Everyone in America loves Christmas. The smells of Fraser firs, roast beast, and spiced cider, the sparkling lights, the crackling fire, the egg nog, the gifts, the human tenderness and family love, the music—in other words, the gemütlichkeit—such fantastic things, right? But can’t we keep those things and get rid of all the religious accoutrements that […]
Continue reading →If your insurance policy was cancelled because it did not comply with Obamacare’s standards (read: your insurance company couldn’t afford to maintain your coverage anymore), the Obama administration has a little Christmas miracle for you: you will be exempt from Obamacare’s contentious individual mandate, for the time being. The Obama administration says that this will […]
Continue reading →George W. Bush hasn’t been in office for nearly half a decade. But people are still blaming him for our current political mess. According to a recent poll conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News, 50 percent of people surveyed think Bush is more to blame for our current economic mess than Obama (only […]
Continue reading →Mainstream mouth-breathing heart-bleeders just love it when Republicans say things that sound heartless. Republican Jack Kingston recently offered up another sacrificial victim for leftist effigy when he said that low-income students should pay a tiny fee for “free lunches” in school or at least “sweep the cafeteria floor.” Huffington Post, of course, immediately jumped on […]
Continue reading →Do you remember that scene from The Jerk, when Steve Martin’s idiotic character is collecting the “bare bones” items he “needs”? “This ashtray is all I need! And this paddle game. This ashtray and this paddle game. That’s all I need! …” That’s sort of what the federal budget talks must have looked like. A […]
Continue reading →The U.S. Army War College is deciding what to do with its (currently displayed) full-length portraits of Confederate generals like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. After the portraits were removed during an inventory process, certain unnamed faculty members started questioning why Confederate generals were represented at the U.S. War College when they were “enemies” […]
Continue reading →When Alan Chambers, the ex-gay ex-president of the now defunct Exodus International, closed the doors to that organization’s controversial ex-gay “reparative therapy,” he made a public statement apologizing for the damage the ex-gay program had done to the homosexual community. He said: I am sorry for the pain and hurt many of you have experienced. […]
Continue reading →You probably didn’t know that the NFL is a tax-exempt organization. Well, it is. Which means that, in effect, it is sponsored by the federal government. It really makes no sense that the NFL should be tax-exempt. It is not a ministry or a charity or a small business needing a financial break. It is […]
Continue reading →About eight miles from Columbine, a bright, well-spoken, young debate student walked into his school openly displaying a shotgun and asked for his debate instructor by name. When the instructor got word of the student’s obviously hostile intentions, he exited the school. The boy then shot at some students, wounding two before he took his […]
Continue reading →Many years ago, R. L. Dabney penned some wise words about conservatism that I would like to repeat here: [Conservatism] never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in […]
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