Michael R Shannon

How Advice from Three Frenchmen Could Have Won the Shutdown Battle

Speaker John Boehner is the Adm. Karl Dönitz of Republican politics. Hemmed in on one side by the pounding batteries…

13 years ago

Government Has Met the Enemy & It Is Us

Americans are learning to their great surprise that Smokey the Bear has big, sharp teeth. Formerly warm and cuddly branches…

13 years ago

Tattoo Wars: Can a Waiting Period Prevent Stupidity?

District of Columbia leftists have been so generous in providing ideas for negative columns; it’s only fair to compliment them…

13 years ago

Off–Year Election Prospects Grim for Conservatives

In 2009 gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia provided a morale boost for conservatives still smarting from the Obama…

13 years ago

Feeling Threatened? Borrow a Legislator!

The reason the debate over the 2nd Amendment is so futile is that supporters of the amendment have two jobs…

13 years ago

TSA Annexes NFL

I never thought I’d live to see the day when you couldn’t bring more than 3 oz. of shampoo into…

13 years ago

Consultants Who Think They Are Kingmakers

A Virginia consultant no voter ever heard of endorses a candidate for governor nobody really likes and somehow it’s on…

13 years ago

Obamacare – Good Enough for You, But not Good Enough for Congress

If you want to get a very clear idea of the utter contempt in which our corrupt political class holds…

13 years ago

White House Has ‘Peculiar’ Justification for Illegal Immigration

Someone in the White House is channeling John C. Calhoun. Stephen Dinan, of the Washington Times, writes the White House…

13 years ago

Why Doesn’t George Zimmerman Mind His Own Business?

Once a vigilante, always a vigilante. One would think that after enduring a nationally–televised trial and being the subject of…

13 years ago

Time for Virginia’s GOP Governor to Resign

Virginia Gov. Bob ‘I want my Boost for breakfast’ McDonnell’s slide down the slope to complete disgrace continues. When we…

13 years ago

Science Proves Leftists Are Wimpy

Sometimes a story just sounds too good to be true. A study published in Psychological Science has found that girly–men…

13 years ago

Evangelicals Swing Both Ways on Social Issues

A significant proportion of the US population feels marginalized and suffers from perceived widespread disrespect. Their desires are discounted and…

13 years ago

There’s No Such Thing as a Slight Sense of Entitlement

We’ve all seen photos of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell. Particularly last year when he was being mentioned as a possible…

13 years ago

What If They Held a Primary and Nobody Came?

The Washington Post finally got its primary and in typical leftist fashion, they approved of the candidate selection method that…

13 years ago