Arthur Christopher Schaper

Tea Party Growing Pains – The US Senate Races

Lindsey Graham survived his primary challenges this season, as did Kansas US senator Pat Roberts and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee.

Nixon had the Watergate Scandal. Obama is a Floodgate of Scandals

Forty years ago this week, on August 9th, 1974, Republican President Richard Milhous Nixon resigned from the Presidency, the only president to do so.

George W. Bush: Vindicated

No matter how badly President Obama is doing, the loud leftist crowd will continue to shout: Bush Lied. People Died. The Left, the desperate Dems, and every liberal interest group not interested in the truth is going to jump up and down to distract and demean anyone who points out that President Obama lied repeatedly about his signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act.

The Irrepressible Arab-Israeli Conflict

Rockets are firing once again between Israel and Gaza, and the prolonged Arab-Israeli conflict is getting fiercer, with no signs of stopping any time soon. This time, the Western powers, including the United States, seem more sympathetic to the Gazans than Israel, and the pressure for more concessions has never been stronger.

Conscientious Objector Gordon Hirabayashi: "The Constitution Protects Us"

On Saturday, April 5, 2014, I attended a presentation hosted by the Japanese American Historical Society of Southern California and the City of Torrance Public Library: A Principled Stand: The story of Hirabayashi v. United States

United States Government: Dysfunction as Proper Function of Government‏

"Democracy is a failure", Italian dictator Benito "Il Duce" Mussolini once boasted, all while bragging about the ruthless efficiency of his fascist government, which finally got the trains in his native Italy to move on time. In a similar vein, many partisans on the left and the right are sounding off against the gridlock which is seizing up any meaningful progress in the United States Federal Government.

California Judge Strikes Down Teacher Tenure

Where legislators have failed, where governors have accommodated, judges are stepping up and reforming sclerotic, bureaucratic roadblocks which have empowered unions while impoverishing students, parents, and families.

SCOTUS Says "No!" to POTUS

Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. -- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 78, 1788 The genius of the United States Constitution lies in the checks and balances of power, not the award of power to the people or any dedicated interest (or elitist) group.

The Frustrations of Modern Conservatism

No matter how many steps, however small, limited government advocates make toward pushing back the encroachments of the Obama Administration, radio talk shows hosts, columnists, and eternal critics all will contend "not enough!"

Pro-Life // Pro-Marriage is Extreme -- Why? (And What to do about it)

Today, to define marriage as one man and one woman – that is an extreme position. “Since when should marriage be limited to one man and one woman?” Critics argue.

Obama's DREAM: Exploitative Nightmare

President Obama's incredibly immoral DREAM Executive Order has undercut the national security and border integrity of this country while putting thousands of illegal immigrant youth (and many more Americans, civilians as well as law enforcement) at risk.

Assessing The Tea Party Influence: Graham vs. Cantor

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor just lost his seat in a GOP primary, the first sitting House leader to lose his seat in a primary, ever.

The Elliot Rodger Massacre -- Reflections

UC Santa Barbara, located in Isla Vista, is a well-kept secret in the UC system.

The Basis for Our Values - Facts or Feelings?

I spoke with a local official some time ago. He was rigid on the fiscal issues. "You have to be careful with other people's money."

What About Our Veterans, Mr. Goodrich, Rep. Waters, President Obama?

In 2005, at a Rally Against War in Iraq in Inglewood California [Check 1:14:00---1: 25:00], anti-war activist and currently Torrance, California City Council candidate Tim Goodrich (one of the cofounders of leftist group Iraq Veterans Against War) took to the dais of a local church and rallied veterans and left-leaning groups against the war in Iraq. He commented on a video in which he and other radical activists blocked the jeep of General Tommy Franks, who had just spoken at a local elementary school in LA Unified.

Why Doesn't Big Media Like Paul Tanaka?

So far, the facts don't seem to add up that Paul Tanaka is some neo-Nazi racist with a Napoleon complex

Health Care Reforms We Need to See

From a critic regrading my stance on government run health care--specifically ObamaCare.

RINO Neel Kashkari for CA Governor?

If anyone meets the definition of RINO, or Republican in Name Only, that would be Neel Kashkari, who "supervised" the 2008 TARP bailout under President George W. Bush, then served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability into the first five months of the Obama Administration.

About Single-Payer...

Critics have attacked me for not supporting a single-payer health care system, or that I have not offered any viable alternatives to the current mess created by President Obama through the Orwellian Affordable Care Act.

Horror Stories of ObamaCare: Oregon and Massachusetts

Rhode Island's health insurance exchange is going bankrupt. Health Source RI officials were so desperate to get young people to enroll, that they prepared a "nag app" so that parents would pressure their (adult) children to purchase overpriced, underserving health insurance.