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GOP Should Lead, Not Follow, On Defense Cuts
Tweet Share on Facebook January 31, 2013 CommentCongress and the Obama White House are quaking in their boots over the upcoming $1.2 trillion sequester, which would have already kicked in were it not for the last minute deal to bring most federal tax rates back down to where they had been of the last decade. That deal, which preserved the Bush/Obama marginal tax rates for those making less than $400,000 per year, also pushed up the effective date of the sequester to give Congress time to work out a deal.
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University of Minnesota's Orgasm Workshop an Insult to Taxpayers
Tweet Share on Facebook January 30, 2013 CommentIf it weren't so serious it would be so ridiculous as to be funny.
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Lawsuit Against Prolife Susan B. Anthony List Rightfully Thrown Out
Tweet Share on Facebook January 29, 2013 CommentIn an unqualified victory for the First Amendment, a U.S. district court judge has reversed himself and tossed out a defamation lawsuit brought by a former member of Congress against the Susan B. Anthony List, who, he claimed, had misstated his position on abortion and led to his defeat.
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Inhofe Right to Question Obama's Egypt Strategy
Tweet Share on Facebook January 29, 2013 CommentSometimes it really seems like President Barack Obama's national security team isn't paying much attention to what is going on around the world. You can argue—as they have—that they were caught off guard by the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi but, as it came on Sept. 11, 2012, you could argue just as convincingly that they should have be prepared.
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Benghazi Does Make a Difference, Secretary Clinton
Tweet Share on Facebook January 25, 2013 CommentIn her appearance Wednesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was part Bette Davis, part Jack Nicholson, and wholly unbelievable.
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The Mask Comes Off: Obama's a Radical Liberal
Tweet Share on Facebook January 22, 2013 CommentThe bloom is off the rose. The cat is out of the bag. All pretenses have been dropped. No one is pretending anymore. Barack Obama has declared he is clearly, firmly, and decidedly "a liberal"—and in the "Henry Wallace mode," cut from an entirely different bolt of cloth than the heroes on the left who organized groups like Americans for Democratic Action during the Cold War.
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Michael Douglas Should Not Play Ronald Reagan
Tweet Share on Facebook January 22, 2013 CommentA friend dropped a note the other day to let me know that Michael Douglas, the Hollywood uber-liberal who starred in Oliver Stone's Wall Street and Rob Reiner's The American President has apparently been cast as Ronald Reagan in an upcoming big-budget film about the Reykjavik summit.
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Looking to God on Inauguration Day
Tweet Share on Facebook January 21, 2013 CommentToday is a day for pomp and circumstance, for pageantry and for rejoicing. We celebrate not only the inauguration for the second time of America’s first black president but the birthday of one our most important historical figures, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. With this as background, it is interesting if not ironic to note that every day there are more and more Americans who are uncomfortable with if not downright hostile to the intersection of religion and faith and the public life of the nation. There are people out there who want "In God We Trust" removed from the nation’s currency, who object to prayers being offered at presidential inaugurals, and who want the country to be officially secular, giving greater constitutional weight to Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists than they do the actual language of the first amendment of the Bill of Rights.
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On Inauguration, Think of Franklin Roosevelt's 'Fear'
Tweet Share on Facebook January 18, 2013 CommentWith the presidential inauguration just a few days away, famous phrases from past addresses cannot help but come to mind.
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Newtown Shooting Is No Excuse for a Tax Hike
Tweet Share on Facebook January 16, 2013 CommentBack in the early days of the Obama administration, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel famously remarked that no politician should let a good crisis go to waste. As an activist liberal what he meant was bad news often provides the impetus for increasing state power. The worse the news, the more elaborate the response can be as the political class rushes around trying to demonstrate to the voters that they are doing something about whatever just happened.
