American Thinker | by Bruce Walker | Feb. 5, 2010

Doug Flutie, one of the most inspirational players in college football history, and Curt Schilling, a great Red Sox pitcher who won a World Series for his team, both supported Scott Brown for the Senate. There is no reason to doubt that these popular, respected men helped bring attention and support to the Brown campaign.

Tim Tebow is appearing in an ad during the Super Bowl which has a profoundly life-affirming statement — the sort of personal arguments against abortion which it is impossible to contradict. Other college football superstars have made the same sort of appeal. Colt McCoy and Sam Bradford, superstar quarterbacks during the week before the huge O.U.-Texas game, co-produced a video titled “I am second,” which makes it clear to all their fans that God, and not sports, is the center of their lives. Kurt Warner, whose inspirational life as a pro quarterback is the stuff of legends, would give all his laurels without a second thought to the God who made his wonderful life possible. more »

Townhalll | by Larry Kudlow | Jan. 16, 2010

President Obama’s misbegotten bank tax is precisely the wrong policy at precisely the wrong time. It will wind up backfiring across the board. Why? Because bank consumers and borrowers are the ones who will wind up paying this tax, creating an obstacle to economic recovery.

Obama is actually rewarding losers and punishing winners — exactly the reverse of free-market capitalism. more »