Politics

Would MLK Approve of Today’s NAACP?

by Matt Barber July 18, 2012

As his re-election hopes dim, the mainstream “progressive” media continue to run interference for Barack Obama. It’s predictable. They no longer even try to hide it. They persist in slobbering on their over-hyped, under-capable would-be savior as his campaign collapses…

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Who Will Guard Us From Our Guardians?

by Bob Fierro July 12, 2012

Editor’s Note: the following is intended to be a counterpoint to contributor Ken Connor’s recent article, “Are We Being Too Hard On John Roberts?”
By now most Americans paying attention know that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), sometimes called Obamacare,…

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How Washington Really Works

by Ken Connor July 11, 2012

Want to know how Washington really works? Can you say, “Crony capitalism”?
Roll Call has just reported on yet another scandal that shows the character of some of our representatives in Capitol Hill, and the picture isn’t pretty.
House Oversight…

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Obama and Other Great Men Who “Tried Real Hard”

by Keith Koffler July 11, 2012

As most of you probably know, we’ve gone from “The Greatest Generation” to the “I Tried Real Hard Generation.”
These days, everyone’s a winner, everyone gets a trophy and everyone gets an “E” for Effort.
Consistent with this new ethos,…

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Presidents Refuse to Enforce Laws? Then Here’s An Idea…

by Joe Fulwiler July 10, 2012

President Obama recently announced that his administration would no longer enforce the laws that require deportation of illegal aliens in cases where the illegal alien had been brought to the United States as a child and was raised here.
Some…

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John Roberts Makes His Career Move

by Pat Buchanan July 5, 2012

For John Roberts, it is Palm Sunday.
Out of relief and gratitude for his having saved Obamacare, he is being compared to John Marshall and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Liberal commentators are burbling that his act of statesmanship has shown us…

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The Roadmap to Obamacare Repeal

by Keith Koffler July 4, 2012

Writing in the Wall Street Journal Former Bush National Economic Council Director Keith Hennessey provides a How-To Guide for the upcoming Eradicate & Replace campaign that Republicans will wage against Obamacare.
Hennessey, who blogs at keithhennessey.com, writes that a win…

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None So Blind as Catholics Who Refuse to See

by Dr. Paul Kengor July 3, 2012

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A friend of mine was telling me about the latest political doings of her father. Her father is in his 70s, lives in Western Pennsylvania, a lifelong union man, Catholic, and Democrat. He is also conservative and…

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Is This the Right Bus?

by Gail Finke July 2, 2012

Religious sisters (not nuns) finish their whirlwind bus tour today. And although there is a bus, only two sisters are technically “on” it. The proposed federal budget they’re ostensibly protesting has no chance of being passed, and the two-week, nine-state…

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Obamacare Is Not Permanent Yet. Not Nearly.

by Keith Koffler June 28, 2012

For opponents of Obamacare, there is hope. And not even unrealistic hope.
Obamacare can mostly be repealed if three things happen this year: Republicans keep the House, Republicans pick up the Senate, and Mitt Romney is elected president.
Each of…

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