fiat [ˈfaɪət -æt], n., a legally binding command or decision; an arbitrary order or decree
A very dangerous act is being attempted by the Left to secure their rule over the American people and transform the legislative process from a Constitutional Republic to a government by fiat. Today on Fox News Sunday, Democratic leader Rep. Chris [...]
Time magazine shamelessly and baselessly attacks Glenn Beck by saying he “hates Jesus.”
A week ago I wrote a review for FrontPage of T.R. Reid’s pro-socialized medicine manifesto The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care.
In my review I summarized six objections for why socialized medicine is a horrible idea:
A) Socialized medical systems at home and abroad are going bankrupt. Why? Because they are [...]
Right-wing critics to the contrary notwithstanding, Islam isn’t the problem; radical Islam is.
Mikhail Gorbachev is a living negation of the axiom that history is written by the winners. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, whose existence he tried desperately to salvage, Gorbachev has improbably recast himself as a heroic democrat who, however imperfectly, brought down the edifice of communist repression and now champions democracy for his [...]
This past week at NewsReal Blog we saw an intriguing debate between Suzanne Venker and Jeanette Pryor. Suzanne had chosen to challenge our Movement’s social conservatives by positing that advocating abstinence until marriage was wrongheaded. Jeanette responded that this was a form of relativism and would lead to moral anarchy as universal standards of Right and [...]
Assorted members of the radical environmental group Earth First gathered in a North Carolina forest to hold a public mourning for old growth trees.
With tears and moans, this group of unrepentant hippies reveled in the chance to show their piety and their evolved, progressive sensitivities as they gnash their teeth in frustration at [...]
It’s NewsReal Sunday so perhaps it’s appropriate that for today’s NRB Book Club we feature the selections of Calvin Freiburger who lists several religiously-themed titles in addition to some political picks:
Think a Second Time by Dennis Prager—in a series of short essays, the incomparable Dennis Prager applies his trademark reason and clarity to politics, [...]
“…it is the unity of interest and the equality of condition…that are the all-consuming goals of the modern Left. To suppress human nature and human difference is,in essence, the Left’s utopian ambition – an ambition that requires the totalitarian state.”
– The Politics of Bad Faith, p. 148
This quote of the day was submitted by Bruce.
If [...]
It seems that math, cooking and basic home economics aren’t the only things with which Katrina Vanden Heuvel has trouble. I wrote about her inability to function at those household basics yesterday, here at NewsReal. Well, it appears that the reality-challenged Vanden Heuvel, Editor of The Nation magazine, also isn’t a very good, you know, [...]
