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• Castro Regime Opens Nightclub in Washington D.C. Mon Aug 22
  Humberto Fontova
  Castro’s embassy (euphemized as “Interest Section”) in Washington D.C. will soon open an in-house “invitation-only” nightclub named “Hemingway’s Bar.” The news comes courtesy of The Atlantic Magazine—the same Atlantic that a year ago smugly predicted Communism’s immediate end in Cuba. ... more
• Email, Hate Mail and Comments from Readers Sun Aug 21
  John Ransom
  Boy the old liberals seem to have become awfully quiet recently. I guess that happens when your president’s approval rating dips to 35 percent in Pennsylvania. Maybe people still rely on coal in Pittsburgh. ... more
• Obama Hits Economy with Heavy Club (Again) Sun Aug 21
  Jeff Carter
  Instead of trying to use the government as a heavy club, why not use jujitsu and allow inertia to transform us economically? Obama has wielded the heavy club since taking control and has nothing to show for it. We are worse off. ... more
• America's Full of Energy Sun Aug 21
  Mark Baisley
  Perhaps the most attractive feature of migrating our automobiles to compressed natural gas would be transferring the investment of capital and jobs into the American economy, finally breaking our foreign oil dependence. ... more
• Not Saying Recession Doesn't Make it So Sun Aug 21
  Bill Tatro
  To quote the infamous Howard Beale of Network fame “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.” Do the media, politicians, market analysts, and the general public always have to drink the Kool-Aid? ... more
• Courts come through with back-to-back-to-back Home Runs Sun Aug 21
  Bob Beauprez
  The various courts and activist judges across America certainly give us plenty to fret about, but in just the last few weeks three separate federal courts rendered decisions to give conservatives plenty to cheer about and give the Obama Administration and the "progressive" left a bad case of heart burn. ... more
• Obama Saddled with the FDR Fallacy Sun Aug 21
  Mike Shedlock
  It was war that started the recovery, not the policies of Roosevelt. That statement may sound contrary to Austrian economics but it's not. ... more
• Kudlow Exclusive: Interview with Obama Econ Czar Austan Goolsbee Sun Aug 21
  Larry Kudlow
  Departing Council of Economic Advisers chairman Austan Goolsbee defends Obamanomics. I push back. But he's for pro-growth tax reform. I'm for it. So where's the President? ... more
• FDR's New Deal, Obama's New New Deal and High Unemployment Thu Aug 18
  Jim Powell
  President Obama’s New New Deal of massive government intervention was inspired by FDR’s New Deal, and both have been plagued by chronic high unemployment. ... more
• Ominous Parallels Wed Aug 17
  Walter E. Williams
  People are beginning to compare Barack Obama's administration to the failed administration of Jimmy Carter, but a better comparison is to the Roosevelt administration of the 1930s and '40s. ... more
• The Authoritarian Temptation Wed Aug 17
  Tony Blankley
  In the weeks during and since the debt-ceiling debate, the media, pushed by the Democratic Party, has peddled the propaganda that our government is broken -- because the Republicans in the House of Representatives negotiated a better deal than the liberals wanted. ... more
• Obama Is Out of Options Wed Aug 3
  Jonah Goldberg
  After Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency changed. As he put it in 1943, "Dr. New Deal" had to be replaced by "Dr. Win the War." ... more
• Why Palin Gets More Hostile (And Admiring) Coverage Than She Deserves Wed Jul 13
  Michael Medved
  Sarah Palin doesn’t deserve the ridicule she receives from the mainstream media, nor does she merit the adulation she inspires from her legions of fans. The over-reaction on each side feeds the super-heated response on the other. ... more
• Trial opens in battle over gold coins from FDR Administration Thu Jul 7
  Reuters News
• The Golden Days Are Over Wed Jul 6
  Mike Shedlock
  Before any project can be economically viable, labor costs must be addressed, and that is exactly why we need to scrap Davis-Bacon and all prevailing wage laws. We also need to eliminate collective bargaining of public unions, preferably getting rid of public unions in entirety. ... more
• Obama's Audacity of Hype Tue Jun 21
  Ken Blackwell
  Take this line, Shovel-Ready. It became the signature phrase of none other than Barack Obama himself as he rushed through a jumbo $787 billion stimulus package in the opening days of his administration. Why must we bypass the normal, drawn-out process of committee hearings, markups, amendments, debates, and extended votes? ... more
• Obama: Hope, Change, and the Occasional Sex Dream Wed Jun 8
  Ann Coulter
  The mob attributes of liberals we will review this week are a crowd's inability to perceive contradictions and its tendency to form an infatuation for an individual. ... more
• Bill Murray visits FDR's NY home for role in film Wed Jun 8
  AP News
• Bill Murray visits FDR's NY home for role in film Tue Jun 7
  AP News
• Game On! Wed May 11
  Rich Galen
  Newt Gingrich is scheduled to officially announce today that he is a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination. ... more
• Free Speech and Burning Korans Wed Apr 13
  Jonah Goldberg
  "Since American liberals don't have the guts to say it, allow me: The Rev. Terry Jones hasn't done anything wrong. Nothing." So writes my friend and conservative radio host Michael Graham in the Boston Herald. And on this, I think Michael's nuts. ... more
• President's Call to Inaction To Be Withdrawn Wed Apr 13
  Tony Blankley
  he great American engine of democracy is beginning to build up a head of steam, and it remains the finest device created by man to organize collective human action. ... more
• View of U.S. Shapes Lib/Con Divide Tue Apr 5
  Michael Medved
  An indignant Democrat of my acquaintance accuses conservatives of hypocrisy when they criticize President Obama for acting with caution and restraint in response to crisis. He accurately points out that caution and restraint represent core conservative virtues, and that most leaders on the right ripped the president during his first two years for pushing too fast for transformational change. ... more
• What Happened to the American Declaration of War? Tue Mar 29
  George Friedman
  Some wars fought since World War II have had congressional approval, both in the sense that resolutions were passed and that Congress appropriated funds, but the Constitution is explicit in requiring a formal declaration. It does so for two reasons. ... more
• See a Picket Line? Thank a Teacher Tue Mar 15
  Mary Grabar
  Students have been primed to engage in such protest activities as those in Wisconsin on behalf of those who hand out their grades. ... more
• Vetting King's "Crimes" Fri Mar 11
  Diana West
  We don't know the impact of Rep. Peter King's hearings into Islamic "radicalization," but already we need a cheat sheet to debunk the disinformation and slander heaped upon Peter King. ... more

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