National Review Editor William F. Buckley with President Ronald Reagan (1988)

One author raises questions worth discussing in debate on the role of issues in political campaigns

Argument continues among Republicans whether the stand by Senators Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Mike Lee and some GOP Senate Conservatives, and the majority of GOP House Republicans, was counter productive after it led to the shutdown of the government and the major effort by President Obama and his allies to blame Republicans. Continue reading →

Our reporter on the scene at Tysons Corner, VA, shown here.

A Sunup Eyewitness Report from the scene

(written before sunup, 7:15 AM, 10/11/13).  While there are those whose scholarship, wit, wisdom and all around smarts will make them better commentators of what is happening on the national scene during the days of the “government shutdown” in Washington DC and around the nation, there is nonetheless, a strong appetite for first hand and eyewitness reports from less erudite sources who are both timely and personal in their observations.  This may be considered one such report, offered early in the morning following yesterday’s report of a Department of Transportation plan to close the Capital Beltway using National Guard soldiers to stifle the Trucker ‘ring around the beltway” protest of the policies of Barack Obama, see Obama DOT Plans use of National Guard to close I-495 Capital Beltway tomorrow? Continue reading →

President approves Dept. of Transportation proposal to counter anti-Obama Trucker protest Friday, October 11?

Sources within the Department of Transportation have revealed that their plan to use National Guard resources to close federally funded Interstate Route 495, circling the nation’s capital, have been approved by unknown White House officials and will be implemented on Friday morning, October 11, in order to thwart the three day Trucker slowdown announced on the Capitol Beltway starting that date, using the federal government shutdown as justification. Continue reading →

Their 15 to 1 social media and mainstream media advantage, willingness of Obama forces to lie, are why they shutdown the government

(midnight, Government Shutdown Night, 9/30/13). There’s a simple reason why Barack Obama and his allies just shut down the government.   He knows he will win the communications war with Republicans and especially against conservatives. Continue reading →