As the nation stands ready to plunge over the so-called “fiscal cliff,” it has become obvious that no matter how many ways House Republicans find to “increase revenue,” in an effort to meet President Obama and his Progressive brethren in compromise, nothing short of complete capitulation will placate the spendthrifts existing on the Left side…
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.” – President Gerald R. Ford, in an address to a joint session of Congress, August 12, 1974. There can be little doubt that the electorate, going into the 2012 General Election, is the…
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…
While many conservatives admire Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul’s principled economic and constitutional views, they are often bamboozled, even appalled, by the Texan’s defense and foreign policy ideas. Ron Paul It seems, that when it comes to defense, Ron Paul is stuck in 1776. He seems not to realize that America’s enemies, real or potential,…
We were so full of “hope” for “change.” No, I am not talking about the election of Barack Obama, one of the most effective Progressive presidents in American history. I am speaking of the excitement felt within the Conservative, Libertarian and Center Right and Left political communities after the 2010 election delivered the House and…
‘Twas the week before Christmas and all through the house Congress was still working while Americans were clicking their mouse Eager to know who was up in the polls Who would win Iowa and New Hampshire before the first snows. Political candidates were all lined up in a row Just trying to make it past…
The view from our porches, according to our Fearless Leader, (as his minions chant “Hope & Change, Hope & Change….”), is to “reach and stay in the middle class”. Sit down on the American porch and listen. Do you hear the “channeling of Teddy Roosevelt” or the channeling of Joseph Stalin? Ok, Joseph Stalin channeling…
Throughout the painful and paradoxical existence of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) we have been told by those in the mainstream media, as well as by sympathetic politicos, that at its root, at its genesis, the OWS Movement was both organic and legitimate. We were told that the movement was exclusively about a rebellion against high…
By Alan Caruba In the movie, “Cool Hand Luke” the warden of a prison camp utters the now famous line, “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” The decision of the Democratic members of the Congressional Super Committee to refuse further discussion of revenue issues is a failure to negotiate. I have a…
Cultural Slave Catchers and Defining Blackness
On election night 2012, Barack Obama’s acceptance speech highlighted what so many people around the world love about America: “What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on Earth … it doesn’t matter whether you’re black or white, or Hispanic or Asian, or Native American, or young or old,…
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