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D.C. Cabbies Upset Over New Regulations Which Raise Costs

Who would have thought that increased regulations and business burdens could cause costs to rise? Weird, huh? (Washington Post) Some D.C. taxis, passengers complain, are old, rickety, hot and smelly; the cabbies don’t take credit cards; they’re illegally choosy about whom they pick up, and they pay more attention to their phone calls than to […]

“I Wish This President Would Learn How To Be An American”

“The president clearly demonstrated that he has absolutely no idea how the American economy functions. The men and women all over America who have worked hard to build these businesses, their businesses from the ground up is how our economy became the envy of the world – it is the American way. I wish this […]

The Top Ten #ObamaComicBookVillains

Courtesy of Twitter, here are the top 10 #ObamaComicBookVillains The Out-Sorcerer #ObamaComicBookVillains — Pat Bateman(@PBatemanNY) July 17, 2012 #ObamaComicBookVillains Typical White Person — Mattphilbin (@Mattphilbin) July 17, 2012 #ObamaComicBookVillains Me, obviously — George W. Bush (@TheRealGDubya) July 17, 2012 The Fantastic Four (Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and Madison) #ObamaComicBookVillains — Sam Valley (@SamValley) July 17, 2012 […]

5 Reasons We Can’t Have It All

You can have it all! It’s a feminist mantra that has been repeated so often: that it has become a cliche. Of course, women aren’t the only ones that want to “have it all.” Men have been chasing that same will-o’-the-wisp since time immemorial. After all, who wouldn’t want to have all his heart’s desires? Who […]

Sen. Chuck Schumer Wants To Limit on First Amendment Rights

In another episode in the annals of American liberalism, progressives want to limit our First Amendment rights. : As George Will stated on This Week last February, “this is what liberalism looks like. This is what the progressive state does. It tries to break all the institutions of civil society, all the institutions that mediate between […]

Your Guide to Sleazy Democratic Party-Backed Banks

Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod and his hatchet people are still yammering about GOP presidential rival Mitt Romney’s overseas investments. It’s time for the Romney campaign to educate voters about all the shady financial institutions embraced by Democrats right here on American soil. The fat-cat narrative attacks on Republicans won’t go away by making nice […]

First Jobs

What was your first job? I stuck pieces of plastic and metal together at an Evanston, Ill., assembly line. We produced photocopiers for a company called American Photocopy. I hated the work. It was hot and boring. But it was useful. It taught me to get good grades in school so I might have other […]

Tyrants and Human Nature

The agendas of liberals, progressives and assorted tyrants desperately depend on the aspects of human nature they often condemn, such as acquisitiveness, profit motive, self-interestedness and greed. This crossed my mind while reading “How Departures From Economic Freedom Can Affect Freedom In General,” by Dr. John Taylor, a Hoover Institution scholar. Taylor tells how former […]

College Prof. Issues Masturbation, Sexual Fantasy Order To Class

      I had some left-leaning professors at my college, but this goes beyond that. : At least, the liberal wing of Dickinson College weren’t depraved and required students to divulge their sexual fantasies to pass a human sexuality class. On July 13,: Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform: posted that: Former Western Nevada College student and aspiring […]

Romney’s hysteria bubble

It was one of Barack Obama’s best lines — and best moments — in the 2008 presidential campaign. He had said we could save as much oil as we could get from domestic drilling if everybody properly maintained their cars and got their tires inflated. Now, that was hyperbole. But when conservatives, including his opponent, […]

Obama Kills Welfare Reform

Determined to destroy Bill Clinton’s signature achievement, President Barack Obama’s Administration has opened a loophole in the 1996 Welfare Reform legislation big enough to make the law ineffective. Its work requirement — the central feature of the legislation — has been diluted beyond recognition by the bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services. […]

Chris Matthews: Obama Is The Perfect Man

My only explanation: lizard people.   CHRIS MATTHEWS: This guy’s done everything right. He’s raised his family right…. Everything he’s done is as clean as a whistle. He’s not only never broken any law–he’s never done anything wrong. He’s the perfect father. The perfect husband. The perfect American. Courtesy of Greg Hengler at Townhall.com

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Is Drowning In The Shark Tank

After being booted from an event headlined by the inimitable DNC chair, Shark Tank’s: Javier Manjarres has uncovered more interesting facts about Debbie Wasserman Shultz. She has tried to paint Mitt Romney as an outsourcer and an enemy of the middle class, however, documents posted today detailed a rather luxurious vacation and a super secret New […]

A Few Arguments About Our Mis-Educational System

Every time I begin arguing with a liberal over the efficacy of our current system of mis-education, it almost always gets around to a few retorts from them. They say I am anti-intellectual or they say that because I’m conservative, then religion must form the bedrock basis of all my ideas and, therefore, my ideas […]

Mitt Romney Vs. Bane?

Silly season has begun. : Apparently, some liberals are comparing Bane from the Batman comics to Mitt Romney. : It’s downright ludicrous. : We’re going to try to make fictional characters in a fictional universe salient issues in the 2012 election. : As Paul Bedard wrote in the Washington Examiner today: “It has been observed that movies can reflect […]

America Does Not Build Business, Business Builds America

In a speech given Friday to supporters at a campaign stop in Roanoke, Va., the current Oval Office occupant told business owners they owe their business success to government built infrastructure saying: “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.:  There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me because they […]

What the word forward means in Obama’s America

Forward. Seems like a simple word right? According to Dictionary.com the word forward has many meanings. The main definition of the word forward is this, “To move toward, or at a place, point, or time in advance.” Let’s take the first part of the definition, “To move toward.” The word forward has been used throughout […]

CNN’s Erin Burnett Calls Romney “Stupid”

Erin Burnett call Mitt Romney “stupid” for not releasing more than two years worth of tax returns. : Mitt Romney hasn’t done anything illegal. : This is not a story. But the Obama zombies in the media want to keep the story in the cycle so they can’t talk about the economy. I thought you knew better […]

GOP Effectively Kills Law Of The Sea Treaty

My question is, why aren’t all GOP Senators against this boondoggle? We know why Democrats love it: it puts quite a bit of American sovereignty in the hands of the United Nations as well as other issues (Daily Caller) With 34 Republican senators now opposing a United Nations effort to regulate international waters, the Law […]

Obama Discusses Vision For Second Term: A Lot Of Spending

No one should be particularly shocked. It’s all he knows, especially since it’s not his money (via Erika Johnsen from Townhall) Of course, he uses the word “invest” as a euphemism for spending boodles of Someone Else’s cash. Money we don’t have. On projects that have so far failed. He wants “investments” in more failed […]

John Hawkins’ Top Seven Picks For Vice President

The other night on Twitter,: I: went back and forth with: Dustin Stockton: about whom Mitt Romney should select as his VP. Over on Right Wing News, I’ve already written an article that goes: 30 picks deep: cataloguing the candidates from which Mitt Romney is LIKELY to select his VP. If you were laying odds, there’s probably a 95% chance that […]