The GOP and a Sedentary Lunchpail Crowd
In a previous piece here at America’s Right, I mentioned that I had been stuck on the east coast for some time because I needed to work out problems with work and with my medical coverage. I managed to resolve these issues and rejoined my family back on my Midwestern home turf. As a part of my homecoming, I paid a visit to a friend of mine I have known since the first grade, and found much of the visit to be equal parts nostalgia and political revelation about America and the condition of many of its citizens. My ...
Putting The Victory Back In Black History
For me and a special group of youth in North Tyler here in Texas, Black History Month began in September when the coordinator in charge of the “Black History Bowl” began to confirm availability to participate in the annual competition among neighboring churches. I would hover around Sister Dorothy Wheat, just happening to be looking for something around the piano when she was there, or just happening to go to the ladies room at the same time as she, making a slight scene to get noticed. I acted like this for a few years until she said, "Delley (as most in ...
Happy Birthday, Mr. President
Ronald Wilson Reagan b. February 6, 1911 d. June 5, 2004 You would have been 99 years old today, Mr. President. Happy birthday, thank you, and God bless. I hope America can do you proud.
PARTY ON! House Democrats Cheer Passing Vote to Raise Debt Ceiling
Pretend for a moment that you are Joe or Jane Q. Sixpack. Shortly after returning to work following the long Christmas holiday weekend, your superiors sat you down and explained that for one reason or another your services were no longer necessary. You were fired. Over the next month or so, living paycheck-to-paycheck as you had been for as long as you could remember finally caught up with you. Bills were ready to go unpaid. The minimum payments on your credit card accounts were just too much and too numerous. The mortgage seemed insurmountable. So, you went to the bank where ...
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. President
I’ve been trying for a week now to rationalize what I heard coming from the president in his State of the Union address last week, but no matter how hard I try to make it come out as a sane recitation of the past and realistic forecast for the future of the United States, it just doesn’t work. Surely, he must have been joking. No one with his education and experience--although none of it in the realm of business or economics--could possibly believe that the public is so ignorant as to put any stock in what he was saying. I’m sure ...
A.R. Essentials
The AR Response to the 2010 State of the Union Address
“A populist nightmare.” That’s how Barack Obama’s first official...
Boston Tea Party 2.0
As the sun rises this morning and bathes in pinks and reds and yellows the frost-covered...
The Mike Pence Interview
Every day, it seems, America awakens to another assault on liberty, prosperity and...
Conservatives, the GOP, and Fire
For most of human history, fire has been the greatest source of energy. That energy...
Incorporating the 2nd Amendment
U.S. Supreme Court agrees to weigh issue of whether the Second Amendment should be...
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Assigned Reading
Turn It Over, You Idiots!
Fox Business: John Stossel on ‘Government Response to Upside Down Faxes’ It...
BHO: ‘Every Economist Agrees…’
ABC News: President Obama: “Every Economist from the Left and Right” Says Stimulus...
The $6.3 Trillion Budget Omission
Zero Hedge: ‘Obama’s Budget Has One Small, Missing Piece … For...
Facilitative Obstructionists?
House GOP: ‘The Party of What?’ I love this. There’s nothing...
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The [Selective] Power of Pelosi
The Washington Post: ‘Pelosi Stopped One CIA Operation. So Why Not Waterboarding?’ In...
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News & Views
VIDEO: Sarah Palin’s Tea Party Convention Address
Sarah Palin. What is it about Sarah Palin that angers so many on the left? Is it that she’s more genuine by leaps and bounds than the likes of Hillary Rodham Clinton? Is it that she’s a little bit easier on the eyes than Janet Napolitano? Is it her own personal values, cherishing life and freedom and family ahead of politics and power... [Read more of this review]
VIDEO: Paul Ryan on Debt Ceiling Increase
It’s a funny thing how, depending upon the issue of the day, certain people will step up. Recently, as talk has turned to matters of debt and deficits and the president’s new budget, the one to step up has been Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan. Admittedly, other than reading a few of his op-ed pieces over the past few months, I don’t... [Read more of this review]
Obama vs. Obama on GOP Ideas
What you see above is brand new, just released video from the House Republican Conference. It features some of the statements made by the the president and the president’s flunkies–including Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, the latter being the guy who just recently compared fellow Democrats to “f*cking... [Read more of this review]
VIDEO: Specter Hops On Stage, Interrupts Sestak
If only Congressman Sestak had told Sen. Specter to quit interrupting him and “act like a lady.” All kidding aside, I’ve had no trouble in the past admitting that I like Joe Sestak. Even though he’s a committed liberal and wrong on so, so many issues, I’ve seen nothing which suggests that he is anything but a genuine,... [Read more of this review]
So, What’s in the Budget, Anyway?
Earlier today here at America’s Right, I had the chance to discuss the effect which the president’s new budget–tabled yesterday by the White House–would have on the deficit and national debt. But, subject to the stranglehold of the 24-hour day and a schedule which resembles six pounds of potatoes in a five-pound bag, I only... [Read more of this review]
A Fascinating Find in Philadelphia
For years now, my wife and I have been counting the days until we were finally able to move from the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA to the outskirts of Charleston, SC. Both of us love it down there. We love the the people, we love the city, we love the weather. But today, roughly four months before our big move, an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer... [Read more of this review]
A By-The-Numbers Look at Deficits and Debt by Party
According to the Congressional Budget Office, during the dozen years in which the House of Representatives was under Republican Party control, the average budget deficit was roughly $104 billion. Since the Democrats assumed control following the mid-term elections in 2006, however, that average has skyrocketed to approximately $1.1 trillion. Now,... [Read more of this review]
Godfather II
Ben Bernanke, the Godfather of the American criminal banking syndicate, was confirmed this past Thursday by the U.S. Senate for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve by a vote of 70 to 30. This says more about the needs and plans of the Obama administration than anything President Obama may have said at his State of the Union address the... [Read more of this review]
It Isn’t All Obama’s Fault
As President Barack Obama juggled faux accountability with the stubbornness of an ideologue last week, it’s important to understand that it isn’t all Barack Obama’s fault. It isn’t — the Democrats have to take their share of the blame, too. I wouldn’t expect someone like Barack Obama to understand this; his education... [Read more of this review]
KSM Trial To Be Moved From NYC?
It’s understandable that, in a nation of this size with a government as large as it is, the average American might feel as though their opinion doesn’t matter. Every once in a while, however, we get pleasantly surprised by something that happens either inside the Beltway or out — it could be the election of someone like Scott Brown... [Read more of this review]
The AR Response to the 2010 State of the Union Address
“A populist nightmare.” That’s how Barack Obama’s first official State of the Union speech-in-progress was described to me over the phone by a friend who called right as I left class a few minutes earlier than 10:00 p.m. last night. He was right. A year ago today, another world leader took to the stage at the World Economic Forum... [Read more of this review]
Ready For His Close-Up
Back in September, during President Barack Obama’s last speech to a joint session of Congress, South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson set the tone for a particularly partisan and contentious end of 2009 by screaming “You Lie!” at the president after he falsely denied that the health care reform bills being drawn up by the House and... [Read more of this review]
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