Wednesday, July 24, 2013

I'm not hard to find, but Facebook questions whether I am even real

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I am reviving this blog, after a long absence. You may find the reason as peculiar as I do. It's because my existence is suddenly in dou...
Saturday, October 1, 2011

Hack a ballot for $26

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Campaigning for the 2012 presidential race has already begun, but what the candidates don't know is that come election day, hackers coul...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

NAACP spares members from a statue of George Washington

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Ordinarily, George Washington's statue stands unadorned in Columbia, SC. In recent days, however, the NAACP has been rallying for Martin...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Growing government in pursuit of "absurdity"

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'EPA has said new greenhouse gas regulations, as proposed, may be 'absurd' in application and 'impossible to administer'...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

On federal spending, some are guiltier than others

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Friday, December 3, 2010

A remote-controlled fly-by of New York City

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200 years of history as you've never seen it before

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Saturday, November 27, 2010

Government rigs the car and truck markets, accelerating its purchases of hybrid vehicles to justify its green policies

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President Barack Obama’s administration has bought almost a fourth of the Ford Motor Co and General Motors Co. hybrid vehicles sold since he...

The good news? Incompetent leaders don't stop pioneers

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...chances of the Dow industrials' leading in the next market cycle could be as slim as ever, and investors who ignore the dynamos leadi...

Is Palin the only conservative who'll take on Washington's elite?

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“...there is only one reason I can ask Sarah Palin to brave the sewers of a presidential run. The reason is that we need her. “The brutal ...

How an intelligent computer worm struck Iran's super-weapon

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In the 20th century, this would have been a job for James Bond. The mission: Infiltrate the highly advanced, securely guarded enemy headqu...
Friday, November 26, 2010

Europe in a funk

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Afghans abroad drive cabs, fight as jihadists 3 months a year

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British-based men of Afghan origin are spending months at a time in Afghanistan fighting Nato forces before returning to the UK, the Guardia...

Pat Buchanan asks the question: Why will Americans be among the first to die when Koreans again go to war with each other?

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This writer was 11 years old when the shocking news came on June 25, 1950, that North Korean armies had crossed the DMZ. Within days, Seou...

Rep. Ron Paul vs. the Federal Reserve: a historic duel?

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Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has called the Federal Reserve an “atrocious organization” and written a best-selling book that argues it should be ...

How the academy's capitalism deniers elbowed Adam Smith aside in favor of the the junk economics of Barbara Ehrenreich

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...most recent college graduates learned everything they know about capitalism from Barbara Ehrenreich. Ehrenreich’s 2001 book Nickel and Di...

The Onion questions Obama's pardon of Thanksgiving turkey

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Obama Outlines Moral, Philosophical Justifications For Turkey Pardon

Tea Party targets rent-seeking corporations that seek bigger profits by lobbying for more government, like GE and J&J

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“If you look at President Obama’s healthcare legislation and cap and trade, there’s only one reason those things got as far as they did – th...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

Obama barely edges Tea Party on who should govern America

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WASHINGTON — Just about as many Americans want Tea Party-backed members of Congress to take the lead in setting policy during the next year ...

How starvation taught the pilgrims to honor property rights

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Tea Party going after "rent seekers" - firms that cultivate government favor to enhance their profitability and prospects

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Jesse Jackson isn't the only activist that can use corporate boycotts for political purposes. Starting next year, the huge Tea Party org...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Detroit congressman, missing wife, turns to Playboy for solace

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While November’s election brought a tsunami of change to Michigan policies, some incumbents are untouchable. So untouchable, apparently, tha...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Junk food isn't all that bad, but the lectures will continue because hectoring people is the real American pastime

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San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted to fight childhood obesity by banning Happy Meal-style kids meals last week, the same week a ...

Is The One's towering self-regard a sign of a broader ailment?

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Inflated self-esteem can be decidedly counterproductive. American students, for example, took first place in self-judged mathematical abil...

When past hubris meets stubborn reality and victory is no longer attainable, the language of choice is bafflegab

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The Obama administration and its NATO allies will declare late this week that the war in Afghanistan has made sufficient progress to begin t...
Sunday, November 14, 2010

His presidency has turned to ashes but his vanity still soars

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Why has Barack Obama failed so spectacularly? Is he too dogmatically liberal or too pragmatic? Is he a socialist, or an anticolonialist, or ...

Are crotch inspections the last grasp of invasive government?

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When it comes to protecting against terrorism, this is how things usually go: A danger presents itself; the federal government responds with...
Saturday, November 13, 2010

History suggests Obama badly needs a political survival strategy

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The defeat of Russ Feingold in the November 2 election has unexpectedly provided the most uncompromisingly left-wing Democrat in the U.S. Se...

If ever there was a man for his time, it's Gov. Chris Christie

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Minnesota: from 10,000 lakes to liberal vote fraud in 2 elections

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Schoen and Caddell advise Obama to bow out of 2012 election

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President Obama must decide now how he wants to govern in the two years leading up to the 2012 presidential election. In recent days, he h...
Friday, November 12, 2010

Conservative heavy-hitters defend DeMint on election choices, pledge to challenge, defeat weak Republicans in primaries

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Prominent conservative leaders are putting critics of Sen. Jim DeMint on notice: Stop blaming the South Carolina Republican for the GOP’s fa...

Noonan: Incoming GOPers should should be wary of nut crackers, "Stand tall, speak clear, and don't frighten the horses"

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The mainstream media this January will be looking for the nuts. I saw this in 1994, when the new Republican Congress came in. The media ha...

In Crook County IL, ballots have crazy legs and midnight moves

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There's more than one way to skin a cat, and Cook County, IL Democrats are proving there's more than one way to steal an election. ...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Obama will veto any repeal of ObamaCare, setting the stage for a repeal of Obama's misbegotten presidency in the 2012 election

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The last sentence in this excerpt, from Cato, states: "Repealing ObamaCare is just not going to happen while Obama is in office." ...

Bush team's forgetfulness is damaging his record on Iraq war

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George W. Bush is telling the world says he was “sickened . . . when we didn’t find weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq. How, I would lik...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Newsmax poll: Even though he built Microsoft, Bill Gates would defeat Obama by 10 points in a mockup presidential election

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett have no political experience or aspirations, but both would defeat P...

Bush campaign to pretty up his record hits a pothole

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Former President George W. Bush is no “class act,” a Republican lawmaker insisted Wednesday. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) said Bush had ...

As danger of flying grows, airport scanners pick up more perks

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For Barry Obama, it's time for vengeance and he thinks he has us "firmly and, in his mind, deservingly, under his thumb"

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Now at the helm, Obama is avenging the Sins of the Fathers, even though the fathers are long since dead and buried. Consequently, the Depart...

Fat-cat fed bureaucrats double their ranks under Obama

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The number of federal workers earning $150,000 or more a year has soared tenfold in the past five years and doubled since President Obama to...

An intellectual discovers another Bush blemish - he's too aloof

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George W. Bush -- plush with family money and a taxpayer-funded retirement package that few will ever enjoy -- may be at peace with his deci...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

George Bush: "I'd have endorsed Obama if they'd asked me"

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George W. Bush’s bombastic return to the world stage has reminded me of my favourite Bush anecdote, which for various reasons we couldn’t pu...

Wall between mosque and state crumbles in Oklahoma

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As any liberal could tell you, the separation of church and state was written into the Constitution in 1773. Rest assured, it’s in there… no...
Monday, November 8, 2010

A trick football play for the ages

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Barone: GOP will have its biggest ever role in redistricting

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Nationally, Republicans narrowly missed winning Senate seats in heavily Democratic Washington and in Nevada and California, where less probl...

Something else we can blame on Obama - faulty memories

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CNN has published its exit polling data from last Tuesday’s House elections. The results paint a portrait of a disgruntled electorate that d...

If you really want scary temperatures, you can get them

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More and more details are emerging on the greatest fraud in the history of science, the manufacturing of pseudo-scientific theories and data...

More shady money shows up in Rep. Maxine Waters' account

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A lobbyist known as one of California's most successful power brokers while serving as a legislative leader in that state paid Rep. Maxi...
Saturday, November 6, 2010

Bloomberg on Obama: "I never met in my life such an arrogant man"

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You may recall that during President Obama’s vacation at Martha’s Vineyard, on August 27 he took in a round of golf at the Vineyard Golf Clu...

Glimpses of GOP virtue on earmarks may have been exaggerated

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It didn’t take long for many in Congress to ignore the will of the American people on earmarking special projects for states and districts. ...

Bogus income tax filings, uncaught by IRS and SSA bureaucrats, threw U.S. statistical tables out of whack by $32.2 billion

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In a perfect example of the need to keep government in check, a $32.3 billion mistake that severely distorted the nation’s 2009 wage statist...
Friday, November 5, 2010

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Mid-term losers have an unnerving pattern of winning reelection

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Mr. McConnell took some time this week to talk me through the GOP game plan. Let's just say he isn't apologizing for recently sugges...

EPA's most outspoken advocate of carbon controls resigns

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One of the Obama administration’s most aggressive officials on global warming regulations is stepping down from her post at the Environmenta...

Noonan's take: "Vote conservative, limit the reach of the thieves"

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'The people have spoken, the bastards." That would be how Democrats in the White House and on Capitol Hill are feeling. The last tw...

Obama trails Romney and Huckabee in 20-12 poll matchup

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WASHINGTON -- Two days after his self-described "shellacking" in the election, President Obama has another reason to feel bad: He...

The U.S. House of Representatives after Tuesday

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(Blue = Democrat. Red = Republican. Striped = new gain.)
Thursday, November 4, 2010

Historian Paul Johnson skewers Barack Obama ever so gently

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Happily Blair has not made the mistake of making himself ineligible for a return to active politics by going into the impotence of the House...

This would seem to qualify Obama as a bona fide fanatic

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Bad handwriting, misspelled names, Mickey Mouse will soon be in headlines as Alaska counts write-in ballots for Senate

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A fierce ballot-by-ballot fight loomed Wednesday in the Alaska Senate race as lawyers and election monitors prepare...

Though thrashed at the polls, Obama still loves what voters hate

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Before President Obama started talking yesterday, the question was this: Will we now see an ideologue or a pragmatist? An hour later, the ...

Hayek vs. Keynes: a rap-off in tune with the times

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Iowa voters oust chief justice and three other supreme court judges who voted to overturn ban on same-sex marriage

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The people of Iowa scored a major victory on Tuesday and have sent a clear and powerful message across America. The April 2009 Iowa Supreme ...

Soros not capturing enough secretary of state posts to turn leftist electoral defeats into thuggish MN-style victories

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While Democrats went out of their way to portray the Koch brothers as evil billionaires puppeteering this election, I’d venture they feel pr...

Rep. Barney Frank celebrates the rubble he has produced

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

After the election debacle, Obama still has one stimulus option left - retirement - that would actually perk up the economy

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His brand has been trashed and the future of his presidency erased. Now that Barack Obama no longer has any overriding reason to squander st...
Monday, November 1, 2010

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Unable to compete with the national strangeness, The National Enquirer falls on hard times and doesn't want to get up

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What AP reported: "After years of dishing tales of celebrity folly and misfortune, The National Enquirer's publisher has fallen o...

The Chicago Way finds its way to Minnesota 3

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