Terribly shocking news to process today, as the political blogosphere grew considerably darker with the untimely death of Andrew Breitbart. Whether you loved or hated his work, appreciate the dialogue and discussion his efforts produced and the dimensions he added to the brave new media. Via Big Journalism: Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes […]
On a recent episode of the Glenn Beck Show, Beck had an exchange, summarized here, with presidential candidate Rick Santorum. “I think you’ve got to put the Fed back in the business of just managing the money supply for the purposes of holding inflation in check,” Santorum said. “If the Fed’s only mission was dollar […]
The Michigan Republican primary is tomorrow and the race continues to evolve. For the past month, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum has been leading former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. In fact, at times, Santorum’s lead has been well in to the double digits. But for the past week or so, the Romney attack machine, which […]
It’s come to this: the federal government bailing out the Senate barbershop. And, per usual, it’s taxpayers that end up getting scalped, this time to the tune of nearly a quarter-million dollars. The barbershop ran almost $300,000 in the red last year but received an infusion from Senate coffers that is keeping it in business, […]
It starts and ends with one question: “Who owns you?” If you believe that you are owned by your society, that others are entitled to your person, your property, and your compliance with their beliefs, then your demand of the law is that it limits freedom in order to maximize equality. Conversely, if you believe […]
The Democrat spin machine has reached new levels of audacity and hypocrisy in trying to explain its policy of forced, universal obedience to its healthcare directives. Like the Soviet commissars before them, they are blaming the Church and all counter revolutionaries for holding back the benefits the worker’s paradise. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the DNC chair, […]
You know that I like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. In fact, I like him a lot. Like me, he’s a girth-enhanced gentleman. He is about as plain spoken as they come. He’s bright, he’s funny, he’s relatively conservative, he’s a loyal proud Republican. So what’s not to like? Well, Christie has ordered that flags […]
Mitt Romney has withstood every challenge to date, remaining the only constant in the Republican nomination race. There are legitimate reasons for his consistency. Romney is photogenic, has proven business skills, can manage a budget, and heads a campaign flush with cash. The sum total of these assets is the demise of everyone, thus far, […]
Let’s cut to the chase. Gingrich is dropping faster than Bill Clinton’s drawers at an intern convention. After six years hard at it, Romney has not inspired one single Mitt-bot. Santorum is everyone’s second choice – he’s the guy that the girl in your home town settled for when the dude that gave her the […]
Who stands in opposition to “the [central] bank of the United States, public debt, a navy, a standing army, American manufacturing, federally funded improvement of the interior, the role of a world power, military glory, an extensive foreign ministry, loose construction of the Constitution, and subordination of the states to the federal government”? Hint, these […]
