Michelle Obama

Pomp and Circumstance

Harry Truman purchased his own postage stamps. Calvin Coolidge audited the books for the White House kitchen. That's small-"r" republican ...

What Happened to the War on Terror?

From the invasion of Iraq in 2003 until the economy took a turn for the worse during the election, the "€œWar on Terror"€ was the defining issue of the Republican Party. Standard conservative priorities like smaller ...

Guns and Loons

Our understanding of the mind is not far beyond the angry gods and restless dragons ...

Department of Incurable Diseases

From the publisher’s blurb on Amazon.com for the new book by Jacob Heillbrun, They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons: “Far from being chastened by the Iraq debacle, the neocons continue to guide ...

Money Grows on Trees

If President Obama and the Democrats are to be believed, the age-old economic lesson my parents tried to instill in me has been utterly rebuked. Money not only grows on trees, but the trees are blooming, as Washington's ...

Hey Kamala, Where Are Your Spending Cuts?

In 1982 the federal budget deficit rose above $100 billion for the first time (those were the good old days!), and then-President Ronald Reagan agreed to an infamous budget deal with then-House Speaker Tip O'Neill. ...

The Beer, Baccy and Crumpets Party

Mighty Oaks From Little Acorns

If you want to express the furthest extreme of loathing and disgust you can double down, putting the two words together to make ...

Justice Sotomayor

Hard Problem of Consciousness

That's six pieces of foolishness occupying just five lines of text out of about 35 lines per page in Justice Sotomayor's dissent; one-seventh of a page out of 58 pages, or about one four-hundredth of the ...

Demographic Losers

As Radio Derb always tells you, diversity is like salt in your stew: a little improves the flavor, too much and you're in Yugoslavia "€” a nation which, just to remind you, no longer ...

Horseburgers and Other Miscellany

Horseburgers "”€ Sequester this! "”€ Biden gets his gun "”€ News from Airstrip One "”€ B-list murder "”€ Maker’s Mark marks down "”€ Fly the flatulent skies "”€ Larry Auster ...

President Obama and Bo

Obamination

Obama and his family cost us about 1.4 billion "€” yes, that's "billion" with a "b" "€” 1.4 billion dollars a ...

Marcella Sills

Poop Floats, Gold Sinks

This is the pitiful, degraded state we have sunk to under the influence of public-sector lobbies and Cultural Marxist ...

Eric Holder

Gotta Get the Numbers Right

And while Eric Holder is certainly an exceptionally nasty piece of work, it wasn't he who cooked up the evil and innumerate Disparate Impact ...

The Week in Review

Ms Moffitt said she'd been attacked and set on fire by three men wearing white ...

Where the Money Goes

Government is the biggest business there is, and getting bigger all the ...

Stanley Fischer

A Job Americans Can’t Do?

I personally think the concept of dual citizenship is an abomination. Patriotism can have only one ...


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