JUDSON PHILLIPS: Will Republicans or the Grand Old Party win?
In early 2009, the Republican Party was on the political endangered-species list. It had lost the White House, the House of Representatives and the Senate. Things were so bad that the Democrats were on...
View ArticleJUDSON PHILLIPS: TV shooting: Criminal control, not gun control
On Aug. 26, a racist, homosexual, left-wing Obama supporter murdered two people and tried to murder a third on live TV. This story became an immediate media sensation, because it was caught on live TV...
View ArticleJUDSON PHILLIPS: Numbers don't lie. Politicians do.
At the end of the day, politics is a numbers game and it is a very simple equation. Who has enough votes to win? Politicians, news agencies and pundits spend a lot of money and time analyzing data to...
View ArticleJUDSON PHILLIPS: Congratulations, your vote won't count in 2016
Right about now, Tennessee is a great state to live in. The temperatures are still in the '90s and will remain there for most of the month. The economy is good, taxes are low and Volunteer fans are...
View ArticleJUDSON PHILLIPS: 9/11 scars have not faded, but the reality has
Fourteen years after Sept. 11, 2001, the scars have not faded but the reality of 9/11 has faded. America elected a president who advocated retreat, who cheered America's Islamic enemies, who pandered...
View ArticleJUDSON PHILLIPS: Republican debates: The latest reality TV
There is a new reality series on TV. It is the Republican debates. For the networks, this is great stuff. They have a reality TV star, they have emotional wrecks crying because their feelings have been...
View ArticleJUDSON PHILLIPS: Why aren't Republicans thanking Donald Trump?
A few days ago, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker created a new leadership style. He called it "Leadership by quitting." Leadership by quitting is a novel concept. How have major American business schools,...
View ArticleJUDSON PHILLIPS: John Boehner departs - finally
On March 1, 2011, I became the first Tea Party leader to call for John Boehner to step down. On Friday, September 25, 2015, he announced he was resigning from Congress. As John Boehner leaves the...
View ArticleJUDSON PHILLIPS: Tackle federal government waste with BRAC-like panel
One media outlet is reporting the story of a group called Enterprise Community Partners, a non-profit group that received more than $33 million in tax dollars in 2014. This group utterly failed in...
View ArticleJUDSON PHILLIPS: Beware Republicans in Greek clothing
If you can't be a good example, at least be a horrible warning. Liberals have a terrible understanding of economics. They love to repeat the same mistakes over and over again. While conservatives rail...
View ArticleJUDSON PHILLIPS: 'Obamatrade' is here, Congress is on the spot
The Republican Party slowly self destructed last week. While that drama worthy of the Netflix series "House of Cards" played out, there was other major news developing. The opening shots in what will...
View ArticleJUDSON PHILLIPS: University of Tennessee diversity: Enough gay rights
The University of Tennessee rates as a pretty good state university. It likes to make headlines with winning football teams and basketball teams. It likes to be considered an above-average school. But...
View ArticleJUDSON PHILLIPS: Obama administration defies the law again
The Obama Justice Department is like the famous Vichy Capt. Louis Renault in the classic movie "Casablanca." The Obama regime is "shocked, shocked," to discover mismanagement at the Internal Revenue...
View ArticleJUDSON PHILLIPS: Give Paul Ryan a chance
Paul Ryan had not yet been born when John Lennon sang "Give peace a chance." The Wisconsin Republican has now been elected the speaker of the House of Representatives and for a moment, his theme song...
View ArticleJUDSON PHILLIPS: 8 Takeaways from the 2015 elections
The off-year elections were held Tuesday, and three states elected governors and Virginia held state legislative seats. The conventional wisdom was the Republicans would take the red states...
View ArticleJUDSON PHILLIPS: Criminal justice reform calls for hands-on jury
One of the hot political issues now is criminal justice reform, an issue that has been picked up by activists on both the left and the right. The most common reform discussion is sentencing reform. The...
View ArticleJUDSON PHILLIPS: Politicize the Paris attacks
On Oct. 1, 2015, a gunman shot people at the Umpqua Community College in Oregon. The next day, Barack Obama announced he would politicize the event and push for gun control. Friday evening, as most...
View ArticleJUDSON PHILLIPS: Obama's ISIS stance a real and present danger to America
On Friday the 13th, ISIS attacked Paris. The result was 130 dead. The result was the French went to war with the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL). Yes, the French, who are the butt of jokes about how many...
View ArticleJUDSON PHILLIPS: The coming rape of America
A rape epidemic is coming to America. No, this is not the feminazi version of rape, where a woman can decide much later that a consensual sexual encounter was actually rape. No, this is the worst form...
View ArticleJUDSON PHILLIPS: Who will stop the IRS?
The Internal Revenue Service. Those are four words that will cause fear in almost every American. There is something seriously wrong when America has a government that is of the people, by the people...
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