Hurricane Katrina struck 5 years ago and time sure has flown. “Katrina” now has become an instantly identifiable proper noun with no modifier needed. There were two Katrinas – the direct hurricane hit that devastated the Gulf coast, damaging or destroying more than 94,000 homes in Mississippi’s three coastal counties alone — Jackson, Harrison and Hancock. This largely has been forgotten. And then | Read More »
A recent news story should remind us about the ongoing ‘war’ that is being waged politically against conservatives and Republicans by Democrats and the media. Former Republican US senator Ted Stevens of Alaska was killed in a plane crash on August 9 at age 86. His death revived stories about Stevens’ honorable career. He was considered the “father” of Alaska statehood, and had served | Read More »
A Scottish university recently announced a hard statistic about childbearing – that women lose 90% of their reproductive eggs by the age of 30. This certainly is going to send shockwaves throughout the female population of America because it puts things into mathematical perspective. What should conservatives – both men and women – say about all this? We should state yet again how | Read More »
It sure didn’t take long for the forces behind the Ground Zero mosque to ally themselves with the radical left in America. Because soon after the mosque issue heated up with president Obama taking both sides of it – first he said that it was a matter of religious tolerance and freedom, but then that he did not necessarily agree with the “wisdom” of building | Read More »
Full-body scanners soon are going to be installed for security purposes at every major commercial airport in the US. Most Americans oppose the scanners as an affront to their dignity, and already the Transportation Security Administration is said to have stored tens of thousands of body images from a Florida courthouse scanner rather than deleting them immediately, bringing up personal privacy issues as well as | Read More »
Am I dreaming or did the news media cover the story ‘Last American Combat Troops Leave Iraq’ like it was a fender-bender on the 4th of July? Suddenly there it was on the TV screen – interviews with departing soldiers, a convoy crossing into Kuwait, the end to seven-and-a-half years of war. There was no buildup to it, no special shows about the meaning | Read More »
Hillary Clinton’s now-famous 1998 warning about the “vast right-wing conspiracy” against her husband has been fodder for ridicule for twelve years now. Today we have charges of a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy 2.0 being fomented by desperate Democrats who are running scared over their coming election drubbing. The conspiracy now falls into many classes including Vast Right-Wing Tea Party Conspiracy and Vast Right-Wing Mosque Opposition | Read More »
If you want to read one of the best books ever written about energy, read the 2005 publication called The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (Basic Books). Written by Peter W. Huber of the Manhattan Institute and physicist Mark P. Mills, this no-nonsense and sometimes very technical publication explains in | Read More »
One of the desperation tactics of the Democrats this year it to claim that “Republicans want to privatize Social Security” and that that would be a terrible thing. And indeed millions of conservatives would love to see SS privatized. And with the recent news that SS is now officially broke – it is paying out more than it is taking in – privatization looks | Read More »
Do you remember when entertainer Rosie O’Donnell said that “radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America”? Where does she get this kind of stuff? Who are the “radical Christians” who have flown airliners into skyscrapers? Where are the “radical Christian” suicide bombers detonating themselves in marketplaces all over the country, killing thousands of innocent people? Where have | Read More »
Steven Slater is now officially a superstar. He is the flight attendant who, after a run-in with a passenger, shouted obscenities into the PA system of a Jet Blue flight after it had landed in New York, then slid down the emergency chute that he had deployed. Slater then went home where he was arrested for criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and trespassing. After decades | Read More »
Like characters in a James Bond movie, the Democrats finally have pulled a secret weapon from their boot – Michelle Obama. As the president’s approval rating sinks ever more as the economy tanks, the August Dog Days media narrative says that the First Lady will become campaigner-in-chief and the Democrats surely will be saved in November. This is a desperation tactic. Democrats know the score. Fewer | Read More »
Have you heard about the Broadband Bullies? They are people who live out in rural areas and who are charging private-sector internet servers with failing to provide every last person with a high-speed connection. The Bullies have no regard for the huge expense of reaching tiny audiences with miles of expensive cable. Because some people never think about the real cost, but only about their | Read More »
President Obama visited Michigan recently to talk about how he “saved” the auto industry. But what he really did was bail out the unions, pure and simple. On his visit, Obama touted the Chevy Volt, an electric car which costs a whopping $41,000. Americans really need to know the truth about the electric car. It is just more enviro nonsense. First, its high | Read More »
A thoughtful article was published recently on the americanspectator.org website called America’s Ruling Class – and the Perils of Revolution by Angelo M. Codevilla, who is a professor of international relations at Boston University. Codevilla also is a fellow of the Claremont Institute, a senior editor of The American Spectator and the author of The Character of Nations: How Politics Makes and Breaks Prosperity, Family | Read More »
I am working on a campaign to elect Mike Case as a state representative to the Massachusetts legislature. Mike is a conservative Republican, a military veteran (Vietnam, Bosnia, Iraq), a retired police officer and all-around great guy who I believe is going to win this race. I am Mike’s only helper who shows up regularly. And we are working hard and enjoying the pace | Read More »
Do you remember Democrat House speaker Nancy Pelosi way, way back in 2006 urging Americans to vote Democrat so as to “drain the swamp” of corruption in Washington? Well, it sure didn’t take big-name Democrats long to be exposed in their own scandals since then. Twenty-term congressman Charles Rangel of New York, once the powerful chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, now | Read More »
A Muslim female speaking recently at a hearing in New York said that allowing construction of an Islamic mosque near the 9/11 Ground Zero site in Lower Manhattan would be “an important symbol of tolerance for New York City.” Oh, really? Tolerance? Let’s look closer at this statement and others like it. Because some people use manipulative language to attain their goals, particularly | Read More »
We’ve all heard the old saying, “It is better to give than receive”. And it indeed is true. But there are millions of Americans who do not believe in it, including president Obama. In fact no Democrats believe it because they give, give, give only as long as it is Other People’s Money (OPM) they are giving away; and as long as they get | Read More »
News reports estimated that the cost of Chelsea Clinton’s July 31 wedding was anywhere from $1 million to several million dollars. Yet Americans are hurting badly while Democrat icons gather for an extravagant affair. Where is the outrage? There is none. Democrat extravagance is always excused, like the excesses of the Kennedys which never were exposed but only presented as a wonderful rich | Read More »
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