If President Obama is really serious about education reform, he ought to consider putting D.C. school Chancellor Michelle Rhee in charge of the effort. This lady is not afraid of a major challenge, as evidenced by her latest brawl with
The case for global warming alarmism continues to take a major hit after sensitive documents were lifted from the Hadley Climate Center. Enjoy our latest cartoon: Learn more here: Climate Change Skeptics Get to Say ‘I told you so!’ The
Nobody outside the inner halls of Congress really knows what’s going on in the negotiations on health care “reform. Every now and then, someone emerges from the formerly smoke-filled rooms and throws another 2,000 or so page “bill” out into
Over at the Los Angeles Times, naturally, we find ACORN’s statement on the latest video: Los Angeles ACORN statement, as prepared by the organization: 1. The tapes are clearly doctored and highly edited and it is our hope this will
Negative interest rates finally materialize, Tim Geithner falls on his face at Congress, and the House moves forward with their policy of gutting the authority of the Federal Reserve. That’s three big stories to talk about on today’s Coffee and
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has finally brought out the health care bill he’s fashioned behind closed doors over the past several weeks, and it ain’t pretty. The Budget Committee fully implemented 10 year score of the bill is $2.5
The dominant Democrat leadership in Washington is terrified that people will actually start blaming them for historically high unemployment levels, despite their best efforts to create or save jobs in Texas District 85 and elsewhere. We’ll talk about how the
Hu Jintao and Barack Obama sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Is America becoming more like China under President Obama? Or should we be upset that it isn’t? We’ll talk about the President’s jarring diplomatic trip to Asia and how the
Once again we see how clueless Democrats like Illinois Governor Pat Quinn and Senator Dick Durbin are on matters of national security. With Barack Obama’s decision to treat the terrorists at Guantanamo Bay as if they are common American criminals,
Almost before the echo of gunfire from the massacre at Ft. Hood had faded, the news media launched a pre-emptive rationalization for the slaughter committed by Muslim traitor Nidal Malik Hasan. To divert attention from the shooter’s inconvenient name (“I
I am always troubled by those in government claiming they have a moral imperative to enact this or that policy. A little digging often reveals that their motives are more self serving than moral. I am doubly troubled when those
It’s another day with the Federal Reserve at the center of discussion as Ben Bernanke heads to New York City to give some significant remarks. Should the Fed be more transparent? Should it be audited? We’ll talk about that and
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With everyone focused on the “health care” bill and Afghanistan is anyone paying attention to the push for another government agency? The Consumer Financial Protection Agency is on the way. “* Dodd Backs Obama proposal to create agency to regulate
With much of the health care reform debate still focused on the wisdom of including a government-run, “public” health insurance “option,” too many of us are neglecting a far more insidious feature of the Democratic proposals: the mandatory purchase requirement.
From Wall Street Journal: Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told fellow Democrats that she’s prepared to lose seats in 2010 if that’s what it takes to pass ObamaCare, and little wonder. The health bill she unwrapped last Thursday, which President
About ten days ago, in a widely ridiculed address to the 2009 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference – so widely ridiculed he had to walk his Obama-Caesar gushing back some – embattled NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman took a moment to
As mentioned earlier (here ), the financial crisis was fueled by the government’s obsession with home ownership. Yet, last year the Bush administration decided that it was wise to continue to encourage people to buy houses that they couldn’t afford.
National Science Foundation studies gossip and workplace politics in elementary school $1.47 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund a 3-D virtual recreation of the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair National Science Foundation funds self-help for Members of
Just how far is the Obama administration willing to go to reward big donors? In the wake of yesterday’s explosive report regarding “scores of top Democratic donors” being rewarded with “VIP access to the White House, private briefings with administration
The Democratic majority objected to my appearing at a House hearing this morning addressing AstroTurfing in the global warming advocacy industry. The majority were not amused by the prospect of a discordant note being struck. As such, the Republicans will
In part I of this article, I provided a little background on the history of the public option, including how John Edwards was actually the first to propose it during the Democratic primary campaign. I also demonstrated how the media
In February of this year, I wrote a study (co-authored with Mike Flynn) about the lessons of the Japanese “Lost Decade.” At the end of the 1980s, Japan faced a very similar situation to ours: an asset bubble burst, the
A friend of mine asked me if I had seen” CSI: Miami” last week. I had not, but he suggested I take a look. He thought I might find something interesting. Warning: Spoiler Alert. Not all television shows have blatant
As damning video after video is released showing ACORN’s willingness to counsel lawbreakers, no one has been more willing to assassinate the character of ACORN’s opponents than the hired guns at the left-wing group Media Matters for America. As I
Free golf carts available from federal stimulus program Annual U.S. federal budget deficit reaches an all time high of $1.42 trillion in 2009; Government spending jumped to more than $3.5 trillion, increasing over 18% in one year The Pentagon pays
On May 27, President Obama remarked to an audience gathered at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada that Americans, “pioneered solar technology, but we’ve fallen behind countries like Germany and Japan in generating it, even though they get less sun
Rush took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to address the mau-mauing that scuttled his NFL dreams. Personally, I’m a little mystified why Rush would want to own part of a football team. Oversized, preening and pampered athletes
From the Wall Street Journal: The conservative Internet entrepreneur on bringing down Acorn, Hollywood liberals, and embarrassing the mainstream media. By JAMES TARANTO Hollywood Dressing up as a pimp and prostitute in order to seek Acorn’s help in starting a
From the Wall Street Journal: The conservative Internet entrepreneur on bringing down Acorn, Hollywood liberals, and embarrassing the mainstream media. By JAMES TARANTO Hollywood Dressing up as a pimp and prostitute in order to seek Acorn’s help in starting a
Just when the Obama Administration eliminates union boss disclosure that exposed union officer perks and self-dealing, a union boss has to get busted for demanding bribes from a trial lawyer. His actions certainly do not argue for the Administration’s ongoing
$300,000 in federal stimulus money pays to map radioactive rabbit turds from a helicopter $445 million worth of congressional earmarks compromise the priorities of the Energy Department $2.6 billion diverted from guns and ammunition for troops to pay for politicians’
Today’s Wall Street Journal has this story about an Obama appointee to the NLRB: One of Big Labor’s priorities in Washington is to place allies in key government jobs where they can overturn existing labor policy without battles in Congress.
[ed. note: republished and amended from a 2007 post] Dear BARACK OBAMA : Congratulations! On behalf of the selection committee, I am pleased to announce that you have been named a 2009 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, in recognition
Keep on Truckin’: Grateful Dead archive receives $615,175 federal grant; “The ultimate goal… is that everyone will have a Grateful Dead experience” Renovation project at the Bill Clinton presidential center will receive $2.5 million of federal stimulus funds North Carolina
Yesterday, Rep. Mark Kirk offered a great illustration of the relationship between ACORN and SEIU. A part of that chart is worthy of a further look: The relatively unknown story of how SEIU and ACORN took their act from Illinois
Wall Street Journal is reporting that Bank of America will cut off funding to ACORN: In response to questions from The Wall Street Journal, a spokesman for the banking company said it has “suspended current commitments” to Acorn Housing, an
Mere days before Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry are scheduled to introduce their version of controversial global warming “cap-and-trade” legislation — if several months after EPA whistle-blower Dr. Alan Carlin drew attention to the fact that the recent published
During the campaign in 2008, President Obama made his tax message as clear as it could be: he wanted to tax the wealthy, and help the poor. He promised over and over that taxes on those making less than $250,000
Yesterday, Scott Johnson at Powerline reported that the NEA homepage “Health Care Resource” link took you to the Artists’ Health Insurance Resource Center (AHIRC), whose own homepage urged artists to “get involved in the health care debate,” contact Congress and