President Obama and his administration haven’t been particularly understanding of religious beliefs—especially if they are in any way Christian and depart from any tenet of modern-day liberalism. The first evidence of this was the case of Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The case involved a private school teacher whom […]
This should be basic economics, but apparently it isn't. From a Politico article on the White House's curious reticence to outline how much additional money the so-called Buffet Rule would bring in to federal coffers: But in a cash-strapped government, policymakers may have little choice but to embrace the advice of bank robber Willie Sutton […]
When I think about President Obama’s decision not to issue a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline that would’ve created thousands (or tens of thousands) of jobs and ensured a low-cost source of energy from a staunch ally, I think that I must be dumb. The media has been telling us for years how brilliant […]
I must confess that I wasn't going to touch the topic of this week's ridiculous Newsweek cover story by the world's most famous gay man to be obsessed with Sarah Palin's vagina. I also wasn't too interested in the predictable "racism" debate that would spring up when some compared the picture of President Barack Obama […]
When last I thought of Providence Journal columnist and National Council of Editorial Writers Civility Project head Froma Harrop, it was last summer and my opinion of her sincerity, self-awareness, civility and was that she was an odious individual who should be drummed out of polite society, but she’s lucky enough to work at a […]
I was unaware of this CNN segment because I don’t get up that early in the morning—or stay awake that late on the West Coast. Jon Stewart explains: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook I can’t wait until someone they awaken […]
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) is retiring at the end of the current Congress because he’s not particularly interested in following in the footsteps of Tom Daschle. But he is still dutifully playing out his time and continues to shovel economic alchemy that has been all but discredited, this time on “Fox News […]
So, just before I left to visit the family for Thanksgiving, I got another present. The same person responsible for leaking the e-mails featuring efforts to “hide the decline” two years ago released thousands more e-mails that further re-enforce what those of us not predisposed to alarmism and doom have known for several years—the climate […]
They told me if we elected John McCain we'd have powerful political interests telling the news media what stories they could and couldn't run and they were right.
I’m not surprised. I spent 15 years in newspaper newsrooms up and down the left coast. I knew they were populated by and large by the American left. The political theory typically ran from the far, far left to the center left, with an occasional “a pox on both your houses” libertarian here and there. […]