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The paying job prevented me from noting this late last week, and I wasn't the only one to make the connection: Osama bin Laden's latest speech sounds like it was cobbled together from the Daily Kos and Huffington Post. Seriously. Osama praises Noam Chomsky. You know, if you're a Chomsky fan you might want to […]

The "Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund" was set up to benefit the families of victims of the 9/11 attacks. According to the New York Post, (via Don Surber) it appears the charity, that was promoted by former President Bill Clinton and former GOP Sen. Bob Dole, is better described as the a source of livelihood […]

John Podhoretz has a touching remembrance of author Madeleine L'Engle who died last week at 88. I encourage you to give it a read.

We're getting to the point where "congressman" and "crook" will be listed as synonyms in Roget's Thesaurus. This corruption spans both chambers of Congress and crosses the aisle. However there does appear to be a common thread running through all of them -- the more seniority, and more power politicians gain, the more likely they […]

Sean Hannity is going to show some video this weekend of the High Priest of Global Warming, Al Gore, hopping on a Gulfstream jet. Instapundit Glenn Reynolds likes to say that he'll take global warming seriously when those espousing the dangers of global warming start acting like they're taking it seriously. I don't think any […]

Over at Patterico's place, contributor WLS relays some anecdotes about former President Jimmy Carter contained in longtime journalist Robert Novak's latest book. Turns out *surprise* that Carter has some trouble with the truth. But, Novak in his memoirs goes back to some of the earliest columns he wrote about Carter, one in the December 1975 […]

James Hsu was captured in Colorado -- riding on an Amtrak train?! Does anyone know the current betting line on how much of this is ChiCom money that's being funneled into another Clinton campaign?

There may be nothing more to it than an especially industrious group of illegal immigrants from Mexico, but some of the details -- and the timing -- give this story a more ominous cast. SAN DIEGO – A boat that may have been used to smuggle people into the United States washed ashore in La […]

Social Security is a government-run Ponzi scheme. It depends on an ever-increasing number of workers to pay the retirement benefits of an ever-increasing number retirees. Like a Ponzi scheme, it works at first, but then the math starts to work against it. We'll reach that point in 2017 or thereabouts, when the amount of money […]

You'd think that whole First Amendment thing about freedom of speech and the press and the whole "shall make no law abridging" the aforementioned would've gotten into the political class sometime in the past 200+ years. You can cut them a little slack however, after the Supreme Court upheld McCain-Feingold's restrictions on politcal ads by […]