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Even as the Obamacare Tax Collection law he voted for begins, U. S. Representative Patrick Murphy (D) is refusing to face his constituents at the May 15 Town Hall of the St. Lucie West, Florida Taxpayers organization while all of his opponents graciously will appear. “He’s not coming,” a young male voice said over a corded phone at approximately 9:30 a.m., Friday, Mary 21. “Who’s ‘he’?” I asked as the organizer of this very important Town Hall, rather stunned at the hubris of identifying this political novice as “He,” rather than by name, Patrick. “Congressman Murphy,” the young male voice...

Kathleen G. King, Pennsylvania’s recently elected Attorney General, has decided to not file charges against 5 individuals accused of taking bribes in a sting operation begun in 2011. Tyron B. Ali, a lobyist, confidential informant and criminal himself argeed in a plea deal to wear a wire as he offered money to members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. By the time the sting ended, 4 Philadelphia politicians and former Traffic Court Judge Thomasine Tynes had taken up to $7,000 each for the sale of their political services, for example, by “voting against a bill that would require voters to...

Democrat voters are generally reflexive in their politics. They often choose to remain ignorant of what their party is doing to them because “at least they’re not [the current conservative boogeymen]; and we don’t want to vote for them.” Remember when the mere mention of the words “Halliburton,” “Gingrich” and “Palin” got Democrat rank and file as well as big donors’ tail’s wagging? Apparently,“That was then, this is now,” because even Barack Obama is sizing up his party’s fund raising problems saying, “I guess we don’t think it’s sexy enough.” This stereotypical Obama quote sums up the distinct lack of...

The junior Senator from New Jersey Democrat Corey Booker has a lot of explaining to do provided of course, someone will ask him a few questions. Since the 1970’s a parade of crooked Democrats have been siphoning off millions of dollars from The Newark Watershed Conservation Development Corporation (NWCDC) the major supplier of water to Northern New Jersey. The NWCDC has been turned into a cash cow of the type the fictional Tony Soprano would have shaken down. A recently released New Jersey State Comptroller’s report has outlined the criminality attached to this operation just from the last several years...

When the UAW failed miserably in Chattanooga and was not able to unionize the Volkswagen plant, even with a staked deck, it started a chain reaction and the next domino has fallen. The news that the AFL-CIO has decided to keep its money and not even try to save three Southern Democrat Senators comes as no real shock. The powerful union reviewed the polls and the political climate in North Carolina, Louisiana and Arkansas and decided backing the Democrats in these states would be throwing good money after bad. The decision left Democrat Senators Mark Pryor in Arkansas, Mary Landrieu...

The election of Bill de Blasio as New York’s mayor was a dream comes true for America’s progressives. Not only has one of their own grabbed the top job in the country’s biggest city, but his Working Families Party has total (48/3) control of the City Council to support him. There is now no progressive program de Blasio cannot put into place. He is limited only by his own imagination. Sure those “meanies” in Albany can throw a few road blocks in front of him and briefly stall his plans, but in the end he’ll get his way. The far...

Thomas Sowell clearly doesn’t like Ted Cruz. As a comfortable member of the tiny “acceptable conservative” journalist corps and a Black man he has a unique and comfortable position. He will not be attacked by liberals because they don’t dare do so. He will not be attacked by conservatives because THEY don’t dare do so. Each side takes its position for different reasons but the net result is the same. Last Saturday a column by Sowell attacked Ted Cruz in the type of defeatist language that usually comes from sell-outs like John McCain, John Boehner or Paul Ryan. After an...

Democrat former Congressman and pal of Jesse Jackson, Mel Reynolds is the same old piece of dung he always was. Democrat politicians like Reynolds don’t change. They are loathsome creatures. We in the civilized non-Democrat world thought we were rid of Reynolds, but his recent arrest in Zimbabwe for over staying his visa failing to pay a $24,500 hotel bill and making porno movies proved us wrong. Those who are not familiar with this classic example of a Democrat politician are warned to hold their nose as they read further. Democrat Reynolds is a convicted child rapist. In 1992 when...

November will be here sooner than the Democrat and the Republican establishments would like to think. We must prepare for a battle to save America and the enemies of freedom know it. To focus ourselves and prepare we have to hold a number of their assaults on our freedoms up to the light and ask why they have been allowed to continue. Here are just a few questions we must ask and demand an answer to. Why are our children’s futures being drained away by elected officials of both parties? Why has it become acceptable to be forced to pay...

Bigfoot Living Among the Ruins of Detroit! DETROIT (Cryptozoology News) — A family claim they saw a strange ape-like creature Thursday afternoon coming out of the window of an abandoned house on the outskirts of the desolate city. C. Brown, his wife, and their two children said they were “driving around, looking to buy a new house”, when they allegedly witnessed the unidentified beast. “The economy has been devastating here man,” Brown explained. “One day, you are living in this beautiful city with over a million and a half working people, next day all you know is all is gone…crime...

Harry Reid’s Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (dscc.org) is in full panic mode as it is begging something, anything, just $3.00 from the little guys because “the GOP could ride a wave to the majority.” More strident cyberspace appeals are flooding loyal Democrat supporters pleading for as little as $2.00 and change which will “be triple matched for the next 36 hours.” Elizabeth Warren is upset. She says, “Friend, a full year out from my election, Karl Rove’s Super PAC ran two attack ads against me…dark and creepy…telling voters I was a Wall Street-loving Zombie.” She is painting a very dark...

Harry Reid and his Democrat Senate Campaign Committee (DSCC) are launching all out send me some money pleas to combat those old meanies, the Koch Brothers who “have already severely outspent the Democrats” in six battleground states that hold the key to a Senate takeover in November. Saying the consequences could be “ABSOLUTELY DIRE,” Reid and Senate Dems are warning that recent polls favor a Republican control shift because the math already is baked in. “That’s why it’s absolutely critical that 10,000 folks step up in the next 96 hours to respond. . .if we can’t fill the gap in...

Democrats hate the military and are always working to undermine America’s defense so we have no protection from their international friends. When they are in power Democrats always act in ways that favor America’s enemies and insult our friends. Hearing Democrats say they are embarrassed to be American is common place from newsrooms to the highest offices of our government. Democrats have urged surrender in every conflict we have been in since Viet Nam. Immediately after a terror attack...

Note to my Catholic Democrat brothers and sisters: In this world you may have either knowledge or repose; but you may not have both. Your Church and your religious freedoms are under an ongoing attack being carried out under the direct control of Barack Obama, a man many of your helped put in office. While you were taking care of yourselves and your families and trusting in the wrong people, your Democrat Party has turned on you and your Church. You must now choose which one to stand with. There may have been a time long ago when we could...

Virginia Democrat Jim Moran is a vile man. He is ending his political career with the current term and this is a good thing. Moran is an assailant; a wife beater; an influence peddler; a likely participant in a Democrat voter fraud scheme; and a putrid father. Moran is such an awful person that he is actually stands out among fellow Democrats who are a gaggle of loathsome creatures; a pretty tall order. Here are some of this low life’s antics. After a 1995 confrontation with a Republican Congressman Moran sneaked up behind the man and sucker punched him. In...

I met my neighbor Rus Walton in 1974 before a financial disaster moved us from our lovely country home near Sacramento. We also enjoyed some of Governor Ronald Reagan’s staff. Rus gave me a copy of his new book, “One Nation Under God.” Rus ran The Plymouth Rock Foundation for many years and was a noted Christian speaker and prolific writer. People of faith have understood the principle of subsidiarity for a long, long time. It just means taking personal responsibility. When needed, the hierarchy of assistance offered or given begins with the family; then the community; the state; the...

If you brought back either of the Roosevelts—Teddy or Franklin—from the grave, the most astonishing thing they would find is that the “malefactors of great wealth” have become the benefactors of today’s liberalism, and Democrats have become the party of the rich. In the economic crisis of the 1930s, the rich hated FDR. Most of today’s rich love Barack Obama—so much so that Washington D.C. area airports ran out of space to handle all of the private jets flying in the well-heeled for both of his inaugurals. Forget the “limousine liberals” of the 1960s and 1970s, sending their own kids...

The Ryan-Murray budget deal is a fake and a fraud that the Stupid Party thinks is on the level and the Democrats have constructed as a trap for them. It has only just been announced and it has already caused another split in the Republican Party which is just what the Democrats wanted to happen. This “split”was designed to happen. It was a very simple trap that is forcing the Republicans into another intramural war. The Democrats have once again played rope-a-dope with the hapless GOPe; and once again John Boehner, the Charlie Brown of politics, has fallen right into...

Is the ineptitude of ObamaCare authors and directors really a function of good old-fashioned government incompetence? Or is a widely ignorant American public being taken in by precisely what members of the radical left WANT to be brought about by the Affordable Care Act? Could the daily disasters–the suspended employer mandate, “honor system” reporting of income, previously unannounced taxes, doctors refusing to treat ObamaCare policy holders, the ludicrous Healthcare.gov website, the baldfaced lies about keeping your insurance and your doctors–could these extraordinary failures actually mean that the rollout of the ACA is proceeding exactly according to plan? “Obamacare is the...

In its heyday Cunard cruise lines used the tagline, “Getting there is half the fun.” It worked well because the “there” its ships were getting passengers to was a happy vacation in an attractive part of the world. Now that Obamacare’s website repairs have “fixed” 90% of its problems according to Barack Obama, we are to believe that getting to Obama’s promised land, “..is half the fun.” But believing this means believing there is actually a desirable “there” at the end of one’s Obamacare journey. Clearly a growing majority of Americans don’t believe this. Like all liberal programs, Obamacare relies...