Category: History

Adieu France, So Long Stability

Posted on by Michael Fell

French Socialist President Francois Hollande’s newly elected government is planning to raise taxes on big companies while deterring businesses from engaging in layoffs by making that process more costly. Hoping to nudge companies into investing rather than paying profits to shareholders, the government plans to impose a new 3% tax on dividends. Other plans include […]

 

Choose Your Stimulus

Posted on by Michael Fell

The Spanish Economic Ministry denied there’s been a surge in withdrawals from the nation’s banks, while Spain’s Prime Minister warned that borrowing costs could reach “astronomical” proportions over fears about the weakness of Spain’s financial institutions. Greeks have been taking their savings out of banks, with nearly a third taken out during this year’s first […]

 

US Administration Renews Push to Ratify Law of Sea Treaty

Posted on by Michael Fell

The Obama administration has initiated a renewed push to convince the U.S. Senate to approve the 1982 United Nations Law of the Sea treaty. Administration officials claim approval of the pact is necessary to protect the U.S. Navy’s right to carry out exercises off the coast of China. In the past Chinese ships have harassed […]

 

Georgia Gov. Signs Bill Allowing 10 Commandments Posted at all Public Bldgs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Georgia Governor, Republican Nathan Deal has signed an amended “historical display” law that will allow America’s founding documents as well as the Ten Commandments and the Magna Carta to be posted at schools and other government buildings in addition to the courthouses as the original bill allowed. The amended law introduced by State Rep. Tommy […]

 

Abortion-Supporting Obama Makes Pregnant WH Visitors Register Unborn Baby as Separate Visitor

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It is interesting that the Obama White House, a place where everyone thinks a pre-born baby is just a lump of “unviable cells” and not really a person, is now insisting that pregnant mothers must register themselves and their unborn baby on the visitor log when they visit the White House. As noted by Steven […]

 

Final Landing of the USS Enterprise

Posted on by Michael Fell

The experience of watching the space shuttle Enterprise circle New York City on its way to JFK Airport can be described in many different ways. One of the words viewers most frequently used about the sight was “bittersweet”. As Enterprise piggybacked its way on a 747 to its final landing, Americans turned out in large […]

 

No, Left-Wingers, the ‘Founders’ Did NOT Approve of Mandates or Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Every few weeks leftist supporters of Obamacare will float the “fact” that our founders passed the first “national healthcare law” claiming that this supports Obamacare. The truth is, though, the history they claim supports them doesn’t in any way prove that the founders would approve of mandates in general or Obamacare in particular. This failed […]

 

The (Martin) Luther Insult Generator

Posted on by Craig Newmark

Samples: Your astute minds have been completely turned into stinking mushrooms. Your home, once the holiest of all, has become the most licentious den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the kingdom of sin, death, and hell. It is so bad that even Antichrist himself, if he should come, could think of nothing […]

 

The Gettysburg Address Today

Posted on by Michael Fell

On June 1, 1865, Senator Charles Sumner commented on what is now considered the most famous speech by President Abraham Lincoln. In his eulogy on the slain president, he called it a “monumental act.” He said Lincoln was mistaken that “the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here.” Rather, the Bostonian […]

 

Tyranny

Posted on by Michael Fell

Of late, much has been made about the current administration’s attack on First Amendment Rights. Attacks have been made on religious liberties (see healthcare mandate on contraception in religious affiliated institutions) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/us/catholic-bishops-criticize-new-contraception-proposal.html and freedom of the press (see White House and Media Matters coordinate attacks on FOX News) http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/12/inside-media-matters-sources-memos-reveal-erratic-behavior-close-coordination-with-white-house-and-news-organizations/ While it may be correct to […]

 

Dear Romneyites, Reagan Was NOT an Abortion Supporter!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the things that many Romney supporters are using to explain away their decision to ignore Romney’s many flip flops is Ronald Reagan’s one-time support for abortion and his signing of the Therapeutic Abortion Act as governor of California in 1967. But this comparison is a non sequitur. Reagan’s support of that abortion bill […]

 

Bob Beckel, You Are Wrong

Posted on by Michael Fell

For those who’re unaware of the big dust up stirred by Fl Rep Allen West, here’re the remarks he made at a Lincoln Day Dinner in West Palm Beach Fl: “We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and my dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let […]

 

Angry Newt?

Posted on by Michael Fell

A consensus seems to have been reached across the network/cable/dish television sphere that Newt Gingrich’s unexpected success in the South Carolina primary was due to his being angry at and telling off members of the “elite media” during the two South Carolina GOP Debates. The “elite media”? What the heck is the “elite media”? Does […]

 

“God and man and William F. Buckley”

Posted on by Craig Newmark

From a professor of law at Roger Williams University: It is paradoxical that William F. Buckley Jr. – who, more than any other individual, infused the conservative movement with the sentiment of battling evil – enjoyed warm relationships with liberals such as John Kenneth Galbraith, Murray Kempton, Allard Lowenstein and George McGovern. Buckley was a […]

 

Israel Killed Fewer Civilians in Military Operations Than Others, Including the US

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The last decade or so we’ve assigned a euphemism to the deaths of civilians in military operations; we’ve called it “collateral damage.” The fact is, though, that deaths of bystanders — purportedly innocent — are almost unavoidable in war operations. After all, war usually entails the indiscriminate firing of automatic weapons or the dropping of […]

 

Salon’s Joan Walsh: Reagan Dems Voted GOP in 1980 Because They Were Raaaaacists

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Did you know that the only reason those famed “Reagan Democrats” voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 was because they were… uh… racists? Well on the little watched Ed Show on MSNBC, Salon’s Joan Walsh assured the nation — or at least the 20 people watching — that this was the truth. Sometimes […]

 

VIDEO: Debunking Myths About The Great Depression

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The New Deal Was A Failure: Hoover and FDR Prolonged the Great Depression with Big Government The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation explains how the statist policies of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt lengthened and deepened the Great Depression. The video also briefly explains how reductions in the burden of government spending helped the economy […]

 

Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing

Posted on by Michael Fell

It’s easy to assume that practically everyone is familiar with the tale of the wolf in sheep’s clothing.:  That legendary children’s tale about a dishonest, self serving individual (the wolf) who intentionally misrepresents himself (wears sheep’s clothing) in order to prey upon the unsuspecting.:  This long told, centuries old story clearly intends to pass a […]

 

NYTimes: Guess What? Tea Party is Just Like KKK

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Tis the season for buying books for your loved ones and as always the The New York Times Sunday Book Review is here to help. And as always the Sunday Book Review is there to help us understand that anything from the right side of the aisle, especially the Tea Party, is to be put […]

 

Frank Rich: Obama’s Just Like JFK Because JFK Was Killed With Hate, or Something

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s hard to believe but Frank Rich’s latest exercise in the fantasist’s art comparing JFK to Obama is a wonder to behold. It really is. One might think it satire if Rich had never been presented as a serious essayist by the New York intelligentsia. If this were to be his first public writing, one […]

 

Why-Not Ron Paul

Posted on by Michael Fell

Greetings: from Los Angeles County.:  That’s Los Angeles CA,: the State who’s Repubican Party gave the world President Ronald Reagan. President Reagan was a great leader who built a winning coalition on fiscal responsibility, traditional American moral values and peace through strength. President Reagan’s policies created years of robust economic growth in America while leading to the […]

 

An Open Letter To “progressive” Politicians

Posted on by Michael Fell

Families in America must live within their means, and it’s time for the United States federal government to do the same. Don’t tell me it can’t be done. Since I lost my last full time job back in 2008, I’ve been able to make ends meet with less than half my previous income while simultaneously […]