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Relevance: 8% Posted on: August 20, 2013
The left’s war on Walmart ramped up a notch a few weeks ago, when a higher-up in the Bentonville, Arkansas, company let loose with an email defending the big box store’s wage policies. As reported at The Daily Beast, Steve Restivo, “a senior director of communications at Walmart,” took umbrage…
Relevance: 8% Posted on: March 24, 2015
Big government rests upon myths, and the people who support it necessarily believe things about politics and society — and themselves — that simply aren’t true. This week, a new report from the Government Accountability Office shows just who benefits from federal crop insurance subsidies: big businesses, billionaires, and the…
Relevance: 8% Posted on: November 26, 2009
Paul Jacob says “Thank You” What a difference a year makes. As I sit down to my Thanksgiving Day feast, that's what I'm thinking. And I certainly know I have a whole lot to be thankful for. Let me start by thanking you. For caring about freedom and justice. For…
Relevance: 8% Posted on: July 22, 2014
Wage war on everything? Expect casualties everywhere. And refugees from all over the place. Continue the wars we admit to be un-winnable and never-ending? Then expect, also, to find new victims cropping up all the time, and in unpredictable corners. New enemies, too. The lesson is: choose your wars carefully.…
Relevance: 8% Posted on: January 26, 2016
Spare this nation President Hillary Clinton. But how? If you think Hillary Clinton is going to be indicted for her illegal misuse of classified documents, you haven’t been paying attention. Attorney General Loretta Sanchez, appointed by President Obama, has discretion not to indict. She’ll use it. Want to argue that…
Relevance: 8% Posted on: July 21, 2015
Sometimes the good guys win . . . but only when they stand up to the bad guys. Nowhere is this more true than in politics, especially with the increasingly vicious partisan attempts to criminalize opposition. On a fall day back in 2012, before dawn, SWAT-styled police with battering rams raided the private…
Relevance: 7% Posted on: May 25, 2004
Paul Jacob Mention initiative, referendum, and recall to political insiders and you'll hear a one-word rebuttal: California! California politics is almost universally portrayed as, well, a little loony. California stands out from other states of the union, of course, for a host of reasons, from the sheer size and diversity…
Relevance: 7% Posted on: April 28, 2015
The United States of America is a republic, of course. Not a democracy. Yet, it is through democracy — that is, via democratic means — that we maintain the Republic and thus, maintain the bulwark protecting our freedom as individuals. Or not. “We the People” elect our representatives at the…
Relevance: 6% Posted on: March 5, 2010
Tomorrow, I turn 50. Time flies when you’re having fun. For the last 30-plus years — my entire adult life — I’ve worked in politics. That might not seem like much fun. Politics is a constant struggle, a slog. But working for freedom — in one crusade or another —…
Relevance: 6% Posted on: January 3, 2017
Yes, the U.N. does some good things. But the assumption that, if the United Nations didn’t exist, those good things wouldn’t get done is ridiculous. It’s like saying that if government didn’t pick up your garbage, garbage would never get collected. Meanwhile, the U.N. does all manner of terrible things,…