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y Michael Filozof Conservatives who read the polls are already anticipating Republican gains in this November’s congressional elections, hoping for an anti-Obama tidal wave. They should temper their enthusiasm. Statistically, the opposition party almost always gains seats in midterm elections. But let us for the sake of the argument suppose that a repeat of the...
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July 12, 2010 marked the fourth anniversary of Israel’s Second Lebanon War. In the intervening years, Hezbollah has made significant political and military gains in Lebanon. The rise in the paramilitary terrorist organization is likely due to three key factors: to Israel’s failure in 2006 to completely destroy Hezbollah’s infrastructure, the perceived...
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By J. Robert Smith Where is the GOP’s platform? House Republicans have yet to announce a platform for the autumn campaign. That’s not a good thing, as Fred Barnes, among a few others, has pointed out. It’s conceivable that the November congressional elections will be a pure referendum on the majority Democrats. If that occurs,...
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By Monty Pelerin It is a lazy afternoon. Or at least it was until I came across a blog by Mish. There was little in the post that I didn’t know or suspect, but this quote triggered a reaction: It hides the economic substance of what’s really happening-an unlimited taxpayer bailout. William Black, a former no-nonsense regulator,...
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Obama has violated his oath of office over immigration
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On Monday, the Department of Agriculture demanded the resignation of Shirley Sherrod over a two-minute videotape where she appeared to describe to a cheering crowd of the Georgia NAACP how she denied assistance to a poor white farmer about to lose his land. Declaring itself “appalled” at this “shameful” act of racism, the NAACP said...
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“Unsustainable” is a scary word that recently entered political discourse, coming authoritatively from Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Douglas Elmendorf. Unsustainability is the operative moniker for Barack Obama’s massive deficit spending, which Elmendorf said “cannot be solved through minor tinkering.” The CBO predicts an increase in our public debt from $7.5 trillion at the...
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So I guess all that hysteria about the Arizona immigration law was much ado about nothing. After months of telling us that the Nazis had seized Arizona, when the Obama administration finally got around to suing, its only objection was that the law was “pre-empted” by federal immigration law. With the vast majority of Americans...
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Peter Raymond For most Americans the war erupting along our southern border has elicited little more than passing comments. We feel insulated and secure because of the vast distance separating our lives from the widespread civil unrest that is escalating at an alarming rate. Nearly 25,000 Mexicans and Americans have been killed since the Mexican...
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By Bruce Walker If Republicans gain the chance, for the first time in history, to pass laws without Democrat support — because of a potential filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, a working majority in the House, and the presidency — what will prevent RINOs from gumming up the works? How can a brief two- or...
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