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Prell: "Fair Is A Four Letter Word"
“It’s not fair” is one of the first things we say as children and one of the last things we say before we leave this world. In between, we call it: growing up. It is time for the current occupants of the White House to grow up.
In Osawatomie, Kansas, President Obama gave the defining speech of his re-election campaign. The central theme: fairness. In that one speech, the President of the United States invoked the name of fairness fifteen times. read more
Prell: "Crusade for Fewer People on the Earth Seeks Volunteers"
On Oct. 31, the United Nations announced the birth of Planet Earth’s 7 billionth human. Later that day, the United Nations admitted that “no one can know the exact number of people on the globe,” noting that perhaps the 7 billionth human might be born sometime during the next four months. In other words: United Nations demographers pretty much know what they’re talking about, give or take about 28 million human beings. read more
Prell: "Pearl Harbor and the American Century"
Seventy years ago today, America was brutally attacked at Pearl Harbor by an enemy that used planes as suicide bombs. A lesser nation would have been devastated. But America was no lesser nation. America was an exceptional nation. And so President Roosevelt vowed on December 8, 1941 that “the American people in their righteous might” would rise up and “win through to absolute victory.” read more
Prell: "Occupy Wall Street: a Declaration of Dependence"
As a Tea Party Patriot, I have been asked by the media to explain the differences between the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters and modern-day Tea Partiers. read more
Prell: "Occupy Wall Street Benefits Wall Street"
Who’s benefiting from the Occupy Wall Street protests? Wall Street. If that sounds counterintuitive to you, then check your intuition. Because, in the midst of all these Occupy Wall Street protests, Wall Street and the White House - arm in arm - are laughing all the way to the bank. read more
Prell: "The Obama Philosophy"
Here’s the problem with Mitt Romney. Sending Mitt Romney into battle against President Obama in 2012 is like bringing an MBA to a philosophy fight. Mitt Romney is a nice man, a decent man. It’s obvious that he’s a good manager. That’s how he positions himself. As a technocrat. A “fix-it man.” A turnaround specialist with a plan that’s better than the other guy’s plan, and a promise to bring better administration to the administration. read more
Prell: "Obama's White House is a Harvard Frat House"
William F. Buckley famously said “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the 2,000 members of the faculty of Harvard University.” By contrast, President Obama would rather America be governed by the faculty of Harvard University than by the first 2,000 people in any American phone book. Least of all; the business pages. read more
Prell: "In Defense of Bullying"
I was bullied as a child. Mercilessly. Would my childhood have been more pleasant had I not been bullied? Of course. But my adulthood would have been robbed of its clarity, and of my clear-eyed understanding of the world in which we live-bullies and all. read more
Prell: "The definition of insanity: President Obama’s 'jobs plan'"
The definition of insanity (hat-tip to Albert Einstein) is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. So, what do you call it when a flailing U.S. administration, with a 26% approval rating for its handling of the economy, keeps trotting out the same failed economic policies? Do they honestly expect different results? read more
New York Times: "Tea Partiers: Mainstream or Menace?"
Jenny Beth Martin is the co-founder and national coordinator of Tea Party Patriots. The columnist Charles Krauthammer declared the Tea Party to be the winner of the debt ceiling debate, and recommended that we all “declare victory and go home." Wrong, and no. read more
“It’s not fair” is one of the first things we say as children and one of the last things we say before we leave this world. In between, we call it: growing up. It is time for the current occupants of the White House to grow up.
In Osawatomie, Kansas, President Obama gave the defining speech of his re-election campaign. The central theme: fairness. In that one speech, the President of the United States invoked the name of fairness fifteen times. read more
Prell: "Crusade for Fewer People on the Earth Seeks Volunteers"
On Oct. 31, the United Nations announced the birth of Planet Earth’s 7 billionth human. Later that day, the United Nations admitted that “no one can know the exact number of people on the globe,” noting that perhaps the 7 billionth human might be born sometime during the next four months. In other words: United Nations demographers pretty much know what they’re talking about, give or take about 28 million human beings. read more
Prell: "Pearl Harbor and the American Century"
Seventy years ago today, America was brutally attacked at Pearl Harbor by an enemy that used planes as suicide bombs. A lesser nation would have been devastated. But America was no lesser nation. America was an exceptional nation. And so President Roosevelt vowed on December 8, 1941 that “the American people in their righteous might” would rise up and “win through to absolute victory.” read more
Prell: "Occupy Wall Street: a Declaration of Dependence"
As a Tea Party Patriot, I have been asked by the media to explain the differences between the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters and modern-day Tea Partiers. read more
Prell: "Occupy Wall Street Benefits Wall Street"
Who’s benefiting from the Occupy Wall Street protests? Wall Street. If that sounds counterintuitive to you, then check your intuition. Because, in the midst of all these Occupy Wall Street protests, Wall Street and the White House - arm in arm - are laughing all the way to the bank. read more
Prell: "The Obama Philosophy"
Here’s the problem with Mitt Romney. Sending Mitt Romney into battle against President Obama in 2012 is like bringing an MBA to a philosophy fight. Mitt Romney is a nice man, a decent man. It’s obvious that he’s a good manager. That’s how he positions himself. As a technocrat. A “fix-it man.” A turnaround specialist with a plan that’s better than the other guy’s plan, and a promise to bring better administration to the administration. read more
Prell: "Obama's White House is a Harvard Frat House"
William F. Buckley famously said “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the 2,000 members of the faculty of Harvard University.” By contrast, President Obama would rather America be governed by the faculty of Harvard University than by the first 2,000 people in any American phone book. Least of all; the business pages. read more
Prell: "In Defense of Bullying"
I was bullied as a child. Mercilessly. Would my childhood have been more pleasant had I not been bullied? Of course. But my adulthood would have been robbed of its clarity, and of my clear-eyed understanding of the world in which we live-bullies and all. read more
Prell: "The definition of insanity: President Obama’s 'jobs plan'"
The definition of insanity (hat-tip to Albert Einstein) is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. So, what do you call it when a flailing U.S. administration, with a 26% approval rating for its handling of the economy, keeps trotting out the same failed economic policies? Do they honestly expect different results? read more
New York Times: "Tea Partiers: Mainstream or Menace?"
Jenny Beth Martin is the co-founder and national coordinator of Tea Party Patriots. The columnist Charles Krauthammer declared the Tea Party to be the winner of the debt ceiling debate, and recommended that we all “declare victory and go home." Wrong, and no. read more
