Where is Our Contract with America?
This week’s primary races, in which grassroots conservative candidates had a strong showing, suggest that the political energy is on the Republican side. Yet it is too soon to predict that 2010 will...
View ArticleBudget Deal Triggers HuffPo’s Childhood Trauma
Star Trek fans will recall the Mirror Universe, a parallel dimension where Captain Kirk and the crew of the starship Enterprise were part of an evil empire instead of the peaceful Federation. The...
View ArticleHow to Break the Partisan Fever
Sunday on “Meet the Press” Colin Powell blamed divisive, poisonous Washington politics on the media and the Tea Party. The essence of Powell’s argument was: “Republicans and Democrats are focusing...
View ArticleA Tea Party Senate Takeover
The tea party isn’t dead. It’s just looking down ballot. While fiscal conservatives remain split over the GOP presidential candidates, grassroots activists are coalescing around a stellar slate of...
View ArticleWhat You’re Paying for Your Child to Learn at College
As high school seniors throughout America will be receiving acceptance letters to colleges within the next month, it would be nice for parents to meditate on what they’re getting for the $20,000 to...
View ArticleDemocrats to Blacks: Stay Angry, Vote Democratic
Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., once said: “George (W.) Bush is our ‘Bull’ Connor — and if that doesn’t get to you, nothing will be able to get to you. It’s time for us to be able to say that we’re sick...
View ArticleThe Celebrity Left’s Obsession with Obscenity
As the election draws near, President Obama’s celebrity supporters are stepping up their political presence in pop culture – and in the process, exposing their bizarre, immature predilection for...
View ArticleThe Left’s Lincoln
Steven Spielberg announced a couple of years ago that he wanted to make a movie based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. And he quickly signed up...
View ArticleKingmakers and Heartbreakers: Ohio’s Crucial Independent Voters
Do not trust anyone who claims to know what is going to happen in Ohio on Election Day. The sheer number of variables in play here are plenty, and even the most experienced political observers are...
View ArticleWisconsin: Did Walker Wars Plant the Seeds of Dem Defeat?
Here in Wisconsin, we see ourselves as more than a state in play. When it comes to politics, we are not merely a “toss up” or metaphorical battleground state. We are an actual battleground. Wisconsin...
View ArticleDemocrats Furious with Cuban-American Voters
As we go to press, polls are showing America’s largest swing state in a dead head between Romney and Obama. Florida has 29 electoral votes and the third largest “Hispanic” population in America....
View ArticleThe Tea Party Got It Right, Mitt Got It Wrong
In this election the Republican Party ran two wholly inoffensive blue state Republicans on a platform of jobs at a time when the economy was everyone’s chief concern and the incumbent had absolutely...
View ArticleA Conservative Sellout Is Not the Solution
Many of you reading this probably felt a kick in the gut when the election results came in. Filled with optimism by Republican pollsters predicting a landslide victory, the outcome came as an even...
View ArticleCan Obama Be Stopped?
There’s nothing like losing a war to destroy morale. The Republican defeats in 2008 and 2012 have convinced much of its leadership that the future lies with the left. They are not debating whether to...
View ArticleHow the Democrats Destroyed Detroit
Last Friday, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, announced that the state will proceed with a takeover of Detroit’s Democratic city government. “The current system has not been working. We have...
View ArticleThe Left’s Quest for Texas
In 1960, Nixon beat Kennedy in California following up on Eisenhower’s decisive wins over Adlai Stevenson. Nixon won California again in 1968, beating out Humphrey, and then McGovern in 1972. Ford held...
View ArticleFive Decades of Lies Help Dems Create Monolithic Black Vote
As recently as 1956, nearly 39 percent of blacks voted Republican in that year’s presidential election. After the Civil War, Abe Lincoln’s Republican Party easily carried the black vote — where blacks...
View ArticleThe Chicagoization of America
The urban political machine was born in New York but died in Chicago. It’s no longer a separate entity from the rest of the country; one of the inconveniences of urban life along with smog, muggings...
View ArticleSwedish Left Reluctantly Drops Israel-Hating Party Leader
In Sweden the other day, the worldwide red-green alliance experienced a minor stumble on its lockstep march into the golden future time. It began last week, when one Omar Mustafa was elected to the...
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