Family Research Council (FRC) announced today that it would cease using United Parcel Service (UPS) as its primary package distributor in the wake of UPS’s decision to cease funding the Boy Scouts of America because of the Scouts’ longstanding policy of not accepting openly homosexual Scout leaders or members.

Even if Obama gets everything he wants — where income, capital gains and dividends tax rates all increase on the top two-brackets — it will only raise $80 billion in 2013, or $6.6 billion a month, reports the CBO. That barely makes a scratch in the deficit. That is why political leaders today must confront our debt troubles, balance the budget, and begin rapidly reducing the debt-before we wind up over the cliff with Thelma, Louise, and the not-so-wily coyote.

US Army veteran and Sioux Falls, South Dakota Republican Daniel Willard announced today his candidacy for South Dakota Republican Party Chairman. The election of the South Dakota Republican Party Chairman will occur in early 2013 and will be selected by members of the South Dakota Republican Party State Central Committee.

Momentum continues to grow against state implementation of a key element of the Obamacare health law as Tennessee joined 22 other states in refusing to establish a state health care exchange. Every state that has announced a decision since the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services extended an original deadline to December 14 has chosen to reject enacting a stand-alone state health exchange.

More often than not, to protect their investment the special interests will insert their minions in government to ensure that their agenda is carried out. These representatives of the special interests enter government for a time, draft or secure the passage of legislation that favors their interest group, and then leave through the door through which they entered. After their period of service and “sacrifice” in government, said minions are welcomed back into the arms of the special interests from whence they came and amply rewarded for their labors. Exhibit “A” to this process is Obamacare’s chief architect, Elizabeth Fowler.

Oh, the foolish Bill Maher. How desperate he sounds. When it comes to eloquently presenting the merits of his own leftist ideology, he does not attempt intelligent debate; instead, he vomits stupid, obscene insults at conservatives. It is a common behavior of the Left. Since their bankrupt, dead-end socialist schemes have no merits to defend, the next best thing they believe they can do is hurl cancerous hatred at those with whom they disagree.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn was born in Russia, DECEMBER 11, 1918. He was arrested for writing a letter criticizing Joseph Stalin and spent 11 years in prisons and labor camps. He began writing and eventually received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Solzhenitsyn stated on June 30, 1975, in Washington, D.C.: “There is another Russian proverb: ‘The yes-man is your enemy, but your friend will argue with you.’ It is precisely because I am the friend of the United States…that I have come to tell you…You know the words from the Bible: ‘Build not on sand, but on rock’…”