If a violent street gang was stopping traffic, threatening women, yelling racist and anti-gay taunts at strangers, and destroying property on a daily basis, one would expect that law enforcement would move quickly to stop the flagrant thuggery. However, if
Baltimore Ravens starting center Matt Birk has retired leaving a gaping hole in the middle of their offensive line. Birk, who exits the league with 112 consecutive starts, was a six-time Pro-Bowler and one of the league’s best interior lineman
Last year, a Princeton professor took to the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal to mock House Speaker John Boehner for daring to use the phrase “job-killing government spending.” The thesis of this editorial was that government spending might
Well, I guess if you can redefine the definition of marriage, you can also redefine the definition of “objective newspaper.” This hilariously obtuse piece of reasoning comes from the Washington Post’s soon-to-be “inefficiencied” ombudsman, Patrick Pexton, and a Post reporter,
Union members in Chicago are now intent on carrying guns aboard their buses if members of the civilian public are allowed to do so. And naturally, they want more taxpayer money for their trouble. The NRA has insisted on concealed-carry
On Thursday, No Labels co-leader Jon Huntsman urged Republicans to lead the fight to legalize gay marriage in states that do not recognize it. Writing in The American Conservative, the former Ambassador to China for President Barack Obama, Utah governor,
Last month Goodyear announced it would close a manufacturing plant in Amiens, France after five years spent haggling with a “communist-backed” union. French Minister of Industrial Renewal Arnaud Montebourg then sent a letter to Titan industries encouraging the company to consider
Niall Ferguson subtitles his most recent book The Great Degeneration, “How Institutions Decay and Economies Die.” It is a short treatise on the way in which well-intentioned political leaders can cause the failure of that which they have been charged with
In the previous installments, we asked, “Is America Ready for a New Third Party?” and then took a look at the history of third parties in the US. As we saw, third parties emerge when the existing two parties are not addressing
Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), who is widely expected to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, may have just harmed his chances by signifying his support for the policies of ultra-liberal New York governor – and possible 2016 Democratic
The Dark Knight Rises did more than bring Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy to a rousing finish. It highlighted the folly of Occupy Wall Street shenanigans and the power of for-profit enterprise. That combination may have hurt the movie’s Oscar chances,
President Obama wants to expand the union base in America. In the SOTU he outlined an expanded Pre-K program. He sends his kids to private school – along with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Let’s focus on the right argument. If
President Obama surprised political observers with a strong push to increase the minimum wage in his State of the Union address last week. Obama called on Congress to increase the federal minimum wage to $9/hour by 2015, from its current
And this puts the President in a tight spot, because he has other powerful allies who are strongly in favor of the pipeline. Byron York of The Washington Examiner explains: A brief moment on Wednesday showed why President Obama can’t
Insurance chain State Farm is reportedly buying up substantial workspace in Texas, which may signal a coming exodus from the company’s home state of Illinois. State Farm is keeping the move quiet so as not to alarm employees. But the
(AP) Illinois Senate votes to legalize gay marriageBy SARA BURNETTAssociated PressSPRINGFIELD, Ill.The push to allow same-sex marriages in Illinois got its biggest victory to date Thursday with a historic Valentine’s Day vote in the state Senate, and supporters expressed confidence
President Obama’s State of the Union speech was yet another opportunity to demand a new laundry list of big government programs and massive spending, but MSNBC’s Chris Matthews seemed to have some trouble seeing anything “liberal” in it. As he
(AP) Postmaster: Please let us stop Saturday mailBy PAULINE JELINEKAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe head of the U.S. Postal Services pleaded with Congress Wednesday not to thwart his plan to cut Saturday mail as a way to save money, but postal workers unions
By JAMEY KEATENAssociated PressPARISFrance’s lower house of parliament approved a sweeping bill on Tuesday to legalize gay marriage and allow same-sex couples to adopt children, handing a major legislative victory to President Francois Hollande’s Socialists on a divisive social issue.
I bet you voted for Obama, didn’t you? I bet when he said the Cambridge Police Department acted stupidly, you cheered. I bet when Eric Holder dropped the charges on the Black Panthers, you laughed all the way to your imaginary
According to the White House Office of Management and Budget, President Obama will push for a 1% salary increase for all federal employees in his 2014 budget proposal. This announcement comes on the heals of continuing bad economic news in
Many Libertarians and Tea Party conservatives would be happy at the thought of high school students reading something like Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged as a requirement for their English classes. However, even the most modest fan of Rand’s Objectivist ideology
President Obama is considering naming Ernest J. Moniz as the next Secretary of Energy in apparent recognition that oil and gas development is the best potential revenue source available for the Administration to avoid the type of austerity spending cuts
Illinois has the worst debt rating in the US thanks to out-of-control union pensions and health care costs. And yet, police unions in Chicago are asking for consecutive 6 percent annual raises plus a cost of living adjustment: Union president
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is boasting that the negotiations he is conducting with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce regarding immigration reform are “going well.” The AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which both represent labor, are trying to
On Wednesday, a coalition of groups representing student athletes urged each state to adopt a “Secondary School Student Athletes’ Bill of Rights” and presented the document with the proposed rules to lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The Youth Sports Safety Alliance, which
Michelle Rhee, former DC Schools Chancellor, has published her first book, Radical: Fighting to Put Students First, that chronicles her evolution as one of the nation’s preeminent education reformers. In 2007, she was appointed to the newly created position of Chancellor
Kansas is the latest state to seek to curb union power; on Wednesday, a preliminary vote in the Kansas legislature approved the Paycheck Protection Act aimed at eliminating automatic dues collection for unions. The measure was passed on Thursday by
Nancy Pelosi once said of the Affordable Care Act, “we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it.” Nearly three years later it has finally dawned on some unions that the changes they publicly
In honor of National School Choice Week, we should recognize the Governors who are putting Education and Children ABOVE the Unions. — Alabama Gov. Robert J Bentley — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell — New
Remember back in 2011 when there were people literally begging Chris Christie to run for President on an almost daily basis? All of that heat evaporated over the last two months, starting with Christie’s praise of Barack Obama after hurricane
It’s good to be king–or at least the man who has to deny being one. In an interview with the leading Hispanic network Univision, President Barack Obama stated, “I think it’s important to remind everybody that, what I’ve said previously,
The heartbreaking gun violence the media chooses to ignore because there would be no political upside in reporting it, continues unabated in Obama’s Chicago — a city run only by Democrats and unions, and with some of the toughest gun
Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director John Morton. “Last year, I joined with my colleagues at a press conference with the top representatives of the nation’s rank-and-file immigration law
Mere hours after Breitbart News published an excerpt from an interview with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in which he speculated that President Barack Obama would “prefer a different kind of constitution,” one with a Bill of Rights based on the South
Border security is the only basis for Republican unity. Republicans are divided on all other particulars–path to citizenship, guest worker program, deportation, anchor babies, etc. As I’ve argued before, Republican strategy in the House should be to say “no” on
Despite the Obama administration’s best attempts to prop up failing private sector unions, the percentage of workers who now hold union membership plummeted from 11.8 percent in 2011 to 11.3 percent in 2012, reflecting the fact that unionization is obsolete
NATIONAL MALL, Washington DC–Crowds shuffled in throughout Monday morning and took their places around the National Mall for Barack Obama’s second inauguration as president of the United States. Color-coded tickets separated those who paid to be here from those who
Group of “teachers, parents, substitute teachers, after school instructors, youth workers and community activists” have formed an organization, Classroom Struggle, in Oakland to promote their anticapitalist agenda. It’s another example of the long term danger of the Occupy Wall Street,
The 2012 elections have forced conservatives into the role of a loyal opposition, at least in terms of national policy. With control of just the House, there is little opportunity for conservatives to do more than block the enactment of
