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Michelle Obama Has Fit Over Heckler

Granted, there’s a time and place for everything, and heckling someone giving a speech can be rude, but, it is protected by 3 parts of the 1st Amendment (free speech, redress of grievance, and protest peaceably). (Washington Post) First lady Michelle Obama experienced a rare face-to-face encounter with a protester late Tuesday — approaching the […]

Amnesty goes to the Senate floor…

And we’ve still got time to kill it. The bill has big problems, not just with me but with enough members of the US Senate to block a vote.:  The latest problem to rear its head — actually we’ve known about it for a long time, it’s just starting to get press — is border […]

The Most Transparent Administration Ever, LOL

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes. Welcome to the Summer of Belated Epiphanies. Media lapdogs are finally, finally arriving at the conclusion that maybe this isn’t the most transparent administration in world history, after all. On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported on the Obama administration’s use of secret email accounts, stonewalling on Freedom of Information […]

Austerity Myth

Europe’s struggles prove that “austerity” fails! So say the Big Spenders. With a condescending sigh, they explain that Europe made deep cuts in government spending, and the result was today’s high unemployment. “With erstwhile middle-class workers reduced to picking through garbage in search of food, austerity has already gone too far,” writes Paul Krugman in […]

Rachel Marsden: Who are Turkey’s agents provocateurs?

PARIS — To believe the media narrative, the “Arab Spring” has arrived in yet another Islamic nation — Turkey this time — snowballing at record speed from a single protest over the fate of trees under an urban-development plan. This simplistic explanation might have more merit if Turkey wasn’t the staging ground for Western interests […]

Understanding Liberals and Progressives

In order to understand the liberal and progressive agenda, one must know something about their world vision and values. Let’s examine some of the evidence. Why the 1970s struggle to ban DDT? Alexander King, founder of the Malthusian Club of Rome, wrote in a 1990 biographical essay: “My own doubts came when DDT was introduced […]

Syria’s religious war

If there was a moment when the United States could have productively intervened in Syria, it looks like that moment has passed. Shiite militants, including Hezbollah — partly at the behest of their paymasters in Iran — are racing to the defense of Bashar Assad’s regime. According to a witness account in the New York […]

Dems: IRS Discriminates Because It Needs More Money

It must be nice to be a leftist. The solution to every problem is more of someone else’s money. That’s the favored solution over on the Democratic Party side of the aisle when it comes to the IRS’ targeting of conservative non-profits. In a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, Democratic Rep. Jose Serrano of New York […]

Historic Rescuers

It is not really news that Victor Davis Hanson has written another outstanding and eye-opening book. He has done that before and repeatedly, on a variety of subjects. The subject of his latest book, “The Savior Generals” is given in the subtitle: “How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost– From Ancient Greece to […]

Must Read Material

Round-up of some interesting stories from around the Internet over the past few weeks: If you missed it, there was a profile of Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire who does so many great things for America, Israel and many other vital causes.: Read the op-ed here about how a broken clock and The New York Times can […]

IRS Spent $50 Million in Two Years on ‘Conferences’

A report to be released on Tuesday investigating expenditures by the Internal Revenue Service will reveal that $50 million was lavished on some 220 conferences for employees between 2010 and 2012. In one case alone, the report finds that the IRS spent $4 million on a conference for 2,600 IRS employees held in Anaheim, California […]

Anti-Christian Zealot Mikey Weinstein Dictates Air Force Décor

The Obama Regime’s purge of Christianity from the military continues: An inspirational painting that referenced a Bible verse has been removed from a dining hall at Mountain Home Air Force Base after an anti-religion group filed a complaint. The painting featured a medieval crusader and referenced Matthew 5:9, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will […]

New Organization of Leading Women for Shared Parenting May Finally End Courts Favoring MothersNew Organization of Leading Women for Shared Parenting May Finally End Courts Favoring Mothers

A new group is emerging that may finally change the way Family Courts treat mothers and fathers. Currently, the default in most states is to award the lion’s share of the time with the children to mothers, and require the father to pay child support. This is unfair to fathers, and has resulted in massive […]

Surprise! Obama Political Appointees Using Secret Email Addresses

This was not just Lisa Jackson, but others, and, apparently just because their regular inboxes are overloaded or something. (Newsday) Some of President Barack Obama’s political appointees, including the secretary for Health and Human Services, are using secret government email accounts they say are necessary to prevent their inboxes from being overwhelmed with unwanted messages, […]

Top 20+ Reasons I Despise Obama, A Retrospective

The blind loyalty of many democrats, and nearly all progressives, as evidenced by the numbers of those currently defending Obama in the midst of his scandalpalousa got me thinking about how much I truly despise him for reasons I can easily point to, and can back with actual evidence. What follows is a blog post […]

5 Lies the Democrats Told To Sell Obamacare

When the Democrats were trying to sell Obamacare to the public, they told us that because of Barack Obama’s magical health care elixir, Americans are going to live forever, in perfect health for free while unicorns will tote them back and forth to magical fairy doctors who will cure all their ills with pixie dust. […]