Robert Laurie

Whether he’s speaking about Afghanistan, health care, or the economy, President Obama begins each engagement by reminding America that the previous administration was an utter, abject failure. Time and time again, he tells us how he inherited a set of problems worse than any president since FDR. Everything that happened from 2000 to 2008 falls under attack, from the handling of 9/11, to the missing WMD’s and our failure to capture Bin Laden. Whatever the issue, wherever he appears, more than a year into his administration, the wisest, most intelligent president of them all, Barack Obama, is still attacking George W. Bush in nearly every speech he gives. (more)

The Obama administration loves the word “summit.” We’ve had beer summits, jobs summits, business summits, summits with auto-industry big wigs, and summits with Big Labor. In fact we’ve seen so many summits that it may well be time to change the definition of the word. It’s longer an important, possibly once-in-a-lifetime meeting between two heads of state. No, sir. These days, a summit is a gathering of people, from a specific corner of American life, that have angered or frustrated our wise commander in chief. (more)

The past five days were big ones for news that mattered. Our TVs were clogged with rumors about Howard Stern joining American Idol, Tiger’s apology, Olympic Hockey, and roughly 47 hours of Barack Obama speeches—all of which were essentially the same. In the midst of this was a story of jaw-dropping importance that I suspect most major news outlets were simply afraid to run. After all, it has the potential to shake the faith of millions of devout Christians and may just expose a cover-up that could bring the Catholic Church to its knees. I speak, of course, about the shocking revelation that Jesus Christ was gay. (more)

I was looking over my past few articles and I’ve come to the conclusion that people who don’t know me might think I’m a frightening malcontent. Due to the current political climate, it feels like I’m constantly complaining. Thanks to the train wreck being created by the president and Congress, it’s true that I haven’t been so upbeat lately. However, I’m not just some miserably bitter grouch, so I figured I should take some time run down a few things that fill me with genuine optimism. (more)

“We choose not to go to the moon. We choose not to go to the moon in the foreseeable future and not to do the other things, not because they are hard, but because they are expensive, because that goal will serve only to waste our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are unwilling to pay for, one we are unwilling to continue, and one which we intend to abandon…” (more)

Obama wants you to know that he is not, and never has been, a part of "Washington." He feels it’s vitally important that you understand this. (more)

I’ll admit it. On the night of the Massachusetts election, I watched MSNBC. I did so mostly because I wanted to see the anguished look of panic and desperation spread across Keith Olbermann’s face. I wasn’t disappointed. Olbermann spent the evening flailing desperately at explanations, like a drowning paraplegic trying to reach a life preserver, before settling on the notion that it all had to be Coakley’s fault. Once that was settled, he and Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) spent a good 20 minutes educating their audience about how Brown’s victory was actually going to be bad for Republicans. “The party of no,” they said, would finally be exposed as the obstructionist imbeciles that they are. I learned two things from this. First, listening to Stabenow is about as exciting as watching an apple turn brown. Second, die-hard, far-left Democrats are willfully refusing to learn from their loss, so Republicans had better. (more)

A great deal has been made of the Massachusetts Senate race that will, sometime tonight, fill the seat once occupied by Ted Kennedy. Prevailing wisdom suggests that a Scott Brown win could spell the end of the Democrat’s health care reform, just as a Martha Coakley victory might guarantee their passage. As a result, the race has been launched into the national spotlight and has become one of the highest-stakes Senate races in history. While the nation waits to learn the verdict in the Coakley-Brown battle, it’s worth mentioning the one inevitable outcome of the race. Regardless of who emerges as the winner, the Massachusetts election will kick Democrat hubris into overdrive. (more)

Political scholars tend to disagree about what, exactly, defines fascism.  Many go the “I know it when I see it” route, alluding to the nebulous definition of pornography, while others maintain that it doesn’t exist at all, believing instead that what we perceive as fascism is usually just a perversion of some other form of government. Largely due to Hitler’s would-be empire, the modern world views fascism as a mish-mash of bigotry, ultra-nationalism, totalitarianism, and censorship.  However, if you dig beneath the “isms,” you’re left with is a single, simple truth.  Most of the evils perpetrated by Hitler’s regime were trappings created to support an economy where private ownership of industry was coupled with a massive level of government control.  Fascism is, and always was, about money. (more)