An Update on the Gay Marriage Debate

In an article posted August 26, 2010 by Liz Goodwin titled “Former Bush Campaign Manager Flips on Gay Marriage,” it is revealed that Ken Mehlman–former Bush Campaign adviser and head of the Republican National Committee–is now openly gay and “will raise funds and strategize for the campaign to legalize gay marriage.” Ms Goodwin states he [...]

Beware of the Inevitable

The Hill: DeLay Warns GOP: Don’t Underestimate Democrats This Fall DeLay, fresh off having the Justice Department drop a federal investigation against him, said GOP wins in the midterm elections aren’t “a given” due to the strength of the grassroots infrastructure Democrats built in 2006 and 2008. “Over the last ten years, the Democrats, particularly the [...]

VIDEO: Spot Your Representative

It seems like it should be obvious and automatic.  Here we are, living in a representative republic — our elected representatives are supposed to listen to us, their constituents, and if not act according to our will at least genuinely take our will into account.  And yet, time and time again, we’re seeing our representatives [...]

ObamaCare Stifles Small Business

GOP.gov Policy News: ObamaCare and Small Employers Less than three months before the congressional midterm elections in November, House Republicans are still actively trying to remind the American public that the health care reform bill forced through the House and Senate by the Democrats only a few months ago is short on benefits and long [...]

The Political Fight Over the Discontented

Recently, an article by Carrie Budoff Brown appearing at American Renaissance News included the following about the recently passed federal banking bill: Deep inside the massive overhaul bill, Congress gives the federal government authority to terminate contracts with any financial firm that fails to ensure the “fair inclusion” of women and minorities, forcing every kind [...]

2010 and the Second American Reconstruction

It was no accident that President Obama portrayed himself as Abraham Lincoln after the 2008 election. Both were said to write their own speeches.  Both were certainly powerful orators.  A piece in Newsweek recalled that both sprang from the political loins of Illinois to the presidency and characterized the unlikely pair as “[t]wo thin men [...]

Be a Part of the Solution: Speak Out Today

By REP. MAC THORNBERRY (R-TX) Guest Contributor There is a lot of frustration and disappointment with Washington these days. Americans want lawmakers to focus on the essentials — an economy creating new jobs and high living standards and national security to protect us from a variety of threats. Instead, this Democratic Congress has pushed a [...]

Boehner: Democrats Admit New Health Care Law Hurts Employers, Jobs

First, the so-called “stimulus” package was supposed to be about jobs.  Later, because it was wholly ineffective and because it was never about jobs to begin with, Congress wanted a dedicated Jobs Bill.   Then, the health care reform bill was supposed to jump start businesses large and small.  Later, we found out that many companies [...]

The Man Who Would Dethrone a Queen: An Interview with John Dennis, Congressional Candidate, CA-8

Culturally speaking, the city of San Francisco has long been synonymous with unrestrained liberal values, or what might be better describes as an appalling lack of American ones. In many ways, the Haight-Ashbury section of the city was the epicenter for the counter-cultural revolution of the late 1960’s, and in a very real sense many [...]

Health Care, Immigration, Energy and Football: A Conversation With Congressman Joe Barton

It’s not often that I am glaringly, irretrievably wrong.  Sure, I may flub a number or two, but as a guy who has been trained to see both sides of an argument and anticipate the other side’s best shot, when it comes to Texas Congressman Joe Barton, boy did I swing and miss.  And not [...]

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