I live in Florida, but nowhere near Fort Lauderdale. It was a couple of days before I chanced across a brief news item about a “ruckus by the beach,” as CBS News called it: Fort Lauderdale police believe hundreds of
Defense attorneys say some pretty crazy things to get their clients off the hook, or secure a lenient sentence. The defense of 75-year-old Pakistani immigrant Noor Hussain, who fatally beat his wife into a “bloody mess” with a stick because
Google, which has been notoriously slow to recognize such holidays as Easter, decided today was a day worthy of commemoration with a cryptic little “doodle” on their home page: Clicking on this image reveals that it’s a salute to
In response to Piketty’s Pickle: Undercut His Thesis or Defend Use of Inappropriate Data: There may not be any direct accusations of academic fraud against Thomas Piketty yet, but it’s pretty obvious his work is false and disingenuous – the
[Warning: modest spoiler material for “X-Men: Days of Future Past” follows.] I saw the new “X-Men” film over the weekend and generally agree with John Nolte’s review, but I think my overall rating would be maybe half a star lower.
By now we’ve all enjoyed a few strolls on Memory Lane and relived moments in which liberals pointed to the VA as the idea future of health care reform. (If you haven’t had enough yet, here’s one with some good
Tim Carney at the Washington Examiner offers a neat little case study in the power of government-dispensed anti-competition, as hummus maker Sabra pushes for regulations that will block many of its competitors out of the market: Sabra in February filed
You’ll find no shortage of both boosters and critics for the USA Freedom Act, an effort at reforming the government’s bulk collection of data (i.e. spying on everybody) which passed the House with a bipartisan 303-121 majority on Thursday. The
If memory serves correctly, Mark Cuban was one of the people made a bit uneasy by the Donald Sterling auto-da-fe, wondering where the crusade against impure thoughts would end. Well, now he knows it doesn’t end with him. Reuters reports:
When Big Government screws up, liberals reflexively claim insufficient funding is the problem. If only the mega-State that already gobbles up a few trillion dollars a year, and tops it off by spending hundreds of billions of dollars it doesn’t
Uh-oh, someone tell the Obama Administration that YouTube videos are causing unrest in the Muslim world again! In this case, it’s a video made by six young people in Tehran, showing themselves dancing to the tune of the bouncy Pharrell
In response to The VA is a Vision of the Future Under Obamacare: The VA and ObamaCare look quite symptomatic of Big Government to me. It’s all about cover-ups, cooking the books, wasting huge piles of taxpayer money – the
Part of the “Net Neutrality” argument concerns finding the best way to distribute limited bandwidth to Internet subscribers. At the moment, customers are generally accustomed to getting just about all the bandwidth they want, for a standard fee. The avid
As far as I can tell, this UK Guardian piece on the bold climate-change leadership of North Korea is not meant as satire. And really, there’s nothing funny about this. The Norks really do present the ultimate extension of everything
The latest incarnation of “Godzilla” – it would be beyond precious to call this a “reboot” – is a surprisingly old-fashioned monster movie. Most charming to some audiences, and probably a bit annoying to others, is the movie’s resolute commitment
It’s just not a proper scandal party until we’ve got alleged retaliation against whistleblowers. The Coloradoan brings us such a story from Fort Collins, one of several hospitals and clinics involved in the VA scandal: The whistleblower behind the federal
In response to Nobody’s Madder Than The President Now – In Six Months It Will Be A ‘Phony Scandal’: Someone should make a list of all the times Obama has claimed he was enraged by some damaging news story he
When the patent absurdity of using selfies and Twitter messages to convince Islamist savages in Nigeria to return their slaves is pointed out, it is sometimes argued that Boko Haram isn’t the true target of Hashtag Diplomacy. Instead, it’s supposed
Alternative-media icon Matt Drudge had a pretty lively Twitter presence until Saturday night, when The Blaze noticed he wiped out his entire Twitter history (and evidently cleared out his entire follow list), changed his background to a generic photo of
Star Wars Episode VII (whose official title seems to be a matter of some dispute at the moment) officially began filming in Abu Dhabi on Friday, commemorating the occasion with a photo of some sand-covered film gear. This fills
I’m not surprised to learn, via Katie Pavlich’s post at Townhall, that the Obama Administration is hiding even more smoking-gun emails pertaining to the IRS scandal, even though Freedom of Information Act requests were filed over a year ago.
This is a truly interesting development, because it illuminates the vast gulf between the urgent need to legalize illegal aliens felt by the Ruling Class and its media, and the way average American citizens view the issue. The “Enlist Act”
Remember a few months ago, when Democrats were pretending that the “risk corridor” provisions of ObamaCare wouldn’t function as a high-pressure pipe of taxpayer money to bail out insurance companies that don’t pull enough Young Invincible suckers into their networks
There are reasons to be deeply concerned about the fascist tendencies of campus pressure groups, which are reveling in their use of the Heckler’s Veto to drive speakers with challenging ideas (or even politically incorrect resumes, such as Condoleeza Rice)
Hardcore “Net Neutrality” advocates won’t be very happy with the rules proposed by the FCC today, since as Reuters reports, the rules “may let Internet service providers charge content companies for faster and more reliable delivery of their traffic to
