Welcome back to the minority

Republicans and conservatives are in trouble. The Republican Party is headed back to minority status for the foreseeable future. The conservative insurgency that took over the party, then the nation and, ultimately, reshaped the world will have to regroup from its original position – a plurality faction in a minority party. No, not because of […]

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Mr. Tancredo, Tear Down That Wall

Arkanssouri points to a Tom Tancredo campaign commercial that begins “There are consequences to open borders beyond the 20 million aliens who’ve come to take our jobs.” Opening right up with a display of ignorance of basic economics is not all that endearing in a supposedly conservative Presidential candidate. But aside from that, what about […]

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Amnesty, Hypocrisy and Gasoline

I saw a young woman today in Joplin wearing a t-shirt that said in green letters “Sustainable…Joplin.” Sustainable Joplin is the local chapter of “the Institute of Ecolonomics,” a group that pushes things like hydrogen cars. She hopped in a Toyota 4×4 with the “V-8” badge on the grill. Al Gore writ small. Hillary Clinton […]

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We dedicate this memorial because we have an obligation…

From President Bush’s comments at the dedication of the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, DC: It’s important that we recall these lessons because the evil and hatred that inspired the death of tens of millions of people in the 20th century is still at work in the world. We saw its face on September […]

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A Pig in a Poke

The Tancredo branch of the GOP has taken to insisting that they will support comprehensive immigration reform after we give them what they want – The Wall and The Purge. Any student of history and politics can tell you what will happen if we follow that course. The Wall and Purge crowd will get what […]

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No More Czars, Again

So far, only the New York Post has said the word “czar”, but it was merely a matter of time before it came out in the new Czarist Amerika: A Port Authority security task force yesterday urged that the nation adopt mandatory security standards for cargo and that the president appoint a port security czar […]

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