Sen. Orrin Hatch is up for reelection in 2012. On Wednesday, he used his considerable powers to ensure that Lisa Murkowski–who, you know, lost a GOP primary and continues to wage a Quixotic battle that may prevent a GOP win
We’re preparing to move out of my Sacramento apartment so I went online to check rates to rent a small truck. I first checked U-Haul; they have a great brand name and I’ve used them before. The cost to rent
The exercise of free speech is acceptable to the left when they agree with what you are saying. But when the left and media types find the views disagreeable or inconvenient and painfully true, the exercise of free speech becomes
Many observers believe that the turning point in Scott Brown’s inspiring Senate win in January was when he was able to shake-loose the Democratic narrative that somehow he was trying to take away “Ted Kennedy’s Seat” from the Democrats. His
As the nation confronts a debilitating national deficit of $1.3 trillion – the second highest of all time – the Federal government must dedicate itself to spend money more responsibly and thoughtfully instead of rewarding special interests and abusing taxpayer
Talking heads, pundits and bloggers have been buzzing for months now at the prospect of Republicans in Congress releasing a new version of the Contract with America, the set of legislative proposals Newt Gingrich and other Republican leaders cobbled together
Yesterday, 43 U.S. Senators voted to protect the U.S. military from the radical agenda espoused by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists. But for their courage in the face of the vilification and other forms of pressure brought to
While his influence on domestic politics is waning, President Obama’s latest foreign policy blunder–the dangerous new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with Russia–may have opened the floodgates to similar capitulation to Moscow in Europe by putting America’s imprimatur on
Should military hospitals be used to save lives or to kill unborn babies? The U.S. Senate may soon take action to overturn long-standing policy by sanctioning the performance of abortions in domestic and overseas military facilities-effectively turning military hospitals and
There’s a new Wall Street Sheriff in town. Her name is Elizabeth Warren and she’s President Obama’s pick to help set up (control) a brand new Big Government agency called the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. (Just so you know,
The the resident Goddess of Snark at the New York Times, Maureen Dowd, thinks that Christine O’Donnell lives in a fantasy world. Sneering at O’Donnell’s interest in J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis says more about Dowd’s isolation from normal Americans
Remember at the outset of the financial crisis when the government told us only “healthy banks” were going to receive bailout funds? Well apparently that requirement does not apply to banks with friends in high places. Judicial Watch received new
Bill Maher wants to be given credit, dammit! After Christine O’Donnell surprised the Left by winning the GOP primary in Delaware, giving the Tea Party another win and more momentum, the politics of personal destruction kicked into overdrive. First there
On Tuesday afternoon (tomorrow) a key vote on a defense bill–one that Majority Leader Harry Reid has loaded up with two social issues and one immigration amnesty measure–could be the last pre-election straw that causes control of one or both
From the UK’s Telegraph (where we often go to find stories not covered by our lame media): First they were ignored. Then they were derided as the tools of Big Money. Then they were branded as racists, the unhinged, the
The bigger the corporation the easier it is to hide in a cubicle doing absolutely nothing. There are working people, whose entire job requires little more than taking a slip of paper out of one slot and sticking it into
While chaos theory has had a place in science since mathematician and physicist Jules Henri Poincare first coined the term in the 1880s, it made its way into pop culture with the introduction of the so-called butterfly effect by fiction
E.J. Dionne reminds me of all those fin-du-siecle losers back in the late ’70s and early ’80s who still touted the supremacy of their 8-track tapes long after the industry had moved on to the smaller, more convenient cassette. Demodé
This past week I gave a speech to a group of investors. The organizer of the event e-mailed me the night before, asking that I please try to be optimistic. Well, that’s my usual habitat. But optimism has been hard
John Tillman, CEO of the Illinois Policy Institute, offers his thoughts on the GOP spat over Christine O’Donnell’s victory in Delaware. It’s a refreshing read. Tuesday night, I happened to be watching live when Karl Rove fulminated on the Christine
Would you vote to cut taxes only for the middle-class, if that were your only choice? Who says it’s your only choice? It’s time to place the blame on those who try to box people in. The furor over the
Is there no end to the many talents of Lady Gaga, already recognized as the greatest Madonna impersonator of this century? Of course we all know her as a singer, musician, fashionista and female impersonator, but recently she has revealed
In addition to 2010 clearly being the Year of the Tea Party, a good sub-headline is the Year of the Sore Loser. The Republican establishment elites are angry because they keep losing campaigns. The latest example of a “Sore Loser”
Mary Curtis at PoliticsDaily: Though it may be a mix-up or a misunderstanding, it doesn’t look good. On the tape, Norton notes that colleagues on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee have already received donations. “I’m handling the largest economic development
So much for GM’s self-imposed ban on political contributions. According to The Washington Post: General Motors reported making $47,000 in contributions to lawmakers and congressional candidates in July, the first it has made since November 2008. The company stopped giving
