Politics

Don’t Cry for Me, America: Comparing Argentina and the United States

by Alejandro Chafuen on June 18, 2013 · 0 comments

Many observers have pondered if the United States is following the same troubled path as Argentina. In the 1940s, Argentina’s Juan Domingo Perón used government agencies for political gain and created a popular form of fascism called Perónism. In the…

The Top Twenty Obama Administration Scandals

by Keith Koffler on June 3, 2013 · 4 comments

It’s easy to forget that the three scandals currently swirling about President Obama are just the latest episodes of potential misdoings by the scandal-plagued Obama administration.
As a refresher, here is a full list of the administration’s most egregious scandals.…

Death Panels? Of Course…

by Dr. Tracy C. Miller on May 31, 2013 · 5 comments

Recently the debate about “death panels” has been heating up as Republican Congressional leaders express their opposition to implementing the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) by refusing to appoint members to serve on it. The IPAB, which was referred to…

The Spectator President?

by Pat Buchanan on May 21, 2013 · 8 comments

No, this is not Watergate or Iran-Contra. Nor is it like the sex scandal that got Bill Clinton impeached.
The AP, IRS and Benghazi matters represent a scandal not of presidential wrongdoing, but of presidential indolence, indifference and incompetence in…

In Bed Together: The Dept. of Justice and the Same Sex Agenda

by Gail Finke May 20, 2013

Think the battle over “same sex marriage” isn’t already over? Check out this web site and think again.
The Department of Justice (yes, THE U.S. Department of Justice) has an LGBT organization called DOJ Pride. Has had it since 1994.…

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Dropping the Benghazi Ball

by Dr. Earl Tilford May 14, 2013

In the 1990s, the U.S. Air Force’s self-descriptor for its capabilities was “Global Reach, Global Power.”  On September 11, 2012, as Americans were being attacked and killed in the Middle East, the global reach of air power was confined to…

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Preserving Hugo Chavez

by Dr. Paul Kengor March 21, 2013

The gushing, almost angelic praise for Hugo Chavez by the left in America and around the world has been shocking to behold, but hardly surprising. I will not bother repeating the litany here. Rather, I’d like to focus on another…

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Discounting Parents’ Rights

by Ken Connor March 20, 2013

For people of faith in America, the Obama administration’s birth control mandate represents an unprecedented assault on religious conscience. It seems that the President and his surrogates have little appreciation for the role that faith plays in the lives of…

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Is There Room in the GOP Tent for the Poor?

by Ken Connor March 12, 2013

Writing for the Wall Street Journal, American Enterprise Institute president Arthur C. Brooks recently suggested that the G.O.P. is way off base in their assumptions about the moral arguments that resonate most with the American people.  Their focus on the…

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Who Speaks Now for the GOP?

by Pat Buchanan March 12, 2013

Last Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul rose on the Senate floor to declare a filibuster and pledge he would not sit down until either he could speak no longer or got an answer to his question about Barack Obama’s war powers.…

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