The WSJ quotes Rep. Randy Webber (R., Texas) who states that the voters have endorsed the conservative view and that they’re are tired of the president circumventing Congress. Obama has threatened to act unilaterally by year-end to change immigration policy, an appallingly brazen statement given that the policies of this president just cost his party the […]
Archives for November 2014
Vague and Meaningless Global Warming Promises
Rhetorical bows notwithstanding, Mr. Obama’s recent nonbinding, no-detail, anti-carbon accord with China is less about Chinese emissions than it is about America’s climate politics. Read here from the WSJ, how Obama has found the perfect climate-change partner: “A technocratic elite that can instruct the bourgeoisie how they must light their homes and commute to work.” […]
Two Losers for America
Wait till you read this essay! Who could vote for any political candidate who can be tied in, even remotely, with Sheldon Adelson or Haim Saban? Both are probably lovely gentlemen, but their foreign policy views make their influence a cancer for any political candidate. Scott McConnell, founding editor of The American Conservative, lays out […]
Dan Sullivan Wins Alaska: GOP +8
There is official confirmation now of what most knew already, Republican Dan Sullivan will be the next senator from The Last Frontier. FoxNews reports here: Republican candidate Dan Sullivan defeated Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Begich in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race Wednesday. The win gives the GOP eight Senate pickups in the midterm elections. The party […]
The Case for Black Republicans
Michael Taube points out in the Washington Times that the GOP’s gains in the midterm elections have important racial implications. With the election of Mia Love to the House from Utah and Tim Scott to the Senate from S.C., perhaps Democrats tiresome and shameful propaganda about the GOP and race has finally turned a corner. […]
VIDEO: Scorpion: The New Face of American Air-power?
Textron, the builder of a new off the shelf jet named the Scorpion writes: In an era when defence aeronautics is dominated by a handful of major fighter jet companies, Textron AirLand’s SCORPION finds a niche to squeeze into and establish a new market for itself. The SCORPION barely reached 100 flying hours when it […]
Leaders for Liberty: Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Justin Amash
The American Conservative’s Daniel McCarthy explains how liberty-minded Republicans, exemplified by Rand Paul and Justin Amash, represent “a qualitative change in tone and policy emphasis for the GOP, particularly on national security and foreign policy.” McCarthy also explains that the public “has shown to have no appetite for the decades-long wars that Tom Cotton’s [Arkansas’s […]
The Absurdity of O’Care
The Affordable Care Act was passed without a single Republican vote and without any Republican input. The law says what it says because that is the way Democratic legislators wrote it. Defenders of Obamacare argue that if the Supreme Court, which has agreed to hear King v. Burwell, insists on ruling on what the law […]
Republicans Dominate the New South
Black Democrats are on the rise in the south, while white Democrats are in decline. The Republicans now dominate in the New South. As Pat Buchanan explains, the Republican dominance is partly explained by the “conservatism of the region, which is in tune with the national GOP.” Republican dominance in the New South is partly […]
Threats Facing Your Family Today
A Dangerous World is an expert compilation of essays from a team of scholars looking at threat perception and U.S. national security. My friend Chris Preble and John Mueller of the Cato Institute are the editors of this eagerly awaited new book. Any American concerned about the dangers facing America today will want to own their […]