December 5, 2011

Evangelicals: Beware the siren call of sanctimony when choosing a president

The Daily Caller quotes an evangelical leader, one Richard Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention: "Mr. Speaker, if you want to get large numbers of Evangelicals, particularly women, to vo...

September 26, 2011

A view of the US from abroad

A recent email from a reader carried a poignant message. The woman, a citizen of South Africa and successful business owner, wrote: I have to tell you that most people (rational people, not jihadis and Soviets) are astonished at Obama and much of th...

September 20, 2011

Walmart Still in NOW's 'Gender-Gap' Crosshairs

Despite emerging victorious from a class action suit alleging sex discrimination, Walmart recently announced costly programs designed to "help empower women across its supply chain." Over the next five years, the mega-company will "source" $20 billio...

September 15, 2011

Conservatism that Assures the Unthinkable: the Reelection of Barack Obama

See also: Social Issues Are Not Going Away in 2012 It is time that someone said, straight up and out loud, "Enough." As America flirts with permanent economic decline, certain GOP presidential contenders talk of gay marriage, Charles Darwin, and reli...

September 12, 2011

Did feminist groups derail the stimulus bill?

American women are resourceful. In the business world alone, women have racked up impressive gains, earning three times as many college degrees and doubling the female presence in the workplace compared to forty years ago. In the realm of entrepreneu...

September 5, 2011

Obama's Newest Worst Idea Ever--Fannie II

February 2009 brought us Barack Obama's "stimulus" plan--$800 billion worth of progressive agenda-packed deficit spending that produced zero economic improvement and increased the national debt. One year later, President Obama offered the American pe...

September 2, 2011

Big Sister in the Workplace

Today there are twice as many women in the American workforce as there were four decades ago, three times as many women getting college degrees.  More working women than men now hold degrees.  The growth rate of female-owned businesses stan...

August 30, 2011

A Bridge Too Far for the Nanny State

Suicide is tragic from any perspective. It is saddening to think that someone's emotional state could decay to the point where death appears preferable to life. Loved ones and acquaintances are left to sort out feelings of helplessness and try to fil...

August 29, 2011

Manipulating Money Supply Is Like Lying about Cholesterol

Would you lend money to a friend if you thought that there was a good chance that you'd not get all of your money back? Good friends might make such loans in spite of the lousy prospects for repayment. But what about bankers? Should bankers lend to p...

August 18, 2011

Labor Department Declares War on Phantom Discrimination

"Pay discrimination continues to plague women and people of color in the workforce," claims  Patricia A. Shiu, a member of President Obama's National Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force. There is some difficulty with the claim: an utter absence of ...

August 17, 2011

Congressional Cowardice Sustains Ethanol Subsidies

At this moment, $6 billion in annual federal subsidies continue to be paid to American farmers to grow corn for producing ethanol. The ethanol continues to be added to gasoline, creating a mixture which will damage vehicles' engines and result in car...

August 15, 2011

Did American Military Overinvolvement Hasten Europe's Cultural Decay?

It has always seemed to me that the reflexive argument for American military intervention in other nations rests on shaky ground. Contending that the United States must "police" the world, "build" nations, "spread" democracy, and "fight" fo...

August 9, 2011

Big Government's Big Spending Has Boosted Inflation and Killed 3.5 Million Jobs

Rising prices are no surprise to anyone who has been following the actions of Ben Bernanke's Fed. Two rounds of "quantitative easing" injected more than $2.3 trillion into bank reserves, and thus to some extent into the economy. The more money chasin...

August 6, 2011

Why Bother? Let It Fall

America is fading, and the ruling class lacks the courage to stop it. Courage was more abundant in 1776 when a pompous monarch was confiscating the people's wealth in order to live like a pompous monarch.  The people revolted.  Today, hundr...

August 3, 2011

EPA's Ozone Charade Chokes Industry for No Health Benefit

Environmentalist ideologues in the Obama administration are making up more reasons to wipe out more jobs. The story is a sordid one. EPA administrator Lisa Jackson calls a tightening in the ozone standard during George W. Bush's presidency "not legal...

August 3, 2011

Education Department indoctrinates kids in global warming myths.

Ideologues in our federal government are pushing falsehoods on children in order to spread the doctrine of the Church of Global Warming. CNSNews.com reports that the Department of Education hosted an event in which children were read scientifically ...

August 2, 2011

Cobalt Blue Arrogance

From a state capitol that basks under surreally blue skies comes a consummate example of progressive smugness. In an installment of his Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper column pretentiously titled, "Understanding Your World," former U.S. Foreign Servic...

July 28, 2011

Food Totalitarians on Parade - Part Deux

Well that didn't take long. Yesterday, in a post discussing a New York Times op-ed that called for heavy taxation on "unhealthy" foods, I asked, "How long before some starry-eyed but angry-faced Democrat proposes legislation to force 'healthy food' a...

July 28, 2011

Progressives and Their Taxes Kill Cities

High taxes are bad for cities.  Low taxes encourage growth.  In fact, between 1980 and 2007, compared to the ten most-taxed metropolitan areas, America's ten least-taxed metropolitan areas experienced three times faster population growth, 2...

July 27, 2011

Food Totalitarians on Parade

Within the last few years, we have been treated to attempts by government to control our food intake with regulatory "nudges" and legislative edicts. Sugar, salt, trans-fats, fats in general, fast foods, and school lunches are just a few ingredients ...

July 26, 2011

Libertarianism Is the Antidote for 'Public Policy' on Poverty

By exaggerating the severity of poverty in America, progressives attempt to justify higher levels of wealth redistribution. By over-classifying people as “poor,” progressive politicians further enable the dependency which got those politi...

July 21, 2011

Obama's Deceit on the Debt Default Deadline

Knowingly stating a falsehood constitutes lying. Unintentionally misrepresenting reality displays a careless lack of knowledge. Our President appears to be engaged in a curious combination of both activities. Economist and Reason columnist Veronique ...

July 19, 2011

The Twisted Budgeting 'Logic' of an Obama Liberal

President Barack Obama believes that small businesses should pay for big government programs. Just ask the President's Teasury secretary, Timothy Geithner. Pushed for an explanation of Obama's insistence on raising taxes on families earning $250,000 ...

July 18, 2011

Obama, Clinton and Robert Reich

Robert Reich has gotten into the funny stuff again. In the Wall Street Journal, the former denizen of the Clinton administration weaves a tall tale to support yet another fanciful argument: After a bruising midterm election, the president moves to t...

July 18, 2011

The 'Gimme Mine' mentality and the American Spirit

No emotionally stable person viscerally likes inequality. Within both conservatives and liberals lives a strong distaste for what poverty does to people. Recognizing this universal revulsion, in The Quest for Cosmic Justice, Thomas Sowell wonder...

July 17, 2011

Obama Ideology All the Way Down

When your relatives publicly expose your horrifically indefensible thinking, it may be time to rethink your thinking. Milton Wolf, a cousin of Barack Obama, writes: The devastation caused by Obamanomics is now undeniable. According to Investors Busi...

June 16, 2011

The Latest Education Fad Inverts Justice

Something subtle and disturbing is happening under parents' radar.  Growing numbers of progressive educators are twisting a four-thousand-year-old concept in order to induce schoolchildren to adopt amoral worldviews.  A trend gathering stea...

June 13, 2011

Abortion Good, Circumcision Bad: Celebrity Empty-Headedness on Grand Display

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June 7, 2011

Bernanke's Posturing Ignores Inflation Reality and Hurts Americans

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June 6, 2011

Obama's Commerce Nominee Wants to Limit Energy Consumption and Redistribute Wealth

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May 31, 2011

Obama's Symbolic Chevy Volt Folly

Among 116 electric cars that the Obama administration intends to buy with taxpayer money, 101 will be Chevy Volts. The program will also include installing charging stations in San Francisco, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Diego and Washington, D.C.Accord...

May 28, 2011

CAIR Wants Homeland Security to Silence 'Fear-Mongers'

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May 25, 2011

Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Naked Liberals

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May 25, 2011

Will Today's GOP Repeat the 'Contract with America' Bait and Switch?

In the first year as a majority in both Houses of Congress, the GOP generally satisfied the language of 1994's Contract with America.  Most of the Contract's actionable items were brought to a House vote.  But Republicans' delivery on the C...

May 24, 2011

AARP's ObamaCare Endgame Revealed

We now have a clear picture of the treachery in which AARP has engaged since President Obama took office.  The Daily Caller reports that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has granted Medigap policy sellers, including the American ...

May 20, 2011

Bernanke's Economic Time Bomb

Ben Bernanke's Federal Reserve has laid the charges, connected the leads, and now stands ready at the detonator.  America waits.We wait for the economic effects of "quantitative easing"  (QE). In QE, a nation's central bank b...

May 17, 2011

Charles Schumer: Vote-Chasing Purveyor of Economic Fallacy

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May 16, 2011

Ron Paul's Lapses Give Libertarianism a Bad Rap

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May 15, 2011

Planned Parenthood's Cobalt Blue Sex Education

American philosopher Thomas Sowell wrote that "the vision of the anointed [has] achieved a sacrosanct status, hermetically sealed off from the contaminating influence of facts."[1]  There are few places in America with as dense a conce...

May 13, 2011

The Battle to Reduce Entitlements: Fight or Flight?

Many Americans recognize but want to ignore a huge problem.  A new poll finds that 86 percent of us believe that Social Security and Medicare spending will create an economic crisis in ten to twenty years at most.  Yet only 31 percent of Am...

May 8, 2011

Education that Corrupts

It is the job of educators to "change the thoughts, feelings, and actions of students."[1]  So proclaimed psychologist Benjamin Bloom, originator of Outcome-Based Education.  The U.S. Department of Education was created in 1979, s...

May 5, 2011

Latest Anti-Bullying Angle: 'Social Justice' Helps Bullies Get in Touch with Feelings

More and more "anti-bullying" stories are showing up all the time. In recent weeks, I have discussed efforts shepherded by the Obamas, taken up by Congress, driven by the U.S. Department of Education, and enacted within the U.S. Department ...

May 3, 2011

Will Conservatives Embrace Paul Ryan's Call to End Corporate Welfare?

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April 27, 2011

Gingrich up to his old tricks

Way, way back in 1994, Newt Gingrich complained vigorously about a Democrat-controlled Congress's fiscal irresponsibility. Representative Gingrich led a successful campaign by Republicans to takeover House and Senate in the 1994 Election. At the core...

April 25, 2011

Ice, Arrogant Ignorance, and Global Warmism

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April 25, 2011

Trump's 'Fair Trade' Rhetoric Hurts Republicans' White House Chances

After a recent phone conversation with Donald Trump, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer concluded that The Donald is "absolutely" serious about seeking the GOP Presidential nomination.  That's unfortunate.  The illiberal med...

April 24, 2011

The Government of the Big Lie

In January 1981, America's Jimmy Carter disaster plodded to a merciful close.  A new President judged the time right to acknowledge something that people had been realizing in greater and greater numbers since LBJ's Great Society programs began ...

April 21, 2011

New 'Anti-Bullying Statement' Treats HHS Employees Like Children

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April 20, 2011

Federally-Mandated 'Bully-Proofing' Programs Coming to a School Near You

At a recent Washington, D.C. conference on bullying, President Obama declared his desire to "dispel the myth that bullying is just a harmless rite of passage or an inevitable part of growing up."Obama's statement typifies the liberal take o...

April 19, 2011

Obi-Wan Berwick Rears His Head Again

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April 16, 2011

The Toxic Influence of Progressive Education Schools on K-12 Curricula

In the 1960s, America's education schools began conditioning teachers to peddle impossible social and economic theories to captive human sponges in K-12 classrooms.  Since then, teachers taken in by progressive indoctrination have been planting ...

April 15, 2011

The Spreading of Economic Fallacy

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April 14, 2011

Straw Man Environmental Alarmism 101, California Style

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April 12, 2011

New HHS Plan for Health Redistribution

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April 7, 2011

Democrats Ponder Kicking their 'Atlas Shrugged' Agenda into Overdrive

The name for this post could have just as fittingly been "Economic Ignoramuses in Wonderland." As you read, keep in mind Ayn Rand's mousey Atlas Shrugged character Wesley Mouch, the top dog at the novel's Bureau of Economic Planning and Nat...

March 31, 2011

'Alternative' Health Care in the Land of Enchantment

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March 30, 2011

Progressive Fallacy Number 667: Wealth Redistribution Creates Societal 'Harmony'

Is wealth envy a serious problem in a technologically advanced country like America?  Economist Tyler Cowen observes that economic indignation is mostly felt toward:[...] the guy down the hall who got a bigger raise [...] [or toward] the husband...

March 29, 2011

American Indians Putting Faith in Government 'Help'?

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March 27, 2011

Preschools Are Using a Marxist's Theories to Manufacture Collectivists

The room buzzes with little voices. Little children engage in "mature, dramatic play." An adult helps the children "regulate" and "monitor each other's compliance" with "rules and assigned roles."[1] Each child...

March 22, 2011

Enter the USDA, to Rescue Americans From... Something

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February 12, 2011

Growing Up

Believing what's always felt good comes easily. But growing up requires accepting truths that our younger selves denied. Toys don't arrive via air-sled from the North Pole. I am not major league pitcher material. And there indeed are people determine...

January 29, 2011

Obama's New Pose: Fake Right, Sucker-Punch Left

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January 12, 2011

Arrogant and Authoritarian: Barack Obama and the New Progressives

Blindness to physical reality, denial of human nature, and a consuming desire to use government force to impose fantasies on fellow human beings.  Welcome to the mind of today's American "progressive."Progressives veil sophomoric schem...

December 24, 2010

The Sierra Club's Mission

"Don't you care about global warming?" asked a sign carried by a Sierra Club demonstrator.  The preachy admonishment packs the same intellectual weightiness as "Free the color purple!"Well-adjusted people "care" abo...

December 7, 2010

FCC Commissioner Wants to Control the Content of Broadcast Media

The First Amendment forbids Congress from infringing on Americans' right to free speech. But the Federal Communications Commission is not Congress. And Michael Copps, one of four FCC commissioners reporting to Chairman Julius Genachowski, seems inten...

November 13, 2010

Ideologue-in-Chief Obama Will Continue to Be Bad for Business

President Obama called the Democrats' November 2 loss of sixty-one House seats a "shellacking." Yet in a day-after press conference, Obama sported a self-absorbed manner, contrived reflection, and a basic misread of the American people. In ...

November 7, 2010

The EPA's 'Climate Change' Tyranny

In post-Climategate America, people are beginning to appreciate the magnitude of scientific and political trickery that spawned the global warming scare. With the hoax exposed, backdoor methods are being used to control Americans' lives using "c...

October 30, 2010

The Church of the Green Dragon

One of the heads of the Green Dragon has hissed again. Urged by the King Corn lobby, the EPA recently raised the limit on ethanol in gasoline from 10 to 15 percent, a change that will harm Americans and the environment. The environmental justice-obse...

October 7, 2010

Erasing America: Barack Obama's Motivation and Method

"It took time to free the slaves," proclaimed Barack Obama during a recent speech aimed at salvaging support for his fundamental transformation of America. Our president, a man who views the world through an oppressed-versus-oppressor lens,...

October 6, 2010

Pushing Junk Science on Children

Humans have angered Mother Nature. Our species must stop multiplying, give up our addiction to huge-screen HDTVs, stop eating so many steer, and travel on twenty-pound electric tricycles forty miles at a time between charging stations. Otherwise, we ...

September 18, 2010

This Is Your Brain in a Crock-Pot

I gotta roll, can't stand still; got a flaming heart, can't get my fill. - Led Zeppelin, 1971Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog" lyrics saluted the "if it feels good, do it" culture spawned in the 1960s. Zeppelin had already played to...

September 8, 2010

Liberal Preachiness Takes a Name: Bloomberg Syndrome

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants Americans to embrace the Ground Zero Mosque as a step toward "building an interfaith community." The Mayor believes that the mosque would "bring [New York] City even closer together and help ...

August 24, 2010

Gloomy Progressive's Prescription for Eliminating the Middle Class

Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich is a progressive. On the Huffington Post, Reich -- now a U.C. Berkeley public policy professor -- proclaims that America's middle class has been in "decline." The professor writes that since the 1...

July 17, 2010

The Cobalt Blue Left

One morning, twenty-seven years ago, I saw daybreak. It seemed as though a crazy painter had stretched a crazy canvas across my window, for an impossibly intense backdrop framed the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Then the sun floated higher, Santa Fe's ...

June 6, 2010

'Leader with a Plan' Invites a Health Care Nightmare

The American people are too simple to choose from "an array of products" in "a system as massive and complex as health care. That is for leaders to do."Behold the words of Donald Berwick -- doctor, Harvard professor, and Obama's n...

May 29, 2010

Louisiana Falling, Rising, Falling

In 2006, my wife and I traveled to New Orleans and visited the site of an unassuming two-story house on Navarre Avenue. A gaping top-to-bottom crack stared at me from one wall. A horizontal water line on the bricks four feet above my head marked a ch...

May 27, 2010

The FCC's Covert Mission to 'Balance' Broadcast Media Ownership

Should Americans be concerned about a Federal Communications Commission official having once suggested that if government doesn't help minorities reduce white ownership of broadcast media, then only violence would assure the protection of minorities'...

May 17, 2010

Barack Obama's FCC Information Police

The president warns us that Americans must beware of "the craziest claims" and "arguments" in which "information becomes a distraction" that puts "pressures" on "our democracy." What was behind Barack...

April 29, 2010

Planned Parenthood, a Social Disease

Planned Parenthood. The sensible-sounding name distracts from what the organization helps achieve: the cheapening of society.The mission of Planned Parenthood has changed since the days of founder Margaret Sanger. Among the eugenicist's progressive e...

April 21, 2010

Leaving Liberalism

With the classroom lights down low, our teacher Julie asked, "Feel that?"I looked at my empty hands and, echoing the class, I responded, "Oh...yeah."Julie whispered, "Move your hands closer together. Feels like you're squishi...

April 18, 2010

Cultural Marxism in Education: The Gathering Revolt

For decades now, American schools corrupted by cultural Marxism have been eroding the moral fiber and judgment skills of schoolchildren. Unless sensible parents and teachers put a stop to the indoctrination, today's free speech-crippling political co...

April 4, 2010

Love, Fear, and Tyranny

I was plenty scared in the fall of 2008. As the weather cooled and the economy collapsed, my financial security crumbled. Then, on November 4th, freedom and rational thought lost at the polls. A year and a half later, I feel powerless while the arrog...

March 27, 2010

Welcome to the Machine: Cultural Marxism in Education

Welcome to the machine.What did you dream? It's alright, we told you what to dream. - Roger WatersThe education machine that keeps churning out newbies conditioned in mind-blunting nonjudgmentalism has laid the groundwork for a left-wing takeove...

March 11, 2010

How to Pollute a Mind: Lessons from John Dewey and Van Jones

A new Ivy League "fellow" will soon have the opportunity to teach students his belief that white people are "steering poison into the people-of-color communities" and that America should give up its wealth to the American Indians....

March 8, 2010

Tell Us the Truth

In America, we are beginning to sense a nasty reality that President Obama must acknowledge: Our worst economic problems lie ahead, and fixing those problems is going to hurt -- plenty. Our federal government now runs a con game that promises people ...

February 27, 2010

Handgun Derangement Syndrome Grips Restaurateurs

"Honest adults with licensed guns, go away. Lawbreakers looking for sitting ducks, step right in." Actually, the sign at the entrance to the Phoenix, Arizona restaurant simply read, "No Firearms." I returned to my car and left.A w...

February 21, 2010

The Fraud of Progressive Nobility

Barack Obama has admitted the need to break his most celebrated campaign promise. Suddenly he is "agnostic" on increasing taxes for people earning less than $250,000. Nine years ago, as an Illinois state senator, Obama criticized the Suprem...

February 7, 2010

Obama, Freud, and the American Progressives' Guilt Trip

At the turn of the twentieth century, an early "progressive" Vermonter named John Dewey kick-started a makeover of America's education system. At the conclusion of the second of his seminal works, The School and Society and The Child and th...

January 22, 2010

Progressives and Their Fallacies

Ideology knows no cultural, political, or economic boundaries. Adherents to doctrinaire belief systems -- left, right, religious, anti-religious -- brush aside evidence that might tempt them to question their beliefs. Yet one critter inhabits a class...