Your tax dollars at work: “In a mock Afghan village on the Quantico Marine base,” the Washington Post reports, “Sloan Mann, a military contractor, guided several Marines into a sweltering concrete room. They came to meet a fake mullah, played
Citing massive irregularities and gross taxpayer funding abuses, federal investigators are recommending that government funding for ACORN’s still operating housing affiliate be cut off immediately. Investigators must have felt it was necessary to urge the funding cutoff because the federal
You can’t make this stuff up. From the Washington Post, the employer of the most ethically challenged bunch of pundits and bloggers this side of Pravda: This is a contest aimed at people who’ve read a column in a newspaper
In Washington, DC, talking about the Bill of Rights can land you in jail for 90 days. Our nation’s capital has a licensing scheme in place that makes it illegal for anyone to “guide or escort” anyone else for hire
It’s no secret that the Washington Post is known for its liberal bias. If you didn’t already know that, you might also be interested in learning that the earth is indeed round. But I came across a recent Post article
Last night I read the front-page Washington Post story on Bob Woodward’s new book, Obama’s Wars. Frankly the article gave me nightmares. The revelations about Obama’s naive views on terrorism and his lack of a firm commitment to the Afghan
You’d really, really think half a century of Castro pronouncements might make the MSM a tad skeptical about them. Take this one from 1959. For months by the time of his above denouncement of Communism, Fidel, Raul, and Che had
From Michael Barone: Here at The Washington Examiner we have read with interest editorials written by our friends at the Washington Post denouncing the greed of the Montgomery County teachers’ unions. Unfortunately, their editorials (and ours) don’t seem to have
Reform of public schools in the District of Columbia is the biggest victim of the recent city election. Mayor Adrian Fenty fell victim to Vincent Gray – and $1 million in spending by the American Federation of Teachers. The biggest
No better illustration of the herd mentality of the press corps than this classic from the musical, Chicago. Just substitute the state-controlled Washington press corps for the knockabout Chitown police and court reporters, and presto: The New York Times, the
Photo by El Marco In today’s mail, this post by El Marco, the photographer who took the stunning photos of the Ground Zero mosque protest rally held in New York City last Saturday, 9-11. As his photos will attest, some
President Obama will give a speech to American schoolchildren today. In that speech, he will exhort them to study hard and get an education. Then, according to the White House, he will add a bit of personal biography: When I
So with the news today reflecting the recycling-mania of the very same peoples’ republic I voted against with my feet just a few years ago — installing “tracking chips” in recycling bins (now in Cool Ranch flavor!) to assist the
One year ago today, we launched BigGovernment.com. As you probably know, our first posts dealt with the video sting of ACORN, orchestrated by the new citizen journalists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles. It had an impact. It also marked a
The once-passionate, even slobbering, love affair between the media and Barack Obama is rapidly cooling. Writing in the Washington Post, Richard Cohen bemoans “Obama’s Shrinking Presidency:” One of the unintended results of the redecoration of the Oval Office was the
Even Politico is sensing the coming wave. From the tireless Mike Allen: With just two months to go before the November elections, pollsters and political scientists are predicting a blow-out loss for Democrats that could rival the Republican Revolution of
Like a terrible remake of Groundhog Day, the White House has unveiled yet another so-called stimulus scheme. Actually, they have two new proposals to buy votes with our money. One plan is focused on more infrastructure spending, as reported by
Maybe it’s best if sports guys just leave the tweeting to the teenagers, or, at least leave them to those who can get the facts straight. Washington Post sports columnist Mike Wise got busted this week for tweeting something he
The mighty Sarah Palin, not in any political office but who somehow nonetheless rules the world from her Facebook page, clearly terrifies this pathetic little man, Michael Joseph Gross, who was all over the media today to promote his largely
In the wake of yesterday’s terrorism outside Washington, DC by Discovery-network hostage-taker James J. Lee, let’s consider the position articulated by, say, radio host Glenn Beck to not attribute responsibility to Al Gore’s eco-ranting. The latter is of course larded
It almost sounds like the set up to a “guy walks into a bar” joke — or maybe a knock-knock joke — but the Washington Post‘s Dana Milbank made an assessment of his own political ideology that can’t help but
On August 28, 2010, Fox News host Glenn Beck held his “Restoring Honor” rally at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The aim of the event, explained the lachrymose TV personality, was to “come celebrate America by
Just when you think Wikileaks couldn’t stoop any lower, or the CIA get any worse, this just in from the Washington Post: A little-known fact, according to a once-secret CIA analysis, is that America has long been an exporter of
This is the final installment of a three-part investigative report on the Dutch government’s contribution to the financing of the Ground Zero Mosque. It was translated by our Flemish correspondent VH from the Dutch-language section of the ICLA website. Read
She was once a star reporter for the Style section. Then she made the big career move and married the boss. Today Sally Quinn is the “doyenne” of Washington, a celebrity in her own right and a fixture of the
