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Doug Patton

(Editor’s note: Doug Patton passed away on February 27, 2014. He will be greatly missed.) RIP Doug Patton – beloved husband, father and columnist Doug Patton was s a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and policy advisor to conservative candidates, elected officials and public policy organizations.

Most Recent Articles by Doug Patton:

Obama’s Useful Idiots ‘Occupy’ America

Vladimir Lenin is reputed to have coined the phrase "useful idiots" to describe those in the West who acted as apologists for the political brutality and economic failure of Soviet Communism. The phrase kept coming to mind as I watched the so-called "occupiers" marching in various cities across the country.
- Tuesday, October 18, 2011

If I Only Had a Heart, Part 2

Ever since Texas Gov. Rick Perry told the majority of Americans that we are without hearts because we disagree with his policy of giving in-state tuition to the children of illegal aliens, I have been thinking of all the other heartless ways in which I fail daily to demonstrate the requisite amount of appreciation for having my government steal my money, give it to other people and then castigate me for objecting to the entire process.
- Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Barack Obama Has No Clothes

Some of the best children's stories convey moral messages that speak universal truths. One of my favorites is Hans Christian Andersen's 1837 yarn, "The Emperor's New Clothes," which tells the tale of an arrogant king obsessed with his appearance.
- Monday, September 12, 2011

The War is On

In his book, "The Art of Political War," 1960s leftist-radical-turned-conservative David Horowitz wrote that politics is war by other means. He was right.
- Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Buffett, a Kinder, Gentler Soros

"The largest single barrier to full employment of our manpower and resources, and to a higher rate of economic growth, is the unrealistically heavy drag of federal income taxes on private purchasing power, initiative and incentive." – President John F. Kennedy in a special message to Congress on tax reduction and reform Jan. 24, 1963 It is one of the great political lies of modern American life that the ultra-wealthy are all conservative Republicans. If only it were true. Take Warren Buffett, for instance. He is one of the wealthiest men in the world, with a personal fortune estimated at approximately $50 billion. He has been an investor for six decades. As a businessman, you would think he was conservative. Well, you would be wrong.
- Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Rick Perry: Gipper or another Bush?

If all I knew about the Republican presidential candidates is what I saw on that stage in Ames, Iowa, last week, my candidates would be Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.
- Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Only Republicans Can Re-elect Obama

I remember someone asking me at a Christmas party after the 2008 election what I thought an Obama presidency was going to be like. My response: "I think it will be a socialist nightmare — but Republicans have only themselves to blame."
- Monday, August 8, 2011

There is the Real World, and There is Washington

Imagine receiving your monthly bills — gas, water, electric, cable TV, cell phone, insurance, even your home mortgage — and tossing them all into a drawer unopened. Then, as the shut-off notices start rolling in, picture yourself reaching for the plastic in your wallet to pay them on credit.
- Tuesday, August 2, 2011

This is Not Leadership

As the United States of America continues to drift, many Americans still seem perplexed that after two-and-a-half years, Barack Obama is a walking contradiction. He cannot seem to lead; he can only follow and dictate. He has no policies, only vague concepts and Marxist ideology. He starts wars and calls them something else. He simultaneously makes Congress responsible and yet irrelevant. He refuses to be held accountable for anything. It’s all still Bush’s fault, you know.
- Tuesday, July 26, 2011

We Are All Barbarians

Marcus and Michele Bachmann are embarking on the greatest adventure and the worst nightmare of their lives. When the Minnesota congresswoman announced that she was running for president of the United States, she threw down the gauntlet to the enemies of decency and tradition. The Bachmanns clearly knew they were in for one wild ride, as evidenced by the latest attack on them by the homosexual lobby and the weasels in the mainstream media.
- Monday, July 18, 2011

Sex, Lies and Government Schools

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." — Abraham Lincoln It is no secret that government schools across the United States have become indoctrination centers for the spreading of a social gospel that is anathema to the values of the majority of American parents. Public education is largely run by union bosses and liberal school boards protecting incompetent educrats who push an agenda that has nothing to do with teaching children how to think and everything to do with teaching them what to think. Hitler, Stalin and Mao would be proud.
- Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Bachmann Knows Her Constitution

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann has proven once more that she is no lightweight in the contest for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. But you are not likely to hear that view from any of the vacuous talking heads on the network news. It doesn’t fit their template.
- Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Romney A Weak Front Runner

Are you tired of the media and the Republican establishment proclaiming Mitt Romney the "front runner" for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination? If history means anything — and it means little to many these days — it tells us that the person leading the field at this point is rarely the eventual nominee, especially when that candidate's lead is as anemic as is Mitt Romney's.
- Monday, June 20, 2011

PDS Has Consumed the MSM

Rush Limbaugh has been saying for some time — at least since John McCain put Sarah Palin on the 2008 GOP presidential ticket — that one can always tell whom liberals fear most by the lengths to which they will go to destroy that person. I include in that sweeping indictment today's vacuous, narcissistic, so-called mainstream media, which has been selling its collective soul to the political left for decades now, but which completed the sale when it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Barack Obama's never-ending presidential campaign. Obviously, no person since Ronald Reagan has frightened the political left in this country as has Sarah Palin.
- Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Ryan-Rubio, Now That’s the Ticket!

Bill Kristol has always struck me as an aspiring Fox News version of George Will, a kind neoconservative Republican who would inevitably endorse a Mitt Romney or a Tim Pawlenty or a Newt Gingrich. Oh, sure, he has said some nice things about Sarah Palin in his capacity as a commentator, but having worked in the George H.W. Bush administration, it just seemed logical that he would support the establishment candidate who wouldn't rock the Beltway boat too far in either direction. It seems I was wrong.
- Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Can We Trade Barack for Bibi?

Let's just get it out in the open right now. I would like to trade Barack Obama for Benjamin Netanyahu. I know, I know, Netanyahu was not born in the United States, but then…well, let's not open that can of worms again. The bottom line is that the Israeli prime minister is one of the premier leaders in the world today, while Obama is one of the premier aspiring dictators. Ask yourself; wouldn't you honestly prefer an Israeli conservative to a Muslim sympathizer?
- Sunday, May 22, 2011

I like Mike, but it doesn’t matter now

Ever since he first announced his intention to seek the presidency last time around, I have made no secret of my admiration for Mike Huckabee. On the national stage, I had come to believe that Huckabee was a moral and political giant among pigmies. I even wrote in late 2007 that I agreed with his then-campaign manager and former Ronald Reagan aide, Ed Rollins, that Huckabee could well be the heir to the legacy of the Gipper himself. I had hoped that the former Arkansas governor would run again in 2012. Last Saturday night on his Fox News program, he informed the world that he would not.
- Monday, May 16, 2011

Thank You, Mr. President

The world's foremost terrorist is dead, and it seems that thanks are in order. When a leader is deserving of praise, it is only right that those of us who opine on the nature of such things should give credit where credit is due. So I would like to say thank you, Mr. President. Yes, that's right. I would like to say thank you to the man responsible for getting Osama bin Laden. That man is George W. Bush.
- Monday, May 9, 2011

We Need New Definitions of Rich and Poor

"Contentment makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor." —Benjamin Franklin Much has been written about the Greatest Generation, and with good reason. They grew up during the harsh years of the Great Depression; then, just as they were reaching adulthood, they were asked to save the world from tyranny — which they did, even though many of them were still teenagers.
- Monday, May 2, 2011

Obama Seems Incapable of Loving America

Do forty percent of Americans really hate their country, or are they just too self-absorbed, apathetic and/or obtuse to recognize the loathing Barack Obama displays for the United States of America? Forty seems to be the percentage of people, give or take a few, who still express their approval of this president and his policies, in spite of the disdain he shows both for them and their country.
- Monday, April 25, 2011

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