A Temptation Too Great? Republicans and the Stimulus
This sounds to me like the same shenanigans Republicans pulled when they ran the show in Washington earlier this decade.

Dems Are Stuck With a Mess of Their Own Making
There's a lively debate going on in the blogosphere and the press about whether Democrats would be better off passing or not passing a health care bill.Some liberals claim that Democrats would be better off passing a bill, any bill, even if it's unpopular with the general electorate. The idea is to energize the Democratic base, currently. . .

Republican Collectivism
The most disturbing part of the ObamaCare debate is not about where Republicans and Democrats disagree, but where they agree.Take this issue of those with pre-existing illnesses. Many Republicans actually support government action to prevent insurance companies from refusing to insure them. Ignoring the benefits of cost-lowering free market. . .

The Angry Left Joins Talk Radio
There has been yet another eruption of violence from what our liberal friends a year or so ago were wont to call the "Angry Left." However, if you read The Washington Post, you might think this recent outburst of violence came from talk radio.The angry leftist behind the violence was John Patrick Bedell, 36, who, on the evening of March. . .

The Shameless Abortion Carnival
If anyone was looking for a self-righteous extreme feminist, they found one in Angie Jackson. This is a woman who was so proud she was aborting her baby that she announced she would "tweet" her chemical-cocktail abortion live, as it happened, on Twitter. The liberal media found this made-for-TV slaughter fascinating, and not at all a. . .

The Right to Work
The people of Louisiana must sleep soundly knowing that their state protects them from ... unlicensed florists.That's right. In Louisiana, you can't sell flower arrangements unless you have permission from the government. How do you get permission? You must pass a test that is graded by a board of florists who already have licenses. To prepare for. . .

Vanessa Williams: Looking a White Gift House in the Mouth
On Sunday night, Sandra Bullock won Best Actress at the 82nd Academy Awards for her portrayal of gun-toting Republican Leigh Anne Tuohy in "The Blind Side." "The Blind Side" is essentially a high-class, made-for-TV movie based on the true story of the Touhy family's adoption of impoverished and abandoned black teenager Michael. . .

Desperate Dems Cling to Human Kiddie Shield


An Obama Nominee and Disappearing Persons


Obama's Oscar
I am no pinnacle of humility, and I've learned my fair share of hard lessons from the camps of conceit. But I'm not sure the former Chicago politician occupying the White House ever has been schooled with a primer on the perils of pride.    It's one thing (though still distasteful) to be boastful in a sports or fighting ring; it's. . .

Why Democrats Don't Care about $9.7 Trillion Debt
As reported by The Washington Post, "President Obama's proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, congressional budget analysts said Friday."CNN adds, "Of that amount, an estimated $5.6 trillion will be in interest alone."The Post continues: "The CBO (Congressional Budget. . .

Obama vs. Insurers and the People, Part 2
President Barack Obama obviously has no qualms about slandering people or industries that interfere with his agenda. In the same creepy manner he defamed the Cambridge Police Department without benefit of the facts, he is scapegoating the insurance companies based on his distorted version of facts.In the past week, he has ratcheted up his war on. . .

Stimulus or Sedative?
Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has, if you called the tail a leg? When the audience said "five," Lincoln corrected them, saying that the answer was four. "The fact that you call a tail a leg does not make it a leg."That same principle applies today. The fact that politicians call something a. . .

Low-Tax Texas Beats Big-Government California
"Stop messing with Texas!" That was the message Gov. Rick Perry bellowed on election night as he celebrated his victory over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Republican primary for governor. In his reference to Texas' anti-littering slogan, Perry was making a point applicable to national as well as Texas politics and addressed to. . .

Toyota's Deadly Secret
I only hope no more lives will be lost before Toyota learns a valuable lesson...

Will Senate Say Aloha to Racial Discrimination?
What's the worst piece of legislation before Congress associated with the letter H? Most conservatives and Republicans, many moderates and independents, and even some liberals and Democrats would answer: one of the health care bills. But there's a robust competitor for this honor, passed by the House last week and currently before the Senate: the. . .

Tea Partiers and the Angry Left
WASHINGTON -- Whatever happened to the mainstream media's high regard for "anger" in politics? From roughly the midterm elections of 2006 through the presidential election of 2008, the "Angry Left" seemed to grow in stature with the media. Liberal pundits spoke of it with a hush of awe. By the election of the Prophet Obama, the. . .

Sen. Bunning: 'Paygo Means Paygo'
What on earth did Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., do, and why did he do it?An astonished ABC reporter followed the senator down the hall. The reporter confronted Bunning as the visibly irritated senator boarded an elevator and tried to leave. The reporter stopped the doors from closing and continued the questioning. Why, he repeatedly asked Bunning,. . .

Obama's Reapportionment Suicide
In U.S. politics, all elections are not created equal. It's OK to lose the state legislative and gubernatorial elections held on years ending in 2, 4, 6 or 8. But you can't afford to lose those held in years that end in 0. Those are the reapportionment elections.With the governorships evenly divided and almost all of the state legislatures, the. . .

Placing Our Faith in Economic Oracles
One of the sadder categories in the history of human misfortunes is the list of those things that are obvious, but wrong. By definition, if something is obvious, most people agree with it, and thus, it is likely to win the day -- but lose the verdict of history. The Earth is flat -- obviously. The sun rotates around the Earth -- obviously. What we. . .