by Tad Cronn It’s one of those laugh-or-cry stories. A CNN poll has found that almost half — 47 percent — of Americans believe the White House ordered the IRS to target the Tea Party and other conservative groups. As a result, fully 50 percent no longer trust President Obama. Perhaps the poll is a […]Continue reading →
Amid all the heated cross-currents of debate about the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance program, there is a growing distrust of the Obama administration that makes weighing the costs and benefits of the NSA program itself hard to assess. The belated recognition of this administration’s contempt for the truth, for the American people and for […]Continue reading →
I’ve repeatedly explained that Keynesian economics doesn’t work because any money the government spends must first be diverted from the productive sector of the economy, which means either higher taxes or more red ink. So unless one actually thinks that politicians spend money with high levels of effectiveness and efficiency, this certainly suggests that growth […]Continue reading →
In the book 1984, the government watches everything you do with ubiquitous cameras, microphones recording every word spoken, drones flying in the air—they literally knew what everyone was thinking before they thought it. Change the title of the book 1984 to 2013 and replace the revelations in the last few days, and one finds a surveillance […]Continue reading →
Spare the nation the ordeal of impeachment A new petition launched on the whitehouse.gov website demands that President Obama immediately resign over the innumerable unconstitutional actions he has overseen, notably the recent scandal surrounding wiretapping of journalists. The full petition, which can be found here on the whitehouse.gov website, states the following: President Richard Nixon resigned after […]Continue reading →
Wait, there’s more? Yes, this was the week that America’s intelligence secrets spilled out: Classified court orders. Top secret Power Point slides. Something called PRISM. It’s pretty important stuff, if you can make sense of it. Here’s what you need to know. ___ Q: The past two days have been packed with coverage about domestic […]Continue reading →
2013 Yesterday was the 69th anniversary of the D-Day invasion and President Obama failed to say anything about it. There is no released statement on WhiteHouse.gov and nothing on the White House or Barack Obama twitter feeds about the anniversary. President Obama did not make any public remarks about the anniversary yesterday, either. ——————————————————————- From […]Continue reading →
The Obama administration on Thursday acknowledged that it is collecting a massive amount of telephone records from at least one carrier, reopening the debate over privacy even as it defended the practice as necessary to protect Americans against attack. The admission comes after the Guardian newspaper published a secret court order related to the records […]Continue reading →
US service provider Verizon is handing call data for millions of its customers to the government, according to a report. The National Security Agency (NSA) is gathering data on scores of citizens under a secret court order that was passed two months ago, The Guardian understands. The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) granted the […]Continue reading →
R Emmett Tyrrell POSITANO, Italy — I am in Positano, Italy, on the Tyrrhenian Sea, soaking up the sun and pondering the immensities. Pompeii is just down the road, or over the mountain, or somewhere nearby, and it seems to me that Pompeii is the future for America if things continue under Barack the Pitiable, […]Continue reading →
Now that President Obama has promoted former UN Ambassador Susan Rice in return for her spewing garbage about Benghazi to the American public, he’s replaced her with radical Samantha Powers. So, who is Samantha Power? Let’s take a look. Powers called Hillary Clinton a “monster” once during her time as a 2008 Obama campaign advisor, […]Continue reading →
Give Stephen Fuller credit for this much: He’s willing to admit he was wrong. During the debate leading up to the federal budget sequester, Fuller was a voice of doom. An economist at George Mason University and the director of its Center for Regional Analysis, he predicted that sequestration would be especially calamitous for Washington, […]Continue reading →
We had a few laughs yesterday when it was discovered that the phony Environmental Protection Agency employee created by disgraced administrator Lisa Jackson to conceal some of her email correspondence was treated like a real person by the bureaucracy, winning awards for his job performance and ethical conduct. But today we have an Associated Press […]Continue reading →