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Obama needs an Alexander Haig moment.  Alas, I doubt we will hear Obama state “as of now, I am in control here, in the White House.”  The man who voted “present” 130 times in the Illinois State Senate is again taking a pass during tough times. Instead of taking a page from fellow Democrat Harry […]

John Bolton and Mike Huckabee recently predicted that the Benghazi affair and its Nixonian cover-up would bring down to the Obama administration.  It pains me to say that they are wrong.  If anything prematurely ends the Obama era it should be the IRS scandal. Obama leaving office before the end of his term is pure […]

The Boston Massacre of 1770 offers an unusual example of justice that authorities dealing with the Boston Marathon Bombings of 2013 should heed. Despite his personal beliefs, professional ambitions, and the patriotic fervor of Boston after British soldiers killed five civilian Americans, future President John Adams defended the redcoats in court.  The reason was particularly […]

Leave it to the courts to disregard the small bit of sanity that seeps through our political culture.  Or have they? For the record I oppose what is known as Plan B, the morning-after pill.  Very simply my objection is based on my ardent opposition to abortion.  I understand perfectly well the argument of the […]

An unassuming Congressman from New Mexico may have found a way to finally “drain the swamp” of Washington D.C. Republican Steve Pearce is not claiming to fulfill the promise Ronald Reagan made to drain the swamp of big government.  In fact, Pearce’s proposal may come closer to Nancy Pelosi’s pledge to drain the swamp of […]