Amid all the heated cross-currents of debate about the National Security Agency's massive surveillance program, there is a growing distrust of the Obama administration that makes weighing the costs and benefits of the NSA program itself hard to assess.
Though deadbeat dads and high-school dropouts might pervade some communities, there are still far more models than mess-ups across our country, and some stand head and shoulders above the rest. Let me tell you about a few stellar examples.
In an age when “finance” editors, like the HuffPo’s Mark Gongloff, are demonstrably anti-business, pro-Occupy and work as shills for progressive ideas, facts take a back seat to ideology, outrage and agendas.
Walter Williams is a veteran, a professor of economics at George Mason University, a syndicated columnist, a fill-in host for Rush Limbaugh and an author of eight books. Williams has one of the finest minds in America as you're about to see as you read these quotations.
Mon. Jun 17
- Todd Starnes: Mob of Immigration Activists Storm Kansas Secretary of State’s Home
- Ed Feulner: Out of Their Tree on Taxes
- Michael Brown: Why We Should Stay Out of Syria
- Armstrong Williams: Donald Trump: An American Icon Worth Celebrating
- Rich Galen: The Importance of Friends and Enemies
- Rachel Alexander: Governor Brewer Betrays Conservatives, Forces Through Huge Obamacare Medicaid Expansion
- John Ransom: Vacant Buildings Now Cost Half Billion Dollars Plus, But Who’s Counting? Not the Government
- Michael Barone: A Libertarian Turn on Marijuana Legalization, Same-Sex Marriage and Gun Rights
- Star Parker: Two Black Democrats Become Republicans in Louisiana
- Katie Kieffer: How Super Bowl Champion Matt Birk Helps Women
- Michael Schaus: Heaven Forbid We Have Lawmakers Live Like the Rest of Us
- Mike Shedlock: Anti-Euro Party Soars in German Online Poll
- Political Calculations: Fed Reports Taxes, Not Sequester, Drag on GDP
- Daniel J. Mitchell: Ex-Communist Spy Chief Says Europeans Have a “Dependency Mentality”
- Terry Paulson: A Call for Convicted Civility
- Dan Holler: Amnesty First, Citizenship Second, Border Security Maybe
- Matt Barber: Liberals and Conservatives, Unite!
- Mark Baisley: Can't Innovate? Apple's Next Innovation is Stamped "Made in America"
- Morgan Brittany: The 50 Rip-Off Charities: Give at Your Own Risk
- Jeff Jacoby: Employers Are Not Immigration Officers
Sun. Jun 16
- John Ransom: Even Comrades Can't Make This Up: Unions Exempt from Extortion Laws
- Derek Hunter: Will Marco Rubio Be Hoisted On His Own Petard?
- Doug Giles: Happy Father’s Day, Patriot: I Hope You’re Raising Your Kids to be Righteously Rebellious
- Mike Shedlock: Dumb and Dumber Tax Hikes
- Daniel J. Mitchell: Other than Obama and Krugman, Is there Anybody Who Still Thinks Bigger Government Is Good for Growth?
- Political Calculations: The S&P 500's Expected Behavior Continues
- Debra J. Saunders: Research: a Health Hazard
- Night Watch: Battle Rages in Historic Aleppo
- Bruce Bialosky: Solving the Immigration Puzzle
- Steve Chapman: Birth Control Without the Middleman
- Michael Brown: A Sobering Lesson For Fathers
- Lincoln Brown: Immigrants Don't Matter to Them
- James Allen: All Men Can Be Fathers
- Marita Noon: Greenbacks Beat the Greens in Uber-Green California
- Jeff Crouere: The Ruination of Rubio
- Michael Youssef: Duplicity of the Obama Administration Is Not New
- Paul Jacob: Brothers in Crime
- Bill O'Reilly: Who's Your Daddy?
Sat. Jun 15
- John Ransom: Putin Slams Obama's B.S.
- John Hawkins: Everything You Need To Know About The Rubio/McCain Amnesty Catastrophe In 15 Quotes
- Neil McCabe: Boehner’s ‘Hastert Rule’ Revoke For Obama’s Immigration Agenda Puts GOP Rule at Risk
- Cal Thomas: Broadcast nets: Ailes is What's Good For You
- Mike Shedlock: Do You Trust Banks? Country by County Comparison
- Ransom Notes Radio: Your Friendly Labor Union Mafia Boss
- John C. Goodman: Liberals and Spying
- Daniel J. Mitchell: Can You Find It in Your Heart to Feel Sympathy for Politicians and their Staff?
- Caroline Glick: Oil Brings us to a Better Place
- Brett Bogus: The Failure of Abenomics
- Kathryn Lopez: A Better Choice
- Charles Payne: Smiling Faces More Dangerous
- Kevin McCullough: Clark's Two Dads
- Julie Gunlock: Radical Environmentalists Should Mind Their Own Business
- Bill Tatro: Trickle-Down Economics Meets Modern Day Reality
- Crista Huff: Stocks in the News: Smith & Wesson Ups Expectations
- Steve Deace: The Libertarians Were Right
- Fritz Pfister: Interest Rates Shake Up Home Sales
- Michael Medved: Filling a Void
Fri. Jun 14
- Alan Sears: Government Does Not Know Best
- Wayne Allyn Root: Trust My Government? Are You Kidding?
- Rich Galen: Rumblings on the Left
- Michelle Malkin: Barack Obama's "Social Innovation" Slush Fund
- Mark Davis: The Snowden Effect
- John Ransom: Ushackle Us From Progressive Mob Rule
- Brent Bozell: Obama and the Callous Kanye Culture
- Jonah Goldberg: Freedom: The Unfolding Revolution
- David Limbaugh: The Buck Never Reaches Obama
- Mona Charen: Subsidizing Disaster
- Pat Buchanan: The Bell Tolls for the 'New Majority'
- Suzanne Fields: 'Common Core': Corruption and Correction
- Mike Shedlock: New Accounting Rules Will Force States to Admit Problems
- Ransom Notes Radio: Biden Slams NSA Spying...in 2006
- Daniel J. Mitchell: More Insanity from Greece
- Night Watch: North Korea Denies Backing Out of Talks
- Linda Chavez: Real Change for Iran
- Donald Lambro: Obama's Scandals Driving Down His Job Approval
- Charles Payne: Still Hip - Great American Companies
- Diana West: No Constitution, No Borders, No USA
- Jerry Bowyer: Let's Talk About Sex: Why More Babies Means More Economic Growth
- Scottie Hughes: This is Not a Scandal
- Christopher Prandoni: Mining Industry’s Fate to be Determined by Anti-Mining EPA
- Douglas MacKinnon: As Usual, GOP Caves on Principles
- Crista Huff: Eh, Safeway Sells Stores to Canada
- Bill Tatro: Bring Your “A” Game
- Roger Schlesinger: One Mystery of the Modern World Answered, Really
- Cliff May: Iran's Meaningless Presidential Elections
Thu. Jun 13
- Todd Starnes: School Threatens to Ruin Valedictorian’s Naval Academy Appointment
- Cal Thomas: Foreign Affairs
- Jackie Gingrich Cushman: City on a Hill
- Kurt Schlichter: The Immigration “Crisis” Is No Crisis
- Victor Davis Hanson: America's Vast Margin of Error
- Michael Barone: NSA Surveillance, If Ungentlemanly, Is Not Illegal
- John Ransom: Obama Tear Down this Wall: China on Capitalism, Russia on Domestic Snooping
- Larry Elder: Obama Demonstrates the Evil of Big Government
- Michael Reagan: Father’s Day Message
- Michael Schaus: The Social Cost of Carbon – Another Example of Data Manipulation
- Mike Shedlock: Fierce Selloff in Emerging Market Currencies
- Ransom Notes Radio: Who is Scanning Your Child’s Retinas?
- Daniel J. Mitchell: Two Tax-Hiking RINOs Slain in GOP Virginia Primary
- Debra J. Saunders: Young IT Guys Who Knew Too Much
- David Harsanyi: The Left's Phony Defense of Freedom
- Night Watch: North Korea Backs Out of Negotiations
- Matt Towery: Will the Case of the "Lone Leaker" Divert Attention?
- Brett Bogus: What The Government Knows About You
- Steve Chapman: Presidents 2, Democracy 0
- Charles Payne: Lessons From Iran
- Emmett Tyrrell: Throw The Book At Him
- Roger Schlesinger: How Do We Turn Around America?
- Crista Huff: Teva Shells Out $1.6 Billion to Pfizer
- Ann Coulter: If the GOP Is This Stupid It Deserves to Die
Wed. Jun 12
- Todd Starnes: Obama ‘Strongly Objects’ to Religious Liberty Amendment
- Jerry Newcombe: Oh the Profanity!
- Jeff Jacoby: A Conservative's Case For Confirming Samantha Power
- Todd Starnes: HGTV: Use American Flag as Table Cloth
- Rich Galen: State Department Behaving Undiplomatically
- Ken Connor: Vive La France: It's About the Children
- Bob Barr: Even if You Have Nothing to Hide You Have Something to Fear
- Thomas Sowell: Sex and the Military
- Michelle Malkin: Obama's Definition of "Smarter Enforcement": None
- John Stossel: Terror and Safety
- Walter E. Williams: Unnecessary Tragedy
- Brent Bozell: Obama Less Tyrannical Than Bush?
- Jonah Goldberg: We Can't Trust Obama
- Mike Shedlock: Uh, Oh: Mortgage Refis Plunge
- Ransom Notes Radio: If Clinton is Father of the Year, Obama is Big Brother of the Year
- Daniel J. Mitchell: A Frontrunner for the 2013 Bureaucrat-of-the-Year Award?
- Ben Shapiro: 7 Reasons to Worry About Federal Surveillance
- Terry Jeffrey: Fewer Visas or More Surveillance?
- Night Watch: North Korea Agrees to Negotiations
- Austin Bay: No Denial on the Nile: Egypt Threatens Ethiopian Dams
- Brett Bogus: The Value of a FreePort , Half a World Away
- Paul Greenberg: Just Follow The Numbers
- Ralph Benko: George Gilder, Supply Side Intellectual Titan, Returns Bearing Knowledge And Power
- Donald Lambro: The Real Story: A Major Breach of National Security on Obama's Watch
- Jacob Sullum: We're Only Spying on Ourselves
- Crista Huff: Dole Food CEO Wants Leftovers
- Andrew Langer: Cutting Budget Corners Hurts Military Preparedness
- Ann-Marie Murrell: Withstanding the "Obamaslaught"
- Armstrong Williams: The College Scam
- Carrie Schwab Pomerantz: Paying Off Student Debt: Can You Find a Financial Balance?
- Bill Tatro: Only a Modest Illegal Search by Government
- Hector Barreto: The More You Learn, The Less You'll Like: Nominee is Bad News For Obama Labor Board
Tue. Jun 11
- Rachel Marsden: NSA's PRISM Program Falls Victim to an Ego Trip
- Todd Starnes: Huelskamp: Military Targeting Christian Soldiers
- Phyllis Schlafly: Big Brother Obama Is Watching
- Byron York: On Judges, Obama Tells GOP: Don't Do Unto Me As I Did Unto You
- Michael Brown: When You Think Your Mother is a Vampire
- Thomas Sowell: Economics vs. 'Need'
- Chuck Norris: Is Your Food Being 'Poisoned'?
- John Ransom: As Obama Gets More Unstable, the Economy Stabilizes, Just as Planned
- John Hawkins: 5 Reasons the Rubio/McCain Amnesty Bill Is The Next Obamacare
- David Limbaugh: You'd Better Believe This Is Obama's America
- Mona Charen: Keeping Us Safe From Obama
- Cal Thomas: When Government Can't Be Trusted
- Dennis Prager: A Christian Minister Opposes 'God Bless America'
- Pat Buchanan: Our Guardian Angel Big Brother?
- Dave Ramsey: Dave Says Pay the Lady
- Mike Shedlock: Return of the Silly Season
- Ransom Notes Radio: Good Morning NSA!
- Daniel J. Mitchell: Let’s Hope for Heavy Casualties on Both Sides Between the IMF and European Commission
- Debra J. Saunders: Obamacare Math Won't Add Up
- Brett Bogus: An Opaque PRISM
- Paul Greenberg: God Save The Queen
- Bob Beauprez: Obama's "Light Touch" Sanctimony
- Charles Payne: Mankind, Anxiety, Fear & Loathing...
- Bill Murchison: Twenty-First Century Morality, Writ Frighteningly
- John Browne: Crushing the Middle Class
- Ann-Marie Murrell: A World Without the Internet: Are We Prepared?
- Marvin Olasky: Where are they now?
- Robert Knight: Why Big Government is The Goliath to be Feared
- John Bennett: Caught on Camera: Kelly Ayotte Repeatedly Claimed to Oppose Amnesty as Candidate
- Rick Santorum: America Demands Truth on Benghazi
- Crista Huff: Comcast Has Plans for Your Hotspot
