March 25, 2018

Time for Republicans to stay home in 2018?

No one likes the congressional spending bill that President Trump signed "as a matter of national security" last week, so let's all stay home in November and let the Democrats ride into power and finish off the Trump project forever....

March 20, 2018

Senate GOP strategists betting the ranch on Trump

The Senate GOP is betting the ranch that President Trump can deliver a bigger Senate majority in the 2018 midterm election.  Burgess Everett and Kevin Robillard at politico.com report that "Trump will be front and center in every state...

March 13, 2018

Red-state senator Jon Tester gets a 'zero' on Trump agenda votes

Two-term Montana Democratic senator Jon Tester has joined a chorus of red-state Democrats with a newfound affinity for Trump voters after continually voting with the Democratic caucus against the president's agenda. In his quest for re-electio...

March 7, 2018

New FBI stats counter the media's anti-gun culture war

A liberal media "eager to find a tipping point in the gun debate" declare that Second Amendment-supporters "are losing the culture war against guns" and that gun sales are "plummeting" because "Americans don't b...

March 1, 2018

Will the 1994 'assault weapons effect' play in the 2018 midterms?

Does the specter of the now expired 1994 assault weapons ban haunt the gun-control Democrats?  Former Hillary Clinton campaign strategist Mark Penn raises the question at thehill.com: Democrats in 1994 believe they paid a heavy price f...

February 21, 2018

Debunking more media gun control myths

The long-running TV show MythBusters employs real-life experiments to "test the validity" of various myths and popular notions.  Two recent media narratives against the National Rifle Association (NRA) could us...

February 14, 2018

Remington files bankruptcy; media blame Trump

An icon of American gun manufacturing has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, as reuters.com has reported: Remington Outdoor Company Inc, one of the largest U.S. makers of firearms, said on Monday it had reached a deal with its creditors to file fo...

February 7, 2018

Trump the ‘anti-progressive’

Candidate Trump’s alleged lack of conservative bona fides became a raison d’être for the #NeverTrump faction of the Republican party. Yet President Trump’s actions in office bear all the hallmarks of a conservative presidency....

January 31, 2018

Can Amazon healthcare parry single-payer?

The announcement that Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. will “create a nonprofit health care company to cut costs and improve services for their combined 1.1 million workers” could portend a private-sector...

January 24, 2018

Blue-state pension plans 'jeopardized' by virtue-signalling investments in social causes

Blue-state pension fund managers "advancing social causes over financial results" are "jeopardizing" their pension funds, with taxpayers ultimately on the hook for those misguided investment decisions. The Wall Street Journal...

January 17, 2018

Which 'sinkhole states' are most at risk from the GOP tax bill?

Forbes financial writer William Baldwin asks which "sinkhole states" will have the biggest headaches from the GOP tax bill: These are places where the population dependent on the state – for employment, welfare[,] or a pension ...

January 10, 2018

Donald Trump, jiu-jitsu president

Scott Adams argues in Win Bigly that President Trump has "weapons grade" persuasion skills.  In the tumble over Fire and Fury, those skills are on display, as Trump deploys political jiu-jitsu to suck up the "media energy...

January 3, 2018

The GOP's Obamacare dilemma

In the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections, the Republicans have an Obamacare dilemma on their hands.  As politico.com reports, the GOP is divided on what comes next following the repeal of the individual mandate.  They "don't wan...

December 27, 2017

Democrats 'roiled' by 2018 impeachment talk

In the vacuum of ideas that is today's Democratic Party, removing President Trump from office is the single unifying force among the Democrat base.  According to politico.com, "[p]olls on the question show as many as three-quarters of D...

December 20, 2017

The 'blue wave theory of 2018' doesn't hold much water

The media can't get enough of polls that say the Republicans are toast in 2018.  Yet a look beyond the headlines paints a different picture. Democrat wins in blue New Jersey, purple Virginia, and red Alabama prove that the Democrats will ...

December 12, 2017

Why can't the GOP win the tax bill messaging game?

The Democrats are beating the Republicans, as usual, in the tax bill messaging game.  While the Republicans "fret" and "worry" about the alleged "unpopularity" of the tax cut bill, the Democrats "slam" ...

December 6, 2017

Sorry, Dems: Trump economic train is leaving the station

As the Republicans turn to merging the House and Senate tax bills, the Democrats know that the Trump economic train is leaving the station without them.  A new president brimming with economic optimism has produced massive deregulation and a ...

November 29, 2017

GOP tax cut clears another hurdle, but potential defectors remain

The GOP tax bill has cleared another hurdle, with approval by a party-line vote of 12-11 in the Senate Budget Committee Tuesday afternoon, thehill.com reports.  Two Republican holdouts voted "for the measure after previously expressing conc...

November 22, 2017

Op-ed: 'Stupidity of capitalism' causes global warming

A New York Times opinion piece argues that climate change "catastrophe" is the result not of careless individuals, "immoral companies," or "foundering" reforms, but rather of "the rampant stupidity of capitalism...

November 15, 2017

Do Republicans want to lose in the 2018 midterms?

Newly combative Democrats are counting on anti-Trump fever to drive 2018 election turnout, while apprehensive Republicans debate running as Jeb Bush or winning as Donald Trump. In a scene reminiscent of the throngs of people attending Tea Party me...

November 8, 2017

Trump and the 'war for the soul of America'

Is Donald Trump "one of the greatest electoral mistakes in the life of the nation," or is he "all that now stands in the way of the completion of what was started in 2009"? It depends how you look at it.  "We are in a...

November 1, 2017

Is there any key demographic Northam for governor is not bungling?

In a state Hillary Clinton won by five points, Ralph Northam, the Democratic nominee to succeed longtime Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe as Virginia governor, should be coasting to victory, but several key demographics in the state may not break the rig...

October 24, 2017

401(k) changes 'shot down' by Trump were 'juicy target' for GOP tax-writers

GOP tax writers are "scrambling to find new revenue sources" to pay for tax cuts, as chicagotribune.com reports, which explains why limiting tax-deferred 401(k) retirement plan contributions was such a "juicy target" before the id...

October 18, 2017

Is Trump obsessed with wrecking Obama's legacy or simply keeping his promises?

The award-winning television show Meeting of Minds, created by Steve Allen in the 1970s, featured such characters as Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Karl Marx, and Marie Antoinette discussing the issues of the day. The latest meeting of minds feat...

October 11, 2017

Is Trump really that hard to understand?

Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) recently said "I don't understand" President Trump.  New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has said the same thing, as has CNN's Don Lemon.  The New York Times even posted an op-ed this weekend about p...

October 3, 2017

Democrats politicize Las Vegas while Trump prays for grieving families

Even as the president prays that God "bless the souls of the lives that are lost" and "give us the grace of healing" and "provide the grieving families with strength to carry on" in the wake of Las Vegas, Democratic poli...

September 27, 2017

President Trump has finally thrown down the gauntlet

A medieval knight would challenge an opponent by throwing his "heavy, armored glove," or gauntlet, at the feet of his opponent, thus "throwing down the gauntlet."  After years of Republican indifference and acquiescence to th...

September 20, 2017

Democrats scrambling back to the breach to 'save Obamacare'

After a dreamy fling with Bernie's single-payer plan, Democrat pols and pundits are back in full battle mode to "save Obamacare." Just when the Democrats thought "the battle to protect Obamacare was won," and they could sig...

September 15, 2017

Could Democrat embrace of single-payer 'hand Trump a second term'?

In a crowded waiting room at the doctor's office yesterday, "welcome to Medicare" was the desk clerk's answer to a patient asking why his visit was not covered.  That was followed by a verbal altercation, complete with F-bombs,...

September 8, 2017

Hillary 'Rodney Dangerfield' Clinton gets no respect

The late Rodney Dangerfield found that his early attempts at comedy "didn't pay the bills," but his later "I don't get no respect" routine is legendary.  Hillary Clinton's early campaign attempts at humor were a f...

September 6, 2017

Trump DACA order channels 'I am not a king' Obama

Unlike former President George W. Bush, who had the grace to "stay silent" on his successor's actions, former president Obama just can't help joining the fray as he sees his failed legacy falling apart.  Just as he inserted ...

August 29, 2017

Voters 'tasting betrayal' by swamp-dwelling Republicans

Republican voters are "tasting betrayal" at the hands of swamp-dwelling Republicans who are failing to act on the Trump agenda – and their own promises. In a scathing column at breitbart.com, Brent Bozell contends that the Republic...

August 22, 2017

Some people just can't admit 'Fake News' is a problem

Almost no one disagreed with the president when he kicked off his return to the White House with several tweets on the "very dishonest Fake News Media." The liberal press instead used Trump's "fake news" tweets for headline...

August 15, 2017

Coming soon: Moderate Republicans to bail out Obamacare exchanges?

In the wake of the failure to repeal the problem known as Obamacare, a group of "moderate" Democrats and Republicans, who call themselves the "Problem Solvers Caucus," are attempting to push the bailout of Obamacare exchange insur...

August 2, 2017

Wishful thinking won't win elections for Democrats

Democrat wishful thinking may be getting ahead of electoral reality, if a mcclatchydc.com article headlined "Dems are starting to win state races in Trump districts" is any indication. Writer Alex Roarty, in the post linked at drudgerepo...

July 25, 2017

Now we know why the CBO is stuck on 22 million, 22 million...

Like a broken record, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) keeps repeating "22 million, 22 million, 22 million."  While most of us merely puzzle at the incongruity of getting the same answer from the CBO no matter the question, Avik R...

July 18, 2017

California economic reality may dim the Kamala Harris star

While California's Senator Kamala Harris has become the latest flame of big-money Obama-Clinton backers – "the big Democratic star right now, at a time when they badly need a star" – the economic picture in her home state ma...

July 11, 2017

Kennedy retirement rumors fueling liberal angst

Liberal anxiety is spiking again over renewed rumors of the possible retirement of Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy.  A Monday usnews.com report by Joseph P. Williams says, "Kennedy reportedly dropped a low-key bombshell" last wee...

July 4, 2017

Republicans balking on Obamacare repeal will get Democrat laughter, not votes

A 2010 book titled The High Tide of American Conservatism recounts the 1924 election campaign in which two candidates, a Republican and a Democrat, ran as conservatives favoring limited government, individual freedom, and low taxes.  The two ...

June 27, 2017

Republicans at the crossroads on Obamacare repeal

Republican senators have reached the crossroads on repealing Obamacare.  They can either begin their long promised dismantling of the health care law or succumb to the doomsday rhetoric from a Democratic Party that has lost over 1,000 state and ...

June 20, 2017

Republican health reform: First, do no harm

"First do no harm," a maxim often attributed to the Hippocratic Oath, is the advice from former House speaker Newt Gingrich to Senate Republicans as they work toward their stated goal of passing a health reform bill before the July 4 recess...

June 14, 2017

Democrat forebodings: Obamacare about to be derailed

Democrats are in a desperate race to derail the Trump presidency before the president completely derails the Obama agenda.  And media Democrats are betraying their fear that Obamacare, the crown jewel of Obama's presidency, may be close to t...

June 6, 2017

Politicians' 'weak platitudes' won't stop terrorism. And the people know that.

A New York Post article on the London Bridge terrorist attack points to the results of an unarmed police force and a disarmed populace: A rookie London transit cop was stabbed in the face while bravely fighting off the London Bridge terrorists...

June 1, 2017

The anti-Trump brigade is out of ideas

If the "anti-Trump brigade" ever succeeds in driving the newly elected president from office, will America return to "normalcy"?  John Kass explores the question at chicagotribune.com: The Democrats and Beltway media eli...

May 16, 2017

The electoral folly of unbalanced liberals

Ann Coulter recently said she thinks all "Trump true believers are petrified," as reported by the Daily Caller's Alex Pfeiffer.  But at least one Trump supporter thinks loony liberal behavior shows that the president is on the righ...

May 9, 2017

Senate Democrats sliding into 'irrelevancy'

As Democrats channel their inner resistance and follow their leaders to the left, they may be sliding into irrelevance, according to former New Hampshire Republican governor and senator Judd Gregg. In a column at thehill.com, linked at realclearpo...

May 5, 2017

Democrats unhinged over Obamacare dismantling

Democrats have long been the masters of messaging, adept at churning out emotion-packed sound bites, endlessly repeated, to drown out any viewpoint but their own. But on the subject of Obamacare repeal and replacement, congressional Democrats have...

April 26, 2017

Trump's 100 days: Democrat rage abounds

Amid the flurry of reports on Trump's first 100 days, one thing is for certain: the president has produced "100 days of Democratic rage," as a Politico column by Gabriel Debenedetti is titled. Debenedetti contends that the furious di...

April 18, 2017

Democrats roll out the 'Bernie Band-Aid Tour' for 2018

The sad sack Democratic Party, lacking any viable plan for 2018, is once again featuring Bernie Sanders, who is headlining a six-day, seven-state "unity" tour labeled "Come Together and Fight Back," thehill.com reports. Underli...

April 5, 2017

Democrat base demands 'dumbest' filibuster in Senate history

The Democrats' expected filibuster of Judge Neil Gorsuch may be the "dumbest" in the Senate's history, as Rich Lowry writes at the New York Post, but it's all about keeping their agitated base at bay. Nate Silver, writing at ...

March 28, 2017

We can 'slowly decommission' Obamacare and rebuild one step at a time

In the run-up to the demise of the Paul Ryan health care bill, the Democrats were strangely quiet, as if they knew that the House plan was little bark and no bite.  The Republicans need to put some teeth into the next iteration of Obamacare repe...

March 21, 2017

Reining in the administrative state will require more than a scalpel

The president's recent executive order aimed at the "deconstruction of the administrative state" will require changing "the rules of the game," argues Ned Ryun at thefederalist.com: If there is to be real change in our fo...

March 8, 2017

Trump riding herd on Congress to pass Obamacare repeal

The House health care bill, dubbed the American Health Care Act (AHCA), is taking heat from all sides, perhaps a sign that the House Republicans who wrote the plan are in the area of the target. Consider the facets of opposition: Three Senat...

March 1, 2017

It's 'gut check' time for Republicans

The Obama Democrats had the guts.  We'll soon find out if the Trump Republicans do. The Obama Democrats spent more than a year forcing Obamacare to the finish line, seizing the opportunity to achieve their deeply held goal, at great cost ...

February 24, 2017

How far left are the Democrats going?

The Democratic National Committee is meeting this week to choose a new leader, and the likely election of either of the two leading candidates, Minnesota congressman Keith Ellison and former Obama labor secretary Tom Perez, would confirm "anothe...

February 15, 2017

Is Hillary haunted by what might have been?

Persistent rumors of Hillary Clinton's 2020 presidential aspirations are not sitting well with the left-wing media. Politico's Matt Latimer claims he can prove that Hillary is "running again": And the facts are clear that th...

February 9, 2017

When do we kill the 'fake filibuster'?

Betsy McCaughey, writing at the New York Post, suggests that "it's time to kill the 'fake filibuster,'" adding that doing so is not so much "going nuclear" as "going original." McCaughey's "fake f...

February 5, 2017

Federal funds to sanctuary cities exceed the cost of building the wall

The federal government spends more every year funding sanctuary cities than it would cost to build a wall on our southern border. The Washington Examiner highlights a new report that says the federal government spends nearly $27 billion annually o...

January 31, 2017

Will Trump's Supreme Court battle go nuclear?

Jonathan Tobin predicts that the coming battle over President Trump's Supreme Court nomination is "sure to go nuclear." Writing at the New York Post, Tobin says Harry Reid's elimination of the Senate filibuster, requiring 60 vote...

January 24, 2017

Is Hillary plotting a return to politics?

Even washed up politicians know a political vacuum when they see one, and the Clintons are no exception. The New York Post reports that "Hillary Clinton is looking for a path to return to the political fray," referencing a Politico colum...

January 18, 2017

The House GOP's very bad tax idea

The House Republicans' proposed border adjustment tax sets a "nasty political and economic trap for Donald Trump," as Forbes writes: Few people are even aware of what the Republicans are getting ready to hit them with. There has be...

January 16, 2017

Health care after the Obamacare repeal

The Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner provides a helpful guide to the changes we can expect after Obamacare repeal in a three-part article at the New York Post. The first installment explores the general contours of a replacement health c...

January 10, 2017

Republicans have no choice but to keep the rug under Obamacare’s newly insured

Democrat rhetoric over the past few days would have us believe that the “Republican plan to replace Obamacare” is “nonexistent,” as a New York Times op-ed by Nicholas Kristof declares. The Republicans have no shortage ...

January 6, 2017

Hypersensitive media respond hysterically to a simple question

Poking fun at a media bubble still in shock over Hillary Clinton's loss is bound to elicit "hysterical" responses.  Writing at The Federalist, and linked at Real Clear Politics, Sean Davis sets the stage: Even after a presi...

December 31, 2016

How is outgoing Obama planning to defend Obamacare?

Repeal action on President Obama's health care law is about to heat up after the New Year, as Politico reports: President Barack Obama will head to Capitol Hill Wednesday to meet with congressional Democrats about how to shield Obamacare fro...

December 24, 2016

'Winter Wonderland' and the somber story of the man who composed it

The festive sounds of "Winter Wonderland" echoing across the air during the Christmas season become a bit more poignant after reading the story of the aspiring songwriter's untimely passing shortly after the first recording of the song....

December 20, 2016

Trump owes nothing to the 'Bush Barnacles'

Hillary Clinton's Democrats are now three-time losers, having lost the election, lost the recounts, and lost the electoral college, but the Republicans will be winners in 2020 only if they keep their promises. Michael Goodwin, writing at the N...

December 13, 2016

Jill Stein recount charade is over. Fini. Kaput.

A federal judge has put the final nail in the Jill Stein recount campaign, denying Stein's motion for a court-ordered recount in Pennsylvania, citing, among other things, the "judicial fire drill" that ensued after Stein "inexcusab...

December 10, 2016

Trump's EPA offensive will be the scientific cat fight of our time

After eight years of torment at the hands of President Obama and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, the electoral shoe is now on the other foot, with Republican President-Elect Donald Trump preparing to take the helm in January. The real battle to co...

December 5, 2016

Stein taking Pennsylvania recount to federal court

In her latest move to scramble the vote count, Jill Stein has now announced that she will seek “an emergency federal court order” on Monday in an attempt to force a recount of the entire Pennsylvania presidential vote, just hours after dr...

November 30, 2016

Jill Stein pays the $3.5-million tab to start the Wisconsin recount

Jill Stein's recount operation has ponied up $3.5 million to start the Wisconsin presidential election recount.  WISC-TV reports: Stein faced a 4:30 p.m. deadline to deliver the money so a recount could start on Thursday. The Wisconsin ...

November 27, 2016

Jill Stein's vote count madness

Jill Stein's Presidential recount scheme has been dismissed by some as "nothing more than an expensive political stunt" and a "gimmick to promote Stein and the Green Party." But leftists are experts at deploying deception a...

November 20, 2016

Be wary of Democrats bearing gifts

The political edifice that was the top-down command structure of the Democratic Party has finally been washed away, but the Democrats "appear to be doubling down on being wrong," writes Patrick Howley at the American Spectator. In the wa...

November 13, 2016

Hillary, Trump and the Rust Belt vote

Donald Trump's stunning breach of the Democratic "blue wall" in the upper Midwest Rust Belt turned on more than just polls and party loyalties. Speaking of the Trump supporters he met while covering the election in northeastern Ohio ...

November 6, 2016

Reports of Trump's demise are wishful thinking

The state of the presidential race after Donald Trump has proved the pundits wrong again is that Yogi Berra was right again: "It ain't over till it's over." The Hill reports that Charlie Cook, publisher of the Cook Political Repo...

November 1, 2016

Peter Thiel: Trump's agenda about making America normal again

Silicon Valley investor and billionaire Peter Thiel has delivered a spirited defense of the Trump agenda for change, focusing in a wide-ranging speech on the failures of leadership and the future of the Republic. Mr. Thiel says he is "voting ...

October 25, 2016

Can the long and sordid Clinton record render the polls meaningless?

Every corner of the media is pouring cold water on what they view as the wreckage of the Trump campaign.  It is so pervasive that one friend, an ardent Trump supporter, said he listens to nothing but his own thoughts. The message is to move b...

October 18, 2016

Is poll-leading Hillary Clinton the Ghost Candidate?

Hillary Clinton is all but measuring the drapes for the Oval Office, but some things in this campaign don't add up: Trump supporter Wayne Allen Root paints Hillary Clinton as the political equivalent of the "ghost cities" of China th...

October 11, 2016

Will Paul Ryan's panic attack hurt down-ballot Republicans?

The stream of down-ballot Republicans breaking with the Trump campaign over Mr. Trump's past vulgar language has now been capped by the notice from House speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that "he will not defend or appear with" Mr. Trump, and...

October 4, 2016

Sarah Palin led to Donald Trump, whines the president

The president continues to blame everyone but himself for opposition to his agenda.  In an extensive interview with New York magazine, subtitled in part as "a very early draft of his memoirs," the president feigns concern that ordin...

September 27, 2016

Obama's climate change agenda faces crucial court hearing today

The Obama Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) climate change mandate goes to court yet again today, as the D.C. Court of Appeals hears oral arguments on the EPA Clean Power Plan. The Washington Examiner reports that the Clean Power Plan: ...

September 20, 2016

DC Trump supporters feeling the heat

The Washington GOP establishment are not taking kindly to their Trump-supporting colleagues.  The Hill recounts the "Beltway iciness": Old allies in Washington and across the establishment Northeast are no longer on spea...

September 14, 2016

More double-dealing at State

Secretary of State John Kerry appears to have followed the Clinton lead in enriching his family at taxpayer expense, according to a report by the Daily Caller: More than $9 million of Department of State money has been funneled through the Peace C...

January 20, 2016

Are you ready for the return of Anthony Weiner?

Hillary Clinton's campaign vice chair and confidante, Huma Abedin, is at the center of a new documentary on her husband Anthony Weiner's failed New York City mayoral campaign, potentially adding to the woes of the beleaguered Clinton presiden...

February 16, 2015

Of Presidents and Principles

In a subtle loss of historical context, President’s Day suggests vague notions of presidents to be honored, along with blowout sales at the local shopping mall. Yet, as Larry Kudlow points out in a Townhall column, Whatever happened to Wa...

September 22, 2014

NJ Newspaper calls for Mandatory Gun Buybacks

Anti-gun politicians and media types use terms like “common sense” and “reasonable” gun restrictions when the unspoken agenda often is to eliminate as much gun ownership as possible. But over the weekend, the largest and mo...

September 12, 2014

Could negative ads backfire on the Democrats?

Desperate politicians who can’t defend their own record invariably turn to the old standby of negative ads, and this year’s crop of endangered Senate Democrats is no different. With less than two months to go until Election Day, Obama...

May 22, 2014

Palin unloads both barrels on partisan media

From Fast and Furious to Benghazi, and from the IRS to the VA, the national media has assiduously covered President Obama’s tracks from start to finish, and is no doubt preparing to do the same for possible presidential candidate Hillary Clinto...

April 7, 2014

Washington's stationary bandits

The notion of bigger government as the panacea for every ill foils many a call for limited government and personal liberty.  In a lengthy but enlightening essay, linked at National Review as “Suggested reading for President Obama,...

March 8, 2014

California gun shop drops the smart gun after furious backlash

A California shooting club that was “the only outlet in the country” selling the first smart gun is “facing a furious backlash from customers and gun rights supporters,” as reported by Michael S. Rosenwald in the Washington Po...

February 16, 2014

Network Policing and the FCC

The Obama Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has developed a new scheme to regulate reporting and editorial discretion in American newsrooms. An Investors Business Daily editorial, which was also discussed on Mark Levin's radio show, describes ...

January 18, 2014

Chris Christie, Talking Republican

To the chagrin of Democratic politicians and pundits, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie seems so far to have emerged relatively unscathed from the media feeding frenzy over the George Washington Bridge traffic tie-up scandal, according to several ne...

December 8, 2013

Steyn: The Obama era's neo-feudalism

Mark Steyn's latest column, posted at National Review, considers the handiwork of our brilliant elites who are spawning a "post-work economy," featuring an ever-growing "dependency class" and a "vast bureaucracy that ministers to them," with the pres...

December 4, 2013

Obamacare slogs onward

As the dust clears from the initial implosion of HealthCare.gov, the Obamacare slow-motion wrecking ball continues churning unobstructed through the private health insurance market, the medical delivery system and the lives of private citizens. Wha...

October 14, 2013

White House "deeply embarrassed" by ObamaCare Rollout

A weekend New York Times article acknowledges that the dreaded "third world experience" perfectly describes the public unveiling of Obama's healthcare makeover. While some Republicans have been concerned that the government shutdown has "covered for...

October 11, 2013

Irish Government Doctors Go on Strike

Government doctors at all of Ireland's public hospitals held a one-day strike this week, in a "long-running dispute" over government-mandated work hours: ... doctors are routinely required to be available for work for stretches of as many as 36 ho...

September 14, 2013

Harry Reid's frightful day

The most powerful man in the Senate has cast aside those who would delay and defund ObamaCare as "anarchists...playing juvenile political games," as though one sweep of his scepter would send the unserious and unseemly jesters away from his court. Se...

August 11, 2013

The President's ObamaCare Straw Man

Leave it to President Obama, with one foot out the door, to sling one more verbal jab at any Republicans who have the temerity to oppose his health care law. In a Friday afternoon presser before his vacation getaway, the president called efforts to...

August 2, 2013

Newspaper editor's 'shove it' Obama headline a firing offense

The Blaze has reported, and Fox News has also picked up, that an editor at the Chattanooga Times Free Press was fired for marking the occasion of President Obama's recent Chattanooga visit with an editorial titled "Take your jobs plan and shove it, M...

June 23, 2013

John Kerry's Bay State Fleecing

ObamaCare has been defined by one con after another, from inception to implementation, from political kickbacks to "keep your doctor."  Only a Supreme Court thumb on the scale allowed the law to even see the light of day. And now we continue t...

June 18, 2013

Obama's upside down enemies list

From the first days of his Presidency Obama has created legions of straw men in service of his agenda, demonizing opponents real and imagined in the process. But imaginary straw men in the Obama era become real enemies of a "rogue government," as V...

May 11, 2013

Open mike reveals NJ gun-banners' intentions

Following a New Jersey Senate gun-control hearing, the mike was left open, and three anti-gun state Senators waded in feet first. A recording of the post-game chat has been picked up by the Newark Star-Ledger, a reliably liberal paper: As a comm...

March 13, 2013

Is momentum shifting away from Obama?

Momentum shifts often go unnoticed at first, turning on seemingly inconsequential events.  But such events often reflect underlying currents. With an aggressive second-term agenda of climate change, immigration reform, tax reform, gun control,...

February 26, 2013

The Ruling Party and the Country Party, Part 2

In the summer of 2010, Angelo Codevilla's seminal essay on the separation of Americans into a Ruling Party and a Country Party set the tone for the November 2010 Republican landslide. Professor Codevilla's new sequel, at Forbes.com, makes the case t...

February 21, 2013

VDH on 'The revolutions we missed'

Contemplating President Obama's once-heralded transformation of our nation, Victor Davis Hanson observes that "most of us are still not quite aware of how vastly different the world of 2013 is from even 2008." Hanson notes that just as we were scarce...

January 18, 2013

Rubio: The president doesn't believe in the Second Amendment

In the wake of President Obama's gun control press conference, Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has called out the President in what Human Events calls a "2nd Amendment gut check": I think that the President - and he just doesn't have the guts to admi...

January 3, 2013

The calm in the eye of the ObamaCare storm

After the defeat of the candidate who would repeal the President's health care law, we have entered a "period of relative calm," as the bureaucrats ready the rollout later this year.  But the political storm may be renewed in its "full fury" as ...

December 26, 2012

NRA's LaPierre Getting the Alinsky Treatment

Since the NRA's Wayne LaPierre proposed armed security for every school, the left has reacted with the same Alinsky tactics used on Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney -- freeze the target, personalize it, demonize it. Within minutes of the NRA press co...

December 4, 2012

Crony Capitalism at HHS

Combine the tight schedule for the Obamacare insurance exchanges with billions of taxpayer dollars, little Congressional oversight, and enormous political pressure to reelect the president, and curious events ensue. With at least twenty states declin...

November 16, 2012

Can Romney's loss help Republicans?

Just ten days after the election, it already looks like rough sledding ahead for whoever sits in the Oval Office.  And the fact that it is not Mitt Romney may ultimately help Republicans. Bret Stephens writes in the Wall Street Journal: And tho...

November 9, 2012

Obamacare: Buyer's remorse?

Obamacare repeal was a severe election casualty, but the very untenable nature of the law may force Congress to take another look, and slow down or change some budget-breaking and job-killing features of the law. Stuart M. Butler of the Heritage Foun...

November 4, 2012

Obama's covert plans to bail out the cities

The President has correctly stated in his recent jobs plan booklet that this election is a "choice between two fundamentally different visions for the future," but he has been less than forthcoming about just what vision he has in mind. Author Stanle...

October 21, 2012

Obama Goes Off-Teleprompter on Gun Control

With a pre-selected question surely meant to paint Mitt Romney into a corner with the NRA, debate moderator Candy Crowley instead induced the president to go off-teleprompter with his thoughts on gun control. The audience member asked: President Oba...

September 21, 2012

Republican Senate majority hopes in danger

With 23 Democrat Senate seats and only 10 Republican seats up for election this year, a Republican Senate majority was supposed to be within easy reach.  The only question was how big a majority. But with about six weeks until the election, a di...

September 11, 2012

Soaring rhetoric, sorry record

In the wake of the President's post-convention bounce, another Walter Russell Meade blog post suggests that while the President is "not in immediate danger of retracing Jimmy Carter's career trajectory," there is a potential danger for Obama - and op...

September 7, 2012

Obama, the 'fourth transformative progressive'

First Lady Michelle Obama's convention speech observed that "being President doesn't change who you are... it reveals who you are." And George Will, writing for the Washington Post, in like manner observes that in 2008 Barack Obama was America's Ror...

August 9, 2012

The Left-Wing Money Machine

Democrats and the media like to paint Republicans as the party of big money, calling out Karl Rove and the Koch Brothers, when in reality the progressive money machine vastly outweighs conservative sources of funds.  The Democrat money advantage...

July 29, 2012

Mark Steyn fillets authoritarian mayors

While Rush Limbaugh cut right to the chase on Chick-fil-A, calling out the "Stalinist" tactics of several big-city mayors for their "direct assault on Christianity," the inimitable Mark Steyn was busy with a fine-point pen. Referring to a Chicago ald...

July 4, 2012

Can the states unravel ObamaCare?

Most states have not yet established health care exchanges under the Affordable Care Act, and therein lies a potential snag for the master planners of ObamaCare. Referring to last week's Supreme Court ruling, Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute, pos...

July 1, 2012

'Hi. I'm from the IRS and I'm here to help'

The President's post-Roberts talking points belie the cold reality that 21 new taxes, including the individual mandate, in his namesake health care law will drive all of us into the waiting arms of the Internal Revenue Service. A column by Elizabeth ...

May 16, 2012

Third party Americans Elect fizzles

Americans Elect has thrown in the towel for this round. The group had intended to nominate and get on the Presidential ballot in all 50 states a so-called centrist candidate through an internet convention balloting process that was to begin on May 15...

April 22, 2012

Occupy agitators have big plans next month and beyond

It could be a long hot summer.  Residents of a downtown Chicago condo tower have received a letter from their landlord warning them that "they should move out for the weekend ... or risk being trapped inside by rioters" during next month's NATO ...

April 1, 2012

Single-Payer and Obamacare

The liberal reaction to the Supreme Court review of Obamacare has ranged from comic incredulity to tragic inconsolability.  But for some on the left the door is now open to their Holy Grail, single-payer, universal health care.  The Preside...

March 18, 2012

Obama and People of Faith

Just as conservative Americans far outnumber liberals, Americans of faith far outnumber their secular cousins -- a fact of consequence in the secular war on religion. The Wall Street Journal highlights a new study by the Pew Research Center titled "F...

March 5, 2012

The liberal bully network strikes again (Updated)

The President of the California Fish and Game Commission, Daniel W. Richards, stirred up a row last week when he posted a picture of himself on a hunting web site with a mountain lion he had legally shot in Idaho, the Los Angeles Times reported. Sinc...

February 11, 2012

Gutting the Bill of Rights, one Amendment at a time

Now that President Obama has abridged the First Amendment's free exercise of religion clause, it is natural to ask what's next. What follows next in the Bill of Rights, the Founders' firewall against unlimited and despotic government, is the Second A...

January 31, 2012

Worth getting angry about

While Mitt Romney said "it's not worth getting angry" about ObamaCare, some would beg to differ. Last week's ruling by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), rejecting appeals and confirming the ObamaCare mandate for contraceptives, ...

January 9, 2012

Obama judicial pick blocked by a Democrat

New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez has defied the White House by blocking the President's judicial pick for a spot on the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, with the Senator's motives coming into question from all sides. President Obama ...

December 20, 2011

Mitt and the Tea Party

After a town hall meeting in South Carolina, Mitt Romney said, "Many Tea Party folks, I believe, are going to find me to be the ideal candidate."  Romney's comments followed his endorsement by South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who was endorse...

December 5, 2011

Third party rears its head again

There is one sure way to complicate the effort to defeat the incompetent sitting President.  Run a third party candidate. And that is exactly what a group led by former New Jersey Governor and "Rockefeller Republican" Christie Todd Whitman hopes...

December 3, 2011

Campaign health care battle is joined by the President

"And so it begins..." As we might observe as President Obama calls on his health care law as a reason for reelection. The President, at a campaign fundraiser in New York this week, implored the crowd to reelect him: And so we're going to have to imp...

November 18, 2011

Obama administration rewriting the law - again

The Obama administration is attempting to use IRS rule-making to sidestep Congress and rework a portion of the ObamaCare law. In a Wall Street Journal piece, Jonathan H. Adler and Michael F. Canon describe a "major glitch that threatens" the "basic f...

October 16, 2011

Dodd-Frank Disaster

In this week's Republican debate, an incredulous Charlie Rose, the moderator, exclaimed, "Clearly, you're not saying they should go to jail!"  He was referring to Newt Gingrich's indictment of Chris Dodd and Barney Frank for the financial meltdo...

September 24, 2011

Obamacare Undercover

While Democrats try to keep ObamaCare out of the electoral spotlight, the Obama administration is preparing a rude awakening for Americans in 2014. A few weeks ago, our humorless President tried to make campaign hay out of a play on words, telling ...

September 8, 2011

A legacy of wreckage from the Left

As the Democrats sink deeper in the swamp of heated rhetoric, the gilded cloak of beneficence and good intention is slipping away. National Review's Jim Lacey suggests in a compelling and powerful column that the right should claim the moral high gr...

September 5, 2011

Chinese government squeeze play

In a dose of cold reality for those on the left who so admire the Chinese communist system, the Chinese government appears ready to put the squeeze on their rapidly expanding domestic auto industry, with ominous portents for automakers. The New York...

August 10, 2011

Desperation grips Team Obama

Obama's reelection team is desperate, and   "planning a ferocious personal assault on Romney's character and business background...." With their man reaching new lows in approval ratings, President Obama's reelection team appears ready to ...

July 10, 2011

House plans Monday vote to repeal light bulb rule

A House vote planned for Monday on repeal of the 2007 light bulb efficiency standards led Energy Secretary Steven Chu to remind us that only our betters know what's best for us. The Hill quotes Dr. Chu's defense of the efficiency standards: "I want ...

May 19, 2011

The ObamaCare Escape Hatch

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May 19, 2011

Is the IRS sending a message?

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April 23, 2011

Dr. Krauthammer's Bland Recipe

Obama has cranked up his 2012 campaign to full speed, leaving the media breathlessly chattering in his wake about whether he can recreate 2008 and whether the Republicans are finished before they start.Charles Krauthammer's Friday column, which he ca...

April 6, 2011

It's 2012 on Obama's calendar

Why waste time on trivial issues like the national debt and a government shutdown when campaign speeches beckon from tarmac to teleprompter?The President told John Boehner and Harry Reid on Tuesday that if they can't agree "I want them back here...

March 24, 2011

Be careful what you wish for

In his latest effort to get his feet out of the RomneyCare quicksand, Mitt Romney recently wrote that if he were President he "would issue an executive order paving the way for ObamaCare waivers to all 50 states."Sounds good so far, but wha...

March 14, 2011

Media can't resist Sarah Palin

Perhaps the "intelligentsia" could take time out from the faculty lounge and consider what it means to have principles...Problem:  Drawing readers to a left-leaning political web site in the wake of an epic tragedy that has sucked up a...

March 11, 2011

Is Obama a radical or a typical Democrat

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February 28, 2011

States seeking compact to bypass Obamacare

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February 18, 2011

Alaska Governor follows his oath of office -- Will not implement unconstitutional law

When Judge Vinson declared ObamaCare unconstitutional and void, he said he did not need to issue an injunction because he expected "the executive branch to adhere to the law as declared by the court."While the administration continues ...

February 16, 2011

Shutdown showdown not needed

The President plans to lay a trap in the budget-cutting weeds, but Republicans can choose another path.For weeks, Senate Democrat leaders such as Chuck Schumer of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Harry Reid of Nevada have been "preemptively...

February 10, 2011

Repealing the big cost-drivers of ObamaCare

"Liberals might be starting to panic" as support for ObamaCare "melts away," writes Jennifer Rubin for the Washington Post.  Democrat fence-sitters such as Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) are scrambling to find a way out of the indiv...

February 3, 2011

Lisa Jackson's EPA sandbox

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January 27, 2011

Rand Paul gets serious about the deficit

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January 9, 2011

Is Harry Reid in denial?

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January 8, 2011

Harry Reid's one-man roadblock

The Democrats are poised to become "The New Party of No," as Kimberly Strassel details in the Wall Street Journal.The "Party of No" label never stuck to Republicans because Americans support their unified votes against the Obama a...

December 19, 2010

Rationing by any other name

Telling a liberal that ObamaCare means rationing and death panels is akin to being a global warming denier or, worse yet, admitting you watch Sarah Palin's outdoor show.Yet this week the FDA revoked its prior approval for the drug Avastin in treating...

December 18, 2010

Chavez to rule by decree

The Venezuelan parliament has granted their dear leader Hugo Chavez power to "rule by decree" for the next eighteen months.Never letting a crisis go to waste, the self-styled "leader of the Bolivarian Revolution" claims he needs s...

December 15, 2010

Dodd-Frank's whistleblowing gold mine

Russian-born comedian Yakov Smirnoff describes a furniture ad guaranteeing the company would stand behind their product for six months.  Smirnoff says "that's why I left Russia, I don't want people standing behind my furniture."Right h...

December 9, 2010

A precedent for gutting ObamaCare

Amid the myriad problems created by ObamaCare, a way forward for gutting the bill is beginning to emerge.This week's fallout from the Democrats' masterpiece includes news that the bill deleted discounts on certain drugs for children's hospitals that ...

December 2, 2010

FCC still flogging net neutrality

After two years of pushing an Obama campaign promise, the FCC is set to vote on its latest "net neutrality" proposal at its December 21 meeting, despite numerous setbacks and strong opposition from Congressional Republicans.The FCC drive to...

November 19, 2010

New battle lines in the fog of ObamaCare

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November 14, 2010

Sen. McConnell still pimping for earmarks

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November 13, 2010

The joke's on you, kids

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November 9, 2010

For businesses, no more 'go along to get along'

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October 12, 2010

ObamaCare Strikes Again

In yet another damaging consequence of the rollout of ObamaCare, three Pennsylvania hospitals have been put up for sale, with the announcement clouded by mysterious circumstances.Jeffrey Lord at American Spectator reports that the hospital group's CE...

September 29, 2010

Feeling the heat at the FCC on net neutrality

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September 21, 2010

Chris Coons and his support for Black Liberation Theology

While the ruling class media have been busy casting slurs, slanders and snide comments about Christine O'Donnell, Jeffrey Lord over at American Spectator has been busy unearthing some rather interesting background on Harry Reid's pet senatorial ca...

July 23, 2010

Roadkill In the War On Business

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June 26, 2010

What Is He Thinking

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June 5, 2010

FTC draft study proposes massive bailout of newspapers

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March 30, 2010

We Are Expected to Believe

"Health Care Plan Gains Favor," insists the White House message, echoed incessantly by the me-too media and passed off as news across the land. After all, they had to kick through the door and pass the bill so we can see the beauty within i...

March 13, 2010

Make him an offer he can't refuse

Plausible deniability has always been a cornerstone for staying out of trouble when it comes to down and dirty backroom politics, but the circle may be tightening just a notch for the Obama administration.Last month Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Joe S...

March 1, 2010

American spirit suffuses US Olympic athletes

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February 14, 2010

Let the games begin

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February 10, 2010

New Jersey Politics Goes National

Another Democratic Senator has an ethical slip.Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, who sits on the Senate Banking Committee, is in the spotlight for a letter sent to the Federal Reserve Board last summer requesting approval for the rescue of a New...

January 26, 2010

Filibuster Under Fire

Reflecting frustration among the Democrats over their inability to pass a health care reform bill, there has been a clamor on the left for the elimination of the filibuster rule in the Senate.“God didn’t create the filibuster,” Rep....

January 14, 2010

The health care reform express

As the runaway health care express hurtles down the track to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue there certainly is a lot of commotion in the passenger cars. Politico reports that Obama and the Democratic Congressional leadership spent all day Wednesday, to b...

January 10, 2010

'Fairness doctrine for the internet' challenged in court

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December 13, 2009

The ObamaCare Leviathan

As the Democrats inexorably slog toward the finish line, lugging and wrenching their malformed health care bill, the most passionate debate has been on contentious issues like abortion, the public option, and Medicare cuts. Yet the overriding danger ...

November 20, 2009

Trouble in River City

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October 25, 2009

Is ObamaCare Inevitable?

"It ain't over till it's over," said the philosopher Yogi Berra.  As every sports fan knows, momentum can change in a hurry.  The opponent can make a costly mistake that opens the door, a key play can give your team the edge, or y...

October 9, 2009

Watching the Constitution Disappear

The President says the Constitution is defective, and now Senator Harry Reid is preparing the coup de grace. Once Reid and Obama emerge from their transparent closed-door consultations on how to blend the two competing Senate Health Care bills, Senat...

October 1, 2009

Will the Real Barack Obama Please Stand Up?

In the heyday of the television quiz show era, a popular and amusing show was To Tell the Truth.  The show format included three people who all claimed to be a certain public figure, and a panel of celebrities whose task was to as...

September 19, 2009

Obama's new protectionism

The President has once again achieved a trifecta of policy outcomes favoring his agenda:  a victory for the United Steelworkers union, a boost for ObamaCare and another blow in his war on prosperity to boot.  Mr. Obama announced last F...

September 10, 2009

Green Termites

Under the surface and out of the spotlight, green termites are busily chewing away at the foundations of our capitalist economy. Environmental activists have flooded the system with mass petitions for endangered species listing, as reported...

August 24, 2009

NYT already offering reasons for death of ObamaCare

The public option is comatose, the death panels are expired, and a reconciliation bill may resemble Swiss cheese, but the rumors of ObamaCare's demise have been greatly exaggerated. And so it was quite a surprise to read a short blog piece in the Sun...

August 12, 2009

It's the Plan, Stupid

Obama and his band of liberals have gone to great lengths to avoid the mistakes made by the Clintons on their failed health care plan.  The Clinton's wrote the entire plan from Hillary's command post.  Obama is leaving the bill-writing enti...

July 10, 2009

The Progressive Promised Land

Rumblings continue from the FCC on fairness, diversity and mandates for broadcasters.  CNS News describes an internal FCC report issued by Michael Copps, an FCC commissioner:The report, known as a Notification of Inquiry (NOI), is ofte...

June 30, 2009

Not so Fast, Mister President

In their high-pressure health care sales pitch to the American people, the Obama team has proven adept at creating a sense of urgency and at hammering away at a script designed to hook the public.  Following Obama's statement in a lett...

June 8, 2009

Misdirecting Health Care

In a letter to Congress tossed over the transom as he left the country for Cairo last week, President Obama threw down the gauntlet on health care, stating unequivocally for the first time as President that he wants a government option for ...

May 28, 2009

Coercion: In Spite of the Will of the People

Occasionally the real Obama is revealed for a passing moment, shedding more light on his agenda than could be gleaned from months of parsing speeches.  An off-handed comment to "Joe the Plumber" pulled the curtain back for a peek at ...

May 15, 2009

Whose Senate Indeed...

The left is offended that a majority of 66 senators would vote in support of second amendment rights.  A New York Times editorial on an amendment to the senate credit card legislation, allowing citizens to carry a loaded weapon in a National Par...

April 17, 2009

Barney's Bad Idea

Barney Frank’s proposal for the Federal government (you and me) to insure municipal bonds is no less than astounding, as you will see from the first and last paragraphs of a column in today's today’s Wall Street Journal:Barney F...

April 15, 2009

Ham-Handed Abuse of Power

A single footnote is perhaps the most disturbing and chilling aspect of the Department of Homeland Security report to all law enforcement agencies warning about a rise in “right-wing extremist activity.”  Comments at American Thinker...

April 4, 2009

Meet Your New HR Director

Barney Frank and his fellow House Democrats appear to be determined to keep passing bills regulating compensation in the House until they hit upon one that Obama and the Senate will line up to support.Two weeks after the People's House went after the...

April 2, 2009

A Tale of Two Leaders

Meeting with the leader of Iran "without precondition" was one of President Obama’s most dissected early campaign statements.  Obama has of course backed away from that stance, but his actions toward Iran as president indica...

March 18, 2009

Indefensible and Dishonorable (updated)

Veterans groups who met with Obama, Emanuel and VA head Eric Shinseki on Monday were told that Obama wants to have veterans pay for their service-related medical issues through their own private insurance companies.  White House press secre...

March 16, 2009

Between you and your doctor

National health care is going to take excellence out of American medicine, and give the state access to your most private records. Americans are concerned.A new survey finds that "more than 90 percent of respondents called online privacy a ...

March 4, 2009

As California goes...

As the EPA prepares to issue a finding that carbon-dioxide is a danger to public health, it is instructive to look at a real life example of the consequences.  As has been discussed on American Thinker, EPA director Lisa Jackson h...

February 27, 2009

Time To Set Aside Childish Things

Does our Commander-in-Chief lie awake at night and worry about Iran and the bomb or Pakistan and the bomb?  Judging by his weak-kneed supplications to the Iranians, his tepid response to provocations and the anti-Israel tendencies of some of his...

February 2, 2009

Here Comes the Trojan Horse

The trillion dollar stimulus bill is truly a modern-day Trojan Horse. The bill passed by the House Democrats spells out, on page 151, plans for a "Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research."  The bill spe...

January 30, 2009

Obama and the Times Get Half the Story Right

The New York Times reports breathlessly on Obama's "anger" at the $18 Billion in bonuses paid by Wall Street banks in 2008.  What is missing from the story, however, is the context of the report by the Office of the New York State Comp...

January 17, 2009

Democrats Disagree over Wind Energy

Obama was in Ohio on Friday visiting a wind turbine parts factory, and promoting his plan for "green jobs."  Low oil prices, however, have resulted in a downturn for the wind industry. According to the New York Times, ...some...

January 9, 2009

Smart People, Dumb Plan

If Obama has such highly regarded financial advisers, why is his proposal for economic salvation so full of ideas that are misguided at best?  Geitner and Summers are reputed to be among the best financial minds out there, and are generally...

December 8, 2008

US and Russia Using the Same Playbook

Two headlines tell the story, when it comes to handling the private sector:Detroit Bailout May Bring On U.S. OversightCongressional Democrats were weighing options for government control of the auto industry, including the possible creation of an ove...