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
Thanks to some unforced errors committed by Team Romney last week regarding the ObamaCare tax/penalty issue, the corrupt media was able to keep the focus of the presidential election exactly where Obama wants it kept: off his failed record and
The Obama campaign has tried to distract from its failures and the latest abysmal jobs numbers by pointing and shouting about Mitt Romney’s Swiss bank account and other offshore investments. Apparently, while America slept, a law was passed which criminalized
The current top headline on Memeorandum is “Romney’s Tax Confusion.” This morning on CNN I spoke with Don Lemon about the Romney camp’s earlier remark on the tax/mandate battle and Romney’s reported “confusion.” Why doesn’t anyone want to ask about
When Democrats took over Congress in 2006, they largely did so because candidates like the much-heralded Senators from Virginia (Jim Webb), Montana (Jon Tester), and Pennsylvania (Bob Casey) could appeal to blue collar, white, working class voters and give off
Love means never having to say you’re sorry? Not for the Obama administration. According to the Obama administration, love means always saying you’re sorry -especially if it’s to foreign governments that hate America. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has offered
The average citizen of the US is now familiar with the Solyndra debacle and how the US Department of Energy blew approximately half a billion dollars on the idea to produce photovoltaic cells (PV) using a chemistry of Copper, Indium,
In an eloquent, heartfelt and powerful op-ed in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal titled “What is the American Creed,” David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale, delineates the ideas that distinguish American exceptionalism and exactly how they are abused
The Obama campaign has seized on remarks made by Romney adviser Eric “Etch-A-Sketch” Fehrnstrom this morning on MSNBC, to the effect that the individual mandate in Obamacare (and Romneycare) is not a tax. Fehrnstrom allowed Chuck Todd to push him
The Wall Street Journal reports today that, for the first time in three years, U.S. manufacturing has plunged to an index of 49.7 in June after sitting at 53.5 in May. An index below 50 indicates the manufacturing sector is
Don’t be fooled by the false praise being heaped upon Chief Justice John Roberts by the mainstream media and its favorite go-to legal commentators. Jeffrey Toobin, no less, of the New Yorker and CNN, lets the cat out of the bag–they are
Ten days ago, Breitbart News analyzed an exhaustive Pew Research study about Asians in America and made the argument that their views align well with conservatism, and may be conservatism’s last, best hope. If Asians vote en masse for liberals
Conservatives who are trying to salvage a little “hope and change” from Chief Justice John Roberts’s disastrous ruling in the Obamacare case yesterday argue that the limits the Court placed on the Commerce Clause and the power of the federal
News Corp watchers have been talking about a possible split of Rupert Murdoch’s massive entertainment and publishing empire for some time, and it looks like they are finally on the right side of the guesswork, as the News Corp board
A few of the numbers from yesterday’s Wall Street Journal/NBC poll have gotten plenty of media attention, especially those numbers that look good for Obama. Buried deep in the poll, though, is bad news for both Obama and his media
Gas prices peaked in early April at just under $4 a gallon. Thatmeant that for a few weeks gas prices were a major political issue. A series of adsattacking the President were issued and Newt Gingrich announced aproposal to get
As the state of New York continues to carry the legal torch lit seven years ago by disgraced former Attorney General Eliot Spitzer against American International Group (AIG) and its former CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, two new and startling revelations
Oops. Concerns that Chevrolet Cruzes could catch fire have caused General Motors (GM) to recall more than 475,000 of the popular compact sedans, the automaker said Friday… All (Cruze) cars manufactured from September 2010 to May of this year are
At the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption in his June 21st homily opening the Fortnight for Religious Freedom, Most Reverend William E. Lori, Archbishop of Baltimore, seemed to urge Catholics to embrace some version of martyrdom to
Almost immediately after the House Oversight Committee voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in Contempt of Congress, Democrats and mainstream media personalities flooded the airwaves with accusations of racism, election-year politics, and GOP attempts to get rid of Holder
Although former House Speaker and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was smeared as “racist” by many Democrats and members of the main stream media for declaring Barack Obama “the food stamp president,” it turns out that, according to the USDA, being
Moody’s released their assessment of the credit ratings for five of the biggest U.S. financial firms, and the news isn’t good. Every one of the firms was downgraded. From top to bottom, they read like this: Goldman Sachs was downgraded two notches
President Barack Obama’s decision this week to suspend deportations of certain young illegal immigrants is as empty, and as cynical, as his support for gay marriage this past spring. On a policy level, it means nothing: the suspension only lasts
It was 25 years on June12, 1987, that President Ronald Reagan delivered his historical speech in Berlin, Germany. Reagan stood at the Berlin Wall with the full weight of the Western world upon his shoulders. He addressed the crowd assembled
Big Labor took a roundhouse to the chin despite the millions of dollars in member dues spent in an attempt to recall Wisconsin Governor Walker. Conservatives and practical-minded Americans, however, cannot become complacent with this victory. Big Labor showed how
