Harlingen, Texas, May 16, 2008:  Well, my last fill-up of gas only took $60 out of my wallet.  And, I still had about four gallons in the tank when I turned on the pump.  It made me very angry and I made my feelings known to a lot of people.  Roaring about the high price of gasoline and oil seems to be the only topic of conversation these days.  You hear it at work, at home, after church and in the barbershop.  It leads the nightly news, makes headlines in daily newspapers and is expressed in fearful ways by school officials, business owners and those who rely on the fuel to power their farm implements and heavy machinery.

The Demercrats(DNC) and Republicrats(RNC) are obviously in the tank for Socialist Progressivism.

Americans have painted themselves into the corner on energy and the two presumptive candidates for President are ready to finish off the nation with the worst possible “solutions.”

As prolongation of the 1930s Depression and stagflation in the 1970s demonstrated, Senator Obama’s announced policies are a prescription for economic disaster.

Today’s most widely accepted political belief is that because an unprecedentedly high percentage of Americans – 81 percent – believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, the Republicans are headed for a major defeat this coming November.

...My recent column “What I’d do as president” received more responses than any other column I’ve written to date. Having struck a profound and poignant chord with readers in that column, I have continued that format in Part 2 and today in Part 3.

Two Republican lawyers say House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may have violated federal election law by appearing in an ad concerning climate change.

One topic we’ll discuss with next week’s panel is the dismal state of affairs at the Federal Election Commission (FEC). The agency charged with enforcing our campaign finance laws has been moribund by the failure of the Senate to confirm pending nominations that would give the Commission its quorum (it currently has only two of six members). Senate Democrats oppose Republican FEC nominee Hans von Spakovsky because he allegedly refused to attack voter identification laws while at the Department of Justice. Liberal opposition to his nomination has not diminished even in the face of the recent Supreme Court decision which upheld the right of states to require some form of identification for voters. As a result, Republicans have refused to budge on Democratic nominees to the FEC, which is supposed to be made up of Democrat and Republican appointees.

Senator John McCain gave a speech recently on the need to appoint judges that interpret laws rather than legislate from the bench. There was a lot to like about what he had to say on judicial activism. McCain said, “The moral authority of our judiciary depends on judicial self restraint,” and railed against the “systematic abuse” by judges who push their liberal agendas through judicial fiat. He also took issue with “Senate obstructionism” practiced by liberals who are blocking the president’s judicial nominees. The speech seems designed to help McCain firm up his conservative base.

It must be devastating for Hillary Rhodam Clinton to see her chances of becoming the democratic nominee fade into oblivion. It has to be beyond infuriating to have the media - that once so blindly worshipped and adored her mischievous better half - turn on her and declare with such confidence that the die is cast, and hers is now an unstoppable plunge into defeat, no less to a country that, as far as she is concerned, has not yet had the final word. 

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Buyer’s remorse was beginning to afflict supporters of Barack Obama before Tuesday’s primary election returns showed he had delivered a knockout punch against Hillary Clinton. The young orator who had seemed so fantastic beginning with his 2007 Jefferson-Jackson dinner speech in Iowa disappointed even his own advisers over the past two weeks, and old party hands mourned that they were stuck with a flawed candidate.

Is the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) ever on the right side of any issue? On one issue out of a bundle we might find ourselves in agreement. As for most, forget it.

As long-time readers know, I have expected Hillary Clinton to succeed George W. Bush on the Cherry Blossom Throne since 2003. But while almost everything has gone precisely as my history-driven theory had it, from John Kerry’s defeat in 2004 to the crash-and-burn of the “permanent majority party” idea that was so bandied about by Republican triumphalists during Bush 43’s first term, there is a major obstacle that remains to her prophesied ascension.

"Never, never, never, never give up.” --Winston Churchill Hubris is a Greek word for excessive insolent pride. Once upon a time it described the epic (albeit usually earned) arrogance of warrior kings and battle tested Generals. Leonides of Sparta who stood with his 300 against the vastness of Xerxes Persian army at Thermopylae, Ulysses, Odysseus, and Agamemnon were all men of monumental egos. However, unlike contemporary trash talkers, they walked the walk along with talking the talk.

Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: “We the people.” “We the people” tell the government what to do, it doesn’t tell us.  – President Reagan’s Farewell Address, Jan. 11, 1989