Barack Obama – April 10, 2012: “I’m a firm believer that whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, that you’re a patriot, you care about this country, you love this country,” Obama said at an intimate fundraiser in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. “And so I’m not somebody who, when we’re in a political contest, suggests …
John Derbyshire and his critics
We’re generally opposed to the idea that a person should lose his livelihood because he says or writes something that other people find offensive, whether the offender is on the right or the left. So we don’t join the growing calls in the blogosphere for John Derbyshire to be fired by National Review for opinions …
Obama HHS seeks to expand anti-religious-liberty mandate
Looks like the Obama Administration has responded to objections to it’s anti-religious liberty HHS mandate by expanding its reach: In a move that is likely to reignite the ire of religious leaders, late Friday afternoon the Obama administration announced a proposal that would require universities, including religious universities, to provide contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs …
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Democrats pushing social issues, not Republicans
The Democrats often assert that Republicans keep bringing up divisive social issues, ignoring the economy and jobs. And of course the establishment liberal media (the “DeMSM”) help their party to spread this false narrative. Senator Charles Schumer was on ABC News This Week yesterday: …Democrats are focused like a laser on jobs, the economy, and …
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Hugh Hewitt: Nothing shocks when anything goes
Here is an excellent column from Hugh Hewitt at The Washington Examiner on standards of public discourse. We especially liked this part: There is one standard for all commentary, and it ought to apply to Palin and Ms. Fluke, to President Obama and President Bush, to Justice Thomas and to Justice Kagan. So credit nothing …
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Axelrod opposes Obama energy policy on This Week
Obama adviser David Axelrod, this morning on ABC News This Week: Well, look, we always want lower gas prices, because that’s good for our economy. Obama’s Energy Secretary Steven Chu, in 2008: “Somehow, we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” Cadidate Obama, when asked about …
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Obama HHS mandate: It’s not an issue about contraception
Congressman Paul Ryan summarized the fight over the HHS contraception mandate really well on Meet the DeMSM yesterday. Here’s the essence of the issue (via NRO), in one concise paragraph: What we’re getting from the White House on this conscience issue, it’s not an issue about contraception, it’s an issue that reveals a political philosophy …
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The Church of Obama
Another great read from Mark Steyn today at National Review Online: The bigger the Big Government, the smaller everything else: First, other pillars of civil society are crowded out of the public space; then, the individual gets crowded out, even in his most private, tooth-level space. President Obama, Commissar Sebelius, and many others believe in …
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Obama: Birth control policy meets everyone’s needs
Via the Boston Globe, President Obama claims to have developed a compromise on the new HHS contraceptive regulations which conflict with religious liberty. Capping weeks of growing controversy, Obama announced he was backing off a newly announced requirement for religious employers to provide free birth control coverage even if it runs counter to their religious …
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President Obama versus religious liberty
A very strong statement on religious liberty today from Mitt Romney in the Washington Examiner: President Obama versus religious liberty The Obama administration is at it again. They are now using Obamacare to impose a secular vision on Americans who believe that they should not have their religious freedom taken away. …. My own view …
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Juan Williams turns into Al Sharpton
Though he’s on the left, so we disagree with Juan Williams on most issues, he’s always seemed like an honest and decent man. So it was pretty shocking to see this blatant play of the race card, full of Al Sharpton style demagoguery. One part stood out as particularly ugly. Williams, reviewing his debate question …
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Cain on Romney and religion
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Herman Cain on the latest media-generated controversy over Mitt Romney’s religious views (via NRO): Herman Cain refused to wade into the controversy over whether it is accurate to call Mitt Romney a Christian or not. “I’m not running for theologian in chief,” he said on CNN’s State of the Union this morning. “I’m a lifelong …
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