If you caught some of Hagel’s performance last week you know it was awful. The Chicago Tribune says it was so awful that Hagel should be rejected. But one paragraph in their editorial caught my attention: Sen. John McCain grilled
In response to DC tops list of nation’s worst traffic: I’ve been living in SoCal for 15 years now. Traffic here can be bad. A one hour trip can become a two hour trip if you don’t plan ahead. That
In response to Video: Obama Debunks John’s “Outrageous Myth”: It should be impossible to square this circle. On the one hand Obama’s promise that you could keep the plan you currently have if you like it (Period.) On the other
During Tuesday’s press briefing, White House spokesman Jay Carney was asked about a legal memo used by the Obama administration to justify drone strikes against American citizens. Carney gave a prepared response which was reminiscent of the “Bush Doctrine.” There
One of the most consistent promises the President made when selling health reform was that those who liked the insurance plan they had could keep it. For instance, on March 23, 2010 he said “If you like your current insurance,
Yesterday the Times published an editorial titled “More Jobs, Higher Pay.” It’s is a plea for Obama to turn from the “premature austerity” that has supposedly gripped Washington for the last several years. What the Times wants instead is an
In response to Chris Christie’s national future: I made a similar case last week. Christie’s appearance on the show is even more striking when you recall that Letterman repeatedly begged Romney to come on his show last year. By October
A survey of Occupy Wall Street reveals the group was primarily made up of white, wealthy college graduates, many of whom had grad school degrees. The survey was carried out by sociologists at the City University of New York. Their
With 44 murders in Chicago for January alone, including that of a 15-year old girlwho took part in President Obama’s inauguration last month, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announced a return to policing tactics he abandoned when hecame to office. The
Follow up to what I posted earlier about the school shooting yesterday in Atlanta. Apparently, gun control advocate Piers Morgan thinks what happened yesterday (an armed cop disarmed the shooter with only one person hurt) is evidence that armed cops
In response to Binge-viewing: I’ve been a fan of binge-viewing since my wife bought the first season of Lost. Anyway, I recently started watching Castle which is a one hour police procedural show starring Nathan Fillion. When this show came
Immediately after the NRA recommended putting cops in schools the left flooded the zone with pieces claiming this was daft idea. Case in point “NRA Calls for More Guns Everywhere” by Adam Serwer: LaPierre’s “solution” is for Americans to arm
Neil Heslin is the parent of a child killed at Sandy Hook elementary school. His call for additional gun control laws–made during a Connecticut hearing on gun violence prevention–received lots of attention after some news outlets claimed he’d been heckled.
Kansas is the latest state to seek to curb union power; on Wednesday, a preliminary vote in the Kansas legislature approved the Paycheck Protection Act aimed at eliminating automatic dues collection for unions. The measure was passed on Thursday by
Nancy Pelosi once said of the Affordable Care Act, “we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it.” Nearly three years later it has finally dawned on some unions that the changes they publicly
Remember back in 2011 when there were people literally begging Chris Christie to run for President on an almost daily basis? All of that heat evaporated over the last two months, starting with Christie’s praise of Barack Obama after hurricane
Last week S&P downgraded Illinois to the worst debt rating in the nation. The reason was simple: Illinois still has not done anything about its unsustainable pension system for state workers. Maybe the downgrade caused some soul searching on the
If you thought environmental science had something to do with laboratories testing for contaminants, you haven’t been keeping up. Apparently it has more to do with celebrities on a bus tour making symbolic water deliveries to faux victims while hecklers
Cass Sunstein wrote a piece over the weekend in which he claimed Obama is fulfilling FDR’s vision of a 2nd bill of rights. Joel covered this yesterday. According to Sunstein, Obama’s project is to push beyond the statement of negative
Former SEIU local president Tyrone Freeman has been convicted of embezzling from the low-wage employees he once represented. He now faces a maximum of 180 years in prison. Freeman was considered a rising star in the SEIU. As president of
It’s National School Choice Week and Heritage has a timely reminder that school choice works: students who participate in the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (DCOSP)–a private school voucher program for low-income K-12 students–graduate at significantly higher rates than their peers,
In his appearance on Meet the Press this morning Paul Ryan attacked Barack Obama’s seriousness on debt issues by comparing him to former President Bill Clinton. Ryan was asked by host David Gregory about a recent moment when he chatted
Standard & Poor’s has announced that it is downgrading the debt rating of the state of Illinois to A-. The downgrade is the result of the state’s failure to deal with pension liabilities. The state was also given a negative outlook
Attorney Miguel Estrada, who was once at the center of a contentious nomination battle, filed an amicus brief on behalf of Senate Republicans against President Obama’s recess appointments to the NLRB. Estrada was selected last April by Senator Mitch McConnell
In an editorial published Wednesday, the Washington Post urged President Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline and “ignore” activists who want it blocked on environmental grounds. In it’s most recent editorial on the topic, The Post says President Obama
