Duke Over America

Excerpts from “Time for the Tar and Feathers” by Robert Tracinski:
* “So far, the tea parties have been a polite warning. For all of the left’s smears about how the tea party movement is driven by “hate”—another rehearsal of the left’s favorite racism smear—the rallies have actually had something of a festive mood. In the [...]

Recently, bottled-water company Poland Spring reduced the size of its bottle caps by about 20%, citing environmental mumbo-jumbo: “This is part of our ongoing effort to reduce our impact on the environment… Be Green.” That’s too bad, as I have not shrunk by 20% — which means the caps which once fit my normal-sized human [...]

Pointing out Democratic politicians’ hypocrisy remains easy sport. Today, the Democrats threaten to use the nuclear option in order to enact a move toward much more socialized medicine. But in 2005, when the Democrats were out of power, they hated the nuclear option. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called the use of this power a “constitutional [...]

There are days that I want to MURDER Tabitha Hale. Not Murder, MURDER mind you, but maybe send her off on a long walk on a short pier. If you have ever worked with her and butted heads, I’m sure you know what I mean.
At the end of the day though, she is one of [...]

U.S. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has distinguished herself favorably in multiple ways over the last year. But at her recent appearance at conservative gathering CPAC, she promoted a poster of former president George W. Bush featuring the message “Miss me yet?” No, Ms. Bachmann, I do not at all miss George W. Bush. On the [...]

Issue #602 of Captain America — published by Marvel Comics — goes out of its way to insult the tea party movement. For example, Captain America’s sidekick The Falcon erroneously slams tea partiers as a “hate the government” movement, when most of us do not hate the government at all. We simply want limited government [...]

Obama’s deeply troubled relationship with the truth continues. During his presidential campaign, he pledged — countless times — that he would not raise taxes on families making less than $250,000 per year. For example, on September 12, 2008, Obama promised “I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 [...]

With a straight face, socialists seek to blame free-market capitalism for this nation’s housing-related economic challenges. They must think Americans are stupid, because it doesn’t take much sense to realize that our country’s current economy is far from a free market — it’s actually a mixed economy, with some capitalist (good) elements and some socialist/fascist [...]

Iran has cut ties with the British Museum, because the museum has delayed a planned loan to that government of an ancient cultural artifact owned by the museum. My suggestion to the British Museum: firmly and unapologetically say that there will be no loan of any artifacts to Iran until the crackpot, illegitimate, terrorist-filled Iranian [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down parts of a law which infringed upon free-speech rights. This was proper, as the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution reads in part: “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…” In response to this most welcome Supreme Court ruling, many Democratic [...]