Here we go again with President Obama demanding one class of citizens pay more in taxes than everyone else to help pay for his Ponzi scheme called a 2013 budget  Through his irresponsible spending, Obama has added $5 trillion to our now $15.3 national debt in his three short years in office and had the nerve this week to tell Congress he wants them to pass a nearly $4 trillion budget for 2013.

GLAAD’s knee-jerk response to anyone who is a public figure that says anything that they disagree with is to call on that person to be fired; and then request that person meet with them. Why would anyone that you made lose their job be interested in meeting with you?

“No American, employer or worker, should be forced to choose between their religious precepts and obedience to the law,” added Cooper. “It’s beyond bizarre to argue that the only way to ensure that the ‘morning after’ pill or other abortifacients are available is to force religious organizations to pay for them.”

If Romney was left to run only on his conservative credentials, voters would probably begin to see him as the emperor in The Emperor’s New Clothes, someone in desperate need of a personality and an authentic conservative mantle. In states where Mitt Romney doesn’t spend lots of money, he loses.

In today’s body politics, class warfare (i.e., coveting) has become a major tool for pitting the so-called rich against the poor, despite the fact that most people, whom we would consider well off, provide the very jobs and tax base that all of us depend on.  In a perverse way, the current Democratic Party and unfortunately far too many Republicans find it necessary, and unfortunately extremely effective, to appeal to our lessor angels.

Jon Meacham’s January 23 article in Time magazine, “Why Newt Is Like Nixon,” is as much a question about how Speaker Gingrich was able to come back in the polls a second time, winning my home state of South Carolina…John Meacham, perhaps hoping for guilt by association, presents Gingrich as winning “with a glower,” and winning by a glower, in a state he calls “raw,” meaning angry, hateful…

Romney has been taking a drubbing about his remarks in a CNN interview that he is “not worried about the very poor … we have a safety net there. … If it needs a repair, I will fix it.” And then going on to say it is “middle-income Americans … that are really struggling” and the ones that are his concern.

The first thing the next president must do is return America to sustainable economic prosperity. This begins with four actions, two balancing revenue with spending and two unleashing America’s potential. He should initiate a national campaign for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution, capping federal spending at 18% of GDP. Second, call for fundamental tax reform…

Responding to a tsunami of evidence that opportunities for fraudulent voting have reached crisis levels, National Center for Public Policy Research Adjunct Fellow Horace Cooper is criticizing Attorney General Eric Holder and the U.S. Department of Justice for opposing efforts to crack down on illegal voting schemes.

Republicans and Democrats agree that these are difficult times: we have a stagnant economy, a dysfunctional government, and a war on terror to wage; we agree that we need a great leader. Is President Obama one?