How many new voters has the tea party movement created? There’s reason to hope that first time voters will begin shifting to the right in 2010. There’s also reason for us on the right to worry. About 8 million people turned 18 since the 2008 election. While the left undoubtedly brainwashed many of them before… [Read more…]
December 22, 2010
Hennessy’s View is now 255 on Wikio’s Political Blog rankings. I know that’s nothing compared to Gateway Pundit. After 10 years of blogging, though, it’s nice to crack some list somewhere. If you’d like to see me move higher on this list, please use the social buttons below. Also, please tell me why you read… [Read more…]
December 20, 2010
Dana Loesch invited Dick Morris onto her radio show today. Dana expected to discuss START with Mr. Morris. But Dick has a mind of his own. Morris decided, about a minute and a half into a five-minute segment, that he wanted to talk about the 2012 US Senate race in Missouri instead. Specifically, he wanted… [Read more…]
December 20, 2010
A man lost in thought is liable to say anything. Anything at all. A guy sitting behind me at a restaurant in Lambert airport began singing along with the background music. “Burning down the house (do do).” Perfect. November 2, American voters burned down the U.S. House. Before the vote, estimates ranged from 45 to… [Read more…]
December 19, 2010
Conservatives (tea party, et al) and Republicans better learn to get along. Quickly. Just as quickly, the two need to recruit, vet, and prep some A-list candidates. Candidates for offices from President down to school boards. That’s because the winners in 2012 will either belong to a conservative coalition or the most radical elements of… [Read more…]
December 18, 2010
Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit exposed Omaha Steak’s leftism yesterday. Omaha pulled its ads from Glenn Beck for ideological reasons. We took your comments regarding the Glenn Beck Program to heart. After further review and careful consideration, we have decided to pull all advertising from Glenn Beck programming effective December 20th, 2010. Then the president… [Read more…]
December 18, 2010
If you’ve never heard of The Discussion Club, listen up. Since 1955, The Discussion Club has brought to St. Louis the heavyweights of the time. Milton Friedman Dr. Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Henry Regner M. Stanton Evans Dr. George C. Roche Dr. Friedrich A. Von Haye (are you freakin’ kidding me?) Dr. Russell Kirk (the father… [Read more…]
December 7, 2010
Sometimes nightmares end well. Sometimes they don’t. Salon carries a depressing story for the lower 48 of North America. Author Alfred McCoy writes: Despite the aura of omnipotence most empires project, a look at their history should remind us that they are fragile organisms. So delicate is their ecology of power that, when things start… [Read more…]
December 6, 2010
We talk about liberty, limited government, freedom, Constitutional principles, and the like. Those are all relevant to the purposes of the conservative grassroots movement. But are they ends? Or are they just means? I believe they are means. In the founders’ writings we find clues to the end, even they don’t state it explicitly. Jefferson… [Read more…]
December 5, 2010
Is it better to give or to receive? Before you answer, let’s look at some of the science behind giving. Then let’s look a little deeper. Dr. Barbara Fredrickson studies the psychology of happiness. About a decade ago, Dr. Fredrickson announced a formula for creating an “upward spiral” of happiness. In other words, she identified… [Read more…]
December 22, 2010
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