Year: 2012

Message for wealth-bashing millionaire actor Ed Asner: Man up and take responsibility for lying to America’s schoolchildren. Confronted by a producer for Fox News Channel’s “The Sean Hannity Show” this week, the left-wing celebrity claimed he couldn’t remember “a thing (he) said” on a vile propaganda video produced and published by the California Federation of […]

When, at long last, will people understand that the left is boring? The question came to mind as I was dipping in and out of Oliver Stone’s miasmic 700-plus-page tome. I’ll never read the whole thing, and not because it’s a left-wing screed full of slimy distortions about the evils of the United States (though […]

Something is very wrong in the world when the most dogmatic and inflexible president in recent memory can make unreasonable demands of his GOP budget opponents and yet be confident they’ll be blamed for the impasse. It is past time Barack Obama be held accountable for his intentionally irresponsible fiscal policies that are guaranteed to […]

President Obama is winning the messaging wars in the “fiscal cliff” debate largely because Republicans aren’t even in the game. The GOP leadership in Washington keeps talking as if the issue is deficit reduction, while the president is talking about fairness. Consider the numbers. Sixty-one percent of voters want to see a deal reached to […]

Turn on the TV and this is what you’ll hear: The US budget is heading for a fiscal cliff. If a deal isn’t reaching in Congress by the end of this year, a combination of automatic tax hikes and budget cuts will sink America into economic depression. There is no escape. Of course, my readers […]

ABC News reports that the House Republicans have a doomsday plan in mind should the fiscal cliff talks fail to reach an agreement: Total surrender! The concept is for the House to give President Obama the middle class tax cut extension he is seeking without any extension of the upper income tax cuts and to […]

Jay Sekulow: of the: ACLJ: speaks in a variety of media outlets daily about how proud he is of: America, despite the calamities that exist in American life.: : America: is the greatest country in the world and one we should always be proud of.:  From a variety of sources and viewpoints, some great viewpoints on patriotism.:  :·: : : : : : : : “I like to see a […]

Setting aside the military, the only people you ever hear lauding government employees for their hard work are politicians and government employees. There’s: a reason for that. On the contrary, overstaffing is a serious problem in government, and the best evidence is a simple empirical fact: Government employees don’t work as much as private employees. If […]

  “The only problem is – and this is initially going to seem like heresy from a progressive is – the truth is everybody needs to pay more taxes, not just the rich. And it’s a good start. But we’re not going to get out of this deficit problem unless we raise taxes across the […]

There is no arbitrary standard for poverty; so what makes a person “poor?” Can you live in a million dollar mansion and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and be poor? Actually, you can under the government’s current defintion of poverty, which is based on income, not net worth. Can you collect more than $50,000 […]

We are still borrowing more than $1 trillion a year. Barack Obama has added more than $5 trillion to the national debt in just his first term alone. Such massive borrowing is unsustainable. Someone somehow at some time has to pay it back. Obama would agree. He once alleged that George W. Bush’s much smaller […]

An Internet search is inconclusive as to where the phrase “no skin in the game” originated. Some ascribe it to the late columnist William Safire; others to investor Warren Buffett. Politicians often use the phrase to justify policies to their liking. It can also be applied to the latest in a long list of their […]

The fiscal cliff negotiations seem to be foundering on Barack Obama’s insistence on higher tax rates on high earners and House Republican leaders’ insistence on opposing them. The president believes he has a mandate from voters for his position, and House Republicans believe they have a mandate from voters for theirs. The real argument here […]

One down, three to go. This afternoon the U.S. Senate rejected a proposed U.N. treaty on disabilities. All but a handful of Republicans joined in killing the treaty. Senator James Inhofe, R-Okla., the leader of the opposition, said the treaty would create an “unelected bureaucratic body [which] would pass recommendations that would be forced upon […]

The “fiscal cliff” deal House Republicans and President Barack Obama are debating can be called many things — the “avoiding a political nightmare” deal or a “Yes, Mr. Obama, may I have another” deal — but please let’s stop referring to it as a “deficit reduction” deal. We’ve yet to see a serious proposal on […]

Obama won; so: Detroit wants its free goodies. The city of Detroit faces a major financial crisis and one member of city council thinks President Barack Obama should step in and help. City Council member JoAnn Watson said Tuesday the citizens support of Obama in last month’s election was enough reason for the president to bailout […]

  Per Circuit Court Judge Tim Boyle, Corey Curtis may have a right to life (along with liberty and the pursuit of happiness), but he doesn’t: have the right to create any more life. The Wisconsin man, who has fathered nine children with six women, was ordered yesterday to cease procreating until he can support his […]