Rush Limbaugh, in response to David Brooks’ assertion that Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is wrong for trying to prevent oppressive liberalism from being imposed on the American people: “Why do you call yourself a Republican if all you want to do is lay down and agree with Obama and the Democrats?”

I bet you thought business and the free market was in alignment with conservatives, didn’t you? I did too, because traditionally, they have been. Not anymore. Now some pretty powerful business groups are going to war with conservative values and Tea Party groups in order to protect their spot at the government trough.

Blame it on the earth, it just refuses to cooperate. Poor global cooling skeptics are stuck in a pattern of backfilling and desperate explanations as to why their bold predictions of earth’s overheated doom not only haven’t come true, but actually may be 100 percent wrong.

Though they are still desperate to blame evil capitalists and consumers for it, a leaked report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicates the political organization is finally admitting to some things they have tried to deny and hide from for many years. In short, key claims of environmental doom are just so much hot air.

What Mark Levin says in “The Liberty Amendments” in support of an Article V convention is not true. On one side of this controversy are those who want to restore our Constitution by requiring federal and State officials to obey the Constitution we have; or by electing ones who will. We show that the Oath of Office at Art. VI, last clause, requires federal and state officials to support the Constitution. The other side says the only way to deal with a federal government which consistently ignores and tramples over the Constitution is …. to amend the Constitution!

Unfortunately, citizens often assume a safety first mentality and then expect big government to legislate safety by the force of law. Many laws have this safety first mentality at their heart. Social Security, Obamacare, and gun bans are among them. The goal of each of these is to protect us from ourselves and, as a result, often limit the free choice of citizens unnecessarily.