Climate change: it’s not science – it’s mumbo jumbo
The IPCC’s call to phase out fossil fuels is economic nonsense and ‘morally outrageous’ for the developing world. On Friday, the UN published its landmark report into climate change, which…
ObamaCare: Worse is the new normal
Mid-20th-century assumptions of generational progress no longer obtain. A few years ago, after the publication of my book America Alone, an exasperated reader wrote to advise me to lighten up,…
Update: NSA Analysts spied on love interests
The National Security Agency has admitted that analysts have abused their authority to spy on love interests on several occasions. In response to a letter from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa),…
Why President Obama and Democrats Want a Government Shutdown
by Peter Roff The short narrative, compiled by people with even shorter memories, is that the United States government got to the brink of a shutdown because the unreasonable House…
Clinton donors get a pass on shady contracting
by Kerri Houston Tolozcko In June 2011, the Defense Department’s Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) released a scathing report on a defense contracting company called…
Update on NSA gathering data on social connections of U.S. citizens
Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations…
Coalition Letter to Gov. Walker on Casino Gambling
September 20, 2013 Governor Scott Walker P.O. Box 7863 Madison, WI 53707-7863 Dear Governor Walker: We are writing to thank you for putting forward family and job friendly criteria…
ObamaCare: It’s unsustainable; better to scrap it and start anew
Confirming the disconnect between the empty-promise pretenses on which ObamaCare was sold and its real-world effects in practice is a new report from Medicare actuaries that says health spending in…
Weakness matters
Projecting weakness ultimately ties the hands of the weak leader and pushes him into small thinking and reflexive action. I usually stay away from using current polls to gauge how…
With A Little Creative Thinking, Detroit Can Again Thrive
by Kerri Toloczko House flipping is trendy for American real estate investors, and a spectator sport for those addicted to shows like “Flip This House.” Although Detroit ‘s extreme fiscal…
The real Rouhani
The search, now 30 years old, for Iranian “moderates” goes on. Amid the enthusiasm of the latest sighting, it’s worth remembering that the highlight of the Iran-contra arms-for-hostages debacle was…
Cooking the Book
Global warmism and the antiscientific method … In the first five paragraphs of a recent dispatch from Stockholm, the Associated Press — in our estimation unwittingly, for the most part…
Stubborn and Selfish on Healthcare
The majority of Americans don’t want the flawed ObamaCare, so why is the president pushing it? So the Republican-controlled House of Representatives — with the help of a couple of…
Coalition Letter Opposing the Renewable Fuel Standard
September 26, 2013 Re: Renewable Fuel Standard “Reforms” Dear Senator & Representative: It has come to our attention that Congress is considering legislation this fall to reform the Renewable Fuel…
Now They Tell Us: ObamaCare Has Huge Hidden Costs
Healthcare: Just days before ObamaCare officially launches, the Newspaper of Record discovers that those allegedly low premiums liberals brag about won’t come cheap. At least, not if you want to…