Former New York Times editor Howell Raines has a piece in tomorrow's left-wing Guardian newspaper taking Sen. John Kerry to task for not running a competent campaign. Let's set Raines' arguments aside for a moment and focus on one throwaway statement. As America's first war-hero candidate since John F. Kennedy, he ought to be leading […]
A Christian in Pakistan made the mistake of letting garden clippings touch the wall of a local mosque. For this he was jailed for "blaspheming Islam" and subsequently beaten to death by a "peaceful" muslim cop with a hammer. After being charged with murder, the cop reportedly said: I have offered my religious duty for […]
For more than a half-century, the United Nations has maintained slum "refugee camps" in Gaza and the West Bank. The U.N. also provides ambulances and other infrastructure. From time to time you hear screams of outrage from the Palestinian (Terror) Authority because one of their ambulances, transporting someone who is gravely injured, to a hospital […]
So, if you tax the rich less, does that necessarily mean that you are raising taxes on the poor? Paul Krugman thinks so. Don Luskin disagrees.