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Are You a Chamberlain or a Churchill, Mr. Cameron?

The annals of English history shall record you in one light or the other. You have snatched back a rudderless country out of the hands of directionless leftists – and for this, we across the Atlantic are thankful. But don’t

The White House Is Wrong: The Auto Bailout Was a Terrible Idea

This past week White House Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, suggested that had the government not bailed out two failing auto manufacturers, “that’s a million more people that would have been on unemployment benefits.” As will be explained herein, this claim

Obama Can't Snooker Snooki

President Obama came into office on promises of raising taxes, but only on those making more than $250,000 a year. Again and again he promised that there would be no tax increases on middle and working class families. Yet there

Why We're Screwed in Afghanistan

I badly want our project in Afghanistan to go well. My son is there as I write this. Over this past eleven months of his deployment, I’ve gotten to know his fellows, their families, and the widows and parents of

Sunbathing Naked (Day Three)

I’m sunbathing naked again. I don’t really like it. It’s sweaty. But, I think it might make me look thinner. And, I have no work. And, no one can see me. Maybe Google Earth. I’m on the last chapter of

Leak City

[youtube EPjNduWGd7E nolink] Washington, DC – In most administrations, leaks of classified information precipitate presidential ire. Nearly all such unauthorized disclosures are the consequence of disgruntled government employees deciding that a “leak” is the best way to stop some activity

Drug Felons & Eternal Unemployment Benefits

So last week, in the Rose Garden, President Obama paraded out three jobless folks, using their plight to implore Congress to extend unemployment benefits. One of them was a delightful woman named Leslie Macko. Here’s what he said about her.

Stoning Superman: Oliver Stone's War With the USA

At the impressive Jewish Museum in Berlin, which carefully documents hundreds of years of German Jewish life and achievement, as well as the catastrophe of Hitler’s rise and ruination of European Jewry, there is a temporary exhibit featuring Jewish cartoonists