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Last weekend, four police officers were killed were killed by a Lovelle Mixon, a [impressive list of derogatory expletives deleted]. The day before the shooting, Mixon had been tied through DNA to the rape of a 12-year-old girl. On Wednesday, some of the "good people" of Oakland held a march to honor Mixon. The event, […]

President Barack Obama's game of choice is basketball. He's not much of a wrestler -- especially when it comes to "wrestling" with ethics questions, as Yuval Levin noted: In tonight's press conference, Jon Ward of the Washington Times asked the president whether he personally wrestled with the ethics of federally funding embryonic stem cell research. […]

There's plenty of reasons why newspapers are struggling nowadays. Just yesterday the Houston Chronicle and Atlanta Journal-Constitution announced layoffs. There will likely be more next week at some newspaper somewhere. There's three major reasons behind this decline: the overall economic environment, bad management and the Internet. While part-time, hobbyist bloggers can never replicate even a small […]

A reader of National Review's "The Corner" posed an excellent question for President Obama and his administration who appear to be insisting that somehow healthcare needs to be dealt with as a prerequisite for fixing what ails the economy. Jonah; I have never seen this point made:  all of Europe, which has nationalized health care […]

Today's guilty party is Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif. -- or is it Maryland? California's Rep. Pete Stark, a senior House Democrat who helps write the nation's tax laws, has been claiming a $1.7 million Maryland home as his principal residence in recent years, although he represents the Golden State's 13th District on the east side […]

It appears President Barack Obama's teleprompter needs to spell everything out phonetically. All terrific press for Orion, except that Obama kept pronouncing the company’s name wrong, calling it OAR-ee-on. After finishing his remarks and talking with a few people, the president returned to the microphone and said his prepared remarks led him to pronounce the […]

VoiceofSanDiego.org has published a softball Q&A with Art Cooley, who helped found the Environmental Defense Fund, entitled "The Guy Who Defeated DDT." Of course, the outright ban on DDT which Cooley and his friends succeeded with decades ago also resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of Africans from malaria. I especially loved this […]

There's an interesting bit in Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz's latest piece, a profile of "60 Minutes" reporter Steve Kroft that tells us one of two things: Kroft is either a conservative or a far-left liberal -- there is no middle ground. One reliable source -- Kroft's wife, journalist Jennet Conant -- says he […]

...just wait until it's free. That's the line from the incomparable P.J. O'Rourke and the death of actress Natasha Richardson apparently has some people asking if that "free" Canadian health care is worth what you pay for it. A day before Natasha Richardson's scheduled funeral, some are wondering if a medical helicopter might have been […]

In the rush to pass the stimulus bill, no one noticed that some Democrats had added a sop to the Teamsters Union -- a pilot program allowing 98 (98!) Mexican trucks into the U.S. as part of NAFTA was shut down. As the Wall Street Journal noted, the Mexican trucks in the program actually had […]