Stand Up, Speak Out, Fight Back!
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Let’s jump way back in time to the beginning of the week. Some guy said this at a commencement ceremony. PRESIDENT (NMP) OBAMA: Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices […]
Louis Brandeis, who served on the United States Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939, once warned, “Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” The temptation of each generation of […]
Online chat host: Good morning, cyber pals. As you know, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the psychiatric “bible,” is to be released this month. It will include “Internet-Use Disorder” – also referred to as Internet addiction – as a condition recommended for further psychiatric study. Our guest […]
When executives of corporations are caught aiding and abetting criminal behavior of their employees, the executives are prosecuted and the businesses are destroyed. It’s time to do the same with the Department of Education. The DOE’s unconscionable high-stakes testing through Bush’s “No Consultant Left Behind” and Obama’s “Slog To The Bottom” have produced millions of […]
History is one of our greatest teachers. It’s just too bad so many of our young people think history started with the death of Princess Di or the birth of the iPhone. I was painfully reminded of America’s historical illiteracy and the failure of our educational system last week while golfing with a few strangers […]
The 3D-printable gun craze is just beginning as the blueprint plans for the new “Liberator” plastic gun were downloaded nearly 100,000 times in just a two-day period this month. Cody Wilson, founder of the 3D-Printed firearm company Defense Distributed, announced the creation of the first fully printable gun on May 3 and in only a […]
Anti-Americanism at the United Nations is now routine. Every few days, some kind of statement comes out of the United Nations condemning the United States. It is impossible to keep up with the criticisms because there are so many. U.N. hostility toward the United States reached an all-time high in 2001, when the United States […]
Everyone should Tweet Marco Rubio and ask him what this is all about (Wired) The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system. Buried in the […]
Warmists have been anticipating CO2 hitting the CO2 mark with glee, much like they anticipated death milestones during the Iraq war (well, at least while Bush was president), and now they get their wish (NY Times) The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists […]
Is every liberal an immoral, nasty tempered, habitual liar who accuses people of racism for fun and trashes his own country because he thinks it makes him look sophisticated? Of course, not! On the other hand, is that a fairly accurate description of most liberals in politics? Yes, it is. Most of them aren’t evil […]
It seems like only yesterday when President Obama stood in front of an electrified audience at the 2012 Democratic National Convention just days before the deadly September 11, 2012 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, reminding supporters, “al Qaeda is on the path to defeat and Osama bin Laden is dead.” Days later, […]
This week Congress will reconvene and the Senate Judiciary Committee will hustle off to mark up the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, S. 744. Since Congress left town, the bad news bill grew from 844 to 867-pages. Critics have spent the congressional lull analyzing the bill’s pitfalls and preparing amendments to submit […]
Alzheimer’s Disease costs the U.S. economy over $200 billion per year, about $140 billion of which is a direct federal budgetary cost to Medicare and Medicaid. On our present course, this cost will quintuple to $1 trillion by 2050. It is the major driver up the steeply rising health care cost curve. Given this context, […]
Churchville, VA: Lots of us are commenting on the U.S. having the second coldest spring in the official thermometer record (starting ca. 1860) and the coldest since 1975. Remember, too, that in 1975 major news magazines were predicting a sudden return to the next Ice Age! This cold spring highlights another climate cycle that has […]
A good doctor will not simply make a diagnosis based on measurements. The symptoms and complaints expressed by the patient are at least as important in making a determination as the data provided by diagnostic tools. When the data says one thing and the symptoms continuously say another, it makes sense to question the reliability […]
Wednesday morning’s National Review Online story about Ted Cruz and 2016 created a national stir, reporting one of the party’s fastest rising stars is “considering” a 2016 bid. Sen. Cruz quickly expressed his own surprise at the “wild speculation” about 2016. But before you blush at such unbridled ambition, recall that then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) […]
Before the smoke had cleared after the terror attacks during the Boston Marathon last month, New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg employed Obama’s favorite axiom of never letting a good crisis go to waste by immediately proposing major changes to federal laws pertaining to loose gun powder and explosives. Reports quickly emerged after the bombing that […]
Supermarket owner Rafael Cuellar from Passaic, NJ, reports that he had to spend $350,000 to install 69 surveillance cameras, recording devices, and video storage banks in order to stop fake “slip and fall” insurance claims against his store. It’s a cost that just adds to the cost of living for everyone and is a perfect […]
When Bill Clinton was in office, Craig Livingstone requested and received hundreds of FBI files on the conservative political enemies of the Clinton Administration. What did we hear then? Oh, it’s a low level bureaucratic snafu. Hardly even worth talking about. It’s funny how those little snafus keep happening in Democrat administrations. We now know […]
Obama’s reelection confirms that we have passed the tipping point; the takers and their ideologically depraved allies now outnumber the makers. Consequently, those who feed off coercive wealth redistribution dictate the policies of the government, which will naturally be run by the likes of Obama, who effectively enslave those who work for a living on […]
Don’t worry, Obama’s cool with this, it’s Someone Else’s money, and he can always get more. (Institute for Energy Research) Without much fanfare, the Department of Energy (DOE) recently updated the list of loan guarantee projects on its website. Unlike in 2008, when Barack Obama pledged to create 5 million jobs over 10 years by […]
This begs the question: if Conservatives have to be thrown a bone to attempt to get their support for the immigration reform bill, wouldn’t that mean that the bill is extremely Democrat friendly? This is starting to look more and more like Obamacare: have a couple of popular provisions, such as a 13 year waiting […]
There are dangers associated with freedom. No system is perfect and society must strive to find a balance. The Bill of Rights is, essentially, a list of enumerated freedoms that are flawed in their own, unique ways. The First Amendment can allow obscene words. The Fourth Amendment can keep a heroin dealer’s stash safe simply […]
You’ll hear advocates of gun control say, “Why do YOU need a gun? Just call the police if you have a problem.” Of course, by the time the police typically show up, the crime is over. Sometimes, as Dallas store manager Joe Cho found out, the police can show up a VERY LONG TIME AFTER […]
Yes, folks, Ted Cruz ACTUALLY WENT THERE. He tweeted THIS last night. About President Obama’s visit to Texas today… twitter.com/SenTedCruz/sta… — Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) May 9, 2013 Wow, that’s actually funny, interesting and it takes a shot at Barack Obama on a relevant issue. Did someone tell John McCain and Mitt Romney that you’re […]
A former National Security Council spokesman, Tommy Vietor, is representative of the arrogance of the Obama administration in mocking the congressional hearings on Benghazi, Libya, which he contemptuously derided as “amateur hour” and conspiratorial. In a tweet to The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, Vietor mocked Rep. Jason Chaffetz, saying, “What do you think Rep. Chaffetz […]