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There is much speculation about whether or not Sarah Palin will enter the 2012 GOP presidential race. Those who admire and respect her believe she wields a tremendous amount of power with regard to the choice of the candidate who will eventually end up facing Barack Obama in what can only be the most important election of our lifetime. But that candidate should not be Palin. And the reason is blatantly obvious. She can't win. It has nothing to do with any lack of political gravitas. Despite how her critics and detractors have attempted to portray her, Palin is intelligent,...

There has been much buzz about the possibility that Texas Governor Rick Perry will throw his hat into the GOP presidential ring. Many conservatives and Tea Party activists see him as a very attractive and viable candidate, one who would liven up a field that seems devoid of exciting prospects. But before Republicans start salivating too heavily, it is important to examine Perry closely. His conservative bonafides leave much to be desired. Let's examine his record. Prior to 1989, Rick Perry was a Democrat, who supported Al Gore for president. Perry was Gore's campaign manager in the state of Texas...

On his program Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked his guest, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann if she was a flake. Bachmann seemed perturbed by the question, and rightly so, and then proceeded to answer the question with coherence, grace and dignity. She responded by saying "well, I think that would be insulting, to say something like that, because I'm a serious person". Bachmann pointed out that she has been married 33 years, is a lawyer, has a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law, worked in the U.S. federal tax court, has five children, raised 23 foster children and opened...

A brand new Newsweek/Daily Beast poll finds that Americans are angry. And their anger is directed at just about everything. Americans are angry at Barack Obama, high gas prices, unemployment, congressional Republicans, and even God. And some of that anger is justified. New figures released last week show unemployment is at 9.1 percent. Employers added only 54,000 jobs in May, the fewest jobs in eight months, down from 232,000 in April. This is an abysmal figure. And what does Obama have to say about it? He called the jobless report a "bump in the road". This from an administration that...

With the announcement by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee that he will not be seeking the nomination for president of the United States on the Republican ticket, the presumption is that the frontrunner is now former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. But Romney has some very serious baggage in mounting a successful campaign against incumbent Barack Hussein Obama. He implemented a health care plan in Massachusetts which he said at the time would be the model upon which a national plan could be based. And the architects of ObamaCare have said that indeed, their bill was modeled in part after RomneyCare....

In the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al-qaeda, and the mastermind of the attacks of September 11, 2001 which killed almost 3000 of our fellow American citizens, much has been discussed about where the real credit for his elimination should be placed. The kudos should be divided equally among three parties. The strategic credit clearly goes to George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the Bush administration for the policies that were put in place subsequent to the 911 attacks, which enabled us to pursue and ultimately kill bin Laden. Enhanced interrogation techniques, including the...

The Oxford American Dictionary defines the word uppity as "self-important: arrogant." It is taking liberties or assuming airs beyond one's station; presumptuous. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, a conservative Republican from Georgia, let slip what critics had been saying was the subtext of many of the attacks on Barack Obama: He's "uppity." The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper, wrote that Westmoreland was discussing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's acceptance speech outside the House chamber when he veered into his thoughts on Michelle and Barack Obama. "Just from what little I've seen of her and Mister Obama, Senator Obama,...

There is a new raunchy game for the Nintendo Wii that has parents up in arms, claiming it promotes orgies and lesbian sex to children as young as 12. The promotional video for the game, called We Dare, features two couples following on-screen instructions from the game console, engaging in such acts as stripping, lesbian foreplay and spanking. One version of the trailer ends with the couples swapping partners and going off to have sex. The game is intended to be marketed to adults, so a spokesperson for the French maker Ubisoft said, but it has received a rating of...

Are Americans being deliberately poisoned by the United States Government? As far-fetched as that may sound, evidence is clearly mounting that would indicate that there is an insidious plot underway that threatens the health of every man, woman and child living in America. In two stories that have floated under the radar for the last couple of years, Congress and health authorities have been working together to pass laws that would sicken the populace and perhaps endanger their very lives. First, there was the Energy Independence and Security Act, passed by Congress in 2007, a provision of which made it...

Revelations that the Department of Homeland Security is instituting a program by which citizens will be asked to rat one another out has sent reverberations throughout the land. Has 1984 finally come to America? First, it was the invasive body scans and pat-downs at U.S. airports. These sexual assaults on the American people may soon be extended to other forms of mass transportation. And in at least one major U.S. city, pat- downs are already being conducted by police on the streets targeting people who act suspicious, by doing things such as putting their hands in their coat pocket. How...

The Obama administration's stepped up efforts at commercial airports across the country to prevent terrorists from getting on a plane have resulted in a debacle that has the American traveling public revolting. And rightly so. We have all heard the horror stories of 3-year-old children, 80-year-old grandmothers and people with prosthetic devices being subjected to humiliating body scans and pat-downs, in many situations leaving innocent passengers traumatized. In one recent incident, a bladder cancer survivor who now wears a urostomy bag was subjected to a pat-down which left him crying and covered in his own urine. In another case, a...

The victory that the Republican Party achieved on November 2nd must be tempered with the realization that it was not a mandate, but rather a term of probation, with an electronic tether around its ankle. Voters who were repudiating the Obama agenda simply gave the GOP an opportunity, perhaps one last chance, to turn the country back in the proper direction. Fiscal responsibility, keeping the Bush tax cuts in place for all income levels, and the repeal of Obamacare are front and center on the minds of most Americans. They want things done, and they expect this freshman class of...

Frank Rizzo, the two term mayor of Philadelphia, once said that "a conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before". Juan Williams got mugged by his own kind this past week. Williams, a longtime correspondent and news analyst for National Public Radio, was unceremoniously fired by NPR subsequent to an appearance on The O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel, in which he revealed that he sometimes gets nervous when he sees Muslims getting on an airplane dressed in full Muslim garb in the wake of the attacks of 9/11. The network terminated him, they say, because he...

Bill O'Reilly, in an appearance on ABC's The View last week to promote his latest book, said that Barack Obama has disconnected himself from most Americans with his views on many of the issues facing the country. He noted in particular that Obama's stance on the proposed mosque near Ground Zero, was an affront to Americans, 70 percent of whom do not want to see an Islamic place of worship built near the site of the most devastating attack ever perpetrated on this nation. O'Reilly said this was due to the fact that the attacks were carried out by Muslims....

With less than one month left before the November midterm elections, it is incumbent upon conservatives to remember that nothing is certain. There has been a lot of talk in recent weeks of an overwhelming victory for Republicans. The House is certain to be taken back, so it is said, and there are even whispers that the Senate may also be in play. Barack Obama in recent days has been on the campaign trail, trying to rekindle the magic that helped propel him to victory in 2008, as he stumps for desperate Democrats who may be on the verge of...

In the wake of Christine O'Donnell's upset victory in the Delaware senatorial primary, establishment Republicans have been slow to embrace this Tea Party favorite endorsed by Sarah Palin and Senator Jim DeMint. Karl Rove, in an appearance on Sean Hannity's Fox News television program, seemed beside himself that nine term Republican representative Mike Castle was trounced by O'Donnell. Rove attributed the defeat to Castle's voting record, while disparaging O'Donnell as inexperienced and having a checkered past. Chris Coons, the Democrat challenger and avowed Marxist (see article here) , had been deemed more vulnerable to an election defeat by Castle, and...

Nine years after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, a new Gallup poll has been released which portends a very dangerous set of circumstances as we continue to fight the war on terror. According to the results of the poll, only 1% see terrorism as the top problem facing the United States. This is down from 46% just after the attacks. What does this say about us as a country? A number of different factors could have contributed to the results of this poll. Right now, the country is in a deep recession, despite the Obama regime telling us...

Barack Obama and his minions are poised to announce a four-fold Stimulus 2 package they say will add to the already successful 'summer of recovery'. Step one is a $50 billion investment in long-term infrastructure projects that will create jobs and refill the exhausted highway trust fund. A statement from the White House press office reads "the plan builds upon the infrastructure investments the president has already made through the Recovery Act, includes principles the president put forth during the campaign and emphasizes American competitiveness and innovation". The problem with this idea is that once again, this is an attempt...

If there was ever any doubt that we, the American people, are on the verge of reclaiming our nation, that doubt was put to rest at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial yesterday, when hundreds of thousands of patriots stood for restoring honor to our land. Glenn Beck could have used the bully pulpit to take his captive audience on a journey through the follies of the Barack Obama administration and the far left who have attempted to hijack this country from its citizens. He could have railed against nationalized health care, lack of border security and immigration enforcement, wealth...

There has been a firestorm of controversy over the course of the last several days regarding Barack Obama's religious affiliations. This comes in the wake of Obama's endorsement of the mosque scheduled to be built in the shadow of Ground Zero, and a newly released Pew Research Center poll indicating that almost 1 in 5 Americans believe Obama is a Muslim. In every news account of the Pew survey, it is stated that the results show that people "incorrectly" or "wrongly" believe Obama is a Muslim. But these accounts fail to point out facts which indicate that Obama has an...