Virginia Right!

  Interesting article. “When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. There can [...]

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There is a great article in the New American about ICLEI and here’s an interview with ICLEI President (and former city council member in Vancouver, British Columbia) David Cadman: When asked by The New American at Rio+20 about the growing U.S. opposition and Alabama’s latest prohibition in particular, ICLEI President David Cadman seemed perplexed. “I [...]

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There have been a lot of angry words about a small set of islands in the South Atlantic:  The Falklands.  (They are called Las Malvinas in the Latin American world.  NEVER on this blog!)  Argentina claims the islands based on a dubious early attempt to set up a colony there.  However, in 1840, Great Britain [...]

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Two stories from Europe illustrate how dangerous the European Union has become for national sovereignty and liberty – and our interests as well: The first one is the revisit of the infamous prisoners’ vote issue.  It simply is outrageous for convicted prisoners serving time to get the right to vote.  But the European Court of [...]

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When the mental list of prospective challengers to President Obama first began forming in my head, Mitt Romney landed at the #3 position. Unfortunately, there were no names to plug in at #1 or #2. After hearing Romney at CPAC 2011 this past February, the Mittster fell completely off my list Why the fall? Simple. [...]

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I am admittedly a bit excited about Atlas Shrugged, Part I, the movie coming out on (ironically or intentionally) tax day (April 15 is the traditional tax day!) 2011.  I am also concerned.  For Ayn Rand’s Objectivist philosophy is based on her virulent opposition to religion.  Whitaker Chambers said it well here for NR over [...]

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The votes for prisoners issue is arousing the fight in Britons.  Both the Daily Mail and the Telegraph called for defiance.  The Telegraph editorial is particularly compelling: We believe the Government should refuse to accept the judgment by the European Court of Human Rights and if the court orders compensation to be paid, ministers should [...]

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This tax “compromise” bill has turned into another pork filled vehicle that exemplifies all that is wrong with our government. The voters spoke in November. NO MORE! Yet, here comes a large dose of more of the same. This time the excuse is “we must pass the Bush Tax Cut extension” or the world as [...]

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Perhaps this is too harsh, but there are plethora of words referenced that include the prefix ‘UN’ these days. UNbelievable .  This word comes in nearly every email that I receive that references government overreach, arrogance and corruption.  Rush, Sean, Mark Levin and others use it repeatedly.  Is this rogue government really UNBELIEVABLE at this point?   I would call government and the leftists that engineer it as ’PREDICTABLY DISAPPOINTING’ or ‘INFURIATINGLY DISMISSIVE’ or  ’CALCULATINGLY HEARTLESS’ or… Somebody in this audience has the right term.  But UNbelievable just doesn’t cut it anymore.  What THIS government does is entirely ‘Believable’ and my ability to be shocked by them has been exhausted.  Whatever is worst for the country is the predictable course that they will take. UNexpectedly.   Employment UNEXPECTEDLY fell.  Retail Sales UNEXPECTEDLY sank.  The Trade deficit UNEXPECTEDLY went negative.  New home starts UNEXPECTEDLY fell.  This is so farcical as to border on the ridiculous.  With this President and this Congress, who has ANY expectations of success?  Rush and others laugh about …

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The arrogance that political power breads in Chicago is astonishing. As we suffer through the Blagojevich trial, it is clear that these people all believe laws are for the little people. Selling a US Senate seat is unbelievable. The fact that this type of attitude is so prevalent among Chicago politicians really makes it hard [...]

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What a wonderful day with a record crowd of Conservative activists. Over 10,000 sane, rational political junkies in the same room. The pompous arrogance of the Democratic progressives was pleasantly absent. No whining liberals in a mass political gathering in Washington D.C.

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In a stunning admission, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi admitted today that she does not have the votes to ram Health Care Reform through the house. The fallout from the Scott Brown election in Massachusetts continues to mount.

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