Tom Donelson
August 15th, 2011
Mitt Romney made a quick detour into Iowa for the August 11th debate, had an encounter with a heckler or two and then went back on the campaign trail to somewhere else that wasn't Ames. Romney declared corporations are...
August 7th, 2011
The recent unemployment numbers gave the administration some breathing room since instead of sucking totally, they were merely mediocre. It presents a challenge to Republicans since the big debates on the budget have really...
July 25th, 2011
There is a lesson from the Harry Potter series worth examining - what happens to a society when the governing class ceases to govern effectively and worries more about protecting itself? Throughout the Harry Potter series,...
July 17th, 2011
With August 2nd approaching and doomsday for the American economy just around the corner, Barack Obama is attempting once again to play mediator/hard ball ideologue in his attempt to get Republicans to raise a ton of taxes...
July 6th, 2011
Of man created climate change... There are two important thoughts to consider.The United States has an abundance of recoverable energy sources including, oil, natural gas and coal. The Congressional Research Center concluded...
June 29th, 2011
The following should be the rules of engagement for conservatives in winning in the 2012 elections.First rule, know your opposition. Never use the word liberal, but insted use leftist in describing your...
June 5th, 2011
One very big reality about energy policy in the United States is it is held hostage to the religion of man created climate change. There are two important thoughts to consider. The first thought is that the United States...
May 21st, 2011
Sitting in the Hawkeye state and home of the first caucus, I get the opportunity to see candidates up front and personal. If you want to know why folks are excited about Herman Cain, just spend an evening with him, and you...
May 10th, 2011
The Canadian elections show important lessons for American conservatives. It begins with sound policies that make for good politics. Canadian Steve Harper has managed to lead Canada through the past economic crisis by out...
April 25th, 2011
The rally cry for Bill Clinton's first Presidential campaign was, “It’s the economy, stupid!” Conventional wisdom is that when voters decide who will be the next President, it is the economy that decides. For Republicans,...
August 8th, 2011
The crash of last week showed the brilliant people they really weren’t so brilliant after all. After several bail outs of Greece and the collapse of the Greek welfare state, Europe woke up to the fact that Italy and Spain...
August 1st, 2011
Regardless of who is declared the winner in the current debt ceiling debacle, the loser will be Obama for a simple reason, Obama owns the economy and the economy sucks. No matter how the mainstream media handicaps this, the...
July 21st, 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 concluded the adventure of the boy wizard versus the evil Lord Voldemort. The movie does not follow the book faithfully at every point, but it does follow the book theme of...
July 11th, 2011
Imagine a Republican President had allowed illegal arms to go across the border and found that those same arms were used in crimes on federal officers on both sides of the border by drug cartels. How long would this...
June 30th, 2011
A recent story in USA Today showed a severe problem about Republican strategy for 2012 when they did a story on Republican outreach to Hispanics. Or I should say the lack of Republican outreach to Hispanics....
June 27th, 2011
There is one word to describe Obama’s foreign policy, incomprehensible. No one can truly make sense of this policy other than to say, if it is the wrong move, it will be done. Case in point, Libya. Obama procrastinated...
May 31st, 2011
Two years ago, my good friend Richard Nadler passed away. Mr. Nadler was a genius who saw opportunities in expanding the conservative majority while implementing the plans to do just that. As President of Americas PAC, I...
May 11th, 2011
There were very few tuning into the GOP presidential debate on Fox News May 5th. Advertised as the debate between the second tiers, one came away with the impression that any of those who showed up in Greenville could be...
April 29th, 2011
Dana Milbank of the Washington Post has basically given us a piece that explains Obama’s shortcoming as an executive leader; he is to damn smart to get it right. Mr. Milbank noted,“Seeking a template to understand...
April 22nd, 2011
Cecil DeMille combined showmanship, debauchery and reverence in many of his biblical features. An early important figure in early Hollywood, DeMille was a storyteller and in his 1932 now forgotten, Sign of the Cross...