Week In Review

Liberal policies failing before our very eyes: (Inverster's Business Daily) -- More workers joined the federal government's disability program in June than got new jobs, according to two new government reports, a clear indicator of how bleak the nation's jobs picture is after three full years of … [Read more...]

The mandate IS a tax…probably

The Supreme Court's majority ruling that the mandate portion of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare is in fact a tax thus making the healthcare law constitutional despite the President Obama, his administration, and fellow Democrats insisting otherwise.  The buzz around the blogosphere is that of … [Read more...]

Government Spending Fails To See Results…Again

(CNSNews.com) -- Despite an unprecedented increase in federal anti-poverty spending, the national poverty rate has not declined, the [Cato Institute] study finds. “[S]ince President Obama took office [in January 2009], federal welfare spending has  increased by 41 percent, more than $193 billion … [Read more...]

It’s the Dad Life

Happy Father's Day! … [Read more...]

The Week In Review

OOPS! It turns out that the studies reported by gay-family advocates were deeply flawed and actually misrepresented the facts: (phys.org) -- The review by Dr. Loren Marks from Louisiana State University finds that much of the science that forms the basis for the highly regarded 2005 official brief … [Read more...]

Out of the frying pan and into the fire

Back in February the retail giant J.C. Penney caused a bit of a stir by hiring Ellen DeGeneres as a spokesman for their stores with anti-gay activists because she is openly a lesbian.  In protest, boycotts were threatened because they believed enlisting DeGeneres was tantamount to "jumping on the … [Read more...]

Campaign Spending and Scott Walker

Republican Governor Scott Walker has successfully -- and quite handily -- defeated his Democrat opponent Tom Barrett in a union led recall election.  Not surprising Liberals and Democrats are already making excuses for their landslide loss.  The immediate narrative is the amount of money in campaign … [Read more...]

The Week In Review

Planned Parenthood Keepin' It Classy The fine upstanding pillars of morality Planned Parenthood are celebrating masturbation month.  Yes, masturbation month. The Majority Of Alive Voters Prefer Not The Democrats, But Vote For Them Anyway Rasmussen Reports: 64% of Likely U.S. Voters … [Read more...]

Changing Sexual Orientation Is Easy

One of the more contentious obstacles in the same-sex marriage debate is what makes someone homosexual.  Whether sexual attraction is an immutable genetic trait, a product of environment, or a mixture of the two.  There are examples of men and women who self-identified as gay at one point in their … [Read more...]

Polling Discrepancies

Any time the hot-button issue of same-sex marriage makes headlines for what ever reason, media outlets and activists tout polls which claim the number of Americans who support same-sex marriage is either on the rise -- which I don't dispute with some qualifications -- or that it is the majority … [Read more...]

Now you’re a racist AND a homophobe

Since President Obama's "evolution" in his position on same-sex marriage, the media has been beside itself with praise for his "leadership" on this issue.  It doesn't really come as a surprise to me, he seems to support every liberal cause imaginable.  Unfortunately the left has not played fair when … [Read more...]

Playing the race card requires training

For the last three and a half years we have been told by political pundits who lean left that criticizing the President is racist.  Regardless of the merit of the critique, it is dismissed out of hand because 'some people just can't get over the fact that a black man sits in the white house'.  Now, … [Read more...]

North Carolina Upholds Traditional Marriage

North Carolina has joined every other state which allowed its citizens to have a voice on defining marriage and passed an amendment to define marriage as one man and one woman.  Yes, every other state.  The states in which same-sex marriage is legal it has been declared such in spite of the will of … [Read more...]

Julia: Leech Or Victim?

President Obama's recent campaign tool is "Julia", a fictional hypothetical woman followed from age 3 to retirement.  The point is to show how Julia benefitted from Obama's policies and how she would fare under his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney.  I thought it was particularly gutsy of Obama to … [Read more...]

Is Waterboarding Torture?

The one year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden has come and gone.  Information leading to his whereabouts was obtained through enhanced interrogation techniques.  Now, President Obama has decried the use of waterboarding, but is quite happy with himself for the results of the … [Read more...]

The real ‘War on Women’

(Washington Times) -- Chechnya's government is openly approving of families that kill female relatives who violate their sense of honor, as this Russian republic embraces a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam after decades of religious suppression under Soviet rule. In the past five years, the … [Read more...]

Unintended consequences

(The Australian) -- THE largest sperm bank in Britain is under investigation from health officials over claims they used sperm from the wrong donor after a gay couple had two children from different racial backgrounds. The alleged mix-up at the IVF clinic only emerged after the birth of the … [Read more...]

How evil are you?

The 99%'ers are losing their media traction and quickly becoming irrelevant as a movement.  Don't get me wrong, this is a good thing.  For all the good they and their sympathizers think they did, the bad outweighed it many times over (I have compiled more than 75 news articles recording "purely … [Read more...]

Estimates are different from Actuals

I currently voluntarily find myself in an "interview" via email correspondence with a fellow blogger.  I use quote marks because the interviewer has quickly gone from interviewer to debater, which doesn't really bother me, I like debating.  We are at a point now where he has capitalized on my … [Read more...]

Secret Services

Making recent headline for all the wrong reasons last week was the U.S. Secret Service for their late night escapades in Cartagena, Colombia. (NyTimes) -- American investigators seeking to get to the bottom of the reported late-night activities of a group of Secret Service agents and military … [Read more...]