Doctored Videotapes Are Peanuts

Many have rightly condemned MSNBC’s serpentine editing of a video to make it appear that certain gun rights activists heckled the father of a 6-year-old victim of the Sandy Hook shooting massacre, but let’s not pretend this was a one-off event. The liberal media long ago forfeited their respected role as watchdog over the government […]

 


Right Must Summon Moral Courage To Fight Back

Welcome to an America with liberalism in full ascendancy as golfer Phil Mickelson apologizes for doing nothing wrong while the Obama administration lambasts its opponents for justly demanding it apologize for doing plenty wrong on Benghazi. Welcome to a land where the gravest problem threatening the nation is spending, where the Democratic president refuses to […]

 

Beware of Those Advising GOP To Unilaterally Disarm

Isn’t it ironic that Republicans keep receiving advice to be more conciliatory and work with President Obama while President Obama not only is receiving the opposite advice but fully intends to be even more divisive in his second term? On “Meet the Press” last week, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said: “There’s also a […]

 

Sandy Hook: Obama’s Latest Crisis To Exploit

Liberals have an uncanny knack for designing solutions that do not address the problem at hand, and they’re doing it again in their current effort to use the Sandy Hook shootings as fodder for promoting stringent gun control measures. It’s as if President Obama and his fellow travelers lie in wait for the unfolding of […]

 

Barack Obama: Weapon of Mass Distraction

President Obama’s latest news conference was further confirmation that his voracious appetite for spending was not satisfied but whetted by the fiscal cliff deal, which he views as an appetizer. We were told that the GOP achieved a coup in the fiscal cliff negotiations because they lured Obama into an agreement to lock in the […]

 

Rubbing Our Noses in His Victory and Radicalism

Hey, folks, remember the good old days when candidate Barack Obama at least pretended to be bipartisan and conciliatory? Now it’s as if he’s on a mission to prove he was faking it. Obama is behaving like a bitter ex-spouse who knows all our hot buttons and delights in pushing them. He is governing by […]

 

On Revenues, Obama Has Just Begun To Fight

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell tells us the tax issue is behind us and that we can now move on to spending. Really? What makes him think the GOP will succeed this time when it couldn’t last time? The just-concluded fiscal cliff deal included no material spending cuts, which the GOP justified by saying it […]

 

The Right’s Unwitting Obama Apologists

I hate to break it to those deniers who believe that President Obama’s tax-guzzling capacity has somehow been diminished by the fiscal cliff provision to fix “permanent” tax rates. You’re dreaming. Several smart columnists and respected conservative editorial pieces tell us that a major silver lining in the crisis deal just concluded is that by […]

 

David Gregory’s Slobbering Obama Interview

NBC’s David Gregory interviewed President Barack Obama on “Meet the Press” Sunday, and a conversation ensued that would have been more fitting for a show called “The President Meets One of His Many Mainstream Media Enablers.” Let’s take a look at just some of the exchanges and fantasize how different the nation’s political and electoral […]

 

Obama vs. America’s Fiscal Health

The reason President Obama and Republicans can’t come to an agreement on the fiscal cliff negotiations is that they don’t share the same goals. This is also the key to understanding why President Obama appears far less worried about going over the cliff. Republicans are focused on restoring the nation’s financial health by promoting economic […]

 



Republicans Do Have Leverage; Use It!

At this stage of the fiscal cliff pseudo negotiations, do the American people have any idea what the Republicans stand for other than to protect the wealthy and cut Medicare and Social Security to harm the sick and aged? People constantly invoke Ronald Reagan, but one thing is certain and very relevant: If Reagan were […]

 

Conservative Media Are Not the Problem

It is really getting old to hear liberal politicians and pundits complaining about conservative media as being destructive, as if the country would be better off returning to the halcyon days of the monolithic liberal media. That seems to be the view of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who complained about “the right-wing control of the […]

 

It’s Time To Turn the Tables on this Presidential Bully

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 […]

 

Time for Congressional Republicans To Expose Obama’s Agenda

We can get back to discussing GOP minority constituent recruitment soon, but in the meantime, we have a fiscal cliff issue that beckons — the real fiscal cliff (America’s imminent financial collapse), not the government shutdown molehill everyone is agonizing over. Congressional Republicans should look at their party’s loss in the presidential election as liberating. […]

 

Social Conservatives: GOP Can’t Live Without Them

One of the largest elephants in the GOP’s post-election room is the fate of Christian and other social conservatives. Party honchos can’t just wish this problem away — or, maybe they can. There has been increasing hostility toward Christian involvement in politics, and the animus hasn’t been solely from the left. To be sure, Democrats […]

 

The GOP: A Most Unpopular Majority Party

Isn’t it tragically ironic that the man who rode the perfect storm into public office on the horse of national unity has now perfected the politics of division so spectacularly that he won re-election despite the worst record in decades? For when you sift through the rubble from the Republican Party’s 2012 nuclear catastrophe, you […]

 

Obama’s Hostile and Evasive Presser

Obama’s first post-election press conference, if you could call it that, tells us a great deal about his attitude and the approach he intends to pursue in his second term, which is the same failed policy mix on steroids. Obama’s re-election, of course, gives him the right to pursue these policies, but it doesn’t deny […]

 

Before We Give Up, Could We At Least Try Selling Our Ideas?

We conservatives may never reach a consensus among ourselves as to the main factors that caused our election defeat, but surely we can agree that we must do a better job of selling our ideas. Never mind, you say. The electorate has irreversibly become a taker class, and conservative ideas of self-reliance, personal responsibility and […]

 

Time for Introspection, but Not Surrender

Has the nation gone irreversibly blue? Did intraparty disunity sabotage Mitt Romney’s presidential quest? Or is there some other explanation for the nation’s re-election of a president with the worst record in decades? I received an email from a brilliant conservative friend who wonders whether Republicans can ever win another election and thus whether the […]

 

Do You Want Revenge Against America or Loving Restoration?

Mitt Romney was very wise to pivot on Barack Obama’s impromptu statement that “voting is the best revenge” and frame the campaign in the final days as a choice between that negative message and Romney’s “love of country.” I wouldn’t say that if I thought Obama’s statement was merely a slip of the tongue. Rather, […]

 

I’m Even More Confident That Mitt Will Win

I want to give you an updated list of reasons I believe that Mitt Romney will win the election Tuesday. So much information, so much confusion, so much uncertainty. But I don’t think it’s so complex as it seems. In 2008, a perfect storm developed for Barack Obama: an economic crisis, which was effectively, though […]

 

The Lord of the Flies Administration

Two recent ads illustrate the great cultural divide in this nation and which parties and presidential candidates represent these competing worldviews. In the handling of the economy and national security, President Obama has shown he’s not capable of being the adult in the room. After four years of perpetual campaigning and cheerleading for his pet […]

 

If Not ‘Apologizing,’ Mr. President, What Would You Call It?

OK, President Obama, if you and your defenders insist on denying that you’ve repeatedly apologized for America, then let’s quit mincing words and acknowledge you’ve done worse than apologize. That works for me. Maybe it is technically inaccurate to attribute the word apology to you, because you would have to identify with America more before […]

 

Mr. President, Why Won’t You Help Us Avert National Bankruptcy?

President Obama, I’d like to follow up on my most recent column and ask you a few more questions, please. I am assuming you don’t dispute that our nation faces a very serious financial problem, with unfunded liabilities in excess of $100 trillion. I use the word “assuming” because I don’t remember you ever spending […]

 

A Few Questions I’d like To See President Obama Answer

I can only scratch the surface here, but the following are a few of the questions I would like to see President Obama answer in a debate. Mr. President, your confidante Valerie Jarrett once said: “There’s nobody more self-critical than President Obama. Part of the burden of being so bright is that he sees his […]

 

A More Aggressive Obama Still Won’t Make the Grade

As he prepares for the second debate, Obama faces a major dilemma: how to be more aggressive without jeopardizing his alleged likability, the main thing he supposedly has going for him with voters. The Barack Obama the public usually sees is not the real Barack Obama. The former is a carefully manufactured media image designed […]

 

Elect Romney To Reverse Bush’s Failed Third Term

After reading transcripts of Obama’s recent campaign stump speeches and watching his interview with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer, I am even more convinced he is every bit as clueless as he appeared in that fateful debate but also very deceitful. The money quote in Obama’s interview with Sawyer, who asked him what happened in the […]