5 Moral Boundaries You Do Not Want To Cross

To understand evil, we must set aside the comfortable belief that we would never do anything wrong. Instead, we must begin to ask ourselves, what would it take for me to do such things? Assume that it would be possible. –: Roy Baumeister Many people consider monsters like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin somehow uniquely evil. […]

 

Bob Costas and the Media Miss the Real Problem

Bob Costas, an admitted ignoramus on the issue of the Second Amendment, chose halftime in a nationally broadcast football game to infect the world with his uneducated opinion on gun rights. Speaking about Jovan Belcher, the NFL player who killed his girlfriend then committed suicide, Costas missed the point completely — as did the equally […]

 

Gun Owners: Should We Listen to Bob Costas or Jesus Christ?

As most of you know, during a football game last week Bob Costas lectured us po’ goofy Americans about the evils of a “gun culture” and how we need to evolve away from being obsessed with firearms. As soon as I heard that drivel roll off Mr. C’s tongue I ordered another 30/06, a sweet […]

 


The Communication Cliff

Republicans should be less worried about the Fiscal Cliff than about their own Communication Cliff. It seems that the GOP leadership has been gripped by a great communicative ineptitude, and until they escape from its grasp, they will continue to languish in political poverty, taking blame for fake crisis after fake crisis manufactured by the […]

 

Secret to Obama’s Success: A Great Ground Game

President Obama won re-election in part because his crack campaign team understood 2012 voters and put together an impressive ground operation. Out of professional respect, Republicans should refrain from cracking jokes about the president’s erstwhile profession, community organizing. That’s what I took away from recordings of Harvard’s Institute of Politics quadrennial presidential campaign autopsy, which […]

 

Whites Stayed Home and Re-Elected Obama

Now that all the data is in, the fundamental reason for Mitt Romney’s defeat is apparent, if largely unreported. It is not just that blacks, Latinos and single women showed up in record numbers at the polls. It’s that whites didn’t. The final numbers suggest that 91.6 million votes were cast by whites — seven […]

 



So, Was That Really The Best Use Of 1.3 Billion Dollars For The Republican Party?

  The Republican Party’s infrastructure is dilapidated. Our get out the vote efforts are way behind the Democrats and we do very little minority outreach of significance. Additionally, our marketing/data research, new media, most of our Tea Party groups, voter registration, and activist training efforts are all starved for funds. Meanwhile, Obama: $1.123 billion vs. […]

 

The Best Gun Story You’ve Heard In A Long While

Police? “Yes,: this guy has a gun on me,” said….the burglar! A Texas burglary suspect called 911 early Tuesday morning to report that a homeowner was holding him at gunpoint and threatening to shoot him, KDFW reports. Homeowner James Gerow said he awoke at around 12:30 a.m. and found a man wearing dark clothes and a […]

 

10 Explanations Of How Conservatism Helps The Middle Class

There’s a lot to be said for talking about the Constitution, economic theory and what’s best for the country. However, one place we conservatives have slipped in recent years is framing our policies in a way that answers the very first question on the mind of most voters, “How does this benefit me?” That needs […]

 

Hey, Fat Cat Unions: Pay Your “Fair Share”

Message for wealth-bashing millionaire actor Ed Asner: Man up and take responsibility for lying to America’s schoolchildren. Confronted by a producer for Fox News Channel’s “The Sean Hannity Show” this week, the left-wing celebrity claimed he couldn’t remember “a thing (he) said” on a vile propaganda video produced and published by the California Federation of […]

 

The Stone truth: Left-wingers are boring

When, at long last, will people understand that the left is boring? The question came to mind as I was dipping in and out of Oliver Stone’s miasmic 700-plus-page tome. I’ll never read the whole thing, and not because it’s a left-wing screed full of slimy distortions about the evils of the United States (though […]

 

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 […]

 

Republicans Miss the Point on ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Debate

President Obama is winning the messaging wars in the “fiscal cliff” debate largely because Republicans aren’t even in the game. The GOP leadership in Washington keeps talking as if the issue is deficit reduction, while the president is talking about fairness. Consider the numbers. Sixty-one percent of voters want to see a deal reached to […]

 



Jay Sekulow, ACLJ & Great Patriotic Quotes

Jay Sekulow: of the: ACLJ: speaks in a variety of media outlets daily about how proud he is of: America, despite the calamities that exist in American life.: : America: is the greatest country in the world and one we should always be proud of.:  From a variety of sources and viewpoints, some great viewpoints on patriotism.:  :·: : : : : : : : “I like to see a […]

 

The Least Surprising Story Ever…Well, To People Who Don’t Work For The Government

Setting aside the military, the only people you ever hear lauding government employees for their hard work are politicians and government employees. There’s: a reason for that. On the contrary, overstaffing is a serious problem in government, and the best evidence is a simple empirical fact: Government employees don’t work as much as private employees. If […]

 


How Do You Insure An Ever Present, Massive Welfare State? By Defining Poverty Upwards

There is no arbitrary standard for poverty; so what makes a person “poor?” Can you live in a million dollar mansion and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and be poor? Actually, you can under the government’s current defintion of poverty, which is based on income, not net worth. Can you collect more than $50,000 […]

 



Higher Tax Rates Won’t Support Entitlement State

The fiscal cliff negotiations seem to be foundering on Barack Obama’s insistence on higher tax rates on high earners and House Republican leaders’ insistence on opposing them. The president believes he has a mandate from voters for his position, and House Republicans believe they have a mandate from voters for theirs. The real argument here […]

 

Breaking News: Senate Rejects UN Disability Treaty!

One down, three to go. This afternoon the U.S. Senate rejected a proposed U.N. treaty on disabilities. All but a handful of Republicans joined in killing the treaty. Senator James Inhofe, R-Okla., the leader of the opposition, said the treaty would create an “unelected bureaucratic body [which] would pass recommendations that would be forced upon […]

 


Bailing Out Detroit? Sure, Why Not!

Obama won; so: Detroit wants its free goodies. The city of Detroit faces a major financial crisis and one member of city council thinks President Barack Obama should step in and help. City Council member JoAnn Watson said Tuesday the citizens support of Obama in last month’s election was enough reason for the president to bailout […]

 

This Is Legal? Then Why Aren’t We Doing More Of It?

  Per Circuit Court Judge Tim Boyle, Corey Curtis may have a right to life (along with liberty and the pursuit of happiness), but he doesn’t: have the right to create any more life. The Wisconsin man, who has fathered nine children with six women, was ordered yesterday to cease procreating until he can support his […]