25 Oct State of the Senate
It is fascinating to me how these Senate races have turned. RCP now has the Senate going GOP even giving Georgia to Nunn (the Dems) and NOT counting Kansas at all (so if KS goes Dem it would be 51-49 Repub). This also...
19 Oct 2014 Comprehensive Bahnsen Viewpoint Voting Guide
Mid-term elections can often be more fun than Presidential elections, mainly because more interested and informed voters participate and often there are more consequential things to be voted on (both in the candidate and proposition category). 2014 is no exception. What I have...
29 Aug Five Questions to Civilly Pose to Your Liberal Friends
If I were being totally honest, I would say that it has not been my experience that very many left-leaning folks in this country want to have an honest dialogue on the key issues that separate left from right. This is particularly true amongst...
17 Aug The Great GOP Debate: Immigration
This last week I moderated a debate on the subject of immigration in Newport Beach, California. What made this debate unique is that it featured two folks quite to the right in their politics, Jon Fleischman of Breitbart.com and Flashreport.org fame, and Congressman Dana...
09 Jun Christmas in June
I do not believe it is necessary to impugn President Obama's motives about this catastrophically stupid idea of randomly forgiving massive amounts of student loan debt (and since there is no collateral, and the universities have been paid, this "forgiveness" is called "a transfer of...
05 Jun Double Down a Fascinating Inside Look at an Embarrassing Election
I was hesitant to take on the 475-page behemoth from Halperin and Heilemann when it arrived. I had pretty much left the misery of the 2012 campaign (and subsequent election results) in the past, and the degree of backlog I am suffering from right...
12 May Larry Kudlow to the Lincoln Club: Economic Growth
Saturday night represented the 52nd annual Lincoln Club of Orange County annual gala. It was a phenomenal evening of celebration, fellowship, and rallying around the cause of limited government that we as a club hold dear. I posted my speech yesterday that I...
11 May Larry Kudlow and Why America’s Best Days are Ahead
My Larry Kudlow Introduction - Lincoln Club Annual Dinner 2014 One of the major reasons I booked tonight's speaker is because I wanted to introduce him, so I come to you now with a great deal of excitement and nervousness. My overall confidence levels have grown...
18 Mar When “Non-Interventionist” Means Imperial Bully Intervention; or, Why Ron Paul does not want Rand to be President
Just when I get ready to believe that Rand's vastly superior political skills to that of his father's could make him political in the 2016 Republican Presidential primary, Ron Paul goes out and says this: Ron Paul says Putin's intervention in Crimea all good by...
04 Feb Jerry Brown and the Other Side to the Story
So while the left continues to drool over the work Gov. Jerry Brown is doing in California, gushing over a one-time $4bn surplus, might I point out a few inconvenient truths courtesy of The Economist: (1) The top 1% of earners alone pay 33% of...
