Politics

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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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Hugo Chavez: Faithful to Death

by Dr. Paul Kengor March 7, 2013

There’s an old joke from the Cold War. It went like this: Hardline East German communist Walter Ulbricht (who erected the Berlin Wall) died and went to hell. There, the devil gave him a choice between the socialist sector and…

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Has the Bell Begun to Toll for China?

by Pat Buchanan March 5, 2013

“Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and convictions wavered,” China’s new leader, Xi Jinping, told a closed meeting of party elite in Guangdong province.
“Finally all…

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Obama’s Preschool Child

by Dr. Paul Kengor February 27, 2013

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Barack Obama wants your child in preschool. “Fewer than three in ten 4-year-olds are enrolled in a high-quality preschool program,” laments the president. He says that “most middle-class parents can’t afford … private preschool. And for poor kids…

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