Category Archives: Solid Principles

“A Battle the President Can’t Win “

Writing in this weekend’s Wall Street journal, former Reagan speech writer and current opinion columnist , Peggy Noonan, drops a rhetorical bombshell when she says that the Dept. of Health and Human Service’s Sec’y Kathleen Sibilius’ administrative ruling that Catholic Hospitals and other institutions must offer health care plans that offer abortion and contraceptive products [...]

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Deficit Again Expected to Top $1 Trillion

By KRISTINA PETERSON And DAMIAN PALETTA WASHINGTON—The federal budget deficit likely will top $1 trillion for the fourth consecutive year in fiscal 2012 as the economy continues to grow at a sluggish pace, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted Tuesday. Congress’s official budget scorekeeper projected a sober outlook in its semi-annual report Tuesday, forecasting that [...]

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‘Occupiers’ Throw Bibles, Allegedly Urinate on Cross

[ Editor's Commentary:  If these reports are true, then it is long past time that municipal authorities started a serious crackdown on these barbarians before we lose complete control of our cities. While I understand that the "Occuppiers" have 1st Amendment rights to free speech, there is of course no Constitutionally protected right to defecate [...]

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Mitt’s Attack on Crony Capitalism

Tough stuff. The right stuff. By Larry Kudlow Let me build on Charles Krauthammer’s great Friday column, “The GOP’s Suicide March.” Krauthammer argues that just as President Obama’s class-warfare, soak-the-rich mantra started lagging in the polls, some Republicans on the campaign trail started making the case that Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital was involved in nothing [...]

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Newt Gingrich is angry

By ROGER SIMON ORANGEBURG, S.C. – – Newt Gingrich trundles into the meeting hall – – a former X-rated movie theater – – to rapturous applause. He is not the best-looking guy in Republican race or the best-funded or the most ideologically pure. But he has found his shtick, and he is shticking to it. [...]

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Speaker Boehner to Deliver Opening Remarks at the 39th annual March for Life

Speaker of the House John Boehner will deliver opening remarks at the 39th annual March for Life in Washington on Monday, January 23, 2012. House leaders and members of the bipartisan pro-life majority in the House are also expected to speak. “Respect for life has never been a political position for me: it’s who I [...]

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South Carolina primary: Scramble ahead of Saturday vote

By BILL NICHOLS COLUMBIA, S.C. The four surviving combatants in the 2012 Republican presidential field were crisscrossing South Carolina on Friday in the final hours before a critical primary that could either end the race or raise dramatic new questions about Mitt Romney’s hold on the nomination. After a tumultuous Thursday that saw Rick Perry [...]

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Mitt Romney doesn’t really have a Republican problem

Posted by Chris Cillizza Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is the undisputed frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination even as he continues to endure whispers that he is simply too moderate to win over a majority of the GOP. Exit polling from Romney’s 16-point victory in New Hampshire tells a very different story, however. Among [...]

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Standard & Poor’s downgrades 9 European nations

By JOSH BOAK | 1/13/12 5:42 PM EST The Standard & Poor’s rating agency downgraded nine European countries Friday, confirming that the continent’s efforts to contain a debt crisis that also threatens the fragile U.S. recovery have come up short. What began as excessive debts in countries such as Greece steadily evolved into concerns about [...]

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Great People, Great Quotes…Winston Churchill

  I would like to start a new feature for Solid Principles today by introducing a series of posts entitled;  “GREAT PEOPLE, GREAT QUOTES”. Many times we get so caught up in the media-driven trivialization of life in general and American pop culture in particular, that we lose sight of some of the great people [...]

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