The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 yesterday that the government can ban even “humanitarian” assistance to terrorist organizations. Eugene Volokh’s got a good summary post here, and you can click on the main site for quite a few more takes on the decision and read this short summary from Elliott Abrams. What was most interesting to […]
It was almost one of those “it depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is” moments. President Barack Obama was on ABC News’ “This Week” talking about his proposed health care when George Stephanopoulus asked him if the so-called individual mandate requiring everyone to purchase insurance was a tax. Now, via the Daily Caller, comes […]
This is a good read. To hear an ailing 82-year-old Thomas Edison speak, with the great inventor's voice, wheezy and high-pitched, growing husky and choked as he praised his good friend Henry Ford who stood alongside President Herbert Hoover on a stage on Oct. 21, 1929 is catching lightning in a bottle. Earlier that night, […]
When I was graciously offered the opportunity to no longer work for the San Diego Union-Tribune nearly a year ago, one of the conditions of receiving a meager severance package (designed in such a way to minimize the company’s tax liability while subsequently maximizing my own – an excellent move for the Platinum Equity owners) […]
Scroll down and watch the video if you’ve been relying on the mainstream media to tell you about Rep. Bob “Who are YOU?” Etheridge’s little self-control problem. In the wake of the video of an unhinged old man attacking a couple young, well-dressed young men for asking a Democrat if he supported the Obama agenda, […]
Is it possible that advice like this was the cause of the financial crisis? From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg *** Pelosi on the Midterms: In an interview with one of us yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi maintained that Democrats would hold on to the House after the midterm elections. “Take […]
In the 2006 race for the Virginia Senate race held by George Allen, the senator made a fatal (political) mistake. His opponent had dispatched a student to shadow Allen and record everything he said in public in an effort to provide some political ammunition. He got that ammunition when Allen referred to him as a […]
Sen. Barbara “dumb as a bag of hammers” Boxer: Someone get that list of names and fire them too. For the record: Hoystory endorses Carly Fiorina for Senate.
Long before Obamacare became the law of the land, many opponents – including myself – had made the point that President Obama’s oft-repeated claim that “if you like the insurance you have, you can keep it,” was a promise he had no power to keep. With Obamacare’s mandates and changes in funding mechanisms, it is […]
The big foreign policy news of the day was the 12-2 vote in the U.N. Security Council to place sanctions on Iran that are neither “crippling” nor “have bite,” but are instead little more than “annoying flies.” That we’ve waited 18 months to get this would be laughable if the result wasn’t that Iran is […]