**Posted by Phineas I’ve written before about the undeserved pass the Democratic Party has gotten for its dirty history on race in America and how the Republican Party deserves much more credit than it gets. Not surprisingly, Allen West did it much better with a recent speech on the House floor in honor of Black [Continue]

**Posted by Phineas While writing about Rick Santorum’s and Mitt Romney’s struggles, Hot Air’s Tina Korbe quoted Milton Friedman saying something that encapsulates how I feel about this election: I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political [Continue]

From a 2008 Planned Parenthood Virginia document opposing a proposed ultrasound requirement law (bolded emphasis added by me): The legislation is not about women’s health and healthcare. It is a thinly veiled attempt to shame women about their decisions or to intimidate them into changing their decisions. If legislators truly cared about [Continue]

Seeing as the mainstream media  with – sadly – the help of the anti-Santorum Matt Drudge – is waging a full-scale assault on Rick Santorum’s social and religious views (which often go together) in an effort to derail his campaign on the implied basis that Santorum is a fringe freako lunatic who would turn America [Continue]

**Posted by Phineas Peter Wehner had a good post in Commentary last week that, while talking about Obama’s latest risible budget proposal, neatly encapsulates the statist, progressive view of the relationship between the citizen and the State, Obama’s theory of government: These numbers are important, but they need to be understood [Continue]

**Posted by Phineas Presidents Day is one of those weird holidays, a conflation of the birthday’s of two of our greatest presidents, Washington and Lincoln, into a nondescript Monday-off that not only honors those two, but the likes of… Millard Fillmore, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Jimmy Carter? Someone owes George and Abe an apology. [Continue]

Despite rumors that suggested he was considering not running,  Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC12) filed today to seek an 11th term in the US House: “The congressional districts are being contested in the courts and could very well be changed,” Watt said in a statement. “This has already led some experienced members of our congressional [Continue]

Back story, via Jimmie Bise: Just when you thought the abortion debate couldn’t get any more silly and shrill, here comes the pro-abortion crew, screaming into the breach created by a new law in Virginia. First, let me hip you to the law itself. What the state did was to modify an already existing law [Continue]

**Posted by Phineas In this episode of Afterburner, Bill Whittle looks at how George Lucas has bowdlerized one of the great scenes in the original Star Wars and what it tells us about the cultural elite’s perceptions of heroism and manhood: It’s not for nothing that people still respond to heroes like John Wayne, Humphrey [Continue]

**Posted by Phineas Today is the third anniversary of the passage of President Obama’s Stimulus Pokulus bill, which was supposed to have us at below 6% unemployment by now. How’s that working out? Whatever. Let’s not quibble over small details, such as being utterly, humiliatingly wrong. Instead, this is a time to celebrate [Continue]