Should we turn Iowa into the abortion Mecca of America?
By Tom Quiner What a beautiful state, Iowa. Our soil is black and loaded with life. We feed the world. Our people are sensible, hard-working folks. There are no finer people in the world than Iowans. I’ve had the opportunity to travel the country over the years. Americans are great everywhere. But Iowans are always…
Read MoreIn memory of a Day of Infamy: December 7th, 1941
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Read MoreWhat’s wrong with the President’s deficit reduction commission?
By Tom Quiner I sincerely appreciate the thought put into solving America’s debt crisis by the President’s deficit reduction commission. Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson and the rest of the panel worked hard at trying to solve the mess created by our Congress. To be clear, Congress is the blame. They have the power of…
Read MoreWill lame-duck Democrats increase taxes and federal spending?
By Tom Quiner Tax rates are going up on all earners unless Democrats prevent it. Republicans are 100% on board to prevent tax rates from going up, which is what will happen if the Bush tax cuts from 2001 and 2003 are allowed to expire. Nancy Pelosi wants to increase rates for America’s most-productive workers.…
Read MoreU.S. taxpayers fund ant-covered Mohammed art exhibit at the Smithsonian
By Tom Quiner Did that headline get your attention? It’s not totally accurate. In fact, the nationally-funded National Portrait Gallery, a part of the Smithsonian Institute, IS featuring an exhibit with an important religious figure covered with ants. Only it’s not Mohammed. It’s Jesus. It is politiically-correct to desecrate Christ with tax-payer money. It is…
Read MoreLet’s blame God
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGJWBWcFD_4&feature=player_embedded] What do Steve Johnson and Christopher Hitchen have in common? They both blame God. Mr. Johnson is a wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills. Mr. Hitchens is a political columnist and author of the book, God is Not Great. Unlike Mr. Johnson, he is a champion of the new atheism. This…
Read MoreAn interview with the composer of The Pope of the People
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zXfPcO1kFM&feature] I consider the late Pope John Paul II to be one of the most important persons of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I have written a musical, The Pope of the People, on the dramatic first ten years of his papacy. I talk a little about the piece in the interview…
Read MoreAn easy way to visualize America’s debt problem
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWt8hTayupE] I like this video. You can visualize the magnitude of our national debt problem and how it is driven by entitlement programs. This video was made before Obamacare was passed. The picture is only going to get worse once it kicks in in its entirety. We have to get a grip…
Read MoreWhy tax increases are bad for the deficit
Since World War II, each new dollar raised in taxes has led to $1.17 in new government spending. Taxes won’t cut deficits. Only spending restraint will.
Read MoreAre you willing to strip naked in public for the sake of political correctness?
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-jdDE6bFow] Here is news you may have missed from this past weekend: Lashkar-e-Taliban gunment barged into a home in India and murdered a 60 year-old woman. This group is a militant Islamic organization whose goal is to introduce an Islamic state in South Asia. In Iraq, an 8 year old girl and…
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