Category: Politics

This Labor Day weekend, liberal union leaders throughout the country will likely be askings, “What is that conservatives have against unions?” The popular culture preaches their virtues, yet conservatives have stood firm in opposing union excesses, and clash constantly with …

Sunday morning religion wasn’t limited to churches this past week. NBC’s David Gregory spent the last third of his interview with GOP Presidential Candidate Michele Bachmann asking about her personal views on such issues …

Editorial Note: It is rare that my interest in politics and my fiction writing interest intersect. However, the current political debate provided inspiration for this satire about a family intervention with a beloved Uncle with a serious problem.

“So, what …

In light of the debt ceiling debate, many are warning that a failure to raise the debt ceiling which leads defaults or to a partial government shutdown would be a political catastrophe for Republicans and call to mind the . …

Let us be clear here on the debt ceiling. President Obama’s call for Republicans to raise taxes is a political and ideological maneuver.

The reason Obama is calling for tax increases is not because it is strictly mathematically necessary to raise …

From the LA Times:
The 51st state should be named South California, says Jeff Stone, a Republican on the the Riverside County Board of Supervisors. But the proposed 13 southern California counties that would split off from the Golden State would …

The New York Daily News shares some candid photos of disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner and his wife and also include the “observerers” (read: blood-sucking gossip who can’t mind their own business.) statement on how the couple were interacting.

Memo to the …

From People for the American Way:
Later today, the Senate will hold a vote to end the filibuster against Goodwin Liu, President Obama’s nominee to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2005, when a handful of President Bush’s nominees …

Newsbusters performs a valuable service by keeping track of media bias and serious errors, but sometimes their alerts get just a little bit silly:
During his umpteenth day in a row bashing Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews …

The conversation about the debt ceiling has taken an entirely different turn.

At the start of the year, most of us thought, “The Debt Ceiling will have to be raised or the country will go into default.”

Frosh Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa) …