Spread the Poverty!

I have a new slogan for Obama: Spread the Poverty! We are told that more people now live below the poverty line than ever. But who sets the line? Like we don’t know the answer ...

Ron Paul

Crazy Uncles

If I hear Ron Paul referred to as the GOP’s “crazy uncle” one more time, I may go a little wackadoo myself. Ron’s about 80% good sense and no more than 20% ...

Nothing to Commemorate

What will you do to commemorate 9/11? The ‘I Will’ campaign has thrown out the question and people from around the country, including a few celebrities, have ...

The author with his children

It’s Father’s Day: Do You Know Where Your Dad Is?

I asked my dad what he wanted for Father’s Day, and like all dads who never abandoned their children he said, “Nothing.” I insisted he must want something and he said, “I ...

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Hoover?

Is the world headed for a debt crisis to dwarf the one that befell us in 2008, when Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson stood aside and let Lehman Brothers crash? No one knows for ...

In Defense of the Rich

"€œLet's put it this way,"€ says the uneducated liberal with the nursery-school analogies, "€œif Tommy has ten building blocks and Joey only has two, wouldn"€™t it make ...

Fort Pickens, Florida

The Real Reason We Build Forts

A punchably positive viral video that popped up like a smiley-faced genital wart a couple weeks ago featured four chipper young SoCal Caucasians seeking seed money to help them ...

Robocrap

The Detroit RoboCop statue is a fitting cenotaph for the end of America, a goofy metal monument to everything wrong with the country. Funded by “new economy” Internet ...

Ken Salazar

Drilling Ken Salazar

After two years of practicing unrepentant contempt for science, jobs, law and truth, why should Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s words mean anything anymore? While President ...

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A Christian Business in the Left’s Crosshairs

Here’s a modest proposal for liberals who say they support job creation: Stop smearing successful, law-abiding private companies whose values don’t comport with yours. ...

Sputnik Moment—or GM Moment?

What America was to the world in 1950, General Motors was to the nation. It was the largest and most successful company with the largest number of employees. It paid the highest ...

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The Multicultural Cringe

This week’s storm in a teacup was when Chinese pianist Lang Lang played the Chinese song “My Motherland” at a US state dinner for visiting Chinese functionaries. ...

The Plague That is Killing Our Youth

The Tyler Clementi case has been illuminating in several respects. Clementi was a Rutgers University freshman, sharing a dorm room with another 18-year-old, Dharun Ravi. Clementi ...

How I Became a Domestic Terrorist

A secret Missouri State police report, “entitled "€˜The Modern Militia Movement,"€™ and dated February 20, 2009,” is warning about subversives like ... me. ...

George W. Bush, Protectionist

  “I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system,” President Bush told CNN, defending his offer of $17 billion in loans to the Big ...

My Dates with Doom

I don"€™t know if it's my reckless, Napoleonic march into middle age, or the decline of our infrastructure, but with each trip I feel more and more like travel is hell. This ...


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