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If The System Is Rigged In America…

If liberals had the capacity for shame, the Left would have pushed as hard to get Elizabeth Warren to drop out as conservatives did with Todd Akin. In fact, Todd Akin made one boneheaded remark while Elizabeth Warren lied about being an Indian for over a decade to collect diversity perks in the world of […]

HuffPostLive Appearance: Tea Party Meets Machine

Yesterday, I was on a HuffPostLive Panel called, Tea Party Meets Machine. The theme was, “From punk rock to the Tea Party, is it possible for successful, grassroots movements to withstand the power and money of the establishment?” It featured a Libertarian, three liberals, and me discussing the Tea Party. It was a lot of […]

This Week In Quotes: Aug 31 – Sept 6

Obama, 42 months into his term, has overseen a net loss of 300,000 jobs. He has yet to pass a balanced budget; our debt has increased 51 percent — from $10.6 trillion to more than $16 trillion. U.S. gross domestic product annual growth is 1.7 percent. Unemployment exceeds 8 percent. More than 17 percent of […]

Circus of the Vagina-gogues

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Hide your children. This is what the progressive left’s idea of women’s empowerment looks like: For the past two weeks, radical feminists from the group Code Pink have paraded across the fruited plain in giant female reproductive organ costumes. The goal is “respect” for women’s bodies and women’s abortion rights. It’s part […]

Twilight Zone Week

The Democratic National Convention is an elaborate effort to sanitize a failed record that cannot be rehabilitated, even by the glib sophistry of former President Bill Clinton. President Obama has often lamented that it is not that his performance has been inferior but that he has failed to fully explain the wonders of it all […]

Despite Convention Distractions, It’s Still All About the Economy

Mercifully, the political conventions have ended. The political press will keep buzzing over whether Clint Eastwood’s unconventional speech helped or hurt Mitt Romney and whether the snafu over Israel and God in the Democratic platform will do any lasting damage to President Obama. Republican reporters will think former President Clinton talked too long, and Democrats […]

First Lady: You, Too, Can Be Mitt Romney

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Michelle Obama connected with voters during her moving opening night speech of the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday. She was smart, extremely likable and the perfect spokeswoman for the American president as she talked about “the unflinching sacrifice” her parents and husband’s family made so their kids could have the “chance to […]

Obama sells old ideas as new

CHARLOTTE — A few years ago, it was fashionable for Democrats to describe themselves as “members of the reality-based community.” These days, it seems the foreclosure crisis has hit them so hard they’ve been forced to move to another neighborhood. Metaphorically, at least, they’ve set up a refugee camp here this week. In this political […]

Some Dems in Charlotte Favor Ban on Corporate Profit

Do Democrats favor banning corporate profits? Noted author and economist Peter Schiff: went to the Democratic National Convention to find out. In an extensive range of interviews with delegates and: attendees: at the Democratic National Convention, radio show host and free-market economist Peter Schiff found a number of people who actually support the idea. Posing as an anti-business […]

Bubba Clinton is Still the Slickest Liar “progressives” Have

Former President Bill Clinton returned to bask in the national spotlight, giving the Democratic National Convention nomination speech for the current White House occupant. Not surprising for a speech coming from someone impeached for perjury by Congress, the speech, while delivered with Slick Willie’s signature “I feel your pain” polish, was riddled with falsehoods. While […]

Snort-worthy Clinton: “Are We Where We Want To Be? No”

Well, it’s certainly better off not having a president who sexually harasses women, was credibly accused of rape, impeached for lying to a federal grand jury (along with suborning testimony), and had stuck a cigar in the hoo-ha of a girl young enough to be his daughter. Instead, we have a president who, um, really […]

Bad News From The DNC: You Belong To The Government

The Democratic National Convention started with the national debt clock hitting 16 billion dollars, the Dems booed God and making Jerusalem the capital of Israel in the middle, and it’s going to end with the jobless rate going up at the end of the week. They also put Sandra Fluke on stage, did everything short […]

Matthews A Few Race Cards Short Of A Full Deck

Apparently, Monday, Aug. 27, was opening day for Hysterical Liberal Sanctimony About Imagined Republican Racism. During this first round, The New York Times, The Atlantic and the TV networks each put in a splendid showing. I’d need a book to cover it all. HOLD ON! I HAVE ONE — Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies […]

Democrats Lose Grip on Reality

Government is the only thing we all belong to — but, don’t worry, you won’t have to pay for any of it. That about sums up the Democratic National Convention’s case to America, a place where whatever isn’t handed to you is actually just being taken away. Democrats like to claim that Ronald Reagan and […]

The Obama hare and Romney the tortoise

The 2012 race has turned into one of Aesop’s classic fables. After each new media blitz against the no-frills Mitt Romney, a far cooler President Obama races ahead three or four points in the polls — only to fall back to about even as the attention fades. Meanwhile, the Romney tortoise, head down on the […]

The question nobody wants to answer

You have to feel a little sorry for Team Obama as they squirm to explain why the question “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” is so unfair. After all, there is only one way to answer it and retain any credibility. Which is why Maryland’s Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley, when […]

Dealers in hope

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Columnist Leonard Pitts wrote a story for the front page of last Sunday’s Charlotte Observer indicting both parties for failing to speak up for the poor. He inspired this column. I could be writing the expected narrative from a conservative at the Democratic National Convention, but have chosen instead to acknowledge that […]

The Feelings Convention

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – If the Republican National Convention was all about the numbers — unemployment numbers, deficit numbers, tax rates — the Democratic National Convention thus far has been all about feelings. The keynote address on Tuesday night was delivered by Julian Castro, mayor of San Antonio, who proclaimed that numbers didn’t matter — Barack […]

Obama Hobbled by Record, Slumping Democratic Brand

“One question, Mr. President,” read the words on the front cover of this week’s Economist, behind a silhouette of the back of Barack Obama’s head, “just what would you do with another four years?” It’s a good question, and one that’s still open as Barack Obama prepares to deliver his acceptance speech at the Democratic […]

Dems Ask, Where Are the Women?

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — “The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.” So reads the 2012 Democratic National Committee platform. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi […]

September 12th Looms Large for Germany

The German economy is undoubtedly the powerhouse of Europe. As a result, an understanding of the developments within Germany can offer a strong indication of the path that the rest of Europe is likely to take. Until recently, Germany stood as a bastion of sound money against those Keynesian led regimes in the developed nations […]

Rock Star Obama is Spinal Tap, not the Rolling Stones

It is now official.:  Democrats will move rock star Barrack Obama’s big presidential nomination acceptance speech indoors.: :  Instead of performing before a crowd of 74,000 in an outdoor stadium, the show will now be put on in a much, much smaller indoor arena. The “official” line, the cover story if you will, is that there […]