‘Our Pundits’ Archives
Amnesty One and Two — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Call it coincidence if you will; but the Fox News website had an interesting combination of headline stories laid out one above the other. The first, Investigators Recommend Rangel Get Slap on Wrist , was close enough to, Lawmakers: Amnesty Plan in the Works? …close enough to the casual observer one might come to the conclusion [...]
The Gamesmenship of Restraining Orders
By Phyllis Schlafly One of the big problems with family courts is that judges issue restraining orders virtually for the asking, without any evidence of actual domestic violence or even threat of violence. The Illinois Bar Journal explained that women use these restraining orders as a tool for the mother to get child custody and to bar the [...]
Talk of Impeachment
By Alan Caruba The last time I recall the nation being this concerned over the state of the presidency was during the Lewinsky scandal and ensuing impeachment proceedings against President Clinton. Before that it was during the slow revelation of the Watergate scandal that finally forced Richard Nixon’s resignation. On Thursday, July [...]
Real America Did Not Sue Arizona
By Christopher G. Adamo Once again, the despicable conduct of the Obama Administration compels us to do a “reality check,” this time in regard to the lawsuit filed by Eric Holder’s Justice Department against the State of Arizona. Put aside, for the moment, the abject hypocrisy of his selective devotion to the law, wherein criminal [...]
Our Only Hope: Jan Brewer, Joe Arpaio and the 10th Amendment
By Bryan Fischer Here’s hoping that Jan Brewer and Arizona legislature ignore Judge Susan Bolton and start enforcing their new immigration law today as scheduled. They have every constitutional, legal and moral right to do so. Bolton’s ruling tramples the Constitution, federal law, and the inalienable right of Arizonans to act in [...]
Statists Distrust Everyone — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, There’s an AP article by Rodrique Ngowi about competitive lock picking in the Houston Chronicle that caught my eye, one of those less than front page items off to the side intended to make you look at another advertisement. Go read the linked article; it’s enlightening and fun. Imagine for a moment what kind of hobbies [...]
Depriving Men of Constitutional Rights
by Phyllis Schlafly Family courts routinely deprive men of their fundamental right to parent their own children by charging them with a wide variety of trivial offenses. Family courts generally uphold feminist demands to kick a man out of his own home, and take control of their children and his money, based on a woman's unsubstantiated [...]
Will Green Policies Bankrupt America?
By Phyllis Schlafly You may have heard that environmental policies are camouflage for raising taxes and seizing political power. Christopher Horner presents the research to prove this in his new book called Power Grab: How Obama’s Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America. Horner provides a relentless series of facts that [...]
Dissing the Media
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway Anybody who accused members of the media of being little short of dedicated advocates of the liberal propaganda machine and adjuncts of the left wing of the Democratic party were routinely dismissed as right-wing nuts. Critics who dared to suggest that a large number of [...]
Who can be a member of FILOA? — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, To be considered for membership in Fiercely Independent Locksmiths of America (FILOA) you have to be at least 5’ 10” tall and weigh no more than 250 lbs…; no that won’t work, gotta’ come up with some realistic membership rules. I read a short article by Steve Farrell over at The Moral Liberal on Fundamental Rights of [...]
Major Newspapers Urge an End to Ethanol Subsidy
By Alan Caruba On Friday, July 23, the Chicago Tribune published an editorial titled “Enough Ethanol” and on Saturday, July 24, The Washington Post editorial said, “It’s time to end the excessive subsidies for corn ethanol.” On Monday, July 26, The Wall Street Journal joined the chorus. “The best refutation of the theory of [...]
Hello, I Am A Racist, Pleased to Meet You
By Selwyn Duke There is such a thing as a conditioned response. Here’s an example: Leftists call conservatives “racists.” Conservatives cower and stutter some defense. Leftists call conservatives “racists” some more. Conservatives cower some more. Question: How do you think you break this pattern? We’ve seen this again with [...]
Incumbents: Meet Horatio Bunce
By Henry Lamb To listen click here. Sounding more like a campaigning candidate than a proud President, Obama said that voters will have to choose whether to go backward to the failed policies of the past, or to go forward to the future with him. Wait a minute: where’s the choice? The failed policies of the past are precisely the same policies [...]
The Union of Concerned Propagandists
By Alan Caruba On July 11, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) announced that it had launched “a national advertising campaign as part of a broader effort to showcase the dedication and personal histories of scientists studying climate change.” I know quite a few climatologists and meteorologists and the ones I know have been [...]
Why We Need Spies
By Alan Caruba In West Point and military academies around the world, a book written two and a half thousand years ago is studied. It is “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu and it deftly spells out the difference between victory and defeat. “The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own [...]
America’s Decline Forty-One Years After Apollo 11
By Christopher G. Adamo This week marks the forty-first anniversary of one of America’s crowning achievements, the first manned landing on the moon. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, riding on the shoulders of thousands of engineers, technicians, and manufacturers, touched down on the Sea of Tranquility at 4:53 [...]
Fool Me Once, But No More
By Alan Caruba My commentary on the lies about bisphenol A (BPA) that have led to several states banning it without a shred of scientific evidence generated a lot of feedback; enough to revisit the topic because it symbolizes the way Americans and others around the world are under assault from the environmental and consumer groups that [...]
Apparatchiks and News Media — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Rush Linbaugh, on his radio talk show yesterday, used a term which defined major news sources like CNN better than most, Apparatchiks . It shouldn’t surprise anyone to find Apparatchiks’ meaning linked to the former Soviet Union and other Communist states as our major market media have been pushing their leftist agenda for [...]
November is a Long Way Off
By Phil Brennan It is the common wisdom that Republicans will score a significant victory in the coming Congressional elections and it has them salivating over the prospect of taking over control of the House and perhaps even the Senate. Unfortunately, this may well turn out to be a case of counting your chickens before they hatch. There's [...]
Obama Is Stripping National Defense
By Alan Caruba There is no single duty that a President has as Commander-in-Chief that is more important than ensuring the nation’s engines of defense remain at a level that will deter and defend against any attack upon America or its allies. How is that going under the Obama Administration? As this is being written, the U.S. Air [...]
The New Financial Overhaul Bill — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, It’s Wednesday and Obama is supposed to sign the new financial overhaul bill passed by the Democrats , a bill filled with new regulations. The content of the bill is not widely known; but as with other pieces of legislation, we’ll have to wait until it’s signed into law to find out the particulars. “Large, failing [...]
Trained Somali Terrorists Released in the U.S.!
By Bryan Fischer Just when you thought our government couldn’t be any less serious about fighting the threat of Islamic fundamentalism, word comes that five Minnesotan Somalis, all of whom went to Somalia to engage in jihad and have since returned to the U.S., have been released into society by a federal judge. Two of the five now loose in [...]
China Taking U.S. High-Tech Research
By Phyllis Schlafly For years, many of Communist China's best and brightest engineers and students came to the United States to take high-tech jobs away from Americans. That's why, when I lecture on college campuses, a lot of guys tell me they are switching to accounting from engineering because there aren't many engineering jobs available to [...]
You Must Love the E.P.A. — Or Else!
By Alan Caruba The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency comes as close to George Orwell’s version of Big Brother as any element of the federal government. It operates on a totally irrational basis, ignoring anything that even passes for real science. Through its regulatory power it imposes insane mandates that drive up the cost of [...]
Kagan Must Answer About D.O.M.A. — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly If Elena Kagan is confirmed for the Supreme Court, it will not matter that Martha Coakley failed to win her bid to fill out Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. Kagan's 30-plus years as one of nine votes on the Supreme Court is far more important than Scott Brown's three years as one of 100 votes in the Senate. A litigation [...]
Public Relations and the World — Caruba
By Alan Caruba PR Week publishes monthly editions in addition to its other news services and the July issue is devoted to “The most powerful people in PR.” All industries have their major players, so there is nothing surprising that public relations would also have its heavy hitters, but there are some interesting insights to be [...]
Immigration, Reconsidered — Duke
By Selwyn Duke While the Obama administration has chosen the southern side in the Mexican-Arizonan border war, most Americans stand with their countrymen. They are troubled by the strain illegals place on services, the drugs and thugs moving north and blue-collar job prospects moving south. Then there is another factor: the political and [...]
Obama And Holder Weaponize American “Justice” — Adamo
By Christopher G. Adamo In the past few weeks, America’s legal system has been subjected to an avalanche of outrages from the White House and Department of Justice. But while each individual event, if considered apart from the others, would be sufficient to warrant investigations of corruption and gross ethical lapses, when examined in its [...]
Useless Auto Theft Statistics — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, This past week the Houston Police Department released a list showing the most popular cars stolen during the previous month. I may have seen the news blurb on KPRC; but it was printed on the Montgomery County Police Reporter’s website . The information provided is pretty much useless; data regarding year models stolen should [...]
Two Biographies — Phil Brennan
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway General McChrystal Biography Commander, International Security Assistance Force/ Commander, United States Forces Afghanistan United States Army SOURCE OF COMMISSIONED SERVICE: USMA EDUCATIONAL DEGREES United States Military Academy - BS - No Major United States [...]
