Feb 28, 2012

How Rick Santorum Hurts Social Conservatism

The problem with Rick Santorum is not that he doesn’t stand for faith, life and traditional marriage. The problem is he thinks he can get a nation of 300 million people to stand with him. On the issue of gay marriage, Santorum recently told CNN: “I’ve just said I think this is a national issue, we can’t have 50 different marriage laws, and we have to have a consistency in what marriage is, and family is something. And we need to have a national discussion about it and develop a national policy.”

Feb 24, 2012

The Color of Change is Yellow

When Pat Buchanan was fired from MSNBC last week over controversial racial remarks in his latest book, MSNBC President Phil Griffin said in a statement that Buchanan’s views “aren’t really appropriate for national dialogue, much less the dialogue on MSNBC…”

This is not the first time MSNBC has publicly determined what constitutes appropriate dialogue for the nation and their station.

In July, MSNBC fired their afternoon host Cenk Uyger. According to Uyger, there were some complaints about his harsh criticism of Obama. Uyger said Griffin told him personally “We are insiders. We are part of the establishment. Washington is concerned with your tone…” Uygur replied: “I thought: ‘Are we in a movie? Is this for real?” he said.

Feb 17, 2012

The Republican Mess

Senator Jim DeMint gave one of the most rousing speeches at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, warning Republicans that there can be no compromise with the Democrats. As usual, Sen. DeMint is right. Republicans cannot afford to compromise, quite literally, with any party or anyone who honestly believes that our government can spend one more cent or borrow one more dollar for one more minute.

But this also goes for Republicans.