Columns & Commentary
By Thomas J. Basile--
Everyone’s a pundit in a year like this one, and those who’ve long been talking about the upcoming election have heavily debated whether 2012 will be similar to 1980. Conservatives are rightfully driving the line that it’s high time for another Reagan-style revolution in response to an unpopular, liberal president, a down economy and poor national mood gripping the nation. With an enormous opportunity to recapture the White House this year…
January 07
6:21 PM
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Just to be clear, how many folks out there think Ron Paul is going to be the Republican nominee? 1…2…3… Ok now, how many think he’s going to be the next President of the United States? 1…2… Keep in mind, Ron Paul didn’t even raise his hand to either of those questions. He’s smarter than that. So why run yet again? The answer is simple and it’s about legacy building. Ron Paul’s…
January 05
9:45 AM
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By Thomas J. Basile
The Supercommittee is a super failure, but how many of us are really surprised? The whole concept of the committee highlights the fact that both parties in Washington are incapable of making the tough choices necessary to make government more efficient and less burdensome on the taxpayer. You almost have to feel bad for the members of the committee who were tasked with doing a near impossible job under normal circumstances, but the current climate in our…
November 21, 2011
6:23 AM
Views: 60
By Thomas J. Basile for FoxNews.com
The Libyan revolution is unfolding with all the sights, sounds, and intrigue we’ve come to expect from the Arab Spring. Libya’s future will certainly be one without Qaddafi, but in this divided, tribal nation the pendulum is presently swinging much closer to anarchy than stability. Libya is inches from joining the long list of failed states, where extremists and citizens alike battle each other house to house and street to street…
September 29, 2011
12:15 PM
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By Thomas J. Basile for FoxNews.com
On a summer day in the late 1970's a family walked onto the studio floor at the CBS Evening News in New York, a few hours before the newscast. Two adults and a small boy with bushy brown hair made their way up to that famous desk where Walter Cronkite brought us the world every night. The boy's father was a veteran CBS technician. His mother was a housewife and more than a little nervous about what was about to happen.
The father had brought his son…
March 16, 2011
4:06 PM
Views: 121
By Thomas J. Basile for FoxNews.com
CIA Director Leon Panetta and the Obama administration continued their incessant finger-pointing at the Bush administration yesterday -- accusing Dick Cheney of abuse of power by instructing the Agency not to brief Congress about a secret anti-terror program set up after 9/11 to interdict Al Qaeda operatives. Yet, we keep hearing from the president that he wants to focus on the future and leave the past behind. Think again.
As the Obama presidency…
March 16, 2011
4:04 PM
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So, the President and the First Lady decided to have a night out on the town last Saturday. As the White House travelling press corps drooled over the sharply dressed first couple, the Obamas left the confines of the White House for dinner and a show in New York. To see the photos, they looked to be all class. Unfortunately, this was a classless move and nothing more than an arrogant display of limousine liberalism.
As a New Yorker and as a taxpayer, let me tell you loud and clear Mr…
March 16, 2011
4:02 PM
Views: 38
By Thomas J. Basile for FoxNews.com
As you know, I'm not one for lavishing praise on the President, but it is important to give credit where credit is due. Yesterday's announcement by the president of new emissions and mileage standards will hopefully, and at long last sound the death-knell for the old gas guzzler in the driveway. The announcement is a rare breath of fresh air, pardon the pun, from Washington regulators and policy-makers. Environmental regulation in this country has…
March 16, 2011
3:59 PM
Views: 49
By Thomas J. Basile for FoxNews.com
Racing toward the 100-day mark President Obama, together with the Democratic leadership are bringing us the change we were promised. Certainly America wanted something different after last year's campaign. However, change for the sake of change is a dangerous thing in the complex world we live in, and Americans should be wary of the direction we are heading. Recent poll numbers suggest that Americans, in particular Independent voters, are realizing that…
March 16, 2011
3:55 PM
Views: 47
There was a lot going on this past week. I couldn't get enough of all the "Change We Can Believe In" sweeping across the nation. We have a Treasury Secretary who wrote off his kid's summer camp on his taxes, a HHS Secretary nominee who's been taking money from the healthcare industry while failing to pay more than $120,000 in taxes, and a new deputy secretary of defense who was a top lobbyist for Raytheon. Just think, all that and I haven't even mentioned Obama-Pelosi proposed trillion-dollar…
March 16, 2011
3:54 PM
Views: 35