Author: Kathleen McKinley

I’m trying to read Karl Rove’s book,”Courage and Consequence” quickly so I can give you my take on it. So far, it is utterly fascinating. But I did want to briefly tell you about the dinner I went to Thursday night where he was the keynote speaker. I briefly got to shake Rove’s hand. He […]

Well, the all out false narrative assault is on. Democrats and the media are determined to paint Republicans as either racist (they just can’t manage to find proof of it) and/or “violent.” The latest hysterical whining comes from Paul Krugman at the NYT. It seems Sarah Palin posted a map of the United States with […]

Martin Luther King Jr once said, “Life’s most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?” Once in a great while we get to see that question answered by the inspirational story of others. In 1988 I had two small babies and I don’t think I saw hardly any movies for years during that […]

I am happy to write a blog post in FAVOR of something Pres. Obama is doing. I don’t think this has happened since Obama kept most of the provisions of the Patriot Act including warrantless wiretapping and rendition, AND when he kept most of Pres. Bush’s National Security team. Pres. Obama will announce this week […]

When I first saw the story on The Daily Caller about RNC money being used at a “bondage themed club,” my first thought was, “what the hell is a bondage themed club?” Yeah. I guess I don’t get out much. I held off writing about it because the first stories seemed to suggest that RNC […]

Imagine if during the beginning of the Iraq war, several American companies came out against the war publically, explaining how they believed too many soldiers lives would be lost, and the cost of the war would affect their businesses. Then imagine that the Republicans immediately demanded that the top executives of these companies come to […]

I am loving this. I’m sure you heard the story that ran in several newspapers with this AP story: “Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., told a reporter that as he left the Cannon House Office Building with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a leader of the civil rights era, some among the crowd chanted “the N-word, the […]

You have to give the Republicans credit for finally growing a spine. Senate Republicans did force Democrats to send the health reform reconciliation bill back to the House for another vote, after Senate parliamentarian Alan Frumin ruled in the wee hours of Thursday morning that two minor provisions violated the chamber’s rules and couldn’t be […]

“… the United States is in the express lane to Declinistan: unsustainable entitlements, the remorseless governmentalization of the economy and individual liberty, and a centralization of power that will cripple a nation of this size. Decline is the way to bet. But what will ensure it is if the American people accept decline as a […]

The Democrats cannot stand that regular people are stepping up to fight them. What have they been trying to do? Pull the race card of course. When they have nothing else that’s what they do. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver tried to say that the tea protestors yelled racial insults at him while he walked to the […]

As I wrote here on March 02: Bottom line. The Democrats will pass this sweeping legislation that will take over 1/6 of our economy, over the clear majority of the American people that don’t want it. They will do it on a purely partisan basis using a procedural process never used before on big legislation […]

One more thing. Really guys. This is important. Please do this. Call these members of Congress this week (mostly pro-life Dems) who could use some support. They are Democrats, but some of those rare breed Democrats who are actually good people who believe in principles and values. The Democrat leadership is coming down HARD on […]

I’m officially off this week, but I had to post this delicious piece of news. Stick with me to the end. You won’t regret it. As Virginia Thomas tells it in her soft-spoken, Midwestern cadence, the story of her involvement in the “tea party” movement is the tale of an average citizen in action. “I […]

Yesterday morning on Fox and Friends they had several young African American boys from a low income area who attended a charter school that boasts 100% college bound students. You guys know this is an issue close to my heart. Gretchen asked them what made the difference in this school. One young man answered that […]

Washington, DC – U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, delivered the following remarks today after the House Republican Conference approved a moratorium on all earmarks: “Federal spending is out of control and the American people know it. Earmarks have become emblematic of everything that is wrong with spending here in Washington […]

From The Note: “March 18th is a very interesting date,” Pelosi said, referring to the White House’s preferred deadline — the date President Obama leaves for a foreign trip. “We will take up the bill when we are ready to take up the bill.” In other words, “Obama, why don’t you just let Auntie Nancy […]

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This one sentence tells you all you need to know about Obama. Speaking to Katie Couric on Feb. 7, Obama said: “I would have loved nothing better than to simply come up with some very elegant, academically approved approach to health care, and didn’t have any kinds of legislative fingerprints on it, and just go […]

Let me explain the less than honest way the Democrats are trying to pass Obamacare. Newt Gingrich, who certainly knows the rules, explains it here. The problem the Democrats are having is bringing the pro life Democrats on board. They don’t want to vote for a bill with abortion funding in it. So House Democrats […]

Part of Obama’s appeal was his intelligence. I may have thought him wrong on the issues, but still intelligent. I am starting to question that. Rasmussen’s latest daily poll shows Obama now at 43% approval, with 56% disapproving, the lowest figures of his presidency. It took Pres. George Bush almost six years to get to […]

“We need to rise above an ends justify the means mentality” What a difference five years makes. Suddenly the ends justifying the means is the way to go. What a hypocrite. Update: This is related since it also points to Obama’s hypocrisy. From ABC’s The Note: Obama, speaking at an event for health care reform […]

If you were listening to Glenn Beck this morning you heard him and Michelle Malkin get into a rather heated argument about Beck having ex-Congressman Eric Massa on his show today. Yes, it’s just delicious political theatre to listen to Massa talk about Rham Emanuel walking round naked in the House showers and intimidating House […]

This has been all over the net yesterday and today. Dan Rather is kind of known for his folkisms. Here is the transcript: When you talk about a triumph though, part of the undertow in the coming election is going to be President Obama’s leadership and the Republicans are making a case, a lot of […]

Paul Krugman, an op-ed columnist for the The New York Times, truly illustrates the warped thinking of many liberals. In his latest piece he states that Republicans and Democrats live in different universes. That part is undeniably true. But his universe is clearly the “Alice In Wonderland” type of universe. Nothing quite makes sense when […]

Obama gave his 35th speech on Health Care yesterday. He says that the country deserves and “up or down vote.” He can’t even bring himself to say “reconciliation.” Maybe that’s because in 2007 he emphatically said that they would never use it because one couldn’t govern that way. You’ve got to break out of what […]

Anybody here know what’s going on with the health care bill? No? Well, you are not alone. Those in Congress, or the leaders, don’t seem to know either. You may or may not have heard reports that Obama plans to unveil a “Plan C” type of bill tomorrow. No, this isn’t the 11 page summary […]

Given all the recent controversy over the research on global warming, one would think that the media would be all over Al Gore to get his reaction. But no. They are leaving him alone. But the public? Not so much: Al Gore won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. But […]

I don’t think the summit turned out quite the way Pres. Obama thought it would, and this is the reason why. Let me try something out on you: This health-care summit was a bad idea for the Democrats for this reason: They have long benefited from a perception — a perception greatly abetted by the […]