Suggested Four Planks: Sovereignty, Justice, Federalism and Liberty
Targeted: Does this photo of Barack Obama go too far?
Mar/09/10 23:44
Latest cover of WorldNetWeekly fires up blogosphere
Metal From Hip Implants Passed on to Babies
Mar/09/10 20:57
Some moms might pass more than genetics to their newborns. Doctors found three babies born to women with hip implants had high levels of chromium and cobalt in their umbilical cord blood — metals that had worn off the implants. The res..
Levin Would Back Capital-Gains Tax Cut
Mar/09/10 20:35
The new chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee wants to reduce the levy on small businesses to help spur job creation.
Andy Kessler: Lessons of a Dow Decade
Mar/09/10 20:25
Capital misallocation is usually a fallout of bad government policy.
Marc Thiessen on Keep America Safe
Mar/09/10 18:35
Marc Thiessen makes a valiant attempt in his Washington Post column to defend the campaign mounted by the group Keep America Safe, led by Liz Cheney, against the hyperbolically dubbed “al-Qaeda Seven” — seven Justice Depa..
Served in ‘Nam
Mar/09/10 18:32
DAILY! “I ate the last mango in Paris Took the last plane out of Saigon Took the first fast boat to China And there’s still so much to be done.”–Jimmy Buffett Ken Blackwell: [T]he White House is pulling out all the s..
Obama On “The Nuclear Option” In 2005
Mar/09/10 16:24
RE: Keeping the Boot Off
Mar/09/10 15:03
Jen , I too was impressed with Bret Stephens’s powerful column on Iraq – and grateful that he quoted the late Michael Kelly. I have written about Mike before . He wrote so well on so many topics, from politics to his family to matters of w..
Why Unemployment Remains High
Mar/09/10 14:44
"[C]onstant political meddling in labor markets," says Richard Epstein, "makes it hard for individual firms to figure out the risk of hiring new employees.": Yet on this issue [New York Times columnist Paul] Krugman and the Democrats adopte..
Taxpayers Pay for Political Fundraising Venue
Mar/09/10 13:59
The Sewall-Belmont House is a small museum in Washington, D.C., that celebrates the history of women's struggles for political equality. But for many of the capital's politicos, the house is primarily a venue for hob-knobbing with supporter..
Troubling, Indeed
Mar/09/10 13:14
Stuart Rothenberg writes: With a nearly 80-seat House majority, 60 seats in the Senate for more than eight months, a GOP brand so damaged that the party looked completely incompetent and a charismatic African-American president taking over..
Can Minnesota Shoot Itself In The Foot?
Mar/09/10 13:10
Over at Minnesota “Progressive” Project, a writer named “MNBearBud” plaintively asks “Can Minnesota Elect a Bold Progressive Governor in 2010?” It’s a mash note for As I have been helping out at a c..
SWF/SWJ Looking for Some Experience and Expertise
Mar/09/10 11:42
The Small Wars Foundation ( Small Wars Journal's non-profit parent organization), along with several government and private sector cosponsors, is conducting a small Tribal Engagement Workshop (TEW) on 24-25 March in Fredericksburg, Virginia..
A Temptation too Great? Republicans and the Stimulus
Mar/09/10 11:01
Congressional Republicans rightly opposed the stimulus leviathan last year on the grounds that it wouldn't spur job growth -- or at least, not as much as cutting taxes and liberating the economy's true job creators -...
Army Learning Concept for 2015
Mar/09/10 09:57
Army Learning Concept for 2015 - Thinking Soldiers – Learning Army!! The operational environment is exceptionally complex with an expanding array of threats. Increased competitiveness is the norm. Recognizing that fact means that in order t..
Who Should Pay the Piper?
Mar/09/10 09:48
Greece this past weekend saw the worst rioting since the debt crisis began. After Athens had announced new tax hikes and budget cuts to reduce a deficit of 13 percent of gross domestic product, mobs drove guards from Greece's Tomb of the U..
PPIC Data on Hispanic Incarceration (Plus P.S.)
Mar/09/10 09:45
Kudos to Jason Richwine for his fine shoe-leather work in contacting the PPIC staff and determining that the ethnic incarceration figures provided in their 2006 report Who's in Prison? were already age-adjusted, which he mentioned in a wee..
Repeal: Obamacare as the New Prohibition
Mar/09/10 06:09
It was called the "nullification contagion." And it was a battle royal. Literally. Once upon-a-time in America, a tumultuous battle over the freedom to drink alcoholic beverages raged...
Scott Brown's Reinforcements
Mar/09/10 06:09
"The pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states," Barack Obama said at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. In the presidential election four years later, he...
What our Founding Fathers expect of us
Mar/09/10 04:00
Exclusive: Mychal Massie cites Jefferson in urging Americans to take nation back
I lost my Focuson the Family
Mar/09/10 01:07
Exclusive: Ken Hutcherson whacks boardof ministry for taking Dr. Dobson off radio
The Refueling Tanker War is Over: Boeing Wins
Mar/09/10 00:29
Boeing wins by default. Northrup Grumman has pulled out of the refueling tanker competition. Apparently they won low bid about two years ago, but the stipulations and structure of the contract is suspect. Northrup Grumman has pulled out be..
Stimulus or Sedative?
Mar/09/10 00:01
Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has, if you called the tail a leg? When the audience said "five," Lincoln corrected them, saying that the answer was four. "The fact that you call a tail a leg...
Health Reform Tuesday
Mar/09/10 00:00
Let's start off by updating the number of lamwakers in the House, which drops to 431 thanks to the resignation of Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY). That means Democrats need 216 votes for a majority, four less than what they had back in Novembe..
Obama's Oscar
Mar/08/10 21:36
I am no pinnacle of humility, and I've learned my fair share of hard lessons from the camps of conceit. But I'm not sure the former Chicago politician occupying the White House ever has been schooled with a primer on the perils of pride.&nb..
