Archive for: February 17, 2009

We were told by every love struck denizen of the Old Media that Barack Obama was bringing a “new” politics to Washington. He was, we were assured, a candidate that was post-partisan, post-racial, and anti-business-as-usual. We were told we could …

So why did Senator Judd Gregg, Republican-New Hampshire, decide to withdraw from consideration with the Obama administration? We will never know the private conversations, but it is interesting to speculate two things: the Senator’s motives, and the mainstream press reaction, …

It’s time everyone who stumbles around a key board expressing his / her opinion pay attention to what congress is up to. They want to create a new fairness doctrine literally silencing the right of free expression. It supposedly will …

Middle class California workers planning to party with those extra dollars from Barack Obama’s much heralded tax cut would be well advised to avoid spending too lavishly until the dust has settled in Sacramento.

As reported in the Washington Times, in …

The Taliban claimed responsibility for a series of coordinated suicide attacks against government targets in Kabul, Afghanistan.

According to the Taliban’s Voice of Jihad site, 16 members of its Al-Hamza Martyrdom-Seeking Battalion between the ages of 20-25 and under the …

It has not taken long for media commentators to jump on the bandwagon and label the biggest winner in the Israeli elections – Avigdor Lieberman – as an “anti-Arab politician” (Scotsman 12 February) and a person “who holds abhorrent views” …

At first blush, the Fairness Doctrine being floated by liberals in Congress and by their allies in the Mainstream Media sounds unfair at best, unconstitutional and un-American at worst.

However, a real Fairness Doctrine might actually help if it included all …