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Is this an admission or just another example of the gaffe-prone nature of the president of our 57 states? “So, when you hear folks saying ‘Well, the president shouldn’t want massive job killing tax increases when the economy is this weak.’ Nobody’s looking to raise taxes right now. We’re talking about potentially 2013 and the […]

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that 18,000 jobs had been created in June and the unemployment rate had inched back up to 9.2 percent. A deeper look at the numbers includes some even scarier facts. The jobs survey was exceptionally bleak even in its details. Job growth in April and May was […]

If you’ve been paying any attention to the so-called progressive media (and The New York Times, but I repeat myself) for the past year or so, you’d know that the object of their shock and ire are Charles and David Koch, owners of Koch Industries. The Koch (pronounced Coke) brothers are of a conservative/libertarian bent […]

Never, ever, ever send a “cease-and-desist” demand to a media outlet telling them not to cover a story. It never works, and then the newspaper or television station (or blog) then goes ahead and adds that to the story they were planning to run anyway. It makes you look desperate and ultimately foolish and impotent. […]

The Obama administration seems hell bent on trying terrorists in show trials in U.S. federal courts despite bipartisan opposition in Congress and in direct contravention of common sense. Just this week, the administration announced that Somali terrorism suspect Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame had been captured two months ago and held on a US Navy ship where […]

The same-sex “marriage” debate is not about equal rights for homosexuals, it’s about an anti-religion crusade designed to eventually treat believers in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim traditions as pariahs, their beliefs not respected and certainly not allowed in polite society. It’s a point I’ve been making for years. In the wake of New York’s […]

Via James Taranto's "Best of the Web Today" comes this beauty: President Obama should mandate, in an executive order, that all federal contractors obey the wage and hour laws already on the books. Because if they're not obeying the law now, a sternly worded missive from the president is sure to fix it.

This is informative. From Sunday's "This Week" on ABC: For the record, the guy suggesting that it's an open question whether the Commerce Clause gives the government the power to force you to purchase a product from a private company wrote the cover story for a recent Time magazine article on the Constitution. That article […]

This evening Jerry Brown signed the Democrats’ budget plan which included an unconstitutional requirement that Amazon.com collect state and local taxes. At 9:45 this evening, I got this: Hello, Unfortunately, Governor Brown has signed into law the bill that we emailed you about earlier today. As a result of this, contracts with all California residents […]

From the "I can't make this stuff up" files: The Conference on Disarmament held a plenary meeting this morning in which the Democratic People's Republic of Korea assumed the presidency of the Conference and members bid farewell to the departing ambassadors from Canada and the United Kingdom. In his initial address to the Conference as […]