[Some people might be wondering why a Christian arts organization is conducting a survey to determine how Christians and non-Christians perceive mainstream Christian art. This article should explain our thinking. Oh, and, if you haven’t already, you should take that 2-question quick and easy survey.] Last night, I watched the movie God’s Not Dead, and […]
Continue reading →Recent proposed legislation concerning Voter IDs has led some critics to claim that such laws restrict the poor from voting. In an article in the Atlantic, this restriction on the voting rights of the poor is called a “hoary American tradition”: In 2010, Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips observed that “The Founding Fathers … […]
Continue reading →The first two lawsuits against the IRS brought by suppressed Tea Party organizations have been decided. In favor of the IRS. The method of the Taxman’s victory? Finally give the Tea Party groups tax-exempt status: Judge Reggie Walton of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia dismissed almost all counts brought against the […]
Continue reading →Some economists are recommending that the federal government raise marginal tax rates to 90% on 1 percenters, the 1% of Americans who make hugely “unequal” sums of money a year. Marginal tax rates are taxes on amounts above a certain amount. So a 90% tax rate wouldn’t liquidate 1 percenters entirely. It would just mean […]
Continue reading →In a very insightful article that conservatives will probably ignore, Mark Steyn explains how politics is less important than culture, and probably always has been: If the culture’s liberal, if the schools are liberal, if the churches are liberal, if the hip, groovy business elite is liberal, if the guys who make the movies and […]
Continue reading →I knew leftists were brazen. But I had no idea just how brazen they were. Here’s a couple of paragraphs from the Common Core approved Obama biography intended for fourth-graders: But some people said that Americans weren’t ready for that much change. Sure Barack was a nice fellow, they said. But white voters would never […]
Continue reading →A Republican candidate in Chicago, Jim Moynihan, tried to vote for himself in early elections and was surprised to find that the voting machine registered a vote for his opponent, a Democrat: While using a touch screen voting machine in Schaumburg, Moynihan voted for several races on the ballot, only to find that whenever he […]
Continue reading →In a recent interview with the New Yorker, Obama talked about his judicial legacy, especially as it concerns same-sex marriage. During his administration, a marked shift has occurred in the political make up of the federal circuit courts. He has appointed two hundred and eighty federal judges. When he took office in 2008, ten of […]
Continue reading →Recently, Apple and Google both made policy and software changes to make it more difficult for spies, government agencies, and identity thieves to get information off of your devices. Well, the FBI director, James Comey, is lobbying Congress to force technology companies to make device exceptions for law enforcement—a little backdoor just for them. Comey […]
Continue reading →Portland, Oregon has proposed legislation for labeling GMO foods, and the party opposing the labels has raised nearly twice as much money as those in favor of it. I bet you can’t guess who the biggest donor against labeling is… I couldn’t be Monsatan—er, I mean Monsanto—could it? Of course it is. Monsanto has given […]
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