Author: Duane Lester

Support for Obamacare is at an all time low, and there’s no reason to think it will suddenly start becoming popular again: Support for the Affordable Care Act has dropped five points in a month to a record low, according to a CNN/ORC poll released Monday. The poll finds that just 35 percent of the […]

Sadly, I have to wonder if this is true: Now I know a majority of those reading this here disagree with the premise, but the question is, “What does the majority of Americans think?” Do you honestly believe a majority of Americans would choose freedom over security? As for you, how far does your belief […]

Remember when Republicans were fighting against Obamacare and the left labeled it a “War on Women?” About that:   Paradise, CA resident Tiffany St. Cyr has a rare disease that is incurable but survivable with treatment, yet she cannot get care because of healthcare changes California adopted in anticipation of Obamacare and corresponding state healthcare […]

Prior to last night’s game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Chicago Bears, the Eagles honored one of their former cheerleaders. Rachel Washburn left the Eagles’s cheerleading squad for the Army after a trip to Kuwait in 2008: Washburn made a trip to Kuwait in 2008 as part of a military goodwill tour with the […]

Just remember, the Republicans are always the racists: Democratic federal-level campaigns are paying minority staffers significantly less than their white counterparts, according to a study from the New Organizing Institute (NOI). “African American staffers on Democratic federal-level campaigns are paid 70 cents on the dollar compared to their white counterparts; Hispanics are paid 68 cents […]

Our own Homeland Security is accused of smuggling illegal immigrant children INTO the country. That seems to be the opposite of its mission: A federal judge in Texas late last week accused the Obama administration of aiding drug cartels, saying that instead of enforcing immigration laws, agents knowingly helped smuggle an illegal immigrant girl into […]

You know that Medicaid expansion Obama and the Democrats wanted to force on all the states? It comes with a nice estate tax: As fine print is wont to do, it had buried itself in a long form – Balhorn’s application for free health insurance through the expanded state Medicaid program. As the paperwork lay […]

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey sat down with Fox News’s Stuart Varney and explained the reality of Obamacare – it’s hurting people: From the Washington Free Beacon: “It’s raising our costs…We’ll have to cover things that are expensive that we may not want to cover, our team members may not want to have covered,” Mackey […]

Welcome to New Jersey. Please completely disarm yourself, citizen: Warren Todd Huston writes: New Jersey’s Graves Act is one of the most strict anti-gun laws in the nation and it even makes owners of BB guns into criminals if they don’t register their “firearm” with the government. Apparently BB guns and air soft guns are […]

As reported here yesterday, A&E indefinitely suspended the Duck Commander Phil Robertson for comments they say are disappointing. : The Hollywood Reporter says A&E released a statement saying, “We are extremely disappointed to have read Phil Robertson’s comments in: GQ, which are based on his own personal beliefs and are not reflected in the series: Duck Dynasty. : His […]

The court might call him “a special kind of threat,” but I have another name for him. State prosecutors say they are “confident and satisfied” that Carl Philip Herold, accused of holding a child captive, sexually torturing him and producing child pornography of the torture, will show up for trial after a judge here raised […]

With friends like these, who needs Democrats: Rep. Peter King, the hawkish New York Republican who is weighing a presidential bid, has launched a political action committee. The PAC, American Leadership Now, aims to boost Republicans who are moderate on domestic issues and tough on foreign policy, King told POLITICO in a phone call from […]

This reminds me of a legislator in Missouri who was busted for weed who introduced a bill earlier in the year lessening the penalties for weed. : It’s all about covering your hind end: Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) and seven other Democrats have proposed legislation that would eliminate the possibility of imposing the death penalty for […]

Christians across the Middle East are routinely targeted, but Catholics in Iraq are under asking what will have to happen for their plight to be noticed:   Warning that a Middle East empty of Christians would be “just like the Taliban,” Iraq’s most senior Catholic leader pointedly called on the West to show greater concern […]

This is good: Dear Kanye West, I am honored to be writing such an important star. I am a mere Internet sensation. I’m not sure I am worthy to address you, although the Huffington Post did say I was “Humorous and Insanely Popular.” I don’t pay much attention to those things. Anyway, please excuse my […]

A Rasmussen poll of Republicans showed they believe Sen. Ted Cruz to be the most influential person in the world, right behing Pope Francis and Barack Obama: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has had the best year of any Republican and virtually anyone in the world, ranking third in Rasmussen Report’s new poll of the of […]

Tuffy the Clown made national news when a liberal with a camera and limited experience at rodeos set his Outrage-o-Meter to “Head: Explode” at the Missouri State Fair Rodeo. Tuffy was manning the microphone when a skit featuring another clown wearing an Obama mask had to dodge a bull. Here’s the video: Liberals across America […]

Congressional staffers were told not to trust what DC Health Link told them and to assume they weren’t enrolled until they had physical documentation proving they did. That’s encouraging. Capitol Hill staffers who signed up for ObamaCare through the Washington, D.C., healthcare exchange, called DC Health Link (DCHL), are being told to confirm their enrollments […]

What would you do if a black man’s white girlfriend was getting verbally abused, just because a barber thinks a black man should be with a black woman? What would other customers do? Watch this video and find out: Refreshing. Good to see some good people doing some good things. Hat Tip: Mr. Conservative

Secretary of State John Kerry told Rep. Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican, that an American pastor sitting in an Iranian prison cell, was never brought up during the nuclear deal because they didn’t want to turn him into a hostage. Rep. Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican, asked during a House Foreign Affairs Committee […]

Democrat logic 101: when the facts don’t match the narrative, make your own facts. …the pollsters even confess that they “expected” to find more racism among Republican voters. “We expected that in this comfortable setting or in their private written notes, some would make a racial reference or racist slur when talking about the African […]

Larry the Cable Guy has it down. He could be a health care navigator: “It’s a disaster. But I have figured a lot of it out. I figured out the Bronze plan. The Bronze plan is the color your finger’s going to look like after you give yourself a prostrate exam. The gold plan is […]

If you want this on your permanent record, check this box: First grader Hunter Yelton told KRDO-TV that he has a crush on a girl at school and she likes him back. “It was during class, yeah. We were doing reading group, and I leaned over and kissed her on the hand. That’s what happened,” […]

President Barack Obama spent $5 million taxpayer dollars to go to South Africa to honor Nelson Mandela and what will be remembered? This: President Barack Obama on Tuesday shook hands with Raul Castro, leader of America’s Cold War foe Cuba, in a rare gesture at the memorial service in South Africa for Nelson Mandela. The […]