As tax collector for the nation’s second-largest state, I know it’s a necessary function — from the fire station to the space station, nothing government does is possible without taxes. But it’s sure no path to popularity. Tax collectors have had a rotten reputation since biblical times. For all the services and all the people […]Continue Reading
With three full-blown scandals currently surrounding the Obama administration, there are too many “-gates” to name just one. There is the cover-up of the fatal Benghazi terrorist attack, the IRS targeting conservatives, and the Justice Department spying on members of the press. The level of corruption is so high right now it is like Saul […]Continue Reading
Clarice Feldman BBC has apologized for its coverage of the Benghazi murders; ABC has unraveled the mendacious tale of the talking points ‘ genesis and the Congressional hearings this week have dramatically established the administration’s elaborate lies about how our ambassador and his brave defenders were murdered and its failure to protect them. Maybe now […]Continue Reading
Caught playing politics with tragedy, what’s next for the Obama administration and GOP investigators? A statement by a fringe conservative? Wrong on both counts. One of the best political reporters in the country, Ron Fournier, writing in the respected National Journal, skewers the administration for “playing politics with Benghazi“: Politics: It would be naïve to […]Continue Reading
by Tad Cronn Maybe it’s wishful thinking, but I sense a disturbance in the Force. In recent days, we’ve been treated to renewed hearings on the Benghazi cover-up, with witnesses who have been suppressed by the Obama Administration starting to come forward and detail how badly the public has been lied to. Then the mainstream […]Continue Reading
Freedom Outpost – by Bradlee Dean “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is […]Continue Reading
Anti-Americanism at the United Nations is now routine. Every few days, some kind of statement comes out of the United Nations condemning the United States. It is impossible to keep up with the criticisms because there are so many. U.N. hostility toward the United States reached an all-time high in 2001, when the United States […]Continue Reading
Diana West We have met the enemy and he is “self-radicalization.” No, wait: We have met the enemy and he is the Internet. We have met the enemy and he is broadband video? “But this is hard stuff,” President Obama tried to explain in this week’s press conference. “Because of the pressure that we put […]Continue Reading
If you ever doubted the inability of the federal government to protect you from harm, events of the past few weeks should have been a clincher. While Congress was dithering about a background-check-for-gun-buyers bill, President Obama was out on the hustings — in full campaign mode — trying to gin up support for it. Listening […]Continue Reading
As President Obama joined four ex-presidents for the dedication of a facility honoring his immediate predecessor, comparisons were unavoidable. Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush were teenagers during the depression. The childhoods of Bill Clinton and the honoree, George W. Bush, spanned the 1950s. Generational and political differences jump out from any perusal of these […]Continue Reading
by Marilyn Assenheim It becomes ever more obvious that out-of-control liberal bias will do or say whatever is necessary to spin damaging fallout away from them. In the case of the Boston Marathon Massacre, several examples spring to mind. David Axelrod, President Obama’s former advisor and still one of his chief propagandists, was interviewed on […]Continue Reading
By Eli Lake | The Daily Beast In 1997, a Sudanese man named Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl became the first person to plead guilty in the United States to offenses related to being part of al Qaeda. Between al-Fadl’s conviction and the end of 2011, 170 other individuals have been convicted by American courts or military […]Continue Reading