I can’t imagine the pain the families of the victims of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting massacre are feeling. They’re in my thoughts and prayers. It takes a severe mental defect to contemplate the murder of 20 young children. Adam Lanza was a very sick man. The focus in the coming days, weeks and months […]
“Economists say the stimulus worked.” That’s one of the claims I heard over the Thanksgiving holiday, and it was thrown out in the middle of a completely different conversation, so I didn’t challenge the claim at the time. But last week as part of President Obama’s opening offer on avoiding the fiscal cliff, Treasury Secretary […]
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The holiday season is the time of year when you get to spend quality time with people who think you’re a crank. I’ve got something a little longer (and on a different subject) to write about later that was prompted by this same family discussion, but first things first. My position on “climate change” in […]
At his press conference last week, President Obama defended the “honor” of his U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice by challenging Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte that if they were angry that Rice was sent on five Sunday shows to peddle a demonstrable lie their beef was with him and not the ambassador. Shorter […]
It’s been a week since the American people let their voices be heard, and apparently what they wanted was more economic malaise, free stuff and four more years of a holiday from reality. I must confess that I didn’t see it coming. I couldn’t understand how a (bare) majority of the American people could think […]
I'm cautiously optimistic that early Wednesday morning, Barack Obama will become a lame-duck president. I know that it's difficult to unseat an incumbent president, but Obama's performance this past four years have been so disastrous, that it's a minor miracle that he hasn't already donned a hairshirt and retired to Hawaii. You've heard the numbers […]
The latest news on the Benghazi scandal and cover-up broke last week when Fox News reported that CIA operators at the annex a few short blocks from the U.S. consulate had been ordered multiple times to “stand down” and not assist the Americans under attack. In the first days after the attack, attention focused on […]
In tonight’s debate, Mitt Romney made a claim that’s been a GOP talking point for nearly a year: “Oil production is down 14 percent this year on federal land.” As is typical, this is a completely true statement. Politifraud gives you the numbers in its very fact check. But as is typical for opinion journalists, […]
I managed to tolerate a few minutes of NBC's "Meet the Press" this morning and it was just as bad as I remember it. My glance at the unbiased panel showed that it included the Democrat mayor of Atlanta, former Mich. Gov. Granholm, a relatively obscure GOP strategist whose name I don't remember and former […]