The Left’s “Billionaire Outsider” Hypocrisy
by Mark Pfeifle Who drafts the Democratic Party’s campaign strategy? Whoever it is, they should be fired. Their 2014 plan violates a basic rule of electoral public relations: Don’t build your…
The Left’s Hostility to Political Speech
by Thomas Sowell The recent Supreme Court decision over-ruling some Federal Election Commission restrictions on political campaign contributions has provoked angry reactions on the left. That is what often happens…
Second Climate Thoughts
The latest U.N. report tones down the alarmism but ramps up the bad economics. The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its latest mammoth report last week, and the…
The Liberal Gulag
Liberal fascism on display By Kevin D. Williamson The word “liberal” has taken a beating over the last few days: A Mozilla executive was hounded out of his position at…
Fast-Tracking the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger
How far will the Obama Administration push Crony Capitalism? by Kerri Toloczko For several years, a large, modern and expensive building stood abandoned on Kato Road in Fremont, California; the…
Obama looks to close wage gap while paying female staffers less than men
by Caroline May President Barack Obama is planning to sign two new executive actions aimed at narrowing the wage gap between men and women Tuesday, even as the Obama White…
National Security Fairy Tales: US defense spending vs. the rest of the world
by Peter Huessy “The US spends more money on defense than all the countries in the rest of the world together.” Sound familiar? Years ago, Ben Cohen of Ben and…
Who is the real Party of the Rich?
Right after the Supreme Court’s decision to lift limits on campaign contributions, Democrats and their left-wing supporters assaulted the decision as a boon to Republicans, “the party of the rich.”…
The Agony of Iran’s Militant Mullahcracy
by Miklos K. Radvanyi On February 1, 1979, the Shi’a cleric, Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, flew from his exile in a Paris suburb to Tehran to fill the political vacuum created…
Who Buys Votes? Incumbents, Not the Rich
Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has devoted most of his attention lately to slimming the Koch brothers and alleging that they and other rich people want to buy elections. Just like…
Free Speech Wins Big In Supreme Court Ruling
The Supreme Court just lessened the influence of those “shadowy groups with harmless-sounding names” President Obama warns against. We’ll see how the Democrats’ rich donors like the sunlight. In a…
A Republican Plan for Healthcare Reform
President Obama has repeated claimed that the Republicans have only voted to repeal ObamaCare, but have no ideas or proposals of their own. This was, and is, entirely false –…
Obama boasts 7.1 Million have signed up for Obamacare – but independent study shows just 858,000 newly insured Americans have purchased insurance
• President took a major victory lap and took political shots at Republicans, but ignored shortcomings in his administration’s official numbers. • Press secretary Jay Carney will only say ‘we’re…
N.C. State Board Finds More than 35,000 Incidents of ‘Double Voting’ in 2012
by Andrew Johnson North Carolina’s Board of Elections found that tens of thousands of registered voters from the state have personal information matching that of registered voters in other states,…
ObamaCare: Rhetoric Aside, It Is Still Falling Well Short
by James C. Capretta The Obamacare open-enrollment season (supposedly) closed yesterday, so it is good time to step back and assess where things stand with the law and its first-year…