Political analyst Dick Morris thinks Rand Paul doesn’t have what it takes to win in 2016. Morris points out three ideological layers of conservative voter values, and he thinks Rand Paul wins in only one of those: The Republican Party is a three-layer cake consisting of economic libertarians, evangelical believers and national security advocates. Huckabee […]
Continue reading →Just like we live in a racist culture, we also live in a rape culture. Or so everyone loves telling me. The media loves race and rape stories. There’s no getting around that. But Rolling Stone may have allowed a good story to get in the way of the truth. And they might be paying […]
Continue reading →Are you tired of talking about gay wedding cakes? I am too, actually. But do you know what I’m more tired of? People putting words in Jesus’ mouth. A lot of probably well-intentioned people are going around telling Christians that they need to act more like Jesus and bake some gay wedding cakes. I would […]
Continue reading →Only eleven states in America allow voters to register to vote all the way up to election day. And apparently many politicians are against election day voter registration. But why? What surprised me the most about this debate, if you can call it that, is that GOP politicians are particularly against election day voter registration. […]
Continue reading →Purvi Patel was just convicted of feticide and child neglect in Indiana. And women’s rights activists are going bananas, and nuts … and other produce. Perhaps this is just another symptom of Indiana’s recent status as religious right extremist crazy wonderland. I don’t know. But the leftist bleeding hearts have this one wrong too. As you […]
Continue reading →The situation in Indiana over so-called religious freedom is completely ridiculous. Let’s just overlook the fact that the Indiana religious freedom act is just a more local version of the national RFRA signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1993. That in itself should indicate that the current hatred is contrived at best. But let’s […]
Continue reading →The IRS really needs more ethics scandals, don’t you think? It would just be a shame if the governmental agency responsible for siphoning off a third of America’s wealth weren’t filled with corrupt, unethical individuals. That’s why it was refreshing to see Lois Lerner’s dedication to opacity and corruption. And this most recent news is […]
Continue reading →The use, overuse, and abuse of antibiotics potentially poses a greater public health risk than the declining implementation of vaccines: Antibiotics misuse can be costly and deadly. Last year, the CDC reported 23,000 annual deaths and 2 million sicknesses stemming from improper antibiotic use. After bacteria builds up a resistance to prescribed antibiotics, health care workers have […]
Continue reading →Tax Freedom Day changes slightly every year. It marks the point in the year when taxpayers have worked long enough to pay their taxes every year. This year, it’s April 24. That means that if you took every cent you had earned in 2015, you would have accumulated enough to pay your taxes by April […]
Continue reading →It turns out that the most die-hard Ron Paul fans are already jumping off the Rand Paul 2016 bandwagon. Rand Paul is apparently a little too mainstream for most of them—too willing to take moderate positions where his father never compromised: “He’s moderating on most of them, not taking a real clear stance on a […]
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