The Obama administration seems hell bent on trying terrorists in show trials in U.S. federal courts despite bipartisan opposition in Congress and in direct contravention of common sense. Just this week, the administration announced that Somali terrorism suspect Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame had been captured two months ago and held on a US Navy ship where […]
The same-sex “marriage” debate is not about equal rights for homosexuals, it’s about an anti-religion crusade designed to eventually treat believers in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim traditions as pariahs, their beliefs not respected and certainly not allowed in polite society. It’s a point I’ve been making for years. In the wake of New York’s […]
Via James Taranto's "Best of the Web Today" comes this beauty: President Obama should mandate, in an executive order, that all federal contractors obey the wage and hour laws already on the books. Because if they're not obeying the law now, a sternly worded missive from the president is sure to fix it.
This is informative. From Sunday's "This Week" on ABC: For the record, the guy suggesting that it's an open question whether the Commerce Clause gives the government the power to force you to purchase a product from a private company wrote the cover story for a recent Time magazine article on the Constitution. That article […]
This evening Jerry Brown signed the Democrats’ budget plan which included an unconstitutional requirement that Amazon.com collect state and local taxes. At 9:45 this evening, I got this: Hello, Unfortunately, Governor Brown has signed into law the bill that we emailed you about earlier today. As a result of this, contracts with all California residents […]
From the "I can't make this stuff up" files: The Conference on Disarmament held a plenary meeting this morning in which the Democratic People's Republic of Korea assumed the presidency of the Conference and members bid farewell to the departing ambassadors from Canada and the United Kingdom. In his initial address to the Conference as […]
First, the facts. Here’s a chart showing the employment picture since the start of the recession for the last 4 recessions. Here’s Mitt Romney: "It's been a failure in the last several years to get America back on track again. It's taken longer to get Americans back to work than it took during the Great […]
Former Bush 43 economic policy adviser Lawrence Lindsey points out in today’s Wall Street Journal that our economic situation is actually worse than it’s made out to be. First, a normalization of interest rates would upend any budgetary deal if and when one should occur. At present, the average cost of Treasury borrowing is 2.5%. […]
Politifact takes on Rep. Allen West and gives him a “mostly true.” West has been critical of the U.S. military actions in Libya launched in March. In a Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times article on June 23, West was quoted as saying "We can't keep committing U.S. military to 'protect innocent civilians'; they're exhausted." He went […]
If you’ve been marginally aware of how difficult Presidents Bush 43 and Obama have found it to get our NATO allies to assist in Afghanistan over the past half-dozen years or so, then this news would come as little surprise: For the second time in three years, Britain has found itself with too small a […]