Originally posted at ConservativeTribune.com
President Barack Obama has not enjoyed many successes in his five-plus years in office, though the number of mistakes, scandals, and total failures continue to mount: Syria’s civil war continues unabated. A terrorist released from Guantanamo Bay is currently leading the radical Islamist ISIS group invading Iraq. Lois Lerner’s IRS scandal grows more damning with each new revelation. Obamacare suffers one legal defeat after another, with more likely in the offing.
The long litany of Obama’s problems has led an increasing number to wonder at what such an ineffectual person is doing occupying the Oval Office.… Continue Reading
Written by Robert Knight
All this talk of Republicans on the verge of impeaching President Barack Obama is nonsense, stoked by Democrats and a few wistful conservatives who dream aloud about what, in a constitutional republic, should actually happen to a lawless president.
With Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) running the U.S. Senate, however, it’s not going to happen right now, regardless of the clear merit. If the U.S. House passed an impeachment resolution, Reid would give it no more respect than a used tissue – after waving it around to whip up the party’s base.… Continue Reading
There’s a reason so many states didn't create their own health exchanges.
Written by Michael Barone
Earlier this week, I was thinking of writing a column about the lying and duplicity of Obamacare backers who argued that the difference between providing subsidies in states with state-run health exchanges and providing no subsidies in states with federal exchanges resulted from inadvertence or a typographical error.
Typical among them was MIT health-care expert Jonathan Gruber. The folks at the Competitive Enterprise Institute found video of him in 2012 arguing that all or most states would create their own exchanges because they wouldn’t get subsidies if they let the federal government run their exchanges.… Continue Reading
The Tax Foundation posted a fascinating map earlier this week showing the migration of personal incomes between states – where personal income was subtracted from one state and added to another, along with the movers.
Florida benefited the most—interstate migrants brought a net $67.3 billion dollars in annual income into the state between 2000 and 2010. The next two highest gainers were Arizona ($17.7 billion) and Texas ($17.6 billion).
Illinois, with our high taxes and low employment came in third from worst ($-20.4 billion). … Continue Reading
Written by Michael Medved
A big majority of Americans say Israel is justified in its response to Hamas, but a CNN/ORC poll shows revealing ideological differences in attitudes toward the Middle East.
Among Republicans, 73% stand with Israel, and among Independents that support remains strong at 56%. But among Democrats, only a minority – 45% – feels the Jewish state is justified in its military response in Gaza to stop rocket attacks and terror tunnels.
This attitude indicates that liberals have not only lost touch with public opinion but they’ve disconnected from reality.… Continue Reading
Written by Dr. Michael L. Brown
According to a 2011 Gallup poll, Americans thought that 25 percent of the population was gay (meaning one out of every four people), while those aged 18-29 put the figure at closer to 30 percent (meaning almost one in every three people). The reality is that less than 2 percent of the population is gay (meaning fewer than one in 50 people), and many gay leaders know this is true.… Continue Reading
What separates liberals from conservatives?
Researchers are finding that these differences are becoming more and more attributed to basic biology.
Political psychologists and political scientists are increasingly convinced that our previous ideas about the differences between liberals and conservatives — that our beliefs come solely from friends, family, upbringing and personal interests — is wrong.
It’s now suggested that liberals and conservatives disagree because they differ genetically, physiologically and psychologically.
University of Nebraska’s John Hibbling and his colleagues argue that the differences between liberals and conservativeslie in “the nature of their physiological and psychological responses to features of the environment that are negative.”… Continue Reading
Written by Rev. Thorin Anderson
The vicious character of Hamas is finally becoming apparent to the world as we all witness them using women and children as shields for their weapons. This same evil tactic was seen in the Iran-Iraq war and Golda Meir noted of Israel’s opponents in its formative years, “we can forgive them for killing our children, but we can never forgive them for making us kill their children.”
For too long many in the Media have been complicit in covering up the sick reality that Hamas and others in that part of the world are very willing to send children to their deaths in order to shield themselves and their weaponry while portraying Israel as immoral and heartless. … Continue Reading
A U.S. Senate panel has advanced to the full senate a treaty that could pose a danger to parents and to preborn babies.
Written by Charlie Butts
After a contentious hearing this week, the Judiciary Committee advanced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which one expert says has a nice title but is deceiving.
Will Estrada of the Home School Legal Defense Association says there are three concerns, beginning with an intrusion into national sovereignty.… Continue Reading
Written by David E. Smith
U.S. Representative Luis Gutiérrez (D-Chicago) inadvertently admitted that the Left’s interest in pursuing amnesty for tens of millions of illegal immigrants in the United States is about infusing new voters into the Democratic Party.
While appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program, U.S. Rep. Gutiérrez confidently spoke about going to the White House later in the day to work out how the president could unilaterally issue amnesty for 4 or 5 million illegal immigrants:
“Let me just say in about an hour, I’m going over to the White House.
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