When the Obama administration announced its policy of mandating employer-sponsored health plans to provide contraception at no charge a big kerfuffle ensued about how this was an attack on religious liberty as the policy ensnared the Catholic Church and other religious institutions that have a moral objection to birth control. I warned then that [...]

Yes, that's Chuck Norris.
Newt's CPAC speech:
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It could happen. We should be making people aware of opposition in China every day.

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Doesn't mean we have to take the field with the same team.
There was substantial controversy in the conservative blogosphere about Clint Eastwood's ad for Chrysler in which the actor/director claims it's halftime in America. Many feel that it's a not so subliminal endorsement of the Obama administration. Critics of the ad point to the half-time [...]

The Obama administration's latest overreach regarding health care has been the cause of a lot wrenching of hair and gnashing of teeth. At the root of the kerfuffle is the announcement by the administration's Health and Human Services department that employer-sponsored health plans will have to provide birth control with no co-pay. The outrage has [...]

If you'd like to see Marco Rubio be the GOP nominee that emerges from a brokered convention vote for him in this poll.

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Every time I see Mitt Romney's face one word keeps coming to mind, that word is "postalita". For those of our non-Cuban readers, postalita is a slang term that basically means "pretty boy, showoff." I actually googled the word and found this item near the top of the results:
Meek calls Crist a"postalita"
"He's [Charlie Crist] [...]

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Wanted: President. Qualifications: Good businessman, good family man, articulate, presents well. No other exp necessary. Liars accepted.
Yeap, that's about right.

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I had a teacher in high school named Pat Collins. He taught (teaches) an 11th grade Government class. At that time, he said something that has remained with me for the 25 years since. He explained that while political parties are ideological in nature that one should not conflate party with ideology. They are [...]

A very enlightening piece about the nature of private equity firms like Mitt Romney's Bain Capital was published by the New Yorker. It explains the perverse incentives created by the government:
Some highlights:
The real reason that we should be concerned about private equity’s expanding power lies in the way these firms have become increasingly adept [...]

Remember an eternity ago when Mitt Romney won the Iowa caucus by 8 votes. Well the hayseeds up there are still counting the votes and they are saying that counting the votes that haven't been lost, Santorum actually won.
The irony is that this actually helps Mitt Romney. Why? Because Rick [...]

Much ado has been made about attacks on Mitt Romney regarding his time as CEO of Bain Capital. I'm already on the record as stating that an attack on Bain Capital is not an attack on capitalism itself and that being pro capitalism is not the same as being pro business. Most businesses [...]

Today the opposition research book about Mitt Romney which was assembled for John McCain's campaign was posted on the internet. It's 200 pages that closely examines Romney's public and private life. I just started going through it and found this interesting anecdote:
Romney praised 2005 plan by Citgo Petroleum Corp. – ultimately controlled by [...]

It's a fairly obvious point that Mitt Romney is a flip-flopper. It's hard to think of a single major issue that he hasn't been on both sides of. Most people who are intent on beating Barack Obama in November look at this trait fairly superficially, as a character weakness. But they balance [...]

Because having a self-censored bureau that does no real reporting on what's happening on the ground in Cuba is not enough.

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The GOP primary race has gotten very nasty, and most of the nastiness involves Newt Gingrich. But how did we get here? Let's take a short stroll down recent memory lane.
By late November Newt Gingrich was surging in the polls. He had considerable leads over Mitt Romney nationally as well as in Iowa, [...]

Was just wondering about the pros and cons of Mitt Romney as the GOP nominee. Here are the cons as I see them:
1. He's never been a winner. He's won one election in his life and that was with a plurality, not a majority. If he had run for reelection as governor [...]

In response to an overwhelming wave of attacks from Mitt Romney which cost him leads in Iowa, South Carolina and Florida Newt Gingrich has decided to hit back. And it's the way that he's hitting back that has a the same conservative pundits that have consistently attacking Newt in a tizzy. You see, [...]

If it had not been for the fact that he led Britain to victory in the second world war we would have scant memory of [Churchill]
That from a BBC journalist claiming that Winston Churchill is one of the top overrated figures in history.
Jonas Salk? A middling scientist except for that whole Polio vaccine thing.

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Ever since I came out in support of Newt Gingrich on October 13th I've been debating my Republican friends about conservatism and who in the field is really conservative.  There's been a meme propagating on the internet that Newt is not conservative.  Some folks have rallied around Rick Santorum as the conservative Anti-Romney but the [...]