March 4, 2016

Rubio's inflection point

Tim Huelskamp, a House Freedom Caucus member and Ted Cruz endorser, made a fascinating comment yesterday regarding Marco Rubio's Washington, D.C. transformation.  It is well-known that Senate conservatives (a lonely bunch, sadly) have reg...

January 20, 2016

Sarah Palin goes full Colin Powell on the Tea Party

The great irony of Colin Powell's 2008 endorsement of then-Senator Barack Obama was how closely GOP nominee John McCain fit Powell's ideal Republican.  Pro-immgrant?  McCain was Mr. Amnesty.  Inclusive of minorities?  The ...

June 26, 2014

Whew! That Was a Close One

Take a deep breath everyone; Mitch McConnell, Thad Cochran and most of their Establishment buddies are bringing home the electoral bacon. The terrifying run of conservative candidates unseating the old-timers may finally be over. McConnell and Cochra...

January 24, 2014

Just Like Carlos Danger

The New York Times on Thursday featured an exposé on what appears to be continued IRS targeting of conservatives, but this time, we're not talking about just any conservatives. In the tax agency's crosshairs is Hollywood's "Friends of Abe,"...

September 25, 2013

Why the Establishment Is Wrong and the Defund Gambit Can Work

"Dumbest idea I've ever heard."  "Can't happen."  "Picket had a better chance." So say some of the right's sharpest and most experienced political minds of the defund ObamaCare effort.  Finding Beltway critics of the defund gambit is...

August 27, 2013

5 Reasons Why a Constitutional Convention Is a Better Idea than Just Electing More Republicans

Mark Levin's new book The Liberty Amendments proposes that state legislatures use their Article V power to call a convention to propose new constitutional amendments for state ratification. The unorthodox process seems impractical at first -- it's ne...

August 15, 2013

Going Viral: Our family's true story of stepping into a media vortex

"ESPN AssignmentDesk" read the YouTube message subject line. The email came Monday night, 24 hours after we posted a three-minute video of our two-year-old son making basketball shots. Tuesday morning on my Wichita-based radio program, I proudly anno...

August 28, 2012

Those Secretive Mormons (Who Never Shut Up about Their Church)

With NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams and the ABC Nightly News running extensive (by network news standards) reports on Mormonism -- officially The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints -- many conservatives are concerned that Mitt Romney'...

December 7, 2011

Beck-Gingrich Interview Highlights European-Conservative Worldview

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December 5, 2011

Newt, the Not-So-Un-Romney

Of all the "Not-Romneys" to flash in the conservative-candidate pan, Newt Gingrich seems the most unlikely.  Not because Newt lacks a strong resume, political savvy, or admirable intellect, but because Gingrich is more like Romney than any other...

November 24, 2011

George Washington's Thanksgiving Wish

The first official United States Thanksgiving came on November 26, 1789.  In the first year of the Constitutional Republic, both houses of Congress recommended to George Washington that he set apart a day for "thanksgiving and payer."  Pres...

November 7, 2011

The Second-Most Important Election This Season

With the presidential election dominating the headlines, it's easy to lose track of the other significant political contests.  And while winning various Senate seats in red and purple states and retaking the Senate majority are high on the prior...

October 28, 2011

The Facts of Life Are Conservative, Even in Zuccotti Park

Peeking through Occupy Wall Street's cloudy drum sessions, group speeches, and celebrity visits are a few rays of reality's sunlight.  These glimmers of the real world show that even the campers of Zuccotti Park aren't immune to Margaret Thatche...

October 16, 2011

Raisin' [a Few Issues for the Purpose of Honestly Vetting Herman] Cain!

"I'm the only problem-solver in the group," Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain told Mike Huckabee in an August Fox News appearance.  Well, many candidates bill themselves as problem-solvers.  In fact, if we asked any candidate ru...

October 7, 2011

Marching for Shackles and Chains

History is littered with popular uprisings which overthrow one dictatorship only to turn around and embrace another.  From the French Revolution near the turn of the 18th century to what many fear to be happening in the Arab world today, revolut...

September 30, 2011

Justice Kennedy and the Fate of ObamaCare

It's been one year, six months, and eight days since it happened.  White-hot tempers have cooled.  Dire predictions are rarer.  Unlike many tumultuous situations, which in retrospect appear unworthy of our ire, the intensity that accom...

September 27, 2011

Obama Leads the Liberalism Parade

The president's newest 2012 election strategy gives mainstream Americans a rare look at the Democrat Party's voter base.  By now it's obvious that President Obama doesn't want Congress to pass his "jobs bill."  Neither does he have any inte...

September 16, 2011

The TARP Test

Almost completely ignored thus far in the Republican presidential race are the candidates' positions on the 2008 Troubled Asset Relief Program.  In many ways, TARP is the best measure we have for what kind of president each candidate could becom...

September 12, 2011

Obama's Gift Has Stopped Giving

Obama feels our economic pain.  We know this because he was so sincere as he addressed a joint session of Congress last Thursday.  Or at least he tried to sound that sincere.  The problem is that Obama struggles to come off empathetic,...

September 9, 2011

The Road to Hell Is Paved with 'Electable' Candidates

Electability is important.  Less important is what Republican Party intelligentsia deems "electable."  With primary season heating up, in both the race for president and other offices, we would do well to examine what kind of candidate is o...

September 5, 2011

Obama Leads the Liberalism Parade

The president's newest 2012 election strategy gives mainstream Americans a rare look at the Democrat Party's voter base.  By now it's obvious that President Obama doesn't want Congress to pass his "jobs bill."  Neither does he have any inte...

September 1, 2011

Perry Declares Sky Is Blue, Media Shocked

We can say one thing of the new GOP front-runner: Governor Rick Perry knows how to fire up a crowd.  The leftist media blew up this week when Perry reiterated a point from his book Fed Up! that Social Security and Medicare are Ponzi schemes. "Th...

August 25, 2011

Wanted: The Reagan Courage

Ronald Reagan is rightly remembered for his fortitude in disposing of Soviet Russia in the Cold War, but perhaps the bravest decision of his presidency was not a matter of foreign policy.  When Reagan gave Fed Chairman Paul Volcker the full poli...

August 18, 2011

All You Can Eat (Warren) Buffet

There is a smorgasbord of economic policy being enacted, defended and recommended lately. But buyer beware, the restaurant has a cockroach problem, a really bad one. Let's start with the Presidential Press Secretary Jay Carney, who recently extolled...

August 11, 2011

Class Warfare Erupts Into Just Plain Warfare

Lately it seems the only thing more sobering than America's creeping decline is Europe's rapid decline.  The riots in London put a painfully fine point on the dark future that awaits us.  It is true that Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Italy s...

August 6, 2011

Marco Rubio's House Divided Speech

The freshman senator from Florida once again has spoken a deep truth with elegance and clarity.   In Costa Rica there are two rivers that meet near a highway bridge -- one called the Río Sucio (dirty river) the other, the Río Claro (clear r...

July 29, 2011

I Won in an Historic Landslide and All I Got Was This Lousy Rounding Error

"I Won in a Historic Landslide and All I Got Was this Lousy Rounding Error." That's the t-shirt that Speaker Boehner should wear based on his debt ceiling plan. The scoring of the second iteration of the Boehner bill gave an estimate of $22 billion i...

July 22, 2011

Note to Bill O'Reilly: Congress Is Self-Destructive

Radio Host Mark Levin often points out the peculiar fact that a frequent target of Cable News King Bill O'Reilly's ire is...his own audience. Bill-O's contempt was on display last night when he accused the tea party movement of being "self-destructiv...

February 26, 2011

Virginia's novel approach to ending abortion

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February 18, 2011

Greece, Not Egypt

Demonstrators in Madison Wisconsin are eerily similar to recent protests abroad. The public employees holding signs and chanting slogans outside the state capital seem to recognize a parallel. One protester's sign, referring to newly elected Gov...

February 12, 2011

So smug, so wrong

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February 8, 2011

Investment in Decline

As the young year progresses, the dominoes of American decline continue to fall. From a White House soiree with Red China to President Obama's "investment"-plugging State of the Union to the Administration's response to Egypt's uprising, a ...

January 29, 2011

Keepers of the Gate

For those us feeling unthankful for the American Revolution, a recent U.K. Guardian column should stimulate our gratitude glands.  The article, which carries the regrettably non-satirical title "Free speech can't exist unchained," prov...

January 19, 2011

Beware the Victims

All great basketball players develop a "go-to" move. Go-to moves are offensive, usually used when a team needs a makeable shot in a difficult situation (such as in the final seconds of the shot or game clock). The move must be difficult to ...

November 6, 2010

The Establishment Strikes Back

At the climax of the 1977 film Star Wars, hero Luke Skywalker destroys the evil Empire's dreaded Death Star. The Rebellion's celebration, however, is short-lived. The movie series' next installment, The Empire Strikes Back, depicts the Empire's use o...

November 3, 2010

Beastly Delusion

Daily Beast founder and editor-in-chief Tina Brown recently penned an editorial of post-election advice for President Barack Obama. Like so many liberals in both media and politics, Brown insists that Obama's political troubles are anything but subst...

August 28, 2010

The Crisis President Finds No Issues with Social Security

President Obama, if nothing else, is a prolific discoverer of crises. In the short space of nineteen months, we have had a health care crisis, economic crisis, swine flu crisis, housing crisis, banking crisis, auto industry crisis, financial regulato...

August 13, 2010

America's Slipping Grasp on Self-Governance

One of the main grievances cited in the Declaration of Independence was King George's complete disregard of the people's will. As the Declaration asserts, the colonists' "repeated petitions [were] answered only by repeated injury." These wo...

April 23, 2010

More than meets the eye to GM payback story (Updated)

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March 23, 2010

Just who have the Democrats 'defeated' by passing Obamacare?

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March 13, 2010

Oh yes it is an abortion bill

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February 25, 2010

As Despotic as They Need to Be

After Scott Brown's unthinkable victory in Massachusetts, the health care fight appeared to be over. Americans exhaled slowly as we backed away from the edge of the Democrats' attempted takeover of the health care system. Freedom survived another sca...

January 5, 2010

Why the health care bill's benefits don't go into effect until 2014

10. Canadian health boards wanted four more years of having somewhere to send their citizens to get medical care. 9. The benefits were supposed to start sooner but Senator Baucus had a few too many before writing the bill. 8. Harry Reid do...

January 5, 2010

Didn't Work Before...Didn't Work After

CNN has posted a brief editorial from airline pilot Steve Danyluk, who was in the air after the underwear bomber attempted to bring down Flight 253. He writes in part:Following the attempt to bomb a passenger jet on Christmas Day, President Obama sa...

January 1, 2010

Please Pass the Mayo

The train wreck that is Obamacare just added another stop on its route. Bloomberg is reporting on a Mayo Clinic announcement that the medical care provider will drop thousands of Medicare patients from its Glendale Arizona clinic. More than 3,000 pa...

December 26, 2009

Dishonesty or Delusion?

Politico is reporting some astonishing statements made by Senate Democrat Leaders."This is a happy day. (Senate Republican Leader) Mitch McConnell said on the floor that we're going to go home and hear our constituents rail against this bill. I...

December 24, 2009

A Nation of Thieves

Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) stumbled on a profound truth in a recent interview with Bloomberg News. Bloomberg’s report on the interview states in part:New York Senator Charles Schumer defended the special Medicaid payments that Senator Ben N...

December 17, 2009

Stem Cell Promises vs. Stem Cell Results

In early December, the Obama administration approved 33 new embryonic stem cell lines (WaPo story here). For the left, embryonic testing has become a secular version of touching the hem of Christ’s garment -- the instant, miraculous, and conseq...

December 15, 2009

Oops! ...He Did It Again

The former Vice-President has been caught spewing climate propaganda again. This time claiming “fresh” climate models show that the northern polar ice cap could (75% chance) completely melt in as little as five years.Gore described the ne...

December 10, 2009

What Did Obama's People Say to the King of Norway?

News reports continue to circulate about the anger in Norway over the brevity of President Obama’s visit. Obama has declined invitations to various festivities traditionally attended by the Peace Prize recipient.In particular Obama has decline...

November 7, 2009

Blue Dog on a Short Leash

In one of the most blatant cases of campaign promise betrayals in recent memory, NY-23’s Bill Owens has recanted on four of his more moderate positions on health care. The first was his support of the “pubic option.” In summer...

October 23, 2009

When tyranny calls

In explanation for her "yes" vote on the Max Baucus created health care bill, Maine Senator Olympia Snowe said:"Is this bill all that I would want? Far from it. Is it all that it can be? No. But when history calls, history calls."...

October 22, 2009

Ratcheted Up

In an August posting on NRO’s The Corner titled “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Panels," Mark Steyn argued that moderate opposition to the health care bill might lead to the kind of compromise “that will get Democrats far eno...

October 16, 2009

Limbaugh Targeted By Obama Official

The plot thickens on the media’s character-lynching of Rush Limbaugh. Of the four stories run on ESPN.com about Limbaugh’s bid for the Rams (October 6, October 12, October 15, and another October 15) none of them mention that NFL Players ...

October 14, 2009

Rushing to Race Bait (Updated)

Reaction to Rush Limbaugh’s bid to become a minority owner in the St. Louis Rams football franchise has been breathtaking. The examples are too many to number, but a column by Fox Sports writer Jason Whitlock has all the hallmarks of the misgui...

October 8, 2009

Denied

Investors Business Daily has put out an editorial expanding on the recently publicized report by the American Medical Association on Medicare claim denial. From investors.com: As for denial of care, Medicare, which we've described as the government's...

October 6, 2009

Kevin Jennings Vision of Public Education

Breitbart.tv has linked to a YouTube audio clip where Obama’s Safe School Czar Kevin Jennings mocks the idea of prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality in public schools by saying heterosexual promotion already exists.In a speech in 2000 Je...

September 26, 2009

Political Investments

A California based company making luxury electric cars just got half billion dollar loan from the federal government.This from the Wall Street Journal: A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. gov...

September 22, 2009

Plain as Day

Somewhere around eighteen months of age, one of my darling children noticed that faces have two convenient, almost finger-sized slots. I remember one night in particular when this child was exploring the newly discovered openings. When asked to stop,...

September 22, 2009

What First Amendment?

Yesterday Kentucky’s Courier Journal newspaper reported that the fight against political free speech has reached new levels.Louisville-based Humana is under federal investigation for a mailing that asks seniors to protest proposed cuts in fund...

September 11, 2009

Shaping the Future

There is one line of Obama’s Wednesday night speech that keeps bothering me.  During the speech I, like many others, was frustrated by the president’s lies, manipulations and petty partisanship. But those feelings ebbed in the hour o...

September 8, 2009

The Emerging Obama Doctrine

With casualty counts rising in Afghanistan and generals calling for a change in strategy, our attention is being pulled from political threats to our freedom at home to violent threats to our freedom abroad. Nearly eight months into the Obama Adminis...

September 8, 2009

Other People's Money Part II

A couple of days ago, I wrote an AT blog post on a New York Times story about the Stimulus bill’s failure to stop a “green” company from going through major lay-offs. On Monday The New York Times ran a story on how the Stimulus ha...

September 7, 2009

Through Obama's Eyes

Bill O’Reilly’s weekly commentary has a somewhat shocking example of just how much panic has set in with the vaunted Obama machine. O’Reilly writes:President Obama…is now reeling under the pressure of his collapsing health c...

September 6, 2009

Other People's Money

It was a sublime March morning in Minnesota. The newly serving Vice President, flanked by no less than four cabinet secretaries and serving U.S. senator, basked in the success of the recently passed Stimulus bill. As evidence of big-government’...

September 6, 2009

Hats Off to WND

Van Jones’ ouster has come on the heals of some truly magnificent reporting. Radio and TV host Glenn Beck has received a lot of credit for putting the pressure on the Obama Administration to cut Jones loose. We are all grateful to Beck for usin...

September 5, 2009

Recession Proof Industry

Stable employment is increasingly hard to find these days. But there is one industry that, despite a sharp decrease in revenue, is on a hiring binge. This from bizjournals.com: Federal agencies will add more than 270,000 employees during the next th...

September 5, 2009

Need an MRI Aided Diagnosis?

The Times Colonist, a newspaper in British Columbia, is reporting bad news from the Victorian Island Health Authority for residents seeking an MRI. Though already overwhelmed with demand, the health authority is looking to reduce usage of the expens...

August 26, 2009

Death Panels and Decision Makers

When the town halls adjourn and the cameras stop rolling, the health care debate is about one thing: decisions. Issues like end-of-life counseling, comparative effectiveness boards, uninsured Americans, and rising health care costs all, when examined...

August 18, 2009

Starting to Fizzle

After $150 billion in election-year check writing, $700  billion in TARP funds (with a shocking $150 billion in pork to get it passed), $787 billion in “stimulus” funds, $2 trillion in secret Federal Reserve loans; after bailout...

August 18, 2009

A Gravitational Pull

The Dominion Post, a New Zealand newspaper, has a story that may prove prophetic for the future of American medical care.New Zealand’s vaunted public health care system is in dire financial straits after a decade of high health care inflation. ...

August 15, 2009

'Death panel' is not in the bill... it already exists

Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin has come under fire for her Facebook post accusing President Obama and the Democrats of including a "death panel" provision the health care bill. The Associated Press recently ran a 'Fact Check' article rebutting P...

August 14, 2009

'Oh, Big-Spending Obama'

At the last Obamacare town hall meeting, the President was asked how it would be possible to pay for a new multi-trillion dollar entitlement without raising taxes on virtually everybody. In typical Obama fashion, he began by masking his plan’s ...

July 31, 2009

Finding What Works [For Big Business] In Health Care

William Weldon, chairman and CEO of the global pharmaceutical device company Johnson and Johnson, recently wrote a piece for the Washington Post endorsing a “permanent comparative effectiveness institute.” The institute would “help...

July 30, 2009

Skinned Cats and Tyrants

As the old saying goes, there's more than one way to skin a cat. By the same token, there is more than one way to lose liberty. Specifically, liberty can be taken away or given away.Perhaps history's most famous example of giving away freedom is the ...

July 24, 2009

'It Is All About Me'

Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox pitched Major League Baseball’s 18th perfect game yesterday. It is a remarkable feat to stop all 27 consecutive highly paid and extremely talented hitters. So remarkable in fact that President Barack Obama ...

July 7, 2009

Lunacy on Parade

Attempting to break the mold of mindlessness, the Washington Post’s Richard Cohen has unleashed the full fury of his intellectual prowess on Sarah Palin. Cohen’s piece manages to slog out 770 words without squeezing out an ounce of subst...

June 28, 2009

The Come Back To Haunt Us Kid

David Weidner from MarketWatch has dubbed former President Bill Clinton the Come Back to Haunt Us Kid for his role in the financial troubles at the core of our recession. Weidner point to three Clinton missteps that helped sink America's economic bo...

June 23, 2009

Not this Time

President Obama recently appeared on the CBS Early Show. During the interview, Harry Smith pressed him about his silence on the protests in Iran. Similar to previous responses, the president said:The last thing that I want to do is to have the Unite...

June 1, 2009

At a Certain Point

President Obama removed his class-warrior hat long enough to spend $74k on a date with the First Lady last weekend. The trip to New York to take in a Broadway show was a campaign promise the President made to his wife.The RNC circulated an email sl...

April 23, 2009

Treasury's 'Pre-package,' Gift Wrapped for the Auto Unions

The New York Times is reporting that the Treasury Department is preparing a bankruptcy filing for Chrysler. The priorities of the filing tell quite a story about the Administration’s philosophy.For the unions:The U.A.W., Chrysler and Treasury ...

April 12, 2009

Is Geithner a Financial Genius? (No, Seriously)

Not long ago the press and politicians alike were singing the praises of the eminently qualified, uniquely equipped Treasury Secretary. His genius and experience would navigate America's economy through financial turmoil and guide us to prosperity ag...

March 31, 2009

Obama's Most Telling Answer

Liberal columnist E.J. Dionne got it right when he recognized that the charitable deduction question was the most significant moment of the recent presidential press conference. (Now no one can say I never agree with a liberal.)Like so many of Presid...

January 20, 2009

Bizarro Lincoln

The DC Comics' Bizarro World is home to all earthly opposites. On the Bizarro planet Htrae (Earth backwards), failing investments are celebrated, doing good is a crime and even Superman, known as Bizarro, is evil. It also happens to be the only place...

January 3, 2009

Is Religion Necessary?

The least understood idea presented in Mitt Romney's 2007 speech on religion was his statement, "Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom." From Left to Right this comment was savaged and belittled. Neither Romney's speec...