Dr. Marvin J. Folkertsma,FloydReports.com Amidst the rhetorical pyrotechnics surrounding July’s debt-ceiling debates,another controversy streaked across the sky like a comet,flared for an instant,then receded into the maelstrom of ongoing partisan attacks. The shooting star in question involved an exchange between two of Congress’ most controversial members,Allen West (R-Fla.) and [...] Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com Calling for the impeachment of Barack Obama is not only a lonely and thankless task,it can also be a dangerous one. San Francisco’s CBS affiliate is reporting two people attacked a 29-year-old man holding an “Impeach Obama”sign on Monday morning in the city’s North Panhandle district. Eyewitnesses say the [...] Sandy Rios,Townhall.com …Organizing for America has been a steady presence in Madison,Wisconsin. And this is their report on Saturday’s massive welcoming to the fourteen democratic senators who returned after three weeks hiding in Illinois,refusing to come to Madison for a vote: “This is what democracy looks like!”the people are chanting [...] Dr. Paul Kengor,FloydReports.com “The current Republican Party,particularly the Tea Party,is fanatically involved in people’s personal lives and very fundamental Christian,” said NPR’s Ron Schiller to two undercover reporters. “I wouldn’t even call it Christian;it’s this weird evangelical kind of [movement].” Not knowing he was being videoed,Schiller continued:“The [...] Don Feder,GrassTopsUSA.com About a week ago,I had another lesson in liberal civility. I was pulling into the parking lot of a burger-joint when an agitated young man drove up next to me. He rolled down his window,as I did. I thought I might have cut him off in traffic [...] Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com The protests in Wisconsin are a perfect representation of the American Left:loud,selfish,churlish,anti-democratic,and unshakably assured of their inalienable right to get paid for doing nothing. And make no mistake,the chaos rending Madison is precisely the future Barack Obama wishes for every state in the [...] Don Feder,GrassTopsUSA.com Last week,the Left was saying that conservatives from Sarah Palin to Rush Limbaugh and the Tea Parties had blood on their hands – that the Right created the climate of hatred that somehow caused/provoked/impelled/influenced a g-string-wearing,Communist Manifesto-touting psychopath (whose brains are “scrambled,” according to one of his [...] Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com Despite empty promises of infusing a new civility into our political discourse,the Democratic Party has returned to type by branding its opponents “Nazis.”Rep. Steve Cohen,D-TN,compared Republicans opposed to ObamaCare with Germany’s National Socialists on the floor of the House of Representatives —then lied about doing so [...] Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com One of the phrases attributed to St. Augustine is,“Roman locuta est,causa finita est”—Rome has spoken,the cause is finished. Unfortunately,today’s Roman Catholic politicians have no trouble ignoring the moral teachings of the Pope. But for three years,the American Left has invested plenipotentiary authority [...] Susan Stamper Brown,FloydReports.com Once upon a time in America,civility inspired citizens to pause from partisanship long enough to acknowledge horrific tragedies like the Tucson,Arizona,massacre for what they are rather than use the tragedy as an opportunity to twist,spin,distort,pervert,and misrepresent facts and hurl unfounded accusations [...] | |