May 17, 2012 By Karin McQuillan Republicans may bridle at these insults, or we may laugh.  But we are chumps when we don’t take insults seriously.  Slander provides the Democrats with a huge electoral advantage.  Many centrist voters, though not radical or loony themselves, have come to believe these libels against Republicans as commonsense, evident [...]

May 17, 2012 By Jay Schalin (See also: Racism and the PC Inquisition) Attorney General Eric Holder should have been more careful about what to ask for.  When he first took office, he called for a national dialogue on race, calling us “a nation of cowards” for not facing the subject honestly. It may be [...]

May 16, 2012 Politics: The victory of the little-known Deb Fischer in Nebraska’s Republican Senate primary is a reminder that the Tea Party is alive, well and volatile. And so is the phenomenon named Sarah Palin. Deb who? That was the reaction Tuesday after the state senator and her modestly funded campaign scored a huge [...]

May 16, 2012 Budget Policy: As another fight over the budget looms, Democrats again choose to do nothing except blame those who try to fix the problem. President Obama and Senate Democrats are masters of this do-nothing game. House Speaker John Boehner went to the White House Wednesday to talk budget with President Obama. With [...]

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Economic disaster looms for the birthplace of democracy By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Wednesday, May 16, 2012 The forces of big spending will have another shot at the polls next month in Greece. The Syriza party, which is strongly opposed to austerity programs, is expected to gain in the upcoming election. Unfortunately for [...]

‘America has moved away from individualism to government dependency’ By Brett M. Decker The Washington Times Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Rep. Ben Quayle was elected in 2010 by Arizona’s 3rd congressional district, which is in the Sonoran Desert in the Valley of the Sun around Phoenix. One of his popular campaign ads stated, “Barack Obama [...]

Boehner tells Obama to cross debt ceiling, tax hikes off his ‘to-do’ list By Emily Miller The Washington Times Wednesday, May 16, 2012 President Obama on Wednesday found out what congressional leaders thought of his gimmicky “to-do” list. The country is headed over a fiscal cliff, and House Speaker John A. Boehner said the only [...]

Tinkering with Senate rules won’t make legislation better By James S. Robbins The Washington Times Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Liberals are invoking the framers of the Constitution in their latest attempt to employ judges to subvert the institutions of government. At issue is the Senate’s cloture rule, the requirement for three-fifths of voting members to [...]

By Stephen Dinan The Washington Times Wednesday, May 16, 2012 The Senate on Wednesday rejected every single budget being offered this year, leaving the chamber — and therefore the federal government — without a plan to address Medicare, Social Security and the other major entitlement programs that are driving deficits and debt. In repeated votes, [...]