With 70% of Americans standing in hardened opposition to a victory mosque being built on our national graveyard at Ground Zero, it would take a complete elitist ninny to sum this up as "Islamaphobia." But since our elitists are indeed calling the 70% of us irrational, phobic nutcases, it would seem an awfully good time to have an Islamaphobia beer summit.Forget the beer; we need sober heads. Forget the president; he's out to lunch. We'll just have a dry summit among ourselves.For starters,...
Light bulbs sprang from the brilliant mind of Thomas Edison -- a true American hero, right up there with Benjamin Franklin. But his legacy is coming to an end. General Electric, the company that he founded, is closing America's last factory for making incandescent light bulbs, victim of liberal environmental politics and zealotry.Sadly, not only will the workers be losing their jobs -- devastating another small town (Winchester, Virginia) -- but the boon created by their replacements, compact fluorescents (CFLs), will not be...
When he was running for President in 2008, Barack Obama frequently used the phrase "the last eight years." Now that he's president and it's two years later, he often uses the phrase "the last decade." The standard Democrat story is that our current troubles are simply the result of some bad trend set into motion the very second George W. Bush stole the 2000 election -- that we've had a full decade of horror and decline.Our JournoList friends can prove with Queeg-like geometric...
The survival of a great nation is contingent on its ability to remain master of its destiny. For the United States, that capability is now in question. The country, with President Obama at the helm, has embarked on voyage certain to end in disaster unless the people recognize the reality of the situation and act accordingly.History has repeatedly shown that great nations have fallen by the wayside not as the direct result of foreign enemies, but by the degradation of society and economic structures...
One of the most frequently used arguments in the defense of Islam is that the Bible is just as violent as the Koran. The logic goes like this. If the Koran is no more violent than the Bible, then why should we worry about Islam? This argument suggests that Islam is the same as Christianity and Judaism. This is false, but the analogy is very popular since it allows someone who knows nothing about the actual doctrine of Islam to talk about it....
I've been in business now for six years. For all six of those years, I've had a silent business partner. My partner's contribution to the enterprise has been sipping sweet cream during those years while I labored and toiled to try to make a go of things. It seems that the only noise he makes is when I don't send his cut on time.I struggle each month to find new ways to drum up business and sales; he merely changes the rules of...
A prominent Democrat has unwittingly provided an in-depth view of all that is misguided, incorrect, and vacuous regarding the ultra-liberal perspective on the economy, business, and the global market. In a recent op-ed piece, "How to End the Great Recession" by Robert B. Reich (September 2, 2010, The New York Times), the former Clinton cabinet officer, pundit, and Berkeley professor offers little of value in the way of solving the current economic problem, but the piece does showcase the limitations of contemporary American...
It will come as news to no one that conservatism has long had a PR problem. The political question of 2010 is this: do America's voters finally "get" conservatism?For a half-century or more, conservatism's public image has covered a vast spectrum ranging from the Neanderthals on one end to Genghis Khan on the other. Conservatism has been depicted as the political doctrine of Klansmen, inbred backwoodsmen, paranoids, and religious fanatics. (Timothy McVeigh, an atheist and anarchist, is almost always characterized as a "right-wing...
Let me introduce you to two narcissists I know and (don't) love. First, there's Katie.You probably know a "Katie." She talks about herself nonstop, forever boasting and gloating. When you try to get a word in edgewise, Katie immediately returns the conversation back to herself.There's nothing she can't do. There's no compliment or accomplishment that she doesn't flaunt. But when you're in a jam or need a shoulder to cry on, Katie is nowhere in sight. And should you inadvertently insult her, Katie...
Judged by all the billions of dollars now flowing into "education reform," it appears that Washington, and especially the Obama administration, is obsessed with improving academic achievement (see, for example, here). The billions are certainly real enough, but the intent is just the opposite. Rhetoric aside, the Obama administration, like Bush II's before it, is profoundly opposed to brainpower. Our "commitment" to academic excellence is a cruel joke -- we love stupidity and hate smart kids. Tellingly, not even "conservatives" who bemoan America's...
Some of you may know and love the British "Blackadder" TV series. It featured Rowan Atkinson as an upper-class twit and Tony Robinson as Baldrick, his crafty lower-class servant/sidekick. A recurring theme was "Baldrick's cunning plan" that usually failed to get them out of a jam.We will return to Barack's cunning plan in a moment. But first this message.Last Friday, the Labor Department issued its monthly employment data. And the news was unexpected. The unemployment rate was up and jobs were down, but...
If any of you techies out there want to get rich quick and Save the Republic to boot, here's your chance. This idea is all yours, free. All you have to do is write a tiny program. Here's what you need to know. Up to four hundred mainstream "journalists" got caught a couple of months ago conspiring on an e-mail listserv that was cleverly called "JournoList" to fix the news for Obama in the 2008 election. They agreed on when to smear Sarah Palin...
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants Americans to embrace the Ground Zero Mosque as a step toward "building an interfaith community." The Mayor believes that the mosque would "bring [New York] City even closer together and help repudiate the false and repugnant idea that the attacks of 9/11 were in any way consistent with Islam."In the weeks since the remarks, liberals have staged a gaudy performance. Let's take a look, beginning with Bloomberg's sermonizing.No amount of hand-waving can erase truths that signal...
Numerous opinion polls show that after the November elections, the Republican Party will have regained enough seats in the House to take back the majority position and the Speakership. Results for the Senate are less amenable to forecast, but even so, gains up to and including a remote chance for a majority are possible there as well. It is necessary to remind Republicans of one salient fact about this predicted shift in political strength as a result of the 2010 midterm elections, and...
America's cultural crisis has both material and spiritual causes. Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally in our capital city was an attempt to address both the material and spiritual issues on what is essentially a political level. Can spiritual problems be addressed at a political level? The brief reply is "probably not." In the long run, Beck's approach, as noble as his intentions are, is likely to precipitate more -- not less -- divisiveness in the conservative effort to achieve a united front.Our Founding...
The Fourth Great Awakening in American history continues to expand among those who drank the Obama Campaign Kool-Aid. Statistically, the most zealous believers in hope and change are the most profound victims of the Obama Hoax -- poor, young, unemployed blacks."A sense of disappointment, bordering on betrayal, has been growing across the country, especially in moderate states like Indiana, where people now openly say they didn't quite understand the President they voted for in 2008." TIME magazine, "How Barack Obama Became Mr. Unpopular."...
A number of months back, Governor David Paterson famously taunted Rush Limbaugh as Rush sold his New York City apartment and left the state, complaining about a raise in New York taxes. "If I knew that would be the result, I would've thought about the taxes earlier," the governor said. Let us compare Rush Limbaugh as a taxpayer to the owner(s) of the proposed Ground Zero mosque property, one of the high-profile New York real estate holders in the news.Rush Limbaugh paid his...
The Obama administration has included the Arizona state immigration law in a report of human rights abuses to the United Nations, that collective negation of humanity and home to the worst human rights abusers in the world.Arizona Governor Jan Brewer struck back Friday, demanding that the reference to Arizona's immigration law be taken out of the State Department's report to the U.N.'s human rights commissioner. Brewer wrote a letter to Hillary Clinton saying that the inclusion of Arizona in the U.N. report was...
There are highly paid minds on the political left who, having to believe in something for the coming election, consider it smart to paint the GOP (and by extension the Tea Party movement) as "the party of no."This line of attack doesn't just reek of desperation; it stinks to the heavens of their gross misunderstanding of what is taking place among the American public. Time and again, Democrats fire off the hateful and obscene smear "teabaggers" to try to soil the mood of...
America has no business giving its imprimatur to a diplomatic process that countenances, and indeed endorses, ethnic cleansing as a foundation stone -- or that embraces the prospect of an eventual judenrein "Palestinian" state (let alone a judenrein state gouged out of the very cradle that birthed and nourished the Jewish People). Regardless of who is to have sovereignty there, why do the Palestinian Arabs not want Jews living there? Why can't anybody live wherever he damned well pleases? The Jewish rural, suburban,...
Freelance writing doesn't pay much, but a compensating benefit is the opportunity one finds to meet and speak with really interesting people. Congressional candidate Lt. Col. Allen West (USA, Ret.) is one such person, and I interviewed him for this article recently.Col. West is one of the most promising candidates on the GOP horizon for this election. He is a genuine conservative, unafraid to speak his mind and, more importantly, take action to demonstrate his commitment. His candidacy has gone national on the...
The August employment figures are dismal. Only 71,000 new jobs were created in the private sector in this, the beginning of the second year of economic recovery. At this rate, economists tell us, the unemployment rate will continue to rise indefinitely, and that is just what's happening. It is now 9.6%, up from 9.5% the previous month. Not to worry -- President Obama has detected a "silver lining" in these numbers. The private sector, he noted on Friday, "is creating jobs ... just...
Many conservatives look at their first chance to defeat the left in six years when nervous Democrats try to explain away Obama's disastrous leftward lurch. Not only is the left looking at a big defeat in America in two months, but it has been getting slobber-knocked all over the modern industrialized world.Five months ago, in the British General Election, the Labour Party, which had been in power since the early 1990s, suffered a devastating defeat, losing 91 seats in the House of Commons....
American spending on public education, adjusted for inflation, has more than doubled over the last three decades. What did taxpayers get for their money?The average math and reading scores of American 17-year-olds have not improved since the early 1970s, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress long-term trend assessment.Twice the money. Zero progress.Yet students in other countries have been improving their test scores.The Program for International Student Assessment 2006 measured the math and science literacy of 15-year-olds in 29 countries that belong...
An increasing number of Americans wish President Obama would stop trying to fix the economy, since his every effort seems to bring the country closer to bankruptcy. Obama's accomplishments in his first two years have already earned him the crown of the most reckless and profligate president in history, so why not rest on his leftist laurels and give a stimulus to those green jobs on America's putting greens?The president's speech to honor Labor Day, delivered last Friday, naturally addressed the issues of labor,...
Federal Judge Vaughn Walker, who unilaterally redefined the millennia old definition of marriage in his California marriage decision, will not have the last word on this issue. However, it is troubling who will. Many constitutional "experts" from both sides of the marriage argument agree that this issue will inevitably be "settled" by Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy. Thus, one judge (one man) may get to tell over 300 million people how they are allowed to order the very basis of their society. ...
The Postal Service must be immortal; it's a government program, though one in ill-fitting sheep's clothing like Fannie Mae's before its camouflage was washed off by the bailout. The Service is also, like Fannie Mae, dreadfully managed; any private-sector CEO with that loss history would be unemployable anywhere but Congress. But the Service lurches on, relying on its monopoly to raise postage whenever the union isn't happy with its wages. Like General Motors, there are reasons for its climbing costs. Here's a little...
President Obama should be saying, "My economic stimulus plan has preserved or created three million jobs -- in China." He keeps leaving out the words "in China." His plan is stimulating American demand for imports, not demand for American products.The latest unemployment report (9.6% in August) shows that the U.S. economy is stagnating, not recovering. Unemployment has stayed in the 9.5% to 10.2% range for the past thirteen months, as shown in the graph below:Among the unemployed are many of the two million...
Why would anyone want to enter into negotiations for a settlement of anything in which he had to beg the other party to participate? Or even more so in which he had to give real concessions to the other party just to sit at the same table?What can possibly come from such negotiations? Parties enter negotiations when they want to settle a conflict in whole or in part. Sometimes a party does not seek a settlement of anything but wishes to extract further...
Summer began on such a hopeful note. Vice President Biden was trotted out of seclusion to announce in January, "You're going to see, come the spring, net increase in jobs every month." Certain he'd not mislead us, we waited, full of optimism, only to see our hopes dashed on the audacity of dopes.Looking back on it, that line will prove as memorable as the promise that once the voters saw ObamaCare and read it (unlike the solons who passed it), they'd really love...
