Bob Weir In a recent Sean Hannity program entitled, Boomtown, his 2 guests used the entire hour to show how corrupt Washington DC politics has become. “While one out of every 6 Americans wonder where their next meal is coming from, Washington DC has the highest rate of fine wine consumption in the United States,” […]Continue Reading
Mitt Romney may have gone off the radar since the election but that doesn’t mean he’s done with politics altogether. In a meeting with donors and senior campaign leadership on Friday, Romney said, “We lost, but I’m not going away.” Over to you, Politico: Romney told top Washington bundlers, donors and senior campaign leadership in […]Continue Reading
War on Guns – by David Codrea “What I hope we can do is get a bill passed out of the Judiciary,” Mr. Reid said. “It may not be everything everyone wants, but I hope it has some stuff in there that’s really important.” [More] It will have nothing that will do anything but further infringe […]Continue Reading
Dear Ebony, I do not have high hopes, given the way Ebony treats black non-liberals, that you will review my new book, “Dear Father, Dear Son: Two Lives, Eight Hours.” It is, in the end, about the importance of fathers — and the damage done to a child who grows up without one. Why do […]Continue Reading
“First they came for the local radio hosts….” If you want a glimpse into the real, practical mechanisms whereby unprincipled political power diminishes and silences opposing voices, look not to the nationally-publicized attacks on Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck. Look to what happens at the local level, to people who do not have a national […]Continue Reading
Philip Hodges Republicans have agreed to vote on a bill that would raise the debt ceiling temporarily, specifically through mid-April. The theory is that this would allow both chambers enough time to concoct a budget for next year. If no budget is passed by April 15th, they will be penalized with no Congressional pay until […]Continue Reading
By ERIC PIANIN, The Fiscal Times Okay, we’re all familiar with such powerful inaugural presidential rhetoric as, “Let the word go forth…..that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans,” or “With malice towards none, with charity for all,” or, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Those […]Continue Reading
Dear Mr. President: There is a man in Jacksonville, Fla., named Bryan Stone. He is 60 years old and works at a company that helps people find better jobs. He describes himself as “more to the right than the left,” though not all that far out from the middle. And he has something to say […]Continue Reading
by Tad Cronn A new report issued by the Westpoint Combating Terrorism Center purports to raise the alarm on a “dramatic rise in the number of attacks and violent plots originating from individuals and groups who self-identify with the far-right of American politics.” Got that? That’s conservatives who are violent, right? Wrong. The report, titled […]Continue Reading
Leo Rennert As far as the New York Times would have you believe, the picture of Arabs in Israel is exceedingly grim. According to a lengthy article in the Jan. 17 edition, Arabs constitute a “long-marginalized minority” that is increasingly “alienated by Israel‘s right-wing government,” and that has to endure “treatment that is discriminatory and […]Continue Reading
Few stories can better illustrate the problems with the tech sector, the entertainment industry and “crony capitalism” than the sad saga of 38 Studios, the video game company founded by baseball legend Curt Schilling. In a nutshell, Schilling wanted a piece of the computer game industry, which has evolved to resemble Hollywood in many ways. […]Continue Reading
Exhilarated by the record number of women elected to both the House and Senate in 2012, giddy commentators have begun suggesting that increased representation by females could cure the poisonous polarization in Washington and repair the broken institutions of our government. A more sober, comprehensive analysis, however, reveals no historical or logical basis to assume […]Continue Reading