years, the belief was Democrats have had demographic destiny on our side.

2 weeks ago | pjmedia.com | Rick Moran

That agreement expires in February 2026, with little prospect that it will be renewed or respected. That means that both the U.S. and Russia will be free to build as many nukes as they can manage. They can be as exotic as can be imagined; nuclear missiles that can stay aloft for weeks, "glide bombs" designed to evade radar, and the ubiquitous "suitcase bomb" that could blow up several blocks while irradiating an entire city.

2 weeks ago | pjmedia.com | Rick Moran

With 400 billion cups drunk annually, coffee’s importance economically, culturally, and socially cannot be denied. Indeed, if oil greases the wheels of industrialized civilization, then coffee surely lubricates its living, breathing, moving parts. I am a coffee drinker. By that, I mean that I like black coffee, the way that the Lord made the bean to be imbibed.

2 weeks ago | pjmedia.com | Rick Moran

Like any minority, Orthodox Israelis find strength in solidarity. They hold 18 seats in Israel's Knesset, and all 18 members are in the position of being able to make or break Netanyahu's fragile hold on power. This week, they may break that hold and bring the government down. The proximate issue of contention is the exemption from military service granted to most Orthodox Jews. According to Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) estimates, there are 60,000 young Orthodox men of draft age.