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More From the Culture of Narcissism
Posted on October 10, 2011 | No CommentsOnce government simply becomes a playpen for those who believe they run the universe and make its basic laws... we wind up where we are today. -
Sadly, more of the same from the Black Caucus
Posted on October 3, 2011 | No CommentsAnd black leadership has continued, year after year, to embrace and sell what doesn’t work and black Americans continue to bu it... -
Presidential Debates Are Not Serious
Posted on September 26, 2011 | No CommentsWhere are these candidates on preservation on the integrity of traditional marriage? -
Target Black Unemployment With Enterprise Zones
Posted on September 19, 2011 | No CommentsAny government bureaucrat who could make a smart venture capital investment wouldn’t be a government bureaucrat. -
Of Course Social Security Is a Ponzi Scheme
Posted on September 13, 2011 | No CommentsRegardless of what you think about the idea, it was viable long ago when the size of the program was much smaller, the tax much lower, there were many more working Americans per retiree than today... -
Marco Rubio’s Courageous Speech
Posted on September 5, 2011 | No CommentsThe culture of government has displaced the culture of personal responsibility. -
Steve Jobs and Dr. King
Posted on August 29, 2011 | No CommentsHow do we understand the truths, the rules, by which we live better so that our social reality – our laws and our government – enhances rather than stifles our freedom and creativity? -
Blacks’ Dilemma With Obama
Posted on August 22, 2011 | 1 CommentFor black political culture that dominated after the civil rights movement, the point was not just equal treatment under the law, but special treatment under the law. -
Romney is the Wrong Candidate
Posted on August 15, 2011 | No Comments[W]e are in a paradoxical situation in which most Americans today personally benefit from the very spending and programs that are bleeding us and strangling us to death. -
New Obamacare Violations of Personal Liberty
Posted on August 8, 2011 | No CommentsLiberals are committed to religious freedom as long as those religious values do not conflict with their liberal values. Which, practically, means all religion. -
The Poor Are Not Poor Because the Rich Are Rich
Posted on August 2, 2011 | No CommentsWealth is created through savings, investment, and entrepreneurship. And blacks lag far behind in each category. -
Allen West’s Gentlemanly Behavior
Posted on July 25, 2011 | No CommentsWe have turned our lives, health, and pocketbooks over to the same humble geniuses who told us that $850 billion in stimulus spending would create 4 million jobs and prevent unemployment from going over 8 percent. -
Why Do Blacks Still Let Obama Off the Hook?
Posted on July 18, 2011 | No CommentsAlmost a half century since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, too many blacks still don’t want to be free and accept the responsibilities that go with it. -
A Few Rich Libertarians Help Undermine Freedom
Posted on July 11, 2011 | No CommentsThe same sex marriage issue is about the right to redefine what marriage is. -
Bachmann is Right About the Minimum Wage
Posted on July 4, 2011 | No CommentsMinimum wage, like most government programs targeted to low income Americans, hurts the very communities it purports to help. -
Thank you, Eric Cantor!
Posted on June 27, 2011 | No CommentsAny tax increases today simply accommodates the recent massive, misguided and destructive expansion of government. -
Bachmann’s Challenge to Romney
Posted on June 20, 2011 | No CommentsMany who jumped on the Obama train understand that he was just slick, new packaging for old big government liberalism. -
Only Remedy for Weiner is Limited Government
Posted on June 13, 2011 | No CommentsLimited government enforced by a functioning constitution is our only hope. -
Why 2012 Looks Like 1860
Posted on June 6, 2011 | No CommentsToday the question is can a country “conceived in liberty” tolerate almost half its economy consumed by government, its citizens increasingly submitting to the dictates of bureaucrats, and wanton destruction of its unborn children. -
Tea Party – A Movement in Search of a Leader
Posted on May 30, 2011 | 1 CommentThe Republican challenge here is certainly a short run advantage to Democrats. -
Gingrich vs Ryan
Posted on May 23, 2011 | No CommentsIt’s much easier to reform a program where the prime beneficiaries are poor black women than a program where the beneficiaries are every working American adult -
Education Freedom is Civil Rights Issue of Today
Posted on May 16, 2011 | 1 CommentIt is Republicans who have championed school choice and vouchers that disproportionately will benefit blacks. -
Mothers Day and Our Budget Crisis
Posted on May 9, 2011 | No CommentsAs we’ve given government increasing responsibility for our lives – our health care, our retirement, our housing, educating our children – the American family has correspondingly unraveled. -
Politicization of the Fed a Dangerous Trend
Posted on May 2, 2011 | No CommentsLike everything else in our country, money has become relative and politicized. -
The World Needs an America That Understands Freedom
Posted on April 25, 2011 | No CommentsThe America in which Dr. King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was an America which increasingly saw religion as an obstacle to freedom rather than as a framework to enhance and enable it. -
Obama Admits That Budget is About Values
Posted on April 18, 2011 | No CommentsA tragic irony is that just as the victims of Stephen Douglas’ moral relativism were blacks, so the main victims of our black President’s moral relativism are black. -
Return America to Main Street
Posted on April 11, 2011 | No CommentsThe great sucking sound we hear today is the liberal regime in Washington sucking the living daylights out of this nation. -
America Badly Needs Leaders
Posted on April 4, 2011 | No CommentsGreat political role models today are two freshman politicians from Florida – Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fl) and Congressman Allen West (R-Fl). -
Why Liberals Hate Clarence Thomas and Sarah Palin
Posted on March 28, 2011 | No CommentsAccording to [liberal] mythology, the essential and ongoing struggle in our nation is a power struggle of interests between “haves” and “have-nots” rather than an ongoing struggle for human freedom. -
No Compromise on Defunding Planned Parenthood
Posted on March 21, 2011 | No CommentsPlanned Parenthood’s annual report shows they get 28% of their budget from contributions, less than they get from taxpayers. -
Hispanics Are a Prime Demographic for Conservatives
Posted on March 14, 2011 | No CommentsAll our growing big government failures, now being institutionalized instead of being reformed, will be dumped disproportionately into [young Hispanic's] laps. -
Union Power – Symptom of What Ails Us
Posted on March 7, 2011 | No Comments[G]overnment unions use the force model to enrich themselves at the direct expense of taxpayers to the point of bankrupting us all. -
Republicans Can’t Give an Inch in Budget Debate
Posted on February 28, 2011 | No CommentsSo we must understand that the push back from Democrats ... whether we are prepared to get off the path we’re now on of wholesale government takeover of our economy and our lives. -
Defining Our Fiscal Crisis Correctly is Step One
Posted on February 21, 2011 | No CommentsThe elephant in the room are entitlements – Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. These now total up to $1.6 trillion in spending, or about 45% of the federal budget. -
‘Gay Conservative’ Is an Oxymoron
Posted on February 14, 2011 | 2 CommentsAlthough the world view that “gay conservatives” choose to invent may diverge from the world view of liberals, their common ground is they make it all up. -
If We Want to Promote Freedom, How About Starting at Home?
Posted on February 7, 2011 | No CommentsIf we don’t know what freedom is here, how can we know what it is elsewhere? -
No More Debt Until Spending Is Cut
Posted on January 31, 2011 | 2 CommentsIf Republicans offer a bold alternative to seize control from politicians and bureaucrats and return power and freedom to citizens, they can bet on public support. -
House Health Care Repeal More Reality TV than Theater
Posted on January 24, 2011 | 4 CommentsThe House repeal vote was important because the House is the legislative body closest to the people, and the people voted unequivocally last November to repudiate socialized medicine. -
Restoring a Culture of Life
Posted on January 17, 2011 | No CommentsRemoving marriage as the framework for sex and children has produced results that don’t surprise. -
The Constitution, Yes, But There’s More
Posted on January 10, 2011 | No CommentsOur eternal truths precede the Constitution. -
A New Coalition of Black Churches Offers Nothing New
Posted on January 3, 2011 | 1 CommentFreedom means a culture of responsibility, not a culture of entitlement. -
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Repeal a Mistake
Posted on December 27, 2010 | 2 CommentsPrivate behavior and public sanction are different matters. -
Should Michael Steele Stay as RNC Chairman?
Posted on December 20, 2010 | 1 CommentDespite November success, there is no new love affair between voters and the GOP. -
Is Envy More Important than Prosperity?
Posted on December 13, 2010 | 1 CommentThe death tax is probably, of all the ways in which our government takes revenue, the most immoral. -
Deficit Cutting Commission Gets it Wrong
Posted on December 6, 2010 | 5 CommentsWe're drowning in spending and debt because theft is legal in Washington. -
Our Leadership in Washington is the Problem, Not Body Scanners
Posted on November 29, 2010 | 1 CommentIt's hard to sort out whether our current administration is simply confused and naive, or whether they actually sympathize with our enemies. -
Charlie Rangel Is a Symptom of a Bigger Problem
Posted on November 22, 2010 | No CommentsWhat was initially meant to protect the voting rights of blacks evolved into provisions to guarantee the election of blacks. -
Why Do Blacks Still Buy the Government Plantation Lie?
Posted on November 15, 2010 | 4 CommentsBlacks still by and large see government dependence as the remedy rather than the disease. -
Race and the 2010 Elections
Posted on November 8, 2010 | No CommentsTim Scott and Allen West, our new black Republican congressmen, are both aggressive and unapologetic voices for everything the Tea Party movement stands for. -
It’s About Freedom, Meathead.
Posted on November 1, 2010 | 2 CommentsAmericans are clearer now about what they think is right and wrong. This not a time of gray ambiguity. -
Revisiting Clarence Thomas’ Ordeal
Posted on October 25, 2010 | No CommentsIt wasn't about his qualifications; it was about the emergence of a black conservative icon. -
Inspiration of Chile Goes Beyond the Miners
Posted on October 18, 2010 | 1 CommentChile's achievements were made possible by commitments to freedom and free markets. -
Dictators, Si – Republicans, No!
Posted on October 11, 2010 | No CommentsThe welfare state plantation is not in the interest of black or white Americans. -
Social Security Example of Government Rigor Mortis
Posted on October 4, 2010 | No CommentsWake up Washington. It’s not 1935. -
Who Are the Realists and Who Are the Ideologues?
Posted on September 27, 2010 | No CommentsThe more likely a household is headed by a married couple the less likely that household will be poor. -
Realism, Not Ideology, Driving Tea Partiers
Posted on September 20, 2010 | No CommentsTea Party activism is about having the courage to honestly look at the facts and act accordingly and responsibly. -
Withdrawing From Reality
Posted on September 7, 2010 | No CommentsIt’s hard to find a place to turn where we don’t deal with a reality distorted by government. -
More Government to Protect Us From Ourselves
Posted on August 30, 2010 | 2 CommentsThe real difference between us and hens is that hens are not paying wolves’ salaries and benefits. -
Dr. King, Religion, and Freedom
Posted on August 23, 2010 | 1 CommentWhen the Democrats and the president see redemption in government, it’s no wonder that Americans are confused. -
In Washington, It’s the Money That Talks
Posted on August 16, 2010 | No CommentsThe main way to end the poverty cycle is to get poor children educated. And it’s the teachers’ unions that fight school choice.
