If I Were a Verizon Customer
My article as originally published in American Thinker: The quantity of Obama Administration scandals just keep growing and growing. And one of the latest, as reported by the Guardian, is but … Read More
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Just don’t call it an ‘Obama phone’
My article as originally published in American Thinker: Jillian Rayfield writes over at Salon that the “Right wing’s latest bogus obsession” is the “Obama phone”: Why are Republicans looking to scale back Lifeline, a Reagan-era policy that provides discounts to low-income phone users? Because the policy, referred to as “Obama phones” by conservatives, has [...]
New Facebook Child Abuse Guidelines
My article as originally published in American Thinker: There are millions of social media soldiers lurking out there and recently one of them uncovered a “shocking” Facebook photo of a child holding an “assault rifle.” A prompt phone call to the proper authorities ultimately resulted in the attempted “rescue” of said child by CPS [...]
World’s First Nanoassault Rifle (Updated)
My article as originally published in American Thinker: The crafting of imaginary weaponry by children out of various objects is a phenomenon that has been occurring worldwide for many centuries. The traditional stick or finger has always been one of the more popular “weapons” of choice, but today’s high-tech child is much more imaginative, bringing [...]
Republicans Should ‘Raise’ Tax Rates Now
My article as originally published in American Thinker: It turns out that the Obama Administration is deliberately making these sequestration “cuts” as painful as possible for the American people. And no matter what Bob Woodward says, Obama and the rest of the MSM will continue to blame the sequestration and any subsequent unrelated negative [...]
Feds Finally Make Profitable Investment
My article as originally published in American Thinker: Many people are concerned about the two-billion plus rounds of ammo purchased by non-military Federal agencies as of late. Considering some of the radical people Obama has surrounded himself with, and his goal of “fundamentally transforming” the United States, is it any wonder conspiracy theories abound? [...]
America Gets ‘Te’o'd’ by Obama
My article as originally published in American Thinker: It’s easy to understand why the mainstream media ran with the heart wrenching story about Notre Dame football player Manti Te’o’s “dead girlfriend” as well as the other conflicting stories about the couple’s “relationship” without engaging in actual journalism. The story happened to fit within the approved [...]
Million Magazine March
My article as originally published in American Thinker: As noted by Rick Moran, NBC’s David Gregory was given a “get-out-of-jail-free” card by Washington, D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan, for his display of an illegal high-capacity magazine on “Meet the Press.” It obviously pays to be a super-rich liberal. While it’s the Second Amendment that is [...]
Bloomberg Should Demand Hand Control
My article as originally published in American Thinker: Following the second recent fatal subway shoving incident in NYC, this one allegedly involving a hate crime, Mayor Bloomberg was quick to throw up his hands in an effort to halt the public from jumping to any incorrect conclusions, telling them to instead focus on the [...]
The Dark Side of the Cliff
My article as originally published in American Thinker: All of the media hype leading up to the “fiscal cliff” deadline reminds me a bit of the doom and gloom surrounding the Y2K bug back in 1999. I spent my final hours of the millennium at a fairly large New Years Eve party in the South [...]
Starving the Beast
My article as originally published in American Thinker: With the failure of Boehner’s “Plan B” it’s looking more and more like we’re going over this so-called “fiscal cliff,” although it’s nothing of the sort when compared to what lies ahead in our near future. Because we have a spending problem and not a revenue problem, [...]
Who Needs a Gun?
My article as originally published in American Thinker: After I picked up my son from school the other day we started to drive off but had to stop short of one of the crosswalks. I paused to think of the horrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut as the large group of children started to cross [...]
Fiscal Cliff Causes Hostage Crisis
My article as originally published in American Thinker: During the campaign I subscribed to the Obama for America email list. I occasionally skim through the messages (but never while eating) to see what the opposition is saying. The email I received (which read more like a ransom note) from my new “friend” Stephanie Cutter the [...]
Is Thirty the new Fifty?
My article as originally published in American Thinker: With ObamaCare in the wings, the traditional forty- or fifty-hour work week will soon be replaced with a less than thirty-hour week for many American workers. To wit: many businesses, including ones that previously received ObamaCare waivers, are trying to avoid paying onerous fines for not [...]
A Time to Choose
My article as originally published in American Thinker: America is at a crossroads and it’s time to choose a path forward. Will we continue to move “Forward” along Obama’s path of “fundamental transformation” and unsustainable big-government? Or will we rediscover our Constitutional compass and chart a path back towards a sustainable, limited government? While trying [...]
Fraud at the Checkout Line
My article as originally published in American Thinker: The expanding food stamp program that now “feeds” nearly 47 million Americans is rife with fraud, abuse and cronyism, according to a new study as reported by Breitbart: Understaffed food stamp fraud prevention units and lax anti-fraud security on Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards have created a [...]
Happy Anniversary, Mr. President
My article as originally published in American Thinker: While Wednesday was President Obama’s wedding anniversary, it’s the American people who received a wonderful pre-gift, one month before the four-year anniversary of Obama’s election: an outstanding performance by Mitt Romney in his debate with the president. The stunned mainstream media can’t even deny the fact [...]
Nanny-State Ignites Taco War
My article as originally published in American Thinker: I’ve been highly critical of the ever expanding nanny-state that erodes our freedoms, whether in the form of soda bans, light bulb bans, plastic bag bans or even the new school lunch regulations, signed by President Obama. It’s this latter policy that is to blame for [...]
Taxing Soda Better Than Banning It?
My article as originally published in American Thinker: Nanny Bloomberg’s soda ban has a new critic. A recent article by Slate suggests that the best way to force people to drink healthy would be through the use of a “sin tax” instead of an outright ban on large soda sizes — like we need [...]
It’s the Economy that’s in ‘Chains’
My article as originally published in American Thinker: Our egregiously gaffe-prone Vice President recently stated that if elected, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would “put y’all back in chains,” while speaking before a largely black audience in Danville, VA. With these continued blunders, one can’t help but wonder if Biden’s refrigerator is cluttered with [...]
It’s About Control, Not Guns
My article as originally published in American Thinker: Don’t for one minute think that the Left’s core motive for demanding ever increasing amounts of gun control is the reduction of crime rates in any meaningful fashion. When the Left exploits a tragedy such as the one in Aurora Colorado and then calls for even [...]
It’s Business that Pays it Forward Not Government
My article as originally published in American Thinker: Obama makes it sound as if starting and running a successful business is as easy as ordering fast food from the local government office. “I’ll take a double cheeseburger with extra bacon, an XXL order of fries, two (to stay legal in NYC) 16oz sodas and throw [...]
The Obamacare Tax Fix
My article as originally published in American Thinker: Of course President Obama lied when he said that the individual mandate contained within the ACA was “not a tax.” But it was the only way he could force this medicine through Congress and down the throats of “the people,” so the end justified the means [...]
Undercover Community Organizer
My article as originally published in American Thinker: Watching President Obama lead this nation is like watching a reverse episode of Undercover Boss. But Obama’s undercover leadership is having far more disastrous consequences than a fake CEO’s would, as the entity that Obama is currently running into the ground isn’t merely a corporation. If you’re [...]
Spot the earth-friendly shopper
My article as originally published in American Thinker: The next time you leave the grocery store with plastic bags in tote and notice the disapproving glare from someone proudly carrying a canvas bag that’s printed (using earth-friendly ink) with words that one way or another say “I care more about the environment than you [...]
Nanny Bloomberg Stumbles onto Something
My article as originally published in American Thinker: Bloomberg can try to sugarcoat this all he wants but NYC’s proposed ban on the sale of large soda drinks over 16 oz, which is supposed to save people from their own destructive impulses, is yet another example of the ever growing nanny-state. Obviously confused as to which [...]
Hoarding Tax Dollars
My article as originally published in American Thinker: California is headed for the fiscal cliff even sooner than was expected, as the budget deficit has suddenly grown from a projected $9.2 billion to $16 billion. Governor Brown, who helped put California on its current unsustainable path during a prior term as governor, wants to raise [...]
Obama’s Cure for Illegal Immigration Worse Than the Disease
My article as originally published in American Thinker: President Obama’s economic policies amount to chemo-economics, as he is using these policies like a cancer therapy to “cure” the nation of what he perceives as the “disease” of capitalism. With food stamp usage at an all time high, millions dropping out of the labor market and [...]
Maintaining Crisis Momentum
My article as originally published in American Thinker: Rahm Emanual once said: “Never let a serious crisis go to waste.” But what happens when the Democratic Party is desperate for a diversion and is currently without any real crisis to exploit? Is it then time to manufacture one — or two? The birth control questions in [...]
Could Forrest Gump Plan Our Economy?
My article as originally published in American Thinker: No one of sound mind would ever entrust the enormously complex U.S. economy to a small group of leaders who collectively possess the intellect of Forrest Gump. But can an assemblage of genius-level central planners really bring us any closer to “utopia” than a much less intelligent [...]
Ms. Fluke, If You Think Rush was Harsh Read: Little Suck-a-Thumb (Updated)
Rush Limbaugh has really stepped-in-it this time. While using his famous teaching method, “demonstrating the absurd by being absurd,” some of his overly harsh comments directed towards Georgetown Law student, Sandra Fluke have unleashed a media frenzy that even brought about a phone call from President Obama. Lost in this whole birth control “controversy” [...]
Andrew Breitbart, RIP
Today the conservative movement lost a true hero. My prayers go out his family and friends. Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles. We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior. Andrew lived boldly, so [...]
The Audacity of Ambition
My article as originally published in American Thinker: President Obama seems to be downsizing the American Dream. In an insufficiently noticed January 25th speech in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he said: “Folks don’t have unrealistic ambitions. They do believe that if they work hard they should be able to achieve that small measure of an [...]
Feeding the Nanny-State (UPDATED)
See update at bottom: My article as originally published in American Thinker: On Wednesday Michelle Obama unveiled the new Federal school-lunch regulations, as part of her anti-obesity campaign. I don’t remember seeing a culinary section in the US Constitution. Under current leadership, the Federal government appears to have an enormous appetite for our freedoms? The [...]
Health Reform via Super Bowl
My article as originally published in American Thinker: My wife is brilliant. She just figured out an ingenious way to illustrate one of the major problems with our health care system and stumbled on a solution to boot. The solution would be to just have the Super Bowl on a daily basis. Now, wait [...]
Full-of-Pelosi
My article as originally published in American Thinker: Telling someone that they’re ‘full-of-baloney’ is another way of letting them know that what they are saying is nothing more than nonsense, twaddle, claptrap, drivel or just a flat-out lie. Baloney (AKA bologna) is a low-grade sausage made of finely minced meat parts and cubes of lard. [...]
Vulture Capitalism
My article as originally published in American Thinker We’ve been hearing the term “vulture capitalism” tossed around a lot in the last few days with regard to the past business dealings of Mitt Romney with Bain Capital. And much of the criticism has surprisingly been coming from those on the right who we had hoped [...]
Ron Paul Roulette
My article as originally published in AmericanThinker Most conservatives would be hard-pressed to find much that they disagree with Ron Paul on when the topic of discussion is fiscal policy. Low taxes, free markets, low regulation, and adherence to the Constitution — how does a right-thinking individual find fault with any of those sound ideas? [...]
Don’t Wait For Congress — Give Yourself a Tax Cut (Update)
My article as originally published in American Thinker As usual President Obama and the Democrats want to have it both ways on an issue. As Rush insightfully pointed out during his show today, from the very inception of Social Security, the Democrats have claimed that it was not an entitlement program but rather a “retirement” [...]
A Not-So-Bright Idea Placed on Hold
My article as originally published in American Thinker It is encouraging that the ridiculous incandescent light bulb ban has been placed on temporary hold. But that is just part of the story when it comes to the government’s social engineering of energy usage. The light bulb ban was certainly an annoying case that jolted everyone, [...]
President Obama Unfairly Defines ‘Fairness’
My article as originally published in American Thinker: President Obama showed his true colors while giving his lecture last week in Osawatomie, Kansas to an audience which included high school kids, at a high school. In the future, if Obama wishes to be taken seriously, he may best serve himself by limiting his speaking engagements [...]
Obamanomics is Taking Us to Uranus
The unfortunate winding down of NASA’s shuttle program this year has had many space enthusiasts (my self included) asking the probing question — what will be the next mission for the United States? Will it be a trip to the moon, Mars; or perhaps the construction of some new high-tech space station? I really don’t [...]
Hollywood Hypocrisy in the Hypokrisis Industry
My article as originally published in American Thinker: Some of the most outspoken critics of the “income disparity” that exists within the free-market capitalist system can be found in Hollywood, where you’ll also happen to find some of the most prosperous beneficiaries of the very system they criticize. What Hollywood so conveniently ignores is the [...]
‘Stimulate’ Oakland
My article as originally published in American Thinker: Paul Krugman must be watching the news on the Occupy protests with bated breath. You see if things keep going the way of the Oakland protests, he won’t have to wait for aliens to invade in order to see his grand idea of economic “stimulus” play out. [...]
The Powerbait Generation(s)
My article as originally published in American Thinker: Most of us have now been subjected to the many disheartening photos of the Occupy [fill in the city] protesters’ signs that claim things along the lines of “capitalism doesn’t work” — “the rich need to give me their money because they have more than I do” [...]
Shouldn’t We Need Fewer Police Officers Mr. Biden?
My article as originally published in American Thinker: By now we’ve all heard the latest gaffe from our Vice President (he’s in need of an oral podiatrist) who claimed that a failure to pass the President’s “jobs bill” would result in increased numbers of murder and rape (it didn’t pass so lock your doors and [...]
How Many Electricians Does It Take to Screw In a Light Bulb?
My article as originally published in American Thinker: Or rather, how much time and how many electricians should it take to screw in a light bulb? The truth is that you really don’t need one at all, but I suppose that if you happen to have a sparky or two hanging around, then you would [...]
Free-Market Green Jobs for $2.63 a Day
My article as originally published in American Thinker: I employ the services of a landscape maintenance company (AKA a gardener) to maintain my yard. The very existence of his business depends on the collection of that $80 from me ($2.63 a day) as well as the 30 or 40 other people whom he provides his [...]
Own-to-Rent
Owning a home — it’s the quintessential American dream, but this nation’s lingering housing crises (largely a construct of government ) has resulted in so many home foreclosures and underwater mortgages that it has transformed that dream into an absolute nightmare for millions of Americans. Most of us have heard of the term “rent-to-own” [...]
Obama’s $4,000 Bribe
One of the very first thoughts that entered my mind after reading about the $4,000 tax credit contained within Obama’s so-called “jobs bill” was — government subsidized discrimination. Obama’s plan essentially provides the employer with incentive to discriminate against those who have been recently laid-off, or even those that are currently employed but possess the [...]
Your Double Life
My article as originally published in American Thinker: Let’s all be honest here. It’s time to fully come clean on this scandal — that’s right — the gig is up — time to acknowledge the fact that you’re living double life. I’m not here to judge you (hey, we’re all in the same boat) — [...]
Obama’s Solyndra Misfire
My article as originally published in American Thinker: Considering my electrical background, this administration sure has given me some easy things to write about lately. My last piece on the subject of electrical was on the un-sustainability of the Chevy Volt and now comes the news that Solyndra, who received over 535 million in [...]
Back-to-School Blues (UPDATE)
My article as originally published in American Thinker: I have two children who just started back at public school here in sunny California and I’ve already got the back-to-school blues. It looks to be another year of adjusted schedules, fundraisers, buying supplies that I thought the school was supposed to provide, and watching teary-eyed teachers [...]
Chemo-Economics
My article as originally published in American Thinker: This nation is incredibly sick in case you were unaware. The “disease” is capitalism but don’t you fret, the economic “doctors” at the helm of our nation have a cure for this “terrible” condition – it’s called chemo-economics. Like chemo-therapy, chemo-economics uses poison (massive doses of spending, [...]
Obama’s Parallel Universe
My article as originally published in American Thinker: It’s all finally starting to make sense, we’re not all crazy. Our President obviously comes from a parallel universe and somehow worked his way to us through one of those wormholes we hear about in sci-fi flicks. The only problem is that it is now apparent that [...]
Chevy’s Low Voltage Troubles
My article as originally published in American Thinker: “Only 125 Volts” is the first thing that caught my eye in an article I stumbled upon from the National Legal and Policy Center. As I come from an electrical background, I would agree that 125 Volts is nothing to get too excited about, but this article [...]
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Is it Time For Word Control?
Derek Hunter at Townhall wonders if this nation is truly serious about about ending violence: There’s an epidemic in this country, something that has or will affect all of us in our lives. And the government needs to act to protect us from those who may do us harm. This plague is particularly felt in schools. The children must [...]
Kill the Rich Says head of Teachers Union
Have we really moved this far to the Left? From Thomas Lifson over at American Thinker: In a December 2nd speech just recently made public, Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, placed mass murder on the table as a political tactic for union movement. Carefully steering clear of actually calling for violence, Ms. [...]
Slavery Abolished 150 Years Ago
You’ve heard about this anniversary right? MSM…..crickets….. Kevin Jackson and Thomas Lifson remind us of this little milestone over at American Thinker: A sesquicentennial is a really big deal! A century and a half ago, something happened that affects us today. So why was the abolition of slavery in the United States (if that isn’t [...]
Time To Reform Public Education?
Some food for thought by Daren Jonescu over at American Thinker: If public education is allowed to survive, all efforts to resuscitate the inert husk of modern civilization will fail. It is time to unravel the most wasteful and destructive entitlement program of all. Cancer cells do not divide into healthy cells. A corrupted, power-intoxicated [...]
Reagan’s 25 Year Boom
Mark Levin read from these two excellent articles on his show yesterday. History shows what really works. Please take the time to read both: When President Reagan entered office in 1981, he faced actually much worse economic problems than President Obama faced in 2009. Three worsening recessions starting in 1969 were about to culminate in the [...]
Time For Your “Free” Annual ObamaCare Exam
Just make sure you don’t have anything else wrong with you. Dr. Peter Weiss writes at PJ Media: I have now posted a notice in my office and each exam room stating exactly what Obamacare will cover for those yearly visits. Remember Obama promised this as a free exam — no co-pay, no deductible, no [...]
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Been hearing many complaints about the Elecrtoral College as of late. Here is a good review from The Heritage Foundation: Origins of the Electoral College and the Benefits of Federalism. The Founders sought a unique solution to two contradictory goals facing the new country: How could they allow the sense of the people to be [...]
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Socialism and Communism Get a Free Pass
Why do socialism and communism get a free pass on atrocities when Nazism doesn’t? Walter Williams takes a stab: Here’s my question: Why are the horrors of Nazism so well-known and widely condemned but not those of socialism and communism? What goes untaught — and possibly is covered up — is that socialist and communist [...]
Happy Independence Day?
A collection of articles from around the web: From American Thinker: June 2012 – and especially its last week – was ripe with ominous metaphor, all revolving around the Supreme Court’s decision on June 28th to uphold President Barack Obama’s signature health-care reform legislation, the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. For those not [...]
Marco Rubio on NPR
Marco Rubio does a good job conveying the conservative message to an NPR audience. From The American Spectator: As millions of NPR listeners made their way home in Thursday afternoon’s oppressive heat, their windows rolled up and AC on (incidentally allowing them to hear the radio more clearly), Florida Sen. Marco Rubio managed to achieve three [...]
Facing Economic Reality
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How Radical Were Those Reforms in Wisconsin?
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California Teeters on the Edge (Update)
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Time to Rethink UC Education? (UPDATED)
Indoctrination centers? This Big Government piece will come as no surprise to many: Think a University of California degree is worth its weight in gold? Think again. According to a new study, you might want to rethink that second mortgage needed to send junior to a UC campus. The California Association of Scholars, a division of [...]