Texas GOP Vote

Since the weekend, America’s journals and airwaves have seen a torrent of reports of and responses to the event on Saturday, 8/28, in Washington, DC at The Lincoln Memorial, called together by Glenn Beck and labeled, “Restoring Honor in America.” Great strain has been exerted by observers and reporters toward explanations of “What does this mean?” or “What was he trying to do?” (assuming of course, that it was all Glenn Beck’s attempts to manipulate American  Read more »

There is an article Thursday in The Wall Street Journal by Michael Medved that points to how though Republicans are likely to fare well this November, Democratic plans and the demographic trends they are counting on exploiting, make the prospects of Obama’s reelection in 2012 relatively promising.

Michael Medved is one of two talk radio hosts that I listen to regularly. Though I count myself as somewhat to the right of Michael Medved   Read more »

Two things happened last week that bear on the proper constitutional powers of federal versus state government. First, Missouri voted that Missourians should not be subject to either a federal mandate to purchase health care insurance nor be deprived of the power to choose a plan of their own favored price and design.  Read more »

A friend sent me an email wondering how Keith Olbermann can carry on with his hysterics at MSNBC. This was my best guess

I have given considerable thought to this question of why Keith Olbermann endures. I regularly poke a few channels up on commercials to get a look at what’s happening at the MSNBC circus. I always tell conservatives who insist that liberals are intentionally lying, not to underestimate the power of some basic assumptions to drive one to conclusions that are outrageous or near incomprehensible to many of us. Olbermann is the worst and most shrill example, and I have seen him edit video to highlight ideas amenable to his point and neglect parts that are not.   Read more »

For all of my life, most of it in the face of a contrary communications domination, Republicans have fidgeted to strike a pose between a mass-culture tide of anti-American, anti-freedom, anti-dynamic statist centralization of power, and their feeble sentiment about the virtue and potential of fundamental American principle.  Read more »

A few days ago, Walter E. Williams wrote an article, comparing "poverty" (a relative term) in The United States, not just to those so classified in other nations, but in fact to the average citizen of other nations. For those who have not considered or investigated this matter, it's important to read this.  Read more »