How 2012 Might Have Been
Republican Presidential Primaries The Republican Primary season was already well underway. Before a single caucus or vote, though, we pretty much knew that Mitt Romney would win the nomination.
Republican Presidential Primaries The Republican Primary season was already well underway. Before a single caucus or vote, though, we pretty much knew that Mitt Romney would win the nomination.
Doctor Viktor Frankl was a neurologist and psychiatrist in Vienna, Austria. He founded the third branch of Viennese psychological therapies, logotherapy.
Answer this question on paper without looking up the answer: Q: Which kills more people: guns or diabetes?
Friedrich Hayek warned more than half a century ago that central planning doesn’t work.
I read today that the Christmas shopping season was off. The writer, or his sources, blamed Sandy: Hurricane Sandy and Sandy Hook.
Now that Boehner’s “Plan B” strategy has blown up like a poisoned dog, here’s what Boehner will do.
According to the FBI: Domestic terrorism is the unlawful use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual based and operating entirely within the United States or Puerto Rico without foreign direction committed against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives.
What could be worse than having no Christmas gift for a child to open?
[Originally posted on Redstate.com] English was my favorite subject in school, so much so that I can still recite from memory large passages of the books we read, like A Separate Peace:
For the past four years. conservatives have worried more about being right while liberals worried about winning.
The 3 million McCain voters who didn’t vote for Romney? They’re dead.
I’ve gotten a lot of emails and comments asking for more information on the special election process in Missouri’s 8th Congressional District.
I bet ten bucks on a sentimental favorite to win. Sure, he’s old, and reports say he didn’t train as hard as he might have.
In an open Republican primary in Missouri’s 8th Congressional District, a solid conservative would beat an establishment “my turn” Republican, hands down.
Encouraging Boehner to shut down the government is the surest way to end conservatism as a practical political alternative.
Sometimes a cause’s worst enemies are its best friends. In 1995, 56 percent of American described themselves as “pro-choice.
I wrote yesterday that if you need someone to blame, blame me. Don’t blame bogeymen.
If you need to blame someone for our election losses, blame me.
Colleges in the United States are systematically destroying free speech, free thought, and creative writing.
**UPDATE Union Declares Victory AsHostess Goes Out of Business. No more Ho Hos.
Note: This is a flight of fantasy. If anything in this post is later shown to conform reality, it’s pure coincidence.
The GOP didn’t really have a plan in place in case it lost.
We heard it repeatedly during the Iraq wars: air power alone cannot win.
If you think federal regulation is bad today, just wait. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Voter turnout was down in every state from 2008. In many states, turnout was lower than 2004.
Consider these numbers: * **9.8 million** * <del>**11.6 million **</del>**16.8 million** * **55%** * **61%** Between the 2008 and 2012 elections:
St. Louis’s KSDK.com is doing its fair share to suppress the Republican voter turnout.
Conservatives take great pride in working, and for good reason. Work gives shape to life.
Yes, I’m feeling a wave toward Romney. My gut tells me this year is a lot like 1980.
If you can’t find full-time work, blame Obamacare. One reason the Middle Class has shriveled and wages shrunk over the the past four years is underemployment.
Here’s What To Do Today And On Election Day Tuesday is the most important election of your life, but voting is never enough.
Barack Obama ridiculed George W. Bush for Katrina. As people starve and beg for water in Rockaways, Obama’s promises to create heaven on earth through government look foolish and born of ignorance.
You have a choice. You can drive that change, or you can be swallowed by it.
200,000 That’s the number of** small businesses lost during the Obama Administration**.
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Gallup released its early voting poll today, and it shows Mitt Romney winning 52% to 45%—right in line with their Likely Voter poll numbers.
Nate Silver publishes a daily number that represents Barack Obama’s chances of being re-elected.
The fog of war is lifting from Benghazi, and what lies beneath should shame Obama’s most ardent supporters.
The next time some liberal tells you the United States needs to act more like Europe, tell them, “no, we believe in science.
A lot of people want to know how to vote on the ballot measures and major offices in 2 weeks.
Some of the “cool” kids say they like socialism. Of course they have no emotional clue what socialism is.
Polls do influence elections. That’s why people like Nate Silver and some of the writers at Business Insider are doing somersaults over Gallup’s Daily Presidential Tracking numbers.
Robin Carnahan, the Democrat Missouri Secretary of State, writes ballot language like the editorial page editor of the Post-Dispatch.
CNN’s Candy Crowley talks politics during KMOX’s Total Information AM every Friday. KMOX Presents Crowley as a credible source of political information.
I met Raz Shaver in 2010. Even though he’s many years my junior, Raz has been an insightful, patient, and indispensible to mentor in grassroots activism.
A couple weeks ago, Joe Biden made the news by declaring that the middle class in America has been getting dumped on ever since he and Obama took their oaths of office.
Barack Obama’s performance was not nearly as bad as Romney’s performance was good.
Conservatives love cracking on government and its unintended consequences. How often does a government initiative give us backassward results?
I don’t get into town to visit my dad often enough. That’s my loss.
You get the feeling that Rex Sinquefield holds a grudge against his home state, and he’s using some of his fortune to punish us.
Ed Martin’s new TV commercial is excellent for many fundamental marketing reasons. Ed’s energy, commitment, and love of people shines through.
Arguably, the most important battles for economic liberty in the next four years will be between states and the government in Washington.
[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“180”] Barack Obama (Photo credit: jamesomalley)[/caption] The smartest man in the world can’t make a gaffe, surely.
A couple years ago, a lot of folks believed that victory in 2010 would be a cakewalk.
A genius is someone who can hold contrary concepts simultaneously in mind.
Barack Obama came to office promising to heal the planet (I didn’t know it was sick), lower the waters, and end war as we knew it “whilst waking on water squirting wine out his ass,” to borrow William S.
[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“463”] Buckley (right) and L. Brent Bozell Jr. promote their book McCarthy and His Enemies, 1954 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]
The Romney Campaign today reminded me of the McCain Campaign of 2008.
[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“300”] The Gadsden flag (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] We’re past Empty Chair Day.
As if reading from a script written by the Romney campaign, the Democrats on Wednesday managed to mangle their public image even further, this time by booing God and Israel.
For years voters have complained that politicians and parties say anything to get a vote.
When I read about Todd Akin’s unfortunate comments to Charles Jaco, my first thought was uncharitable.
Hurricane Isaac smiled on the Republicans in Tampa and delivered more misery to New Orleans and its surroundings.
You will irritate the the left. And you will like it.
The story Isaac is about tests of faith. God commanded Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, his only son, born after Abraham and Sarah had given up hope of conceiving.
[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“300”] Todd Akin: member of the United States House of Representatives.
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A few weeks ago, I blogged about loyalty to people and loyalty to principles.
If Mitt Romney applied game theory in choosing Paul Ryan, I have renewed respect for him.
America is suffocating under an amazing tax burden, but most Americans STILL underestimate how much their tax bill really is.
Even though Congress is winding down, there are dangerous bills on the desk.
A friend from Dallas just called me. He said he met two conservatives from Ballwin who’d love to be involved in movement conservatism .
Choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate was a great Romney move. Looking ahead, Romney sees movement conservatives working hard right up to the election—even if he or his advisors continues to say stupid things.
Why did murder skyrocket in Chicago as soon as Rahm Emanuel became mayor?
I was surprised to learn that Sarah Steelman conceded the GOP Senate race at 10:00.
Thanks, so much, to the candidates who took a moment to respond to my survey.
Long To what and whom do we owe loyalty, and how should we express it?
The horror in Aurora, Colorado, gave President Obama a little cover last Friday.
I’m interesting in a few things about candidates. If you are a candidate for the Missouri legislature or for statewide office, I invite you take this short questionnaire.
According to research from Missouri Education Watchdog, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) agreed to surrender Missouri’s education voice under Obama’s “Race to the Top” scheme.
Tax credits reward particular businesses or developers with tax dollars from the general population.
Missouri’s primary is August 7. Missouri’s Republicans now litter the airwaves and in-boxes with smears against their Republican opponents.
Ronald Reagan loved to tell jokes about the Soviet Union.If Obama’s re-elected, though, these same jokes could be turned on the United States.
Here’s a screen grab from RealClearPolitics.com’s presidential tracking poll: RCP aggregates dozens of polls to produce its RCP average.
If you believe that 92 percent of people need to have most aspect of their lives managed by experts, then a second Obama term will make you happy.
At the Pachyderm Club’s national convention last year, I overheard a Republican Missouri State Representative talking about HB 609.
Sometimes the folks at Business Insider get fairly simple ideas ass backwards. Take their Winners and Losers story on the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision.
July 4th became my favorite holiday in 1981, replacing Christmas. Maybe it was a sign of my maturity.
We throw around big scary words like “tyranny” too much. I’m guilty myself.
Yesterday, I gave you a reason to celebrate the Supreme Court’s decision. But I never said to let go of your anger or depression.
It won’t look like decay to many. John Roberts will be the toast of the political class for years to come.
In the Ronald Reagan movie Kings Row, Reagan plays Drake McHugh, whose legs are sawn off by a sadistic, class-conscious doctor.
I love some things about Business Insider. Mostly its great headlines. Unfortunately, sometimes its writers show an ignorance of basic economics in their rush to catapult Obama to a second term.
In a column intended to attract readers, not to promote hard economics, Rotman University economist Richard Florida declares that home ownership is terrible for the US Economy.
Pack clothes, flags, and signs for an Obamacare Tea Party at Forest Park on Art Hill this week.
I had to go to the doctor today. The reason’s not important. Here’s what is:
The world’s economy–including BRICs–is collapsing. The problem is debt, and the youth will set us free.
In 2008, we heard all about the youth movement for Obama. We heard that the enormous Millennial Generation, born between 1982 and 2001, would destroy the GOP and everything America once stood for–like jobs, family, faith, and hard work.
As Obama and his myrmidons continue to make asses of themselves by arguing that no one should ever put their own capital at risk, it seems timely to point out that Solyndra, and the White House’s many gambles on hypothetical energy companies, is not a fair comparison to Mitt Romney’s work at Bain & Co.
Looks like about $1.2 billion of JP Morgan’s $2 billion loss involved Henry Blodget’s 401k.
Analogies say more about the speaker than about the subject. Candy Crowley told KMOX Radio listeners on Friday that Tea Party groups resemble the Balkans without guns.
Cambridge, MA—Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren donned a pink headdress and performed, what she called, an “authentic Indian rain dance” during a press conference today.
[caption id=“attachment_12133” align=“alignnone” width=“359”] President Obama looks over the menu before a campaign backyard barbecue in Ohio.
Missouri House Speaker Steve Tilley and Senate Leader Kevin Engler never tire of implementing Obama’s totalitarian agenda.
Washington, DC–Reeling from the backlash over a campaign ad that paints President Barack Obama as Osama bin Laden’s sole assassin, the White House today announced open auditions for a new global terrorist mastermind.
The new fad among Democrats is to see how many illegal aliens they can pack into a voting booth.
What I find so funny about Claire McCaskill’s war on super pacs is that her husband is a super PAC.
There are many stories about Mitt Romney’s evil-doings when he ran Bain Capital, a $1 billion company famous for buying troubled companies and making money off them.
The only surprise here is that the NYT’s own ombudsman admits that the paper is Obama’s best friend:
John McCain knew that Obama’s minions orchestrated massive voter fraud in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
There are two kinds of people in America: those who grow up to become productive adults, and those who become bureaucrats.
What the hell’s going on at NYT? First, they do a piece on Andrew Breitbart.
The look on George “Stephie” Stephanopoulos’s face was priceless. He had to say it.
I blogged aboutthe battle of the Tea Party’s future going on around the Lake of the Ozarks recently.
Let me get this straight. Secret Service Agents and some military guys brought more than 20 – count ‘em, _twenty _– hookers to a hotel in Cartagena, Columbia.
When Obama decreed that Catholics shall support and provide chemical abortions,he wasn’t promoting women.
Jack Lew, Obama’s Chief of Staff, says Obamacare law gives the President the power make rules regarding your health.
Last night, someone asked me, “who’s the most influential person in your iPhone contacts?
Is the Tea Party dead? That’s the big question this week around the Lake of the Ozarks.
The After Party is Thursday, April 19, at 7 pm. The location is Crowne Plaza Hotel in Clayton.
The man who’s 2009 rant inspired the Tea Party movement shreds Obama’s “soak the rich” plan.
Everyone else is writing about the news that former Missouri Democrat Governor, Roger Wilson and local lawyer Ed Griesedieck Jr.
November 7, 2012—When the AP called Florida for Obama only twenty minutes after polls closed there (8:00 EDT), any hopes of a Republican presidential victory were dashed.
Of course you do. It’s at 7:00 at the Crowne Plaza in Clayton.
Sometimes you to just stop and enjoy the view.
First, my prediction: Is Obamacare a tax? (8-1 Against) Technically speaking, if Obamacare is a tax, it could be non-justiciable until implementation.
From Mark Steyn: Justice Ginsburg swung by Cairo last month to help out the lads from the Muslim Brotherhood building the new Egypt: “I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012,” she advised them.
We won’t know the result until late June, most likely. And the results of today’s vote could change by then.
The term “United States” is both plural (many states united) and singular (the United States).
When the Supreme Court releases its opinion on the ObamaCare case, America will change fundamentally.
by Bill Hennessy and Jim Durbin John Knowles’s classic novel, A Separate Peace, begins memorably:
When the Supreme Court rules on ObamaCare, it will define Barack Obama as either a winner or loser.
By now you’ve seen the sensational headlines: * People Are Saying That Obama's Healthcare Law Got Massacred At The Supreme Court Today* Read more: https://www.
Everyone (including me) is cracking on Donald Verrilli, Obama’s Solicitor General. He figuratively died on the biggest legal stage in the world today.
I’m often amazed at the weakness of arguments before the Supreme Court. Today, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, attempting to help out the Obama Administration’s fumbling solicitor-general, made the weakest argument I’ve ever heard.
The St. Louis Cardinals were the major league team farthest west and farthest south until the 1950s.
Covenant of Liberty is the best American history I’ve read in years.
Go vote, please. Please. Vote now. Don’t Put It Off!! Did you know that ObamaCare is my fault?
If you think theTea Party’s job was to strengthen the Republican Establishment, stop reading.
Rodger Cook fools no one into thinking he’s a member of the political class.
When you’re the Republican Establishment’s candidate, you have one simple assignment: don’t screw up.
I’m honored to return to The Kudlow Report tonight (Wednesday, March 14) at 6:00 pm Central (7 ET) with Larry Kudlow.
When I was on the USS John C. Calhoun, the XO and I were big Rush fans.
From the New York Times: President Obama, who came to office promising transparency and adherence to the rule of law, has become the first president to claim the legal authority to order an American citizen killed without judicial involvement, real oversight or public accountability.
The feminist attorney famous for making herself famous just couldn’t let the Sandra Fluke case go.
Jennifer Pahlka is a remarkable woman. She realized what many have realized: government often fails at its most basic tasks.
Romney=money, Santorum=passion, Gingrich=plan, Paul=principles. We need a blender.
This is a challenge. I want you to grab a pen and paper (or open your favorite note app).
Is the US economy about to collapse worse the Greece’s? Some, like Paul Krugman, say that it’s okay for governments to print unlimited money.
What made Rush Limbaugh so amazing for 24 years was his steadfast resolve.
A Georgetown law student turned the Democrat Party from an androgynous blob into a modern day Ivanhoe.
Business Insider has picked up a Big Journalism story that Andrew Breitbart died last night.
Looks different, doesn’t it? After hosting my own web sites forever, I’m trying to simplify my server admin life.
Yesterday, I blogged about freedom envy—the feeling Americans get when they look at countries where the people get freer every day.
The first entry in National Review’s “The Week” from sometime around 1990 listed ten or so former Soviet bloc countries that recently had shed the yoke of communist repression.
The 3rd Anniversary Tea Party rocked . . . because of the great patriot-activists who have decided it’s time to act and win.
Just because it’s after 10:00 am, doesn’t mean you can’t come to the 3rd Anniversary Tea Party.
The 3rd Anniversary Tea Party begins tonight at 6:30 at the Crowne Plaza in Clayton.
Yes, I’ve written about little else. The 3rd Anniversary Tea Party is something of an obsession with me.
Today begins Lent. Lent prepares us for the cycle of mortality and resurrection, perfected by Christ, without which life has no meaning.
There will be only one 3rd Anniversary Tea Party, and it will be this coming Friday and Saturday, February 24 and 25.
I see is all the time. Supporters of Establishment candidates complain that their opponents are establishment, too.
Marc, at Bad Catholic, rocks. In this post on Obama’s continuing jihad against Christianity, he answers a burning question: did human happiness exist before artificial contraception?
Did you know there is no federal holiday called Presidents Day?
Don’t bother blaming it on poll questions designed to lead respondents. Never mind that it’s a long way until the election.
Do you know the most persecuted religious group on earth? History speaks of the massive Roman persecution of Christians.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
Are you armed with tickets? If not, get them today. Here’s the details:
When Barack Obama declared that Catholics must either violate their consciences or face government persecution, he wasn’t going after just Catholics.
The latest Public Policy Poll shows Santorum surging—big time. **Santorum is most appealing to conservatives—from Evangelicals to Tea Partiers: **
The liberal press cannot issue a story about the Republican presidential race that does not refer to Mitt Romney’s need (and inability) to “relate to” conservatives.
Forty Days of Life is a peaceful, prayerful response the poverty of abortion.
Obama’s dictate that Catholic organizations must participate in contraception and abortion has nothing to do with healthcare or rights or contraception or anything of the sort.
There are some things you just don’t say in a cover letter—or on the campaign trail.
When the rules become so complicated and convoluted that well-meaning people unwittingly break the law, the legal system has lost its moral authority.
“Anybody will beat Obama.” I get some comments and see a lot of tweets about the inevitability that any Republican will win in November.
Ask a real partisan—someone with a Ron Paul or Ed Martin sticker on his car–why he supports that candidate.
At some point, each additional GOP Presidential debate becomes just a bigger pain in the .
While everyone was screaming about the rising cost of medical treatment, America’s leftist incubation chambers—colleges and universities—robbed us of our economic future.
Two weeks ago, weeks ago, how many Missouri statewide offices did you expect to flip?
Ed Martin Jr. of St. Louis has redirected his fire to the Attorney General race, and this is great news for everyone except Chris Koster.
Think about what’s at stake: * The Supreme Court is one liberal away from imposing a radical, unwritten constitution on the United States * The President has shredded the Constitution by seizing the power to declare when the Senate is or is not in session * The United States has fallen many notches in world prestige * We can no longer fight wars on two fronts * The White House and Democrats in the Senate block every attempt at increasing domestic energy production * Our debt is approaching Greece’s catastrophic levels * The economy, after nearly four years, is flat on its back * America is losing ground on every front * And Obama made it worse
I’m proud to know David Rose. Dr. Rose is chairman of UMSL’s economics department.
Truth is, not all companies, not all business ideas, can make it on their own.
Most Americans know more about forensic evidence in the Casey Anthony case than they do about the Constitution.
Okay, Santorum and Gingrich didn’t get a bump out of their debates over the weekend.
What’s the difference between a caucus and a primary? Who’s allowed to attend a caucus?
Sundays are useful touchstones for our goals. Last week, I told you about my maniacal focus for 2012.
It depends on how you score. I see three scoring scenarios: 1.
That’s with 88 percent of the counting complete. The bigger story: Romney’s underperforming his 2008 results in key counties.
Until the clock struck twelve on January 1, that is. That’s when 40,000 – count ‘em, forty thousand—new laws took effect in the United States.
I’m almost finished reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Apple co-founder and genius Steve Jobs.