The Thursday, August 4 racial attacks by a mob of black youths against white people outside the Wisconsin State Fair near Milwaukee are an indicator of where this nation is going. After decades of indoctrination about slavery, discrimination and racism, young blacks have increasingly felt that they can openly attack innocent white people without fear. Reported tmj4.com about the Wisconsin attacks: “It looked like | Read More »
After we were assured that raising the debt ceiling would avoid serious financial repercussions for America, the US credit rating has been downgraded from Triple A for the first time in history. Rating agency Standard & Poor’s lowered the nation’s AAA rating for the first time since granting it in 1917 three days after the debt ceiling deal was struck. The rating was lowered to | Read More »
Governor Rick Perry of Texas will address the RedState gathering in Charleston this weekend. See you there… The Republican presidential candidate most prominent in the news these days is one who is not yet even declared – Texas governor Rick Perry. And he is making headlines for initiating and attending a Christian rally and asking God to help our troubled nation. He spoke at an | Read More »
The New York Times recently reported: ‘Girls swept all three age categories in the (first Google Science Fair) competition, a contrast to generations past when women were largely excluded from the science world.’ So liberal, left-wing Google sponsored a science competition and girls won it. Wow. What a big surprise… If Google sponsored an art contest, any girl would beat Leonardo da Vinci. Because in | Read More »
Our president is engaging in the most dangerous rhetoric that ever has come out of the White House. After signing the debt bill, he said that the American economy ”didn’t need Washington to come along with a manufactured crisis. It’s pretty likely that the uncertainty surrounding the raising of the debt ceiling — for both businesses and consumers — has been unsettling, and just one | Read More »
The debt deal is a major victory for socialism. Oh, sure, there are no new taxes for the time being. And sure “spending” is being cut by $2.4 trillion. But the fact is that the debt limit has been increased by $2.1 trillion and that will last about 18 months and then there will need to be another increase. And the spending “cuts” are just | Read More »
Today, August 2 is D-Day in the debt debate, and there has been one constant mantra throughout – that the Social Security checks MUST go out. So how about if these checks are held back as an indicator of the seriousness of our economic plight? After all, Social Security has created much of this plight. So how about if Democrats are forced to explain to | Read More »
President Obama’s recent speech on the debt crisis included the words “balanced approach” seven times. What those two poll-tested buzz words really mean to someone like Obama is that there will be some cameo spending cuts, primarily to the military, and a whole boatload of stiff new taxes. But Obama can no longer escape reality – that his policies are failing just as we conservatives | Read More »
Remember the 2004 Madrid train bombings in Spain by Islamic terrorists, in which 191 people were killed? Those bombings were perpetrated three days before an election when the pro-American and pro-Iraq-war prime minister Jose Maria Aznar was up for re-election. Fearing that angry Islamists were going to take further action against Spain for its policies, voters turned Aznar out of office. In other words they | Read More »
These spending cuts and other reforms will put America on a sound financial footing for the future by negating the massive expansion of government that has occurred over the last 40 years, and replacing it with robust private-sector growth that will result from reducing our national debt. 1) Pull all US troops out of Afghanistan. This war is nonsensical. And no more foreign wars unless | Read More »
Well, the American left is at it again. An article by Hope Yen at Associated Press recently reported: ‘The wealth gaps between whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels since the U.S. government began tabulating them a quarter-century ago. The recession and uneven recovery have erased decades of minority gains, leaving whites on average with 20 times the net worth of blacks | Read More »
I recently overheard a snippet on National Public Radio about the photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) and the painter Georgia O’Keefe. They were married in 1924 and had a tumultuous relationship when Stieglitz was considered the most important figure in the New York “art world”. (By the way, NPR is funded to the tune of an estimated $40 million by federal taxpayers, whether you listen to | Read More »
Here is an excerpt from foxnews.com about the July 22 Norway shootings: ’National police chief Sveinung Sponheim told NRK that the suspected gunman’s Internet postings “suggest that he has some political traits directed toward the right, and anti-Muslim views, but whether that was a motivation for the actual act remains to be seen.” Andersen said the suspect posted on websites with Christian fundamentalist tendencies. | Read More »
Moderator’s note. I’m closing comments on this post. This is site devoted to winning elections, not to balkanizing our voters. –streiff Erick Erickson recently broached the subject of a conservative third party. We all have thought about a third party at one time or another. I posted the essay below on the subject in Member Diaries last Winter. This commentary makes the case for a | Read More »
Minnesota recently had a government shutdown over its budget and finally the Democrat governor Mark Dayton acceded to fixing the problem after surrendering his position on tax increases. In other words, there aren’t going to be any tax increases because Republicans in the state legislature held firm. It made national headlines. Big win for Republicans! Sound familiar? Like a script for the Washington deadlock, perhaps? | Read More »
The amount of ink that is being spilled – or rather the number of megabytes being devoted – to the story about the hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s now-closed London publication News of the World is simply amazing. This story is everywhere. But it should be expected to be everywhere. Because Murdoch is a conservative. And a little thing like this then becomes a major | Read More »
There is an increasing perception that Barack Obama will be a one-term president. It has been slow to evolve with the incumbent president always given the benefit of the doubt. But even a cautious Karl Rove, the top Bush strategist, said in a recent Wall Street Journal analysis that Obama’s electoral math is not adding up. The Media Left, however, are doing everything in their | Read More »
The news is full of stories about the debt ceiling and about America possibly defaulting on its debt. And so what if America defaults. After all the first step to curing yourself is first to admit you have a problem. And America has a big problem. America’s current fiscal outlook is bleak. And often a business or a person needs to be declared bankrupt so | Read More »
A recent report on the weeklystandard.com called Obama’s Economists: ‘Stimulus’ Has Cost $278,000 per Job by Jeffrey Anderson sums up what we capitalists have been saying all along about Obama’s leftist ‘Keynesian’ approach to the economy. The Weekly Standard article was written about an unfavorable federal report that was “dumped” on Friday of the July 4 weekend so that nobody would notice it. The Keynesian | Read More »
A male passenger wearing little more than female undergarments was allowed to fly on US Airways recently even after a passenger had complained about him. The incident occurred several days after a black college football player was arrested in a dispute after a US Airways employee asked him to pull up his sagging pants. These incidents are reminiscent of the story in 2007 when 23-year-old | Read More »
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