Author: Kathleen McKinley

Michael Walsh of NRO nails it here. The Face Of The Modern Left: In his combination of unctuousness, mendacity, mock-reasonableness, petulance, bullying, hypocrisy, overweening arrogance, brazen aggression, self-pity, victimhood, and bogus moral preening, it’s hard to beat Congressman Anthony Weiner. ………………………….. I mean, how hard was it to see through Tony Weiner? Or an even […]

I apologize for that post title, but I couldn’t resist. The new DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Shultz is a gift from heaven for Republicans. There are many Democrats I disagree with, but I know are smart. Shultz makes Joe Biden look like a brainiac. She is like Howard Dean, but she brings even more crazy. Let’s […]

My original post here. As of today, the Capitol police have not been notified by Rep. Weiner about the “hacker” that Weiner claims to have hacked into his account. Many leftwing bloggers are attacking the twitterer that retweeted the tweet, Dan Wolfe. Wolfe, for his part, has offered cooperation with any investigation, including access to […]

You may or may not be aware of the federal law that requires that food sold to the public must be produced in a certified commercial kitchen. Naturally home bakers and those who run those roadside stands were upset. That is how we got the Texas Cottage Food Bill, “a change in health department regulations […]

Sometimes one can find gems in comments. These two were at Gawker.com of all places, on the post with the video of : Bill Clinton and Paul Ryan whispering about Medicare: “JackPaper”: Your premise ignores the fact that getting health care costs under control would a) help Medicare immeasurably, b) help the overall economy more than […]

I think readers on both sides of the political divide will find this article fascinating. I know I did. The United States has found itself in a seemingly endless series of wars over the past two decades. Despite frequent opposition by the party not controlling the presidency and often that of the American public, the […]

A good line from former Sen. Hollings about the fraud that is Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid: “The public fully supported enactment of hefty new Social Security taxes in 1983 to ensure the retirement program’s long-term solvency and credibility. The promise was that today’s huge surpluses would be set safely aside in a trust fund […]

Immigration reform is about to make headlines again. Will the GOP screw it up as they always do? Utah passed immigration reform already: Passed by the state’s GOP legislature and signed by Republican Governor Gary Herbert in March, Utah’s plan is notable because it’s the first in the country that would allow undocumented immigrants to […]

I know you guys who are left leaning get tired of my criticism of Pres. Obama. Frankly, I get tired of it too. When I wrote the post about Obama giving the order to kill Osama, it was nice to be able to say he did something right. As far as releasing the picture of […]

All of you who know me know how I love dogs. I have three rescue dogs. I think dogs are amazing. They can help rescue, they can lead the blind, they can help with other handicaps, even letting someone know when a seizure is about to happen. They can sniff out drugs, and help find […]

The story that the White House put out yesterday about the firefight that killed Osama has been walked back. It’s very frustrating. Not because I care how Osama was killed, but how it is perceived by the Arab world. I tweet with quite a few Muslims and of course, they saw the White House as […]

From Fox News via the WaPo: “A member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee has told CNBC that the death of Osama Bin Laden was a direct result of enhanced interrogations.” ………………….. “…in 2007, that terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay military prison started giving up information about the key courier.” ………………. “Current and former […]

** The left loves to demonize companies like Exxon for their profits, but they never demonize the burdensome tax on our gas, when it is much much more. Did you know that gas stations are not allowed by federal law to break down their price so you can see how much tax by gallon you […]

Once again, when gas prices get high, administrations go looking for “petrovillains.” Clinton did it, Bush did it, and now Obama is doing it. It’s a farce. They never find anything in their investigations except for the basic fact that gas and oil prices are determined by one thing, and one thing only-Supply and Demand. […]

You may have heard about the story in California where an Orange County Republican Central Committee member Marilyn Davenport, sent to fellow Republicans an image with a “Mom and Dad” chimp with a baby chimp that had Obama’s face photoshopped as his face, along with the words, “Now you know why there is no birth […]

From NRO: As you can see, the top-earning 1 percent of Americans (the 1.4 million returns making more than $380,000) paid 38 percent of federal personal income taxes while the Americans in the lower half of the income spectrum (or 70.0 million returns) paid 2.7 percent of the total. This chart also shows that roughly […]

On Monday Standard & Poor stunned everyone by rating the United State’s long term credit rating from stable to poor. Let’s break it down. From Keith Hennessey: Yesterday’s report by Standard & Poor’s on the U.S. government’s credit rating is driving headlines. You can learn a lot more from reading the primary source document than […]

From Human Events: Time for an update on Obama’s war in Libya! The good news is, it might not be a quagmire much longer. The bad news is, that’s because Qaddafi is winning. As the AFP news service reports, “Regime forces bombarded rebels west of Ajdabiya on Sunday, forcing hundreds of residents and some fighters […]

If any of you are thinking of taking Donald Trump seriously, please let me say to you…Have you lost your mind?! Trump is nothing more than a self promoter, and he cares about as much about conservative values and principles as Tiger Woods cares about celibacy. Trump has never been conservative. He has never been […]

Hopefully by the time you read this Congress will have reached a deal on the budget. Despite the hyperbole coming from the likes of Harry Reid, the truth is this. The budget was supposed to be passed this past October. The Democrats were fully in charge. But they didn’t pass one because they didn’t want […]

Many are usually surprised to learn that I am against the death penalty. My feeling has always been that it’s difficult to convince society that they should protect the life of the guilty, if they refuse to protect the life of the innocent. The reason I am against the death penalty is purely religious. While […]

I think I’ve written about Pot once before my last post, and I got pretty much the same reaction. As you can see in the comments of my last post, a lot of people have been affected by pot. I want to make clear that I don’t endorse pot use in any way except for […]

The other day I had lunch with a friend whose father is in stage four of stomach cancer. He is going through Chemo and she can’t get him to eat. I had just had a conversation about this with my son regarding California’s medical marijuana laws. I asked her if she thought pot would help […]

Who could forget Abu Ghraib? How could you? The news was saturated with the disgusting and sick photographs of soldiers with prisoners. We were shocked and horrified. The media couldn’t get enough. There was practically 24/7 coverage for weeks on end about it. Every aspect of the story was covered in print, online, and the […]

What a strange journey this has been in Libya. We had a window of opportunity to topple Gadhafi. Most Americans supported it. People were asking why we didn’t enforce a no fly zone, or at least do something. But Obama was determined that this not be American driven. He wanted the U.N. on board. That’s […]

The first is with former Sen. Norm Coleman. Next is with Wall Street Journal’s John Fund. Both discuss the integrity of the vote. Hans von Spakovsky, former Dept. of Justice official, discusses voter ID and why it doesn’t suppress the minority vote. This is especially important because that is the left’s meme. Spakovsky discusses how […]

This should make everyone angry. The AP reported that political operatives in the Obama Administration are screening Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and asking for personal information on those making the requests: From the WaPo: The Freedom of Information Act, the main tool forcing the government to be more transparent, is designed to be […]

The True The vote Summit in Houston this weekend was attended by representatives from 27 states that wanted to learn how they can do better in fighting voter fraud. I’ve written about The King Street Patriots and the controversy surrounding them here. These are good people just trying to do the right thing. The voter […]

The Texas House voted 101-48 late Wednesday for a bill requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls. It’s about dang time. There should be NO controversy with this bill. It’s absurd that it’s taken this long. We have to show our ID to get on a plane or buy a beer. There is […]