Author: Rretta

“Another Way To Skin A Cat”

After Cap and Trade failed to attract even modest traction in Democratic controlled Congress, Obama said that “it was just one way to skin the cat.” Now we know that the cat he referenced was the American consumers as he…

Kamikaze Drones

Drones are being developed smaller and smaller to be able to fly like bugs in swarms, crawl like spiders and covertly survey targets or perform assassinations without detection. And, while the military would have us believe that these new drones…

Is Premature Death In Your Future?

“Find out just what people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or…

Blue State Disease

“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred.…

Framework Of Freedom

Our founding documents are a clear and forceful answer to the many problems that plague our nation. Far too many of the ruling powers that be, especially Obama, find our documents cumbersome and unnecessary impediments to their agenda and to…

Understanding Conservatism

Dr. George Panichas, in his essay, Is Conservatism at the Mercy of Hollow Men?, writes that “Restoring the meaning of Conservatism becomes even greater as the debate continues between traditional conservatives and ambitious usurpers. True conservatism must be defended against…

The Secret Buyout of America

On the surface, the economic atmosphere has appeared rather calm and uneventful. Stocks are up, the dollar seems to be going strong, employment isn’t great but jobs aren’t collapsing into the void, at least not openly.   Yet, peel away the…

Thrift Is No Longer a Virtue

Once upon a time we were taught that thrift was a virtue.   Today we have to ask what possible difference does it make any more? We live in a time when the majority of our citizens don’t understand how the…

Four Years In A Bubble

Anyone catch the Rebels Without A Clue recently terrorizing Seattle? They were out in their $500 sneakers and Gap clothing, deriding capitalism as they played with their IPhones. It isn’t a crime to be stupid, at least you can get…

America’s Progressive Red Guard

As the 50th anniversary of China’s Cultural Revolution draws near, some of the former students who participated in its Red Guard terror have been trying to make amends to their victims. But if China’s former leftist fanatics feel remorse for…

The Death Panel Has A Partner In Crime

ObamaCare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, loving referred to as the “Death Panel” is finding disfavor with a few Democrats. But noone is talking about its ugly cousin, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation which is just as bad and…

6.2 Million People Are Missing

According to a 3 year study from the Brookings Institution, the American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades. Business dynamism is the process by which firms continually are born, fail, expand or…

The Rhetoric of Lunatics

Obama is gearing up a new push for more scary rhetoric on the global warming scam, all to appease the Big Green Machine (BGM) and those big Democratic donors who just happen to be heavily invested in the new EPA…

Gay Christianity Is An Oxymoron

Pastor Jeff Allen, an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene, was challenged by a homosexual activists to identify any liberal Ph.D. scholars who agreed with the Biblical prohibition of homosexuality.  Allen was surprised to find several liberal scholars…