If you are not a native English speaker, learning English can be terribly difficult since it’s a language made up of many languages. Words and phrases that were unique to one culture have become part of the English language – everything from the French bon appetite to slang like “bling,”

Chris Matthews of MSNBC made a statement about how President Obama should have been treated by presidential challenger Mitt Romney in their second debate. It was the fact that Gov. Romney actually challenged the President that led Matthews to go Gestapo on him: “I don’t think he understands the Constitution

The Left learned some lessons from the radicalism of the 1960s when their political agenda failed to accomplish their stated goals. Their radical agenda was shot down politically because the majority of Americans still retained a remnant of the older Christian worldview. The Left knew it would be necessary to

A lot of voters have not been following the presidential election. As the election nears, more people are beginning to pay attention. Those of you who read articles on this site know all the issues. A majority of American voters don’t. Now that they’re paying attention, they need a way

You can tell when Democrats are losing the information war. They resort to majoring on the absurd. In the debate on Tuesday night, Mitt Romney said that he made every effort to find qualified women to appoint to cabinet positions when he was governor of Massachusetts. Democrats are always pushing

Honey Boo Boo is 7-year-old Alana Thompson, the star of the highly-watched series Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. Reality TV is big business. The shows are cheap to produce and viewership is high. Millions of people like to watch people make fools of themselves. People feel good watching a show

Support for the radical terrorist John Brown (1800–1859) of Harpers Ferry fame has a long and storied history among liberals. Trevor Loudon at the New Zeal site makes some interesting connections that include President Obama: Why would Barack Obama choose to give a controversial speech attacking American capitalism in Osawatomie,

You remember Michael Bloomberg. He’s the busy-body mayor of New York City. He’s also the guy who wants to ban oversized soft drinks. Consider this from the mayor. Now he’s in the sex business: “I do not believe that government has any business telling one class of couples that they

Fed chief Ben Bernanke defended pumping money into the economy by arguing that not only does it help “strengthen the US economic recovery, but by boosting US spending and growth it has the effect of helping support the global economy as well.” If adding fiat currency to the economy is

Equality is an unequal thing. For example, there is a difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. In addition, no two people are ever equal unless they’re twins; but even here there are differences. No two people can ever perform the same job with the same result. Some

The early history of America shows that there was a battle between the individual and the community — the collective. We see this in Jamestown (1607) and Plymouth Plantation (1620). Early in their colonial history, the collective was deemed to be more important than the individual. As a result, the

Justice Antonin Scalia says that interpreting the Constitution is easy. Being a “textualist” he interprets the words in the Constitution as they were understood by the people who wrote them. It’s the same with any piece of literature. Supreme Court Justice and constitutional scholar Joseph Story (1779–1845) wrote: “The first

Obama and Co. are making a big deal over comments Mitt Romney made about defunding Big Bird. “I love Big Bird,” Romney said “But I’m not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for.” Our embassies are under attack, and Obama’s handlers

The new post-debate narrative to explain why President Obama got trounced in the first presidential debate was that Mitt Romney lied. Add to the “liar, liar, pants on fire” narrative is that Romney was acting. A similar thing was said of Ronald Reagan who was an actor. These are diversions

Debates don’t come easy to most people. In fact, one of the greatest fears that people have is speaking in public. Can you imagine standing up and being picked apart by media people with tens of millions of people watching? There’s no place to hide in a debate. Once you

France is about to die by its own hand. First, there’s a new wealth tax. Recently elected French President Francois Hollande proposed a budget that will raise taxes on the rich and big companies that will result in an increase of $20 billion euros ($26 billion) that includes “a levy

I’ve had first-hand experience with the media. Most of it has not been good Some years ago I was interviewed by Tad Friend for New York Magazine. The title of the article was, “Does America Hate New York. . . Or Has it Just Stopped Caring?” The cover of the

The French Revolution was a bloody mess. Blood literally flowed in the streets. The god of reason was substituted for the only true God. When this happened, irrationalism served as a cruel and vindictive master. There’s a new revolution on the march in France. And while it might not be