The current banking crisis was caused by the incredible number of home owners who defaulted on their mortgages in the past couple of years. Why did so many people fail to pay their mortgage? That’s easy — they couldn’t afford to make the payments. Why not? Because, for the most part, they couldn’t afford the [...]

I learned today from a post over at Wizbang about a part of Senator Obama’s campaign platform that I had never heard of: He wants to allow the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to fill out your tax return for you.
Think about that for a few seconds. It’s almost a good idea.
This is what the Boston [...]

One Larry J. Sabato says that America needs a new, more liberal Constitution. Yet, despite the length of his article in the Los Angeles Times, all you really need to know about what he wants can be summed up in this one sentance:
If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a [...]

I’ve been of the opinion for many years that the only way the liberals in the United States get their ideas and agendas codified into law is through the courts. Through the use of activist judges on the bench, they have been able to manufacture all kinds of non-existent “rights” for their constituents. The best [...]

The House Democrats passed the “Employee Free Choice Act of 2007” with a margin of 54 votes on Thursday. The misleadingly named bill gets rid of the secret ballot process when employees vote on whether or not to unionize.
By a By a 241-185 vote Thursday, the House passed a bill to modify the National Labor [...]

Most Republicans knew this a long time ago, but in case anyone was still unsure about the Democrats’ intentions with regards to the War in Iraq they have now pretty much cleared up the confusion:
Senate Democratic leaders intend to unveil a plan next week to repeal the 2002 resolution authorizing the war in Iraq in [...]

I can’t really say that I’m surprised by this:
As a white liberal running in a majority African American district, Tennessee Democrat Stephen I. Cohen made a novel pledge on the campaign trail last year: If elected, he would seek to become the first white member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Now that he’s a freshman in [...]

Well, if you are looking for a shinning example of what the Clinton Legacy will be, you need look no further than Supreme Court Justice and Clinton appointee Stephen Breyer:
Justice Stephen G. Breyer says the Supreme Court must promote the political rights of minorities and look beyond the Constitution’s text when necessary to ensure that [...]

If the GOP had any stones, they would buy all the air-time they could find and play this ad over and over until election day.
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Noted Constitutional scholar* and professor of law* Rosie O’Donnell today proclaimed on national television that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was “not really a right”:
This quickly led to an exchange with the program’s token conservative, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, in which O’Donnell asserted that there is no right to own a gun:
Hasselbeck: “So you [...]

John McCain, decorated military veteran and prisoner of war camp survivor, has taken a stand which, if it continues to fruition, will see him abandoning his brothers-in-arms and making it practically impossible for U.S. Armed Forces to gather any information from captured terrorists in the War on Terror.
The disagreement centers mainly on how to square [...]

It looks like the Bush Administration has made another in a long line of second-term bone-headed moves:
Newly released e-mails allege U.S. government officials pressured a leading Internet authority into voting against creating a kind of red-light district for adult Web sites.
The apparent involvement of the U.S. Department of Commerce, President Bush’s chief political operative Karl [...]

Ray “School Bus” Nagin has struck again, proving his soaring incompetence in the handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster was not a fluke:
Katrina turned New Orleans into an auto junkyard and the flooded cars are still everywhere, mementos of the storm and of the city’s continuing failure to clean itself up.
Almost seven months after Hurricane [...]

Some people don’t want you to have a choice when it comes to your child’s education:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton slammed private-school voucher proposals yesterday, predicting that vouchers would eventually lead to the creation of taxpayer-financed white supremacist academies - or even a government-funded “School of the Jihad.”
Clinton, a longtime voucher foe who earned the backing [...]

Did you ever wonder what life would be like if the current bunch of Democrats were to regain power and exert their will upon the country? How would America change under the leadership of a John Kerry, a Hillary Clinton, or a Howard Dean? Well, if you’d like a preview, you need look no farther [...]