The Competent Conservative

In light of what Mark posted a few days ago regarding “The Man Who Helped Me Realize I was a Conservative”, this article by Mark Steyn has surfaced.  Many of use have heard about what happened in Chappaquiddick pond, but the rising generation may need a little help understanding the nature of Ted Kennedy.  Mark [...]

By Sasha Issenberg- Boston Globe The Long Distance Runner While other 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls crash, burn, and sputter, Mitt Romney has quietly been raising millions, casting himself as a New Hampshire son, keeping cozy with the NRA, and otherwise perfecting his Mr. Perfect approach. Just before Thanksgiving last year, a group of former aides [...]

I just came across an article from the American Thinker that I just had to pass on.  It’s too long to post here so here is the link: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/this_will_never_be_a_eurosocia.html Europe was a breeding ground for Socialism and Communism because they have a long, long history of the people being subject to the government.  They were/are [...]

For all his faults, Senator Edward M. Kennedy was an effective politician. You have to give him that.  I must say, however, that for all my strong disagreements with the man, I do owe the man one thing…my Conservatism. As a kid growing up in a Blue State, I bought the line that Chappaquidick was [...]

The US banking system will lose some 1,000 institutions over the next two years, said John Kanas, whose private equity firm bought BankUnited of Florida in May. “We’ve already lost 81 this year,” he told CNBC. “The numbers are climbing every day. Many of these institutions nobody’s ever heard of. They’re smaller companies.” Failed banks [...]

A new study is out that shows that Obamacare would kill jobs in America.  Section 441 of the H.R. bill requires that “high income” individuals would pay a surcharge of 1 percent to 5.4 percent.  Why can’t our current leadership understand that anytime you raise fees on employers, you are actually hurting the wage earner?  [...]

Remember the townhall event the other day when President Obama said “nobody’s talking about government run health care“?  Well, this is exactly the type of rhetoric we cautioned people against in an earlier post when I said that the White House will most likely not alter the health bill, but instead will insult the intelligence [...]

Finally, Governor Romney is able to defend the MA health care bill that got nearly every citizen in MA insured.  He was able to clear the record on CBS, as well as on CNN, and is well positioned to be the alternative in 2012.  I can see it now -Romney Vs Obama on health care [...]

Mitt Romney was interviewed by CNN and was asked how questions about Romneycare as well as Obamacare. Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a><br /><br /> To listen to Governor Romney on Sean Hannity’s radio show, click here.

In a recent NY Times op ed,  novelist and former respiratory therapist Richard Dooling takes the reasonable healthcare question of ‘prolonging life vs. prolonging death’ and turns it into a virtual mandate that the elderly must do us all a favor and quickly exit in a cost efficient manner. Read on as the euthanasia supporters [...]