President Barack Obama spoke last week at the National Prayer Breakfast about the need to return to civility and see God in the faces of our political opponents. The president is by and large a brilliant speaker that commands attention and speaks with seeming insight and intelligence. I emphasize the word “seeming.” Whenever any politician calls for a return to the good old days when people were civil to each other, politically or otherwise, I strain to find the mythical world they are referring to where civility and manners once reigned. In American history there has never been such a tim...

Last week, the Supreme Court issued a ruling – a ruling in support of the endangered concept of free speech. In a 5-to-4 decision, it says that the government lacks a legitimate basis to restrict campaign expenditures by companies. In other words, it scrapped major portions of McCain-Feingold campaign law. That’s good news. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the opinion, “The government may regulate corporate political speech through disclaimer and disclosure requirements, but it may not suppress that speech altogether.” Score one for the First Amendment. Now starts the whin...

Mr. Ben Nelson is a jolly old United States Senator for Nebraska. He was fighting for principle in opposing abortion funding in the health care reform moving through Congress. Now he is backing health care reform without the language he originally demanded. It would be easy to caricature Senator Nelson’s move unfairly. Some will say he is a Judas for betraying his ideals for money, but this is wrong. Judas personally benefited from his betrayal, while Senator Nelson merely got graft for his entire state. Mr. Nelson will not get thirty pieces of silver… every Nebraskan will. Each one of...

Let’s say that you have invested a pant-load of money in some business. The business is failing. You want it to succeed. You want the best executive talent you can find to step in and save the business … and your investment. Now just how helpful do you think it would be if you told the search committee looking for a new CEO that you were going to appoint some political hack to make sure that the new boss doesn’t make too much money? Can you see that any extraordinarily qualified candidate for the job would tell you to take it and shove it where even the TSA couldn’t fin...

Well, say “au revoir” to the Cash for Clunkers. As of Monday the program is history. Unfortunately for Barack Obama and the Democrats, it has left a pretty bad taste in people’s mouths. This coincides with a debate over government running our healthcare system. Maybe the administration should have thought about the implications of this program being horribly run considering its push to run healthcare. Here are just a few of the problems with the cash for clunkers: Congress, relying on auto industry forecasts that the program wouldn’t have a major effect on moribund s...