Category: Column

Mercifully, the political conventions have ended. The political press will keep buzzing over whether Clint Eastwood’s unconventional speech helped or hurt Mitt Romney and whether the snafu over Israel and God in the Democratic platform will do any lasting damage to President Obama. Republican reporters will think former President Clinton talked too long, and Democrats […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Michelle Obama connected with voters during her moving opening night speech of the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday. She was smart, extremely likable and the perfect spokeswoman for the American president as she talked about “the unflinching sacrifice” her parents and husband’s family made so their kids could have the “chance to […]

CHARLOTTE — A few years ago, it was fashionable for Democrats to describe themselves as “members of the reality-based community.” These days, it seems the foreclosure crisis has hit them so hard they’ve been forced to move to another neighborhood. Metaphorically, at least, they’ve set up a refugee camp here this week. In this political […]

Do Democrats favor banning corporate profits? Noted author and economist Peter Schiff: went to the Democratic National Convention to find out. In an extensive range of interviews with delegates and: attendees: at the Democratic National Convention, radio show host and free-market economist Peter Schiff found a number of people who actually support the idea. Posing as an anti-business […]

The Democratic National Convention started with the national debt clock hitting 16 billion dollars, the Dems booed God and making Jerusalem the capital of Israel in the middle, and it’s going to end with the jobless rate going up at the end of the week. They also put Sandra Fluke on stage, did everything short […]

At what point do black Americans start to ask the Democratic Party to: do something for them in return for their votes? Today’s 14.1 percent black unemployment rate is almost twice the 7.4 percent white rate, and the racial gap – after narrowing from 2005 to 2009 – has widened since the recession’s June 2009 end. […]

Apparently, Monday, Aug. 27, was opening day for Hysterical Liberal Sanctimony About Imagined Republican Racism. During this first round, The New York Times, The Atlantic and the TV networks each put in a splendid showing. I’d need a book to cover it all. HOLD ON! I HAVE ONE — Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies […]

Government is the only thing we all belong to — but, don’t worry, you won’t have to pay for any of it. That about sums up the Democratic National Convention’s case to America, a place where whatever isn’t handed to you is actually just being taken away. Democrats like to claim that Ronald Reagan and […]

The 2012 race has turned into one of Aesop’s classic fables. After each new media blitz against the no-frills Mitt Romney, a far cooler President Obama races ahead three or four points in the polls — only to fall back to about even as the attention fades. Meanwhile, the Romney tortoise, head down on the […]

You have to feel a little sorry for Team Obama as they squirm to explain why the question “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” is so unfair. After all, there is only one way to answer it and retain any credibility. Which is why Maryland’s Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley, when […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Columnist Leonard Pitts wrote a story for the front page of last Sunday’s Charlotte Observer indicting both parties for failing to speak up for the poor. He inspired this column. I could be writing the expected narrative from a conservative at the Democratic National Convention, but have chosen instead to acknowledge that […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – If the Republican National Convention was all about the numbers — unemployment numbers, deficit numbers, tax rates — the Democratic National Convention thus far has been all about feelings. The keynote address on Tuesday night was delivered by Julian Castro, mayor of San Antonio, who proclaimed that numbers didn’t matter — Barack […]

“One question, Mr. President,” read the words on the front cover of this week’s Economist, behind a silhouette of the back of Barack Obama’s head, “just what would you do with another four years?” It’s a good question, and one that’s still open as Barack Obama prepares to deliver his acceptance speech at the Democratic […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — “The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.” So reads the 2012 Democratic National Committee platform. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi […]

The German economy is undoubtedly the powerhouse of Europe. As a result, an understanding of the developments within Germany can offer a strong indication of the path that the rest of Europe is likely to take. Until recently, Germany stood as a bastion of sound money against those Keynesian led regimes in the developed nations […]

This article is one which anyone concerned about Israel should read.: : Is a translation of an article written by: Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the Zionist prophet. “We constantly and very loudly apologize… Instead of turning our backs to the accusers, as there is nothing to apologize for, and nobody to apologize to, we swear again and again that it […]

  This is a powerfully effective video because it points out the obvious: Barack Obama is just rehashing many of the same sad, broken promises he made in 2008. Know what else it reminds me of? This magnificent quote from Mike Huckabee at the Republican National Convention: “The Democrats say we ought to give Barack […]

Via Rasmussen, here are the: party affiliation numbers from the last four elections and the current numbers for this year. See if you can spot a trend. Nov 2004 (Bush Won) (R) 37.1%, (D) 38.6%, (I) 24.3% Nov 2006 (Big Dem Year) (R) 31.4%, (D) 37.5%, (I) 31.2% Nov 2008 (Big Dem Year) (R) 33.8%, (D) […]

Here’s the Obama line on what happens if he’s reelected. If Barack Obama wins re-election, Republicans will accept the fruitlessness of strategic obstruction. Unencumbered by the imperative to defeat Obama, who will be a lame duck president anyhow, they will begin to work with him on matters of urgent importance to the country. That’s the […]

We have heard many times from President Barack Obama how he plans to raise taxes on “millionaires and billionaires,” but not on the middle class. Apparently, if you don’t happen to be a millionaire or billionaire, you don’t have to worry. But the numbers say otherwise — and say so big time. The actual tax […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cue “Fanfare for the Common Man” and rev up the Government Motors engines. Wednesday is Great American Auto Bailout Day at the Democratic National Convention. Party propagandists have prepared a prime-time-ready film touting the “rescue’s” benefits for American workers. UAW President Bob King will sing the savior-in-chief’s praises. But like all of […]

By now, it should be pretty clear to anyone with even the faintest pulse that regardless of who ends up winning any future elections, they aren’t going to change your personal economic reality quickly enough to suit your liking. And that’s only if they even manage to find the courage to sufficiently cut through all […]

The Republican Convention ended on the theme “Believe in America.” That sounded nice, but it was just another platitude. Mitt Romney’s speech was filled with platitudes: “We will honor America’s democratic ideals. … We’re united to preserve liberty.” Please. Liberals and conservatives have real differences. We should state them. America is going broke, and tough […]

“They lie, and they don’t care if people think they lie,” California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton told reporter Joe Garofoli before a state delegation breakfast Monday. Burton even brought up that “as long as you lie, Joseph Goebbels, the big lie, you keep repeating it, you know.” First off, Nazi analogies are obnoxious; they […]

Let’s pretend that we have the political guts to expand economic opportunities for people at the lower end of the economic spectrum. What vested interests should be attacked, and what economic regulations should be targeted for elimination? It doesn’t take a lot of money to become a taxi owner-operator and earn more than $40,000 a […]

There is an ongoing three way debate between those who believe the Fed should do more to strengthen the recovery, those who believe that the recovery is strong enough to continue on its own, and those who believe that the economy has been so fundamentally altered by the recession that no amount of stimulus can […]

Just as Iran is a problem for America & Israel, its amazing to learn that Al Qaeda has been posting ads online for suicide bombers. Apparently, Shumukh al-Islam, an Internet forum for Al Qaeda under the heading “Area of activity: The Planet Earth ”has placed ads where the applicants must be: Muslim,mentally mature, dedicated, able to […]

“In a play on Clint Eastwood‘s RNC speech to an empty chair, intended to represent an absent President Barack Obama, Republican supporters are attacking Obama’s record under the hashtag: #emptychairday.”   From: The Looking Spoon The only known picture of Barack Obama and Karl Marx.