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Standing for Smaller Government Will Help GOP Win Perot Voters
2009-09-22 10:38:00
It seemed sweetly serendipitous that barely forty-eight hours after speculating about the potential for “Perot voters” (those particularly concerned about the exploding federal debt) to decide the 2010 — and possibly the 2012 — election that I would chance upon a Gallup poll showing that Americans are more likely than ever to say the government ...
What They?re Saying About America?s Worst President
2009-09-20 09:40:00
Glenn Reynolds: JIMMY CARTER?S RACE PROBLEM. And then there?s his more recent anti-semitiism problem. He?s a foul old man, and a disgrace to the office he once held. John McCain: It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.
Will Perot Voters Determine Outcome in 2010 (& 2012)?
2009-09-18 23:03:00
One of the reasons I’ve been bullish on Republican chances against incumbent Democratic Senators in such red states as California, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin in next fall’s electons, not to mention purple states like Colorado and Nevada (as well as red states like North Dakota) is that in 1992 and 1996, Ross Perot ran better ...
Constitution Day:Celebrating the Achievement (Against Great Odds)of a Remar
2009-09-17 09:34:00
Today, September 17, 2009 is Constitution Day, marking the 222nd anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution in Philadelphia.  Given the concerns expressed by the delegates from the various states assembled in the summer of 1787, that they could agree on a framework for a federal government is truly remarkable. About this remarkable accomplishment, ...
With Anemic Ratings, Anderson Cooper Dwells on ?Race Factor?:Ignores Racist
2009-09-16 07:59:00
Thanks to Anderson Cooper, I got an extra few minutes of cardio last night.  As I was cooling down on the stairmaster, his CNN program came on one of the television monitors.  Breathlessly, he was reporting something I had just read on Gateway Pundit, the worst president in U.S. history (well, at least since the ...
Thoughts about the President?s Address to Schoolchildren
2009-09-09 07:55:00
On few issues have those who have taken issue with the points we have made stood on as solid ground as have these critics on the issue of the President’s speech to schoolchildren yesterday.  Indeed, despite the outcry on the right, many of our philosophical confrères shared our critics sentiments and thought the speech was ...
Is The United States In a ?Low Grade? Civil War?
2009-08-21 17:17:00
It is a chilling question and one that has been troubling me for about two weeks.  I read the “low grade civil war” phrase as a declarative statement from a commenter on a news story about the Congressional Town Hall meetings and it has been rattling in my brain ever since. I’ve been wanting to post ...
W Addresses a Critic: A Lesson for his successor (& his supporters)
2009-08-11 23:09:00
At Gateway Pundit, Jim links footage of former President George W. Bush addressing a critic in a town hall meeting which should be required viewing for all critics (and haters) of that good man, but flawed politician.  The respect the Republican showed for his adversary is at odds with the imagery the left used to ...
Making Gates? issue a racial one prevents us from moving beyond race
2009-07-28 22:27:00
I have long believe that the primary goal of the gay movement should be promoting real and lasting social change, creating a society where we can live openly without suffering derision or marginalization because of our difference.  That is, people would see our sexuality as incidental to our essence. “Oh, you’re gay?” someone would say when ...
By Sotomayor?s Reasoning, Court decision upholding Jim Crow was ?settled la
2009-07-15 09:25:00
President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor said yesterday that the Roe v. Wade is “settled law.” By that standard, she would (had she been asked in 1932) have called Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 decision upholding Jim Crow laws, “settled law” .
Obama Support Is Tanking
2009-07-02 22:04:00
Wow.  As PatriotPartner said to me — “Want to see a lead balloon?  Go to Rasmussen today“. (h/t - HotAir) Ed Morrissey sums it all up nicely over at HotAir. Rasmussen?s new poll, taken before the release of June?s unemployment numbers, shows significant slippage for Barack Obama on the economy, his central issue.  Only 42% of American ...
Obama Needs Articulate American Ideals, Praise Iranian Protestors
2009-06-22 09:51:00
Like many Americans on both sides of the political aisle, I follow the events in Iran sensing we are witnessing something of great historical significance.  It reminds me of the fall of 1989 when I would return home from work and flip on CNN (then the only 24-hour cable news network) to learn of the ...
Would There Be Green In Iran Without Purple In Iraq?
2009-06-20 00:47:00
I have been following the demonstrations in Iran this past week with great interest. I was a young boy in 1979 when the Islamic Revolution overthrew the Shah and led to a decades-long cold and hard war with the West.  It is my firm belief that the events in Iran in 1979 were the beginning of ...
The Budweiser Clydesdale ? American History & Future
2009-06-10 07:01:00
According to USA Today, 2009 Super Bowl ads featuring the Budweiser Clydesdales ranked second and third in its list of the top ten most popular. Fans of these animals may wonder how they can appear identical and march in perfect step with one another – not to mention how a person can c
W & the Historians
2009-05-14 22:14:00
When future historians start to seriously consider the record of the immediate past President of the United States, George W. Bush, they will wonder at how a man so moderate in temperament could have attracted criticism so vicious. They will certainly rate him above many of those who preceded him in the late Twentieth Century, well ...
Jack Kemp: 1935-2009
2009-05-03 04:45:00
It it with great sorrow that I read the news this evening of the passing of former Congressman, Cabinet Secretary and VP Candidate Jack Kemp.  He was one of the good guys in politics. Rest In Peace.  I’m sure there is a touch football game in Heaven tonight. -Bruce (GayPatriot)
The Fading Appeal of Bill Clinton
2009-04-30 08:56:00
I believe one reason Barack Obama tapped Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State in large part to buy her husband’s silence. As the most popular Democrat in the country until Obama came along, Bill Clinton could give “blue dog” Democrats cover should he ever even hint that he opposed one of the President’s initiatives, particularly ...
The President Enters the Fever Swamp
2009-04-29 22:46:00
Just look at how he describes the Tea Parties:  “Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I?m not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around . . . .“ Emphasis added.  Guess he doesn’t know that we called them Tea Parties in honor of a certain pivotal event in ...
Cheney?s Inappropriate Criticism
2009-04-08 21:30:00
It should be no secret to readers of this blog that I am a huge fan of of the immediate past Vice President of the United States. Not only was Richard Cheney The Most Pro-Gay Vice President in U.S. History, but he was also a steady advocate throughout his tenure in the Executive Branch ...
A Glimmer of Hope for the GOP
2009-04-05 05:40:00
Not Since Ulysses S. Grant has a president first elected in a year ending in “8″ served two full terms in the White House.
You Say You Want A Revolution?
2009-04-04 04:40:00
You know, if this were a map of, oh I don’t know…. anti-war protests against the Bush Administration in nearly every state in the USA…. there’d be national news coverage every day bordering on hysteria. But since this is a map of ordinary Americans standing up spontaneously against the tyranny of Washington, DC spending — nary ...
Bush Deficits vs. Obama Deficits
2009-03-30 13:06:00
Here’s a nifty graphic originally created by the Washington Post. (h/t - Heritage Foundation) And by “nifty”, I mean completely scary and mind-boggling! Obama Lied, the American Way of Life Died! Paraphrasing Eva Peron — “We are ALL Government Workers Now”. -Bruce (GayPatriot)
?Give Me Liberty, Or Give Me Death!?
2009-03-23 17:29:00
One of the original American patriots, Patrick Henry, delivered one of the greatest speeches in our nation’s history — 234 years ago today.  (h/t - Casey Wright via Twitter) I can’t believe I have never posted this speech at GayPatriot before.  Perhaps the time wasn’t right.  Until now. ?No man thinks more highly than I do of ...
Early On, FDR Understood the Threat of Fascism
2009-03-21 20:36:00
I just completed Amity Shlaes’s The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression and expect I’ll offer a more complete review as some later date, but for now will offer a more concise review:  Read this book as it shows the many parallels between the actions of President Obama and his predecessor in ...
The President Should Watch This
2009-03-06 23:54:00
(H/t Glenn.)
Obama, Rush & Valerie Plame
2009-03-05 17:43:00
Barack Hussein Hoover is morphing this week into Richard Milhouse Obama.  The focused, surround-sound attack on Rush Limbaugh seems awfully familiar.  So, now we know.  President Obama’s mentions of Rush Limbaugh are no accident.  Democratic strategists have discovered that Rush has low approval ratings with the general public.  So they have devised a strategy to paint ...
Barack Hussein Hoover
2009-03-02 23:18:00
Last week, Michael Ledeen compared the President to one of the worst presidents of the twentieth century, Jimmy Carter. But, as I read Amity Shlaes’s The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, it seems he has more in common with another failure of the previous century, Herbert Hoover. Like that hapless (as ...
On government & social problems
2009-02-27 21:30:00
One of the reasons Michael Barone has long been one of my favorite columnists is his long study of American history and deep understanding of our political and social traditions.  In his blog post, Obama’s Threat to Charities and Universities: His Budget and Taxes, he quotes Tocqueville to show how far back goes the American ...
The Gipper, Milk & Defeating Prop 6
2009-02-27 00:00:00
A reader alerts us to a piece in the American Spectator where Aaron Goldstein reminds us how significant Ronald Reagan’s opposition to Prop 6, the 1978 Golden State ballot initiative which would have banned gays from teaching in public schools, was to it the defeat of that pernicious proposal: There is little doubt Milk’s yeoman efforts ...
Moyers: Still Lyin? about Goldwater after all these years
2009-02-26 01:45:00
While I have long been a fan of Barry Goldwater’s outspoken nature and commitment to conservative principles, my regard for the man increased when nearly twenty years ago, in the summer of 1989, I learned how he handled the arrest, at the height of the 1964 presidential campaign, of Walter Jenkins, the closest aide to ...
Begging a Foreign Country to Buy Up Our Debt?!?
2009-02-24 18:38:00
Sonicfrog wonders if when Secretary of Clinton Hillary Clinton asked China to buy US Debt, if this were “the first time this has happened since the American Revolution.“ Good question.  And I agree that this is embarrassing.
Obama to Address Congress on Economy:After Economic ?Stimulus? Passes?!?!?
2009-02-20 18:31:00
As I was reading about the president’s address to Congress, a thought occurred. First, about the address.  According to the Washington Post’s Michael D. Shear: President Obama will address a joint session of Congress on Feb. 24, an administration official said, giving the equivalent of a State of the Union speech that promises to continue his grim ...
From Whence We Came
2009-02-19 15:33:00
Um, when do we get to exercise our rights given to us in the very first clause under our Founding Document? When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate ...
Abraham Lincoln?s Bicentennial & His Legacy:?The Moral Ground of Freedom?
2009-02-12 20:45:00
For the past week, I have been trying to craft a post celebrating the bicentennial of the birth of the first and greatest Republican President. Many ideas crossed my find about Abraham Lincoln.  I recalled his steadfast commitment to winning the Civil War, even as a popular opinion began to turn against him and his adversaries ...
Did Reagan Ever Blame Carter . . .
2009-02-10 15:15:00
. . . for the economic mess he inherited after the Gipper had taken office and was making the case for his economic recovery package? Just curious, ’cause the current president has been attacking his predecessor on a regular basis, even did so last night: First of all, when I hear that from folks who presided over ...
Having had power & lost it, has GOP learned its lesson?
2009-02-09 18:40:00
In her column on the ninety-eighth anniversary of the Gipper’s birth, Peggy Noonan heralded the new-found serioiusness of the Republicans:  They hadn’t been this way in years!.  She cautioned them not to get overconfident, to return their focus and not to “revert to the triumphalism of the Bush era, when they often got giddy and ...
Will Democrats? Extravagence Lead to their Collapse?
2009-02-09 00:07:00
As I was reading the epilogue to Joseph J. Ellis’s Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams, I chanced on something that great man said in 1812 (in a letter to Benjamin Rush) which could well apply to the Democrats’ spendthrift “stimulus” and its impact on American politics. “When a party grows Strong and ...
Obama?s Stimulus Armageddon
2009-02-05 13:00:00
Here’s a very powerful perspective from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on the out-of-control, special-interest spending bill that Congressional Obamaniacs are trying to shove down America’s throat: To give the proposed economic stimulus plan some perspective, “if you started the day Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 million every day since then, you still wouldn?t ...
Obama?s Inaugural Address
2009-01-20 15:00:00
In just three hours, Barack Obama will take the oath of office as the 44th President of the United States. After he does so, he will deliver his first speech as the nation’s chief executive. That speech, even more than his mostly dignified conduct since the election, will set the tone for ...
Thank You President Bush
2009-01-20 14:58:00
On September 11, 2001, I was working two blocks from the White House when the world came to an end.  Or so it seemed that day.   I have never felt as scared for my life and my family’s lives as I had that day.  And over the following days and months, every time I drove ...
The Passing of A Cultural Lion
2009-01-17 17:10:00
For those of you who don’t know, I grew up in Chester County, Pennsylvania.  Home of Longwood Gardens, Valley Forge, the Mushroom Capital of the World (Kennett Square), and for any of us who went to public school in the county — the Brandywine River Museum. The Museum was THE PLACE for school field trips once ...
Is Big Government the Change We Need?
2009-01-10 23:15:00
Warning of dire consequences if we don’t take action to fix the troubled economy, President-elect Barack Obama said on Thursday that while  we cannot depend on government alone to create jobs or long-term growth . . .,  at this particular moment, only government can provide the short-term boost necessary to lift us from a recession this ...
Does W stand for Wilson (as in Woodrow)?
2009-01-09 23:42:00
We don’t have presidential opinion polling for 1920 or 1921 so we don’t know what Woodrow Wilson’s approval ratings were when he left office on March 4, 1921, but I would wager that if Gailup had been polling the American people back then, that Democrat would have then had approval ratings rivaling those of the ...
On the Importance of Strategy in War & Politics
2009-01-08 02:04:00
In between researching for my dissertation and writing this blog, I try to take some time each day to read a book related to my latest intellectual interests.  Currently, fascinated by the similarities one period in classical history, the fall of the Roman Republic, and my favorite period in American history, the founding of our ...
Fun Trivia on Appointed Senators and Special Elections
2008-12-21 23:20:00
As it becomes increasingly likely that Democrats in the Illinois legislature will not amend state law to call for a special election to fill the Senate seat of the President-elect, it appears we will have to wait until Governor Rod Blagojevich either resigns or is impeached for current Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn to select Obama’s ...
On the Greatness of John Adams & Paul Giamatti
2008-11-17 15:00:00
I have been a fan of John Adams at least since the first time I saw the musical 1776, perhaps even before that.  I recall, as a child, looking forward to watching The Adams Chronicles on our local PBS station, Channel 48.  I still treasure the companion volume my Mom bought for me. I’ve always admired ...
How far we?ve fallen
2008-11-12 09:50:00
I finally had the chance to watch the HBO Miniseries John Adams which I bought on DVD several months ago.  As I watched the episode when John Adams (Paul Giamatti) began service as the nation’s first Vice President, it struck me that Joe Biden would be our next Vice President. From a great, but flawed man ...
A Hopeful Thought for Despondent Republicans
2008-11-07 19:12:00
Twenty years ago, George H.W. Bush won the White House with a popular vote majority similar to that Barack Obama achieved this week, but with a much larger total in the electoral college.  Four years later, he was defeated with the smallest popular vote percentage of any incumbent president in U.S. history.
Presidential Debates, Charisma and Mistrust of Washington
2008-11-06 23:04:00
As the debates approached during the campaign just ended, I, the eternal optimist, had a thought which I tried to bury because it meant that what has just come to pass would come to pass, that Barack Obama would win. And the thought was this:  in every presidential election where there have been debates, the more ...
Media Bias in Favor of Obama:They Want to Cover an Historic Election
2008-11-02 20:31:00
Study after study confirms what we in the “rightosphere” have long supposed (and what responsible journalists have reported): the media are biased in favor of Obama.  According to a recent report from the respected Center for Media and Public Affairs: Comments made by sources, voters, reporters and anchors that aired on ABC, CBS and NBC evening ...
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