When Republicans want to reach back in history to prove a point, they point to Ronald Reagan. I can understand why. Reagan was a great President but he wasn’t the only Republican President. Abraham Lincoln’s main priority was preserving the
President Barack Obama’s first-term job totals are now in, averaging at just 25,000 jobs per month. To put that in some historical perspective, President Ronald Reagan, who entered office amid severe economic decline, averaged 111,000 per month throughout his first
Writer and film director David Mamet has weighed in on the current gun control push, and what he sees as government overreach couched in an “assault weapons” ban that is actually “a political appeal to the ignorant.” Mamet describes it as a
Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist has joined those pushing for statehood for Puerto Rico. Norquist will be appearing with former Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuno for a press conference on the push for statehood in Washington, D.C. next
(AP) West continues to drift into Democrats’ columnBy NICHOLAS RICCARDIAssociated PressDENVERA political generation ago, the West signaled the nation’s rightward swing _ from the emergence of Ronald Reagan to the success of tax-limitation ballot measures in California and Colorado. But
Over at Big Government, Jeremy Segal, aka RebelPundit reported that Van Jones described Obama as a communitarian after a lecture at Loyola University, Wednesday night. Jones compared the president’s address to that of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 and
After President Obama’s second inaugural address, Van Jones, former Obama White House “green jobs” czar, praised the speech, calling it “Djobama Unchained” (after the controversial movie Django Unchained, about a freed slave taking revenge). On Wednesday night, during a lecture at Loyola University
Joe Biden has never come anywhere close to the Democrat nomination for President of the United States. But, as a sitting Vice President, he thinks he has the inside track for the 2016 nomination and he’s already lining up his
As President Barack Obama settles in for his second term, several conservatives are wondering whether it’s time to “face the reality of Obama’s success” and acknowledge him as the “liberal Reagan.” Certainly that is Obama’s ambition–to be as “historically consequential”
“Hundreds” of death threats have been made against the president of the National Rifle Association just since the first of this year. And those threats reflect President Obama’s political tactics. That’s what NRA President David Keene told talk show host
Bette Midler is the latest liberal to follow the wisdom of former Obama administration official Rahm Emmanuel – “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Midler fired off a tweet today that used the country’s current mental
(AP) Ex-President George H.W. Bush leaves the hospitalBy MICHAEL GRACZYKAssociated PressHOUSTONFormer President George H.W. Bush was released from a Houston hospital and went home Monday after spending nearly two months being treated for a bronchitis-related cough and other health issues,
CNN, in an attempt to frame the gun debate as rational gun control advocates versus wild-eyed gun owners, posted two clips edited from the Ben Shapiro–Piers Moran wipeout, while at the same time posting the entire two-segment interview Morgan did
This morning, former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press to discuss the nomination of former Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) to Secretary of Defense. During the discussion, David Gregory asked the liberal Powell, nominally a
It’s not your business model that sucks; it’s you that sucks. — Andrew Breitbart As many as 700 — almost ten-percent of the overall staff — are on the chopping block at Time Magazine. According to New York Magazine, a
Transcript: Piers Morgan talking with Ben Shapiro, Author of Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans: PIERS MORGAN, CNN HOST: My next guest has strong words for me. He says I’m off the rails on guns
Michael Moore is at it again, using an awards banquet to bash his political enemies. Even by the far-left filmmaker’s low standards, last night’s event was beyond the pale. Moore attended the New York Film Critics’ Circle awards dinner in Manhattan
With Obama now heading into his second term and clearly intent on giving the Middle East away to Islamists and allowing the Muslim Brotherhood to infiltrate his own administration, a new book has arrived to diagnose this dire situation and
Two of Alabama’s opponents crushed two of Notre Dame’s opponents in Bowl games last week, and 10-point underdogs like Notre Dame have won only 23% of the time since 1999. However, with Massey Ratings predicting that Notre Dame’s defense could
It is 2013, and we went over the Fiscal Cliff long before midnight last night. The fact is that our economy does not rise and fall over the course of months or even a year. We went over the Fiscal
The Congressional Budget Office revised its original estimates of spending cuts and tax increases down to a ratio of $10 in tax increases for every $1 in spending cuts on Tuesday. The original estimate CBO came out with late Monday,
Late Sunday evening, Federal Judge Lawrence Zatkoff of Michigan ruled that Domino’s Pizza would not have to provide contraceptives or abortion services to his employees under Obamacare. Zatkoff wrote that the founder of Domino’s, Thomas Monaghan, had “shown that abiding
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the last-minute fiscal cliff deal reached by congressional leaders and President Barack Obama cuts only $15 billion in spending while increasing tax revenues by $620 billion–a 41:1 ratio of tax increases to spending cuts.
The groundbreaking new film adaptation of the Broadway musical “Les Misérables” features desperate people suffering under soul-shattering unemployment, naive university students decrying the rich and stoking the flames of socialist revolution, an unyielding government official interested not in right and
Former US president George H.W. Bush is on the mend and has been released from intensive care, a spokesman said Saturday. Earlier in the week, McGrath said Bush had taken a turn for the worse, with a “series of setbacks”
