Shameless. This from NewsBusters: On Thursday’s World News, ABC anchor Diane Sawyer ran as a “news” item a White House-produced video — complete with schmaltzy background music — of President Obama taking a phone call from a cancer patient who, Sawyer informed viewers “is now able to get health insurance” thanks to ObamaCare. …. The […]
Ten, maybe five years ago, I wouldn’t have thought this possible in Charlotte: a smoking ban in outdoor public places. Today? Oh, yeah, sooner or later some bright bulb on city council, likely at the “encouragement” of Center City Partners, will bring this front and center. For the common good, of course. From NPR, on […]
The Richter scale measures the magnitude of subterranean movements. But any recent seismic activity is more attributable to our Founding Fathers rolling in their graves than to tectonic shifts. Free speech has been sacrificed and it’s doubtful the Founders would be pleased. Molly Norris is a former cartoonist for the Seattle Weekly newspaper. I say […]
There seems to me a contradiction in the position of many social conservatives. While they push strongly against abortion laws and against homosexual marriage, prostitution or recreational drug use, they advocate for individual property rights. In a philosophically consistent moral system, it seems the two positions would be mutually exclusive. An examination of these positions […]
There are people who seriously believe that Martin Sheen was one of this country’s greatest presidents, so this really shouldn’t surprise. Stephen Colbert is a great comedian and a good actor; the two key words there being ‘comedian’ and ‘actor.’ His parody of bloviator-in-chief Bill O’Reilly is as spot on as having him testify before a […]
Who could’ve seen this coming, huh? Obamacare running into problems trying to manipulate the free market. Imagine that. This from The Washington Post: Some of the country’s most prominent health insurance companies have decided to stop offering new child-only plans, rather than comply with rules in the new health-care law that will require such plans […]
I’d like to still be able to celebrate this day four, eight years from now. Vote like it matters; because it does.
You know liberals are on the run when the MSM picks up on any and every gaffe by conservative candidates, using words as weapons to paint them as nut jobs; that’s expected, par-for-the-course politics. But the latest O’Donnell bashing from the ultra-leftist Media Matters is a stretch. This from POLITICO: The trickle of media hits […]
Again. This time in Delaware and New York, where upset wins by insurgent candidates in Republican primaries have the GOP ruling class with its collective panties in a wad. The MSM is also approaching meltdown mode, jumping on the bandwagon to echo party pronouncement’s that Christine O’Donnell’s victory in Delaware spells certain doom for a […]
When the United States was formed one of the goals was to enhance the ability of men to operate private businesses to their own advantage. Many of the rules in the Constitution are set down to enhance that ability. In seeming contradiction to that idealism, today we find laws written that are designed to help […]
