E tu John? How Conservatives Got Robbed by John Roberts ! -by Scott Rohter, July 2012 “When a tax is really not a tax, but is still considered to be constitutional” When is a tax really not a tax? And when does something that is really not a tax, but rather a penalty for failing to buy insurance become a tax instead? Are you about | Read More »
Duplicitous! John Roberts Chief Justice Supreme Court The Gift of George W. Bush that Just Keeps on Giving! By Scott Rohter, July 2012 We knew as conservatives that there was going to be a lot of time between the filing of the first legal challenge to Obama Care, and the time when all of the separate court cases would be consolidated into on, and that one | Read More »
Supreme Court Rules on Illegal Immigration Law SB 1070 Arizona Wins Partial Victory in 5 to 3 Split Decision Analysis by Scott Rohter, June 2012 Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona called the recent Supreme Court decision on Arizona’s tough illegal immigration law SB 1070, “a victory for all Americans.” The central part of the law was upheld in an 8 to 0 decision Tuesday. | Read More »
What’s Next for the Middle East and Egypt? Should the U.S. Try Using Leverage On Egypt’s Military By Scott Rohter, June 2012 Writing for my local newspaper’s editorial board a seasoned reporter wrote that the United States holds some kind of leverage over Egypt’s ruling military, and that we should not fail to use it. The editorial is the official position of the only newspaper in | Read More »
“Cake Walker” Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Wins Big A New Republican Star is Born by Scott Rohter, June 2012 In my last article I speculated about who pulled the plug on the TEA Party. I thought that the TEA Party might be running out of juice because we wound up with Mitt Romney as our Republican nominee instead of a solid conservative in 2012. | Read More »
Wasted Opportunity Who Pulled the Plug on the Conservative Revival ? An Analysis by Scott Rohter, June 2012 Republicans never had a better chance to put a solid conservative onto the ballot and into the White House than we did in this year’s Republican Primary Elections. We had all of the pent up energy from the TEA Party Movement that has been building for the | Read More »
Not the Democratic Party of Your Fathers! -by Scott Rohter, August 2011 Remember a few years ago when many prominent Democrats in the media made a big deal about referring to their Party as the Democratic Party? They insisted on correcting anyone who called them the Democrat Party! Big Deal you say! It’s just two little letters. It’s such a small point! But maybe it | Read More »
The Fanatical Face of France By Scott Rohter, May 2012 “When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that’s amore” For over a hundred years the French people have had a big love affair, not with the moon, nor with pizza, but rather with big government, i.e. Socialism. Last week they renewed their love affair once again by electing a member of | Read More »
Reince Priebus – Wisconsin Shenanigans Scott Rohter , May 2012 The word was when Reince Priebus was first being touted for a position as the National GOP Chairman in January 2011, that he was a good strong conservative from Madison Wisconsin. Hummm… I thought. “A strong conservative voice from Madison Wisconsin.” Is that even possible?.. While I thought it was a bit unlikely that such | Read More »
Only Pandering, Insincerity, and Political Expediency Do I See By Scott Rohter, May 2012 Two months ago nearly all of the Republican candidates in the Primary were literally “one-upping” each other to sound tougher on illegal immigration… A border fence, NO amnesty for illegals, NO pathway to citizenship, mandatory use of E-Verify, and tougher sanctions against employers who hire illegals! All of these options were being | Read More »
This was a conversation that occurred between myself and another member of the Oregon Republican Party regarding Rick Santorum’s disappointing withdrawal from the Presidential Primary. by Scott Rohter April 29, 2012 Scott: There was a lot of pressure put on Rick Santorum to withdraw from the race and to end his Presidential campaign. My guess is that it was both financial and personal. Regardless of | Read More »
Enjoying Everything that Columbia Has to Offer and More A Breakdown of Morale in the Ranks By Scott Rohter, April 2012 A very interesting but not widely covered item in the news last week was from Columbia, South America where twelve members of President Obama’s advance security team were recalled back to the United States for “disciplinary reasons.” Hmmm… Have some members of the Secret | Read More »
Rick Santorum Withdraws from the Republican Race – “Political Postmortem” By Scott Rohter, April 2012 So according to Mitt Romney’s supporters, Rick Santorum’s withdrawal from the race means that the people have chosen. Oh Really? Well I say NO ! The people have not chosen! The people with THE MONEY have chosen! AGAIN! Romney and his backers, and the Party Establishment with all of their | Read More »
Dropping Bombs Now to Keep Iran From Dropping a Nuclear Bomb Later Time to Get Serious By Scott Rohter, April 2012 Editor’s Note: In Foreign Policy Magazine, which is a publication of the Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard professor Stephen Walt writes that he thinks the media is irresponsibly promoting the idea of a war with Iran over the threat posed by their nuclear | Read More »
Alphabet News Networks and Talk Radio’s Crackers By Scott Rohter, March 2012 Campbell Soup Company makes a pretty good tasting broth called alphabet soup. It’s tomato based and it’s loaded with tasty little pieces of pasta shaped in the letters of the alphabet. It’s been on the grocery store shelves since I was a little boy. And that’s over sixty years of serving up | Read More »
Santorum Wins Big In Louisiana by a 2 to 1 Margin By Scott Rohter, March 2012 Out funded and out spent since the beginning of the Republican Primary by nearly ten to one, nevertheless Rick Santorum still managed to beat Mitt Romney in Louisiana’s March Primary by almost a two to one margin. If it hadn’t been for three former Republican candidates who long | Read More »
It looked until very recently like either Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney, who were jockeying back and forth in the polls, were a “shoe-in” to win the GOP Primary. But that was before Rick Santorum took off, i.e. Rick Santorum’s Presidential campaign blasted off form the Primary launch pad. It blasted off like a giant Atlas V Rocket with two solid propellant booster tanks strapped | Read More »
Freedom of speech is not a slogan. It is not a bumper sticker. Free speech is more than mere empty words. Just as I believe in free speech, and free markets, I also believe that more freedom, not less freedom, is the solution for what is wrong with our country. I believe that freedom is The Best Antidote for What Ails Us. It is the | Read More »
One precious little freedom at a time, by one more freedom destroying piece of legislation at a time, something awful is happening in America. One new destructive piece of legislation after another, is causing our precious Bill of Rights to start looking more and more like a pathetic Bill of baloney, sandwiched in between two liberally sliced pieces of Swiss cheese, that is big enough | Read More »
Property rights are under attack again in Oregon this year by the State Constitution and by the Oregon Legislature! State Legislators refused again to give my Foreclosure Reform Bill (Senate Bill 929) a hearing for the second straight year! This fifteen year old Bill, first written and drafted as Oregon House Bill 3453, in the 1995 Legislative Session, was allowed to die in committee again, | Read More »
How smart is it to keep raising hundreds of millions of dollars to support Republican candidates, and then turn around and hand it over to the Liberal Mainstream Media in order to try to get them elected? Frankly I think it’s just plain stupid! If you are a conservative, that money will only be used against you in the General Election, and it will only | Read More »
A little rag tag group of not more than nineteen airplane hijackers, directed by one evil mastermind from a remote cave in north eastern Afghanistan, terrorized America on September 11, 2001 and literally sent shock waves through the world community that reverberated all the way from New York to Bombay and back! These shock waves set off a scare that hijacked the whole world, and has | Read More »
Well I thought I had seen just about everything in my sixty years, but apparently I still have a lot more to learn about politics and human nature! My latest discovery came last week when I read a newspaper headline that proclaimed, “Barack Obama Wants Smaller Government.” Well I’ll be darned, I thought! What do you make of that? After spending us into the poor | Read More »
George Washington wrote that, “The greatest title of all is to be called an honest man.” The qualities to look for in a leader are no different today, than they were back in 1783. The most important quality of all to look for in a Presidential candidate is honesty! There are many different words in the English language to describe the same thing: honesty, character, | Read More »
The Devil comes as an angel of light, and he sounds so much like a messenger from God that if it were possible, he would deceive even the very elect. Of course it is not possible the Bible proclaims, because God is the guarantor of our salvation! But who or what is the guarantor of our personal freedom? In the United States, the Constitution is | Read More »
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