It was Margaret Thatcher who observed that the problem with socialism was that eventually you run out of other people’s money.
Given my insatiable Sweet Tooth, I have a different spin on this economic principle: eventually there will be nothing left in the community candy jar.
We see it now in Greece, as Bill O’Reilly explained in [...]
It’s official: Solicitor General Elena Kagan is President Barack Obama’s second nominee to the US Supreme Court. Today on the Daily Beast, Peter Beinart revisits Kagan’s anti-military zealotry over “don’t ask, don’t tell”—unsurprisingly, it doesn’t bother him enough to oppose her confirmation (though he does offer an intriguing nugget about administration allies offering to help [...]
Relax, the prime minister said “the world can now move “beyond safety and security concerns’!” Of course, India is the target audience for this display, demonstrating Pakistan’s skewed sense of priorities as jihadists continue to operate freely, and sometimes with official encouragement. “Pakistan test-fires pair of ballistic missiles,” from CNN,…
Let me get this straight. According to the Supreme Court, burning the American flag is protected speech under the First Amendment. Yet in order to protect the sensibilities of Mexican-American students celebrating the Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo, a California Bay area school decided that high school students would not be permitted to wear t-shirts emblazoned with [...]
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, it ain’t. More on this story. “Hezbollah says it’s ready for fresh war with Israel – and stronger now,” by Nicholas Blanford for the Christian Science Monitor, May 7 (thanks to Larry): Mashghara, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon…
Lying, tax-evading, riot-inciting, race-baiting, deadbeat poverty pimp and professional libeler Reverend Al Sharpton should give up the business suits he claims not to own and start wearing Che Guevara tee shirts.
That’s because he’s come out and endorsed the murderous utopian craziness of Communism. I kid you not. In a recent rant Sharpton said,
So many of us [...]
Cape Cod’s recently approved wind project is a boondoggle in the making and a ripoff for consumers.
In a visually compelling format Glenn Beck heaped justified ridicule on one of the many false precepts of progressivism, to wit, that it is somehow “unfair” that some people have more money than others.
To do this, Beck gave President Obama (and his audience) the silent treatment on his TV show. (video link)
As a video clip showed the president [...]
