Showing posts with label conservative. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conservative. Show all posts

John Stossel: Libertarians Versus Conservatives

Defense only versus policing the world.      Both libertarians and conservatives want to keep America safe. We differ on how best to do that. Most libertarians believe our attempts to create or support democracy around the world have made us new enemies, and done harm as well as good. We want less military spending. Some       ... MORE

Tea Party Upstart Sends House Majority Leader Packing

The winds of change begin to blow.   The Tea Party should plaster photos of Mark Twain all over their homes. "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated," Twain said after two erroneous obituaries. Far more death notices were filed in the past year about the Tea Party — before Tuesday night brought one of the more stunning election     ... MORE

'Beaten Into Submission' by Political Correctness

by Tyler O'Neil.     The Left's focus on "political correctness" prevents Americans from speaking common sense about political issues, Dr. Ben Carson, former pediatric neurosurgery director at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center who shot to fame last year when he gave a politically incorrect speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, declared In a   ... MORE

To End IRS Abuses Of Free Speech, End The IRS

by J.D. Tuccille.        To read the headlines, you'd think the biggest controversy involving the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is over the spat between Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) in the course of an aborted hearing into the IRS's targeting of primarily conservative political organizations. "We're better than that    ... MORE

Max Borders: Rise Of The Libertarians

Why Slate, Salon and the progressive media are afraid.     A lot of people are messing with libertarianism. We get it. If you see an alternative worldview gaining currency as your own is starting to lose out: attack, attack, attack. Strategically, it’s probably smart. When Jane Mayer wrote that sloppy hit piece for The New Yorker against the     ... MORE

You're Wrong, Mr. Obama, The IRS IS Corrupt!

by Jay Sekulow.     In the aftermath of an IRS targeting scandal that may have influenced the 2012 election, in the midst of criminal and congressional investigations, while civil litigation is pending in federal court, before a single deposition is taken and while the IRS clings to tens of thousands of documents, the president of the United       ... MORE

Edward Cline: Payback For Dinesh D'Souza

Censorship by example.      In the proud tradition of Stalin. Dinesh D’Souza, the prominent conservative writer, has been arrested and indicted on trumped-up Federal Election Law charges. Why? Just as Leona Helmsley was charged and tried for tax evasion, and Wall Street maverick Michael Milken was charged and indicted for “racketeering,”      ... MORE

Hate Speech: A Pretense For The New Inquisition

by Craig Parshall.        An effective tool to suppress free thought. Recently, 12 members of the House of Representatives signed on to H.R. 3878, a bill that would launch an investigation into any "role" that might be played by radio, television, and the Internet to supposedly "encourage" the commission of hate crimes. I have been       ... MORE

L. Brent Bozell: The Old Media And The New Sheriffs

Courage came to visit the GOP.          Once again, we've reached a government shutdown over irresponsible government spending. Once more, the media are proclaiming the world is coming to an end and blaming conservative Republicans for everything. They are working hand in glove with the Never Enough Government lobby that       ... MORE

Steve Chapman: Real Meaning Of The Redskin Debate

Should Congress care about the name of a sports team.      As a general rule, the names of professional sports teams, and their connotations, are of little concern. No one cares that the Chicago White Sox don't wear white socks, or that Utah, where the NBA's Jazz are based, is the last place you'd think of when you think of jazz.        ... MORE

Agent Admits Tea Party Groups Still In IRS Crosshairs

by Paul Bedard.       In a remarkable admission that is likely to rock the Internal Revenue Service again, testimony released Thursday by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp reveals that an agent involved in reviewing tax exempt applications from conservative groups told a committee investigator that the agency is still targeting     ... MORE

Freedom Does Not Equal Polygamy And Heroin

by Shikha Dalmia.       Cultural conservatives can’t be too happy about the country’s growing tolerance for gay marriage and legal marijuana, both of which a slim majority now supports. This erosion of traditional moral codes, they fear, will put America on the highway to Gomorrah. But removing government from the business of      ... MORE

David Harsanyi: Liberals Vs. Imaginary Monsters

A noble fight against evil?   New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently informed us that a national movement is afoot "to punish the unemployed." Remarkably, he went on to write, conservatives think the world is far too easy on those who can't find work, so they're on a mission to make it worse. The right, you see, is not just perpetuating    ... MORE

Repubs Leaving Party Are Tired Of "Two Evils" Argument

Both parties relentless pimp big government.    A new study by the Frontier Lab, a conservative market research group, found that Republican voters who leave the party do so because they are are tired of being told to vote Republican as the "lesser of two evils." The study, "Switching Behavior: Modeling disaffiliation from the Republican   ... MORE