The New York Times today reported a settlement between First Command Financial Services and the government. First Command is one of those disgusting companies that have preyed on military families. NASD and the Securities and Exchange Commission said that First Command exaggerated the track record of its high-cost fund products - with fees that ate […]
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is once again in the news because its chairwoman, Mary Frances Berry, has decided that term limits don't apply to her. Mary Frances Berry's term as a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights ended at midnight Sunday, but as of this writing she maintains that her term […]
California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi was on "Fox News Sunday" yesterday, and outlined the tenets of the Democratic Party: Budget deficits are "immoral," partial-birth abortion is not.
I mentioned last week that the outrageously close Washington gubernatorial race reinforced the need to ensure that our elections are not stolen through fraud. The Wall Street Journal's John Fund weighed in today with similar sentiments -- and that it may already be too late. That set off a legal fracas over the 929 people […]
Eleanor Clift supports former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's bid to head the Democratic National Committee. Clift claims that Dean is really a "centrist" a la former President Bill Clinton. If Dean is a centrist, then the Democrat Party is further left than even I thought it was. (OK, that's a lie -- I always knew […]
This quote from yesterday's dedication ceremony for the Clinton Presidential Library just begs for a snarky comment. The library "is like my husband: it's open, it's expansive, it's welcoming, it's filled with life." – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton Please feel free to make use of the comments.
So Saddam Hussein pocketed $21.3 billion from the U.N.'s oil-for-palaces program -- nearly twice previous estimates. So what does Democrat Sen. Carl Levin have to say about it at yesterday's hearings? Despite the findings, the committee's ranking Democrat, Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, said "for the most part, the UN sanctions achieved their intended objective […]
There are people who are born-again Christians who voted for John Kerry two weeks ago. Whatever the reasons for voting for Kerry, it seems moderately masochistic with the way the elite of the Democratic Party demean and bad-mouth them. The latest case in point is Mr. Lake Wobegon himself, Garrison Keillor. Not one to shy […]
You can sometimes find some interesting things regarding the state of journalism on the bulletin board. Someone posted New York Times reporter Fox Butterfield's annual article on the drop in the crime rate. Despite Drop in Crime, an Increase in Inmates By FOX BUTTERFIELD The number of inmates in state and federal prisons rose 2.1 […]
I'm finally getting around to watching my news shows and was just struck, once again, by Margaret Carlson's incredible arrogance. First, she is still peddling that nonsense that George W. Bush wasn't elected in 2000. Second, as she tried to get into the discussion she told National Review's Kate O'Beirne to stop gloating because it's […]