Karl Rove, in a column published in the Wall Street Journal last Wednesday, titled “Boehner Plays A Weak Hand Well,” praised House Speaker John Boehner’s leadership style and “Plan B” proposal, which he pulled on Thursday because it lacked Republican votes. The day
The refusal by a majority of states to set up state-based exchanges could neuter some important aspects of Obamacare and make it more difficult for the federal government to actually implement the law. On December 12th, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett,
The subject of why Mitt Romney lost is so interesting that I will divide my analysis into two parts: first, on Romney the candidate, and second, on Romney the campaign CEO. Sorry, Mitt, whether you want to admit it or
America may yet “frack” its way to prosperity. According to Dow Chemical, in the past two years, manufacturers have poured $90 billion in U.S. investments into natural gas, sparking what the Financial Times calls a “shale revolution” that “appears to
While the relatives of the children killed by a madman at Sandy Hook elementary school were being notified by authorities, over 100,000 left-of-center Americans joined hands with Democratic Party leaders in politicizing the children’s deaths. Think Progress, the controversial organization
The “Catholic 7” basketball schools made sports news this week by deciding to break away from the Big East to form a new league that would include an eighth Catholic school (Xavier) and recent Final Four teams VCU and Butler.
If you can’t beat them, buy them. That has been the Obama Administration’s cronyism strategy with corporate America, showering bailouts, government grants, and other crony perks along the way. Employ Occupy Wall Street rhetoric publicly, but cut corporations into big
An eye-opening report contends that an 18-member group made up of the world’s most powerful central bankers–five of whom hail from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)–conducts six meetings a year to fashion a “high-stakes experiment” to avert global economic
Almost every day, President Obama meets with some new slice of the American public to pitch his side in the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. Business leaders, unions, governors, state lawmakers, etc. have all been courted as part of Obama’s push for
In an unprecedented and surprising move, the Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that it will keep interest rates near zero and will purchase $85 billion in bonds every month until unemployment falls from its present 7.7% to 6.5%. The new
Barack Obama and his Administration have now recognized the Syrian Opposition Coalition, the group of rebels against the Assad regime in Syria, saying that because they are now “inclusive enough”, they should be considered a legitimate representative of the Syrian
Organized hackers from multiple foreign countries are said to be the culprits behind a major cyber-attack on oil and natural gas giant, Saudi Arabian Oil Company. The attack “targeted the whole economy of the country, not just Aramco as an
Egyptian authorities have detained a suspected terror network ringleader whose operatives are believed to have carried out a deadly attack on a US mission in Libya, according to a report. Muhammad Jamal Abu Ahmad — a former member of the
The Washington Post is poised to initiate a paywall in 2013. The Post is one of the last major American papers to look into putting some parts of its publication behind a subscriber-only Internet screen. The Wall Street Journal reports
Analysis of government versus private sector pay and work hours suggests bureaucrats get more money for less work. Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute and Jason Richwine of the Heritage Foundation have recently taken a look at two issues
We’ve been found out. Yes, Breitbart News editor-in-chief Joel Pollak is one of the top bidders for an hour-long “strategy session” with Obama campaign operative Sandra Fluke at BiddingForGood.com. Fluke, who rose to prominence advocating for government to force private
At the risk of angering his base, House Speaker John Boehner opened the fiscal cliff negotiations with an immediate offer to raise taxes on the wealthy — maybe not raise them in the way Obama would like (tax-rate increase), but
On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden made a surprise appearance at the grand opening of the Washington, D.C. Costco for a photo op with the warehouse-club’s co-founder Jim Sinegal, who raised over $1.4 million for the Obama campaign. In July,
During the 2012 campaign, President Barack Obama’s Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the administration’s goal was to make “student loans available to as many people as possible” regardless of credit score, something Obama called an “economic imperative in the 21st
Over at Hot Air, Allahpundit makes a superb point. On MSNBC, the insufferably smug Joe Scarborough has been blistering Republicans for days now, specifically John McCain and Lindsey Graham, for threatening to block Susan Rice’s nomination as Secretary of State.
Some of the country’s most prominent business leaders regretted watching the debt ceiling negotiations from the sidelines in 2011, and they are making amends during the fiscal cliff negotiations by going to Washington to urge the White House and Congress
In Damascus, Bashar al-Assad’s military is bulldozing and blocking re-entrance to certain neighborhoods marked as slums. Ironically, these are neighborhoods full of people who were the first to rise up in armed resistance against Assad some months, and in many
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Europe declares victory with another hopeless bailout payment for Greece After Greece’s deal, Ireland looks for a better deal Huge anti-Morsi demonstrations fill Cairo’s Tahrir Square Hamas chief Khalid Mashaal says he supports Thursday’s
Mainstream film critics have trashed “Red Dawn” for daring to show patriotic Americans battling against a foreign invader. That’s a no-no in politically correct circles. Now, The Wall Street Journal joins the fray, attacking the remake of the 1984 cult
Mary Schapiro, chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, resigned on Monday and will be replaced in the interim by Elise Walter. Walker is a Democrat who was appointed by George W. Bush. Sources told the Wall Street Journal that the White House “intends
