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Shepherds and Sheep

John Stuart Mill’s classic essay “On Liberty” gives reasons why some people should not be taking over other people’s decisions about their own lives. But Professor Cass Sunstein of Harvard has given reasons to the contrary. He cites research showing “that people make a lot of mistakes, and that those mistakes can prove extremely damaging.” […]

10 Reasons I Wish George Washington Were Still Alive (Part 2)

To commemorate Presidents Day and Washington’s Birthday, last week I highlighted the first four of the top 10 reasons I wish George Washington were still alive: 10) Washington was a role model for many, even as a youth. 9) Washington epitomized courage. 8) Washington wasn’t afraid of public opinion or challenging the status quo. 7) […]

Obama’s Game Playing Is Wearing Thin

President Obama told a meeting of the National Governors Association: “At some point, we’ve got to do some governing. And certainly, what we can’t do is keep careening from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis.” Really? Yes, really. He added, referring to the sequestration: “These cuts do not have to happen. Congress can turn them off […]

Environmentalism and Human Sacrifice

Last week, Bjorn Lomborg, the widely published Danish professor and director of one of the world’s leading environmental think tanks, the Copenhagen Consensus Center, published an article about the Philippines’ decision, after 12 years, to allow genetically modified (GM) rice — “golden rice” — to be grown and consumed in that country. The reason for […]

In Denial Over ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

You’ve got to admit that it’s awfully precious that there was a huge controversy about “Zero Dark Thirty” because Kathryn Bigelow’s film suggested that enhanced interrogation techniques helped intelligence officials find Osama bin Laden but no controversy about the final mission in the movie — to kill, but not capture, the al-Qaida leader. Some of […]

Stop the Nonsense: Sequester Won’t Hurt

President Obama and his media allies are pushing the notion that sequester will destroy Western civilization. States are saying that the cuts will devastate the economy, and the Pentagon insists they will “hollow out” the military. A total of 800,000 DOD employees will have to take a 20 percent pay cut. Head Start is at […]

Gov. Scott to voters: Never mind

ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) was one of those tea party stars whom voters believed had the courage of his convictions when he promised, as recently as last summer, to block The Affordable Care Act in his state. But last week, writes the Orlando Sentinel, “Scott made an abrupt about-face, embracing a three-year […]

Name that Tax Increase

The weather channel made a unilateral decision this season to start naming winter storms.:  The large snowstorms called Nemo and Plato are recent examples of this.:  Their argument is that this is a better way to communicate about an upcoming storm and track the destruction, such as has been used for hurricanes for decades.:  Some […]

Film of the Week: To Save a Life

by: Johnny Whichard Introduction:: :  Very rarely does a teen-Christian film achieve spreading its messages while not coming across as “preachy.”: To Save a Life: is an excellent example of how a film can trap its audience by appearing secular and contemporary while conveying strong messages and keeping the audience on the edge of its seat.Released in 2009,: To Save […]

Chicago Police Chief McCarthy’s Shocking Ignorance of History, the Law, and the U.S. Constitution

Chicago’s top cop is a shockingly ignorant man. Apparently what he knows of American history, the law, and the U.S. Constitution can be held in a thimble. This became glaringly obvious in a radio interview he gave to WLS Radio’s political reporter Bill Cameron. Chief Garry McCarthy’s blather blather about the Second Amendment is amazing […]

Biden: No Law-Abiding Citizen Objects to Attack on Constitution

Even coming from Joe “Heartbeat Away” Biden, this quote is shocking. Emphatically yelled in Danbury, CT last Thursday during a speech advancing the ongoing attack on the Second Amendment: “No law-abiding citizen in the United States of America has any fear that their constitutional rights will be infringed in any way. None. Zero.” Really? Then […]

The Politics Of Rape

Last week you probably heard about Democratic Colorado state Rep. Joe Salazar controversial remarks during a debate on the House floor over a concealed-weapons ban on college campuses. He argued that women do not need guns. He said that women fearing rape may accidentally shoot that gun at others. : He said, “It’s why we have […]

The Sequestration Scare

As predicted, the Democrats’ refusal to cut any spending other than the military only delayed the inevitable. Now, as is already taking place in Greece, France and Spain, deep cuts must take place or the government will shut down. The fiscal cliff agreement and the Budget Control Act of 2011 called for sequestration on March […]

White House Release Super Duper Dire We’re Doomed List Of State By State Sequestration Results

Leading by fear-mongering (The Blaze) On Sunday, the White House continued its effort to prevent the $85 billion in automatic spending cuts known as “sequestration” from starting this Friday, releasing a dramatic state-by-state list of how they claim each state will be impacted if Congress fails to act. It’s worth remembering that the “cut” is […]

20 Of The Best Pictures From the 223 Day of Resistance Rallies

Yesterday, there were about 75,000-100,000 people (That’s the estimate I’m being given. It’s hard to be more exact than that because we haven’t heard from all the organizers yet, not every rally had a news story, and there were apparently a number of last minute rallies added that we didn’t have listed) who went to […]

My Day of Resistance Speech

Last Saturday, 2/23/2013, was the first Day of Resistance. Dustin Stockton came up with the idea less than seven weeks ago and I am proud to tell you that I am one of the people who was helping out on the national level with the event from Day 1. Dustin Stockton’s Western Representation PAC and […]

Video from the Bakersfield Day of Resistance

The city of Bakersfield had a great Day of Resistance rally, with just over 2,000 people in attendance.:  Here is some video from the event (originally found on True Conservatism): First off, California State Senator Jean Fuller: Next, the owner of Bear Mountain Sports (where the event took place), Gene Thome: State Assemblyman, and hopefully […]

Calvin Coolidge Gets New Deal in Revisionist History

For years, most Americans’ vision of history has been shaped by the New Deal historians. Writing soon after Franklin Roosevelt’s death, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and others celebrated his accomplishments and denigrated his opponents. They were gifted writers, and many of their books were bestsellers. And they have persuaded many Americans — Barack Obama definitely included […]

Double Barrel Biden, Rape Whistle Salazar and My AR-15 Giveaway

Boy, the anti-gun goobers were out in full force this past week giving us plebeians the down low on what we “need” to protect ourselves during everything from home invasions to rape situations. It was like listening to Obama talk about economics or Roseanne Barr gloss smoothly on the importance of Southern etiquette in marital […]

Facebook Fatigue

I’m turning into my father. My father was born in 1933. He was a paperboy in the days when paperboys stood on city corners and shouted “Extra!” In my father’s home, the newspaper still is king. He has two delivered daily. He reads every inch of both. He does the crossword puzzles in both, too […]

President Barack “I Didn’t Do It” Obama

It’s one thing for a politician to “massage” the truth … it happens all the time. But it’s quite another for one to so brazenly repeat an easily disprovable lie. But, as in the case of President Obama and sequestration, when the fear of being caught in a lie is removed because those charged with […]

Smoked by Obamacare

Boy, do I feel sorry for smokers these days. Smoking used to be so fashionable and hip in the James Dean and Steve McQueen days. Women who smoked used to be sexy. No sooner did they pull a Virginia Slim out of a cigarette case than men would rush at them with lighters. Even when […]