Obama: No Time for Israel, but Time for Letterman
With the shocking assassination of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and 3 other diplomats and the violent attack on the U.S. Embassy in Egypt, the White House has time to…
Chicago Bled Dry by Striking Teachers’ Unions
by John Fund The smartest parents in Chicago right now are those whose kids attend charter schools, private schools, or parochial schools. Those institutions don’t employ Chicago’s unionized public-school teachers, who…
Saved GM? Really? GM is losing $49,000 on each Volt it builds
by Bernie Woodall and Paul Lienert and Ben Klayman (Reuters) Nearly two years after the introduction of the path-breaking plug-in hybrid, GM is still losing as much as $49,000 on each…
The Obamacare Fallacy: Bigger is better
by Benjamin Domenech At the heart of President Obama’s signature health care law is a simple idea: Bigger is better. His law incentivizes massive mergers of systems and providers into…
Republicans Are Right, Fact-Checkers Wrong On Welfare
Reform Rollback: Democrats and “fact-checkers” claim Republicans are lying when they say that the president wants to gut work requirements. Here’s why the GOP should press on. You heard it…
Saved General Motors? It Is Headed For Bankruptcy — Again
by Louis Woodhill President Obama is proud of his bailout of General Motors. That’s good, because, if he wins a second term, he is probably going to have to bail…
Eastwood says his convention appearance was ‘mission accomplished’
by Paul Miller After a week as topic No. 1 in American politics, former Carmel Mayor Clint Eastwood said the outpouring of criticism from left-wing reporters and liberal politicians after his…
The Democrats’ Soft Extremism
Obama is out of ideas, and Clinton’s speech was unworthy of him. by Peggy Noonan Barack Obama is deeply overexposed and often boring. He never seems to be saying what…
Krauthammer On Obama: “One Of The Emptiest Speeches I Have Ever Heard”
KRAUTHAMMER: I was stunned … he gave one of the emptiest speeches I have ever heard on a national stage… There was nothing in it… I thought was flat and had…
Obama Justice Dept. Sues Gallup after Campaign Chief Criticized Pollsters
Internal emails between senior officials at The Gallup Organization, obtained by The Daily Caller, show senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod attempting to subtly intimidate the respected polling firm when its…
National Debt of $16 Trillion: Is it a bad time?
Why isn’t there a debt clock in the convention hall in Charlotte, NC? $16 TRILLION is an astronomical number. If you were to count from 1 to 1 million without…
Are We Better Off? Business Publication Says No
Economic Conditions: All weekend, Democratic party leaders kept fumbling their answer to a simple question: Are we better off than we were four years ago? There’s a good reason for that:…
Four Plead Guilty to Voter Fraud
Little Rock, Ark. (AP) – A Democratic state legislator from east Arkansas, his father and two campaign workers pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to commit election fraud after federal prosecutors said the…
Democratic Platform Puts Culture Wars ahead of Fixing the Economy
If you thought the nation’s 8.3 percent unemployment rate and $1.3 trillion budget deficit were the top two issues of the 2012 election, then congratulations, you share the same priorities as the…
Dishonest Political Fact Checkers and the Pinocchio Press
by James Taranto In the 19th-century fairy tale “The Adventures of Pinocchio,” the eponymous protagonist is a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming an actual boy. We suppose people who…