The courtyard outside the Bradford County Courthouse in north Florida will include quotations from Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Madalyn Murray O’Hair, the founder of American Atheists. It will also include a list of Old Testament punishments that mandate the death penalty. The atheist monument will stand next

I don’t often speak ill of the dead, but the accolades coming in for New Jersey Democrat Senator Frank Lautenberg who died Monday at age 89 ticked me off. The New York Times described the late Senator as having a “consistently liberal voting record. Americans for Democratic Action said he

Pope Francis has received numerous accolades from the faithful. One area where Pope Francis gets poor marks is in economics. It’s hard to take economic advice from someone who has taken a vow of poverty, never owned a business, and lives off the donations of people who have not taken

We keep hearing about “lone wolf” terrorists. We heard the same thing about agents at the IRS working on their own against conservative groups. In both cases, the operatives were acting in terms of an ideology from what they heard from their ideological leaders. In his speech the other day

When You get a letter from the IRS demanding documents to justify exemptions and income, you better comply by the date specified . . . or else. IRS officials have refused to turn over documents that could shed some light on alleged illegal activity by the agency. Here are at

If you are a conservative who is a regular reader of the articles on this site, then you are a target. If you donate to conservative causes, you are an enemy of the “Progressive” agenda. If you oppose government unions and their sweetheart collective “bargaining” deals with the Democrats, you

If anything happens over Benghazi, Obama won’t be touched, Hillary will get a pass, and the Republicans won’t get any political traction because they’re a party without ideas. A front page, above the fold article in USA Today confirmed it for me. “Jodi Arias guilty of murder.” A second article

The next time you get a threatening letter from the Internal Revenue Service for some infraction, just apologize and move on. If you underpay and are assessed a penalty, just quote back to the agency what senior IRS official Lois Lerner said when she was asked a question: “I’m not

Dr. Jerry Coyne is a professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Ecology and Evolution who might prove to be an excellent defense witness for Ariel Castro. Coyne is a critic of all anti-evolution belief systems, including creationism, theistic evolution, and intelligent design, which he calls “the

Kirsten Powers is a liberal Democrat who is pro-life. Writing for The Daily Beast website, Powers “made a shocking comparison – legislatively speaking – concerning the Gosnell trial and the abortion rights movement in her [May 6th] column” that the Abortion Rights Movement “has become ‘the NRA of the left.’”

Have you noticed how Global Warming has become Climate Change? Climate Change is easier to sell than Global Warming especially when it’s still snowing in May. Since the climate changes every day, even hour-by-hour, former global warmists can point to the fluctuations as scientific evidence that we’re doomed unless we

California was the first state to pass an anti-gay therapy law. The homosexual community has pushed hard to normalize homosexual behavior. And it’s not just homosexuality that they believe is part of a person’s nature. Included in the prohibition to counsel people out of homosexual behavior are bisexuality and transgenderism

President Obama spoke for the folks at Planned Parenthood yesterday. He attacked people who believe that killing pre-born babies is a moral evil and supported an organization that has no problem with 1.5 million pre-born babies killed every year in the United States. Here’s part of what he said: “The

The Obama Administration is in denial over Islamic extremism. It shows in almost everything they say and do. For example: “Before the Boston Marathon bombings, the Obama administration argued for years that there is a big difference between terrorists and the tenets of Islam. “A senior White House aide in

I received the following email from a well-intentioned by misinformed Christian about taxation: “Hello, I see that you are sponsoring an internet link to stop the Congress from passing a bill that would cause Americans to pay taxes on items bought over the Internet. “Surely I do not have to

I woke up just after midnight this morning with a visual image of the FBI following the two Boston bombers before they set off their pressure cookers, but they were too late. We’re hearing all kinds of stories about how the FBI dropped the ball on these two guys, especially

The Senate turned back the President’s assault on the Second Amendment. President Obama does not like it when he doesn’t get his way, and it showed. With some of the relatives of Sandy Hook victims at his side, he attacked those who opposed his will. Voting on a bill that

I never knew that my mother was a potential terrorist and that she harbored a weapon of mass destruction in her kitchen. The pressure cooker was an essential part of my mother’s cooking regime. Its whistle would make me salivate. Buy an inexpensive cut of meat, put it in the