Economic Chaos Ahead for 02/08/2012

→ Walter E. Williams from Creators Syndicate | 8 Feb 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Let's think about the kind of mess that we're in. Federal 2010 Medicare and Medicaid expenditures totaled $800 billion. The projected annual growth of both programs is about 7 percent. Social Security expenditures are more than $700 billion a year. According to the 2009 Social Security and Medicare trustees reports, by 2030, 49 percent of federal revenues will go for Social Security and Medicar ...

Updated: Wed Feb 08, 2012

A Defining Moment for 02/07/2012

→ Thomas Sowell from Creators Syndicate | 7 Feb 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Governor Mitt Romney's statement about not worrying about the poor has been treated as a gaffe in much of the media, and those in the Republican establishment who have been rushing toward endorsing his coronation as the GOP's nominee for president — with 90 percent of the delegates still not yet chosen — have been trying to sweep his statement under the rug.

But Romney's stat ...

Updated: Tue Feb 07, 2012

Removing Planned Parenthood's Fig Leaf for 02/07/2012

→ Mona Charen from Creators Syndicate | 7 Feb 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Planned Parenthood would appear to have won this latest skirmish in the abortion wars. The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation having first decided to withdraw future grants to the world's largest abortion provider, quickly retreated under a barrage of accusations, complaints and threats.

No fewer than 26 Democratic senators signed a letter to Komen saying, in part that, "It wou ...

Updated: Tue Feb 07, 2012

Box-checking Obama in a Liberal Cocoon for 02/06/2012

→ Michael Barone from Creators Syndicate | 6 Feb 2012 | 1:00 am MST

It's unusual when a reporter sympathetic to a politician writes a story that makes his subject look bad. But Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker has now done this twice.

The first time was in an article last April on Obama's foreign policy in which he quoted a "top aide" (National Security Adviser Tom Donilon? It sounds like him) saying that the president was "leading from behind ...

Updated: Mon Feb 06, 2012

Prosperity grows under Republicans

→ post-gazette.com - Jack Kelly | 4 Feb 2012 | 10:00 pm MST

Drop the Middle Class Talk for 02/03/2012

→ Mona Charen from Creators Syndicate | 3 Feb 2012 | 1:00 am MST

In 1992, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton built his campaign for the White House on doing more for the "forgotten middle class." Calling it the "new covenant" (Democrats since Roosevelt have tried to work the words "new" or "deal" into their campaign slogans), Clinton promised to focus on the people he called "the backbone of the country, the ones who do t ...

Updated: Fri Feb 03, 2012

Blacklist for 02/03/2012

→ Oliver North from Creators Syndicate | 3 Feb 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Co-written by Tom Kilgannon

blacklist (n.): a list of persons who are disapproved of or are to be punished or boycotted.

The definition above, from an old Webster's dictionary, was common parlance in the late 1940s and early 1950s as the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee investigated subversive activity, Soviet espionage and pro-communist propaganda. The committee uneart ...

Updated: Fri Feb 03, 2012

Obama Courts the Glitz Elite for 02/03/2012

→ L. Brent Bozell from Creators Syndicate | 3 Feb 2012 | 1:00 am MST

While Democrats mock Mitt Romney for his alleged lack of interest in the "very poor" and focus their political pitch on income inequality, one can't help noticing the Obamas running around to $35,000-a-head fundraisers with the very rich and very famous in New York City and Hollywood.

Michelle Obama kicked off February with an exclusive fundraiser in Beverly Hills at the home o ...

Updated: Fri Feb 03, 2012

Jim Moran, Racist Pig for 02/03/2012

→ Michelle Malkin from Creators Syndicate | 3 Feb 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Congressman Jim Moran is an old white Democrat from Virginia who thinks he can judge whether we minority conservatives are acting sufficiently non-white enough. Moran's an inveterate bully, a brawler, a crook and a bigot. And not one of his civility-preaching liberal colleagues has the courage to call him out.

Responding on cable news to GOP Rep. Allen West's blunt criticisms of Presiden ...

Updated: Fri Feb 03, 2012

After Big Win, Romney Faces Tough Opponents in a Long War for 02/02/2012

→ Michael Barone from Creators Syndicate | 2 Feb 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Mitt Romney's impressive victory Tuesday makes it very likely that we will look back on the Florida primary as the contest that determined the 2012 Republican nomination.

To be sure, the campaign fight will go on, and Romney is by no means assured of a sweep of the relatively few February contests.

Newt Gingrich has vowed to run all the way to the convention, whatever the odds. He ...

Updated: Thu Feb 02, 2012

Democrats Love Taxes -- They Just Don't Want to Pay Them for 02/02/2012

→ Larry Elder from Creators Syndicate | 2 Feb 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Forgive Republican candidate Mitt Romney for his alleged failure to adequately explain why he paid "only" 14 percent of his income in taxes.

The honest answer — "Well, because my accountants couldn't figure out how to get them any lower" — does not work in this or very many other election years. Romney seemed flat-footed because, like most business people, ...

Updated: Thu Feb 02, 2012

Jan Brewer Vs. Shoe-Tossing Journalist for 02/01/2012

→ L. Brent Bozell from Creators Syndicate | 1 Feb 2012 | 1:00 am MST

The photograph of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer pointing a finger at President Obama on the tarmac at the Phoenix airport brought out the worst in amateur psychoanalysis from our media elite. No one had an audiotape or videotape of what was said but just the finger-pointing image somehow was definitive evidence of profound disrespect.

These same journalists were not only unfazed but also actu ...

Updated: Wed Feb 01, 2012

China's Sudan Dilemmas for 02/01/2012

→ Austin Bay from Creators Syndicate | 1 Feb 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Sudan and South Sudan's slow yet deadly war of blood for oil reserves has ensnared Africa's slyest empire builder: Communist China.

The two Sudans' complex background helps illustrate China's emerging diplomatic quandaries in resource-rich but politically fractured sub-Saharan Africa. In July 2011, South Sudan separated from Sudan. Independence, the result of a legitimate southern plebis ...

Updated: Wed Feb 01, 2012

Policing the World for 02/01/2012

→ John Stossel from Creators Syndicate | 1 Feb 2012 | 1:00 am MST

With an election approaching and at least some Americans upset about irresponsible spending, the president has finally expressed a political interest in cutting something. He says the Pentagon will spend "only" $525 billion next year. That's slightly less than the current $531 billion.

A cut is good, but this will barely dent the deficit. We could save much more if America assu ...

Updated: Wed Feb 01, 2012

Obama's Racial Politics for 02/01/2012

→ Walter E. Williams from Creators Syndicate | 1 Feb 2012 | 1:00 am MST

There's been a heap of criticism placed upon President Barack Obama's domestic policies that have promoted government intrusion and prolonged our fiscal crisis and his foreign policies that have emboldened our enemies. Any criticism of Obama pales in comparison with what might be said about the American people who voted him in to the nation's highest office.

Obama's presidency represents ...

Updated: Wed Feb 01, 2012

First, They Came for the Catholics for 02/01/2012

→ Michelle Malkin from Creators Syndicate | 1 Feb 2012 | 1:00 am MST

President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?

This weekend, Catholic bishops informed parishioners of the recent White House edict forcing religious hospitals, scho ...

Updated: Wed Feb 01, 2012

Social Pressure to Marry Is Dead for 01/31/2012

→ Mona Charen from Creators Syndicate | 31 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

The advice columns of newspapers are good windows into the conscience of a culture. There you will find a field guide to what is considered socially acceptable and unacceptable. One of the advice columnists for the Washington Post, Carolyn Hax, is consistently sensible and solid in her suggestions. Straightening out busybodies, drug abusers, interfering in-laws and ungrateful children with equa ...

Updated: Tue Jan 31, 2012

Getting Nowhere, Very Fast for 01/31/2012

→ Thomas Sowell from Creators Syndicate | 31 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

California has a huge state debt and Washington has a huge national debt. But that does not discourage either Governor Jerry Brown or President Barack Obama from wanting to launch a very costly high-speed rail system.

Most of us might be a little skittish about spending money if we were teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. But the beauty of politics is that it is all other people's mone ...

Updated: Tue Jan 31, 2012

The Florida Smear Campaign for 01/30/2012

→ Thomas Sowell from Creators Syndicate | 30 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

The Republican establishment is pulling out all the stops to try to keep Newt Gingrich from becoming the party's nominee for President of the United States — and some are not letting the facts get in their way.

Among the claims going out through the mass media in Florida, on the eve of that state's primary election, is that Newt Gingrich "resigned in disgrace" as Speaker ...

Updated: Mon Jan 30, 2012

The 2012 Race Takes Shape for 01/30/2012

→ Michael Barone from Creators Syndicate | 30 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

We got mixed signals from a turbulent political week.

Barack Obama seems to be enjoying an uptick in polls — up toward, but not quite at, 50 percent approval. It's a reminder that he can expect to benefit from Americans' desire to think well of their presidents and from the reluctance of many voters to be seen as rejecting the first black president.

But his weakness was appa ...

Updated: Mon Jan 30, 2012

Romney's problem is Romney

→ post-gazette.com - Jack Kelly | 28 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pm MST

SOTU Surrender for 01/27/2012

→ Oliver North from Creators Syndicate | 27 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

WASHINGTON — It's an unwritten law of modern America that a political campaign speech should last no more than 30 minutes. The lecture candidate Barack Obama delivered on the evening of Jan. 24 in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol came in at just longer than one hour and six minutes. It was full of rhetoric we should expect to hear reiterated from now until Nov. 6. The president's sup ...

Updated: Fri Jan 27, 2012

Romney Should be Proud for 01/27/2012

→ Mona Charen from Creators Syndicate | 27 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

It's as predictable as vultures at a carcass. When a wealthy Republican is running for office, the press will make his wealth a handicap. Recall that when George H. W. Bush was running in 1988, he was derided as a "preppy." George W. Bush was the undeserving scion of the ruling class. We were told never mind that he had succeeded in business on his own. Though John McCain had been a f ...

Updated: Fri Jan 27, 2012

Mr. and Mrs. Cranky Pants for 01/27/2012

→ Michelle Malkin from Creators Syndicate | 27 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

So, it turns out that the cool cat billed as "No Drama Obama" by his sycophants is actually quite the drama queen. While the White House publicly pretends to ignore conservative detractors of his administration, Chief Touchy-Touchy seems to be personally consumed by our critiques. Yes, mine included.

On Wednesday, the president had himself a mini-"Toddlers and Tiaras" ...

Updated: Fri Jan 27, 2012

The Double Standard on ‘Hoes' for 01/27/2012

→ L. Brent Bozell from Creators Syndicate | 27 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Remember when Don Imus saw his cushy CBS Radio and MSNBC career go up in smoke in 2007 when he tried very early one morning to make one of his fake misanthropic jokes about the Rutgers women's basketball team being "nappy-headed hoes"? Black activists demanded his firing. Advertisers fled. The corporate suits, appalled and fearful of the terrible publicity, canned him.

But if ...

Updated: Fri Jan 27, 2012

Newt Declares War on Media for 01/26/2012

→ Larry Elder from Creators Syndicate | 26 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

The Republican re-embrace of former Speaker Newt Gingrich says a lot about whom he sees as his opponent — and it isn't just President Barack Obama. It's the media.

If not for major media's embrace, Obama would still be sitting in the Senate, perhaps mulling another run for the presidency. A UCLA economist-political scientist recently tried to measure how the liberal media bias infl ...

Updated: Thu Jan 26, 2012

Unlike Obama, GOP Candidates Talk Seriously About Governing for 01/26/2012

→ Michael Barone from Creators Syndicate | 26 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

You know politicians are serious when they move from campaigning to governing. Something like that may be happening on the Republican campaign trail — but, unfortunately, not at the Obama White House.

Campaigning clearly carried the day for Newt Gingrich in South Carolina, where he beat Mitt Romney by a 40 percent to 28 percent margin. It's generally agreed that Gingrich clinched t ...

Updated: Thu Jan 26, 2012

GOP Race for Presidential Nomination May Be Decided in Jacksonville for 01/26/2012

→ Matt Towery from Creators Syndicate | 26 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Never before have debates in the primary/caucus season ever meant so much to the final outcome of the vote than this year. It seems that the public is infatuated with these endless verbal battles. And each contest seems to result in some degree of a shift in public opinion.

The newsiest polls generally suggest that the race between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich in Florida is a very tight ...

Updated: Thu Jan 26, 2012

Bush Derangement Syndrome a Problem for Obama? for 01/25/2012

→ Austin Bay from Creators Syndicate | 25 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Should war with Iran erupt, you can bet the 2012 election that the Obama administration hopes the national press will conveniently forget Ambassador Ryan Crocker's September 2007 reply to Rep. Tom Lantos' belittling question regarding U.S.-Iranian diplomacy. The American people shouldn't.

Recall the memorable scene. Leading left-wing elites (e.g., Harry Reid) had declared the Iraq war lo ...

Updated: Wed Jan 25, 2012

Obama's Green Robber Barons for 01/25/2012

→ Michelle Malkin from Creators Syndicate | 25 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Had enough of fat cat Barack Obama, his jet-setting wife and his multi-millionaire Chicago consigliere/real-estate mogul Valerie Jarrett attacking the "rich"? Well, brace yourselves. You'll be hearing much more from the White House about the "wealthy few" who aren't paying their "fair share" as Obama's re-election campaign doubles down on class-war demagoguery.

Is Anybody Serious? for 01/25/2012

→ Thomas Sowell from Creators Syndicate | 25 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

The Republican candidates' circular firing squad now seems to be using machine guns. Whoever the eventual "last man standing" turns out to be, he may not be standing very tall or very steadily on his feet — and he may be a pushover for Barack Obama in the general election, thanks to fellow Republicans.

Whether you are a Democrat, a Republican or an independent, this is a ...

Updated: Wed Jan 25, 2012

Schools of Education for 01/25/2012

→ Walter E. Williams from Creators Syndicate | 25 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Larry Sand's article "No Wonder Johnny (Still) Can't Read" — written for The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, based in Raleigh, N.C. — blames schools of education for the decline in America's education. Education professors drum into students that they should not "drill and kill" or be the "sage on the stage" but instead be the &quo ...

Updated: Wed Jan 25, 2012

The Real State of the Union for 01/25/2012

→ John Stossel from Creators Syndicate | 25 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Has Barack Obama learned nothing in three years? During his State of the Union address, he promised "a blueprint for an economy." But economies are crushed by blueprints. An economy is really nothing more than people participating in an unfathomably complex spontaneous network of exchanges aimed at improving their material circumstances. It can't even be diagrammed, much less planned. ...

Updated: Wed Jan 25, 2012

Obama vs. Catholics for 01/25/2012

→ L. Brent Bozell from Creators Syndicate | 25 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

The Brian Williams MSNBC debate in Florida was not only dreadfully boring — I never thought I could ever long for commercials — it was pathetic. Freed of the fear of triggering an avalanche of applause against loaded questions, Williams and his co-moderators couldn't bring themselves to utter one single question asking the Republican candidates to respond to Obama's mistakes. For al ...

Updated: Wed Jan 25, 2012

Just Attack the Media and We're At Your Feet for 01/24/2012

→ Mona Charen from Creators Syndicate | 24 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

So the message South Carolina voters sent was — "Anything goes so long as you attack the media."

Whatever you think about Mitt Romney's shortcomings as a candidate — and I agree with Mark Steyn, who said of his stump speech, "The finely calibrated inoffensiveness is kind of offensive" — embracing Gingrich is like bashing yourself in the face to relie ...

Updated: Tue Jan 24, 2012

A Brass Age? for 01/24/2012

→ Thomas Sowell from Creators Syndicate | 24 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

This may be the golden age of presumptuous ignorance. The most recent demonstrations of that are the Occupy Wall Street mobs. It is doubtful how many of these semi-literate sloganizers could tell the difference between a stock and a bond.

Yet there they are, mouthing off about Wall Street on television, cheered on by politicians and the media. If this is not a golden age of presumptuous ...

Updated: Tue Jan 24, 2012

A Few Words in Defense of Negative Campaigning for 01/23/2012

→ Michael Barone from Creators Syndicate | 23 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Those who take a certain pleasure in denouncing the evils negative political advertising should have spent the last week in South Carolina. They could have plunked down in front of TV sets, especially during morning, early evening and late evening news programs, and by adroit use of the remote control seen one negative spot after another.

They could have watched again and again the Ron P ...

Updated: Mon Jan 23, 2012

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is not to be trusted

→ post-gazette.com - Jack Kelly | 21 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pm MST

Red Lines for 01/20/2012

→ Oliver North from Creators Syndicate | 20 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

WASHINGTON — On Dec. 31, just hours before a New Year's Eve celebration, President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. Section 1245 of the law contains language providing authority to impose economic sanctions on Iran in order to deter the ayatollahs from acquiring nuclear weapons. White House efforts to have the sanctions provision stripped fr ...

Updated: Fri Jan 20, 2012

Colbert's Egotism Isn't Fake for 01/20/2012

→ L. Brent Bozell from Creators Syndicate | 20 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Late-night comedians historically have relished the opportunity to poke fun at politicians. Sometimes they savage them. In the Obama era, they haven't been so enthusiastic about any of it. A recent study of political jokes on three late-night shows (Letterman, Leno and Jimmy Fallon) by the Center for Media and Public Affairs found that Barack Obama's joke count is "substantially lower than ...

Updated: Fri Jan 20, 2012

The Land of Obama Make-Believe for 01/20/2012

→ Michelle Malkin from Creators Syndicate | 20 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Where did President Obama go after killing off thousands of Keystone XL pipeline construction and manufacturing jobs? Why, Disney World, of course. Sabotaging work is hard work for Goofy and his pals.

And where'd he head after that? Why, up to Manhattan for more high-priced campaign fundraisers charging up to $38,500 per partier. The business of wining and dining politically conn ...

Updated: Fri Jan 20, 2012

On Gay Marriage, Media Gives Obama a Pass for 01/19/2012

→ Larry Elder from Creators Syndicate | 19 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Why does President Barack Obama enjoy a no-fly zone on gay marriage?

The Republican presidential contenders, with the exception of libertarian Ron Paul, have never supported gay marriage. Barack Obama, on the other hand, in a span of 16 years, has gone from supporting it, to "undecided," to opposition, to a position that he currently describes as "evolving."

Ob ...

Updated: Thu Jan 19, 2012

Regardless of Who Becomes GOP Nominee, Party and Candidates are Failing the Faithful for 01/19/2012

→ Matt Towery from Creators Syndicate | 19 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

After years as an officeholder, strategist, pollster, you name it, I have truly come to despise politicians. This year's GOP nomination process has sealed the deal.

Is there an honest broker among the bunch? I mean, really, we have heard the bull from the Obama administration, telling us that the economy is coming up roses. We hear that from some media, as well. My only answer for them i ...

Updated: Thu Jan 19, 2012

Don't Trust Your Instincts for 01/18/2012

→ John Stossel from Creators Syndicate | 18 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Simple answers are so satisfying: Green jobs will fix the economy. Stimulus will create jobs. Charity helps people more than commerce. Everyone should vote.

Well, all those instinctive solutions are wrong. As Friedrich Hayek pointed out in "The Fatal Conceit," it's a problem that in our complex, extended economy, we rely on instincts developed during our ancestors' existence in ...

Updated: Wed Jan 18, 2012

Presidential Nonsense for 01/18/2012

→ Walter E. Williams from Creators Syndicate | 18 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Last week, President Barack Obama, at a Capital Hilton fundraising event, told the crowd, "We can't go back to this brand of you're-on-your-own economics." Throughout my professional career as an economist, I've never come across the theory of "you're-on-your-own economics." I'm guessing what the president means by — and finds offensive in — "you're-on-your- ...

Updated: Wed Jan 18, 2012

Nixon's 1972 Trip to China: China's First Modernization? for 01/18/2012

→ Austin Bay from Creators Syndicate | 18 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

February 2012 will mark the 40th anniversary of former President Richard Nixon's historic Cold War visit to China. Nixon's trip produced the Shanghai Communique, a diplomatic statement in which both the U.S. and a still very red Communist China agreed to establish a political relationship based on something more than ideological antagonism and frozen or unfinished wars (North Korea and Taiwan) ...

Updated: Wed Jan 18, 2012

A constitutional crisis looms as the president flouts the law

→ post-gazette.com - Jack Kelly | 14 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pm MST

Missing the Mark -- Again for 01/13/2012

→ Oliver North from Creators Syndicate | 13 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

WASHINGTON — Our so-called mainstream media have launched a new anti-military feeding frenzy. The furor is over a crude 39-second video showing four Marines apparently urinating on the bodies of three dead Taliban combatants. In hysteric rhetoric akin to "news reports" on the 2004 Abu Ghraib photos, hordes of print and broadcast "correspondents" rushed to describe the ...

Updated: Fri Jan 13, 2012

South Carolina Is Make or Break for GOP Contenders for 01/12/2012

→ Matt Towery from Creators Syndicate | 12 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Yes, Mitt Romney has a huge advantage in the race for the Republican nomination for president. Yes, Newt Gingrich and perhaps Rick Santorum made bad decisions by participating in the New Hampshire primary, given that Romney could outspend them in a state where most participants are hardly "conservative Republicans." But now every candidate must compete in a real, live "red" ...

Updated: Thu Jan 12, 2012

Univision Attempt to Blackmail Marco Rubio -- Hispanic Groups Yawn for 01/12/2012

→ Larry Elder from Creators Syndicate | 12 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Consider the following hypothetical.

Fox News, during the 2008 presidential campaign, learns about a long-ago arrest of a relative of Sen. Barack Obama. Fox calls Obama. It makes an offer Fox assumes he cannot refuse: "Agree to appear on the show of your anti-ObamaCare nemesis, Sean Hannity, or we run the story on your relative's arrest."

Obama refuses. Fox runs the stor ...

Updated: Thu Jan 12, 2012

Champions of Freedom for 01/11/2012

→ John Stossel from Creators Syndicate | 11 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

It's election season, and so once again people look for heroes. Is Ron Paul one? Maybe. He's fought a long, lonely battle to limit the power of government. As government grows, I yearn for champions of freedom who fight back. Rep. Paul has done that.

But it's a mistake to look for heroes in politics. It's too ugly a business. My heroes are people like Milton Friedman, F.A. Hayek and Ayn ...

Updated: Wed Jan 11, 2012

Defense Manifesto 2012: Obama Channels Rumsfeld for 01/11/2012

→ Austin Bay from Creators Syndicate | 11 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

President Barack Obama's new American defense strategy doesn't look so new. His election-slanted Defense Strategic Guidance manifesto sounds more than a bit like Donald Rumsfeld-era chatter circa summer 2001. Aircraft, ships, smart weapons and intelligence systems? Yea, verily. Ground troops? Not so much, because we're done with Clinton-era peacekeeping, we'll save money (soldiers are expensive ...

Updated: Wed Jan 11, 2012

In Greed I Trust for 01/11/2012

→ Walter E. Williams from Creators Syndicate | 11 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Last week's column started off asking: "What human motivation gets the most wonderful things done?" The answer is that human greed is what gets wonderful things done. I wasn't talking about fraud, theft, dishonesty, special privileges from government or other forms of despicable behavior. I was talking about people trying to get as much as they can for themselves.

Think about g ...

Updated: Wed Jan 11, 2012

Surrender in Afghanistan

→ post-gazette.com - Jack Kelly | 7 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pm MST

Strategic Capitulation for 01/06/2012

→ Oliver North from Creators Syndicate | 6 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military had better get ready to do a whole lot more with a whole lot less. That's the bottom line of the so-called "new strategic guidance" issued this week by President Barack Obama during a brief visit to the Pentagon. Flanked by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Obama proudly proclaimed to allies and adversari ...

Updated: Fri Jan 06, 2012

Strategy Will Decide Who Wins GOP Nomination for 01/05/2012

→ Matt Towery from Creators Syndicate | 5 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

It will become conventional wisdom over the next few weeks that the Republican Party and its candidates for the nomination have been damaged by the close and surprise finish in Iowa. They will suggest the field is weak and that the failure of a candidate to win a mandate in Iowa would suggest a weak nominee in November. That's nonsense and wishful thinking by some pundits and media.

More ...

Updated: Thu Jan 05, 2012

The Importance of Ron Paul for 01/05/2012

→ Larry Elder from Creators Syndicate | 5 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

If libertarian Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Paul, as expected, did well in Iowa. His strong third-place finish is substantially better than he did in 2008, and his national poll numbers are twice what they were back then. Paul's appeal is easy to understand. His antiwar message of limited government, low taxes and federalism have strong appe ...

Updated: Thu Jan 05, 2012

Ideas Have Sex, and We're Better for It for 01/04/2012

→ John Stossel from Creators Syndicate | 4 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

An idea walks into a bar. She meets another idea. They get together, and nine months later (or maybe it's nine minutes or seconds? It's not clear how it works with ideas), a new idea is born. A baby idea with the best traits of both parents.

When this happens a lot, everyone gets smarter and the world gets better.

Did you know that ideas have sex?

It's a weird concept, but ...

Updated: Wed Jan 04, 2012

Greek Tragedy: Political Effects of a Deep Global Depression for 01/04/2012

→ Austin Bay from Creators Syndicate | 4 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am MST

Colossal sovereign debts owed by member nations may yet shatter the eurozone. The political effects of a euro-breakup are uncertain, though Greece may be serving as an unfortunate indicator of what a small state can expect in terms of troubling future history if the world's fragile economic circumstances deteriorate.

Greece has witnessed a loss of faith in government and its leaders, lea ...

Updated: Wed Jan 04, 2012

Chaos in Iowa Plays Into Obama's Hands for 12/29/2011

→ Matt Towery from Creators Syndicate | 29 Dec 2011 | 1:00 am MST

I have been polling Iowa presidential caucuses for several cycles now. Our InsiderAdvantage final poll never has failed to show the actual winner of an Iowa presidential caucus. This includes John Kerry's upset win in 2004 and Barack Obama's win in 2008, as well as Mike Huckabee's victory. Now that I've officially jinxed our poll for this year, let's examine why these candidates are actually pl ...

Updated: Thu Dec 29, 2011