One day Team Obama announces a plan for enhanced rescission authority to impound wasteful spending, and the next day the House surfaces a plan for $200 billion in “stimulus” spending on transfer payments for welfare, even more unemployment compensation, still
Maybe you first saw it at a museum retrospective or a revival theater, with the marquee emblazoned with tag-lines like, “The most action-packed film of all time!” and “More exciting than a dozen Die Hards!” Or perhaps your first taste
The Democrats are trying to cram through another special-interest piece of legislation, which they are calling (depending on the audience) either a tax-extenders bill or a stimulus bill. But they’ve been having trouble getting enough votes for this motley collection
Today the leading Austrian economic think tank, the Ludwig von Mises Institute held a conference at the University Club in Manhattan in which Marc Faber, famed contrarian investor and publisher of the “Gloom, Boom and Doom Report” gave his perspective
IANS: “On the note there was a sketch map, an address of the dungeon, the name of their captor (Zeng Xiangbao), and the name and telephone number of the captive girl’s father.”
This story might slip right past you. It’s understandable, considering most Americans have no idea of the context or how it happened that the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is now set for 20 years in Iraq, thanks
The Obama White House, so filled with Harvard graduates, is obviously more interested in teaching than in learning. “Teachable moments,” remember? Why the Obama Nation should retain so many slow-learners, spoiled brats refusing to recognize, amidst their Marxist Mania, the
I finally had the opportunity to see James Cameron’s paean to nature, “Avatar.” It is definitely beautifully filmed and there is an edenic quality to the alien planet of Pandora that probably reflects the director’s image of the biblical garden.
One of the workingman’s supposed favorite singers, Bruce Springsteen, sang, “Glory days, well they’ll pass you by…” It seems Big Labor’s glory days have passed them by and that’s fueling their effort to pass state laws, such as in Wisconsin,
“It’s China, it’s India Anywhere the middle-class is exploding, everyone’s sucking up more power. Population’s continuing to grow, you know we’re going to have to do something about it.” There it is folks. Straight from the mouth of James Cameron
Why would a known, highly applauded, and much-admired star like Tom Hanks go out of his way to harm himself and therefore stain his product, the mini-series for television, Pacific? Why would he toss off an incendiary crack about racism
April 15th – Tax Day – inspired protests across the nation. Demonstrators rallied for smaller government, lower taxes, and liberty. They want government off their backs. They demanded it, in fact, and they are demanding that the Republican Party delivers
CNN: Gordon Chang, a noted China-watcher and author of “The Coming Collapse of China,” explains in his own words why China is unlikely to dump its American investments, and in fact, may need America more than America needs China.
All photos in this dispatch made on March 1, 2010, at Kandahar Airfield. Kandahar, Afghanistan 23 March 2010 The mission required crossing a bridge that had been blown up a couple hours earlier by a suicide car bomber. The attacker
Marlon Brando once visited the Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau, to request money for a film about the First Nations that he and Abby Mann were working on. Following the very unfruitful meeting with Trudeau, Brando declared,”That’s the most
As we write this short essay, we are being promised by Nancy Pelosi that the health care bill will be posted online so that we and those who will “deem” it already to have been enacted can actually read it.
Consider them the flowers of evil. Kimilsungia and Kimjongilia are hybrid flowers crossbred to commemorate the North Korean dictators. Evidently, personality cults have to get a little creative when they have already built imposing statuary in every public square. Despite
This week will be a defining moment for Congress and our country. As Democratic leaders map out their health care end game, we as elected officials have a choice to make: Will people control their lives, or will government? The
TIME magazine’s Eric Heinrich offers his readers a Hobson’s Choice concerning the mounting federal debt. You accept hyperinflation, or, you pay a lot more taxes. Your choice, but either way you pay. And that’s just one more piece of evidence
On the path to 9/11, many of us National Security wonks were intensely studying and tracking China and its activities before the al-Qaeda attacks of 9/11. Just as so many had our eyes too focused on a single ball then,
Controlling obesity is all the rage now in America as, indeed, it should be. Feeding the American appetite with too many of the wrong kinds of calories is exacting a terrible toll on the health of Americans of all ages.
