John Hayward

Let me get the two bad things about “Guardians of the Galaxy” out of the way right up front: 1. Marvel desperately needs to create some new plots for its films.  They’re basically Mad Libs at this point: [Hero] must

While we enjoy the blizzard of fundraising letters Democrats are using to siphon cash out of their gullible supporters, and MSNBC’s round-the-clock saturation coverage of the non-existent impeachment threat, let’s pause for a little comic relief from the reliably amusing

Roger Cohen at The Atlantic looks at current events and sets out a detailed scenario for how World War III could begin.  Interestingly, he leaves terrorist and the Middle East completely out of his “dark imaginings,” focusing on a coincidental

We’re still trying to grapple with the newest, richest terror state in history seizing a fortune in cash, plus military equipment, from conquered Iraqi territory.  Now we learn Europe has been pouring millions of ransom dollars into the hands of

I see one of Joel’s ten winners and losers from the Gaza War is the United Nations, dumped into the “loser” column because Hamas rockets have been found in schools built by the U.N. Relief Works Agency.  The first time

Fresh from getting busted for pumping out phony maps and statistics, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s outfit, “Everytown for Gun Safety,” slips out a video advertisement they clearly didn’t think all the way through: Katie Pavlich at Townhall

Talking Points Memo relates the short and unhappy career of Roger Pielke Jr. at Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight blog, as inquisitors of the Church of Global Warming turned up with a wooden stake and plenty of kindling to burn the heretic

Those hungry for summer-blockbuster action entertainment last weekend were missing out when they chose between The Rock in “Hercules” and ScarJo in “Lucy.”  The better choice was “The Raid 2: Berandal” on DVD. There’s a lot of good old-fashioned practical

In response to W.Va. Dem Tennant Dumps on Obama, Ad Depicts White House in the Dark: It’ll be very interesting to see if this “running away from Obama” stuff works, because it’s all a total scam.  Every single Democrat, no

Slipping in between the summer blockbusters comes Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last full performance in “A Most Wanted Man,” a very subtle, deliberate, and talky John LeCarre adaptation.  Hoffman plays German spymaster Gunther Bachmann, who runs a tiny off-the-books counter-espionage unit

As the shock waves from Barack Obama’s manufactured border crisis ripple across the country, turning every state into a border state, backlash is emanating from people who didn’t have much of a problem with open-borders ideology, back when they thought

In response to Phenomenal ‘Walking Dead: Season 5’ Trailer: That is a pretty sensational trailer – more alluring than half the big-budget movie trailers I’ve seen this year.  It always seemed odd that the Biggest Show On Television would suffer

We have a surprise winner in the Saigon Embassy Evacuation Sweepstakes… surprising, that is, to anyone who hasn’t been paying attention to the steady disintegration of Barack Obama’s foreign policy “triumph” in Libya.  Those who placed their bets on the

I’ve been a student of the Chevy Volt electric-car debacle since the first time I took a stab at figuring out the actual per-unit cost of each car, with the subsidies figured in.  The thing launched with a sticker price

In response to Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber Once Again Ties Subsidies to State-Based Exchanges: These are terrific finds, but Gruber wasn’t the only one saying this stuff, and he’s not the only reason ObamaCare critics have long maintained that the

In response to Loose Bear Also Blocked the Media From Fundraisers – Left Them on ‘the Gravel Path’: We’ve waited six years for Media to find her self-respect and pull out of this “Fifty Shades of Grey” relationship with President

At long last, Meriam Ibrahim – the Christian woman sentenced to death for “apostasy” in Sudan, and forced to give birth to her second child while chained to a wall – has escaped the clutches of what passes for the

In response to Democrats Increasingly Condemn Campaigner In Chief’s #BearIsLoose Shtick : I would imagine the woman who went into labor in Los Angeles, but had to wait across the street from the hospital while His Majesty’s mighty motorcade rolled

At one of the seven thousand or so fundraisers he’s busy attending while the world burns down, Former President Barack Obama tried to cudgel some laughs from his audience by claiming he doesn’t watch the news, because he’s better informed

Breaking news: a fading television show lumbering through its final season makes a desperate bid for attention by creating a “controversy.”  Such was the plan when the silly, but once-upon-a-time entertaining, HBO vampire show “True Blood” unleashed its writers’ inner

The argument over whether inflation is a big problem, whose extent has been concealed by government agencies and the media, has been growing more vigorous over the past few weeks.  Not everyone who thinks inflation fears are exaggerated is a

Glenn Beck says the media is refusing to cover Senator Ted Cruz’s participation in his Mercury One border relief effort because they’re already trying to influence the 2016 presidential race, and don’t want to give Cruz any positive coverage as

One of the reasons people have grown so angry over Obama’s manufactured border crisis is that everything we are told is a lie.  That’s consistent with the core Amnesty Caucus belief that the benighted knuckle-dragging xenophobic citizens of the United

Amazon.com has enough muscle to drop game-changing bombs on the publishing industry, and the new Kindle Unlimited service reported by Engadget might just be one of them: After teasing us with a possible launch, Amazon has confirmed Kindle Unlimited, its all-you-can-read e-book