Is the Queen City’s vaunted Lynx light-rail line the next stop for virtual stripsearch scanners and junk-groping patdowns? Could be, from the sounds of Homeland Security Czarina Janet Napolitano. This from The Hill: The next step in tightened security could be on U.S. public transportation, trains and boats. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists […]
If there were a Spin Doctorate program at Political University the requisite course would be Obfuscation 101. No one survives in contemporary American politics without a thorough mastery of the subject. Obfuscation 101 instructs the neophyte politician on how to tell voters what they want to hear while having no intention of fulfilling the obligation […]
“Old time” Democrats live by the idea that Franklin Delano Roosevelt saved the nation by creating social programs to save the poor from the Great Depression. Those Democrats are having a difficult time understanding why Roosevelt’s reputation isn’t glorified by all Americans. They are also watching their Democrat Party evolve into a blatant anti-American, global […]
In the ever increasing creep of the government nanny state into your daily life, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (in the Queen City today, by the way, to talk transit) said this week that the Obama Administration is exploring its options on how to block cell phone use in cars. This from The Daily Caller: Transportation […]
For those who haven’t read ‘The Road to Serfdom’ by F.A. Hayek, let me recommend it to you. It is one of the cornerstones of modern fiscal conservative thought. Hayek wrote it in the 1940’s and does an excellent job of explaining why government cannot do certain things without detriment to society as a whole. […]
Sometimes you have to hand it to your enemies. Regressives are masterful at portraying themselves as the administrators of “economic fairness.” No Regressive oration would be complete without a splash of class envy. Be it “tax cuts for the greedy rich” or “the rich getting wealthy on the backs of the poor,” the message is […]
The upcoming ‘debate’, such as it will be, on the recommendations of the Bowles-Simpson Deficit Reduction Commission remind me of the annoying kid who would invite you to play basketball at their house on their backyard court with their basketball. Inevitably, almost as if scripted, some foul would be inflicted on said annoying kid (SAK) […]
That’s the message floating down from Canada, where the Albert Human Rights Commission (AHRC) recently unveiled its new taxpayer-funded “Racism Free Edmonton” campaign. According to the group’s logic, the best way to solve the problem of racism is for white people to accuse themselves of being racists, acknowledge their “white privilege,” and maybe start displaying […]
Retribution is his, sayeth Obama. There is a psychology behind this President that turns talking heads into bobble heads. Before and after this election, I’ve heard the media wagging on, speculating about Obama’s reaction to the voices of the people. They go back and forth on whether he will move to the center out of […]
As the dust settles from the 2010 Mid-Term elections, Tea Partiers are looking around and taking stock. For many, if not most, these elections were the first national-level contests they’ve been through as grassroots organizers. While the results were undeniably positive for the Republican Party, some wonder if those results bode just as well for […]
