The Law: The Socialists
From The Law, by Frederic Bastiat: How did politicians ever come to believe this weird idea that the law could be made to produce what it does not contain — the wealth, science, and religion that, in a positive sense,
From The Law, by Frederic Bastiat: How did politicians ever come to believe this weird idea that the law could be made to produce what it does not contain — the wealth, science, and religion that, in a positive sense,
The president made the following remarks a few months ago during the time Gov. Scott Walker battled to regain control of the Wisconsin state budget: “I don’t think it does anybody any good when public employees are denigrated or vilified
Almost nine months after a Missouri dairy was ordered to stop selling cheese made from raw milk, I share details of another hare-raising story from the Show-Me State: John Dollarhite and his wife Judy of tiny Nixa, Mo., have been
Upon learning that average per pupil spending in the public education system is $9,000, recent Rasmussen poll takers overwhelming stated their dissatisfaction with the return on their investment. It’s hard to blame them. Per pupil spending on education has tripled
The recent correction in the commodities markets may be providing Bernake, Geithner and their easy money acolytes with a sense of relief given the relentless run up in prices of raw materials since the announcement of QE back in 2008,
I published on Sunday a piece titled “Motherhood is Political” for Mother’s Day. It was written to answer the question I’m so often asked: why are mothers so active in the grassroots conservative movement? Later on that evening, I checked
The Daily Beast posted an article recently titled, “20 Most Useless College Majors.” The journalists who wrote the story concluded that a B.A. in journalism is the most useless degree of all. According to the report, data from the U.S.
Phil Rosenthal is the co-creator of one of the most successful family sitcoms of all time – the nine-season ratings juggernaut “Everybody Loves Raymond.” The show won the Emmy for Best Comedy Series twice along the way, and is still
If you’ve been reading Righteous Indignation, you know Big Hollywood’s blogfather Andrew Breitbart accurately diagnoses the Achilles heel of conservatives in America as culture. For decades, we’ve been stuck in a rut when it comes to pop culture, journalism, academia,
The first time I heard the song See, Hear, Pray, by Debbie K and The Freedom Band, which has been featured on Glenn Beck’s 8/28 Restoring Honor Rally website and the national Support Our Troops website as well as other
New revelations exposing how labor unions shamelessly rigged the “non-partisan” redistricting process in San Diego is providing case study for how the critical process of drawing legislative district lines can be hijacked by the radical left using multiple front groups.
The American people do not support Obamacare. This much we know. So I’m willing to bet they’re going to be furious when they learn that the Obama Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) wants to spend as much as
By all means, let us pursue the president’s new approach to the budget, the Orwellian ‘reduce spending in the tax code’. But, wherever will we find good examples of wasteful ‘spending in the tax code’? Hey, look here! The Feds
McDonalds Corp. conducted its much-publicized one-day, national hiring event Tuesday. Seeking to hire up to 50,000 employees, both full-time and part-time, the fast-food giant and its franchisees state that, while many of the jobs are of the minimum wage variety,
When Mighty Casey struck out, he may have disappointed the fans of Mudville, but he didn’t insult them. He didn’t brand them racists. Or at least Ernest Lawrence Thayer–the poet who immortalized Casey’s big whiff–didn’t mention any such calumnious castigations
The Left is so fond of exhorting their opponents to ‘compromise’. The trouble is, the Left each year moves further and further to the left – pulling that center-point of compromise further and further left. Compromise with totalitarian ideals smacks
BH: But I think in the end, it’s turned out great. JS: I think if we can continue to do well in the ratings, anecdotally, it continues to do well. And if we are lucky enough to get nominated or
It just doesn’t get any better than a couple of super-wealthy Hollywood celebrities, in a fit of self-importance, running around Capitol Hill demanding taxpayers foot the bill for their pet projects — in this case, $167 million in funding for
In my twenty-six years as a “street agent” with the FBI, I worked with some of the most dedicated state and local law enforcement officials in the nation. As we prepared the various operations, the question always came down to,
With all wards reporting, the unofficial results indicate that Deputy Attorney General Joanne Kloppenburg leads Supreme Court Justice David Prosser by a margin of 204 votes, a margin so narrow the Associated Press declined to declare a winner in the
When Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) announced Tuesday that he will hold a hearing next week in the Senate Judiciary Committee on the civil rights of American Muslims, everyone thought it was a joke. No other group gets the extraordinary, unconstitutional
One saying often said in the Film Industry is that, if you want to go it alone in creativity (versus collaboration), then “buy yourself a paint set.” Whether we like it or not, that cheap paint set is becoming all
The torture techniques described in this harrowing chapter from Exchange Alley (now available on Kindle for 99 cents) are true. Taken from the second half of the novel, this sequence dramatizes what happens to the rogue KGB agent, Egil Ekdahl
Obama: Arrogant perspective on Libya/Gaddafi? “I don’t think anybody disputes that Gaddafi has more firepower than the opposition,” President Obama said at a recent White House news conference. “I believe that Gaddafi is on the wrong side of history [emphasis
—– USA Today says the show is losing its way: How did Glee become so much less than the sum of its best parts? That’s not the way the equation used to work. Fox’s Glee (Tuesday, 8 ET/PT) may have
