Abraham Lincoln in 1854 spoke of the “covert zeal” of President Franklin Pierce and Sen. Steven A. Douglas for the spread of slavery. These leading Democrats never said they were in favor of slavery. They simply viewed the right of whites to choose slavery
WASHINGTON, July 22 (UPI) — With polls showing President Obama and Mitt Romney locked in a desperately close race for the presidency, will voter identification laws suppress the Democratic vote and cost Obama the election, or will they simply cut
If you have ever wondered how to respond to hyperbole, ridicule, and feigned alarm when you say that the Constitution is as relevant today as it was over two hundred years ago, listen to the master, Supreme Court Justice Antonin
Now that the Supreme Court has upheld The Affordable Care Act, the final piece of the puzzle is in place. We will begin the inevitable slide to the end of patient driven healthcare – individualized medicine led by independent doctors
California’s Attorney General, Democrat Kamala Harris, has weighed in on the side of an immigrant, who is asking the State Supreme Court to award him a California law license. The immigrant graduated from law school despite that he’s neither a
Former state Solicitor General Ted Cruz has come from behind to take a lead over Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst in the Republican runoff primary for U.S. Senate in Texas. Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling, a left-wing pollster, called the
This morning, National Public Radio touted its own poll, conducted jointly by Democrat pollster Stan Greenberg and Republican pollster Whit Ayres, by claiming that the majority of voters “favor amending [Obamacare] rather than repealing it.” The poll, which showed Barack Obama with a
On CNN’s Piers Morgan while discussing the Supreme Court 5-4 decision that gave the Presidency of the United States to George W. Bush in 2000 Justice Antonin Scalia said “I guess the one that created the most waves of disagreement
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) threatened on Monday that Democrats would let the Bush tax cuts expire for everybody if Republicans did not compromise with Democrats and not extend the tax cuts for those in income brackets above $250,000. “Unless Republicans
National Public Radio’s Mara Liasson, despite being one of the more fair-minded NPR reporters, failed to point out in her report today on the presidential election that the supposedly “non-partisan” economist who trashed Mitt Romney’s jobs proposal is a confirmed
The capstone to the Great Dissent was the explanation of why the entire 2,700-page Affordable Care Act (ACA) must be struck down along with the unconstitutional Individual Mandate and the unconstitutional Medicaid Expansion. When part of a law is found
On Sunday’s “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos, James Carville revealed that Obama’s SuperPACs were driving the recent attacks against Mitt Romney and Bain Capital: One of the big things that has happened in this campaign is kind of surprising [crosstalk]
Why is John McCain refraining from joining Democrats who are initiating a measure strengthening campaign finance reform? McCain, known as the father of campaign reform, will not join the Democrats; not a single Republican in the Senate will. The bill, called the
Sarah Palin boldly, clearly and sharply articulated the stakes in the 2012 election on Saturday when she addressed a “Patriots in the Park” Tea Party event. The event took place in Michigan and was sponsored by the Michigan branch of
Now that the weeping and gnashing of teeth has begun to subside in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision upholding Obamacare, conservatives are trying to make sense of the stunning betrayal by Chief Justice John Roberts. Emerging evidence suggests
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, told CBS News Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes the Supreme Court health care ruling gave Congress “a super power that we should not have.”
Public officials and pundits are still digesting the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision in NFIB v. Sebelius. Yet to be discussed are the extraordinary implications for the size and role of government in a second Obama term in light of President
We can all be thankful that one thing the Supreme Court got right in the Obamacare decision was striking down at least part of the Affordable Care Act’s massive expansion of Medicaid that would reduce the states to a subservient
In mid-June, as Congress refused to pass the DREAM act, Obama went around Congress and announced quasi-amnesty for over 800,000 young illegals in America. When the Supreme Court upheld the portion of Arizona’s immigration law that required police officers to check the
Two conservative members of Congress, Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and Diane Black (R-TN), introduced the Religious Freedom Tax Repeal Act of 2012, H.R. 6097, on the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday. The bill, which has 55 additional co-sponsors,
The House Republicans have voted dozens of times to repeal all or part of President Barack Obama’s signature health care legislation. This time, Republicans – and five Democrats who voted with them — used the occasion of a repeal vote
Earlier this week a non-partisan judicial committee in Israel, headed up by retired Supreme Court justice Edmund Levy, released it’s report on the legal status of Judea and Samaria. The main finding of the report was the legality of the
Last week, Breitbart News reported on the partisan Democratic campaign organization Catalist, headed by Harold Ickes. Catalist was hired by the Department of Justice as its data analysis firm in the trial that just opened over the Texas voter ID
This afternoon, the House of Representatives will vote again to repeal ObamaCare. The vote comes in the wake of the Supreme Court’s surprise ruling that, while ObamaCare is unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause, it is permissible under Congress’ “taxing power.”
We Conservatives keep playing by “nice guy” rules and still get screwed. We all recognize how John McCain blew it in 2008 by refusing to criticize Obama for: His 20-year history of close ties with people who hate America and say so. His
