May 29, 2011

Marines and their Devil Dogs

As part of Fleet Week in New York City, our United States Marines put on an exhibition of the canine Marines doing their thing. Just as Navy SEAL dogs assisted in the Osama bin Laden operation, Marines' best friends do their duty with our beloved Jar...

April 18, 2011

Trump blowing his own horn - and maybe his chances

The front page of the New York Post for Monday, April 18th, has Donald Trump "modestly" claiming he'd be a better president  than Mitt Romney because "I'm a much bigger businessman...I mean my net worth is many, many, many times M...

April 1, 2011

Tax Policy Expert Bruce Springsteen Criticizes Gov. Christie

The Los Angeles Times reports that Bruce Springsteen has written a letter to his local New Jersey newspaper criticizing the policies of his state's budget cutting Governor.In a letter to his hometown newspaper, legendary rocker and Garden State icon ...

March 13, 2011

Hold the Hypocrisy, New York Times

It was much to my amazement that I read in Kim Zigfeld's article on AT that Mark Bittman of the New York Times had written a hit piece on McDonald's new healthy breakfast item on their menu. It appears that Mr. Bittman has not visited the ground floo...

March 7, 2011

'I got my bar mitzvah at the New York Times'

Just walking by the New York Times headquarters building is often a source of news events. My most recent passage past the Times' in-house theater revealed an advertising sign stating "Anything Can Happen At the Times Center." And it is bac...

January 17, 2011

Demonizing gun owners in Tucson

Sunday's New York Post had an small -- in all senses of the word -- article concerning a gun show held in Tucson this weekend.Although the New York Post has largely conservative editorials, many of its staff writers are liberals, such as Coleen Bush ...

January 15, 2011

Passionate political activist with a gun

The ads both online and in NY's Village Voice for a documentary on the late leftist folksinger Phil Ochs features his image with a rifle slung over his shoulder. Will the NY Times protest?  Ha....

January 9, 2011

Gun happy Vermont?

Yesterday we were treated to liberals on cable television non-stop blaming the "gun happy" culture of Arizona for the shooting of a Congresswoman and others as well as the killing of a judge. The left has been charged with believing in cart...

January 5, 2011

Not what liberals meant by 'We should be more like Europe...'

The Greek government plans to build a 206 kilometer (around 128 mile) long fence on the Turkish border to keep out various illegal immigrants They already have full detention camps, according to a German human rights organization. A Deutsche Welle ar...

January 1, 2011

The Proposed Harvey Milk Stamp - and Some Others

The (San Francisco) Bay Area Reporter states  that the US Postal Service is considering issuing a stamp to commemorate Harvey Milk, the openly gay city Supervisor who was gunned down in San Francisco's City Hall in 1978. You would think the advo...

December 25, 2010

Imam Rauf: The Tour

  The Associated Press reports on Christmas Day that Imam Rauf is going on a nationwide speaking tour, starting in Detroit, with stops in Washington, Chicago, Harvard, Georgetown and the U. of North Carolina. While this is not yet confirmed publ...

December 16, 2010

Teachers, Then and Now

"New Deal or Raw Deal?," by Burton Folsom, is a book of FDR hidden historical facts,   recommended by Thomas Sowell in his "Christmas Reading" article. One of the more interesting accounts is Massachusetts' refusal of th...

November 23, 2010

The Democrats' 'Hail Sarah' Pass

This past weekend, we were treated to Robert Reich, a very leftist Democrat, saying nice things about Sarah Palin on ABC's "This Week," calling her a legitimate candidate for the Presidency. Other Democrats, such as Donna Brazile, parroted ...

November 11, 2010

Jerry Brown and the Flat Tax

Will Jerry Brown push his 1992 Presidential Campaign Idea? I hope so.No, this publication hasn't accidently reposted an article from Newsweek or The Nation.In his recent book "Broke," Glenn Beck uncovered this nugget in Chapter 20, P. 345-6...

October 31, 2010

Will Blue Dog Anger Thwart Lame Duck Danger?

We've seen articles that talk of the big plans Pelosi-Reid-Obama have for the Lame Duck Session of Congress, yet there is one other factor that might come into play to thwart them. CitizenLink predicts half of the 54 seat Blue Dog coalition will lose...

September 28, 2010

Islam(ophobia) - It Speaks for Itself

Help is on the way for President Obama,  courtesy of Malaysia.  Daniel Greenfield's article in the Canada Free Press explains much in five excerpted paragraphs. The only thing I can add is to suggest you read the entire piece. "Prime M...

September 15, 2010

Thomas Jefferson was a Shriner?

In debates on the Ground Zero proposed mosque on Fox News and Fox Business, Malik Shabazz, head of the New Black Panther Party and a Muslim, stated that Thomas Jefferson, as part of being a member of the Shriners, studied the Koran. Now the Shriners ...

September 12, 2010

Imam Rauf plays to the ignorance of the average Muslim

Reza Safa, a Christian convert and evangelist who grew up as a devout Muslim, wrote a book called "Inside Islam." In it, he points out that, very few Muslims have read the Koran because the rate of illiteracy in many Muslim countries is 7...

September 5, 2010

Ground Zero Bargain Mosque

The New York  Post reports today that one or more competing commercial real estate buyers were willing to pay more than three times the $4.8 that Sharif al-Gamal paid for the property.The Post states:"New York developer Kevin Glodek was liv...

August 30, 2010

Zero interest payment loans at Ground Zero mosque?

Last week Reuters informed us that:'The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the ...

August 27, 2010

Another American Imam can't say whether Hamas is a terrorist organization

In an amazing display of how difficult it is to allay suspicions of terrorist ties to the Ground Zero mosque, David Asman, on Fox Business News, asked Imam Dawoud Kringle, who appears to be a Western convert, about terrorism. Imam Kringle, after say...

August 21, 2010

Mayor Bloomberg's racist remarks about the Seneca tribe

Fox News reports that Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the same person who was browbeating fellow New Yorkers about their "intolerant" opposition to a mosque near Ground Zero, has insulted the Seneca Nation tribes while complaining about not bein...

August 4, 2010

Political correctness and security clearances

Investors Business Daily is reporting that the London Daily Telegraph has found that Bradley Manning, the 22 year old defense analyst who allegedly released the 90,000 piece WikiLeaks leak, has been posting his emotional upset about a former homosexu...

August 3, 2010

The Lame Duck Session Could Get Lamer

There has been much concern about the Obama administration attempting to ram through various bills, such as Cap and Trade, after the November elections when Democrats will have no fear of influencing voters against them -- especially if they have jus...

July 13, 2010

Rep. Anthony Weiner weds Huma Abedin, a Muslim

According to the Politico's Maggie Haberman, US Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY) has married Huma Abedin, a former aide to Hillary Clinton and a Muslim. The wedding occurred on July 10th on Long Island, NY. The short article states the wedding was o...

May 12, 2010

Richard Goldstone, Apartheid Hanging Judge

Alan Dershowitz has discovered and uncovered that the author of the notorious UN Goldstone Report, condemning Israel's actions in Gaza (but not Palestinian aggression), Richard Goldstone, was literally a hanging judge during the days of Apartheid in ...

January 18, 2010

Chuck Schumer calls Brown a 'teabagger'

It is getting so that we cannot publicly report politics without a discussion of vulgar remarks, much as during the time of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-Times Square porno store district) called Scott Brown, the opponent of Mart...

December 29, 2009

High end art prices skyrocketing

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December 29, 2009

NYT finally acknowledges Christmas

After American Thinker hectored the New York Times twice about not having any Christmas decorations at their headquarters building, once in 2007 and once in early December 2009, the Times has placed three prominent Christmas wreathes at their entranc...

December 27, 2009

Taking airline security seriously

As a young man in the early 1970s, I worked in Israel. After about a year, I took a vacation flight to Europe. I had a Temporary Resident's card issued by the Israeli government and some local clerk at the airport copied the number down incorrectly o...

December 26, 2009

US Consular car refuses Israeli inspection

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December 25, 2009

Madoff's health care

Bernard Madoff is a senior citizen, age 71. American Thinker reports today that he appeared to have been beat up in prison. The question is: what if this had happened to him outside of prison under ObamaCare? Would he get to go to such a fine facilit...

December 11, 2009

Ultimate 'stimulus' hypocrisy

While Obama, Al Gore and the EPA pontificate about global warming, a special report released by Sen. Coburn (Stimulus Checkup) on the 100 worst Stimulus projects. Listed near the top of the list is:"4. Research to Develop Supersonic Corporate Je...

December 6, 2009

Rep. Nadler supports KSM trial in Manhattan

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December 4, 2009

Army Instructors in Islamic culture go back to Reagan's time

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December 2, 2009

A Christmas-free zone at the NYT

An odd absence: a clothing retailer with only a crypto-Christmas display on December 1st.I was in midtown Manhattan yesterday and went to the NY Times building, walking through the lobby. The company has no Christmas or Hanukah decorations of any kin...

December 1, 2009

Anarchy High

The New York Post reports that ACORN is administering three of New York City's publicly-funded schools, "including two (high) schools in Brooklyn bearing the group's name: ACORN Community HS and the ACORN HS for Social Justice."Despite...

November 4, 2009

The USS New York

The USS New York is open to the public today;  AT's Jack Kemp visited and took pictures....

October 22, 2009

Net Neutrality - or Net Neutered?

Investors Business Daily has a detailed explanation of the doublespeak (or "Orwellian newspeak") of Net Neutrality, which IBD describes as a power grab. A coalition of 72 Blue Dog and Black Caucus Democrats strongly oppose. The editorial me...

October 14, 2009

Robert Reich's cold honesty

Robert Reich advocated in detail the cutting off of funds to elder patients and the lower funding of medical research, fully accepting that more people would die. Newsbusters quotes him:"We're going to have to, if you're very old, we're not goin...

October 2, 2009

Zelaya's Hitlerian propagandist

The chief propagandist for the ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, endorses Hitler and the goals of the Holocaust. Blogger SultanKnish has the story. The full website page has a video for reference, as well. A couple of highlights:Not long a...

September 28, 2009

Obama throwing black supporters under the bus

I have a suggestion for Gov. David Paterson of New York, recently asked by an associate of Barack Obama to not run for election (not reelection, as he became Governor when Eliot Spitzer resigned) for the office of New York Governor. I have to admire ...

September 23, 2009

Putting 'brother's keeper' issues in a new light

After hearing Obama state at the U. N. that Israel's settlements are not legitimate, I believe the time has come for Israel to call out Obama's worldview versus theirs.We know that Obama's step brother lives in a hut in Kenya on ten dollars a year. I...

August 30, 2009

Statist Healthcare Logic and Mary Jo

When the US Army entered Dachau concentration camp in Germany, they found evidence of horrific medical experiments of placing prisoners in ice water tanks and documenting how long they could survive in freezing water(s). The Nazi doctors wanted resea...

August 20, 2009

ObamaCare and FDR

Would Ezekiel Emanuel want to give medical coverage to a 48 year old pre-presidential Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a wheelchair with polio? Keep in  mind was also famously a smoker who used a cigarette holder. Pres. Roosevelt used to go for hydr...

August 17, 2009

Dems Demonizing Scooters

Senator Claire McCaskill at a town hall meeting in Sedalia, MO, tried to spin senior scooters as a marginal preference issue, one that should be discouraged in favor of walking. Here is what she said:"And that is, how many of you have seen ...

August 13, 2009

The Great Bubbie Rebellion

In 2008, Sarah Silverman famously proposed the Great Schlep, in which the comedienne urged young Jews to go to Florida and coerce their grandparents to vote for Obama or they would not be visited by their grandchildren. Silve...

August 8, 2009

Email fraudsters: takes one to know one

After having been previously gotten emails telling me that I have won various European and Nigerian lotteries, today I got the following email that seems to explain where Federal bailout money is going. Either that or email scammers have been inspire...

July 25, 2009

Muslims help fund Scottish exhibit that encourages defacing of the Bible

The next time some Muslim group claims their religion is being mocked, point them in the direction of this story from Scotland. Note to John Murtha & Dick Durban: Muslims help fund exhibit that encourages defacing of the BibleArt Show Encourages ...

July 25, 2009

Health care hypocrisy

When it's our lives at stake, left wing grandees are rather more cavalier than they are when their own (or their families') lives are involvedIn a time Rahm Emanuel has contradicted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid by insisting that a vote on the Ob...

July 20, 2009

NY Times reaches a new low (updated)

Back at the time of the William Kennedy Smith rape trial in Florida, in the 1990s, the NY Times had published the name of the alleged rape victim after the local New York WNBC television station aired it. Later, at the trial, the then-head ...

June 28, 2009

The green scam and the Ivy League endowments

I am starting to understand why so many Ivy League endowments invested in forest land. It is part of a cap and trade carbon economy where they will theoretically get rich from payments not to cut down trees. Very politically correct and Owl Gore-ish....

June 17, 2009

Sarah Palin vs. Hitler's' children

Protester outside the David Letterman Show: "If it would have been any other family (than Sarah Palin's), Letterman would have been taken off the air." Young sound man/reporter for Maxim Radio on Sirius Satellite: "What about if i...

June 9, 2009

Union robber barons

Now the Indiana State Teachers Insurance Trust has gone bust, two Heritage Foundation authors detail the situation in National Review Online. A law designed to protect them did not hold the union accountable, perhaps caused by the teachers believing ...

June 6, 2009

Sotomayor fails to disclose 'Death Penalty is Racist' Memo

This woman is losing ground every day. A potential blockbuster, as reported by Cybercast News Service.The Judicial Confirmation Network (JCN) says Judge Sonia Sotomayor failed to disclose to the Senate Judiciary Committee a controversial document arg...

May 27, 2009

When government runs businesses, consumers lose

Under Barack Obama, the government is running more and more of our economy, undermining existing consumer protections. One of the revelations about government ownership happened in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. As workers walked down te...

May 25, 2009

Fleet Week in NYC

It is Fleet Week in New York City, and both the Navy and Marines were showing denizens of the Apple some of their weapons. AT's Jack Kemp took some pictures:Hand-to-hand combat demonstration in Central ParkGrenade launcher in Times SquareMachine gun ...

May 21, 2009

How's that attack on capitalism working out for teacher unions?

A number of reports are making their way into the press about how various teachers' unions are being hurt by the drop in the stock market. It is realistic to assume that the leaders and many, though not all, members of the teachers' unions are libera...

May 16, 2009

Chrysler having trouble driving off the lot

Pity the poor former Chrysler dealers, abandoned by their company: "I had to notify just around 50 people today that our business has been terminated, that they no longer have a job," said Kevin Ormes, owner of the dealership."Accordin...

May 2, 2009

Tenure won't mean much if the college goes bankrupt

It shouldn't be surprising to anyone who met a payroll, although many ivory tower leftists from Maine to California are surprised as can be that a wave of bankruptcies among private colleges could lie ahead. Yalman Onaran of Bloomberg writes:[Richard...

April 20, 2009

'Victory in Iraq Day' June 13, Washington

On June 13th, there will be a veterans' "Victory in Iraq Day" rally on the Washington National Mall. It is sponsored by the Gathering of Eagles and will have many speakers including Melanie Morgan of MoveAmericaForward.org. While ...

February 1, 2009

Turkish Prime Minister redefines 'outrage'

Days ago, the Turkish Prime Minister walked off a stage in Davos, Switzerland when he was engaged in a heated argument with Israeli President Shimon Peres. Prime Minister Edrogan angrily stated to Peres that "You are killing people" and ...

December 30, 2008

Dutch left rethinking multiculturalism?

How long have we been told by the left that we should adopt the European ideas of tolerance and multiculturalism? It seems the left in Holland, after the deaths of Pimm Fortuyn and Theo Van Gogh, are rethinking the left's views. From the Internationa...

November 23, 2008

Visiting Che Guevara in Central Park

I read in AT that a statue of bloodthirsty revolutionary Che Guevara has appeared in Central Park, so I went to 5th Ave. & 60th street to see it for myself. The statue is supposed to be on display until, significantly enough, May 1, 2009. It...

August 6, 2008

Democratic Convention and Kayne West

Rap singer Kayne West will enlighten and elevate the Democratic National Convention with his artistry. As Christopher Cook  wrote in his Modern Conservative article about the convention: "Few people among any group-white, black, or otherwis...

July 30, 2008

Nancy Pelosi outplatitudes Obama in New York

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered a talk on Tuesday afternoon to a largely (90%) female -- and probably Democratic -- audience of admirers at the 92nd Street YMHA-YWHA in New York. Ms. Pelosi came to the 92nd Street Y to promot...

April 23, 2008

New York Times Company annual meeting

I attended the New York Times Company's shareholder meeting yesterday. As CNBC's website reported, the most dramatic moment occurred when a shareholder asked about the rumors of the paper being for sale and Mr. Arthurs Ochs Sulzberger Jr. stated...

March 31, 2008

Alter-ing the Truth (updated with response)

They say that fish are not aware of water because it is all they ever know. The same with long time Clinton sycophants.Jonathan Alter, in a Newsweek piece that faults Hillary Clinton for fibbing, employs equivalence: "But there's a difference be...

March 11, 2008

Love Client Number 9 (to the tune of 'Love Potion Number Nine')

I took my troubles down to Madame XHey, you know it's just a-bout sexShe's got a pad painted puce and limeSellin' little bimbos to Love Client Number NineI told her I had a dull sex lifeBut do not tell that to my wife She looked at my palm and she ma...

February 29, 2008

Prejudice against middle names?

Recently, conservative talk show host Bill Cunningham in Cincinnati was raked over the coals for using  Barack Obama's middle name "Hussein" in a rally for John McCain. Even McCain himself publicly apologized for this act.But last...

February 14, 2008

PBS host gone wild

When I read what passes for adult discourse in the mainstream press, I think I'm back in junior high school. Witness these two wishful-thinking paragraphs by Bonnie Erbe of PBS and Scripps Howard:"If Clinton loses the nomination, ...

January 24, 2008

Another leftist critic of the Clintons

Hillary Clinton's candidacy is splitting  the left over more than race. No longer inevitable, and lacking her husband's natural political talents, the appalling behavior of the Clinton campaign is drawing left wing critics. The latest attack com...

January 17, 2008

NYT talks the eco talk

In a New York Times editorial yesterday concerning the auto company Tata Motors, the following snide comment was made:'Given the gas-guzzling behemoths that so many of us in the West feel entitled to, it would seem hypocritical to begrudge peopl...

January 12, 2008

Bush apologizes for not bombing Auschwitz

President Bush toured Israel's Yad Vashem memorial to the Holocaust yesterday and made an emotional remark that the US should have bombed Auschwitz. Maybe so, but if guilt is to be assigned, how about the USSR?Speaking as someone whose mother survive...

January 12, 2008

Setting the record straight

Speaking of left wing charges of American guilt over World War II, the well-known accusation that George W. Bush's family were somehow financing the rise of the Nazis in Germany is dealt with by Jonah Goldberg in his wonderful new bestseller Lib...

January 10, 2008

Hillary, 'spadework,' and Democrats

It seems that Hillary Clinton Campaign's recently use of the racially charged term "spadework" on the Today Show in referring to Sen. Obama was not a one time event.   Back on July 24, 2007, the Clinton campaign attacked Sen....

December 19, 2007

Hillary shades the truth

Dana Milbank, covering the Iowa Democratic campaign, writes about Hillary trying to humanize herself on the campaign trail in the Washington Post :Just how hard became clear at her next stop, in Ottumwa. Early in her speech, she tried gamel...

December 3, 2007

Stupid New York Times tricks (updated)

The New York Times has perfected the art of remaining strictly factual while conveying a misleading impression. The latest example comes from this Sunday article by Katharine Seelye, which claims that "Back in 1992, the Bush Whitehouse deemed Op...

November 29, 2007

So you liberals think you should pay more taxes?

  Bill Clinton went on the record recently stating that he should pay more taxes. Ron Fornier of the Associated Press  wrote about this yesterday. "Late in his 50-minute address, Clinton told the crowd that wealthy people like he and h...

November 5, 2007

Will the Democrats outlaw beer, Coca-Cola and Champagne?

In a preposterous article in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, author Bill McAullife postulates burying carbon dioxide underground in North Dakota to save the atmosphere.Quote:"A partnership that includes Minnesota corporations and state agencies is...

October 31, 2007

'Blue dress Democrats'

I found this gem on Lucianne.com in a discussion about how Dems are indifferent to Hillary's prevaricating and changing positions:Reply 7 - Posted by: NorthernDog, 10/30/2007 10:47:17 PM"Doesn't matter what she says. The Dems will vote for her i...

July 15, 2007

'Excellence' according to educrats

This online video takes place at what appears to be a girl's private high school, Padua Academy (a National School of Excellence, as specified by the US Dept. of Education). A young man with a microphone is asking the young women to si...

May 25, 2007

Carter's friendly advice for Jews

Jimmy Carter is as crazy as Dean and as hateful as Hamas. Carter is saying that Jews should, in effect, hate the Christians who support them and Israel. From JTA:Former President Carter reportedly said Jews should not align themselves with Zionist Ch...

May 8, 2007

Mickey Mouse, jihadi warrior?

Hamas has now enlisted Mickey Mouse in the War on Terror - as an advocate of Terror against America and Israel, attacking Pres. Bush, Sec. of State Rice and Prime Minister Olmert in a children's television program.  They have rena...

April 26, 2007

Now Hillary's a hawk? (updated)

Speaking in front of a Jewish group, Hillary is now threatening Iran, according to the Jerusalem Post:Democratic presidential candidate and New York Senator Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that it might be necessary for America to confront Iran militari...

April 14, 2007

Above the Law (II)

The Governor of New Jersey exempting himself from seat belt laws recalls the in many ways similar situation after the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. It was found that the co-owned NY State and New Jersey government agency, the Po...

March 26, 2007

Evan Sayet's "How Liberals think" MP3 file

Evan Sayet's speech (video here) on how liberals think, is wonderful. But not AT readers have DSL or cable connections. Or they may have an older computer and/or dial up service. Why exclude telling them how to hear (only) Mr. Sayet's words...

March 15, 2007

Al Gore: enviro-shill

This small item  appeared yesterday in the Glasgow Herald. It talks of Al Gore urging pension fund managers - in the country where he has a green investment fund - to invest in more green energy companies. He urges that pension fund manager...

March 9, 2007

US Constitution survives another end run

The end run attempt around the Constitution has fallen down - for now. From the Rocky Mountain News:The State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee voted 10-1 to kill Senate Bill 46. It would have put Colorado in an interstate agreement to elect t...

March 5, 2007

Fluorescent lights: inauthentic, or a way to save the planet?

What is a good anti-global warming crusader to do? Laurie David's stopglobalwarming.com website tells us that one way we can "take action" is to:Use Compact Flourescent BulbsReplace 3 frequently used light bulbs with compact fluorescent bul...

March 4, 2007

Eco-Nazis trivialize the Holocaust

First came Ellen Goodman's offensive column, in which she likened global warming "deniers" to Holocaust deniers. Recent commentary  about Al Gore and his energy usage has brought me into contact with his claim in Earth in the Balance, ...

March 1, 2007

Al Gore's legacy of hypocrisy

You've seen the stories in the US and Great Britain, about Al Gore's large energy usage at what can only be called his estate. As if that weren't bad enough, Gore used to collect royalties from a zinc mine on his property, one cited for polluting. Th...

February 8, 2007

Hillary vs. CalPERS & the World

Last week Hillary said she should "take" all of Exxon-Mobil's profits and put it in a special alternative energy fund. Now if this were to happen, many union pension plans would be harmed. Heck, they would be raped. CalPERS lists ...

February 5, 2007

Mayor Newsom's popularity in SF

Tucked away in a Matier and Ross article in the San Francisco Chronicle about how the Oakland A's new stadium in Freemont would be subject to high tides and "global warming" problems, is a recent poll on Mayor Gavin Newsom. The article...

January 30, 2007

Bono's pretend invasion of Venezuela

In a Bloomberg News Service article on Bono which ran in yesterday's New York Post, aside from a rehash of Bono's moving his business to the Netherlands for tax purposes, an interesting tidbit emerged: 'What's more, Bono's foray into private equ...

January 30, 2007

In ill wind

Subsidies and guarantees are among the favorite tools of governments seeking to manipulate the private sector and untrusting of the market. So what would happen if the US had a European style alternative wind energy project, complete with government ...

January 29, 2007

The media and war

After reading J.R. Dunn's article, "The Media Have Changed War," a legal proposal has come to mind. Since what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, I propose a McCain-Feingold law for military operations. No news about troop move...

January 21, 2007

Nanny State Nevada

The Las Vegas Review-Journal has an article about the statewide anti-smoking law that just went into effect. It forces restaurants, convenience stores and taverns that serve food to ban smoking, limiting lighting up to bars, strip clubs and...

January 13, 2007

Democrats and disdain

The defendant is a snobChorus: And a great snob, too.   - Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by JuryFirst it was John Kerry calling American troops child killers and rapists, as in the days of "Jenjis Khan." Then there was his wife Tere...

January 7, 2007

Who was that unmasked man?

Liberal thought unmasked was expressed at New York's Public Radio station affiliate. The New York Post reports  The criticism that took the cake came from the usually reasonable Brian Lehrer at WNYC, who posed this question to his listeners...

December 27, 2006

Democrats ready to cash in on green biz

Robert Novak reports that the Democrats (and bill co-author John McCain) in Congress are ready to push through Kyoto-like clean air penalty legislation, despite the objections of Detroit Congressman John Dingell who will become the chair of the ...

December 19, 2006

Political Correctness flips its lid

Newsday, a Long Island news daily, informs us that a Commack, L.I., school bus driver named Kenneth Mott, who has a white beard and bears more than a passing resemblance to St. Nicholas was ordered to remove his Santa Claus hat. It seem that:...

December 18, 2006

Subsidizing Sharia

Money is fungible: if you give someone money for a certain purpose, it frees up money to be spent elsewhere. So the following story from UPI is not exactly a shock. Nevertheless, it is worth pondering.Tsunami aid sent to an Indonesian province has fr...

December 15, 2006

Liberals' sudden new respect for a Christian holiday

Recently US agents raided Swift meat packing plants in many states to round up illegal aliens. The liberal press was outraged that this was done on a major Mexican religious holiday/festival, the Virgin of Guadeloupe Day, celebrated December 12....

December 6, 2006

When does the Abraham Linker brigade leave for Darfur?

The left's desire to say and do something about Darfur has been manifested on the streets of New York, with ads in my local subway station (and presumably others), as well as one Upper West Side of Manhattan house of worship placing a sign ...

November 28, 2006

Business secrecy and the war on terror

As if to put an exclamation point on Mac Johnson's AT article  "Killing the GOP Brand," comes this article "Nation of Flimflam: These are Boom Times for Offshore Corporate Shells," by Chris Byron in the New York Post. Busines...