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We Have Been Betrayed

By Laura Hollis (Nov 23, 2009)

We are being betrayed by those we elected to represent us.  If the Senate vote over the weekend proved anything, it is that word “moderate” is synonymous with... more

They’re ALL Communists

By Laura Hollis (Oct 21, 2009)

Back when people were tippy-toeing around the “s” word (“socialist”), and before he was elected, I called out Obama’s basic political inclinations for what they are -... more

Wilson, West Prove that Rude Isn't Racial

By Laura Hollis (Sep 15, 2009)

Of all the absurd accusations being tossed around in the wake of Congressman Joe Wilson's outburst during President Obama's address to Congress last week, the most... more

Don't Call Them Progressives

By Laura Hollis (Sep 02, 2009)

The Lefties are at it again. Having completely destroyed that fine word, “liberal,” along with the enlightened 18th century sensibilities that went with it, they have now... more

Health care slaves? “Public goods” versus private exchange

By Laura Hollis (Aug 17, 2009)

Conservative public policy is often attacked because it fails to “fix” human nature. But liberal public policy usually fails because it ignores human nature. A conversation... more

Americans Must Refuse to Be Cowed into Submission

By Laura Hollis (Aug 12, 2009)

If Americans had any doubt how the liberal elite (Democrats in Congress, the press, the entertainment industry) felt about them before this month’s congressional recess,... more

Who's "Slutty" Now?

By Laura Hollis (Jun 24, 2009)

Just a couple of weeks ago, late-night comic David Letterman continued the media’s incomprehensible hatefest on Sarah Palin. (Incomprehensible at least in part because her... more

Happy (Founding) Father’s Day

By Laura Hollis (Jun 21, 2009)

On this annual holiday, we typically celebrate the men who gave us life, loved us, raised us, cared for us, instructed us. In that spirit, I wanted to honor the men whose... more

Governance By Destruction

By Laura Hollis (Jun 17, 2009)

How many Americans, enamored with über-Lefty Barack Obama’s promise of “hope” and“change” have stopped to consider what America will look like when made over in the liberal... more

100 Days and Awful in (Almost) 100 Ways

By Laura Hollis (Apr 29, 2009)

Obama has now been in office 100 days.  Let’s review his record, shall we?  So far, the Bringer of Hope, Change, Peace, Administrative Transparency, Bipartisanship,... more

Corporation, Sell Thyself

By Laura Hollis (Apr 06, 2009)

The American corporation has been the greatest creator – and distributor – of wealth in the history of the human race.  Nothing else even comes close: no government, no... more

“Social justice” Catholicism hits bottom

By Laura Hollis (Mar 26, 2009)

I have been plenty ashamed of my alma mater in recent years.  Allowing performances of the artistically meritless and gratuitously vulgar play, “The Vagina Monologues”... more

Let the "moderate" Obama voters' beware

By Laura Hollis (Mar 04, 2009)

This is priceless. David Brooks is having a bit of "buyer's remorse" over Barack Obama? In Tuesday’s New York Times editorial, Brooks laments that moderates thought Obama was... more

Beyond "No": The Need for Entrepreneurial Thinking, Part I

By Laura Hollis (Mar 03, 2009)

Last week’s CPAC conference was apparently brimming with new conservative energy – and further admonitions that Republicans have to be more than just “the party of... more

The Taxpayers' Mantra: No We Won't

By Laura Hollis (Feb 24, 2009)

 “I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win – and that no manner of injury done to him by others... more

Newsflash: They don’t want a “stimulus”

By Laura Hollis (Feb 16, 2009)

There is a principle called “Occam’s Razor,” which has been interpreted to mean that the simplest of two competing theories is usually the right one.  This comes to mind... more

The New Americans: Peasants by Choice

By Laura Hollis (Feb 11, 2009)

I’ve been watching the excellent BBC mini-series entitled, “Fall of Eagles.” Filmed in 1974, it tells the stories of the collapse of three enormous dynasties: the Hapsburgs... more

Obama's First Export: Abortion

By Laura Hollis (Jan 27, 2009)

Well, that didn’t take long.  Only 72 hours after he took the oath of office, newly-minted President Barack Obama signed an executive order releasing federal funds to... more