The battle playing out in San Antonio, Texas, over one student’s refusal to comply with a public school campaign to microchip students has nothing to do with security concerns and even less to do with academic priorities. What is driving this particular program, which requires students to carry “smart” identification cards embedded with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tracking devices, is money, pure and simple.

Rumor has it former Congressman J.C. Watts may be in the running to chair the RNC.Watts is an unapologetic Christian and was a strong voice for conservative values when he served in the U.S. House. Watts is a candidate who could clearly and uncompromisingly defend not just the Republican Party, but Republican values and principles.

The Christmas season is once again upon us and with it overwhelming encouragement from Madison Avenue to spend what we have not earned to buy what we cannot afford. The day after Thanksgiving, known as Black Friday (indicating the point at which retailers are in the black—or at least hope to be), signaled the start of the “holiday shopping season.” That phrase in and of itself reveals the commercialized emphasis that has unfortunately come to define Christmas for many Americans.

What would you say to a couple which has a combined wealth of around $100 million who begged you to help them repay a $73,000 debt? I know what I’d say, and it wouldn’t be yes. In the latest audacity to come out of Washington, D.C. that is exactly what donors are being asked to do, pay off Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign debt.

Senate offices confirm that Majority Leader Harry Reid will move to a final vote at noon this Tuesday on a U.N. treaty that will give up our sovereignty to unelected, unaccountable UN bureaucrats. Democrats plan to test their strength and attempt to ratify their first project: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). If the Senate ratifies the UN CRPD, it would be the first time ever that the U.S. has ratified a treaty that obligates us to recognize economic, social, and cultural entitlements as rights under domestic law.

Remember back in 2010, when House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi claimed that unemployment benefits create jobs faster than most any other program? NewsBusters concludes its analysis on the CBO report pointing out the “twisted logic” of this administration. “Since the government has been ‘stimulating’ the economy to the tune of about $5 trillion in deficits during the past four years, … the CBO’s twisted ‘logic’ would predict that the economy should have created 50 million jobs by now. Note that this hasn’t happened.”

Stephanie Cutter says Barack Obama campaigned on the fact everyone should pay their “fair” share. I’m confused. The people who are living off government benefits, no matter why, what are they doing for their part, what is their fair share and how are they paying it?

With the enormous increase in the taxation of dividends, high net worth investors may be tempted to abandon dividend-paying stocks entirely. This is not necessary. Corporations will reduce their dividend payments. And wealthy investors can use strategies to alleviate some of the effect of these tax increases. Here is the tax problem and its solution.

Barack Obama’s rabid supporters have finally gone the extra mile. During his first presidential campaign they merely treated him as if he was their messiah. After his second victory they are shouting it from the roof tops. At the BET Soul Train Awards show Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx actually called Barack Obama “our lord and savior.” From the reaction of the crowd, it was received like a proclamation from Mount Sinai. The wild cheering brought down the house. If this isn’t a cult of personality what is?

President Thomas Jefferson, author of the phrase “Separation of Church and State,” asked Congress to ratify a treaty with the Kaskaskia Indians, which they did DECEMBER 3, 1803. Negotiated shortly after the Louisiana Purchase by future President William Henry Harrison, the Kaskaskia Indian Treaty stated: “And whereas the greater part of the said tribe have been baptized and received into the Catholic Church, to which they are much attached, the United States will give annually, for seven years, one hundred dollars toward the support of a priest of that religion, who will engage to perform for said tribe the duties…”