Isn’t it amazing how quickly civility is thrown out the window when the tables are turned? It has been 72 years since the GOP controlled the legislature and the Governor’s office in Wisconsin so it shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody, including President Obama, that Governor Scott Walker is making good on his campaign promise […]
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Six Men to Fight Harry Reid
You must be completely discouraged to see Senate majority leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) pork-laden omnibus bill. His arrogance is incredible. Yet he’s wrong in assuming Americans are too busy with the holidays to see through his desperation. Everyone knows this is his best chance to pay back the unions that got him reelected. Mr. Reid […]
Hell Bent on Raising Taxes
Barack Obama ran his campaign on a promise not to raise taxes on Americans earning under $250,000 a year. He has broken that pledge multiple times, though not by using the income tax. Now he wants to hammer the nation’s most productive workers with an increase in taxes, in the heart of an economic trough. […]
Replace Liberalism
Today Newt Gingrich wrote that American conservatives need to begin a push for “replacement,” after having focused on a rejection of the Obama-Marxist agenda. As Newt writes, there are over 513,000 elected positions in America, from president to dogcatcher and everything in between. When Americans vote they get a choice for each of these positions […]
A Conservative Awakening
“I have been much concerned that so many people today with Conservative instincts feel compelled to apologize for them,” begins Barry Goldwater in The Conscience of a Conservative. He continues, “Or if not to apologize directly, to qualify their commitment in a way that amounts to breast-beating.” He quotes vice president Richard Nixon, for example, […]
Four Days to Go and Four Reasons to Keep the Pressure On
1. Can’t Keep Thomas Friedman Down What planet is New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman from? His op-ed this week “Can’t Keep a Bad Idea Down” is hard to take. Believe me I’m not being unfair. I don’t have an axe to grind with Mr. Friedman and I find myself agreeing with some of his […]
Americans Look to November
As I have written to you for some time now, the war in Afghanistan is exacting a major price on America’s military and treasury. Alfred S. Regenery writes in The American Spectator that during the Obama administration “more than 600 U.S. soldiers have died in Afghanistan-more than died there during George Bush’s entire time in […]
Obama’s Economy Just More Stimulus
Commentary by Dick Young on The Obama Economy by the editors of The Wall Street Journal President Obama, in utter terror about the November elections, is throwing everything but the kitchen sink at the economy to stimulate it before Americans head to the polls. The stimulus plans pushed by Larry Summers (President Obama’s economic advisor) […]
Alaskans Vote for Legitimate Conservative
Commentary by Timothy Jones on Why Pollsters Were Wrong On Alaska by John Gizzi, Human Events With a “legitimate” conservative on the ballot, Alaskans came out to vote. When the choice between the semi-conservative Murkowski and a very conservative Joe Miller was put to Alaskans, they surprised everyone with their zeal for a real conservative. This trend […]
Obama’s Recovery Has Failed
The economy looks like it may be floundering again. What has all the stimulus bought for Americans? All the debt that has been piled on ($1.3 trillion in deficit spending this year alone, according to new CBO figures) has served to make future generations poorer, but done nothing to alleviate the problems of the here […]