Guess what, the little cabal of journalists is being broken up. This is frightening news to most of those in the activist old media, but for somebody like myself who has worked in that media for 30 years, I welcome
In politics, there is an old adage that if they are not shooting at you, you are irrelevant. If so, you may well be able to judge the relevancy of someone by the amount of fire they are drawing. A
From the San Francisco Chronicle: Californians are left with a deeply unsatisfying choice for the U.S. Senate this year. The incumbent, Democrat Barbara Boxer, has failed to distinguish herself during her 18 years in office. There is no reason to
From a writer in Washington, D.C. who must remain anonymous: I visited El Salvador in August 1988, just as the war against the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) communist guerrillas was reaching its climatic stage. At a hospital in
“The middle class is still treading water, while those aspiring to reach the middle class are doing everything they can to keep from drowning.” –President Barack Obama, 8 September 2010 Bad metaphors bring bad policies. During the Great Depression Americans
When I read that 72-year old Jane Fonda was about to release two new workout DVDs “geared to the 100 million Baby Boomers and older adults,” two words kept popping into my head: “Hanoi Jane.” (I had a similar experience
Oops. Massachusetts Democrat Senator John Kerry was his Party’s 2004 nominee for President. Two hallmarks of his losing campaign were his incredible stiffness – he managed to make 2000 Democrat nominee Al Gore look lively – and his notorious assertion
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry formally noticed members of his panel that the Committee would hold a mark-up on September 16th of the strategic arms reduction treaty negotiated by the Obama administration with the Russians. Remarkably, the resolution
Contrary to its mission to provide “reliable scientific information,” the United States Geological Survey is perpetrating a climate science fraud, with a little assist from USA Today. On August 25, the USGS issued a press release titled, “Glaciers Retreating in
The Democracy Alliance is alive and well, and its Vice-Chair is about to be born again. Today, the “Queen of Labor”, SEIU Secretary-Treasurer and Chair of the Change to Win labor federation, Anna Burger, announced her retirement. [vimeo 14063077] Anna
Washington (AP) – In an interview last night on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 , White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs revealed that President Obama has taped an appearance for the season three premiere of Swamp Loggers, airing in early November.
Chairman John Kerry wrote his colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today advising them that he was postponing for at least six weeks the panel’s “mark-up” of the resolution of ratification of the so-called New START Treaty. This is
This is how low “profiles in courage” in Massachusetts’s U.S. Senate representation has fallen, and how bad the media-leftist complex has gotten. Today’s Washington Post carries an homage by columnist E.J. Dionne to Sen. John Kerry’s “passion” to push an
While the White House really, really wants you believe that they have their boot on the neck of BP, it turns out that a key Administration official had his head inserted somewhere else just three short years ago. Do you
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently hit a major stumbling block in its effort to impose net neutrality via the “reclassification” of broadband services. Following months of civil rights groups, artists, and a major union voicing their opposition to net
For those of you who watched “Hannity” on Fox News last night and wondered why an “eco-entrepreneur” was left to address President Obama’s claim that the Gulf spill just means we need his cap-n-trade scheme, with no other guest, it
The Hill: A new $3 million ad buy is pressing lawmakers in more than a dozen states to end Capitol Hill “bickering” and approve the sweeping climate change and energy bill unveiled last month by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and
Four senior congressional Democrats inadvertently confirmed Monday that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)–which, under Chairman Julius Genachowski’s leadership has been trying for months to impose contentious net neutrality rules–lacks the authority needed to regulate the Internet. For weeks, the FCC
This week, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) will host a press conference announcing the fifth reinvention of “cap-and-trade” global warming legislation since 2003, the “American Power Act”. Call it the American Power Grab Act, instead, for reasons
So about two weeks ago Sen. John Kerry, a lead author of the looming Kerry-Graham-Lieberman global warming/cap-and-trade legislation said about his bill, to disassociate from Earth Day loopiness: This is not an environment bill. No kidding. No one on the
E&E Daily reports that, speaking before a lobbying group gathered to promote more ethanol-style boondoggles (but for windmills), “Sen. John Kerry is predicting widespread support from electric utilities, chemical companies and Big Oil as he enters his seventh month of
On April 18, the Pew Research Center released the results of a recurring survey centered around people’s trust in government. In order to assess the results of several institutions, Pew asks the following question: “Is [insert item] having a positive
The New Yorker Magazine published a classic cover illustration for its January 29, 2009 edition. It showed the newly-inaugurated President Obama in a classic pose as George Washington. It could be my favorite picture of Barack Obama. It emphasizes the
At a time when the American taxpayer is on the hook for trillions in current and future federal spending–when the Congressional Budget Office warns that the current rate of federal spending is “unsustainable”–liberal Democrats in Congress have earmarked over $68
The video vault has now provided us another glimpse into the fever swamp occupied by President Obama’s moonbat science czar John Holdren. Holdren of course is the man brought in to put a scientific imprimatur on the Left’s latest excuse
