September 27, 2013

Why the Republicans Always Cave

Leftist politicians have known for decades that America would never accept anything labeled as socialism, and so they followed a strategy of gradualism that brought socialism to America on the installment plan. ObamaCare is the next-to-the-last payme...

February 11, 2013

Is There a 'Positive Right' to Own Firearms?

Emboldened by Obama's easy re-election despite a radical first term, liberals are finally removing the mask of moderation and talking openly about abandoning the Constitution altogether -- or, at a minimum, amending it to include what they call posit...

December 27, 2012

In Defense of John Boehner

Before conservatives form our customary circular firing squad to deal with concerns about the leadership of House Speaker John Boehner, we might want to consider the possibility that Boehner was dealt a bad hand in the last election and that he has p...

November 13, 2012

The Tea Party at Valley Forge

The patriot movement had its Concord Bridge moment in 2010, and now it is facing its winter at Valley Forge. Both liberal and mainstream politicians are waiting to see what the patriot movement does during the harsh winter of a second Obama term. Co...

November 7, 2012

Why We Lost the Republic

With reports of voting irregularities in several battleground states, we might never know who actually won the 2012 election, but we do know for sure that it is Barack Obama who will occupy the White House for the next four years.  And now we wi...

October 26, 2012

Time to Reconsider the Imperial Presidency

The growth of the imperial presidency, as it was described by historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. in 1973, has for decades distorted the constitutional contract between the presidency and the citizens of the republic.  That distortion reached its ...

October 2, 2012

How Obama Won the Upcoming Debate

For seasoned political observers on both sides of the aisle, it is not particularly surprising that the media's narrative for Wednesday's presidential debate has already been written.  If Obama were to show up in a clown suit and flip-flops, the...

September 12, 2012

Obama 2012: More Chutzpah than Hope

With Obama complaining that Mitt Romney is "new" to foreign policy and that Romney's positions are "extreme," mainstream America might need to redefine the word chutzpah.  Traditionally defined as stunning audacity, such as murdering one's paren...

September 6, 2012

Can Obama Overcome His Maturity Challenge?

A major question in the media narrative about the Republican convention was whether Mitt Romney would be able to overcome his "likeability" challenge.  Though the question admittedly stems from Romney's high "unfavorable" ratings in a number of ...

August 14, 2012

Will Romney Learn from the Palin Debacle?

With the selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate, Romney has the easy choice behind him.  Now comes the hard choice, the one that could well decide who takes the oath of office in January: what will the Romney campaign do when the left cranks...

August 2, 2012

The Narcissistic Style in Liberal Politics

What are we to make of the liberal tendency to blame the conservative movement for violent acts that have nothing to do with conservatives?  Does the left's obsession with blaming conservatives suggest that a kind of paranoid style has infected ...

July 21, 2012

If Darwin Was Right, Don't Sweat Global Warming

With record-setting heat, power outages, and raging wildfires in the news, it was just a matter of time before global warming reared its sweaty head as the culprit.  Seth Borenstein's July 3 AP story on the possible link between the record heat ...