Straight Talk About Ron Paul and Glenn Beck

By Burt Prelutsky · Monday, March 15, 2010

When I wasn’t invited to address the CPAC convention, I didn’t take it personally. I merely assumed they knew how much I hate flying and, besides, I don’t do well in cold weather. But it’s always nice to see so many conservatives in good spirits, especially during these hard times. Still, I have to admit I found their straw vote worrisome.

Founder's Quote Daily

Monday, March 15, 2010

"On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?"

—Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, Query 12, 1782

Sis Boom Bah Humbug

By George Will · Sunday, March 14, 2010

WASHINGTON -- The increasingly puerile spectacle of presidential State of the Union addresses is indicative of the state of the union, and is unnecessary: The Constitution requires only that the president "shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union." But a reaction may be brewing against these embarrassing events. Speaking in Alabama, Chief Justice John Roberts said "to the extent that" this occasion "has degenerated into a political pep rally," he is "not sure why we're there." He was referring to Supreme Court justices. But why is anyone there?

Profiles of Valor: U.S. Army National Guard Maj. Scott Southworth

Sunday, March 14, 2010

When Army National Guard Maj. Scott H. Southworth, a law-school graduate of the University of Wisconsin, went to Iraq with the National Guard's 32nd Police Company, his mission was to train police officers in Baghdad. However, there was an unexpected twist to the story.

Yellen Is Spellin' Future Inflation

By Lawrence Kudlow · Saturday, March 13, 2010

The new Obama Fed is going to be very dovish when it comes to fighting future inflation and defending the value of the dollar. The president has nominated Janet Yellen to be vice chair of the Federal Reserve. Yellen is a distinguished economist who unfortunately subscribes to the Phillips-curve model that trades off unemployment and inflation. In other words, rather than excess money creation as the cause of rising prices, she focuses on the unemployment rate, the volume of new jobs being created and the growth of the overall economy. For Yellen, inflation is caused by too many people working and too much economic prosperity.

Digest

Friday, March 12, 2010

Former Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) is currently the star of an ongoing ethics scandal that presents quite the dilemma for political analysts. The question is: What are Democrats up to while Massa tries to convince us to believe his story? Not only that, but what other sorts of dirt do Obamanites have on other "undecided" Democrats should they fail to cooperate?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Deficient Cleaning Service

By Michelle Malkin · Friday, March 12, 2010

"Maybe it will take a woman to clean up the House," Nancy Pelosi boasted before the 2006 midterm elections. Looks like those XX chromosomes didn't give her much advantage over the old cleaning crew. The swamp she was supposed to drain is overflowing. And fewer than four years after a sordid sexual predation scandal involving a creepy congressman rocked the Republican Party, a sordid sexual predation scandal involving a creepy congressman is now rocking the Democratic Party.

Founder's Quote Daily

Friday, March 12, 2010

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected."

—Thomas Jefferson, autobiography, 1821

Durbin Calls Obama a Liar

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Well, he didn't specifically call Obama a liar, but that's the effect of his claim on the Senate floor.

Pelosi: Pass the Bill to Find Out What's in It

Thursday, March 11, 2010

According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), "[W]e have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy."

When Debating a Liberal, Start With First Principles

By Mark Alexander · Thursday, March 11, 2010

There are only two rules you need to know when debating a liberal.

Rule Number One: You must define the debate in terms of First Principles, which is to say, you must be able to articulate those principles.

Rule Number Two: You must distinguish between liberals and Leftists. The former subscribe to a plethora of contemporaneous solutions, while the latter are bona fide "useful idiots," those Western apologists for socialist political and economic agendas that terminate with the institution of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist collectivism masquerading as regulation and taxation.

Our Reset Reset Foreign Policy

By Victor Davis Hanson · Thursday, March 11, 2010

Almost every element of Barack Obama's once-heralded new "reset" foreign policy of a year ago has either been reset or likely soon will be. Consider Obama's approach to the 8-year-old war on terror. Plans made more than a year ago to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay by January 2010 have stalled. Despite loud proclamations about trying Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the architect of 9/11, in a civilian court in New York, such an absurd pledge will probably never be kept.

Founder's Quote Daily

Thursday, March 11, 2010

"Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob."

—James Madison, Federalist No. 55

Chronicle

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Former Congressman Eric Massa (D-NY), who is accused of sexually harassing male staffers and resigned Monday, told this story about White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: "I'm sitting there showering naked as a jaybird and here comes Rahm Emanuel not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest yelling at me because I wasn't going to vote for the president's budget. Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?"

The Shameless Abortion Carnival

By L. Brent Bozell · Wednesday, March 10, 2010

If anyone was looking for a self-righteous extreme feminist, they found one in Angie Jackson. This is a woman who was so proud she was aborting her baby that she announced she would "tweet" her chemical-cocktail abortion live, as it happened, on Twitter. The liberal media found this made-for-TV slaughter fascinating, and not at all a controversy worthy of discussing with two sides.