Bell City: Lessons in Looting
Eight former or current Bell, California, officials were arrested on Tuesday for looting the city for themselves and their friends, according to Los...
New Contract With America to be Unveiled
History is about to repeat itself, if the activity of House Republicans is any indication. ...
Read moreUNending Poverty
With its “peacekeeping” that kills folks as dead as warfare does and its international meddling, you might think the United Nations would spawn...
Read moreWhere are the liberals? “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”
The morning news tells us those reactionary old Republicans managed to sustain a filibuster to defeat the repeal of the ban of homosexuals...
Read more“Democracy Still Matters” — But Should It?
New York Times columnist Roger Cohen wrote an op-ed piece for his paper’s September 20 issue entitled “Democracy Still Matters,” in which he...
Read morePenny-Wise on Crime
For more than 200 years, the political left has been coming up with reasons why criminals should not be punished as much, or...
Read moreWhose Money Is It Anyway?
Since the advent of the income tax, it has been obvious that governments believe that their citizens’ earnings actually belong to the government...
Read moreFirst Living Medal of Honor Recipient Since Vietnam
The White House has announced that a 25-year-old soldier who braved enemy fire to rescue two comrades during a 2007 military operation in...
Read morePotential Changes to White House Economic Team?
President Obama raised eyebrows on Monday when he alluded to the possibility of making changes to his economic team during a question/answer session...
Read moreWarren Appointment Raises Issues
President Obama has once again circumvented the United States Congress by appointing Elizabeth Warren to the influential position of special adviser to the...
Read moreComedy Central Hosts Plan Dueling Rallies
In an effort to steal some of the thunder from conservative pundit Glenn Beck, who hosted the impressive Restoring Honor rally in Washington...
Read moreDebate Over Government Pension Plans Heats Up
After losing billions during the economic crisis, bloated benefits of state and local government-employee pension plans across America have been thrust into the...
Read moreRecession is Over?
With a straight face, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) announced that the Great Recession ended last June. June of 2009, that...
Read moreObama Speech: Dropping “Endowed By Their Creator”
When President Obama spoke to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute on September 15, he recited well-known words from the Declaration of Independence to...
Read moreGlobal Warming? No. Global Climate Disruption? Yes!
Forced to contend with the reality that global warming is not a man-made phenomenon that will ultimately result in catastrophe, President Obama’s Science...
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