Stanley McChrystal is a liberal who voted for Obama and banned Fox News from his HQ TV. Which may at least partly explain how he became the first U.S. general to be lost in combat while giving an interview to Rolling Stone: They’ll be studying that one in war colleges around the world for [...]

The Democrats are considering a parliamentary maneuver to brazenly and arrogantly avoid the “up or down vote” that Obama has demanded for Obamacare.  Should they decide to  do so, they will “slaughter” and “eat their own”, as the Wall Street Journal says more eloquently below, all for the sake of power.  Move over Jim Jones, let Harry and Nancy take over…and start passing out [...]

With nonsense like this going on, it won’t be long before even liberals begin demanding the downsizing of government – that’s the only effective way to limit it’s intrusion into our lives. Troopers raid popular bars for unlicensed beers | Philadelphia Daily News | 03/08/2010 IT WAS ELIOT NESS and the Untouchables, as played by [...]

This chart illustrates the decline in personal responsibility for healthcare costs over the last 50 years.  Now I have to find the best source for healthcare cost increases over the same time period, but I would guess the correlation between these two factors will be quite high.  It’s what always happens when people can use [...]

Last week, President Obama quietly signed an executive order that makes Interpol, an international police force that functions as an agent of international tribunals and foreign courts, immune from the restraints of American law.  It is outrageous to grant any foreign police force that operates without accountability to any US institution immune from the restraints [...]

From yesterday’s WSJ Opinions, Lawrence Kadish discusses the utter folly of creating more government obligations. It is the interest on the national debt that makes our future unstable. The exploding size of that burden suggests that, short of devaluing the dollar and taking a large bite out of the middle class through inflation and taxation, [...]

Newt Gingrich observes the pressure on Chinese leadership to create jobs while discussing his recent trip to China. The economic pressure the Chinese dictatorship feels to continue creating jobs can be captured by the fact that they need 24 million new jobs this next year just to break even. Their fear is that without jobs [...]

In his latest WSJ opinion piece, John Fund documents the damage done to ACORN by the outstanding work of James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles, Andrew Breitbart and Glenn Beck, as well as other less sensational but equally corrupt charges brought against the organization across the country.  In all likelihood, we have only seen the tip of [...]