Liberty, Where Have You Gone?

A sagacious Bible scholar told me how important it was for the Israelites to look back and remember what God had done for them in the past because it gave them the strength to persevere through difficult times. Sometimes we need to look back, too, and remember what we have to be grateful for in […]

 

Obama Not Outraged; He Adores the IRS

So, we are to believe that it is just a coincidence that tea party groups oppose the Obama administration and for 27 months, beginning in March 2010, the Internal Revenue Service didn’t approve even one tea party application for tax-exempt status? Is it also a coincidence that during the same time period, dozens of liberal […]

 

Partisan Obama Culture Spawned a More Abusive IRS

In case you’re hiding under a rock, you should know that an audit conducted by the inspector general for the Internal Revenue Service has found that IRS officials targeted for scrutiny certain groups critical of the administration. Which groups? Well, those with “tea party” or “patriot” in their names and nonprofit groups that criticized the […]

 

There’s Way Too Much Administration Smoke on Benghazi

A former National Security Council spokesman, Tommy Vietor, is representative of the arrogance of the Obama administration in mocking the congressional hearings on Benghazi, Libya, which he contemptuously derided as “amateur hour” and conspiratorial. In a tweet to The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, Vietor mocked Rep. Jason Chaffetz, saying, “What do you think Rep. Chaffetz […]

 




Assaulting Innocuous Christians and Coddling Terrorists

America’s political and cultural left is, step by step, demonizing and marginalizing Christians and Christian values, to the point that even the congenitally apathetic should be concerned. Fox News’ Todd Starnes reports (http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/military-blocks-access-to-southern-baptist-website.html) that the U.S. military has blocked access to the Southern Baptist Convention’s website on an undetermined number of military bases because it […]

 

President Obama’s Symbiotic Relationship With the Abortion Industry

When I read that President Obama refused to comment on the murder trial of abortion butcher Kermit Gosnell “because it’s an active trial,” I knew immediately he wasn’t being truthful. In fact, the second I heard about Obama’s excuse for dodging the question, I tweeted that ongoing investigations or trials did not preclude his publicly […]

 

A Shameful Day for President Obama

I wonder why President Obama feels he has the right to be outraged when legislators don’t automatically roll over to his policy demands. I suspect that his moral indignation is more about personally losing than it is about policy issues themselves. For indeed, President Obama was obviously furious when his gun control bill failed to […]

 


Better Never Than Late

The old adage “better late than never” might not apply in the case of President Obama’s tardily filed budget. It’s one thing to habitually arrive late for scheduled appearances selfishly to build suspense and annoy those in attendance, but it’s another to present this document two months late and after both the House and Senate […]

 

The World Is Upside-Down

What right-minded person can deny the current uncanny applicability of the admonition by the Prophet Isaiah, uttered some 2,700 years ago, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness”? Increasingly today, what is undeniably evil is depicted as good and what most traditionalists, at […]

 

A Government Of the Crisis By the Crisis and For the Crisis

When President Obama’s former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said that “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” many didn’t realize he was inaugurating a new credo for governance. Rahm’s statement was originally understood as the administration’s intention to capitalize on actual crises while they were hot, to promote legislation liberals had […]

 

Who Are Obama’s Real Enablers?

I was reading the Old Testament book of Amos a few days ago and was reminded that liberation theologians get much comfort from that prophet’s decrying the mistreatment of the poor. At about the same time, I read a piece by a brilliant conservative analyst with whom I sometimes disagree who was arguing that some […]

 

It’s Not Cool To Cherry Pick Scripture

With Easter approaching and the Astroturf groundswell for same-sex marriage at its apex, I thought I’d put in a plug for the Bible, whose integrity and timeless principles are under increasing assault in our culture. In fact, what sparked this column was a warning by a nationally prominent Republican to his party that it ought […]

 

The Left’s Thought Tyranny and the Right’s Cowardice

A couple of recent news items illustrate the close-mindedness, aggressiveness and oppressiveness of modern liberalism’s thought police. MSNBC’s Toure issued a scathing commentary against the GOP for considering outreach efforts toward African-Americans. Toure said: “Such is the dysfunctional, abusive relationship the GOP insists on with black folks. They say they want a new relationship while […]

 


Trouble Brewing in GOP

For the first time, I am wondering about the long-term viability of the Republican Party. I say this not as an advocate of its demise or restructuring but as an observer of troubling signs. The Republican Party is thought to be the institutional vehicle for the advancement of conservative policies, but for decades, the conservative […]

 

GOP Must Launch Reality Offensive

How can anyone take President Obama seriously when he tells us our national debt is no big deal? Well, we have to take him seriously, because, unserious thinking or not, he has serious power, including the power to obstruct progress on reducing the debt. I’m not making this up, of course, which is too bad […]

 


Let’s Build on the Paul Filibuster

The Republicans had better not squander the good will Sen. Rand Paul purchased for them in his filibuster over the Obama administration’s potential use of armed drones to kill non-enemy combatants in America. I am not simply referring to the constitutional issue of whether the president can engage in such acts, though that’s very important. […]

 

Could Obama Finally Have Overplayed His Hand?

Is it possible that Obama’s arrogance, personal pettiness, sanctimoniousness and egotism (for starters) could finally be his unraveling? Even the liberal media are starting to notice, but will it last? Up to this point, they’ve dutifully played along with his Alinskyite tactics — converting the office of the presidency into a headquarters for community organizing […]

 


Obama’s Game Playing Is Wearing Thin

President Obama told a meeting of the National Governors Association: “At some point, we’ve got to do some governing. And certainly, what we can’t do is keep careening from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis.” Really? Yes, really. He added, referring to the sequestration: “These cuts do not have to happen. Congress can turn them off […]

 

GOP Must Not Cave to the Bully on His Sequestration

President Obama’s demagoguery and fear-mongering on his sequester cuts are breathtaking, even for him. Lest you think I am engaging in hyperbole, let me give you the dictionary definition of a demagogue. One definition is “a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.” Obama’s […]

 

Liberal Media: Obama’s Front Line

It seems the liberal media are more concerned about Sen. Marco Rubio’s midspeech sip of water than about President Obama’s State of the Union commitment to double down on his disastrous policies. What will it take for once-reasonable people to become alarmed at the state of this nation’s fiscal condition, its stagnant economy and its […]

 


Obama’s Imperiousness Doesn’t Have a Permanent Shelf Life

President Obama and his liberal cohorts are noticeably puffed up after his re-election and are making their move on a wide array of fronts. The liberals’ voracious appetite is incapable of satiety. Obama’s cockiness was on full display during the fiscal cliff negotiations, during which he treated Republicans, the only ones remotely serious about addressing […]

 

The Senate Must Reject Hagel

The Senate’s “advice and consent” role doesn’t require it to rubber-stamp a presidential appointee for secretary of defense who senators believe would weaken America in this increasingly dangerous world. Notwithstanding former Sen. Chuck Hagel’s diminished view of the post — “I won’t be in a policymaking position” — the secretary of defense is an exceedingly […]