If you’ve ever felt the rush of emotions that having your team in the “big game” can bring, then you have an idea of what campaign season is like for political activists…with a few exceptions. Imagine if the Super Bowl lasted for eight months, the fans played the game, and neither side knew the score […]
Just as anxious passengers abandon a sinking ship, conservatives have started to abandon seemingly promising Kentucky senator Rand Paul. Recent developments reveal that he is not too keen on the idea of the right advocating voter ID laws. “Everybody’s gone completely crazy on this voter ID thing,” Mr. Paul said in an interview. “I think […]
Any war veteran from Iraq, Afghanistan or even Vietnam will tell you the only thing worse than enemy fire is so-called “friendly fire” or getting shot in the back by you own side; and that’s exactly what Senator Rand Paul did last Friday to the nationwide election integrity reform movement. Paul’s colossal blunder, Friday, involved his […]
Amity Schlaes has written a very good, comprehensive book on one of the most obscure Presidents of the United States that many people have never heard of:Calvin Coolidge. Quick: A) Name the years he served; B) how he got there and C) what his record was as President. (no cheating or Googling) See? It is […]
Politics is no country for old men. The left likes to lampoon the GOP as a party of grumpy old men. Wrong. A new generation is rising. The most striking display at the recent CPAC was a barrage balloon emblazoned with the words War On Youth. It was lofted over one of the most popular booths there, Young […]
In a memorable scene from the classic sitcom Sanford and Son, a legal predicament led Fred Sanford to consider hiring a man who was peddling cut-rate attorney services. When Sanford and the man met, the conversation that ensued went something like this: Sanford: So, you’re a lawyer? Man: That depends on who you ask. Sanford: I’m asking you. […]
Wondering how to improve job prospects for so many of the unemployed, Mr. William Galston makes the typical errors of many about job creation in this Wall Street Journal article. To begin, banks and lending institutions have two functions in relation to job creation. The first, consumer lending, even mortgage lending, is only a method […]
Remember the 2012 GOP “War on Women”? If you didn’t want to pay for a women’s contraception you were denying her “right to healthcare.” If you didn’t want to subsidize an abortion you were “attacking women and their right to birth control.” The Left wanted America to believe the GOP knuckle-draggers were determined to alienate […]
“We’ve all heard of the NSA. Now, your school districts at the local level are collecting data on your kids every single day,” Whitney Neal told members of the Lake Norman Conservatives, a Cornelius-based civic action group. Neal is the Director of Grassroots Outreach for FreedomWorks and a former 8th grade school teacher; she visited […]
If you don’t believe that history repeats itself, then you haven’t taken a close look at the stunning similarities between the Abolitionist Movement of 19th century, and today’s Tea Party. By watching the Tea Party’s struggle to reduce government spending and federal encroachment into individual lives, it’s much easier to imagine the challenges abolitionists faced […]
