BY FRANK HILL
Reprinted from TelemachusLeaps.com
On April 2, the state legislature heard ‘stunning’ testimony from the North Carolina State Board of Elections that 36,515 people in North Carolina had voted in past elections….and apparently also voted in one of 28 other states as well. These people cast ballots in two different states in the 2012 Presidential year elections. Continue reading
BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
Lobbyists groaned.
If there was any immediate result that came from the decision by Supreme Court to invalidate the Federal Election Commission, that was it.
It all started with McCain-Feingold. They were the ones who started this process towards the Age of Deform.
BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
My dad turns 80 tomorrow. My brother Brian hosted a party for him at his house in the Chicago suburbs and the DC Feeherys flew in to help him celebrate.
Eight decades can be hard on a body and for my father the last couple of years have been pretty rough. He has a form of Parkinson’s, the kind of disease that makes it awfully hard to get around and to perform basic functions. Continue reading
BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
ESPN reports: “In a potentially game-changing moment for college athletics, the Chicago district of the National Labor Relations Board ruled on Wednesday that Northwestern football players qualify as employees of the university and can unionize. NLRB regional director Peter Sung Ohr cited the players’ time commitment to their sport and the fact that their scholarships were tied directly to their performance on the field as reasons for granting them union rights.” Continue reading
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
President Barack Obama is now officially a boat anchor hanging around the necks of Democrats running for public office from east to west; from north to south and, if there is another dimension – like The Cloud – he’s a hindrance there, too.
A bunch of polls have been released this week, all of which show that, as of now, a basic distrust of the President’s abilities are baked into the American consciousness. Continue reading
BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
So, you want all of the illegal aliens to leave your local school? Then you should support common sense immigration reform.
Stanford historian Ana Raquel Minian completed an exhaustive study, consistent with other research, which found that the more the border was militarized, the more immigrants who arrived here without documentation decided to stay in America. Continue reading
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
While waiting for some actual news about that missing airliner, my attention moved back to Ukraine generally, and to the whole sanction thing in particular.
In the modern era when one country – say the United States – decides to use sanctions to bring to bear a change in behavior of another country – say Iran – the sanctions often include freezing any accounts with any connection to the sanctioned nation. Continue reading
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
A minor food fight has broken out among news anchors over the amount of attention the missing Malaysian airliner is getting on the Cable news programs.
There is no question that CNN has glommed onto this story and is not letting go. The other cable nets are often leading with the latest theory, conjecture, or unsourced leak, but then go onto other things like the Russian annexation of Crimea. Continue reading
BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
America likes winners. They vote against losers.
Obamacare is not the reason that the Republicans are going to win big this fall. Or at least, not the sole reason.
President Obama is.
The American people abhor weak leadership. Continue reading
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
When I first came to Our Nation’s Capital in 1977, Democrats held a 292-143 edge in the U.S. House – an astonishing 149 seat majority.
Over the next nearly four decades I have had to do what the poor writers at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) had to do Tuesday night after the results of the special election in Florida came in. Continue reading
BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
So the lobbyist beat the Obamacare supporter in the special election in Florida?
And the race wasn’t even that close.
David Jolly, a former lobbyist and former Staff Member to Congressman Bill Young, beat Alex Sink, a pretty well-known and well-funded Democrat who seemingly and improbably embraced Obamacare during the Continue reading
BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
“Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope…. Our task is to help replace their despair with opportunity. This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.”
President Lyndon Johnson, State of the Union, January, 1964
“Today, the poverty rate is stuck at 15 percent—the highest in a generation. And the trends are not encouraging. Federal programs are not only failing to address the Continue reading
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
Can we take a day off from Ukraine and CPAC and missing airliners to celebrate something very special? It’s the need for most of us to want to learn new things; and for being blessed by having a few people who know about those things and, more important, know how to explain them to the rest of us.
A re-booted version of the fabulously successful 80s program about space, “Cosmos; A Personal Journey,” which was hosted by the late Dr. Carl Sagan (pronounced SAY-gun) premiered jointly last night on all 10 20th Century Fox networks including the National Geographic Channel, FX, and Fox (the one that features the NFL). Continue reading
BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
CPAC started small, with a few Young Americans for Freedom (better known as Yaffers) and some folks from the American Conservative Union coming together to plot the future of a movement.
Richard Nixon was President, America was in the throes of social and cultural revolution, memories of Barry Goldwater’s epic failure in 1964 was still relatively fresh in the minds of activists, and Ronald Reagan was the hero they all hoped would save them. Continue reading
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
In addition to Vladimir Putin’s strutting and fretting his hour upon the world stage, the big news out of the U.S. Senate yesterday was that seven Democrats voted with all 44 Republicans on a test vote on the confirmation of a guy named Debo Adegbile to be the head of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.
It was a nomination put forward with some vigor by President Barack Obama. Continue reading
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
In the late 1980s, there were teams of Americans – Republicans and Democrats – who were deployed to nations that had been members of the Warsaw Pact but were now free of the Soviet yoke.
We worked with local groups to help them jump start political organizations. Center Right parties were guided by teams sent by the International Republican Institute (IRI); Center Left parties were aided by teams sent by Continue reading
BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
They fall for it every time. Those in the media who decide what is and what isn’t news can’t help themselves.
Anything that has anything to do with the gay community has to immediately become a national issue.
So, of course, this stupid bill in Arizona had the feel of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Will we go to Def Con 4? Continue reading
BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
“Don’t tax you. Don’t tax me. Tax that fella behind the tree.”
That’s how legendary Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long summed up the basic view of most Americans about tax policy.
The Beatles put it a different way:
Let me tell you how it will be
There’s one for you, nineteen for me Continue reading
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
I have been to Ukraine twice in the past four years – in January 2010 and in October 2012. None of what has gone on there over the past few months is my fault. I was on my best behavior – for me – and I left the country more-or-less as I had found it in each instance.
Ukraine – and that is its preferred name, not The Ukraine – is basically divided into two parts: The west, that as you might expect is European-facing, and the east, that feels closer in distance and culture to Russia. Continue reading
BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
Young people are knuckleheads. That’s what the First Lady said on Jimmy Fallon last night.
Thanks for the clarification.
Michelle Obama was making the case that younger Americans need to wise up and sign up for her President’s health care plan. They don’t know how to cook and often slice their fingers on sharp knives. That is why young people need Obamacare.
Or they could buy Neosporin and a band-aide. Continue reading