Big Labor's Legacy of Violence for 09/03/2010

→ Michelle Malkin from Creators Syndicate | 3 Sep 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

To mark Labor Day 2010, President Obama will join hands with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka in Milwaukee and pose as champions of the working class. Bad move. Trumka's organizing record is a shameful reminder of the union movement's violent and corrupt foundations.

The new Obama/AFL-CIO power alliance — underwritten with $40 million in hard-earned worker dues — is a midterm ...

Updated: Fri Sep 03, 2010

It's Beck's Rally, but Hannity's War for 09/02/2010

→ Matt Towery from Creators Syndicate | 2 Sep 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

Mainstream media were taken aback when television and radio talk show host Glenn Beck recently hosted a rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The throng of people assembled to celebrate and hear more about religious and civic values than about partisan politics.

Naturally, the likes of CBS News trotted out "experts" that declared the crowd to be about 80,000 people. T ...

Updated: Thu Sep 02, 2010

The Glenn Beck Rule: How to Out a Racist for 09/02/2010

→ Larry Elder from Creators Syndicate | 2 Sep 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

How does one discredit the massive back-to-the-values-that-made-this-country-great rally in Washington at the National Mall?

Easy. Call Glenn Beck, the leader and organizer of the rally, a "racist" — as does former Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean.

What makes Beck a racist? The question presupposes the need for a reason.

Ever heard of Journolist? App ...

Updated: Thu Sep 02, 2010

Down With Big Government, Big Business, Big Labor for 09/02/2010

→ Michael Barone from Creators Syndicate | 2 Sep 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

Some of the most important things in history are things that didn't happen — even though just about everyone thought they would.

Recent example: Scads of liberals gleefully predicted that the financial crisis and deep recession would destroy Americans' faith in markets and increase their confidence in big government. Many conservatives gloomily feared they were right.

Hasn ...

Updated: Thu Sep 02, 2010

Arizona vs. the U.N. Human Rights Police for 09/01/2010

→ Michelle Malkin from Creators Syndicate | 1 Sep 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

An indignant President Obama complained last week, "I can't spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead." Fine. How about plastering a copy of his presidential oath of office there instead? The kowtowing commander-in-chief is in dire need of a daily reminder that his job is to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" &m ...

Updated: Wed Sep 01, 2010

Brian Williams: from Musketeer to Mouseketeer for 09/01/2010

→ L. Brent Bozell from Creators Syndicate | 1 Sep 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

The fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina recalls a horror show on two levels. There's the actual disaster, which killed hundreds of people, and then there's the media smear job on the Bush administration and first responders. No one should forget pompous grandstanders like "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams signing off three months after the floods from the Lower Ninth Ward: & ...

Updated: Wed Sep 01, 2010

Sixty Years of War in Korea: "This Kind of War" for 09/01/2010

→ Austin Bay from Creators Syndicate | 1 Sep 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

North Korea's sneak attack at sea this past March, which sank the South Korean corvette Cheonan, provided a murderous reminder that the Korean War is not over.

This continuing tragedy serves as a lesson in the difficulty of change, the limits of hope and the necessity of vigilance.

June 25 marked the 60th anniversary of North Korea's premeditated attack on South Korea. The attac ...

Updated: Wed Sep 01, 2010

Good Intentions Gone Bad for 09/01/2010

→ John Stossel from Creators Syndicate | 1 Sep 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

You own a business, maybe a restaurant. You've got a lot to worry about. You have to make sure the food is safe and tastes good, that the place is clean and appealing, that workers are friendly and paid according to a hundred Labor Department and IRS rules.

On top of that, there are rules you might have no idea about. The bathroom sinks must be a specified height. So must the doorknobs ...

Updated: Wed Sep 01, 2010

Something for Nothing for 09/01/2010

→ Walter E. Williams from Creators Syndicate | 1 Sep 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

Perhaps the most difficult economic lesson is that we live in a world of scarcity and everything has a cost. Scarcity exists whenever human wants exceed the means to satisfy those wants. For example, Rolls-Royce produces less than 4,000 cars a year but it's a safe bet that more than 4,000 of the Earth's 6.5 billion people want a Rolls-Royce. That means Rolls-Royces are scarce. But it's not just ...

Updated: Wed Sep 01, 2010

The Passing of E-6 for 08/31/2010

→ Thomas Sowell from Creators Syndicate | 31 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

Most people have no idea what "E-6" is. To avid baseball fans, E-6 is the way to record an error by a shortstop on your scorecard. But there is another E-6, in photography. This E-6 is the developer in which color slides are processed.

Recently, I received an e-mail from Chromatics, a photo lab used by professional photographers in Nashville, that they will be discontinuing the ...

Updated: Tue Aug 31, 2010

Here's a Concept: Let's Not Talk About Race for 08/31/2010

→ Mona Charen from Creators Syndicate | 31 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

On a regular basis, we are enjoined, usually by a leading Democrat, to overcome our reticence — or, in Attorney General Eric Holder's formulation, "cowardice" — and engage in a hearty national conversation about race.

No, thanks. As anyone with eyes can see, we are far from avoiding the subject — in fact, it often seems that we are unable to talk about anythin ...

Updated: Tue Aug 31, 2010

The Mosque Controversy for 08/31/2010

→ Thomas Sowell from Creators Syndicate | 31 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

The proposed mosque near where the World Trade Center was attacked and destroyed, along with thousands of American lives, would be a 15-story middle finger to America.

It takes a high IQ to evade the obvious, so it is not surprising that the intelligentsia are out in force, decrying those who criticize this calculated insult.

What may surprise some people is that the American tax ...

Updated: Tue Aug 31, 2010

Encouraging Developments From the Edges of the Anglosphere for 08/30/2010

→ Michael Barone from Creators Syndicate | 30 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

In this tumultuous political year, the latest sharp surprises come from the far reaches of the Anglosphere — Alaska and Australia.

These were lands to which Capt. James Cook voyaged even as the seaboard Atlantic colonists were rebelling against king and Parliament in London. Cook's charts of the southern coast of Australia are still in use, and he sailed from there to Hawaii and th ...

Updated: Mon Aug 30, 2010

Don't just cut defense

→ post-gazette.com - Jack Kelly | 28 Aug 2010 | 10:00 pm MDT

See How Low We Must Go for 08/27/2010

→ L. Brent Bozell from Creators Syndicate | 27 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

The pop-music world is turning into a caricature of shamelessness, childish and even spoiled-brattiness. To get attention quickly, some pop stars will try absolutely anything. The soul singer Cee-Lo Green has a new album coming out. How's this for art: His first desperate single is titled "F—- You."

The shock value is already working. A video was posted Aug. 19, and withi ...

Updated: Fri Aug 27, 2010

Obama's Manichean World for 08/27/2010

→ Mona Charen from Creators Syndicate | 27 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

President Obama has a weakness for thinking in categories. For someone who provokes swoons among liberals for his great intellect, he has repeatedly evidenced an unsophisticated, one might even say simple-minded, view of the world: Workers good; bosses exploitative. Borrowers good; lenders bad. Patients good; insurance companies bad. Again and again, the president and his spokesmen have justifi ...

Updated: Fri Aug 27, 2010

Under Siege for 08/27/2010

→ Oliver North from Creators Syndicate | 27 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

TUCSON, Ariz. — "We're under siege," said rancher Ed Ashurst as he pointed to where he had tracked the killer of his friend and neighbor to the U.S.-Mexico border. "Five years ago, we didn't even bother to lock our doors. Now my wife and I carry firearms everywhere we go."

John Ladd is a fifth-generation cattle rancher in southern Cochise County, Ariz. The south ...

Updated: Fri Aug 27, 2010

Hurricane Katrina and the Race Card: Five Years Later for 08/27/2010

→ Michelle Malkin from Creators Syndicate | 27 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

This weekend, on the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, civil rights activists and hip-hop stars will hold what they call a "healing ceremony" to commemorate the disaster. President Obama will speak at a separate event in New Orleans on Sunday. But don't expect any of these reconciliation-seeking leaders to confront the indelible stain of racial demagoguery left by the left in Katr ...

Updated: Fri Aug 27, 2010

Redistricting Could Prolong the Democrats' Pain for 08/26/2010

→ Michael Barone from Creators Syndicate | 26 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

Every 10 years, it's time for reapportionment and redistricting. The framers of the Constitution created the first regularly scheduled national census and required, for the first time that I am aware, that representation in a legislature be apportioned according to population.

Reapportionment is automatic: A statutory formula takes the Census figures and apportions the 435 House distric ...

Updated: Thu Aug 26, 2010

"Moral Hazard" in Politics for 08/26/2010

→ Thomas Sowell from Creators Syndicate | 26 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

One of the things that makes it tough to figure out how much has to be charged for insurance is that people behave differently when they are insured from the way they behave when they are not insured.

In other words, if one person out of 10,000 has his car set on fire, and it costs an average of $10,000 to restore the car to its previous condition, then it might seem as if charging one ...

Updated: Thu Aug 26, 2010

What About the Stupid Lies Democrats Believe? for 08/26/2010

→ Larry Elder from Creators Syndicate | 26 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

Thirty-one percent of Republicans, according to the Pew Research Center, believe that President Barack Obama is a Muslim. And more Republicans, 74 percent, than Democrats, 39 percent, oppose the construction of a mosque near ground zero. Thus, goes the argument, opposition to the proposed mosque stems from similar "right-wing" ignorance and Islamophobia.

Why do so many people t ...

Updated: Thu Aug 26, 2010

Come November, Will There Be a Democratic Tree Left in the Forest? for 08/26/2010

→ Matt Towery from Creators Syndicate | 26 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

I was among the last pollsters and pundits to buy into the notion that 2010 could be a reprise of 1994, when Republicans abruptly took control of a U.S. House of Representatives that had seemed irreversibly controlled by the Democrats.

Now, I'm starting to see signs that even the U.S. Senate could go GOP this year. What has changed to suggest this?

First, take a look at the primar ...

Updated: Thu Aug 26, 2010

Where Are the New Jobs? for 08/25/2010

→ John Stossel from Creators Syndicate | 25 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

"Corporate profits are soaring. Companies are sitting on billions of dollars of cash. And still, they've yet to amp up hiring or make major investments."

So writes The Washington Post about the recession's stubborn refusal to go away. The statisticians at the National Bureau of Economic Research declared the Great Recession over — but tell that to people who can't find j ...

Updated: Wed Aug 25, 2010

The Real Radio Hatemongers for 08/25/2010

→ L. Brent Bozell from Creators Syndicate | 25 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

Last week, Dr. Laura Schlessinger announced on CNN that she was hanging up her headphones at the end of the year. If she could not exercise her freedom of speech, she said, she was not interested in the job.

Watchdogs on the left had pounced on a conversation she had with a black woman in which she proclaimed something that everyone with cable TV knows is true. The N-word is acceptable v ...

Updated: Wed Aug 25, 2010

Who Cares About Our Future? for 08/25/2010

→ Walter E. Williams from Creators Syndicate | 25 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

My column titled "What Handouts to Cut?" created a number of angry responses, and for the first time in my life, I had some, not much, sympathy for political cowardice. Most letters were from senior citizens angered by my suggestion that they were receiving handouts and those handouts be cut.

Federal tax receipts for 2009 totaled $2.1 trillion. The largest items in the federal ...

Updated: Wed Aug 25, 2010

August 1990 and the War for Modernity for 08/25/2010

→ Austin Bay from Creators Syndicate | 25 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

August 1990 and the War for Modernity

The Aug. 2, 1990, Iraqi invasion of Kuwait stunned Washington and the world. Within days, the Bush administration (George H. W. Bush) deployed American military units to thwart further assaults by Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard Corps and forge an extraordinary political coalition dedicated to liberating Kuwait. Operation Desert Shield had ...

Updated: Wed Aug 25, 2010

The White House War on Jobs for 08/25/2010

→ Michelle Malkin from Creators Syndicate | 25 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

The "Summer of Recovery" is looking more and more like the Beltway Chainsaw Massacre for America's workers. As President Obama lolls on Martha's Vineyard with his well-heeled Chicago pals, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that 72 percent of people are very worried about joblessness and 67 percent are very concerned about massive government spending.

After a nearly $1 trillion fi ...

Updated: Wed Aug 25, 2010

The Wrong Marriage Debate for 08/24/2010

→ Mona Charen from Creators Syndicate | 24 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

Editor's note: Mona Charen is on vacation. The following is a previously published column from 2009.

The other day I chatted with a pregnant gal at the hair salon. She was about 20, sweet, pretty, and demure. Because I am always doing sociological fieldwork, I asked my hairdresser if she was married. No. But she has a fiance. As always in these situations, you just want to grab t ...

Updated: Tue Aug 24, 2010

Medical Care Facts and Fables for 08/24/2010

→ Thomas Sowell from Creators Syndicate | 24 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

There is so much political spin, and so many numbers games being played, when it comes to medical care, that we have to go back to square one and the simplest common sense, in order to get some rational idea of what government-run medical care means. In particular, we need to examine the claim that the government can "bring down the cost of medical care."

The most basic fact is ...

Updated: Tue Aug 24, 2010

Stimulus and Health Care Have Democrats on Defensive for 08/23/2010

→ Michael Barone from Creators Syndicate | 23 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

Like many Democrats over the past 40 years, Barack Obama has hoped that his association with unpopular liberal positions on cultural issues would be outweighed by pushing economic policies intended to benefit the ordinary person.

In his campaign in 2008 and as president in 2009 and 2010, he has hoped that those he characterized to a rich San Francisco Bay area audience as bitterly cling ...

Updated: Mon Aug 23, 2010

Obama blunders over N.Y. mosque

→ post-gazette.com - Jack Kelly | 21 Aug 2010 | 10:00 pm MDT

Sleazy Songs of Summer for 08/20/2010

→ L. Brent Bozell from Creators Syndicate | 20 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

Ever wonder what those teenagers are listening to while wearing those iPod earphones? Maybe you'd rather not know. You will be horrified.

The Culture and Media Institute recently reviewed the top pop songs from May through July. To say that hedonism is in the air is an understatement. Of the 22 songs on the charts, a whopping 64 percent made at least one reference to sex, drugs or alcoho ...

Updated: Fri Aug 20, 2010

Focus! for 08/20/2010

→ Oliver North from Creators Syndicate | 20 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

TULSA, Okla. — We may be in Oklahoma, but here in the American heartland, it's not "OK" anymore. Though thousands of fans — here for the fifth of eight Sean Hannity Freedom Concerts — are fired up to support our troops serving in harm's way, they are anything but enthusiastic about what's happening in Washington. Perhaps that's because so many of us — including ...

Updated: Fri Aug 20, 2010

Wordy for 08/20/2010

→ Mona Charen from Creators Syndicate | 20 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

Editor's note: Mona Charen is on vacation. The following is a previously published column from 2009.

My children have started to become exacting grammarians. David, 15, is driven nearly crazy every time someone misuses the expression "beg the question." It's a good thing he is away on a band trip this week and didn't catch a CNN report on the morning news. A story on the financ ...

Updated: Fri Aug 20, 2010

And Now: The Stealth Obama Ocean Grab for 08/20/2010

→ Michelle Malkin from Creators Syndicate | 20 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

It's not enough that the White House is moving to lock up hundreds of millions of acres of land in the name of environmental protection. The Obama administration's neon green radicals are also training their sights on the deep blue seas. The president's grabby-handed bureaucrats have been empowered through executive order to seize unprecedented control from states and localities over "cons ...

Updated: Fri Aug 20, 2010

Obamanomics Fails: Will the President See the Light? for 08/19/2010

→ Larry Elder from Creators Syndicate | 19 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

The position of chair of the Council of Economic Advisers is open. How President Barack Obama fills it can tell us whether he's finally gone wobbly on Obamanomics — maybe in time to arrest some of the damage.

Would President Obama, to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, ponder whether to nominate liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg or conservative Antonin Scalia? Would his finalists come down to ...

Updated: Thu Aug 19, 2010

Big Government Forgets How to Build Big Projects for 08/19/2010

→ Michael Barone from Creators Syndicate | 19 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

When I drive from downtown Washington to Reagan National Airport, I often encounter delays on the George Washington Parkway due to construction of a small bridge over an inlet of the Potomac.

It's called the Humpback Bridge, and the Federal Highway Administration began reconstruction in January 2008. It was supposed to be finished last February, but the estimated completion date is now ...

Updated: Thu Aug 19, 2010

Death and Politics: A Love Story for 08/19/2010

→ Matt Towery from Creators Syndicate | 19 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

Some weeks ago, I received a handwritten note from an old friend. Back in the days when I had served in elective office, and when I chaired Newt Gingrich's campaigns, this man had always been there for me. He put up campaign signs and raised money for me. He even allowed me to act as Gingrich campaign treasurer by putting my name on some of Newt's financial disclosure forms. He did so knowing t ...

Updated: Thu Aug 19, 2010

The Media and the Mega-Mosque for 08/18/2010

→ L. Brent Bozell from Creators Syndicate | 18 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

It was deceptive. At a White House dinner with Muslims celebrating Ramadan, Barack Obama finally weighed in on the Ground Zero mosque controversy. Incredibly, he lectured Americans about the religious freedom of Muslims "that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in Lower Manhattan."

Those were prepared remarks, a clear and ve ...

Updated: Wed Aug 18, 2010

Obama Demagogues Private Enterprise for 08/18/2010

→ John Stossel from Creators Syndicate | 18 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

Last weekend, President Obama pandered for votes by trashing Social Security privatization.

"I'd have thought that debate would've been put to rest once and for all by the financial crisis we've just experienced," Obama said. "(N)o one would want to place bets with Social Security on Wall Street."

Such demagoguery sells. It's probably been poll-tested. Many Ame ...

Updated: Wed Aug 18, 2010

China's Border Patrol for 08/18/2010

→ Austin Bay from Creators Syndicate | 18 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

The Pentagon just released its annual report to Congress on China's military. Weapons programs got ink, especially its cyberwar programs, its expanding navy, ballistic missile projects. The report summarized China's strategic priorities as "perpetuating Communist Party rule, sustaining economic growth and development, maintaining domestic political stability, defending China's national sov ...

Updated: Wed Aug 18, 2010

Will Republicans Save Us? for 08/18/2010

→ Walter E. Williams from Creators Syndicate | 18 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

Democrat control of the White House, House of Representatives and the Senate has produced an unprecedented level of political brazenness and contempt for the limitations placed on the federal government by the U.S. Constitution. As such, it has raised a level of constitutional interest and anger against Washington's interference in our lives that has been dormant for far too long.

Part ...

Updated: Wed Aug 18, 2010

What Was I Going To Say? for 08/17/2010

→ Mona Charen from Creators Syndicate | 17 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

Editor's Note: Mona Charen is on vacation. The following column was originally published in May 2009.

The Daily Telegraph brings welcome news — "Old age begins at 27 as mental powers start to decline, scientists find." It seems that the University of Virginia conducted mental acuity tests on 2,000 adults over the course of seven years. The results: Your ste ...

Updated: Tue Aug 17, 2010

Dismantling America: Part IV for 08/17/2010

→ Thomas Sowell from Creators Syndicate | 17 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

How did we get to the point where many people feel that the America they have known is being replaced by a very different kind of country, with not only different kinds of policies but very different values and ways of governing?

Something of this magnitude does not happen all at once or in just one administration in Washington. What we are seeing is the culmination of many trends in ma ...

Updated: Tue Aug 17, 2010

Life is good at the top

→ post-gazette.com - Jack Kelly | 14 Aug 2010 | 10:00 pm MDT

Midsummer Madness for 08/13/2010

→ Oliver North from Creators Syndicate | 13 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

ATLANTA — It has to be the heat. A severe outbreak of global warming disorder, or GWD, among Washington's elite is the only possible explanation for the strange behavior of so many power brokers.

Temperatures in Washington were so high this week that White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, perhaps suffering from dehydration, had a brief moment of lucid candor. During an interview ...

Updated: Fri Aug 13, 2010

Is Obama Winning the Hearts and Minds of the Arab and Muslim World? for 08/12/2010

→ Larry Elder from Creators Syndicate | 12 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

"It's conceivable," said then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008, "that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, 'This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein, and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so he's not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush.'" ...

Updated: Thu Aug 12, 2010

America Free Falling for 08/12/2010

→ Matt Towery from Creators Syndicate | 12 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

To conjure a feeling of happier times, I recently went to a concert given by rock legend Tom Petty. It was hard not to notice that his band is called the "Heartbreakers." Read on, and I'll detail the point in a way many of you will identify with.

It's been months since I wrote in this column that our economic woes were not going to end anytime soon. That was generally a differe ...

Updated: Thu Aug 12, 2010

What Handouts To Cut for 08/11/2010

→ Walter E. Williams from Creators Syndicate | 11 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

Because of failure to heed the limitations of the U.S. Constitution, which has produced runaway federal spending, our nation sits on the precipice of disaster. Former Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming and Erskine Bowles, White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton, co-chairmen of President Obama's debt and deficit commission, in a Washington Post article "Obama's Debt Commission ...

Updated: Wed Aug 11, 2010

Memo to Alan Greenspan: Keep Quiet for 08/11/2010

→ John Stossel from Creators Syndicate | 11 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

I'm getting tired of Alan Greenspan. First, the former Federal Reserve chairman blamed an allegedly unregulated free market for the housing and financial debacle. Now he favors repealing the Bush-era tax cuts.

This has a certain sad irony. Recall that Greenspan once was an associate of Ayn Rand, the philosophical novelist who provided a moral defense of the free market, or as she put it, ...

Updated: Wed Aug 11, 2010

Pandoran Wars: Living with the Kosovo Precedent for 08/11/2010

→ Austin Bay from Creators Syndicate | 11 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

This past Sunday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made a brief visit to Abkhazia, the "breakaway statelet" within the Caucasus region's nation of Georgia.

Medvedev chatted with an Abkhazian rebel leader, and then reflected on Russia's decision in August 2008 to "liberate" Abkhazia and neighboring South Ossetia from what the Russians insistently described as Georgian ...

Updated: Wed Aug 11, 2010

Fixing Congress

→ post-gazette.com - Jack Kelly | 7 Aug 2010 | 10:00 pm MDT

Snakes for 08/06/2010

→ Oliver North from Creators Syndicate | 6 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

WASHINGTON — "I hate snakes!" It's a great laugh line delivered by Indiana Jones on quests for rare archeological artifacts when he suddenly finds himself defenseless — surrounded by vipers. Somehow he always manages to survive the experience. The scenes should serve as a primer for U.S. presidents promising to deliver great changes in U.S. domestic policy. They are often ...

Updated: Fri Aug 06, 2010

Newsweek Whitewashes Al Sharpton for 08/05/2010

→ Larry Elder from Creators Syndicate | 5 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

A well-known "civil rights activist" made the cover of Newsweek, the left-wing "news" magazine reportedly sold for its debt and $1. Based on this cover story, the buyer overpaid.

The headline, above the flattering photograph of a Man of Gravitas, reads: "The Reinvention of the Reverend Al: From Tawana to Obama, What Sharpton's Longevity Says About Race in America ...

Updated: Thu Aug 05, 2010

Is Profiling Racist? for 08/04/2010

→ Walter E. Williams from Creators Syndicate | 4 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

We live in a world of imperfect and costly information, and people seek to economize on information costs in a variety of ways. If we don't take that fact into account, we risk misidentifying and confusing one type of human behavior with another. Let's look at it.

Pima Indians of Arizona have the world's highest diabetes rates. With knowledge that his patient is a Pima Indian, it would p ...

Updated: Wed Aug 04, 2010

Iran: War Option on the Table for 08/04/2010

→ Austin Bay from Creators Syndicate | 4 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

NBC-TV's "Meet the Press" this past Sunday began the war talk of August. It's not quite the guns of August, 1914, but it ain't beanbag, either.

When "Meet the Press" asked Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen if the Pentagon had a plan for attacking Iran, Mullen replied, "We do." He added, "Military actions have been on the table and remai ...

Updated: Wed Aug 04, 2010

Private Enterprise Does It Better for 08/04/2010

→ John Stossel from Creators Syndicate | 4 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

In "Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity," I bet my readers $1,000 that they couldn't name one thing that government does better than the private sector.

I am yet to pay.

Free enterprise does everything better.

Why? Because if private companies don't do things efficiently, they lose money and die. Unlike government, they cannot compel payment through the power t ...

Updated: Wed Aug 04, 2010

Leak City for 07/30/2010

→ Oliver North from Creators Syndicate | 30 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

WASHINGTON — In most administrations, "leaks" of classified information precipitate presidential ire. Nearly all such unauthorized disclosures are the consequence of disgruntled government employees deciding that a "leak" is the best way to stop some activity they have decided should not continue. To justify their unlawful actions, they call themselves "secret whi ...

Updated: Fri Jul 30, 2010

Georgia Race for Governor Could Add to "Year of the PowerChick" Trend for 07/29/2010

→ Matt Towery from Creators Syndicate | 29 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am MDT

The Sarah Palin Express may be gaining even more steam, at least within the Republican Party. Another of her "Mama Grizzlies," Georgia's former secretary of state Karen Handel, on July 20 emerged from obscurity in the polls to take the most votes in the GOP general primary election for governor.

The feisty Handel now heads to an Aug. 10 runoff. She will face the more laid-back ...

Updated: Thu Jul 29, 2010