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Count me with the overwhelming majority of Americans who believe that they have the right to build that mosque just two blocks from the site of one of the worst mass murders in history made in the name of their religion, but that they shouldn’t. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Ever since […]

Unbelievable. Embattled Rep. Maxine Waters on Friday blamed the Bush administration for her ethics problems -- saying she had to intervene with the Treasury Department on behalf of minority-owned banks seeking federal bailout funds -- including one tied to her husband -- because the Treasury Department wouldn't schedule its own appointments. Frankly, I’m surprised they’re […]

Ed Whelan over at National Review’s Bench Memos blog demonstrates that the judge who overturned the votes of 7 million people (and plaintiff’s counsel Ted Olsen) both lied about the evidence presented in the case. On a related note: John Eastman notes that Judge Vaughn Walker should have recused himself. An honest judge would throw […]

Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens died in a plane crash Monday afternoon. I was never a big fan of Stevens, his penchant for pork represented the worst of the Republican Party. Stevens also held the distinction of being the only senator I ever pissed off in my previous life as a reporter. An article I […]

Q: Democrat or Republican? A: Democrat. How bad is this fall’s races shaping up for the Democrats when they’ve got their own people running ads like this one?

Generally, I don’t begrudge how people spend money they’ve earned. What they choose to do with their money is between them and God. However, what I won’t tolerate is the filthy rich blowing their own money while at the same time telling those less well off how to spend theirs. I wasn’t going to comment […]

Today’s San Diego Union-Tribune took a look at one of the local “stimulus” projects targeted by senators Tom Coburn and John McCain at a press conference last week. The “project” is actually a study on alcohol abuse and drunk driving that received $497,117 from the nearly $1 trillion stimulus bill. So, what we’re talking about […]

Thirty-seven years ago, 7 justices on the U.S. Supreme Court took the issue of abortion out of the hands of the American people and stuffed it in the penumbras and emanations of the constitution. It’s been a political football ever since. Yesterday, a federal judge took the issue of gay marriage out of the hands […]

I mentioned Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi of the “unemployment benefits are really stimulative” last week to point out the ridiculous nature of his claims. Well, Geoff over at Innocent Bystanders took a look at Zandi’s report and finds that – suprise – government spending doesn’t have a multiplicative effect on the economy greater than […]

In tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal Arthur Laffer has an excellent op-ed where he asks the following question: Anyone who is familiar with the historical data available from the IRS knows full well that raising income tax rates on the top 1% of income earners will most likely reduce the direct tax receipts from the now […]