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Finally: The MSM Finds a Story About Race Worth Their Time

Wow. What an amazing transformation America saw across the mainstream media spectrum yesterday. Suddenly their collective righteous indignation-gene kicked in over false charges of racism. The real question is, how long will this last? I’m guessing right up until it’s

Fidel Castro Predicts Nuclear War

The dictator who came the closest in history to igniting a nuclear war made several public appearances this week to predict imminent nuclear war. The cataclysm he craved in Oct. 1962 will erupt, he warned on Cuban TV this week,

The Tea Party Goes To Washington

It’s official. There is now a Tea Party Caucus in the Congress of the United States of America. Representative Michelle Bachmann filed the paperwork late last week, and the approval was granted almost immediately: They will be holding their first

Congress Tenaciously Determined to Bail Out Teachers Unions

If only they were as determined to cut spending. Alas, Congressional Democrats are hell-bent on taking care of their friends in the teachers unions. The original $23 billion “Education Jobs Fund,” or “public schools bailout,” in the words of American

Minority Groups to FCC: Not so Fast on Net Neutrality

The Federal Communications Commission’s bid to reengineer the nation’s broadband regulatory regime is exposing some fissures in the fragile net neutrality coalition, as a collection of minority groups Monday warned the commission against its controversial reclassification bid. In a letter

I Condemn the NAACP: It Has Betrayed its History

The NAACP’s resolution condemning the Tea Party movement for being explicitly racist is a betrayal of the organization’s historic importance to our country. It saddens me as the chairman of a civil rights organization that is the spiritual grandson of

Business Knows More than Obama about Creating Jobs

With a bad-blood, confidence-destroying battle royale going on between Team Obama and business, you would think a highly publicized White House jobs summit would have produced some kind of positive announcement that gives a nod to the business point of

The Deadly Impact of the Death Tax

Australia got rid of its death tax in 1979. A couple of Aussie academics investigated whether the elimination of the tax had any impact on death rates. They found the ultimate example of supply-side economics, as reported in the abstract

Hey NAACP, the Truth Shall Set Us Free

As a co-founder of the Quincy Tea Party I was appalled at the lack of social responsibility and restraint Mr. Jealous displayed in his remarks regarding the Tea Party Movement. I found myself becoming increasingly irritated when he began his