Author: Rick Jensen

While Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin have the attention of the vast majority of news writers, there is another Republican with even greater credentials for the 2016 Presidential race. His policies enabled school districts to save millions of dollars on health insurance and prevent massive teacher layoffs. He is now proposing […]

Is it really a surprise that the governors of all 50 states are pushing back against President Obama’s push to cut their National Guard troops? The difference between the Democratic President’s approach and that of Republicans like Senator Tom Coburn is the President wants to cut spending on military men and women’s salaries and benefits, […]

Liberal Lenny caught me coming out of a real restaurant in Delaware, not one of Joe Biden’s imagination, shouting, “Hey! How ya like my man Harry Reid takin’ out them Koch brothers on the senate floor?” “I thought that was the job of George Soros and MoveOn dot org.” “You guys wheel out some fake […]

Hollywood and Washington: Both entertaining, often boring and far too often irresponsible. Midterm elections will bring out Hollywood celebrities supporting lots of glad-handing politicians, attracting the least informed voters: the People/US/Entertainment Weekly crowd. And rightfully so. While some in Hollywood and D.C. strive for financial responsibility, there are those who have no understanding of the […]

While many Americans shake their heads at the feckless backsliding of our current congressional Republican leadership, legislators in a handful of states across this nation are bravely taking a stand against the National Security Agency, a behemoth of unconstitutional breaches of privacy currently recording and logging every one of your calls, emails, text messages and […]

“Income Inequality” is the current marketing slogan for rallying voters to the Democratic Party. It just isn’t “fair” that some people make millions of dollars a year “doing nothing” while millions of people work hard and struggle every day to put food on the table and afford HBO. So, what’s unfair? Is it unfair that […]

Out here on the East Coast, left-wingers ignore all sorts of research proving their feel-good remedies often exacerbate the problems they try to solve, such as violence (with gun buy-backs) and unemployment (by raising the minimum wage). This week, a scruffy font of Big Government wisdom has been pontificating on the “real nature” of the […]

Why do people like Rev. Jeremiah Wright travel across America to exhort audiences to denigrate Tea Party Americans as racist? Because failing to personally discredit your fellow man with false witness means people might actually listen to his reasoned policies and thus disagree with yours. Recently in Wilmington, Delaware, the Reverend called the Tea Party […]

Chris Christie knew. So did Barack Obama and Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe. All have been described by insiders as top-down leaders running a tightly controlled office. Conservatives realize the New Jersey Governor had to know the alleged “traffic study” foisted upon thousands of commuters by his closest advisors was at some point known to Christie […]

Here are your Official Liberal Talking Points to support the failing Obamacare: 1: Haughtily sniff that you “knew” people would lose their health insurance and those who didn’t must not be paying attention. (Ignore the fact that President Obama has been declared Liar of the Year by mainstream media “Fact Checker” pundits for promising you […]

“Congratulations, Mr. Obama, sequestration has been your most successful federal program!” That’s what some pundits are saying in response to the President’s report that our national deficit is less than half of what it was four years ago. On the surface, this certainly would be worthy of national applause for the sequester cuts in spending. […]

When I read that Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson made some horrible “homophobic” and “racist” comments for which liberals and gay activists were demanding the entertainment program be ripped from the flat screens of its 14 million fans, I was compelled to read the actual interview in GQ Magazine. It seems Phil is being crucified for […]

The NSA isn’t inherently evil. Serious people track serious threats to the lives of millions of Americans every day. This is not why the NSA needs to be disbanded. Too many serious people who disregard the U.S. Constitution and Americans’ right to privacy have decided they know better than the framers of the Constitution and […]

Like all certainties in life, rules in the Senate change. One of America’s most glorified political theatrics, the filibuster, now only exists should the majority party choose. It’s not likely any future majority should acquiesce. When Republicans during the Bush 41 administration considered changing the rules to eliminate the tradition established by duelist Aaron Burr […]

President Obama’s “Mission Accomplished” moment: “We have met the goal” of fixing the Healthcare.Gov website. The original goal was loudly proclaimed to be 800,000 people signed up per month in the first two months. The November total is right around 100,000. That’s about one million, seven hundred thousand short of goal. Close enough for government […]

“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you,” declared Nietzsche. Lying to Republicans and conservatives is fine sport for partisan Democrats and liberals. Lying to the millions of Americans who trusted you to bring them affordable government-controlled health insurance ends the romance. The reason that […]

Massachusetts Democrat Barry Greenfield is pushing for legislation to allow police to enter your home unannounced, without warrant, and take your guns. Greenfield actually believes it is a “problem” that police don’t have the authority to enter peoples’ homes and inspect their firearms to ensure their guns are safely secured. Massachusetts law requires guns to […]

Ideology is such an abomination, President Obama rages against those he believes are guided by different ideas of governance. Campaigning for now-Governor Terry McAuliffe, who is the subject of two federal investigations and an unindicted investor in an illegal scheme to profit from fraudulent life insurance policies on the lives of dying people, the President […]

President Obama “didn’t know” his IRS was targeting conservative groups, successfully impeding their ability to promote policies he opposes. President Obama “didn’t know” over 50 percent of Americans would not be able to keep their health insurance plans or doctors they trust. President Obama “didn’t know” the NSA was spying on fellow Americans, over three […]

Most of us expect about 90 percent of our charitable contributions to go toward funding any charitable cause to which we give. How do you feel about the NFL donating only 8 percent of Pink gear sales toward cancer research? This is one of those big stories that got lost in the giant news vacuum […]

There are so many reasons why some Democrats quietly confess they would now very much like to postpone the rollout of the “Affordable” Care Act. The massive failure of the entire software backbone, the extraordinary 300 percent increases in costs to families who buy their own insurance, people losing their doctors, insurance plans being denied […]

“Republicans are terrorists!” “Arsonists!” When President Obama chastised Americans to show restraint in political discourse, he obviously wasn’t talking to his own party … or himself. And why should he? While conservatives are reading Russell Kirk, Edmund Burke and William F. Buckley, liberals read Saul Alinsky. Saul Alinsky, whom Buckley noted may be the greatest […]

Caller: “Republicans refuse to negotiate, all they want to do is ruin the economy and Republicans said it all when they said they just want to get Obama out of office.” Jensen: “The President and Harry Reid have both said they refuse to negotiate with the Republicans who have reached out to the Democrats.” Caller: […]

I only make predictions that are easy. That’s why they come true. I have no formula. You can do it, too. Just apply appropriate historical precedent, context and logic. Prediction: Syria will keep the vast majority of their chemical weapons and Iran will have nuclear bombs. The timeline for Syria is easier than that for […]

Liberals at MSNBC and dozens of web sites are shocked at President Obama’s “problem with his tone” in politically attacking Republicans over spending while a mentally ill murderer was gunning down citizens at the Navy Yard. The President does not have a “problem with his tone.” Yes, his politically-driven insensitivity made the country wince, but […]

My fellow Americans, I’ll be honest. I screwed up. Again. But we may have lucked out this time. Foreign policy is not my strength. That “reset button” with the Russians was amateurish and they’ve used it against us time and time again. I shouldn’t have said the Polish people gassed Jews. I shouldn’t have used […]

A few breathless days ago, President “Peace Prize” Obama insisted the United Nations and all of our Allies scream into Syria and bomb the hell out of as many Bashar al-Assad targets as we can. Then, Russia and China led the smackdown in the U.N. Security Council, “No attack for you.” Obama clamored for support […]

Why? Why would President Obama support the Muslim Brotherhood while Gulf States including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates support the military over the champions of Sharia law? In The Guardian, David Hearst makes the case for Saudi King Abdullah supporting the military rule, citing evidence that the Saudi monarch fears a growing popularity […]

The family George Zimmerman rescued from their burning SUV is refusing interviews for fear of their lives. A woman whose phone number is one digit different from that of the line Zimmerman used to call police is getting death threats. That phone number appeared repeatedly throughout the trial. George’s family is in hiding from death […]

Janet Napolitano has finally used her political connections to land a job for which she’s qualified. The problem with Napolitano’s tenure as the inept secretary of the Department of Homeland Security is not the list of failures that could mar even a competent professional’s service record in that position. It’s her ideology. It’s the ideology […]