Written by Chad Groening
Sandy Rios, director of governmental affairs at the American Family Association, says those “three legs” are social issues, national defense, and the economy.
Several potential Republican candidates are concentrating their efforts on Christian conservatives.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal hosted a prayer rally in his home state, sponsored by the American Family Association, in which he called for a national spiritual revival.
Dr. Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, spoke this past weekend at a Houston megachurch conference billed as an effort to “restore the soul of America.”… Continue Reading
Written by James Lewis
Today’s self-proclaimed “liberals” would have no truck with the real John F. Kennedy, or LBJ, or Harry S. Truman, or Daniel Patrick Moynihan, or other patriotic liberals. If the phrase “patriotic liberal” has an odd clang today, you know exactly what I mean.
Barack Obama, for whatever talents he may possess, is not an American patriot. Try saying “The patriotic Obamas” and then try not to cringe. … Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Chairman Hu, Chairman Mao, Cold War, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Das Kapital, El Jefe Fidel, Emperor Hirohito, Fidel Castro, Harry S. Truman, Hizb’allah, Hubert Humphrey, Israel, John F. Kennedy, Jomo Kenyatta, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Kim Kardashian, King Abdullah, LBJ, Leonard Bernstein, Maureen Dowd, Muammar Gadaffi, Muslim Brotherhood, Nikita Sergeivitch Khrushchev, Pol Pot, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, Sharia, Tom Wolfe, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin
Federal Issues, Political | David E. Smith | 
January 27, 2015 5:00 AM | 
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Written by John Biver
An old saying in politics is that nothing moves unless it’s pushed. Among other things, big government must be downsized, and that alone is going to require new leadership and a sizable force of committed volunteers to win public support so it can get accomplished.
What comes first, new leadership or a sizable force of committed volunteers? For the record, I believe God created the chicken first, not the egg. First, we need leaders — yes, even at the local level.… Continue Reading
Written by Sally Zelikovsky
Instead of being applauded for recognizing that words matter, Mitt Romney is being lambasted by Republicans who just don’t get it.
Speaking to a full house of RNC members in San Diego, Romney committed the conservative crime of using the language of the left to appeal to potential voters. While emphasizing that conservative principles will be critical in the post-Obama era, Romney articulated three maxim’s that Republicans must communicate to the American people: “[T]o make the world safer… and provide opportunity for all Americans regardless of the neighborhood they live in” and the apparently gag-inducing, oxygen-sucking notion that “We have to lift people out of poverty.”… Continue Reading
Written by Thomas Sowell
The more optimistic among us may hope that the Republicans will nominate somebody who stands for something, rather than the bland leading the bland — the kind of candidates the Republican establishment seems to prefer, even if the voters don’t.
With 2015 just getting under way, the buzz of political activity makes it seem almost as if we are already in the midst of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Among the Democrats, Hillary Clinton is honing her message to appeal to the mindset of the left wing of her party, whose support she will need in her second attempt to get the nomination as the Democrats’ presidential candidate in 2016.… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Bobby Jindal, Calvin Coolidge, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Elizabeth Warren, Herbert Hoover, Hillary Clinton, Jeff Sessions, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Scott Walker, Theodore Roosevelt, Trey Gowdy
Federal Issues, Political | David E. Smith | January 23, 2015 5:00 AM | Comments Off on Early Presidential Prospects
Written by John Biver
A few days ago, two political philosophy professors whose work I studied in college, died on the same day. Both lived long lives, Walter Berns was 95, and Harry Jaffa was 96.
Here is Peter Augustine Lawler writing at National Review (emphasis is mine):
Berns and Jaffa, two legendary teachers and scholars, died last Saturday within hours of each other. What tied them together is they were both students of Leo Strauss, and all of their writing was fundamentally indebted to “disruptive innovations” that Strauss introduced into our understanding of thought and politics.…… Continue Reading
Written by Michael Medved
As the presidential campaign begins to come into focus in the early days of 2015 it should become increasingly obvious that the race will turn on fundamental disagreement about the very nature of government. Democrats believe that government exists in order to help people; since many segments of the populace can always use more help, progressives assume they can always benefit from more government.
Conservatives, on the other hand, tend to see government as a necessary but dangerous force in modern life that must be strictly limited, since government is designed to control people more than to help them.… Continue Reading
Written by Michael G. Haverluck
Former Florida governor and prospective 2016 Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush might have moved himself further away from the conservative voters he’s been trying to woo by inserting himself in the middle of Florida’s recent courtroom chaos, urging Floridians to “respect the rule of the law” recently changed by a pro-“gay” activist judge to legalize same-sex “marriage.”
The ruling on same-sex marriage by Florida District Court Judge Robert Lewis Hinkle was interpreted this month by state officials as allowing the union that was formerly banned by Florida’s traditional marriage amendment, which protected marriage as only between one man and one woman.… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Jeb Bush, marriage, Mary Fallin, Peter LaBarbera, Phyllis Schlafly, Rick Snyder, Robert Lewis Hinkle, same-sex marriage, Scott Walker, Tom Corbett
Federal Issues, LGBTQ Agenda, Political | David E. Smith | January 14, 2015 5:00 AM | Comments Off on LGBTQ Lauds Jeb Bush’s Stand for SSM Ruling
Written by Bernie Becker
U.S. Senator-elect Bill Cassidy (R-LA) said Sunday that his election was the “exclamation mark” on this year’s Republican successes.
Cassidy, who unseated U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) in a runoff election on Saturday, said the GOP takeover of the U.S. Senate illustrated how dissatisfied voters were with President Barack Obama, especially in the Deep South.
“If there’s one party for the working people right now, it’s the Republican Party,” Cassidy said on “Fox News Sunday,” pointing to GOP efforts to expand drilling of natural resources and Democrats’ attempts to limit emissions.… Continue Reading
Tags: Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, Bill Cassidy, Fox News Sunday, Mary Landrieu, Mitch McConnell, Obamacare, Ted Cruz, U.S. Senate
Federal Issues, Political | David E. Smith | December 10, 2014 5:00 AM | Comments Off on Newest GOP U.S. Senator: Vicotory an “Exclamation Mark”
Written by Bruce Walker
The IRS scandal is not much in the news these days, but it is not going away. The more Obama’s minions stonewall this scandal, the more congressional Democrats discount the scandal, the more the leftist establishment media ignores this scandal, the more toxic it will be for the left. In late November we learned that 30,000 of Lois Lerner’s lost e-mails have been found, but these e-mails have not yet been converted into readable form.… Continue Reading
