Once upon a time, the maxim that parents wanted their children to have a better life than they did was part of the American Dream of upward mobility. They wanted us to  be better educated and make more money than they did. In fact, every decision that many parents made was based on their children. When moving, they looked to move to the best school system in the safest neighborhood. In the 19th century the stories of Horatio Alger Jr. were...

Ever since their founding in 2009, the mainstream media and the left have prophesied the tea parties demise. Endless articles in the mainstream press and the blogosphere of the left have said that the tea parties were fading in relevance. The tea parties were characterized by the mainstream press as extreme, bigoted and simply ignorant. They looked at the downturn in tea party activity in the quiet times of political activity and immediately...

The first year of his second term has not been kind to Barack Obama. With the explosions of scandals his approval ratings are beginning to sink. The political geniuses at the White House are struggling to change the subject as most liberals attempt to do when the current subject doesn’t agree with their template. They seem to have settled on demagoguing student loans again. However, this time the national media has become skeptical of the...

Once again, it has taken the United States government to realize that we are at war. This time rather than al-Qaeda it is the People’s Republic of China who is the enemy. This time we have a visible enemy who we can retaliate against. In the shadowy world of cyber warfare the United States is being assaulted every day by skilled computer hackers in the employ of the Chinese and so far we are still playing defense.  Once again, while an...

Mired in a number of scandals, Barack Obama is attempting to change the subject. You’ll notice that most liberals will change the subject when asked a question that they don’t wish to answer. Obama is attempting to use this tactic to refocus Americans on a subject of his own choosing. Recently, Obama addressed the National Defense University and returned to the subject of the war on terror in order to move the national debate away...

It appears that Barack Obama has begun to have an Eric Holder problem. The question of Holder’s involvement in the AP phone records grab and the James Rosen records search have exposed him to a rising crescendo of criticism. And yet the President doesn’t seem to get it. Blinded by his loyalty to Holder, Obama went as far as allowing him to conduct the investigation into the warrant on James Rosen that he himself approved. Has anybody...

In the beginning of the United States, the federal government was for things like national unity, national defense and binding the disparate states together. That worked as it was designed by the Framers of the Constitution until Franklin Roosevelt’s administration. It was during the New Deal Era that progressives put forward a broad program of spending using the “general welfare” clause in Article 1, Section 8. This clause...