Writing for the Wall Street Journal, American Enterprise Institute president Arthur C. Brooks recently suggested that the G.O.P. is way off base in their assumptions about the moral arguments that resonate most with the American people. Their focus on the economic advantages of capitalism and “values-voter” issues like abortion and gay marriage miss the mark, Brooks suggests. Instead, Republicans must convince the electorate that they are just as concerned about the plight of the poor and downtrodden as Progressives, and further that Republican policies are more effective at addressing these problems than those implemented by the Liberal nanny state.

Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, today re-introduced legislation that would require federal agencies to rely on the private sector when providing goods and services that are readily available. Thune’s legislation, the Freedom from Government Competition Act (S. 523), would ensure private enterprises performing activities duplicated by the government have the opportunity to compete for work that federal agencies unnecessarily handle in-house.

One day before Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s decree to stop the sale of large sugary drinks in some cases was to take effect in New York City, New York Supreme Court Judge Milton Tingling ruled that Bloomberg’s ban was banned.

In this video from Publius Huldah, we see that “we the people” did not delegate to the federal government-our creation-the power to control the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

I can remember another era when many would follow their pet news broadcasters with a devout and loyal belief. This devotion arose in the early days of TV with Edward R. Murrow leading the charge. Then there was The Huntley and Brinkley duo, Walter Cronkite and more recently, Tom Brokaw. It was a time when three main networks monopolized the TV news industry. However, as in most cases, success can morph into its own adversary.

Two homosexual men staged an in-your-face, public display of “affection” inside a Sacramento, California-area mall. A security guard confronted the men, and there are conflicting stories about what happened next. The homosexuals claim that the guard told them to leave, but a statement from mall management denied they were told to leave, just that they were told to stop their behavior, which violates the mall’s code of conduct. Regardless of whether or not they were asked to leave, the men spread their story far and wide through electronic social media which resulted in an organized protest rally being held at the mall on Saturday.