When Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed by Mexican drug cartel members using weapons that, under the ATF’s “Fast and Furious” program, were allowed to be smuggled into Mexico, it didn’t just anger American law enforcement. It also threw a monkey wrench into a carefully planned operation whose real purpose was to enable President Obama to justify major new restrictions on American citizens who | Read More »
The ignorance and misunderstanding displayed by Barak Obama when it comes to the private sector is nothing short of astonishing. Time and again, he has demonstrated his inability to comprehend even basic economic realities. Even more disturbing, from Obamacare to his failed “stimulus” program, he has also shown utter contempt for the free market. One reason for this is that, like most liberals, Obama sees | Read More »
In what is almost a cliche, yet another Democrat gets caught with his pants down (in Congressman Anthony Weiner’s case, literally), yet stubbornly refuses to step down from his political position. But why would he? Weiner is a Democrat, and for decades, no matter how badly Democrats misbehave, they have invariably kept their jobs. Absolutely nothing happened to Democrat Barney Frank when it was discovered | Read More »
If it weren’t such a serious matter, listening to all the media types expressing “surprise” at the “unexpected” bad economic news would be almost laughable. Because none of what is happening is unexpected to anyone with a basic understanding of economics. Whenever government interferes with the private sector, the result is almost always ultimately disastrous. Take food prices. The main drivers of the increase in | Read More »
Perhaps it is merely age, or the wisdom that comes with it, but Memorial Day has come to mean more to me every year. It may also have something to do with the people I have met in my life who have served in the U. S. military – World War II vets like my dad, the young men just back from Afghanistan or Iraq, | Read More »
Just after their widely reported meeting last week, Benjamin Netanyahu bluntly rebuked President Obama for demanding that Israel withdraw it’s borders back to where they were in 1967, telling Obama unequivocally that “it’s not going to happen.” The universal reaction was that Netanyahu had “taken Obama to school” on diplomacy. The word “smackdown” was used by several pundits. Not surprisingly, a few left-leaning journalists attacked Netanyahu | Read More »
One of the more disingenuous arguments that the American Left employs to justify using the government to financially rape “the rich” is to claim that “taking care of the less fortunate” is a “shared American value.” But that is a canard. Because while the American people do indeed believe in taking care of those in need, they also understand that true charity is personal, and | Read More »
I first posted the commentary piece below back in August of 2008. I decided to repost it because today, with gas prices once again hovering around $4 a gallon, we have the utterly predictable “Inquisition” on Capitol Hill, with political hacks attacking oil company executives for basically doing what they are supposed to be doing – producing petroleum products. These professional political pirates can try | Read More »
Conservatives, being generally happy people, are often surprised at how many liberals seem to be so angry all the time. Just look at the Left’s irrational hostility toward “the rich” – they practically drip with venom toward anyone who makes more money than they do (with the exception of left-wing Hollywood celebrities, that is). And nowhere is liberal animosity toward success more clearly on display | Read More »
Most of us recall the apocryphal story of the Texan accused of murder who, when asked by the judge if he had anything to say in his defense, replied, “Well, your Honor, I guess he just needed killin’…” Most civilized people would agree that his observation would hold also true for the recently deceased Osama Bin Laden. If ever there were a man who “needed | Read More »
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