Category: Column

The 80/20 Rule

Posted on by Zig Ziglar

In the early 1900s, Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian engineer-economist-sociologist, developed what he called the “80/20 rule.” His research indicated that in a business, 20 percent of the items accounted for 80 percent of the business and that roughly 20 percent of the population controlled roughly 80 percent of its wealth. Since then, others have incorrectly […]

 

Republican Party Benefits From Obama Errors

Posted on by Dick Morris

The conventional wisdom holds that the parties in Congress are not locked in a zero sum game where the loss of one triggers the gain of the other. Instead, it appears that the parties are embracing one another in a downward death spiral, losing public favor with each passing month as their bickering continues. But […]

 

5 Long-Term Trends Working Against The Democratic Party

Posted on by John Hawkins

There tends to be a rough parity between parties in the American political system. That’s because both parties shift in response to changing conditions. They go after new groups of constituents, positions on the issues change, and the only rule at the end of the day tends to be that he who can deliver the […]

 

Thirteen Obstacles to Becoming a Better Person

Posted on by Dennis Prager

This week, for the fourth consecutive year, I am conducting Jewish High Holiday services. Though not a rabbi, I spent 12 years studying in yeshivas and 35 years teaching and writing on Judaism. The following is a summary of the Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) sermon that I gave this past Wednesday night. The purpose […]

 

Petty, Radical Obama Blasts GOP for Smallness and Extremism

Posted on by David Limbaugh

It’s clear that Obama’s re-election strategy is to demonize conservatives and his Republican opponents as extremists, “small,” intolerant and morally deficient. That’s a safer course, I suppose, than running on his miserable record. Playing to his gay and lesbian audience, Obama took out his broad brush and smeared all the GOP presidential candidates in a […]

 

The ‘Hunger’ Hoax

Posted on by Thomas Sowell

Twenty years ago, hysteria swept through the media over “hunger in America.” Dan Rather opened a CBS Evening News broadcast in 1991 declaring, “one in eight American children is going hungry tonight.” Newsweek, the Associated Press and the Boston Globe repeated this statistic, and many others joined the media chorus, with or without that unsubstantiated […]

 

Stopping Obama’s ‘Pay Their Fair Share’ Shenanigans

Posted on by Chuck Norris

The White House’s buzz words for the propaganda campaign to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans and corporations are “pay their fair share.” But is President Barack Obama’s pitch reflecting honest economic inequity or more dishonest spin from his bag of duck-‘n’-weave political manipulations? This year alone, nearly every member and minion of this administration […]

 

Russia’s Arctic Embrace: Cold War Reloaded

Posted on by Rachel Marsden

In September 2010, Germany’s Der Spiegel explained that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has a “soft spot for the Arctic,” with Putin saying Russia “will put huge amounts of money into environmental protection” and is “planning to do a serious spring cleaning of our Arctic territories.” He was up there petting polar bears to drive […]

 

This Week in Automotivators, September 26-October 2

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Click the links to see the stories that inspired the automotivator art. Link: Pundette. Link: The Cinch Review. Please note that we at The Trog take a decidedly moderate view toward RINO-dom, as explained here. Link: The Other McCain. Link: Gateway Pundit. Link: Althouse. Link: Weasel Zippers. Link: Charlie Sykes. I’d be remiss if I […]

 

George Washington Said to Avoid ‘Entangling Alliances’… Or Did He?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I have been interested these days to hear the left citing George Washington, the father of our country, to support their ideas against the GOP and their hope that Obama will pull out of the Middle East. Specifically they have been citing Washington’s farewell address where he supposedly warned Americans against getting involved with foreign […]

 

Garofalmania: A Mental Condition

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Truth of life number one: logic is anathema to left-wingers. Recently on the little-watched Current TV cable station, so-called “comedienne” Janeane Garofalo disgorged one of the most perfect examples of this truth of life that can ever be used as prima facia evidence. Speaking about the rise of Herman Cain’s bid for the GOP nomination […]

 

Crony Socialism: Nancy Pelosi’s Brother-In-Law Gets $737 Million Loan From Obama

Posted on by John Hawkins

From Gateway Pundit. It’s as if Solyndra never happened. The Obama Administration is giving $737 million to a Tonopah Solar, a subsidiary of California-based SolarReserve. PCG is an investment partner with SolarReserve. Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law happens to be the number two man at PCG. Isn’t it funny how people put money into Obama’s campaign or […]

 

Putting A Pastor To Death For Being Christian?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Every decent person should speak out against this kind of behavior. An Iranian pastor who has refused to renounce his Christian faith faces execution as early as Wednesday after his sentence was upheld by an Iranian court. Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who maintains he has never been a Muslim as an adult, has Islamic ancestry and […]

 

25 Reasons You Might Be A Liberal (Part 2)

Posted on by John Hawkins

With yet more apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, you just might be a liberal if… * You blame the oil companies for high gas prices, but believe in doing everything humanly possible to keep them from drilling for more oil. * You’d have no problem with a Democratic President talking with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Kim Jung-Il […]

 

Our Congress Wobbles And It May Fall Down

Posted on by John Hawkins

Yesterday, I ran across an article in USA Today that should have created a firestorm of controversy. Apparently, Congress has gone as weak in the knees over invading Iraq as a 14 year old school girl at an N sync concert… ”Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress are skeptical about the need for quick military […]