(This is one in a series of occasional essays about possible GOP nominees for president in 2012.) Jim Douglas is the Republican governor in the far-left state of Vermont. And word is that Douglas is another good man who could possibly run for President of the United States in 2012, although he would make a great vice presidential candidate too. Watch for both. | Read More »
Liberals and leftists are celebrating US district judge Susan Bolton’s decision to issue a preliminary injunction preventing several sections of Arizona’s new law on illegal immigration from taking hold. Key portions of the law that will not go into effect under Bolton’s ruling include, according to USA Today, the part(s) that: …requires an officer to make a reasonable attempt to determine the immigration | Read More »
Minnesota Majority, a conservative watchdog group, is contending that Minnesota Democrat US senator Al Franken, who won a hotly disputed race in 2008 that was not decided until six months later, won the close election with the illegal votes of convicted felons who put him over the top. MM found that 341 convicted felons had voted in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area alone, a heavily | Read More »
The nut-case communist state of North Korea is rattling its sabers again. After sinking a South Korean military ship and killing 46 soldiers on board last March in a brazen act of unprovoked violence, North Korea is now threatening a nuclear attack if the US goes ahead with war games with our ally South Korea. These criminal states work by using violence, violence | Read More »
America should not grant amnesty to illegal aliens at any time because amnesty is merely the third leg of an incremental socialist plan to undermine and disrupt the economy. Here are the rational reasons that we should not grant amnesty: Illegal immigration into the United States no longer is a flow of people trying to find work. It has become a flood that | Read More »
Poor Lindsay Lohan. You’ve got feel sorry for her. She is an obvious product of Follywood – confused, drug addicted, alcoholic and seemingly insane like so many of the Left Coast elite. You know Follywood, the place where they think that all us conservatives somewhere in Flyover Country between the San Andreas fault and Manhattan are neanderthals because we live in suburbs or small towns | Read More »
In a June 15 prime-time televised Oval Office speech about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, president Obama said: “It’s a faith in the future that sustains us as a people. It is that same faith that sustains our neighbors in the Gulf right now… Each year, at the beginning of shrimping season, the region’s fishermen take part in a tradition that was brought | Read More »
Do you know what the Washington Monument Ploy is? It means this: Imagine the city government of Washington, DC wants more money (which it always does; it is a socialist enterprise) and the taxpayers are reluctant to hand over more cash. So the city closes the Washington Monument. Thus rather than throw worthless bureaucrats off the city payroll, cut salaries and benefits of | Read More »
You can always tell when conservatives are succeeding politically because liberals start using desperation tactics to assail them. Look at what has happened to Sarah Palin. The left is apoplectic and does not know what to do about her widespread appeal except smear, smear, smear. It won’t work. In fact one of the reasons Palin is so popular is because the anti-Palin media have | Read More »
Pat Buchanan, the increasingly libertarian conservative who has worked for several Republican presidents and who has run for president himself three separate times, said on C-Span recently that “conservatism is not an ideology”. And indeed that is true and a wonderful observation. Because conservatism is a political thought system that is opposed to ideology. And that is why conservatism is on the rise again | Read More »
Here’s a great trick question for typically misinformed American audiences: Which nation has the best railroad system in the world? The answer, of course, is the United States. Our freight railroad system carries 1.9 TRILLION ton-miles of freight every year, moving lots of heavy stuff like coal, grain, steel, automobiles and chemicals over long distances. This compares to 1.2 trillion ton-miles for American trucks. | Read More »
The Financial Times reported recently that the United States still is the world leader in manufacturing, but that China will overtake us in 2011. The US took the lead from Britain in the 1890s. China is said by economic historians to have held the title for the 1,500 years before 1850 when Britain took over in the Industrial Revolution, FT.com says. The figures | Read More »
You can always count on MSNBC’s Chris Matthews as a bellwether for the left. If he looks constipated and can’t seem to manage a smile, that means that Obama is in trouble. If he looks happy and is having a thrill up his leg, that means that Dems are having a good week. But Democrats are having a really bad time these days. So | Read More »
California Republican US Senate candidate Carly Fiorina won her June 8 primary handily and now will take on very liberal incumbent Democrat US senator Barbara Boxer in November. With Sarah Palin’s endorsement, Fiorina, a famous businesswoman, is in a good position to win the seat due to high anxiety in California about state and federal spending, the health care bill, and unemployment. As of | Read More »
Obama administration attorney general Eric Holder, who is black, said on February 18, 2009, that America is a “nation of cowards” on the issue of race. Holder apparently believes that we somehow have not addressed our racial divide when in fact the subject has been rammed down America’s throat every single hour of every single day over the last 50 years, and always from | Read More »
We’ll, its summer again, and the whining is easy. The record temperatures of July 4 and thereafter have aroused the Complaining Giant in America. Indeed after several brutal winters and two summers in the Northeast with virtually zero really hot days, the first hint of heat and humidity in 2010 had the people running for their ‘cooling centers’. Yes, indeed, we have a new | Read More »
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill certainly has taken on a media life of its own. It is “the worst ecological disaster in American history” according to some reports. Yet there has not been any real analysis, only selective pictures of oil floating on the water and invading marshes. Nobody knows what the real damage is going to be. This is not to minimize | Read More »
The Supreme Court recently upheld 2nd Amendment rights in a very important case called McDonald v. City of Chicago. The ruling overturned a sweeping gun ban in Chicago in a major victory for gun-rights advocates, the second such victory in two years. And while many of us cheer, most Americans don’t seem to fully understand what the 2nd Amendment is about or think realistically | Read More »
“The recovery is still fragile,” president Obama said in a statement during the G20 summit in Toronto, Canada. On the same day, rioters were smashing windows and lighting cars afire in downtown Toronto to protest the summit. A columnist for the Toronto Globe & Mail named Rick Salutin essentially excused the rioters by saying that the violence was a result of citizens upset with | Read More »
President Obama said last Spring that he was “amused” by the Tea Party protests of April 15 and that he thought that the protestors should have been thankful to him for cutting their taxes. This rhetorical sleight needs to be explained. First, Obama’s use of the word “amused” was intended to be rude and to insult the Tea Parties, to make people angry | Read More »
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