Democrats will soon unveil their program to combat senseless violence. It will get warm love from the press, but little critical analysis. At day’s end, the Democrat’s plan is not going to advocate for gun confiscation or a government buy- back mandate. It will not endorse any meaningful invasions of privacy regarding medical records and mental illness. It will make only token efforts at identifying | Read More »
I don’t want yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs Samuel Goldwyn It seems clear that no important jobs were put in jeopardy by the State department’s internal investigation of the attack on the American embassy in Benghazi. Kirsten Powers noted that weeks of investigation unearthed little information that couldn’t have been learned | Read More »
The truly tedious argument disarms the opposition. It doesn’t get more tedious than “asking the rich to pay their fair share” or “a fair and balanced approach.” Republicans are now so bored by President Obama that they can no longer summon the will to resist. Having won round one in a spectacular fashion, the president has now turned his attention from tax rates to loopholes and | Read More »
What do John Kasich, Ron Johnson, Marco Rubio, John Bolton, Hayley Barbour, Susannah Martinez, Paul Ryan, Bill Bennett and Tim Scott have in common? If you answered “nothing with Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann”, you are only half right. How is it possible that it took Mitt Romney ten primaries to separate from the republican field. Bachmann | Read More »
At year’s end, the media revisit the preceding twelve months ; the deaths, the dramas and the politics. Notably absent from most reviews of 2012 was any mention of Obamacare. The media didn’t discuss it and more curiously, neither did the Democrats. But Obamacare was newsworthy in 2012 and I want to give it the attention it deserves. The president campaigned for Obamacare while claiming | Read More »
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, so that my child may have peace.” Thomas Paine Once in American history, patriots knowingly put themselves in harm’s way to spare their children. No one kicked the American Revolution down the road. They didn’t leave it for the kids to fight. Trouble has happened again, 17 trillion dollars worth. Our leaders | Read More »
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