January 9, 2015

The Muslim Balkanization of the West

In the aftermath of the heinous murder of twelve Frenchmen, including two police officers, in Paris by Muslim extremists, a curious phenomenon has been spotlighted regarding French relations with its Muslim population.  There are actually ...

December 15, 2014

Can Warren Knock Off Hillary?

There has been a lot of grumbling among the leftist hordes of the Democratic Party that indicate something less than overwhelming enthusiasm for the coronation of Hillary Clinton as their standard-bearer in 2016.  It is difficult to imagine why,...

October 15, 2014

Ignorance and Ebola

A host of Fox’s "The Five", Andrea Tantaros, was recently pilloried by the liberal media for making the “outrageous” comment that part of the problem with containing the Ebola virus in West Africa was the local’s dis...

August 28, 2014

American Jihadists Went to the Same High School in Minnesota

An interesting development in the story of Douglas McAruhur McCain, the American jihadi who was killed this week in Syria, is that he was classmates with another young American who was killed while fighting with an Al Qaeda affiliate in Somalia in 20...

July 5, 2014

The Movement to Give the Vote to Non-Citizens Begins

With the newest border crisis focusing on the influx of immigrants from Central America, many of them children, the political punching bag that is immigration reform is again leading the news.  Democrats, incongruously, claim that the obvious in...

June 22, 2014

The Mexican Army Routinely Invades Arizona

With emphasis on the massive new waves of illegal immigrants, many of them unaccompanied children, flowing into our border states, it often gets lost that there is even a more troubling threat from south of the border.  A report from News 4 ...

June 13, 2014

Obama is Going Thelma and Louise

The stunning defeat of immigration reform proponent, Republican Congressman and House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, in Tuesday’s Virginia primary, provided a major setback for establishment Republicans who were bound and determined to pass some...

June 4, 2014

The Politics of the Tortoise and Other Reptiles

In 1989, the federal government decided to declare the Mojave desert  tortoise an endangered species. Even though in 2002 the U.S. Geological Survey produced a report that found no strong case of any kind to support the notion that cattle grazin...

May 21, 2014

'What's the Worst That Can Happen?'

Secretary of State John Kerry, in a commencement speech at Boston College, derided skeptics of man-made climate change as members of the “Flat Earth Society” and we need to act quickly as “things will change in a hurry”. ...

May 20, 2014

The Weaponization of the Federal Bureaucracy

Upon the heels of the scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service where conservative groups were specifically targeted before the 2012 elections comes this story from the Washington Times discussing the current movement on the part of the Federal ...

May 14, 2014

George Soros Speaks Before the United States State Department

Secretary of State John Kerry introduced billionaire George Soros, at a State Department forum held on Tuesday at the George C. Marshall Center, according to the Washington Free Beacon. The State Department stressed that this is “an in-house ev...

May 11, 2014

The Democrat War on the First Amendment

Unhappy with recent Supreme Court decisions supporting the First Amendment, some Democrat senators have arrived at an old solution: if you do not like the Constitution, amend it.  Angry with Supreme Court decisions like McCutcheon and Citizens U...

May 9, 2014

A Democratic Congressman Wants to Beef Up Border Security: In Mexico

In a development sure to cause a lot of eye rolling in this country, News Radio Station WOIA in San Antonio reports that Mexico is forming its own border patrol. They plan to use this force to help patrol both their northern and southern borders with...

May 2, 2014

Los Angeles NAACP President Resigns in Wake of Sterling Fiasco

The president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP resigned Thursday as a direct result of the organization’s embarrassing nomination of a lifetime achievement award to L.A. Clippers owner, Donald Sterling, a man of very questionable charact...

April 27, 2014

One of the Biggest Fat Cats in America is the BLM

Amid the circus that is the Bundy Ranch standoff is the much more important and revealing story surrounding a previously little-noticed agency called the Bureau of Land Management. Even observers who believed that Cliven Bundy did not have a legal...

April 23, 2014

Denny Hastert Leads Republican Push for Amnesty

Former Republican Speaker of the House, Denny Hastert, is getting together with several Chicago Republicans to stage an event to promote amnesty for illegal immigrants in order to pressure Washington to act on immigration “reform”. As usu...

February 24, 2014

West Virginia Democrats Exempt their Employees from Minimum Wage Hike

The Democrat-controlled West Virginia House voted last week to raise the state's minimum wage to $8.75 an hour. However, they conspicuously exempted many of their own staff from the increase. Not only that, but the increase also does not apply to sen...

February 2, 2014

What Gibson Guitars Did with the Wood the Government Returned

In 2011, the Department of Justice conducted raids on the Tennessee facilities of the famed Gibson Guitar company and confiscated large quantities of tonewood that had been imported from India and Madagascar.  The action included armed SWAT...

January 21, 2014

The Mexican Congress Requests

The Mexican Congress has just passed a resolution calling upon the United States to facilitate the granting of asylum to Mexican citizens who claim they are escaping from violence. Due to widespread killings and attacks in the country, primarily due ...

January 9, 2014

President Obama Targets 'Promise Zones'

President Obama is addressing income inequality by declaring five "promise zones" which will be targeted for tax incentives and government grants, all for the purpose of lifting them from their economic despair thanks to the largesse of the fede...

January 3, 2014

A Bible and a Stonewall

The Bill DeBlasio mayoral administration in New York began ominously yesterday with two events that may bode ill for the future of the city. To begin with, what was touted as the "most open and accessible swearing-in events in New York City history" ...

December 15, 2013

Arapahoe High Shooter Was a Keynesian

Interestingly enough, the young shooter at Arapahoe High School in Colorado was a proud Keynesian who hated the Republican Party as the party that just wants "people to die." In a Facebook posting prior to his death, Karl Pierson mocked free-market...

December 9, 2013

Margaret Thatcher Was Less Worthy of U.S Respect Than Nelson Mandela?

Four U.S. Presidents, current and former, will attend the funeral of Nelson Mandela. Upon his death, flags were ordered flown at half mast. Nelson Mandela, no matter what one's opinion of him, was indeed a historical figure who sacrificed much to end...

December 4, 2013

The Left's War against Everyone

In their continuing struggle to maintain a permanent victim class in America, the left has now latched onto an innocuous tweet from the Republican National Committee. In what was clearly meant to be a respectful acknowledgement of the contributions o...

November 19, 2013

De Blasio and the "Heavy Hand of Government"

According to the New York Post's financial writer Charles Gasparino, newly elected New York City mayor Bill De Blasio has made it clear that he is "no freemarketeer". Speaking before a group of private real estate developers before the election,...

November 13, 2013

What Business of the U.N. Is the Operation of the Alamo?

In a possible development that would have Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William Travis rolling in their graves, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is considering designating the Alamo a World Heritage Site....

November 4, 2013

Will Democrats Force Doctors to Accept Medicare Patients?

As a sign of what may be to come as ObamaCare crumbles before our eyes, a Democratic candidate for the House of Delegates in Virginia has suggested legislation to force doctors to treat Medicare and Medicaid patients. The Democrat, Kathleen Murphy, r...

October 24, 2013

How's This for Irony?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his activist wife, Eleanor, have long been the historic icons of liberal and progressive causes to their admirers on the left. As part of that legacy, FDR was one of the pioneers of gun control with the Gun Control Act o...

October 23, 2013

The Air Force as Taxi Service

Congress is closing down Thursday to attend the funeral of Representative C.W. Bill Young, a Republican from Florida who passed away October 18, 2013. Now many may not mind that Congress is closing for a day because, firstly, we are used to paying th...

October 21, 2013

Maureen Dowd Dumps on Obama

NYT columnist Maureen Dowd, no conservative by any means, just wrote a column calling President Obama a "cold cat on a hot stove" This was in reference to an old aphorism from Mark Twain, who noted that one should learn the right lessons from an...

October 12, 2013

Obama Administration Is 'Rubber Stamping' Citizen Requests

The president of the National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council, Kenneth Palinkas, complains that the administration is pressuring officers to "grant immigration benefits to those who, under the law, are not properly eligible." Approval qu...

October 9, 2013

Recent College Grad Claims Obamacare Has 'Raped My Future'

A university graduate, 26 year old Ashley Dionne, posted an open letter on the Facebook page of conservative radio host, Dennis Praeger detailing the negative effects Obamacare has had on her life. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2009 and w...

October 8, 2013

To Vegas with No Ticket

Much as with global warming, every noteworthy event is now the result of government inaction due to the partial federal shutdown. A 9-year-old boy managed to sneak onto a flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport without a ticket. Thi...

October 8, 2013

The Obama Administration Opens the National Mall - for Pro Illegal Immigration Rally

The National Park Service has seen fit to finally see the light and recognize that it was petty and vindictive to close off open air venues such as the National Mall due to the partial government shutdown. They are opening the site to allow certain m...

October 5, 2013

Making Life Difficult

If there was any "mystery" as to why the government was closing venues that require no federal funds due to the shutdown, that mystery has been solved. The government closed down the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. even though it was an ope...

October 5, 2013

Congress Is Unanimous: Government Workers Will Get Their Pay

There is hope yet that Democrats and Republicans can reach a unanimous accord.  Unfortunately for the public at large, that spirit of cooperation will benefit only those in the employ of the federal government. The House voted unanimously Satu...