J. Randal Matheny

Just yesterday, [Democratic National Committee chair] Debbie Wasserman-Schultz decided to tear into Republicans who criticize President Obama’s fantastically expensive bailouts of GM and Chrysler by claiming that “if it were up to the candidates for President on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars.”  The Hill checked, and discovered she owns a Nissan, whose license plate includes her initials.  It takes a special kind of magic to transform yourself into a complete laughingstock with such a dopey little talking point.

I tend to think of religion as something people do rather than something people believe.

I’ve had about enough of folks on the right trying to discourage candidates from running by insisting right off the bat that they could never win. Candidates are labeled unelectable, unpresidential, too polarizing, not polished enough, too unconventional, or some other absurd description. And so I ask — what are you folks so afraid of? Why are you so terrified of Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, and others entering the race and showing voters what they’ve got? Whether or not they are able to adeptly articulate their message and/or possess a proven commitment to conservatism will be heard by voters. The American people will make their decision. And I have to question the motives of anyone who wants to silence a candidate before the battle has even begun.

students are being trained at colleges to "unlearn liberty." As the definition of what constitutes "harassment" expands, the First Amendment freedoms Americans take for granted contract. It's a tyranny of protected feelings extending into ever-more-ridiculous realms.

Kill your television? A growing number of Americans are choosing to do just that, according to the Nielsen Company.

Nielsen announced on Tuesday that TV ownership in the U.S. is down for the first time in 20 years, based on data gathered from the 2010 census.

According to Nielsen, the percentage of households with televisions has declined to 96.7, compared with the 98.9 percent from previous estimates in 2000.

We could wish it were a sign of Christians opting out of the greatest influence for worldly mindset, but given the state of the churches, not likely to happen.

At one time, people like Rockefeller, Edison, Ford and the Wright brothers were regarded as heroes, for having opened vast new possibilities for other human beings.

These are not the heroes of today, but the villains. Reminds one that fame is fleeting, social winds change often, and the great ones today will be tomorrow's despised.

Better to be great in the eyes of Him whose opinions do not change.

Government control of anything equals rationing, pure and simple

Seems to be a fair statement, and a huge reason to keep government's fingers out of as much as everything as possible. From John Hayward's article, "Return of the Death Panel," at link above.

Some skittish travelers are calling off holiday trips to the Big Apple because of the infestation, due, partly, says this report, to banned pesticides.

And who do you think was responsible for the ban? Good liberals like the ones that infest NYC.

we have been sleeping through three major wars that will soon wake us up.

The media is strangely silent, but the spill-over will come quickly.

At a Democratic fundraiser on Monday night, President Obama once again misquoted the Declaration of Independence’s most famous sentence and once again omitted its reference to our “Creator.” According to the text of his remarks published on the official White House website, he said: “[W]hat makes this place [America] special is not something physical.  It has to do with this idea that was started by 13 colonies that decided to throw off the yoke of an empire, and said, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that each of us are endowed with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’”  

Not likely a coincidence that this has happened twice. Seems like there was another time shortly after the first. And the Dems wonder why people question his supposed Christian faith.