Chris Banescu

Chris Banescu


  • March 25, 2022

    What is a woman? Better not ask the Supreme Court

    During day three of the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, a disturbing exchange occurred between Judge Jackson and Senator Marsha Blackburn.  Sen. Blackburn asked the nominee to define the word "wom...

  • March 20, 2022

    How to live a normal life in troubled times

    After enduring two years of coronavirus disruptions and madness, we all hoped our lives would return to some semblance of normality.  But thanks to Vladimir Putin's terrible decision to invade Ukraine, the world may be on the brink of W...

  • February 7, 2020

    Donald Trump — man of courage

    During his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Donald Trump once again showed America how we must stand our ground and push back against the evil and corrupt.  He refused to be intimidated and cowed into silence.  H...

  • August 5, 2019

    America has a moral crisis, not a gun control problem

    America faces a moral crisis, not a gun control problem.  As God and morality are purged from all our institutions, darkness, chaos, evil, and violence grow to fill in the gap.  There is no political solution or regulation that wi...

  • October 9, 2016

    Men without Chests Threaten Civilization

    Mid-twentieth-century C. S. Lewis witnessed and wrote about the increasing moral breakdown and intellectual decay of Western civilization.  He observed how secular and atheistic academics, philosophers, politicians, intellectuals, and cultural e...

  • October 10, 2014

    Government Incompetence and Deadly Recklessness in Ebola Threat Response

    Within the span of a couple of weeks, the Obama administration and the director of the CDC have proven themselves to be dangerously incompetent and reckless in dealing with the deadly threat that the Ebola virus poses to the American people. Despite ...

  • September 16, 2014

    Al Gore vs. Reality on Planetary Ice Caps and Global Warming

    It appears that reality is not cooperating with the myth that man-made CO2 is causing global warming. Recent satellite images show that both the Arctic and the Antarctic sea ice have dramatically increased in size and thickness.  Despite Al G...

  • August 8, 2014

    The Real Reasons Why Americans Still Suffer from Economic Stress

    The mainstream media continues to run interference for President Obama and protect him from any responsibility for the devastating economic conditions across the country his policies have primarily caused and perpetuated.  Despite record number ...

  • May 24, 2014

    Obama Unhappy with America's Constitutional Balance of Powers

    President “I am not a dictator” Obama, the same man who once bemoaned that the U.S. Constitution is deeply flawed and America’s Founding Fathers had “an enormous blind spot” when they wrote it, is again complaining that...

  • November 22, 2013

    Put Away Your Racist Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches

    My fellow Americans, the "subtle language of racism" you've been hiding inside your peanut butter and jelly sandwiches has been exposed. These biased and ethnocentric eating habits are oppressing minorities. Such intolerance and racist behavior can n...

  • November 19, 2013

    Obama Omits 'God' from the Gettysburg Address

    President Obama failed to include the words "under God" while reading from the Gettysburg Address for a PBS documentary. As first reported by Chris Plante on WMAL, the president recited the Gettysburg Address, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln o...

  • November 1, 2013

    Twenty-Five Signs

    How do you know when you have successfully argued and defended your position when debating with leftists or progressives on Facebook (or face-to-face)? Look for these telling signs (not necessarily in this exact order): 1. They call you an "extremis...

  • October 11, 2013

    Obama's War on The Press

    The love fest between the mainstream press and President Obama may be officially over. An Associated Press report released today accuses the White House of aggressive and oppressive tactics in controlling information and prosecuting whistleblowe...

  • October 7, 2013

    ObamaCare: 'I was Laughing at Boehner, Until the Mail Came Today'

    It's finally dawning on liberals, leftists, and progressives that conservatives were telling the truth when they warned about the fundamental problems and dangers of The 'Affordable' Care Act (ObamaCare).  As reported in the San Jose Mercury New...

  • March 31, 2013

    When Men Forsake God, Tyranny Always Follows

    The prophetic words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn resonate like thunder across the history of man.  "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened."  Thus summarized the Nobel laureate, Orthodox Christian author, and Russian dissiden...

  • December 18, 2012

    No Bipartisanship in Support of Tyranny

    Appeasement of evil always emboldens and empowers tyrants. Conservatives cannot accept bipartisanship in support of tyranny. We must vigilantly oppose the oppressive and immoral policies that continually usurp our individual liberties and rights and ...

  • October 19, 2012

    French Socialists: Unfair That Some Children Have Good Parents

    Socialist French President François Hollande is unhappy with the "inequality" of education in his country.  He thinks it's unfair that some children get schoolwork help from their parents at home while others don't.  To address this perceiv...

  • September 6, 2012

    Mitt Romney: This Time It's Personal?

    Conservatives are noticing that as the presidential race intensifies, Mitt Romney seems to become more conservative.  Not only has he picked Paul Ryan, a staunch pro-life Catholic conservative with impeccable credentials, as his running mate, bu...

  • August 24, 2012

    Norway Murderer to Serve 21 Years for Massacring 77 Victims

    The mass murderer in Norway was just "punished" with a whopping 21 years of jail time for the cold-blooded and indiscriminate massacre of 77 innocent men, women, and children.  That's a mere 3.27 months of jail time for each murdered victim. ...

  • August 2, 2012

    Win an Olympic Medal, Pay the IRS

    What better way for the U.S. government to "thank" our Olympic athletes for all the years of hard work, enormous efforts, and many personal and financial sacrifices in pursuit of excellence than to compel them to pay taxes on their Olympic medals and...

  • July 28, 2012

    Economy Is Tanking; Why Are Markets Up?

    The latest economic data released Thursday confirms what all Americans, especially business owners, already knew.  Economic growth has slowed down to a measly 1.5% (from 2% the previous quarter), job growth continues to languish with nationwide ...

  • March 14, 2012

    ObamaCare Success: Astronomical Costs, 4 Million Lose Coverage

    Two different stories that came out today highlight the real consequences of the destructive and misguided ObamaCare regulations (known as the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act").  Rather than helping, the ObamaCare rules are wrecking ...

  • January 25, 2012

    'Pro-Choice' Obama Forces Religious Institutions to Pay for Abortion Drugs

    President Barack Obama, a lifelong champion of abortion, is hell-bent on forcing religious institutions to pay for birth control and abortion drugs coverage for their employees.  New regulations implemented by the Obama administration mandate th...

  • September 29, 2011

    Coddling Misinformation About Taxation

    Warren Buffett and President Obama claim that the rich do not pay enough taxes.  They both accuse the American tax code of being unfair and coddling the rich.  Both have been pushing the same class warfare narrative for years, using current...

  • September 2, 2011

    Predators with Ph.D.s

    See also: Tiberius Redux The latest offensive against morality, decency, and sanity in America has been launched by a pro-pedophilia group and several academics who openly advocate for the normalization and legalization of pedophilia.  Referring...

  • August 20, 2011

    Lessons in Leadership from an Airline Captain

    It is often in times of crisis and life-threatening emergencies that the real character of an individual is made manifest.  The contrasts between the leadership of an American airline captain and that of our current president offer us an opportu...

  • March 22, 2011

    The Left's Economic Terrorism Plans for America

    What the Bolsheviks and communists did to their own people with violence, indiscriminate murder, starvation, torture, and concentration camps, union leaders in America want to accomplish via plans to destroy our financial system, undermine the stock ...

  • March 18, 2011

    America Slouching Towards Fiscal Armageddon

    America is in grave danger.  Our government's out-of-control spending and our politicians' refusal to implement meaningful budget reforms are leading us towards a fiscal crisis that can undermine our very way of life.  We are spending ourse...

  • March 17, 2011

    Inflation, Back to the '70s We Go!

    Conservatives warned about it, economists predicted it, and now it's here.  Inflation has arrived and it's taking off like a rocket.  IBD reports that wholesale prices, often a precursor to consumer prices, rose at an yearly rate of 8% in F...

  • March 10, 2011

    Budget Cuts Lingo, Stranger Than Fiction

    Yesterday, the Senate Democrats soundly defeated the attempts by the Republicans in the House to implement a very minute cut for the 2012 federal budget. Referring to the approximately $61 billion that the GOP was recommending (a mere 1.6% when compa...

  • August 24, 2010

    Ground Zero Imam: America Worse Than al-Qaeda

    If there was ever any question what Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind the Ground Zero mosque project, thought about America, the latest audio clip uncovered by Pamela Geller on her Atlas Shrugs blog should remove any doubt.  In the 2005 le...

  • August 21, 2010

    Success - Obama style

    How do you spell "success" in the Obama administration? How about a 48% failure rate!  According to a new Treasury Department report approximately half of the 1.3 million home owners who signed up for Obama's much-touted mortgage-reli...

  • August 19, 2010

    Economy Needs Heart Transplant, Obama Offering Band-Aid

    America's economic situation needs an emergency heart transplant, but Obama and the Democrats keep offering band-aids instead.  We need a major change in government economic, tax, and fiscal policies not more government bailouts.  Yet ...

  • August 15, 2010

    Ronald Reagan: Whatever Happened to Free Enterprise?

    From the archived pages of Imprimis, the monthly speech digest of Hillsdale College, President Ronald Reagan reminds us that economic freedom is an absolute necessity not only for political freedom, but for all freedom.  That freedom must be fou...

  • August 12, 2010

    The New York Times, Cheerleader for Higher Taxes

    In what can only be described as a partisan, pro-Obama puff piece, The New York Times has now proclaimed on its Economix Blog that tax increases are the best way to "stimulate" our economy and help America reach "fiscal sustainabi...

  • August 11, 2010

    Obama Buying More Union Votes With Your Tax Dollars

    President Obama has pledged more of your money to protect the unions and secure their vote.  The administration demanded and got $26 billion taxpayer dollars to spare 300,000 teachers and other public workers from the unemployment lines. Th...

  • June 11, 2010

    Obama Orders Dance Classes, Movie Nights, and Bingo for Illegal Detainees

    The Houston Chronicle reports that the Obama administration has ordered the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) department to implement multiple modifications to their facilities to make life easier, more comfortable, and pleasant for the hundr...

  • May 29, 2010

    How to Cripple the Free Economy

    The socialist policies implemented by the Obama administration and the Democrat leadership undermine America's economic prosperity and prolong the misery for millions of companies and workers.  Despite passing multi-trillion dollar government ta...

  • August 6, 2009

    The Assault on American Business

    The message from Washington is clear and getting louder by the day.  If you run a successful business you face excessive government regulations and higher levels of taxation for years to come.  The more productive and profitable you become,...

  • March 17, 2009

    Obama: destroying human life for the 'greater good'

    On March 9th President Obama's executive order reversed the Bush administration's long-standing restrictions on using federal funds for embryonic stem cells research and authorized the destruction of live human embryos in medical experimentation. The...

  • March 4, 2009

    US Companies Pay the Highest Taxes in the World

    It may come as a surprise that US companies pay the highest taxes in the world. Yes, you read that right. American businesses, large and small and across all industries pay from 35% to 41.6% of their income in combined state and federal taxes. The 41...