(By Thomas Sowell): Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said that a good catch phrase could stop thinking for 50 years. One of the often-repeated catch phrases of our time — “It’s the economy, stupid!” — has already stopped thinking in some quarters for a couple of decades. There is no question that the state of the […]
(By Gergen/Zuckerman at CNN.com): This past Sunday’s “60 Minutes” and the latest issue of Newsweek bring back to the fore the complicated issue of money and politics. Both highlight a new book by Peter Schweizer, “Throw Them All Out,” which rails against what Schweizer calls “honest graft.” Schweizer charges that leaders from both houses of […]
By Joe Miller. Yesterday, top executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac defended exorbitant $16 million pay bonuses for themselves even though they presided over epoch failures of their agencies. By way of background, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are ground zero of the current financial crisis because of their government insured positions as a […]
By Michael Levenson & Matt Viser – Tea Party activists have time, energy, and a ready-made volunteer army to devote to the presidential campaign. Now, if they could only find a candidate. Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, and, more recently, Herman Cain have captured the hearts of Tea Party activists and religious conservatives, but none has […]
By Kim Geiger. Fresh off a $2 million-plus fundraising day, Ron Paul is planning an advertising blitz in four early voting states in an effort to build momentum for his 2012 presidential bid. The Texas congressman is a longshot for the GOP nomination. Paul’s support in the polls has hovered in the single digits and […]
By Martin Gould and Ashley Martella. The GOP could face a revolt from within its tea party grassroots base if it nominates an establishment candidate without true conservative, anti-big government values, one of America’s leading conservative pundits tells Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview. Specifically, columnist and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan told Newsmax that […]
(By JPost.com staff): Hundreds of Palestinians gathered in the West Bank on Tuesday morning to celebrate the impending release of prisoners in the first stage of the Gilad Schalit deal, Channel 2 news reported. Chants of “The people want a new Schalit,” could be heard as Hamas and Fatah supporters waved flags together as part […]
By Aaron Goldstein (American Spectator): Notwithstanding the fact that not a single ballot has been cast in any of the Republican primaries, there seems to be a concerted effort by the liberal media to bestow the GOP nomination upon former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. According to the Detroit Free Press, “Mitt Romney’s steady-as-she-goes campaign for […]
By FoxNews.com. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has offered his own $804 billion jobs plan that calls on the federal government to hire the nation’s 15 million unemployed Americans for jobs paying roughly $40,000 each, and bail out all the states and cities facing budget crises. In an interview with the Daily Caller on Wednesday, the […]
By Leila Fadel. Large caches of weapons from Libya are making their way across the Egyptian border and flooding black markets in Egypt’s already unstable Sinai Peninsula, according to current and former Egyptian military officials and arms traders in the Sinai. Egyptian security officials have intercepted surface-to-air missiles, most of them shoulder-launched, on the road […]