By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  April 29th at 01:49 PM  | 

Representative George Miller (D-CA) spoke at a Capitol Hill press conference on April 17 calling for a “fair minimum wage” of $10.10. This isn’t surprising, in and of itself: Rep. Miller has been a long-time advocate of raising the minimum wage. What is surprising is who introduced him: Saru Jayaraman, co-founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC). ROC is an interesting group to be walking | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  February 15th at 04:20 PM  | 

With apologies to the President’s stenographers in the Democrat Media, let’s add some actual facts to President Barack Obama’s photo op today in Chicago, the murder capital of the world. With respect to the current debate over gang violence, guns and second amendment rights: FACT: In 1998, then-State Senator Obama voted against making it a crime for convicts on probation knowingly to have contact with | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  November 25th at 10:34 PM  | 

The union-instigated potential demise of Hostess has conservatives witnessing with bemusement the fruits of Obamism: striking union members facing job losses and unemployment checks. The only problem with Republican and conservative Twinkiefreude is that further economic decay and government dependence HELP ELECT MORE DEMOCRATS, which continues our downward spiral to doom. The antidote to this demise, for the United States, and yes, the GOP, is | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  October 9th at 02:01 PM  | 

Bill Clinton is coming to Arizona Wednesday to try to make the state’s voters forget that Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi now run the Democratic Party. Playing on the American people’s nostalgia – and short memories – Clinton is coming to Arizona hoping to boost Richard Carmona with a joint visit to Tempe, where the Tucson Democrat and Obama Mini-me is particularly weak. | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  September 1st at 12:58 AM  | 

With Arizona’s primaries now complete, a key Congressional race has emerged in the state’s newly created District 9. Prior to the primary, this swing district had been rated “Lean Democratic” by the Cook Political Report, but the District’s Cook Partisan Voting Index is “Even,” indicating its voters have voted in line with the national average over the last two presidential election cycles. Significantly, the district | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  August 17th at 02:35 PM  | 

It’s great fun accurately quoting Vice President Joe Biden, and we should continue doing it through Election Day, in part because it makes our next Vice President, Paul Ryan, look even more competent by comparison. But ultimately, people will vote the top of the ticket, President Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney, so Biden critiques should consistently invoke Obama’s failed policies, lest we fall for another | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  July 20th at 09:41 PM  | 

In 2009, Colorado’s death penalty was saved by a single State Senate vote. Had anti-death penalty forces in Colorado been able to rustle up one more vote, the Aurora Batman movie theater mass murderer would be guaranteed roughly fifty years of ice cream, movie nights, free gym membership, free health care and the hope for a prison break, or perhaps murdering a prison guard. Instead, | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  July 18th at 09:15 PM  | 

As Democrats hyperactively promote a Bloomberg Businessweek blog post today musing that massive stock losses in 2009 theoretically could have eliminated Mitt Romney’s 2009 tax liability, let’s take a closer look at what else this bastion of the Democrat Media Complex (DMC) is pushing. Just two days ago, it’s latest cover story hit newsstands nationwide: “INSIDE THE MORMON EMPIRE,” an “EXCLUSIVE” that shines light on | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  July 15th at 10:17 PM  | 

As you know by now, Obama unilaterally (and illegally) gutted welfare reform this week to make it easier for able-bodied adults to remain dependent on government handouts indefinitely. It’s bad news for welfare recipients who will become further imprisoned at the bottom of the economic ladder, and terrible news for taxpayers and for America’s future. But as this ABC News piece from 2008 makes clear, | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  June 13th at 12:17 PM  | 

The public Atlantic City High School in New Jersey paid 2003 Grammy Award winner Ashanti $20,000 in taxpayer funds to appear at the school, despite the school’s atrocious test scores that show it is failing its students. Government bureaucrats defended the waste: “She was paid like any other vendor,” said Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum Donna Haye, who will take over as superintendent…. Incredibly, it occurred | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  March 9th at 12:53 AM  | 

It may induce heartburn for political junkies to admit it, but elections are not decided by the hardcore, politically-minded, engaged partisans or ideologues on the Right or the Left. Sure, a motivated base is very important, but elections in our divided country are decided in the middle, by the moderates, independents, and undecideds. So why do we tell these election-deciders, every single day, that the | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  January 23rd at 12:31 AM  | 

I am undecided so far this presidential cycle (other than pledging to work hard and vote for the GOP nominee against Barack Obama). Ronald Reagan is not running, and I am to the Right of all the major candidates. So I have left the primary battle to others and will decide for myself by April 3, the date of the Maryland primary. But as I | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  January 22nd at 12:33 PM  | 

Something didn’t smell right. A woman with impeccable liberal credentials – Ivy League-educated, a former Slate staffer now writing for the New York Times, who lives in Brooklyn with her journalist hubby – pens a book about the Obamas’ marriage (The Obamas by Jodi Kantor). Sounds like an election year ad for The One’s re-election, right? But then suddenly, the Democratic Media (what many folks | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  December 27th at 07:39 PM  | 

As most of us were doing last minute Christmas and Hanukkah shopping last week, word spread that Daily Caller editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson had “won” in a charity auction dinner for six with Obama pals and unrepentant terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, at their home. The meal is to occur by October 2012 and the proceeds of Carlson’s $2,500 bid will benefit the Illinois Humanities | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  November 29th at 09:35 PM  | 

Remember that infamous 2008 New Jersey case against dating site eHarmony for not helping gays find dates? eHarmony folded in that battle faster than a lawn chair when the potato salad is all gone. Given that the dating site had long been associated with Christian conservatives, its decision has always puzzled me. I recalled that capitulation today when I saw an article about settlement of | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  July 16th at 11:36 PM  | 

“We’re going to go bankrupt as a nation. Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’ The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.” –Vice President Joe Biden at an Alexandria, Virginia event to promote more government deficit spending, July 16, | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  June 19th at 02:03 AM  | 

“After several meetings and phone calls, the rival legal analyses were submitted to Mr. Obama, who is a constitutional lawyer, and he made the decision.” –The New York Times, June 17, 2011. One of the more hilarious fictions in President Barack Obama’s biography is that of him as a constitutional lawyer, scholar, professor and expert. It was used during his first presidential campaign to give | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  March 25th at 12:40 AM  | 

By Steve Voeller and Michael Paranzino The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, March 28, 2011 will hold oral arguments in an important first amendment case that implicates public campaign financing schemes in jurisdictions across the country. So it should come as no surprise that outside groups asking the Court to rule against the first amendment interests in the case comprise a virtual Who’s Who of | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  March 12th at 01:50 AM  | 

Fourteen of 15 killers who had their jury-imposed death sentences reversed on March 9th by Illinois Democrat Gov. Pat Quinn had murdered women and girls during their killing sprees. Don’t expect to read that in the Democratic Media (sometimes mistakenly referred to as the “MSM”). Other facts about the Illinois Democrat hug-a-killer program you won’t learn from the media: * The 15 convicted killers given | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  January 22nd at 02:28 PM  | 

Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, was responsible a number of years ago for one of the great quotations of recent decades, so I do not criticize him or GE lightly. He said: “More people will graduate in the United States in 2006 with sports-exercise degrees than electrical-engineering degrees. So, if we want to be the massage capital of the world, we’re well on our way.” | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  January 12th at 11:51 AM  | 

The mass murder of innocents in Tucson last weekend and the attempted murder of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a rising political star, is a horrific and terrible tragedy. Sadly, we have faced other incidents like this, including the mass murder at Virginia Tech, the Columbine massacre, the Ft. Hood terrorist attack, and others. Now, once again, we are seeing politicians and pundits attempting to exploit this | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  October 22nd at 02:13 AM  | 

With Democratic rats belatedly jumping off the sinking ship Speaker Pelosi, the media speculation about her future has started. While most of this chatter is of little consequence, given that she will at best be minority leader as of January 3, 2011, a clarification is in order concerning her fate if the Democrats should miraculously hold the majority after the election. Few people understand the | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  October 14th at 12:19 AM  | 

President Obama’s desperate smear of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is outrageous, but has not been entirely unsuccessful for his party. I agree with other critics who have noted that the Chamber foreign money canard itself will not sway any undecided voters, but that was not the goal of the attack in the first place. The Obama Democrats have just two goals for the final | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  October 12th at 12:37 AM  | 

Three weeks out as I write this, The Real Clear Politics “Senate No Toss Ups” map shows a 50-50 Senate after the votes are counted next month. It suggests the potential for intrigue and high jinks even after the polls close (not including the danger our nation faces until January 3, 2011 from the Obama Democrats’ lame duck session). A 50-50 Senate recalls the 2001 | Read More »

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  September 26th at 12:52 AM  | 

Fox has conservative viewers locked up, and MSNBC has long since stolen CNN’s mantle as home for liberals (though, FYI, we conservatives still view CNN brass as barely-disguised Democrats and a bit too kind to foreign despots). But there is still a way for you to rebuild the network if making money is more important to you than advancing a progressive agenda. To hold your | Read More »