January 20, 2013

Susan Eisenhower Takes Aim at the NRA

Susan Eisenhower recently took umbrage at the NRA's recent ad pointing out the hypocrisy of Obama having armed guards protecting his family while pushing gun control on America. Ms. Eisenhower points out correctly that President Obama's family requi...

August 19, 2012

Administration Seeks to Explain Ammo Purchases

Recently I wrote about mysterious purchases of hollow-point ammo going to the National Weather Service which turned out to be a clerical error but doesn't explain government purchases of over 2 billion rounds of hollow-point ammo. Now under fire, the...

August 14, 2012

Unusual Government Agencies Stockpiling Ammo (turns out to be a clerical error)

Is the government preparing for civil unrest by amassing stockpiles of ammunition purchased through various government agencies such as the National Weather Service to complement purchases made through the Department of Homeland Security? A solicitat...

July 13, 2012

Olympic Outsourcing

Amid charges by the Obama campaign that Bain Capital was responsible for outsourcing American jobs overseas in an effort to avoid discussion of their sorry economic program, we learn that the Olympic attire designed by Ralph Lauren for Team USA is be...

July 13, 2012

Defense Cuts Starting to Hurt

In preparation for expected defense cuts, Northrop Grumman, the U.S. government's fourth largest contractor, was a no-show at this year's Farnborough International Airshow. Farnborough is one of the premier aerospace and defense gatherings on the tra...

July 6, 2012

Biofuel's Cost Torpedoes Navy Budget

Facing massive cuts to the defense budget, the U.S. Navy is being used to prop up the failing biofuel industry by converting the fleet to run on the so-called "green fuel" at $26 a gallon. Failure to cut federal government spending by last year's Bu...

July 5, 2012

Get Over It Already!

Actors Chris Rock and Don Cheadle continued to perpetrate racial animosity with their inane Independence Day tweets implying that the holiday was meant only for whites. Chris Rock, that bastion of racial sensitivity who never lets an opportunity slip...

April 23, 2012

The Race Card Wins Ugly in Louisiana

On April 12 I warned about the race-baiting campaign ahead in a blog titled, "Mitt Romney's Preview of Coming Attractions." I detailed shameful racial flyers posted by Monroe, Louisiana Mayor Jamie Mayo's supporters, but many of the comments from tha...

April 12, 2012

Mitt Romney's Preview of Coming Attractions

The upcoming mayoral race in Monroe, Louisiana has provided a chilling preview of just what Republicans, conservatives, and TEA Party members can expect from President Obama's reelection effort. Incumbent Monroe Mayor Jamie Mayo is facing Republican ...

January 23, 2012

What About the USS George Washington?

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's pledge that the Obama Administration is committed to keeping all 11 aircraft carriers addresses the situation of replacing the USS Enterprise with the USS Gerald R. Ford, but ignores the Navy's plan to retire the USS ...

November 20, 2011

The Party's Just Warming Up

A plethora of articles have appeared recently on American Thinker highlighting the flaws of the current GOP field. It's time someone pointed out their positive attributes. Disappointment has reigned supreme amongst a subset of commentators and politi...

July 13, 2011

Cut the Damn Spending!

It's time to cut the damn spending!  This means taking a commonsense approach to America's priorities and eliminating outdated programs that have long past served their original purposes and exist only out of habit and to protect their bureaucra...

June 23, 2011

Thomas Geoghegan's Shameful Stereotyping in the Wall Street Journal

Even in an age of "sensitivity," people from the South are one  group it's acceptable to stereotype and denigrate. Labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan's recent Wall Street Journal op-ed weighed in on Boeing's decision to locate a second assembly plant...

June 6, 2011

Leaving Louisiana

Louisiana is a state both blessed and cursed with natural resources such as oil, gas, timber, seafood, and agriculture.  But a recent Wall Street Journal article drove home the depressing fact that educated young people are fleeing Louisian...

June 5, 2011

Politician, Heal Thyself

President Obama recently visited Joplin, Missouri to offer what the media described as healing for the community suffering from the aftermath of a catastrophic tornado. The president appeared before the battered crowd and did what politicians are bes...

February 6, 2011

Exporting Our Prosperity to China

America's technological lead is melting down as its innovations are increasingly transferred to China as the cost of doing business. China's rise in the global economy began as a desire to lure American manufacturing to its shores with the promise of...

February 1, 2011

Overachievers with Low Self-Esteem

America is up to its eyeballs in people concerned with saving us from their demons. Michelle Obama's weight problem and lack of self-control is channeled into a childhood obesity campaign to rid us of high-calorie foods she can't resist.  The re...

January 6, 2011

Subsidizing Afghan Corruption

To have any chance of winning in Afghanistan, we must dump Hamid Karzai's corrupt administration, as it is no longer seen as legitimate. Successful prosecution of a counterinsurgency war strategy requires gaining the trust of the indigenous people....

January 5, 2011

Highway Patrol

The federal government is seizing control of the Internet while the interstate highway system falls apart. The Federal Communications Commission recently approved new regulations in an attempt to engineer its version of Internet utopia known as net n...

December 31, 2010

Israeli Energy Independence

In an ironic twist of fate, Israel is about to become a major Middle East energy producer through the discovery of one of the world's largest offshore natural gas fields, with serious implications for regional realignment and stability.Houston-based ...

December 27, 2010

Mexico in death spiral

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December 25, 2010

He changed the world

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December 24, 2010

Pitchforks and Torches

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December 19, 2010

Government Undermined

Our government is accelerating down the path to irrelevance with actions that undermine our faith in its ability to govern. For government to function properly, its citizens must have faith that it is capable of handling the affairs of state in a fai...

December 14, 2010

Obama: Pawn or Mastermind?

Obama's detractors seem to believe he is either an incompetent pawn in over his head as president or an evil mastermind directing an international conspiracy to subvert America. The fact is that Barack Hussein Obama II was an Illinois state senator o...

December 4, 2010

Wikileaks documents show an administration in chaos

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November 26, 2010

Bobby Jindal's Downside

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is busy promoting his new tome Leadership and Crisis with book tour stops all over the country. This latest tour comes on top of his previous speaking tours to raise campaign cash for himself and various Republican can...

November 20, 2010

America: Closed Due to Terrorism

While in Washington, D.C. this week, I strolled up New Jersey Avenue to the Capitol and took note of the various security measures installed to keep the masses away in the name of protection. There are barriers in the roads around the Capitol complex...

November 18, 2010

Trading Liberty for Safety

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November 13, 2010

Tea Party Battle Plan

Now that the midterm elections are over, Tea Party energy is at risk of dissipating due to the lack of a pressing goal to work towards. If the Tea Partiers are going to become a long-term, serious force, they must be willing to tackle serious problem...

November 4, 2010

Tea Party Gains

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October 31, 2010

Indiana's Tax Dollars at Work

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October 28, 2010

Government Failure on Two Drug Fronts

Two unrelated news items I came across really highlighted the ineffectiveness currently exhibited by the Obama administration. The first detailed shortages of vital drugs used to treat chronic medical conditions and explained that the FDA was powerle...

October 24, 2010

Juan Williams Is Living the American Dream

The overwhelming reaction from all sides to NPR's recent firing of Juan Williams has touched something deep in our psyche. Everyone who has ever been fired for reasons he thought were unwarranted has longed for the chance to go public and garner symp...

October 23, 2010

Yes, Taxes Do Change Behavior

Bloomberg Businessweek details the complicated "Dutch Sandwich" tax strategy employed by Google to avoid the massive tax hit it would incur on overseas profits repatriated to the U.S. After reading this and seeing the lengths that U.S. comp...

October 18, 2010

More Tales on the Abuse of Public Trust

Lest anyone think the waste of taxpayer funds is limited to Bell, California, take a look at sleepy Lincoln Parish, Louisiana where the Police Jury (Louisiana's version of the county commission) on Tuesday brazenly voted to accept the highest bid s...