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Was The $500 Million Payment To The UN Climate Slush Fund Legal?

Yesterday I highlighted a Reuters article on Team O giving $500 million to the UN Green Climate Fund, and the article mentioned this But lawmakers did not block the funds in December after they wrapped up a sprawling budget deal to keep the U.S. government operating through next September. But, is the payment authorized under […]

Hillary’s Federal Education Jackboot Squad

Brace yourselves, parents: Hillary Clinton’s Fed Ed jackboot squad is from the government and is here to “help.” Clinton wants a cadre of new government educrats to undo the decades-old damage of old government educrats in America’s worst public schools. She pitched her creepy proposal at the Democratic presidential debate in Michigan on Sunday for […]

Libertarian Lite

In this year’s Republican presidential primaries, Sen. Rand Paul got little traction. In 2012, his father failed. That year, the Libertarian Party candidate, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, got just 1 percent of the vote. We libertarians must be doing something wrong. Maybe our anti-government message is too radical, says Jerry Taylor. Maybe we […]

The Seen and Unseen

Claude Frederic Bastiat (1801-50) — a French classical liberal theorist, political economist and member of the French National Assembly — wrote an influential essay titled “That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen.” Bastiat argued that when making laws or economic decisions, it is imperative that we examine not only what is seen […]

If Trump Implodes …

Episodic evidence suggests the possibility of a Donald Trump implosion during March. In the latest ABC/Wash Post poll, he wins 34 percent of the national vote — 4 points below his RealClearPolitics.com average of the last five polls — while Ted Cruz runs second with 25 percent — six points above his average Rubio runs […]

Three Reasons Conservatives Should Fear The Trump Phenomenon

Donald Trump’s candidacy is scary. Trump isn’t frightening because he’s anything special personally. He’s just a warmed-over mash-up of Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot, a spoiled brat billionaire eccentric with a history of position flipping and bullying foolishness. He has authoritarian tendencies on a personal level, and no awareness of the Constitution or its importance. […]

Peddling Fiction, Ignoring Fact

In his seventh, and final, State of the Union address this January, President Obama, clearly looking to bolster his legacy as the president who vanquished the Great Recession, boldly asserted that “Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction.” Unfortunately for the President, more and more Americans seem to believe (with an […]

Adios, Guantanamo

President Obama is heading to Cuba in two weeks, eager to unveil more travel and trade concessions to the country’s Communist regime. But is he too eager to befriend Fidel and Raul Castro, no matter the price? Members of Congress fear the president will cave to Cuba’s demand to hand over the U.S. Naval Base […]

Oregon’s Poor Will Soon Feel the Effects of a New Minimum Wage

Last week Oregon Governor Kate Brown gleefully signed into law a progressive statewide minimum wage increase. It will be phased in over the next six years, starting this July. “I’m proud to sign into law my top priority of the 2016 Legislative session — raising the minimum wage,” Brown said in a statement. She said […]

Conservative purists are capitulating with support of Trump

What a short, strange trip it’s been for Donald Trump’s conservative supporters. Ever since the Goldwaterite takeover of the GOP, the party has tried to convert voters to conservatism. This orientation has sometimes led it to follow a “better to be right and lose” axiom — hence Goldwater’s disastrous defeat in 1964. Now we seem […]

Trump Supporters Are A Strange Lot

There is something strange about Trump supporters. I call them Trumpsters. Not all, but many. This feeling was confirmed last week while attending the CPAC Conference in D.C. Their stubbornness and refusal to acknowledge “The Donald’s” flip-flopping, his shifting waves of sand and WWF grade school bullying tactics is strange. It is also strange how […]

Random Thoughts

Random thoughts on the passing scene: The presidential election prospects for the Democrats are so bad this year that only the Republicans can save them — as Republicans have saved them before. Will a Supreme Court without a single Protestant justice rule that an “under-representation” of any group is evidence of discrimination? Here is a […]

Greece Besieged By Crises, Mystified By Trump

Greece is the birthplace of Western civilization. It’s also the birthplace of the kind of crisis that threatens every Western nation neglecting to pay attention to what’s happening here. Walking through the Greek capital on a sunny afternoon, it’s not readily apparent to the casual observer that this country of stunning natural beauty is grappling […]

Dog Saves Life of Young Sleeping Master with Diabetes

A young man can certainly count his lucky stars that his faithful canine companion was watching out for him while he slept – because otherwise, he may not have. Get your tissues ready: It was the middle of the night. No alarms were going off, Dorrie Nuttall wasn’t checking her 7-year-old diabetic son’s blood sugar […]

Woman Leaves Her Would-Be Attacker Bloody and Wounded

Thank goodness for guns — they’re the great equalizer when it comes to women and self-defense. And thankfully, this woman was packing when a thug tried to rob her at knifepoint. Robber has knife, woman has gun A crook with a knife is about to try to rob the wrong person. Little does he know, […]

Reba McEntire Makes Tragic Announcement – Please Pray

Reba McEntire has recently shared with her fans the devastating details about her divorce. Many are amazed at the way she has handled it, and applaud her strength. Divorce isn’t easy for anyone – especially when you were married for 26 years, or especially when you were coerced into the divorce, and especially when you […]

BREAKING: Horrific Terrorist Attack Launched in Major City

A total of three SEPARATE Islamic terrorist attacks have taken place in the nation of Israel today, JUST as Vice President Joe Biden arrived. This is causing much concern and putting many on alert. Early reports believe the attacks are not coincidental to Biden’s arrival, and that Israeli police were targeted! So far two officers […]

Ted Cruz to Unveil Senate Endorsements This Week

As the idea of a Trump nomination grows closer and closer, people in the GOP seem to finally be wising up to what they must do to stop him: align with Ted Cruz. And now, Cruz is set to reveal new Senate endorsements this week. Ted Cruz’s colleagues may loathe him, but at least some […]