On June 6, 1984, the 40th anniversary of the World War II, D Day invasion, President Ronald Reagan honored the memory of brave American soldiers with a speech at the U.S. Ranger Monument, Pointe du Hoc, France. We’re here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this [...]

Any nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure ~Abraham Lincoln Roy P. Benavidez, Medal of Honor Winner Staff Sergeant Roy P. Benavidez United States Army distinguished himself by a series of daring and extremely valorous actions on 2 May, 1968 while assigned to Detachment B56, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st [...]

Did the Democrats’ desire to hold onto power really make it legal to offer Joe Sestak an inducement to drop out of the US Senate race?  What about Obama’s promise to end business as usual? For ten weeks Congressman Joe Sestak has consistently claimed he was offered a job by the Obama Administration if he [...]

Three weeks after Barack Obama was elected President in November, 2008 his top aid, Rahm Emanuel, said in a TV interview: You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.  What I mean by that is its’ an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before. That bit of political [...]

The immigration debate is between two points of view: 1. Secure Borders:   This faction wants to use whatever means necessary to stop virtually all illegal border crossings before Congress considers any changes to immigration law. 2. “Comprehensive immigration reform.”  This faction wants Congress to start, not with securing the borders but with another of [...]

Two bits of seemingly contradictory news were reported on Tuesday. Republican Senate leaders met privately with President Obama to discuss border security and immigration issues.  After the meeting Republican Senator Brownback told reporters that the President was “not embracing” Republican calls for securing the border before Congress takes up so-called “comprehensive immigration reform.” Obama announced [...]

But the reaction from the political-media establishment is to call for even more spending. Government’s continuous threats of tax increases, health care mandates, an artificial energy shortage under cap and trade, and coerced unionization discourage investment and hiring, driving down taxable profits and incomes and depressing the tax revenue needed to fund Obama’s breathtaking surge [...]

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Senator Chris Dodd.  On May 17 the New York Times ran a story revealing that Blumenthal had falsely claimed, apparently on several occasions, to being a Vietnam veteran.  He did serve in the Marine Corps Reserve during [...]

In politics a deception often becomes accepted truth through continuous, unchallenged repetition. With less than six months left before the mid-term election, President Obama and the Democrats appear to have contrived a deception they hope will overcome two major negatives: The gargantuan “stimulus,” jammed through Congress before it was even printed, let alone read by [...]

In Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder admitted he has not read the Arizona immigration law that he has publicly condemned for two weeks.  On Meet the Press Holder said the new law “has the possibility of leading to racial profiling.”  His response to Representative Ted Poe’s questioning how [...]