‘The Impeachment of Richard Nixon and Other Things That Never Happened,’ by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee

Have you ever watched the Rev. Al Sharpton’s television show on MSNBC and wondered what you’d get if you combined his ignorance of American history with James Carville’s inability to quit speaking? If so, you’ve probably concluded, as I have, that you’d get someone who sounds a lot like Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas. (Yes, the same Congresswoman Lee who, while visiting NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratories in 2005, infamously asked whether the Mars Pathfinder had taken a photograph of the flag Neil Armstrong planted on Mars in 1969.)

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Obama, You’re No Jack Kennedy

Uh-O. Obama’s administration has run afoul of words by John F. Kennedy on Big Labor and protecting employees.

You have no doubt been following the fight over the unconstitutional recess appointments by the Obama administration to the National Labor Relations Board and Consumer Financial Protection Board. But fewer are aware the fight over Obama’s efforts to help Big Labor bosses by rigging the rules of union elections so that employees don’t even have enough time to get information about why the union may not be in their best interest.

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Race Baiting in South Carolina Primary Politics? Just Ask Hillary Clinton

If the Juan Williams race baiting debate attack on Newt Gingrich somehow leaves you with any doubt that there’s something about the South Carolina primaries that seems to bring out the worst in this sort of political behavior, you need look no further than the 2008 Democrat primary to see just how down and dirty things can get in the Palmetto State.

Four years ago, the Democrat primary was split with Sen. Barack Obama winning the Iowa caucuses and Hillary Clinton pulling out a comeback victory in New Hampshire.

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