Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winning economist with whom I basically never agree, is back at it again with his five page Rolling Stone article “In Defense of Obama.” I’ve gotten used to the drivel he’s normally spouting about the unexpected success of Obamacare and the swelling economy and all the rest, but one particular paragraph of […]
Continue reading →I don’t know that there has ever been a Vice President in the history of the United States that loved putting his foot in his mouth like Joe Biden. The guy has roundly surpassed clown status for his habit of saying things one day and apologizing for them the next. His most recent bout of […]
Continue reading →A recent Gallup poll indicates that voters are unhappier with Obama than they’ve been with his last two predecessors: Registered voters are more likely to view their choice of candidate in this year’s midterm elections as a message of opposition (32%) rather than support (20%) for President Barack Obama. That 12-percentage-point margin is similar to […]
Continue reading →Michelle Obama thinks Obama will be impeached if Democrats don’t retain control of the Senate in the mid-term elections. Her tear-stained email explained why people need to pay a bunch of money to get other people registered to vote: I’ll put it frankly: If we lose these midterm elections, we’ll just see more obstruction, more […]
Continue reading →It’s a fact that reality eventually catches up with and punishes lies. It might not happen in the short-term, but over time, every ideology in contradiction to common sense eventually loses. By attrition. There is one major area in our day where liberals are losing the war of attrition: population. Recent statistics indicate that solid […]
Continue reading →We just began bombing Syria on Monday. We’ve come to loggerheads with Putin’s Russia. We’re back in Iraq (though “no boots on the ground” still holds some dubious sway in Obama’s Middle East foreign policy). And it doesn’t seem like we ever really left Afghanistan, despite all the rhetoric about it. And yet, in the […]
Continue reading →When asked to identify the three branches of American civil government, only thirty-six percent of Americans were able to. Which means that sixty-four percent of Americans, a very large majority, are entirely ignorant of the most basic facts of American government: Annenberg released the survey in partnership with the Civics Renewal Network, a group of […]
Continue reading →Citizens United vs. FEC has become the benchmark case for campaign finance. In it, the Supreme Court said that political ads were protected under free speech rights and should not be limited by campaign contribution laws. As a result, indirect campaign spending through Political Action Committees has been largely unchecked, and mega-donors have been the […]
Continue reading →One of the most widely-held ideas in the popular consciousness is that a person’s access to correct facts determines their espousal of correct beliefs. In other words, we think we base what we think on the facts that are available to us. This is not true. We determine what we accept as fact based on […]
Continue reading →At a recent dinner “In Defense of Christians” targeted at Middle Eastern Christians, Ted Cruz was literally booed off the stage when he started making comments in support of Israel. It seems that Middle Eastern Christians are less willing than Americans to endorse the Judeo-Christian alliance. There are many reasons for this, and almost none […]
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