Free Republic

This is an issue that I've been mulling over for quite a while. I wrote more about the way I'd set this up, but I wanted to get some of your feedback first. Let me know what you think. Enough is Enough: Has the Third Party’s Time Come? We’ve lost our way. The American political system is a mess. The divisiveness between Republicans and Democrats seems insurmountable and it’s getting worse every day. I could get into the reasons that this is happening, but I doubt that would change a thing. It is very painful for me to see this...

[SNIP leading up to the "advice" from a former GW Bush adviser] ....A win in SouthCarolina will be overwhelming proof that Romney is just “right” enough to win the nomination. If that were to occur, Romney would have won in the conservative Midwest, the more liberal/independent Northeast and the conservative South. Perry, Santorum and Gingrich need a win, place or show in SouthCarolina to continue to Florida. ...The real question will be one for Gingrich to answer. If Gingrich doesn’t come in a close 2nd or 3rd in South Carolina, will he engage in a “scorched earth policy” that if...

<p>LOS ANGELES — A Southern California Republican Party official was under fire yesterday after allegations she sent an email that included an altered photo depicting President Barack Obama as an ape.</p> <p>An email reportedly sent by party central committee member Marilyn Davenport shows an image, posed like a family portrait, of chimpanzee parents and child, with Obama's face artificially superimposed on the child. Text beneath the photo reads, "Now you know why no birth certificate."</p>

LOS ANGELES – A Southern California Republican Party official was under fire Saturday after allegations she sent an email that included an altered photo depicting President Barack Obama as an ape. An e-mail reportedly sent by party central committee member Marilyn Davenport shows an image, posed like a family portrait, of chimpanzee parents and child, with Obama's face artificially superimposed on the child. Text beneath the photo reads, "Now you know why no birth certificate." Davenport, when reached by The Associated Press, said she would provide a written statement with her response, but several hours later she had not issued...

A member of the Tea Party has sent a racist email with a picture of Barack Obama and his parents as chimpanzees, it has been revealed. The email sent by Marilyn Davenport, a Southern California Tea Party activist and member of the central committee of the Orange County Republican Party, was titled: 'Now you know why - no birth certificate.' The attached picture showed a mocked-up photo of the President as a baby chimpanzee being held by his so-called parents - also chimps in human clothing. Racist: The email, which included a picture of the Obama family as chimps, was...

Headline only

The earth is shifting under our feet and the political class, both elected officialdom as well as the unelected punditocracy, appears to be oblivious. They still believe that there are only Democrats and Republicans, and anything else is a "fringe" group. In their view, Progressives and Tea Party members are equivalent in their impact on the major parties. Nothing could be more in error, and nothing works more in favor of the Progressives than having the electorate view them as only a small fringe group. The Tea Party convention this past weekend is a truly seismic event. Not in the...

In the 1990s, I was a Senior Fellow at the American Economic Foundation, which was the group that developed the Ten Pillars during the Great Depression. The organization wanted to remind Americans that freedom works. It was my job with the Foundation to teach the same lesson in seminars in the former Soviet Union and how these principles could be a light to a region that suffered from decades of totalitarianism. Today, the US is slipping into a command economy of its own where the government will seek to be in charge of all things. Today, with the Obama Administration,...

IN "The Audacity of Hope," Barack Obama described himself as "a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views." This is a powerful tool in elections and explains why liberals, moderates, Democrats, Independents and Republicans joined together to give him 53 percent of the vote last November. Since his election, this "blank screen" has been an asset, allowing the new president to maintain an illusion of progress, even as he has avoided the hard choices necessary for progress. But, as Americans ponder the unavoidable consequences of the president's policies -- particularly health-care reform --...

This Blagojevich mess on top of the Charlie Rangal scandals is turning out to be a major boon to the republican party. For the last four years the democrats have been attacking the GOP as the Party of scandal. While the truth of it is that there have been enough monkey business on both sides, in most cases the media has been reporting the two much differently. A story about a Democratic scandal is usually void of any mention of party affiliation, when a Republican gets caught there is usually a giant R pained on the politicians face. But in...

If you are looking to verify that most of America’s politicians and almost all of the mainstream press are more interested in the perpetuation of their own power than truth, you need look no further than the kafuffle over DP World buying out P&O’s interest in a couple of American maritime terminals. They have started a xenophobic stampede that even sober people have found inviting, but which I find nothing short of scandalous. Their case is fear based and the cornerstone of their reasoning rests on ignorance...

American Workers in Every Sector of the Economy Will Watch Their Jobs Go to Foreign Workers, Says FAIR (Washington, DC -- January 29, 2004) “The immigration proposal touted by the Democrats yesterday is an outright assault on fundamental fairness, the rule of law, and on all working Americans, advocating a blanket amnesty for every illegal alien in the country,” says the Federation for American Immigration Reform. FAIR accused some of the Democrats in Congress of “playing one upmanship” with the Bush immigration proposal and turning their backs on the 9 million unemployed Americans currently seeking jobs and legal immigrants whose...