November 10, 2020

He who pays the piper...

He who has the gold makes the rules...  There's no such thing as a free lunch...  There are always strings attached... You can't have it both ways. Many people reacting with surprise and dismay at the myriad pandemic-re...

October 24, 2020

How NPR covers for Joe Biden

President Trump has rightfully called for defunding NPR.  If he prevails in the upcoming election, I hope he does just that, or at least institutes reforms to root out leftist — sometimes even anti-America — bias.  Pri...

October 2, 2020

Why the left cries 'fascist'!

One doesn't have to wade far into the social media cesspool to see posts labeling the president "fascist."  It's ubiquitous too for anyone critical of BLM-Antifa to be labeled similarly. Do the online posters and name-c...

September 15, 2020

How rampant economic ignorance triggers unrest

Underlying many of the problems currently plaguing our country is economic ignorance.  As of 2018, only 17 states require high school students to take a course in personal finance, and only 22 states require those students to take an econom...

September 10, 2020

Muhammad Ali Museum showcases new woke exhibit

Discerning truth from satire amid all the "woke-tivity" is getting harder by the day.  This is not satire.  On Wednesday, the Muhammad Ali Center, a museum in Louisville, Kentucky, announced the opening of a new exhibiti...

August 31, 2020

Mobs' depravity downplayed by MSM

Among all the leftist lunacy and outright criminality happening openly on a daily basis, here's a revealing thought experiment based on just two recent incidents. Imagine it's circa 2012.  A guillotine is being pushed through a c...

July 29, 2020

Before too long, the woke will eat their own

The self-styled "woke," whether they know it by name or not, are believers in critical race theory.  It's an insidious philosophy picking up (even more) steam and spreading, virus-like, in America.  To borrow a Jorda...

June 12, 2020

BLM's agenda

An investigative report on Black Lives Matter (BLM) published four and half years ago foretold current events in many respects.  The report, Reds Exploiting Blacks: The Roots of Black Lives Matter by James Simpson at the AIM Cente...

January 24, 2013

Obama's first term: the change America was hoping for?

On Mark Levin's radio program on Tuesday evening he cited a number of unflattering statistics regarding Barack Obama's first term, ones the fawning legacy media mostly filter out or otherwise gloss over. (See table below.) He also adroitly dissected ...

January 18, 2013

Criminal control, not gun control

Little mention was made by the president Wednesday of criminal control, such as longer prison sentences or more robust border protection (currently 26.5% of inmates in U.S. Bureau of Prisons' custody are classified as other than United States citizen...

January 16, 2013

Military Suicides and the Progressive Worldview

See also: A War still Rages within Them One of many charges Thomas Sowell lodges against the "intelligentsia" in the damning indictment that is his book Intellectuals and Society is the filtering of reality in order to fit their elitist worldvie...

January 11, 2013

Who might be domestic enemies of our Constitution?

Article VI, clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution reads The Senators and Representatives before mentioned...shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution... Accordingly, on January 3rd, members of the 113th U.S. Congress took ...

December 10, 2012

Government borrows 46 cents for every dollar we spend

It should be big news, but in a world turned upside down it is not.  On Friday, the Washington Times reported that "the federal government borrowed 46 cents of every dollar it has spent so far in fiscal year 2013, which began Oct. 1." Accordin...

October 26, 2012

The Qualities Most Needed (and Most Lacking) in the Presidency

Humility and modesty.  Those are two of the notable and admirable traits of our country's first president.  In his book George Washington's Leadership Lessons, James C. Rees wrote: One of the most admirable aspects of Washington's characte...

March 1, 2012

Blunt Amendment dies

A little bit more of our religious and economic freedom, which is to say our freedom generally, died today in the U.S. Senate.  In a 51-48 vote, the Blunt amendment, which would have "allowed" employers to opt out of providing health insurance c...

February 16, 2012

Coitus welfare

Our country is going to hell in a hand basket and what is the federal government focused on?  Coitus welfare. It might be funny if it weren't true. Two billion dollars annually in taxpayer funding for such purposes apparently is insufficient. ...

February 6, 2012

Self-defense report cheered by Second Amendment advocates

While the Obama administration has been working fast, furiously, and surreptitiously to limit Second Amendment rights, Americans have been busy exercising those rights in record numbers.  In 2011 the FBI ran 16,454,951 firearm background checks,...

January 23, 2012

State of the Union preview: 'Fairness' and 'Social Justice'

In the State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, expect Barack Obama to iterate the themes of his vaunted campaign speech in December in Osawatomie, Kansas.  In Osawatomie the President tried to conjure up progressive Teddy Roosevelt's "New...

January 8, 2012

Rick Santorum is for real

Voters seeking a constitutional conservative for president who are overlooking or underestimating Rick Santorum might be doing so at their and the country's peril.  As Quin Hillyer, a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom and an edi...

December 28, 2011

Year end giving

According to a study conducted by UK-based Charities Aid Foundation, America is the most generous country in the world.  World Giving Index 2011, released last week, ranks the USA first among 153 countries in terms of charitable behavior.  ...

December 24, 2011

'Resurgent' Constitutional government can save America

On Friday, as President Obama signed a $1 trillion omnibus spending bill into law, the Drudge Report seasonally greeted its readers with the headline "Happy Holidays: USA Debt Now $15,123,841,000,000."  The national debt had actually surpassed $...

December 18, 2011

The explosive growth of federal subsidies

As best as can be determined, there are 18 different federally funded food and nutrition programs, 47 federally funded employment and training programs, over 20 federally funded housing assistance programs, and 80 federally funded programs for the "t...

December 13, 2011

The spending threat

One measure of the growth of governmental power is the growth of governmental spending.  Federal outlays of $3.6 trillion in fiscal 2011 were 20.7% higher than in fiscal 2008.  As two points of reference, gross domestic product (GDP) and th...

December 6, 2011

Worth a second look

Imagine this: a GOP presidential candidate who's a self-described "voice of constitutional conservatism, limited government, and a safe and secure America", one whose "top priorities as a constitutional conservative" are to "restore our economy and c...

October 13, 2011

Occupy Wall Street a favorite of Communists and dictators

The occupying protesters' day got off to a good start.  Iran's supreme leader and "new leftists" in the People's Republic of China have endorsed their cause. During a speech yesterday in Kermanshah, Iran, before a crowd of "tens of thousands," A...

September 27, 2011

Obama wants a new protected class

Lowering the costs and risks associated with hiring employees results in more hiring.  Raising costs and risks associated with hiring employees results in less hiring.  This axiom is lost on the Obama Administration and like-minded liberals...

September 24, 2011

Obama's NCLB waivers promise more Washington interference in education

President Obama announced on Friday that states will be granted waivers from certain provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) in exchange for adherence to Administration-preferred education policies, including ones that move toward a federal...

September 20, 2011

Ford and government help

A Ford Motor Company commercial heralding the company's non-bailout bona fides has generated some Internet and talk-radio buzz in recent days (here, here, and here for example). Rush Limbaugh broadcast the commercial's audio and commented on it on Fr...

September 16, 2011

A bridge re-traveled

March 13, 2006, Senator Barack Obama: "The cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and states of critical investments in infrastructure like bridg...

September 15, 2011

Get the feds out of venture capitalism

What business is it of federal bureaucrats and politicians to risk or expend tax dollars to finance private enterprises? That's a question left unaddressed in much of the coverage and commentary about the widening half-a-billion dollar Solyndra scand...

September 9, 2011

Union violence of little interest to media

Over 500 people "storm" private property, break windows and vandalize other property, wield baseball bats and crowbars, make death threats, and allegedly hold six guards hostage. Fifty law enforcement officers respond. U.S. Marshalls are placed on st...

September 4, 2011

Infrastructure bank a bad idea

AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka wants it. The rent-seeking and increasingly statist U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants it. So does RINO Senator Lindsey Graham. Senator John Kerry really wants it. Former SEIU boss Andy Stern envisions it being a mechanis...

August 29, 2011

Obama's new Ivy League economist

President Obama announced today he is nominating a similarly minded Ivy League academician, Alan Krueger, as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). Once confirmed, Krueger will be designated as chairman of CEA, making him the President's...

August 24, 2011

Keep government out of the way of job producers

Legacy media and other liberals are atwitter over the President's proposed "jobs plan," which he'll announce upon return from his latest vacation. They are hoping against hope that more centralized planning and fiddling by the federal government is t...

August 18, 2011

Run Ryan, Run

Staffers of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) are denying recent reports that the Congressman is seriously considering running for president. Leaks, rumors, and speculation abound. On Tuesday, Stephen F. Hayes at The Weekly Standard reported that Ryan "has been ...

July 28, 2011

Crisis Delayed?

All the fear-mongering and hyperbole of the past few months boils down to this: a milquetoast bill currently being debated in the House to reduce (drum roll, please)...the projected future rate of growth in spending. By a modest amount.  Over a ...

June 27, 2011

A Man and a Message Whose Time Has Come

If Mark Levin isn't the leading conservative of the day, he's certainly one of them. I contend he is the most articulate and sagacious renowned conservative.  A debate between Levin and Barack Obama would be something to behold. Levin held sever...

June 14, 2011

Obama and the automation myth

According to President Obama, his Administration's anti-free-market, anti-business, and pro-union policies are not to blame for the high rate of involuntary unemployment.  No, instead we are to believe a root cause of that problem is too much au...

June 2, 2011

Planning vs. the Free Market

Following Wednesday's 280 point drop in the Dow, the headline of a CNBC article read "Wall Street Baffled by Slowing Economy, Low Yields." MBAs, financial analysts, seasoned stock traders, money managers, investment bankers, et al. are baffled? Reall...

April 16, 2011

Ryan's Hope

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), House Budget Committee chair, is many things: smart, energetic, articulate, charismatic. A nice guy. And a big government guy too, based on the budget he's championing. Economist John Tamny makes a good case for this in a colum...

April 12, 2011

The Feds' Financial Statements in Perspective

The federal budget, debt, and deficit figures being bandied about are so gargantuan that many people struggle to comprehend them or put them in perspective. Auditors, analysts and accountants have a tool that can help in this regard. Financial statem...

April 12, 2011

Budget Cutting in Vogue (at last)

Recognizing that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) made their guy and their party appear juvenile last week, the spirits of those in mainstream media are brightening on news that the president will unveil his deficit-reduction plan this week. The president's pla...

February 18, 2011

Obama's political organization dives into the Wisconsin labor dispute

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February 15, 2011

Budget Apples and Oranges

Yesterday morning, Bloomberg, the Washington Post, Fox News Radio, and other media outlets began their reports on the President's 2012 budget with the following sentence or a close variation of it:President Barack Obama will send Congress a $3.7 tril...

February 12, 2011

Pew poll offers insights into Egyptians

The population of Egypt is approximately 80.5 million, 90% of which is Muslim (mostly Sunni). A poll released by Pew Research Center in December 2010 provides some interesting insights into Egyptians. The poll of Muslims only was taken in Spring 2010...

February 11, 2011

Deeper cuts demanded

On Wednesday, House Appropriations Chair Hal Rogers (R-KY) announced spending cuts totaling $74 billion that were to be included in an upcoming Continuing Resolution (CR) bill. The CR would have funded the federal government through September 30, 201...

February 9, 2011

Obama wants to raise the tax on jobs

Unemployment too high? Increase the cost of employees. Yeah, that's the ticket.According to the Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama's proposed budget for fiscal 2012 --expected to be released on Monday -- will include a scheme to raise payroll taxes co...

February 7, 2011

IRS: working to mainstream welfare

To tens of millions of Americans, the Internal Revenue Service is a source of income, not a dreaded tax collector. Though not widely known, the IRS administers "one of the federal government's largest benefit programs for working families and in...

February 3, 2011

DOJ's Thomas Perez encourages Muslim victimhood

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February 2, 2011

All GOP senators now on board for Obamacare repeal

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January 28, 2011

Bush and Obama: two men and their SOTU word choices

An examination of the words used by George W. Bush in his last three State of the Union (SOTU) addresses compared to the ones used by President Obama in his two SOTU addresses plus his address to a joint session of Congress in February 2009 (essentia...

January 25, 2011

Paul Ryan, a man with a plan

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), chair of the House Budget Committee, will give the Republican response to the State of the Union address tonight.  The Congressman's colleagues in both parties, according to The Hill, describe him as "knowledgeable, c...

January 23, 2011

Pence and the GOP presidential field

Before month's end, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) is expected to announce whether he will run for president in 2012 or for governor of his home state. Pence, 51, was first elected to Congress in 2000 and was most recently elected to a sixth term in November...

January 20, 2011

Report Card on Obama's First Two Years

Two years ago today, Barack Obama was inaugurated as president of the United States.  Are you better off today than you were two years ago? Numbers don't lie, and here are the data on the impact he has had on the lives of Americans: January...

January 17, 2011

Civility claptrap

Democrats and the media are positively giddy over the seemingly successful effect the civility campaign is having on dampening Republican opposition and spirit. A search of "civility" in Google news over the past week yields thousands of re...

January 10, 2011

Alinsky's rhetoric

Leftist journalists, politicians, and activists have made much of conservatives' use of certain symbols or metaphors, targets and crosshairs in particular. Weaponry and military metaphors are part of political campaigns and political discourse and pr...

January 7, 2011

Report on health care spending shows government with 44% share

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released its annual National Health Expenditure Accounts report Wednesday. The report contains "the official estimates of total health care spending in the United States." In 2009, health car...

January 5, 2011

Out with Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is relegated to Minority Leader, ending her four-year reign of "very serious violence to the national debt and deficit." Remarkably, in her "no regrets" news conference yesterday Speaker Pelosi saidIf everyone ...

January 4, 2011

What's $14 trillion among friends?

On the last day of 2010, our national debt surpassed $14 trillion for the first time. That's 14,000 billion. It took just seven months for the debt to grow from $13 trillion to $14 trillion. During that brief span, according to Andrew Malcolm of the ...

January 3, 2011

The government ruling class by the numbers

The ruling class continues to live high on the hog at the expense of the rest of the country -- staggering national debt, 10th Amendment and Great Recession be damned. The figures that follow are more consistent with an aristocracy, monarchy or pluto...

January 1, 2011

The Stealthy Spread of Socialism in the U.S.

The biggest challenge facing Republicans in the 112th Congress is not Barack Obama.  It is not Harry Reid and the Democrat-controlled Senate.  It isn't high unemployment, repealing ObamaCare, the threat of Islamism and sharia in America, th...

December 20, 2010

The Radicalization of American Muslims

The radicalization of Muslim communities will be the subject of Congressional hearings next year when Rep. Peter King (R-NY) becomes chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.  The impetus for the hearings, according to the congressman, ...

December 15, 2010

It's Production, Stupid

President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Rachel Maddow, various economists dependent on government funding, and other die-hard Keynesians all proclaim that unemployment-compensation payments promote economic growth.  Just yesterday, President O...

December 12, 2010

Senator, Socialist

What should we make of the fact that a self-avowed socialist held the floor of the United States Senate chamber for nine hours on Friday? Or, more importantly, that one of the 100 people who comprise that powerful legislative body openly embraces tha...

December 10, 2010

The Forlorn 40s

Numerology, the belief in a mystical relationship between numbers and physical objects or living things, makes for mildly interesting bar banter but has little practical application. It ranks up there with the occult and astrology in terms of credibi...

December 10, 2010

Stealth spending on the way

Beware of another budget busting Trojan Horse sneaking into law, off the media radar. On Wednesday, the still-Democrat-controlled House approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund the government through September 30, 2011, or until the new Co...

December 10, 2010

A Trojan Horse Pork Bill Passes the House

Washington is ignoring the mandate of voters, and sneaking through pork, as the media avert their eyes.On Wednesday, the still-Democrat-controlled House approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund the government through September 30, 2011, or unti...

December 8, 2010

The tax proposal, examined

The tax proposals being debated in Washington, D.C. do nothing to stop Barack Obama's EU-socialist agenda, much less roll back any of it. Despite the howls from liberal corners, the transformative train is still rolling down the track.I think the whi...

December 1, 2010

Off to a Bad Start

Less than a month has passed since the mid-term elections and the early signs emanating from Washington don't bode well for the future of our freedom. The ruling class is still firmly entrenched and is seemingly oblivious to the message sent by the p...

November 25, 2010

Oaths and the Constitution

In a column titled "The danger of a government with unlimited power", George Will wrote this past summer that Woodrow Wilson "was the first president critical of the nation's founding." Wilson, "avatar of progressivism,"...

November 24, 2010

The origins of the American left

In an interview with Pajamas Media about his book A Conservative History of the American Left, author Daniel J. Flynn said too many conservatives err in tracing the origins of the "American Left" to the 1960s. Collectivist ideas and experim...

November 11, 2010

Bernanke's Folly

On June 3, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before the House Budget Committee. At the hearing, according to the Washington Times, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) said that rising Treasury bond yields were ..telling us that there is no free...

November 6, 2010

Gridlock is good

To butcher Gordon Gekko's famous quotation, "Gridlock is good. Gridlock is right. Gridlock works. Gridlock -- mark my words -- will save the USA." This is so, at least compared to the alternative of more "progressivism" and its of...

October 31, 2010

Mike Pence on the modern presidency

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October 28, 2010

Celebrate free speech: spread Bill Maher's vitriol far and wide

On a talk show last night called Lopez Tonight (I'd not heard of it either until now), Bill Maher had this to say, among other contemptible comments:"We have Democrats for one reason: to drag the ignorant, hillbilly half of this country into the...