We all know that the ‘spark’ was the Stamp Act, the Townshend Act, the ‘Anything That King George III Did’ Act that placed more taxes on the colonists, especially since the colonists did not have full or fair representation in Parliament. We have stated this many times before but it bears repeating: ‘In America today, […]
The Syrian government is at war with a rebel force who’s intent is to overthrow the government. The rebels are aligned with, and getting support from, Al-Qaeda. This is not in is dispute by anyone. Someone used chemical weapons to kill a bunch of civilians in Syria. We don’t know if it was the government, […]
Medicaid is supposedly for poor people, those who are destitute. It seems a nice enough idea, that even those with no money can still have access to basic medical care. Unfortunately, that is not what is actually going on. Because of the ways the ideal has been distorted by those who know how to game the system, Medicaid is […]
With respect to my long time friend Congressman Robert Pittenger, on whose advisory committee I served during his election to Congress, he is dead wrong in his arguments for voting to fund Obamacare. The Congressman argues that mandatory monies will go to Obamacare anyway…as if the additional money he plans to vote for in a […]
Been reading too many simple, partisan thoughts from young liberals lately. Time to break it down: Most young people are ‘left-leaning’ because they’ve been convinced by left-wing institutions than it’s the ‘tolerant’ thing to do. They have very little substantive or philosophical understanding of contemporary liberalism. Draconian government measures aren’t progressive, they’re a throwback to […]
Saul Alinsky’s Ninth Rule for Radicals is that “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself,” the point of which is to say there is a lot you can do to defeat your opponent mentally and vise versa. In fact, Sun Tzu said “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy […]
The GOP confronts what could threaten to be a crippling dilemma. If real it could prove fatal to its viability as a political party. Electoral victory requires both its libertarians and its social conservatives. And they are at odds. These two crucial elements have a strained relationship. The libertarians, overrepresented in the party’s donor, underrepresented in its activist base, […]
The national fight over the looming implementation of Obamacare has been headquartered right here in North Carolina over the past two days. Indeed, longer than that, as nearly three weeks ago freshman Congressman Mark Meadows of NC’s 11th District began circulating Utah Senator Mike Lee’s letter calling for a defunding effort that would be tied […]
After months of speculation, South Carolina’s version of John McCain now has an official primary challenger. At a rally on Saturday in Charleston, Nancy Mace, daughter of Brigadier General James E. Mace and the first woman to graduate from the Citadel, outlined her vision for her race against Lindsey Graham. Thanks to Chuck Suter of Constitutionalwar.org […]
“Health insurance has suddenly become affordable in New York,” said Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president for health initiatives with the Community Service Society of New York. “It’s not bargain-basement prices, but we’re going from Bergdorf’s to Filene’s here.” “The extraordinary decline in New York’s insurance rates for individual consumers demonstrates the profound promise of the Affordable […]
