It's been a rough year, politically, for the glass-ceiling smashers. Neither feminism nor the civil rights movement, which claimed credit a couple of years back for the golden gifts of Nancy Pelosi and, especially,...
1) Remember the stimulus bill? Republicans strongly opposed it and said it wouldn't work. Democrats said it would revive the economy and keep unemployment under 8 percent. So, what happened? Democrats shoved through a...
Nine years ago this week, we began to chant: "We never will forget 9/11."Nine years later, I think too many of us have forgotten, especially those in the White House.Islamic extremists murdered almost 3,000 innocent...
Following up on Jillian's posts from today: She's already highlighted the new multi-billion dollar transportation son-of-stimulus plan the president is promoting. ("It will be fully paid for," he promises--just like...
In this clip, Obama lets his audience know he actually made a statement that wasn't in his "prepared remarks." It's remarkable that Obama deviates from his talking points so infrequently that doing so requires a special...
Obama is calling for an additional $50 billion to be spent on infrastructure, a national high-speed rail line, and some sort of regulated earmark program, all of which will be paid for by a tax on energy companies. This...
This obviously is an AFL-CIO/Democrat Party talking point. Remember on Friday when the AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer, Elizabeth Shuler initiated the "Obama created more jobs than Bush" myth on MSNBC? Remember too, a few...
A tag team of deception.HT Pam Key at TheBlaze.
So sayeth Cynthia Tucker, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's political columnist. She was a guest on "The Chris Matthew's Show," Sunday.
As most Americans cook out and celebrate Labor Day weekend, Florida GOP Senate nominee Marco Rubio is grieving the loss of this father. Rubio's statement on his dad's passing is a moving tribute:"My father knew hard...
Despite a multi-million dollar media blitz, Israelis are not buying the US-financed Geneva Initiative's attempt to convince us that we have a Palestinian partner. A week after the pro-Palestinian group launched its...
Last month we examined the political climate in Oregon noting that in 2010, the Beaver State is "not your traditional swing state." Head up I-5, and you'll notice striking similarities between the happenings in Oregon...
It's interesting why behavior that we readily recognize, on an individual level, as undesirable, we routinely promote and accept as government and social policy.
What rational person would suggest that being detached...
Imagine that you have a product whose price tag for decades rises faster than inflation. But people keep buying it because they're told that it will make them wealthier in the long run. Then, suddenly, they find it...
On this Labor Day, like most Americans, I come to praise labor, not indulge in it. Has there ever been a people that speechified more about the joys and satisfactions of work and the work ethic, yet was so enamored of...
President Obama and his team of White House advisors are wrong: no additional federal funding is needed to stimulate a federal construction boom that would launch job-creation in cities across the United States. What...
The Golden State has not been looking so golden for a while now. California has budget deficits that get bigger ever year, despite imposing among the highest tax rates in the country in every category. These factors...
Listen to the announcer.... then it becomes obvious through the finish.Apparently, your wife knows everything.
Here in DC, we have signs put up by the local city government that are usually a little more "helpful" than Obama's stimulus signs. They list what the construction project is and how much it costs, both to the DC city...
Years ago, my wife and I recounted our early public school experiences to our children. My wife boasted that she finished her schoolwork before her classmates and then got to help the teacher put up elaborate...