Steven Begakis

March 2, 2010

Obama’s True Colors Show at Blair House Conference

By Steven Begakis

Last Friday, after a seven-hour long healthcare discussion between President Obama and congressional Republicans, nothing changed. The Democrats' healthcare plan still consists of nationalizing one sixth of the U.S. econ...

February 23, 2010

Master Political Operatives Necessary for Both Parties

By Steven Begakis

Those who criticize Karl Rove usually do so either out of ignorance or partisan hypocrisy. As students prepare to hear "the architect" speak at UCSB, they should remember that Rove, like any strategist, was one of many p...

February 16, 2010

Protestors Represent Widespread American Discontent

By Steven Begakis

To date, the revolutionaries have won. Government tax-and-spend stimulus bills are now politically toxic, and the push for a national healthcare bill has been soundly defeated.

February 9, 2010

Government Should Leave Job Creation to Private Sector

By Steven Begakis

In lieu of their embarrassing defeat by Scott Brown in Massachusetts, Democrats have begun a slow retreat from their radical liberal agenda.

February 2, 2010

Buyer Beware: Obama’s Fiscal Plans Sell Public Big Lies

By Steven Begakis

In analyzing propaganda techniques, the Office of Strategic Services once remarked, "People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it."

January 26, 2010

Loss of Senate Seat Signals End of Healthcare Reform

By Steven Begakis

Last week's election of Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown as a senator is a proverbial "canary in a coal mine" for the Democratic Party.

January 19, 2010

Global Warming Naysayers Find Support From Science

By Steven Begakis

In most areas of science, it is considered noble to be a skeptic of a given theory, unless that theory is man-made climate change. According to Al Gore, "The debate [about climate change] in the scientific community is o...

January 5, 2010

Obama’s Willfully Ignores Terrorist Threats

By Steven Begakis

If Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had only properly detonated his concealed stash of Pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or PETN, our country may have suffered an attack of proportions not seen since 9/11.

November 24, 2009

Dithering on War Decision Signals Obama’s Weakness

By Steven Begakis

It is not possible to passively win a war. Winning requires an objective, a strategy to accomplish that objective and a determined execution of that strategy. President Obama has no clearly defined objective in Afghanist...

November 17, 2009

Mass Infanticide Cannot Be Government Subsidized

By Steven Begakis

The Declaration of Independence, the foundational document of the freest nation this world has ever known, boldly states, "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by...

November 10, 2009

Palestinians Reject Middle East Talks With Terrorism

By Steven Begakis

Following the success of Israel's incursion into Gaza and the elimination of Hamas terrorists responsible for firing thousands of rockets on Israeli soil, the media has been relatively quiet over the Middle East peace pr...

November 3, 2009

Legalization Puts Personal Liberty Over State Control

By Steven Begakis

There is no doubt that the War on Drugs has been an incredibly expensive failure, yet neither Democrat nor Republican leaders, from liberal ideologies to freedom loving conservatives, have allowed that obvious fact into ...

October 27, 2009

Yudof Not to Blame for Legislature’s Failure

By Steven Begakis

I truly sympathize with you. After the state cut $813 million from the University of California budget, hordes of disgruntled faculty and students began screaming over furloughs, program cuts and tuition increases, deman...

October 20, 2009

Military Culture Overrules Rights of Individual Soldiers

By Steven Begakis

There is no freedom in the military, and for good reason. In order to defend our nation and protect American interests, the U.S. military must be the best trained and most tightly disciplined fighting force in the world.

October 13, 2009

Stimulus Suceeds Only at Sucking U.S. Economy Dry

By Steven Begakis

In medieval times, the height of medical knowledge was the leech. Unaware of the origin of sickness, peasant doctors would use leeches to drain blood, for they believed that removing the blood would release the disease f...

October 6, 2009

A Heavy Hand Could Steady Iran

By Steven Begakis

Right or left, everyone acknowledges the insanity of letting this man acquire nuclear weapon technology, but have Obama's policies effectively deterred Iranian nuclear pursuits?