In 2010, I responded as follows to Obama’s promise—now discredited even in the mainstream media—that “you can keep your doctor” under Obamacare: But every other American, even if he “couldn’t afford it” before, will be able to have your doctor too. You will have to share your doctor with all these additional people. In 2011, […]
“The Republicans capitulated to the Democrats because they are just like the Democrats: they are sacrificers—sacrificing the producers to the nonproducers.” I wrote the statement above on August 8, 2011, shortly after the Republicans capitulated to the Democrats, allowing the debt ceiling to be raised by more than $2 trillion in return for reducing—by a […]
Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) made an argument Monday that I made Sunday on Facebook. Sen. Lee wrote, The message behind the Administration’s shutdown bullying is the same message sent by his IRS’s abuses of political opponents: do what I say, or else. This is the abusive, partisan, unaccountable bureaucracy that, under Obamacare, will soon be […]
Senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and several others took a heroic stand, voting No on cloture today, knowing that Senator Harry Reid would follow cloture by stripping the Obamacare-defunding provision from the funding bill sent to the Senate by the House. Roughly half the Republican Senators did not stand with Senators Cruz and Lee, and […]
On the two-year anniversary of the killing of Osama Bin Laden, and in the wake of the murders and maimings by Islamists at the Boston Marathon, this post from two years ago is even more timely now: Osama Bin Laden is Dead, and We Are Still Losing the War.
This is the entire text of a 30-second, presumably scripted, commercial for MSNBC, spoken by MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry. We have never invested as much in public education as we should have, because we’ve always had kind of a private notion of children: “Your kid is yours, and totally your responsibility.” We haven’t had a […]
I have resisted blogging on the notion of ‘same-sex marriage’, because the issue seemed beneath the dignity of my blog. But the U.S. Supreme Court is considering the issue, and I am sick of those ‘equal’ signs on Facebook. Also, I think that good people are being hoodwinked by the political Left aided by religious […]
In a recent post, I wrote, We don’t have an immigration problem; we have a welfare-state problem. It used to be that immigrants came to America for freedom, and so America got most of the world’s best people. Since the rise of the welfare state, some still come here for freedom, but others come for […]
Thank you to those who sent in quotations of George Washington to commemorate his birthday today. Given current events, all the quotations were extremely apt. Submitted by Conrad: “… experience teaches us, that it is much easier to prevent an Enemy from posting themselves, than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.” […]
The need for sex does not justify rape. Similarly, the need for food, shelter, clothing, and health care does not justify the welfare state. It’s as simple as that. In civilized society, intercourse is by mutual consent, not compulsion. Tragically for America, Barack Obama—along with the half of the nation that supports him—systematically evades this […]