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VIDEO: Utah’s Mia Love at CPAC

The first in my “Challengers” series of interviews I conducted with up-and-coming candidates running across the country. Here I interview candidate for Utah’s 4th Congressional District, Mia Love. One of the things she likes to say is that “according to the left, I am not supposed to exist.” That because she is a strong, conservative, […]

Obama Budget: Help Rich Buy Volts, Hurt Poor D.C. School Kids

In what should surprise no one, Obama’s budget panders to the .000001% who might consider purchasing a Chevy Pyre (via Hot Air) (Daily Caller) The White House intends to boost government subsidies for wealthy buyers of the Chevy Volt and other new-technology vehicles – to $10,000 per buyer. That mammoth subsidy would cost taxpayers $100 […]

An Interview With Walter Olson

John Hawkins:: Why did you decide to start “Overlawyered.com?” Walter Olson:: I launched it in July 1999, at a time when there were few if any policy weblogs. It had its origin as an overgrown bookmark file for clips I hoped to use in my future writing about the American legal system — noteworthy cases, op-ed columns, […]

The Peter Schweizer Interview

Peter Schweizer is the author of several books including: Reagan’s War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism: & was the Executive Producer of “In The Face Of Evil: Reagan’s War In Word And Deed.” I was a huge fan of the book and the movie, would highly recommend both of […]

The ‘Progressive’ Legacy

Although Barack Obama is the first black President of the United States, he is by no means unique, except for his complexion. He follows in the footsteps of other presidents with a similar vision, the vision at the heart of the Progressive movement that flourished a hundred years ago. Many of the trends, problems and […]

Why I Chose Newt Over Santorum

In 2008 — when my wife, Gena, and I were on the campaign trail backing former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee for president — former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania was fighting to get former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney elected. (Go to http://bit.ly/zEIaPw to hear how Santorum passionately endorsed and elevated Mitt in his bid for […]

President Magoo Needs No Delphic Oracle

President Obama is nothing if not an incorrigible spendaholic, as his new budget reconfirms in spades. While the nation drowns in debt, Obama wants to buy new expensive Tinkertoys to indulge his utopian fantasies. Legend has it that prior to embarking on his mission to conquer the known world, Alexander the Great, who had not […]

Chris Christie on Israel — and What It Means to Be a Leader

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) last week. In the few words reported by the Weekly Standard magazine, he said just about everything one needs to know about Israel; about America and Israel; and about American political leadership: “America should stand by its friends and its democratic allies, […]

Losing liberty

“Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?” — Thomas Jefferson “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate […]

How effective were Obama’s green jobs initiatives?

From the LA Examiner. Excerpt: U.S. House of Representatives investigations have revealed the failed green jobs initiative in President Obama’s ambitious environmental agenda. : With an initial government cost of one-half billion dollars, evidence proves that only about 10% of sponsored trainees were placed in green jobs. As part of the Obama green energy program, the […]

Thin Skinned President Re-Launches A Re-Branded “Attack Watch”

This is Obama’s version of “if you see something, say something,” except, in this case, they aren’t referring to watching for actual people who have designs on say, blowing up an airplane with a crotch bomb or coming across the border illegally, no, my friends, POTUS is more concerned with people saying stuff about POTUS. […]

Obama’s Budget: More Tax, Borrow and Spend

The White House presented its 2012 budget Monday. A $3.8 trillion proposal which includes $1.43 trillion in new taxes on households whose incomes meet or exceed $250,000 (note: this is the new “progressive” definition of millionaires and billionaires), a fourth straight year of $1 trillion-plus deficit spending (which will require yet more borrowing), and new […]

Cleta Mitchell: GOP Super-Lawyer

Without question Tea Partiers are unhappy with the elites of Washington D.C. Yet Cleta Mitchell is one Washingtonian that has became a welcome addition to the campaigns of some high profile Tea Party candidates. Mrs. Mitchell, you see, is the in-demand, bulldog election law attorney that many Tea Party candidates go to when things began […]

The CPAC 2012 Experience: 43 Pictures

CPAC is a conservative Disneyland for bloggers. You get up early and stay out late, meet famous conservatives, hang out with friends you only get to see in person 2-3 times a year, meet dozens and dozens of new people, and hit parties and receptions galore. In addition, you’re constantly circulating, being pitched by candidates […]

Obama Chief Of Staff: Catholics Can Give It Up, We Have Spoken

General Secretary Obama has spoken (CBS News) President Obama’s top aide addressed the latest controversy over contraception coverage, saying on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” Sunday that the latest iteration of the new rule, which was announced Friday, will go forward. “We’re going to go ahead and implement it,” White House Chief of Staff Jack […]

Obama’s Budget Can Be Seen As “Borderline Delusional”

Those aren’t my words, but those of Politico writer David Rogers He ran on hope, governed through despair and now, with his election-year budget, President Barack Obama is trying to light the old spark, fleshing out a political narrative for America that can inspire with its romance but also seem borderline delusional to his critics […]

10 Questions With Heather Mac Donald

John Hawkins:: You’ve called racial profiling a myth. Why do you believe that’s the case? Heather Mac Donald:: The studies that purport to prove the existence of racial profiling are junk science that wouldn’t earn their authors an F in a freshman statistics course. Their biggest flaw? They ignore the most important factor in policing: crime. You […]

RWN’s Michelle Malkin Interview #2

John Hawkins:: Do you think it’s time to consider actually walling off the border, manning it with armed guards, etc., between the US and Mexico? Michelle Malkin:: At the very least, we should close the three-and-a-half mile hole in the fence at Otay Mesa between Mexico and California, which has been a playground for drug runners and […]

CPAC Straw Vote Victory Reveals Romney’s Phoniness

Well, Romney won the CPAC straw vote but what the media does not report is the extent to which Romney rigged the vote. His campaign bused in hundreds of College Republicans from all over, paid their registration fees, their hotel rooms, and even provided pizza for them. All the campaign demanded in return is that […]

Romney Appeals to White Collars, Santorum to Blue

Rick Santorum won big victories in three small contests in the Republican presidential race last Tuesday. In doing so, he reshaped the oft-reshaped nomination battle once again. But he has not installed himself as the favorite, and neither he nor Mitt Romney has established himself as the candidate who can do best in the general […]

Tom Grace’s “The Liberty Intrigue”

One of the nicest perks about having a slightly well-known blog is the fact that authors and publishers occasionally ask me to review a book. In this way, I get the opportunity to read books that I otherwise wouldn’t even know exist. My approach to book reviews is simple: If I enjoy the book, I’m […]

Three Cheers against Romney Care

Last October, one political pundit explained how a mere 3 percentage point decline in Massachusetts’ uninsured rate after the enactment of Romney Care showed the failure of universal health care at even a state level. She did not like the policy itself, but thought that Romney had the best chance of winning out of any […]

This Week in Automotivators, February 6-12

Just a few stories that caught my eye over the past week, whether I blogged them or not. Click the link under each picture for more information. Link: The POH Diaries. Link: The Pirate’s Cove. Link: Weasel Zippers. Link: Jimmie Bise. Link: TrogloPundit. Link: NRO. Link: TrogloPundit. Link: Boots & Sabers. Previously: This Week in […]

Romney Wins CPAC And Maine

A good night for Mitt (Washington Times) Mitt Romney won The Washington Times/CPAC Presidential Straw Poll on Saturday, and also nipped Rick Santorum as the top choice of conservatives nationwide, according to a new version of the poll conducted for the first time this year that suggests Mr. Romney retains strong support among self-identified conservatives. […]