July is probably a little early to declare any year the worst movie year ever, but I haven’t had the opportunity to see enough films these past few months to mount any kind of argument either way with the Wall
James Taranto in his “Best of the Web Today” column in The Wall Street Journal: Shirley Sherrod says she plans to sue conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, the Associated Press reports from San Diego: “Speaking Thursday at the National Association of
In this week’s edition of Coffee and Markets, featuring The New Ledger’s Francis Cianfrocca, we’re talking about the latest GDP numbers, Fannie and Freddie, and the challenges facing small businesses with Congressman Kenny Marchant of Texas. We’re brought to you
I’m a warrior trained by Khalid Muhammad I’m a terrorist trained by Usama bin Laden Demolitionist, breaking down the walls of the rotten Never hit and miss So, first time, take out your target You want freedom? You’re gonna have
William Buckley achieved notoriety, if not celebrity, with the publication of God and Man at Yale in 1951. The book was asuccès de scandale. In it Buckley attacked the undergraduate education on offer at Yale for its hostility to Christianity
July 20, 2010, Wall Street Journal “White House on Perpetual Tour to Boost Stimulus” “President Barack Obama and top officials are stepping up the pace of their travel to promote the economic stimulus package to skeptical voters–particularly in states with
—– Angelina Jolie’s “Salt” might heat up the old Cold War, but “Farewell,” which also opens (in select cities) tomorrow, takes us back to a pivotal moment in the real one: French director Christian Carion’s real-life espionage thriller “Farewell” is
In the Wall Street Journal today, we discuss why the Obamacare mandate is not a tax, and even if it were, it would still be unconstitutional. But there’s much more to the story, which could forever change the reach of
Can Professor Daniel Drezner be serious? He launches a pathetic attack against Big Peace contributor Michael Moriarty, declaring that there is simply no evidence that George Soros is a guiding force in Obama’s foreign policy. Drezner takes a personal shot
The President is expected to sign the financial overhaul bill today, yet he might want to pause a moment to consider not signing this bill because of the potentially unconstitutional racial and gender preference provisions buried in the massive bill.
For months, we have been told that ShoreBank deserves a bailout because it serves poor communities. We have been assured by ShoreBank’s patrons, such as Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), that allowing the federal government to take over the bank will
These days, any time unions go all out to push anything, you can bet there’s a hidden agenda. Take for example the newly enacted “financial reform legislation” that gives unions the ability (through their pension funds) to put union activists
Columbia University is the place where leftists give leftist journalists Pulitzer Prizes and then tell each other how prestigious leftist journalism is because–wow!–look at all the Pulitzers they’ve won. This week, the president of Columbia, Lee Bollinger, wrote a specious
Sometimes you hate being right. In chapter 4 of our book, The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency, we make the point that Team Obama would try to pull a fast one when it
Last week, the VA made a move that at first blush may seem like a good thing – but it isn’t. Sally Satel over at the WSJ gives us a good overview. Veterans with unrelenting PTSD can receive disability benefits
From the Wall Street Journal: In Atlanta, Timothy Baker, a 40-year-old unemployed warehouse worker, says his money-making strategy has been to walk picket lines for $8.50 an hour for the Southeastern Carpenters Regional Council. “It’s something to do until you
The Washington Post series Top Secret America promises to be an indictment of the American intelligence community. They are offering up plenty of stories about bureaucratic inertia, duplication of efforts, and money wasted in an effort to keep America safe.
The Washington Post series Top Secret America promises to be an indictment of the American intelligence community. They are offering up plenty of stories about bureaucratic inertia, duplication of efforts, and money wasted in an effort to keep America safe.
It was April 15, 2009 when Speaker Pelosi pronounced the Tea Party protests as fake, using the term AstroTurf (as in phony grass roots). [youtube P44q7Jt68DA nolink] The entire MSM covered that story and many worked overtime to brand the
Australia got rid of its death tax in 1979. A couple of Aussie academics investigated whether the elimination of the tax had any impact on death rates. They found the ultimate example of supply-side economics, as reported in the abstract
In the battle over media and communications freedom, no group poses a more serious threat to a free and independent press than the insultingly misnamed regulatory activist group Free Press. Along with their founders, the prolific neo-Marxist media theorist Robert
On this week’s Health Care News podcast, Avik Roy, one of the most insightful writers about health care policy today, took the time to discuss with me the White House’s decision to bypass the nomination process of the U.S. Senate
This marks the 150th episode of Coffee and Markets, featuring The New Ledger’s Francis Cianfrocca. It’s been our pleasure to grow from a few hundred to a few thousand listeners over the past two years, and we’d like to thank
The Hill revealed yesterday that Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and three other Chicago Democrats have written a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner, asking him to release $70 million in federal TARP funds to bail out ShoreBank. ShoreBank’s
The media continue to report dismal economic news, raising the specter that our teetering economy may fall back into a “double-dip recession.” Continuing high unemployment is the biggest worry for most Americans. The percentage of working-age people in the labor
