Year: 2012

The other night on Twitter,: I: went back and forth with: Dustin Stockton: about whom Mitt Romney should select as his VP. Over on Right Wing News, I’ve already written an article that goes: 30 picks deep: cataloguing the candidates from which Mitt Romney is LIKELY to select his VP. If you were laying odds, there’s probably a 95% chance that […]

Here’s Barack Obama channeling Elizabeth Warren about how all of those: awful successful people in America owe the government all of their money because it built roads and street signs. There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me – because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t – look, […]

Want to know how to make bullying worse? That’s easy: get: Congress involved. No one believes children should be bullied in school, no matter what the genesis of the bullying. But to think that somehow Congress could stop playground taunting, middle-school teasing, or insults leveled through social media is illogical. Yet Representatives Sheila Jackson Lee (D—TX) […]

When I first saw a book with the title, “White Girl Bleed A Lot” by Colin Flaherty, I instantly knew what it was about, even though I had not seen the book reviewed anywhere, and knew nothing about the author. That is because I had encountered that phrase before, while doing research for the four […]

Last week, I summarized how President Barack Obama has not lived up to his campaign promises to lower the national deficit and debt and get our nation’s fiscal house in order. So now I’m calling on him to heed the economic advice of our nation’s first eight presidents. Before I highlight some of the Founding […]

If I didn’t know better, I might conclude that President Obama is trying to validate my book. His personal attacks on Mitt Romney have been so harsh that Romney called them “beneath the dignity of the presidency.” Not only did I devote several chapters to documenting Obama’s practice of bullying and attacking his political opponents […]

According to conventional wisdom, the older the person, the less young people are inclined to listen to him or her. This is probably true for some of you. But I do not believe that it is true for most of you. Most young people have tremendous respect for older people’s views. I saw this firsthand […]

D.C. Democrats are pushing the DISCLOSE Act again. “DISCLOSE” stands for “Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections.” The American Civil Liberties Union and the National Right to Life Committee oppose this bill because they fear it would chill free speech. As far as the anti-abortion group is concerned, “DISCLOSE” stands for […]

Mitt Romney’s speech to the NAACP convention in Houston was — according to one’s political perspective — a “calculated move on his part to get booed…” to help his white base (Rep. Nancy Pelosi), or a presentation to “independent thinking adult citizens” whom he treated as equals (Rush Limbaugh). Having an adult conversation in a […]

The Fourth of July week brought unwelcome birthday gifts to the United States in the form of poor domestic jobs data and similarly gloomy information from other major economies. Amidst the heat and festivities, it has become difficult to deny that the economy is deteriorating. Politicians appear helpless, thrashing about for a solution and blaming […]

When I was a young dork growing up in West Texas in the 70s and 80s, my folks raised me to believe that making good money via righteous and industrious means was actually a good thing–y’know, something to aspire to. Remember that notion? My folks would point out people in the neighborhood and community who […]