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That's what the Democrats like to portray themselves as, but it would definitely help their case if they'd actually pay the Social Security taxes for their employees.

The Wall Street Journal's Tunku Varadarajan has an intriguing and informative interview with Oriana Fallaci. (I read Fallaci's The Rage and The Pride and wholeheartedly endorse it.) I encourage you to read the entire thing, but I want to highlight an excerpt from an essay by the new Pope before he was Pope, as recounted […]

I just saw the most incredible bit of video on Fox News' "Special Report with Brit Hume." Democratic senators Chuck Schumer and Jeff Bingaman were holding a press conference stating that Democrats would continue to keep their heads buried in the sand regarding Social Security's funding crisis as long as President Bush holds the belief […]

The House today passed a constitutional amendment that would give the Congress the authority to pass a law (or laws) prohibiting the desecration of the American flag. I'm enthusiastically ambivalent about the whole thing. Legal flag-burning has its advantages -- anytime someone does it you know that you can immediately disregard anything they say as […]

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin "apologized" on the Senate floor yesterday -- sort of. "More than most people, a Senator lives by his words, words are the coin of the realm in our profession. Occasionally words will fail us and occasionally we will fail words." "On June 14, I took the floor of the Senate to […]

I watched a bit of AFI's Top 100 greatest movie quotes tonight -- if you're interested, the list is here. The list of the Top 400 nominees can be found here. [PDF format] The list is really mixed. Some of the lines are really good -- very quotable and memorable. Others ... well, it's just […]

Jon Henke over at Q&O highlights some spin from the lefty "think" tank the Center for American Progress on the Social Security crisis. NEW PRIVATIZATION PLAN WOULD EXPLODE FEDERAL DEFICIT: The Wall Street Journal claims that the proposal (which it calls "political jujitsu") would "create no new debt for the government." That's not true. Right […]

Four years ago, California's insurance commissioner, Republican Chuck Quackenbush, resigned in disgrace after it was discovered that he let several insurance companies avoid billions of dollars in fines in return for "donations" to a non-profit foundation that he ran. This same foundation conveniently used Quackenbush in "public service announcements" designed to boost his visibility and […]

Prompted by The New York Times' lame editorial "The Center Can Hold" -- which prompted me to file a request for a correction with Public Editor Byron Calame (no substantive response yet) -- Sen. John Cornyn responds to the charge that GOP senators are merely a rubber stamp for Bush's judicial nominees. To the Editor: […]

It looks like those sneaky senators are trying to get the despicable broadcast flag into law by hiding it in an appropriations bill. To paraphrase Peter Sellers in "Murder by Death": "Broadcast flag like television set on honeymoon -- unnecessary."