The Obama administration sure knows how to win friends and influence people. They’ve spent their first year-plus in office “extending an open hand” to countries that hate us – i.e. Iran, Venezuela, etc. While simultaneously kicking dirt in the faces of our friends – i.e. Honduras, Great Britain and now Israel. How else do you […]
President Obama made the following statement at his 7,384th health care reform address yesterday in Strongsville, Ohio. How many people are getting insurance through their jobs right now? Raise your hands. All right. Well, a lot of those folks, your employer it’s estimated would see premiums fall by as much as 3,000 percent [sic], which […]
Economist Walter E. Williams has a succinct piece on the nature of fundamental human rights. Guess what? Health care and Internet access aren’t among them. True rights, such as those in our Constitution, or those considered to be natural or human rights, exist simultaneously among people. That means exercise of a right by one person […]
Fox News talker Glenn Beck has drawn the ire of some on the Christian left after calling on people who attend churches that preach “social justice” to leave that church. The Rev. Jim Wallis, president of Sojourners, a network of progressive Christians, says Beck perverted Jesus' message when he urged Christians last week to leave […]
The only news hook for this post is the fact that it’s been bugging me for months and I haven’t written about it. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama characterized U.S. policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan as little more than indiscriminate bombing. "Now you have narco drug lords who are helping to finance the […]
Tom Hanks is a fine actor. He’s also done a lot of good work on bringing some American history to the big and small screens – including “Band of Brothers,” and “John Adams.” But it appears as though his latest project is more of the typical Hollywood fare – America is evil and racist. But […]
Politifact.com, which is routinely an object of scorn here, has this interesting bit in its latest mailbag feature. There are the e-mailers who criticize us generally for perceived liberal bias. (For the record, we are an independent, nonpartisan journalism organization.) For the record, I’m often mistaken for Brad Pitt and have women throwing themselves at […]
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman was revealed to be one yet again today. Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman takes note in his New York Times column of what he calls "the incredible gap that has opened up between the parties": Today, Democrats and Republicans live in different universes, both intellectually and morally. "What Democrats […]
The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto highlights some totally predictable partisan hackery by Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne. What Did the Founders Say Today? "If the Republicans pushing against the filibuster love majority rule so much, they should propose getting rid of the Senate altogether. But doing so would mean acknowledging what's really going on […]
Victoria Toensing has a piece in today’s Wall Street Journal taking the Obama Justice Department to task over the handling of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Unfortunately, I can’t read the entire piece because the Journal recently reverted to making most of its Opinion Page subscriber-only after about two years of it being free of […]