Michele Bachmann Does Our Founding Mothers — and the Rest of Us — Proud

I’m wont to laugh at liberal women who love to talk up our Founding Mothers, and how those evil, spotlight-hogging white men sliced and diced all the patriot women right out of our history books. Liberal women love to take this tack when shoring up their own spotlight-hogging contributions to our current politics.
But just let [...]

The Golf Summit

Well, dear readers, this is certainly embarrassing.
While middle-class Americans suffer the ever-more-disastrous consequences of ruling-class profligacy, unfettered public debt, and the immoral greed of corporate and banking oligarchs, our President and the Speaker of the House schedule a golf summit tomorrow. On the links, these two will — no doubt — share a few [...]

The Weiner Resigns: Era of Sex Addiction Scam Is Over

Small victories for the integrity of American government must now be celebrated. Yes, it’s come to this.
But, at last, Weiner’s ignominious resignation is a welcome sign that the era of the sex addiction scam is over.
Personally, I did not think the man would be forced to resign. In fact, following the Democrat Party’s [...]

Pawlenty Speaks Good Dollars and Sense

Tim Pawlenty just might have the right stuff for 2012. At the very least, the man certainly speaks good dollars and sense. Which at this particular moment is the one thing Americans want most desperately to hear.
I should mention that the erstwhile Minnesota governor speaks without hyperbole, histrionics, political-shyster sophistry, or sophomoric metaphors, which I, [...]

Why Our “Elites” Just Can’t Get No Respect

Since the very first tax-day Tea Parties popped up in April 2009, a raging sense of puffed-up indignation has possessed our ruling class. Emerging as the single truly bipartisan issue of our day, this how-dare-they-question-us obsession has grown from spurts of shocked angst among media talking heads to hands-on-the-hips Capitol Hill lectures to full-blown [...]