Teach Kids Self-Defense

In response to Why School Bullying Must Be Stopped Immediately: 24 May 2013

Islamists Hate North Carolina More than Gitmo

In his "drone speech" Thursday, President Barack Obama referred to the oft-cited argument that the U.S. should close the Guantánamo Bay terror detention facility (GTMO) because it stirs anti-American opinion: "GTMO has become a symbol around the world for an America that flouts the rule of law," he said. If that was once a reasonable argument, it no longer holds water after the Sep. 11 attack on the U.S. embassy in Cairo. 24 May 2013

The Pritzker Hearing and the Chicago-DC Ruling Class

I found it astonishing to watch Senators from both parties roll over for Secretary of Commerce nominee Penny Pritzker at her confirmation hearing his week. My Breitbart colleagues teased me for my lack of cynicism about the “ruling class” in Washington. But even for a Tea Party conservative like me--with first-hand experience of Chicago politics--the Pritzker confirmation hearing was like a bucket of ice water in the face. 24 May 2013

Strassel: IRS Scandal's Roots in Obama's 2008 Campaign; Attacked Clinton, Edwards, Too

Kimberly Strassel has a must-read column at the Wall Street Journal today that explains the context in which the IRS scandal emerged--not just during the Obama administration's attempt to quash the Tea Party, but in Obama's efforts to shut down all opposition, both Republican and Democratic, in the 2008 campaign. 24 May 2013

Ailes Letter to Journalists is a Battle Cry for Press Freedom

Fox News chief Roger Ailes's letter to his employees is a battle cry that will echo beyond the Avenue of the Americas. "The administration’s attempt to intimidate Fox News and its employees will not succeed and their excuses will stand neither the test of law, the test of decency, nor the test of time. We will not allow a climate of press intimidation, unseen since the McCarthy era, to frighten any of us away from the truth," he wrote. 23 May 2013

Obama and Heckler Plead to Close Gitmo

In a speech at the National Defense University in Washington, DC., President Barack Obama called on Congress to permit him to close the terror detention facility at the U.S. Navy base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. 23 May 2013

Did Feb. 2010 Austin Plane Crash Prompt IRS Scandal?

In a speech on national security today, President Barack Obama made a bizarre reference to an incident that occurred in Austin, TX on February 18, 2010 when a pilot deliberately crashed a small aircraft into an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building, killing himself as well as an IRS employee, and injuring many others. 23 May 2013

Obama's Drone Address an Attempt to Bury Benghazi, Media Scandals

It is difficult to interpret President Barack Obama's speech Thursday on U.S. terror policy as anything more than an attempt to distract from the damaging recent revelations about the Benghazi terror attacks. 23 May 2013

Thune Grills Pritzker About Subprime Bank Failure

After over 40 minutes of evasion in Penny Pritzker's confirmation hearing as Secretary of Commerce, the committee finally heard about the failure of Pritzker's Superior Bank in 2001 due to subprime lending. 23 May 2013

GOP's Mark Kirk Boosts Pritzker

A few weeks ago, I predicted that Penny Priztker would fail to be confirmed by the Senate. After all, she was such a weak candidate in 2009 that she withdrew her first nomination as Secretary of Commerce. But with Sen. Mark Kirk's last-minute announcement of support for Pritzker, her confirmation is now almost a certain bet.  23 May 2013