Year: 2013

A nation’s choice between spending on military defense and spending on civilian goods has often been posed as “guns versus butter.” But understanding the choices of many nations’ political leaders might be helped by examining the contrast between their runaway spending on pensions while skimping on military defense. Huge pensions for retired government workers can […]

Many conservatives point to great modern men and leaders, such as Ronald Reagan, as models we can follow, and I concur with their sentiments. But I think the best leaders lived long ago, during the founding of our republic, away from the limelight and luster of today’s politics and Washington drama. With Feb. 18’s being […]

Just as Lenin’s body remains on public display in Russia, because one never knows when he might be useful to rally the masses, so, too, does the ghost (but thankfully not the body) of the late Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) remain a useful symbol for Democrats in Washington. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) […]

The President laid out his agenda in the State of the Union Address, and it was filled with initiatives and statements similar to what he has said before.:  It gives the media the opportunity to ask questions that they have neglected in the past.:  Statements that were presented as facts also need clarification.:  Up until […]

Turns out the: New York Times: is worried about the future of the Republican Party. So concerned, in fact, it has dedicated more than 6,000 words in this week’s magazine to explore, as the title puts it, “Can The Republicans Be Saved From Obsolescence?” Indeed, the folks at: The Times: seem extremely concerned that which they hate might not […]

Barack Obama has said that he wants to help Democrats win back a majority in the House of Representatives. He says he looks forward to Nancy Pelosi being speaker again. If he does work hard to elect House Democrats, it will be a change from 2010 and 2012, when he didn’t do much at all […]

Nothing really stuns me anymore about the Left and their lunacy. That was until this week when soulless Columbia professor Mark Lamont Hill: appeared on: CNN: and got giddy about cop killer Chris Dorner. Hill said Dorner’s murderous revenge spree was “exciting,” and was like Jamie Foxx’s character in Tarantino’s latest flick,: D’jango Unchained. Hill doubled down on his […]

“What do you mean America’s youth don’t know who George Washington was?” “Dude?” “He was our first president, our best president and one of the primary reasons the experiment called America was able to work. But of course they don’t teach you that in school anymore.” “Dude?” “Scholars and historians deemed Washington to be our […]

Barack Obama can spin a lie into what sounds like something akin to the truth better than anyone in politics has done in my lifetime – and that’s saying something because it’s starting to be quite a long time. His State of the Union speech was Exhibit A. “They deserve a vote,” he intoned during […]