Bruce Walker

Gallup Ignoring Its Own Big Stories

The Gallup Poll is one of the oldest in polling organizations in history. Its reputation ought to be important. The articles which accompany its polls, however, seem calculated to hide the real story. Consider an article last August, entitled "Political Ideology: 'Conservative' Label Prevails in the South." That is not exactly earth shattering news. Anyone who has even casual acquaintance with American politics knows that the South is the most conservative part of our country.

A Coming Landslide

It may seem odd for someone who recently warned conservatives of overconfidence to predict that the November elections may well produce a landslide unprecedented in the lifetime of many Americans. But the indicators of just such a tsunami seem to grow bigger and more persistent each day.

Why the Revolution Will Prevail

If Republicans gain the chance, for the first time in history, to pass laws without Democrat support – because of a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, a working majority in the House, and the Presidency – what will prevent RINOs from gumming up the works? How can a brief two or four year period make permanent revolutionary reforms? Don’t we need, instead, to amend the Constitution – repeal the 16th Amendment and the 17th Amendment, for example?

Making November a Political Victory

Ann Coulter, quite rightly, has expressed concern about Republicans declaring victory in the 2010 elections. Most folks understand that capturing the Senate will require some luck. But consider this: RealClearPolitics is balanced and brainy. It shows that in the battle for the House of Representatives, 202 seats lean Democrat, 201 lean Republican, and 32 are toss ups. That means Republican chances for even gaining the House – something everyone is touting is almost certain – is, in fact, a coin toss.

President Coburn

Conservatives, above all else, do not want to elect as president in 2012 some politician who tells them what they want to hear to win office and then morphs into a big government moderate after he takes the oath of office. The list of Republicans who could fill that requirement is not too long: Sarah Palin, Mitch Daniel, Michelle Bachmann, Bobby Jindal, and John Thune...did I leave anyone out?

The Hiroshima Question

Representatives of the American government are attending, for the first time, the Hiroshima Ceremony which this year marks the 65th anniversary of the use of fission weapons on Japanese cities. Democrat and Republican administrations alike have consistently refused to participate in this ceremony, which implicitly suggests American guilt.

The Autumn of the Left

I have noted before that according to Battleground Poll results over the last ten years, conservatives are about sixty percent of the population, liberals are roughly thirty-five percent of the population, and all the others – moderate, don’t know, and refused to answer – are consistently about five percent of the population.

The Conservative Phoenix

It is so easy to yield to the counsels of despair. Debt drowns our national and state governments. California, for example, has a state deficit of about $19 billion, which appears impossible to pay. The federal deficit for Fiscal Year 2010 will be about $1.5 trillion. How big is that? The population of our country is about 300 million. The deficit, then, is equal to about $5,000 for every person in America – not federal expenditures, mind you, just expenditures over revenue collections.

The Revolutionary Republican Platform

We must have revolutionary change if we are to preserve America as a land of liberty. Republicans may have that power to make revolutionary change after the 2012 elections, because, for the first time in history, the configuration of congressional elections in 2012 and 2014 will give the Republican Party the elements needed to pass a revolutionary agenda over the united opposition of Democrats: a filibuster-proof Senate, a working majority in the House, and a conservative in the White House.

Why the Republican Revolution will Prevail

If Republicans gain the chance, for the first time in history, to pass laws without Democrat support – because of a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, a working majority in the House, and the Presidency – what will prevent RINOs from gumming up the works?

Conservative and Republican Victory

My article, The Key to a Real Revolution, notes that the Republican Party has a real chance, because of the unusually good composition of the 2012 and 2014 Senate elections, to acquire something that Republicans have never had before: a filibuster-proof Senate.

Keys to a Real Revolution

Conservatives often blame elected Republicans for not producing revolutionary changes when in power. This frustration is understandable, but it is also wrongheaded. No political party can make revolutionary changes in American government unless that party not only controls the House of Representatives and the White House, but, critically, has a filibuster proof majority in the Senate.

Boring Barry

I wrote recently about the political dangers to President Obama when people stop liking him. Many of us, me included, found it impossible to like Obama as soon as it became clear that he was a disciple of prophets of evil, like Saul Alinksy. Many Americans (too many, in fact) are mesmerized by television. Good looking, relaxed, well-spoken people have a big advantage in national politics.

How to Stop Democrats in the News

Kwame Kilpatrick, Mayor of Detroit for most of this decade, was indicted on June 23 for fraud and tax crimes. This news story was picked up by all the leftist establishment media and all these media outlets left out one crucial fact: Kwame Kilpatrick is a Democrat. The New York Times ran a twelve paragraph piece about Kilpatrick on May 25, 2010 which never mentioned Kilpatrick’s political party. The same day, the Los Angeles Time had a six paragraph online story which failed to mention Kilpatrick’s party affiliation. On June 23 or June 24, USA Today, ABC News, CNN, CBS News, and MSNBC all ran their own stories about the indictment of Kilpatrick. None of these said anything about him being a Democrat.

Our Declaration to the World

Each July 4th Americans have the chance to celebrate something new in human history, a nation grounded wholly in liberty. The transcendent values of liberty was not new. The same year that the Declaration of Independence was signed, Adam Smith wrote his famous masterpiece, The Wealth of Nations, which explained clearly how economic freedom makes us all wealthier. Smith’s countrymen, 450 years before our Declaration, signed the Declaration of Abroath to another King of England which explains: “It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honors that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”

When Folks Stop Liking Barry

President Obama's image of leadership flounders in the Gulf of Mexico. While Governor Jindal displays the true qualities of leadership, our president is stuck in Saul Alinksy gear, demonizing a foreign corporation instead of actually doing anything constructive. Disgust at Obama's genuine incompetence at this genuine ecological disaster stretches across party lines and the ideological spectrum.

Nikki’s Faith

There are few ways a Republican opponent can attack Nikki Haley, likely Republican nominee for Governor in South Carolina. A couple of men alleged, and proudly promised, proof that Nikki has had sexual liaisons with them. The promised proof of these affairs was never presented. The only reason these sorts of rumors have any traction is because Nikki, like Sarah, is a woman pretty enough to tempt men.

Barack Obama, Esq

The Obama approach towards the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has the same storyline as television commercials which describe some sad and poignant medical problems which plague many Americans and which then offer hope… sort of. These sponsors do not offer any new cure or better treatment for heartrending diseases. Instead, they say: we can sue someone for you.

The Year of the Conservative Woman

Pundits have already picked up on the theme of the June 8 primary: female candidates made some remarkable gains. The next senator elected in California, for example, will be a woman. The talk sounds like November 1992, when political articles touted five victories of female candidates in Senate races in California (two races, actually, in California), Illinois, Washington, and Maryland. This was proclaimed the “Year of the Woman.”

A New Bill of Rights

When our countrymen decided to end the loose and weak government of the Articles of Confederation and to replace it with the more robust federal system created by our Constitution, there were strong reservations held by many thoughtful citizens.