Archive for February, 2011
Doubting Sarah Palin’s Favorability Decline in The Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll
Sarah Palin’s favorability ratings are slipping! Her favorability ratings are slipping! That’s what you hear from The Des Moines Register today in their latest release of the Iowa Poll. Tom Beaumont reports a drop from 71% to 65% in the last 15 months. Three problems with this poll and story. The sample size – 189 [...]
Boehner and Cantor Indicate That the House Will Do Obama’s Job Defending DOMA
Both House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) indicated that the House of Representatives will pick up the ball that the Obama administration dropped on DOMA. Speaker Boehner in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody said: I’m really disappointed in the President and the Department of Justice [...]
Abraham Kuyper on Secularism
From Abraham Kuyper’s opening address to the First Social Congress in Amsterdam, November 9, 1891, The Problem of Poverty: The first article of any social program that will bring salvation, therefore, must remain: “I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth.” This article is today being erased. Men refuse any longer [...]
Newt Gingrich Joins Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition Presidential Forum Speaker Line-up
West Des Moines, IA – Despite the slow start to the 2012 presidential caucus season in the state, the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition seems to be cutting through the fog with their annual Spring Kickoff event. The event has already begun to garner national media interest for its role in the 2012 Iowa Caucuses [...]
Ron Paul Strategy to Win the Presidency in 2012 (Spoof)
Ron Paul, a libertarian who wants to be President, and his supporters, have discovered the pathway to the GOP nomination and the presidency. It is to overwhelm the system. If they remain faithful and read every blogpost and newstory about him, they will increase traffic to those websites. Those websites will in return do more [...]
Congressman Paul Ryan: “I Didn’t Like Obamacare and Cap and Trade, But I Didn’t Walk Out.”
Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) speaking at WMC’s Business Day in Madison forum on February 23, 2011 slams Wisconsin Senate Democrats who fled Madison to avoid a vote on collective bargaining. Link to this post!
Obama’s Picking and Choosing What Laws He’ll Defend and Ron Paul’s Defense of DOMA
Just some additional thoughts related to President Barack Obama’s decision to no longer have the U.S. Department of Justice defend the Defense of Marriage Act based on some of the comments that we’ve received here. The government through DOMA did not define marriage, it recognized what the definition of marriage already was. Did it endorse [...]
Union Protest in Colorado
A college Republican infiltrates union protest in Denver, CO. This union representative doesn’t seem to understand basic economic principles. A excellent demonstration of union civility. Link to this post!
Taxpayers Last
By State Senator Kent Sorenson The “Taxpayers First Act” (HF45) that passed the House of Representatives would’ve saved taxpayers $500 million dollars over the next three years. Unfortunately, when the liberal Democrat Senate leadership got done with it, it was gutted almost beyond recognition. Instead of saving you and me the $500 million we so [...]
Mitt Romney’s Romneycare: Death Panels, and Less Freedom For All.
Lots has been written about the effects and statistics surrounding Mitt Romney’s MassCare Health plan, also known as Romneycare. It has been compared with Obamacare. But very little has been devoted to actually looking at what the plan requires and what a bureaucracy it has created. Mitt Romney once claimed that he had never suggested that [...]
