Author Archives: Concerned Conservative

townhall.com/columnistsby Laura Hollis 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 – communist. Though plenty pooh-poohed this, and called it extreme or … Continue reading →

Townhall.comBy Cal Thomas During the Cold War, the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe were among the broadcast entities that effectively penetrated the Iron Curtain to deliver truth to the “captive nations” that were being fed a steady dose … Continue reading →

The Wall Street Journal Opinion JournalBy JOHN FUNDMao Tse Tung is one of White House communications director Anita Dunn’s favorite philosophers. Anita Dunn, the White House’s communications director who has declared war on Fox News, came under scrutiny herself last … Continue reading →

The Wall Street Journal Opinion JournalDaniel Henninger“With fakery everywhere today, people retreat into a shell of cynicism about everything.” The “balloon boy” floating over Colorado last week got me thinking of the Obama photo-op airliner flying around lower Manhattan last … Continue reading →

When I read this title I thought: “Man, he’s got it!! Obama is nothing but an empty airbag!” This is what I believe – he’s a bunch of hype with no substance. Now this is fortunate for us, because we … Continue reading →

by Jeff JacobyThe Boston GlobeOctober 21, 2009 IT WAS GETTING LATE one evening in Prague, a few months after the 1989 Velvet Revolution, and as we walked along Wenceslas Square, my companion, a Prague native, began to weep. When I … Continue reading →

THE National Health Service has spent £1.5m paying for hundreds of its staff to have private health treatment so they can leapfrog their own waiting lists. More than 3,000 staff, including doctors and nurses, have gone private at the taxpayers’ … Continue reading →

The world thinks better of the United States, we are told, because Barack Obama is in the White House. Maybe the world is wrong. It’s fanciful, of course, to speak of what “the world” thinks about anything. It’s safe to … Continue reading →

The Search for the Wikipedia Libelist (important update)Jim Alterthe American Thinker BlogThanks to an intrepid blogger with the tag Trapdoc posting a letter to Mark Steyn, the search for the Wikipedia Libelist responsible for damaging posts to the Rush Limbaugh … Continue reading →

by Scott HolleranThe world is full of dictatorships — Iran, Saudi Arabia and China — yet, because it was founded on individual rights, America stands alone as man’s best hope for freedom. But it is changing from a nation based … Continue reading →