Did you hear the news? Chuck Woolery came out of the closet! No, not that closet. Coming out of that closet in Hollywood gets you applause for your bravery. Instead, Woolery came out recently to admit that he is a
WASHINGTON (AP) – A conservative-leaning panel of federal appellate judges on Tuesday upheld President Barack Obama’s health care law as constitutional, helping set up a Supreme Court fight. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Forty seven years ago this week, Lyndon Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater in the biggest landslide since 1936. Today, both left and right see in Goldwater’s defeat the beginnings of the conservative revolution that would bring Ronald Reagan into office in
Norman Rockwell’s clearly privileged and very New York “Connoisseur” is staring at what I would call A Portrait of the Progressive New World Order. Few citizens anywhere would have a living room large enough to hang this very bloody-looking billboard
Congressman Tom McClintock (R-CA) made the following statement to the House Chamber on October 26, 2011: [youtube XUdCFRim7Lk] Mr. Speaker: The government’s continuing failure to address our nation’s gut-wrenching unemployment stems from a fundamental disagreement over how jobs are created
Mitt Romney is always quick to lambast other Republicans for being career politicians, as if this is his first rodeo and he is a political newcomer. However, the truth is he’s been in politics for over seventeen years, many of
Mike Flynn, BigGoverment EIC: Rick Perry bought himself some time. His performance was uneven, but he showed glimmers of real energy and a fighting spirit. It was his best performance to date. His plan to boost energy production is a
The “Lord’s Resistance Army” is probably not the main target for Obama’s recent military action in Uganda. Stanley Kurtz may be right that Samantha Power and her brand of militant humanitarianism has such a strong hold on President Obama, which
Herman Cain is the only GOP presidential candidate who wants to kill the tax code. That’s right. Put a knife in it. Junk the entire system. And people are cheering as he rises in the polls in his quest for
Mitt Romney delivered a blistering foreign policy speech this afternoon at South Carolina’s military college. In addition to invoking the names Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, he said that rebuilding America’s economy was critical for our national security. he
Here’s another stirring speech from Rep. Allen West, who really needs no introduction. Every time he speaks, it’s like a valentine to the very best of American public service– honor, wisdom, and love of country. This week in Washington, my
From the Associated Press: President Barack Obama said Monday that Americans aren’t better off than they were four years ago as the struggling economy and high unemployment have taken a toll. Looking ahead to next year’s election, the incumbent called
Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) appeared at a special event at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California tonight. After his speech he took questions from the sold-out audience. The final question came from a woman who sincerely plead on
I recently wrote on my blog that Libertarians should not support Democrats. Ever. The post generated a tremendous response and produced an invitation from BIG Government Editor Michael Flynn to expand on my thoughts here. I’m honored to do so.
It could almost make your head spin. With an economy on the front end of another recession, President Obama’s tax attack on the folks who are most likely to succeed, invest, start new businesses, and create jobs is nothing short
Do you believe in American exceptionalism? I do and while President Barack Obama may not I believe a great many of you also do. In fact some of you who are reading this article at this very moment might yourselves
When Ronald Reagan proclaimed in his first inaugural “We are a nation that has a government–not the other way around,” he was not taking off on some libertarian tangent or making an obscure philosophical point. He was following in the
America, once the leader in missile defense, has been lagging in recent years. As the military seeks to replace the 30-year old Patriot system, it keeps encountering budgetary and political roadblocks which prevent the adoption of a new alternative. President
To the public, Senator Wallop was a tall imposing man, quick to point out inherent errors in liberal thinking, but quicker still to share his love of country and his conservative ideas. He served in the Senate from 1977 to
My recent observations on Christopher Hitchens received impressively varied responses. Most, however, or most of those I’ve read so far, acknowledge the vitally important test of a human being’s honesty: the presence or absence of hypocrisy. I attribute the vitality
[Ed Note: This is the first post to run at BigGovernment. It was published two years ago today. It still seems relevant.] In 1995, President Bill Clinton stood before the nation and proclaimed, “The era of big government is over.”
***UPDATE: ABC News changed their headline. Somehow they’ve made it even more dishonest: David Stockman Criticizes Obama’s Jobs Plan, Other Economists Cheer Does this sound like a cheer from one of their non-Stockman economists? “So this is an incomplete proposal.”
Odd how many Americans can agree with Christopher Hitchens on many issues, i.e. his rage at Henry Kissinger. I sympathize totally with such disgust. The Hitchens contempt for the Tea Party, however, is the grandest dividing line, largely due to
From the Accuracy in Media Center for Investigative Journalism: After years of spreading the lie that Gaddafi’s “adopted daughter” had died in the 1986 American bombing raid on Libya, many in the media are finally admitting it was all a
The fruit of our “compassionate support” for the “oppressed” Islamic peoples of the world is now starting to show. In the past two weeks, both the United States and France have reached out to the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC)
