by Cliff Sims Hundreds of Alabama business leaders and elected officials packed into the Sheraton Hotel ballroom in downtown Birmingham last night for the annual Business Council of Alabama Chairman’s Dinner featuring keynote speakers Gov. Mike Huckabee and Dr. Ben Carson. Carson is a retired neurosurgeon who made history by becoming the first doctor to […] Continue reading → 
Snooping on Americans; business as usual The so-called “government shut down” and the furloughing of thousands of non-essential federal employees has not prevented the opening of a $2 billion dollar NSA spy center in Utah which will snoop on Americans’ private emails, Google searches and phone calls. Image: NSA Spy Center, Utah. As we highlighted yesterday, […] Continue reading → 
Terresa Monroe-Hamilton I am bitterly disappointed by Paul Ryan. Brilliant and gifted, he has gone to the dark Progressive side of politics. If he is wondering, as his new book is entitled, “Where Do We Go From Here?” Well, at this rate, straight to hell Paul. Shame on you. While Americans are distracted once again […] Continue reading → 
Late Monday night, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson denied a Department of Justice request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the House Oversight Committee last summer over Operation Fast and Furious documents. “In the Court’s view endorsing the proposition that the executive may assert an unreviewable right to withhold materials from the legislature […] Continue reading → 
Elderly veterans will not be allowed to pay their respects at the World War II Memorial’s outdoor plaza in as a result of the government shutdown, angering a Mississippi congressman who is calling on President Obama to accommodate the aging warriors. “I’m angry and I’m heartbroken,” Rep. Steven Palazzo told me. “This is how we […] Continue reading → 
Egypt halted tourism activities with Iran on Tuesday citing security concerns, a Tourism Ministry spokeswoman said, further distancing itself from Tehran after former Islamist President Mohamed Mursi tried to improve ties. “At the moment the security situation does not allow the ministry to support travel with Iran, including flights and tourist visits,” spokeswoman Rasha Azaizi […] Continue reading → 
by Dave Jolly Gay activists are successfully getting laws passed in cities around the country that discriminate against Christians. The laws are called nondiscrimination laws by the LGBT activists pushing through one city council after another. So far, over 180 cities have passed these so-called nondiscrimination ordinances. In essence the laws provide special protection to […] Continue reading → 
The Lone Star Watchdog It is obviously clear. President Obama is a threat not only to the American people. He is destabilizing the United States every way he can. He did this paying for Treyvon protest trying to start race wars as one example. He is a threat to world peace. He has to be […] Continue reading → 
Pleasant Ridge “I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.” — John Adams“[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense […] Continue reading → 
Veterans News Now – by Paul Craig Roberts By readers’ request, this is a reposting of a translation of a Pakistani National TV interview with an eyewitness to the alleged SEAL Team Six attack that allegedly killed Osama bin Laden. I made the translation available two years ago in an article prior to the creation […] Continue reading → 
Peter Wehner I disagree somewhat with Jonathan’s earlier post on Ted Cruz. There are several things I found problematic about the effort by Cruz and Company to “defund” the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but perhaps what was most alarming, from a conservative perspective, is that it was an effort utterly detached from reality. As I’ve […] Continue reading → 
Republican infighting took a nasty turn in the U.S. Senate on Thursday with Senator Bob Corker accusing fellow conservative Ted Cruz of using the looming fiscal deadline for self-promotion and to endear himself further with Tea Party groups. Congress has four days left to pass a spending bill to keep the government running. But traditional […] Continue reading → 