Big Government

The first rule of manliness is that it is unmanly to try to be manly. Manliness should be an afterthought, or not thought at all. That is where Barack Obama is failing. He is just trying too hard.  Oh, I’ll

Buzzfeed has now decided to create a distraction from the horrible economic news by trolling; they have reported that Pat Robertson, who campaigned with Mitt Romney this past weekend in Virginia, cracked a joke on his 700 Club’s “Bring it

The Obama administration is helping General Motors again by buying up its struggling line of electric cars. The Department of Defense has begun purchasing Chevrolet Volts to “green up” the military. The DOD plans to buy a total 1,500 vehicles.

Damn. Double damn. Triple damn. No … GOOGLE damn. If you thought the latest damn personal email from the Obama damn campaign was going to damn stop using those tough words like damn, you’re damn wrong. And now that the

CNN is grabbing political headlines tonight with the release of its latest poll. It shows Obama surging to a 6-point lead over Romney, 52-46, among likely. Before the start of the Democrat convention, the candidates had been tied in the

Good enough for thee but not for me, when it comes to the educational decisions made by Chicago public school teachers for their own children. From a study a few years ago: Nationwide, public school teachers are almost twice as

Wendy Rosen, Democratic candidate for Congress in Maryland’s first district, withdrew from the race on Monday after it was alleged she had engaged in voter fraud. State Democrats claimed records show Rosen voted in both Maryland and Florida during the

Today, The Legal Project, a wing of Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum, is  filing a formal request for an investigation into the judicial misconduct of Judge Mark Martin, asking for him to be removed from the bench. Mark Martin is

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney calls a new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report finding that President Obama has missed over half of his daily intelligence briefings “hilarious.”  “It’s revealing that Mr. Carney did not dispute the Government Accountability Institute’s

Politico’s “Unnamed Sources” say Ohio is lost for Mitt Romney. Like hell it is. They say Obama got a serious bounce from the DNC. Like hell he did. Whatever bounce Obama got was in the blue states. In the swing

Some believe the long-anticipated Chicago teachers strike, which began this morning, represents an inevitable showdown in the spiraling war between the education reform movement and the nation’s teachers unions.We think it’s more specific than that. We believe it’s more of

The internet has certainly created new avenues for business. But it’s also deprived employers of millions of dollars, as employees find ways to keep themselves entertained at work. A new study now suggests that employee participation in fantasy football at

According to the Institute of Medicine, almost one third of health care spending in 2009 went to cover useless garbage: unnecessary services, administrative costs, and fraud. All in all, that amount totaled some $750 billion per year. “The threats to

The Obama administration is famous for its crony capitalism. It’s famous for wasting money on disastrous investments like Solyndra to pay off its political allies. It now appears, however, that they go a step further: they put public funds in bad investment loans,

(AP) Obama squeaks out Aug. fundraising win over RomneyBy THOMAS BEAUMONTAssociated PressBOSTONPresident Barack Obama squeaked out a fundraising victory over Mitt Romney in August as the candidates gear up for the final stretch of their closely contested campaign. Obama raised

Sherrod Brown, the unrepentant leftist Senator from Ohio, must be very happy this weekend now that the new unemployment numbers are public. They show the lowest labor participation rate in 31 years and an unemployment rate that stubbornly refuses to

Last week some fellow editors and I were joking about how the media would spin the August jobs report. It seems one of their chief responsibilities during this campaign is to put a positive spin on any bad economic news.

A group of hackers calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army is claiming responsibility for a Sunday morning attack on the Al-Jazeera news agency.  Via Al-Jazeera’s mobile text message news service, the hackers successfully disseminated falsified reports that there had been

President Barack Obama has accused Mitt Romney of being against the interests of middle class Americans. But the Obama administration bailed out GM union retirees while slashing the benefits of private-sector retirees who worked at Delphi, devastating these middle class

The border patrol has put a stop to flying home illegal immigrants in an effort to cut costs. Over the last seven years it has cost nearly $100 million. The program was for first time offenders and families. Since 2004,

The Chicago Tribune reported on Monday that the Chicago Teachers Union has gone on strike. The move will leave 400,000 students with nowhere to go and nothing to do. Meanwhile, the 50,000 students who attend the city’s charter schools will

Mitt Romney has accused President Barack Obama of being in over his head as president, and Bob Woodward’s reporting in his new book reveals Obama has “gaps” in his leadership and lacked the “stamina” and will to work with Republicans

Yes, Obama is winning. So was Jimmy Carter. So was Michael Dukakis. So would any Democrat, incumbent or not, who enjoyed the fawning coverage the mainstream media heaped on President Barack Obama.  During the Republicans’ convention, the media interrupted, fact-checked,

General Motors Co sold a record number of Chevrolet Volt sedans in August — but that probably isn’t a good thing for the automaker’s bottom line. Nearly two years after the introduction of the path-breaking plug-in hybrid, GM is still

In another sign her campaign is not paying attention to details, Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren was caught on video in Worcester on Saturday autographing a copy of the Pow Wow Chow cookbook that contains her own plagiarized recipes.