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IRS Scandal another Reason Why We Need the Fair Tax
19 May 2013 12:06 am

“It will create a bureaucracy with the efficiency of the Post Office, the frugality of the Pentagon and the compassion of the IRS.”
- Mantra of those who opposed HillaryCare in the 1990s.

In the idealistic constitutional fantasies of those who harbor high hopes and short memories, the accumulating effect of the scandals piling up like rotting garbage at the front door of the White House will result in the impeachment and removal from office of Barack Hussein Obama, 44th President of the United States. Despite the dog and pony show Congress …

American Pravda, a Nation of Lawbreakers and Benghazigate
12 May 2013 12:06 am

Louis Brandeis, who served on the United States Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939, once warned, “Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”

The temptation of each generation of those who value truth is to say that the leaders in power at that moment in time must be the most corrupt ever to rule. The blight of progressivism had its root in the administrations of …

More Evil than Nazi Germany
5 May 2013 12:06 am

This is a tale that would bring a smile to the face of Josef Mengele, Adolf Hitler and Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger: the true story of a black abortionist making a fortune killing black babies – and occasionally a black mother – in the filthiest conditions imaginable.

Kermit Gosnell is on trial for multiple counts of murder in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – several live babies and at least one adult woman. For decades, Gosnell ran a hellish yet very profitable death mill in the inner-city while local, state and federal officials …

Will Rubio Become Yet Another Candidate for Whom I Cannot Vote?
28 Apr 2013 12:06 am

There are times when the words “never” and “always” are the only ones that work. In my case, “never” is becoming the word I must use to describe how I feel about certain candidates for high office. For example, I voted four times for a Bush and once for a McCain – something I will never do again.

In 1988, it was Bush the elder over Michael Dukakis. In 1992, I resisted the temptation to punish President “Read-My-Lips” by casting my ballot for Ross Perot, knowing that a vote for the …

Witnessing the Death of Liberty
21 Apr 2013 12:06 am

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
- Edward R. Murrow
Benjamin Franklin warned that a people preferring security over liberty deserves neither. In the aftermath of each attack upon our nation, we have seen this maxim play out with growing restrictions on our God-given constitutional freedoms.
There was the USA Patriot Act, passed in the wake of 9/11, followed by the creation of a massive bureaucratic agency known as the Department of Homeland Security. Personally, I have never felt uncomfortable with that word – homeland – which I found …

The Gipper and the Iron Lady Tower over Today’s ‘Leaders’
14 Apr 2013 12:06 am

Back when I was still writing speeches and giving policy advice to naive candidates foolish enough to listen to me, I once told a young, first-time congressional candidate who was depressed about all the negative attacks coming his way that you can tell a lot about a man by the enemies he attracts. Such was the case with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
The vicious loons on the far left were apoplectic when these two towering figures were in office-at the same time! And this week, with the death of Lady …

Welcome to Margaret Sanger’s Brave New World
7 Apr 2013 12:06 am

“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” – Thomas Jefferson
So why is anyone surprised to learn that Planned Parenthood “doctors” may be killing babies on the operating table after they are born? The current President of the United States favored the practice back home in Illinois, as evidenced by his strenuous opposition to the Born Alive Infant Protection Act put forth in the Illinois State Senate when he was a part of that body. (It was one …

Will John Roberts Betray Us Again?
31 Mar 2013 12:06 am

In the tortured justification for his vote to sustain Obamacare last summer, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts pointed to Congress’s authority to levy taxes – an argument not even put forward by its advocates. (They, in fact, had argued that it was not a tax.) As a direct result of Roberts’s folly, the stark reality of Barack Obama’s “fundamental transformation of America” creeps closer each day.
Will Roberts do it again? As I write this, the High Court is hearing oral arguments for and against California’s Proposition 8, which defined …

Red State Governors Should Be Careful What They Wish For
24 Mar 2013 12:06 am

Recently, Republican Governors Rick Perry of Texas and Terry Branstad of Iowa appealed to those wanting to flee liberal California. “Move your business to our state,” they implore. “We’ll welcome you with open arms here.” They should be careful what they wish for.
When my wife and I used to vacation in Colorado in the 1970s, I started noticing bumper stickers that read “Don’t Californicate Colorado.” The initial movement that spawned that sentiment was a way for Colorado residents to express their disapproval of how Southern California had exploded with seemingly …

McCain and Graham, Irrelevant or Dangerous
17 Mar 2013 12:06 am

Imagine U.S. Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana attacking fellow Democrats Diane Feinstein, Chuck Schumer and Richard Blumenthal over their unconstitutional gun control proposals. Further, envision Manchin granting an interview with conspiratorial radio talk show host Alex Jones, during which the senator calls Feinstein, Schumer and Blumenthal “wacko birds.” Picture the harrumphing that would emanate from the elite media…
Diane Sawyer, ABC News: “An inexplicable thing happened in Washington today. In a bizarre tantrum gone public, two Senate Democrats attacked three esteemed colleagues for their work …

Grandpa, Tell Me Again About Freedom
10 Mar 2013 12:06 am

“Grandpa, did you have more freedom when you were my age?” It was December 11, 2017, my grandson’s twelfth birthday. For as long as he could remember, he had heard us talking about the dangers of Barack Obama’s agenda. Now Obama’s two full terms as president had inflicted their full damage on the nation, and my perceptive grandson somehow knew that things had gotten worse during his lifetime.
“Well,” I said, “for one thing, when I was your age, my parents didn’t have to ask the government for permission to go …

Obama’s Sleight of Hand on Display Again
3 Mar 2013 12:06 am

The sleight of hand continues unabated in Washington. While Barack Obama holds up this shiny, scary thing called “sequestration” with one hand, his real agenda seems to be to slip through the most massive amnesty bill ever foisted on the American people with the other. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain, Dorothy.
In the interest of putting the issue of illegal immigration into perspective once again, I present the following scenario, first proffered in this space several years ago under the title, “Where no one locks the door.” …

What Part of “Shall Not Be Infringed” is Hard to Understand?
24 Feb 2013 12:06 am

Evan Todd was a student at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado in the late 1990s. He is a miraculous survivor of the infamous living nightmare that occurred there on April 20, 1999. In fact, he was the first student shot when Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris began their rampage that day.
One might think Evan would be supportive of the misguided efforts by President Barack Obama to restrict the Second Amendment rights of every law-abiding citizen in the United States of America. Nothing could be further from the truth: for …

Gun Violence Victims Not the Only Ones Who “Deserve a Vote”
17 Feb 2013 12:06 am

Barack Obama can spin a lie into what sounds like something akin to the truth better than anyone in politics has done in my lifetime – and that’s saying something because it’s starting to be quite a long time. His State of the Union speech was Exhibit A.
“They deserve a vote,” he intoned during the obligatory gun control portion of his speech. “They deserve a vote,” he repeated, just in case you missed it the first time. “Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The …

Here Come the Drones
10 Feb 2013 12:08 am

Are you government-approved in every area of your life? As radio host Mark Levin recently pointed out, we all operate within the strangling decrees of oppressive federal regulations: government-approved light bulbs, government-approved washers and dryers, government-approved refrigerators, government-approved automobiles, etc. The list goes on and on. We can’t even go to the bathroom in our own homes without having to flush a government-mandated commode – twice – which, of course, defeats the whole purpose of a “low-flow” toilet. And coming soon to the domicile of the future: smart thermostats that …

Rest in Peace, Boy Scouts of America
3 Feb 2013 12:08 am

When I was a Boy Scout in the early 1960s, I earned a few merit badges and learned some very important life lessons along the way. One of them was the Scout Motto: “Be prepared!”
I remember the Scout Oath: “On my honor, I will do my best, to do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times, to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.”
And I still can recite the Scout Law from memory fifty years …

Another Clinton Lies Under Oath
27 Jan 2013 12:08 am

Did anyone believe a word Hillary Clinton told Congress about the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, in Benghazi, Libya, on the night of September 11, 2012? Did anyone believe her about what she knew and when she knew it? Does anyone believe that Republicans laid a glove on her during her testimony? The answers: no, no and no.
Hillary’s testimony began with a weepy opening statement that would have won her an Oscar had it been in a Hollywood movie. Fighting back crocodile tears, she told the committee …

One Third of a Generation Gone in 40 Years
20 Jan 2013 12:08 am

A little more than a month ago, 20 innocent children were savagely and senselessly slaughtered in their classroom at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, a fact now being used by an opportunistic president to further his agenda. That same day, 150 times that many innocent children were savagely and senselessly slaughtered in America’s abortion mills.
The next day, the same thing happened. And the day after that. And the day after that.
It’s been going on for 40 years now.
On January 22, 1973, my wife had been carrying the …

The View from the Bottom of a Fiscal Abyss
14 Jan 2013 12:05 am

Forty-one dollars in tax increases for every one dollar in spending cuts. That’s the shrewd deal Speaker of the House John Boehner negotiated with President Barack Obama. Obama, Boehner and other congressional leaders have known for a year and a half that these automatic tax increases and so-called spending cuts – also known as the fiscal cliff, or sequestration – were coming, and yet they did nothing. In fact, Obama seemed to gleefully taunt Republicans after his re-election in November, as though he wanted to go over “the cliff.” He …

Unlike Romnesia, Obamasterics a Serious Malady
13 Jan 2013 12:08 am

During the 2012 presidential election, Barack Obama coined a catchy phrase to describe all the flip-flops in which his opponent had allegedly engaged during the course of his career. On virtually every issue, from health care to abortion, from taxes to so-called pay equity, from welfare to gun control, Obama said the GOP nominee suffered from “Romnesia.”
In anticipation of the continued seductive tyranny that surely awaits us in the next four years, I would like to propose a new expression to describe the reaction of many of us to the …

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