Administration Arrogance -
Bully Party
When bipartisan debate fails, Dems fall back on a knuckle-sandwich approach to politics.
BY Matthew Continetti
...President Obama divided the world into those who “join me,” and those who support the “battalions of financial industry lobbyists descending on Capitol Hill.” For the president, the only middle ground is where he’s standing. Reasonable alternatives to his policies simply do not exist. It is Obama alone who determines which arguments are “legitimate” and which are “misleading.” It’s rhetorical blackmail: Agree with me, the president is saying, or I’ll call you a liar and a hack. more... | TOP

God and Man at the National Prayer Breakfast ~ Obama was so ecumenical that he never once mentioned "Jesus" or "Christ" or called himself a follower of Jesus Christ or a Christian. It wasn't as if the president was pinched for text; this was a 2,000-word oration, with numerous figures mentioned. more... | TOP

Great Peasant Revolt of 2010 ~ "I am not an ideologue," protested President Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last week. Perhaps, but he does have a tenacious commitment to a set of political convictions. More | TOP

Internet ~ Leave Them Tubes Alone
by David Harsanyi
As there is no real problem with the Internet, it's not surprising that some of our top minds have been working diligently on a solution. ... more | TOP

Obama Inconsistencies ~ INTERESTING....MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND Former Constitutional Law Lecturer and US President Makes Up Constitutional Quotes During State Of The Union (SOTU) Address President Barack Obama, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, is no longer a "lawyer." He surrendered his license back in 2008. more... | TOP

President Say Anything Does So, Again and Again ~ Stung by his defeat in Massachusetts after a personal appearance on behalf of Martha Coakley and a long speech telling Massachusetts voters why they had to send her to Washington, President Obama seems intent on punishing the entire nation with speech after speech after speech. More | TOP

White House land grab ~ Proposal to seize land would favor animals over Americans ...thanks to whistleblowers at the Department of the Interior, we now learn they're planning to increase their control over energy-rich land in the West. more... | TOP

Scott Brown -
After Massachusetts, What's Next for the GOP? ~ Have you ever watched as a dear friend becomes smitten with someone you know is not for them? You listen as they swear how Mr. or Ms. Right has finally... more... | TOP

Lessons for the GOP in Brown's Victory ~ Fresh off the best week they've had in years - literally - conservatives and Republicans would be something less than human if they denied themselves the opportunity to savor an amazing... more... | TOP

(Mis)Reading the Tea Leaves ~ With the election of Mr. Brown, the voters of Massachusetts signaled a repudiation of President Obama's Chicago style, big-government, spendthrift ways. More | TOP

Wisdom of Massachusetts Voters ~ Following the death of Senator Edward Kennedy, Democrats in the Massachusetts state legislature rushed to change a procedural rule thus allowing Democratic Governor Deval Patrick to replace... more... | TOP

Border
Getting Lectured on Human Rights by Mexico
by Mona Charen
The Obama administration is deeply embarrassed by the legislators of Arizona. Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner, in discussions with representatives from China (China!), cited the Arizona law as evidence of human rights failures in the U.S. ... more | TOP

Founders' Solutions for Illegal Immigration
by Chuck Norris
It seems that the whole country is taking sides in the battle over the border in Arizona. Yet it truly remains the tip of the iceberg of our immigration troubles. Spurred on by the national debate, at least 10 other states are seeking to enact tougher immigration laws. ... more | TOP
Founders' Illegal Immigration Solutions, Part 2
by Chuck Norris
Watching U.S. members of the House and Senate, and the president's Cabinet in a joint session of Congress stand and applaud Mexican President Felipe Calderon's slam of Arizona's new immigration enforcement law, I thought, "What a despicable act of disloyalty to one of their own states and a ludicrous leadership move to boot, especially when 71 percent of Arizonians agree with its new immigration law." ... more | TOP

Immigration and Liberty
by Walter E. Williams
My sentiments on immigration are expressed by the welcoming words of poet Emma Lazarus' that grace the base of our Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Those sentiments are probably shared by most Americans and for sure by my libertarian fellow travelers, but their vision of immigration has some blind spots. more... | TOP

Protecting Our American Identity
by Diana West
Excellent news: Most Americans approve of Arizona's new immigration law. And by wide margins. According to Pew, the overall number is 59 percent. The New York Times poll came in at 60 percent. According to the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, that overall number is higher still: 64 percent. These solid majorities show stirrings of a surprisingly resilient national survival instinct. ... more | TOP

Census -
Are Ohio Dems Trying to Rig the Census? ~ In the crucial bellwether state of Ohio, the Democratic governor has created a heavily partisan committee that may be able to tip the scales on the upcoming 2010 census. What makes... more... | TOP

Climate -
ABC Offers Serious Look at Global Warming Skeptics, But Downplays ClimateGate
By Scott Whitlock
ABC's Nightline on Thursday provided a welcome look at the significant number of meteorologists in America who are skeptical of man-made global warming. Instead of simply dismissing their views, reporter David Wright interviewed Accuweather's Joe Bastardi and allowed him to assert, "I think that the warming that we're having is cyclical in nature." more... | TOP

CARBON DIOXIDE, CO2, DOES NOT CAUSE SIGNIFICANT WARMING OF THE EARTH.
by John Coleman, KUSI Meteorologist
YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT IS NOT CREATING A CLIMATE CRISIS. More | TOP

Climate Change (International Conference) Totally Ignored By Media
By Noel Sheppard
Four days after Senate Democrats introduced a new bill to limit carbon emissions, an international conference discussing the scientific holes in the theory of man-made global warming began in Chicago. More | TOP

Global Warming Debate as 'Important' as Winning World Wars ~ U.K. Journalist and ClimateGate Vanguard
By Jeff Poor
If you asked people what the two key events in the 20th century were, most would likely point to World Wars I and II because they transformed civilization. However, can something like the debate over climate change be as equally transformative? More | TOP

Earth Hour ~ Let us forget, for a moment, that “Earth Hour” is a pointless exercise serving only to make environmentalists feel better about themselves by marginally reducing electrical demand for 0.01% of the year. Let us disregard, for a moment, that the basic reason for having an “Earth Hour” in the first place is fatuous, more... | TOP

Global Warming Update ~ John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, in an hour-long television documentary titled "Global Warming: The Other Side," presents evidence that our National Climatic Data Center has been manipulating weather data just as the now disgraced and under investigation British University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit. More | TOP

Real Risks on Climate Change ~ We are not weighing in on the climate debate. We are not opining on whether the world's climate is changing, at what pace or due to what causes, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Shapiro insisted on announcing the SEC's new "interpretive guidance" on climate change. More | TOP

Culture -
Abstinence Education Works After All ~ Abstinence-only sex education has been a favorite target of the cultural elite, who argued it was naive at best and dangerous at worst. More | TOP

Boy Scouts of America: Still America's Best ~ It happens so often now that I’m sorry to say I’m not surprised anymore: teenage boys dropping the “f-bomb” as a matter of every-day language; slouching around with no concern for others; and being just plain rude. more... | TOP

Fallacy of "Fairness": Part I ~ If there is ever a contest to pick which word has done the most damage to people's thinking, and to actions to carry out that thinking, my nomination would be the word "fair." It is a word thrown around by far more people than have ever bothered to even try to define it. More | TOP
Fallacy of "Fairness": Part II ~ A recent flap in a Berkeley high school reveals what a farce "fairness" can be. Because this is ultra-liberal Berkeley, perhaps we should not be surprised that a proposal has been made to eliminate four jobs as science teachers and use the money saved for programs to help low achievers. More | TOP
Fallacy of "Fairness": Part III ~ People like philosopher John Rawls call treating everyone alike merely "formal" fairness. Professor Rawls advocated "a conception of justice that nullifies the accidents of natural endowment and the contingencies of social circumstances." He called for a society which "arranges" end-results... more... | TOP

Letter to the editor
Dear Mr. President:
During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ringtone.
While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that her payer status was listed as "Medicaid"! During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.
And, you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman's health care? I contend that our nation's "health care crisis" is not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. Rather, it is the result of a "crisis of culture", a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. It is a culture based in the irresponsible credo that "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me".
Once you fix this "culture crisis" that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you'll be amazed at how quickly our nation's health care difficulties will disappear.
Respectfully,
STARNER JONES, MD
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The Other War
It's a war the so-called mainstream media apparently have decided to ignore. Though its death toll is higher than Iraq's and Afghanistan's combined more... | TOP

Diversity / Race -
Blacks Held to Lower Standards in Perpetuity ~ One idea that transcends political lines is that blacks are inferior and should be held to lower standards in perpetuity. In 2007, the Department of Justice (DOJ) under George W. Bush... more... | TOP

Diversity in Life ~ It's not at all uncommon to watch a college basketball game and see that 90 to 100 percent of the players are black. According to the University of Central Florida's... more... | TOP

The TRUTH about MLK and the Democrats!
MLK FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND AGAINST DEMOCRATS
By Frances Rice
As we honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., let us pause to reflect on who he was and why his struggle to obtain civil rights for black Americans was necessary. More | TOP

Economy
Bill Clinton Helped Cause 2008 Financial Crisis
By Noel Sheppard
In the past 20 months, liberal media members have routinely blamed 2008's financial crisis on George W. Bush, Republicans, Wall Street, and greed.
Someone that has hardly ever been accused of having a hand in what led to the tumult is former President Bill Clinton. more... | TOP

The Real Party of Wall Street
by Michael G. Franc
The Democrats’ populist assault on all things Wall Street, we are told, helps them politically regardless of the legislative outcome. more | TOP

Education
Don't Mess With Texas...Textbooks! ~ By now, you most likely know that Texas has become ground zero for the latest battles in the textbook wars. While conservatives and progressives take their stands on the issue, I wonder: What would America's Founders think about this feud? more... | TOP

Obama's Plan to Cripple Education Reforms ~ To date, the only area in which we have found ourselves in agreement with President Obama was over his announced intention to enforce strict and elevated education standards and move toward paying teachers based on merit. more... | TOP

Family -
Tebow Takes a Stand ~ The Super Bowl is a cultural phenomenon. It's not only watched by godzillions of people worldwide, it's the only televised broadcast where the audience tunes in not just for the... more... | TOP

Free Speech -
McCain-Feingold - A Blow for Free Speech ~ From the commentary in the mainstream media, I thought there had been a coup d'etat in Washington. The New York Times said what happened "strikes at the heart of democracy."... more... | TOP

Government / Liberty / Constitution -
The Bigger the Government, the Less You Are Needed ~ Among the things left and right, religious and secular, agree on is that one of the few real needs human beings have is to be needed. When we are not needed, life feels pointless. more... | TOP

Consent of the governed - and the lack thereof ~ Our Declaration of Independence observes: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- more... | TOP

Conservative or Conservationist? ~ Russell Kirk wrote, “Conservatism is not a political system, but a way of looking at the civil order.” Put more plainly, it is a world view. more... | TOP

Electoral College ~ In order to appreciate the reasons for the Electoral College, it is essential to understand its historical context and the problem that the Founding Fathers were trying to solve. More
Electoral College FAQs | TOP

Four Presidents won the popular vote but lost the presidency ~ Andrew Jackson won the popular vote but lost the election to John Quincy Adams (1824); Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote but lost the election to Rutherford B. Hayes (1876); Grover Cleveland won the popular vote but lost the election to Benjamin Harrison (1888); Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the election to George W. Bush (2000). More | TOP

History of Senate Selection ~ Press criticism of the Senate as a “millionaires' club,” more responsive to powerful corporations than to public opinion, resulted in the 17th Amendment in 1913. It gave the privilege of electing senators to the voters rather than to state legislatures. More | TOP

Initiative and Referendum ~ An honest politician and a big fat F in Democracy 101 ~ Honesty may be the best policy. But, if you are trying to destroy democracy, it's not the most common. ... more... | TOP

Patriot Act ~ Judge Napolitano ~ Andrew P. Napolitano is a 59 year old former New Jersey Superior Court Judge. He is a graduate of Princeton University , and Notre Dame Law School. At Princeton he was a founding member of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton along with Justice Samuel Alito.
Judge Napolitano is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history of the State of New Jersey . YouTube. | TOP

Polarization May Be Our Best Hope
by Mona Charen
Recent liberal laments about the increasing "polarization" of American political life are as predictable as the seasons. But pleas for centrism ring pretty hollow in light of recent history. more... | TOP

Praise of the Rotation of Power ~ As the Afghanistan War intensifies -- Marja, soon Kandahar, and the steady arrival of 30,000 new American troops -- it has come to be seen as Obama's war. Not so. It's become America's war. more... | TOP

Property Confiscation
by John Stossel
In America, we're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. Life, liberty and property can't be taken from you unless you're convicted of a crime. more... | TOP

Health Care Bill -

Sunday, 21 March 2010 was a psychological punch in the gut for some 70% of Americans who have been adamantly and vocally opposed to ObamaCare. We can't surrender! We must encourage each other with the battle cry: We have just begun to fight! We must focus to Repeal the Deal - to Fire Pelosi, Reid and, ultimately, Obama!! We must choose to be re-invigorated and to re-gird ourselves. We must internalize Edmond Burke's dictum: "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

We can join with Hugh Hewitt and his staff in both their rage and their recommitment... Sunday, March 21, 2010 The GOP 3 Year Pledge Posted by: Duane R. Patterson at 10:45 PM Like you, I watched with disgust and dismay as the Democrats in the House of Representatives joined hands, jumped off the cliff, and saddled the next several generations of Americans with trillions of dollars of new debt, and ensured that unless defeated in court, or defunded by future Congresses, the American health care system, the greatest such system in the world, will never again be as great as it is today. Like you, I am shaking with anger that the Democratic Party did not listen to their constituents. more...

The Socialists Won A Battle; Now It is Our Turn ~ Yesterday was my son’s 9th birthday and for his present, the government jacked his future. As he sat in the floor and happily opened his gifts, Bart Stupak appeared on television and revealed that he’d sold his soul. The joy was sucked from the room more...

We can track all the Congressional candidates in the country at Sean Hannity's website

CATO on Health Care Reform ~ Better, more affordable health care requires free-market reforms:the freedom to purchase health plans across state lines; tax reforms like "large" health savings accounts; making health insurance portable, controlled by the individual more... | TOP

Democrats' Political Death Wish ~ GOP Senate Whip Jon Kyl was a guest on my show Thursday and reported that Congressional Democrats have indeed decided to use reconciliation to resurrect the remains of Obamacare, despite.. More | TOP

Great Scott! ~ Some of the most melancholy letters and e-mails that are sent to me are from people who lament that there is nothing they can do about the bad policies that... more... | TOP

Questions for Supporters of 'ObamaCare' ~ President Barack Obama repeatedly tells us that one reason national health care is needed is that we can no longer afford to pay for Medicare and Medicaid. More | TOP

Republicans and the Health Care Pow-Wow ~ It's an opportunity to show which party has better ideas.
Some congressional Republicans want to turn down President Barack Obama's invitation for a nationally televised, Feb. 25 White House pow-wow on health care. They fear that if GOP leaders show up for the event, they will end up agreeing to a bad health-care bill in the name of bipartisanship. More | TOP

Ronald Reagan on Government-Run Health Insurance ~ This is absolutely on point with what is happening today ~ including the importance of writing to Congressmen and Senators!! Even if you've heard it before, it's well worth the time to listen once again!! YouTube | TOP

Talking Points vs. Realty ~ In a swindle that would make Bernie Madoff look like an amateur, Barack Obama has gotten a substantial segment of the population to believe that he can add millions of people to the government-insured rolls without increasing the already record-breaking federal deficit. more... | TOP

Thousands of patients die and suffer under British health care ~ "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it's free." - P.J. O'Rourke ~ While many Americans complain about the cost of health care in the United States -- and lawmakers in Washington, DC are seeking control of the medical industry -- perhaps all concerned should first learn about the horrors more... | TOP

Venerating Lawyers More than Doctors ~ What we are seeing here, ... is something unprecedented in our history: Many trial lawyers will earn as much as most physicians, and fewer and fewer physicians will earn as much as successful trial lawyers. More | TOP

Islamic Terror -
Fox's Fairly Imbalanced Pro-Muslim Influence ~ Should Fox News register with the State Department as a foreign agent -- an agent of Saudi Arabia? more... | TOP

LittleGreenFootballs - An Open Letter to Charles Johnson ~ On Sunday, The New York Times Magazine featured an article on Charles Johnson, whose website -- littlegreenfootballs -- had for years been very popular among conservatives and among all those... more... | TOP

Obama's Three Hundred Imaginary Terrorists ~ In justifying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's civilian trial, the Obama administration is fond of citing a seemingly slam-dunk factoid: 300 other terrorists are currently sitting in federal prisons after being tried in civilian court. more... | TOP

Leftists -
The Dismantling of America
“America has been a remarkably good and strong culture,” Orson Scott Card said at the 26th Annual Gala dinner of the Washington DC Chapter of the BYU Management Society this weekend, “but the Goodness of the culture has already been so damaged that it can barely be said to exist. And the Strength of the Culture is eating itself up from within.” more... | TOP

Liberal Violence: Five Names You Should Know ~ Unfortunately, there are dangerous kooks, trigger-happy wackos, and lone gunmen out there. Bad people exist. Crazy people exist -- and every so often, one of them snaps and there's a resulting body count. To most people, this is just a tragic fact of life. more... | TOP

Sarah Palin...Dunce or Genius?
CBS Drama Showcases Blank Book that Mocks Palin as Empty-Headed Dunce ~ On this past Tuesday’s episode of The Good Wife on CBS, viewers were treated to a scene in which a ballistics expert opens a gift, from a partner of a law firm, to find a book about Sarah Palin ...more | TOP
Stewart Calls Palin a Genius: 'You Can't Underestimate This Woman' ~ Comedian Jon Stewart actually called Sarah Palin a genius Wednesday. As he reviewed her performance on the "Tonight Show" the previous evening, the "Daily Show" host said, "I don't say this to a lot of comics, especially new ones, but if you had a day job, you should quit it." ...more | TOP

Pentagon Shooter ~ Weir Waves Napolitano's 'Right-wing Extremism' Report To Brand Bedell ~ John Patrick Bedell was a registered Democrat who believed George W. Bush was behind 9-11. So how does Good Morning America portray him? As a right-wing extremist ...more | TOP

Sex, Violence and Hate: The Top 10 Most Disgusting Attacks on Conservative Women
March is Women's History Month, in which we acknowledge the accomplishments and contributions of women in history and in society today. More | TOP

Tea Parties ~ Dissent is the New Racism in Obama’s Post-Racial America
With liberals now branding entire states RACIST, what happened in Boston can provide insight about those on the left who love to hurl that charge.
CRASHERS, PALINPHOBES and COMMUNISTS at BOSTON’S TEA PARTY ...more | TOP

Dennis Prager -
The Bigger the Government, the Smaller the Citizen
Among the things left and right, religious and secular, agree on is that one of the few real needs human beings have is to be needed. ...more | TOP

What I Said to the Republican Members of Congress
This past weekend, after President Obama addressed the annual retreat of Republican Members of the House, I, along with my Salem Radio colleague Hugh Hewitt, and John Fund of the Wall Street Journal, were also invited to address them. More | TOP

Religion -
Losing Our Religion, By State Order ~ Even with its centuries-old roots throughout the region, is Christianity history in the West? more... | TOP

Social Security / Medicare -
EXCELLENT SUMMARY!
Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn't know this. It's easy to check out, if you don't believe it. Be sure and show it to your kids. They need a little history lesson on what's what and it doesn't matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are Facts!!! more... | TOP

State of the Union -
Judging Alito - Obama's Ultimate Arrogance
by Thomas Del Beccaro BigGovernment
President Obama's State of the Union obviously was a first in more than one way. Obama point blank, called out (to use the modern vernacular) our Supreme Court Justices on national TV. He did so because he politically disagreed with their legal decision. In doing so, Obama demonstrated his supreme arrogance - and let America know just how far he is willing to go to get his way. More | TOP

Lobe Divided Will Not Stand ~ WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama tiptoed Wednesday night along the seam that bifurcates the Democratic Party's brain. The seam separates that brain's John Quincy Adams lobe from its... more... | TOP

Obama's Populist Impersonation of Truman Can't Possibly Work ~ Barack Obama's embarrassing new attempt to channel Harry Truman with his angry populist appeals is doomed to failure for three reasons: wrong guy, wrong Congress and wrong country. Wrong Guy.... more... | TOP

Tea Party / 912ers -

AMERICA’S TEAPARTY MOVEMENT
Happy Birthday to the Party of HELL NO! In 2009 big things happened in America. Some were good and some were not. One of the good big things was the birth of the Tea Party Movement. More | TOP

'Grassroots' Coffee Party Organizer Exposed as Obama Political Operative
It turns out that the "grassroots" organizer of the "progressive alternative" to the Tea Parties, the Coffee Party, has been exposed as an Obama political operative. More | TOP

Obama vs... Palin? ~ Here's how you know, if you are the President of the United States, that things are going in the wrong direction. More | TOP

Tea Parties ~ Dissent is the New Racism in Obama’s Post-Racial America
With liberals now branding entire states RACIST, what happened in Boston can provide insight about those on the left who love to hurl that charge.
CRASHERS, PALINPHOBES and COMMUNISTS at BOSTON’S TEA PARTY ...more | TOP

Tea Party Convention Attendees ~ If you read any of the extensive coverage of the Tea Party Convention going on this weekend in Nashville, TN, be prepared for dramatic stories of rampant grassroots infighting. The real story is much different. More | TOP

Tea Party Movement vs. Elites
The most recent media attacks on the Tea Party movement have some of their populist defenders nervous. More | TOP

Tea Party Power to Solve the Debt Problem
The New York Times ran a front-page story this week called “Party Gridlock in Washington Feeds New Fear of a Debt Crisis.” More | TOP

Winners and losers from last week's Mass-acre ~ The dust is still settling from the fallout of the special election in Massachusetts to replace the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. The rejection of socialism, high taxes and government restrictions... more... | TOP