The Des Moines Register publishes Quiner’s Diner essay
Readers of the Des Moines Register reacted sharply to my essay which appeared in the paper this morning. My favorite: “Quiner is a nut.”
Read MoreThe politically incorrect Steve King
“I have watched as streams of undocumented people cross into the U.S. along the Tucson sector, and as it takes an hour or more for the one border patrol agent (one single agent is assigned to a 50-mile stretch of border) to get to the scene of an apprehension and deal with a group of 15 people walking with drug backpacks.”
Read MoreWe miss Tim Russert
“The primary responsibility of the media is accountability OF government.”
Read MoreBullying for adults
” … some Iowans know of Sen. Tom Harkin’s praise of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement for their “agitation.” That “agitation” took the form of four busloads of 100 CCI members recently flooding the yard of our family home with signs and bullhorns, coming up to our house yelling and taking pictures through the window of our study. The protest originated because these people disagreed with my husband, who joined 2,500 other Iowa volunteers in a bipartisan effort called “Fix the Debt.”
Read MoreAt least they’re not drinking “Big Gulps”
A sensible compromise on the minimum wage
I present a modest proposal on how to resolve the minimum wage conflict: simply adhere to the Constitution and abolish it at the federal level. Keep in mind, the minimum wage wouldn’t go away. States would be free to continue setting their own minimum wage at whatever level they thought best for their citizens …
Read MoreA liberal stands up for free speech
Liberals aren’t comfortable with free speech. They created “political correctness” (PC) as a device to limit improper thought (e.i. conservative free speech).
Read MoreHow to determine a real scandal, according to Obama
Condi Rice sums up the Democratic Party in 75 words
A look at Detroit from the inside out
“The last thing Detroit needs is a bailout. What it needs is to sweep away a city charter that protects only bureaucrats, civil-service rules that straightjacket municipal departments, and obsolete union contracts. A bailout would just keep the dysfunction in place. Time to start over.”
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