Dems Are Stuck With a Mess of Their Own Making for 03/11/2010

→ Michael Barone from Creators Syndicate | 11 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

There's a lively debate going on in the blogosphere and the press about whether Democrats would be better off passing or not passing a health care bill.

Some liberals claim that Democrats would be better off passing a bill, any bill, even if it's unpopular with the general electorate. The idea is to energize the Democratic base, currently demoralized by the prospects of failure. Current ...

Updated: Thu Mar 11, 2010

Republican Collectivism for 03/11/2010

→ Larry Elder from Creators Syndicate | 11 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

The most disturbing part of the ObamaCare debate is not about where Republicans and Democrats disagree, but where they agree.

Take this issue of those with pre-existing illnesses. Many Republicans actually support government action to prevent insurance companies from refusing to insure them. Ignoring the benefits of cost-lowering free market competition and the role of charity, many Repu ...

Updated: Thu Mar 11, 2010

The Shameless Abortion Carnival for 03/10/2010

→ L. Brent Bozell from Creators Syndicate | 10 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

If anyone was looking for a self-righteous extreme feminist, they found one in Angie Jackson. This is a woman who was so proud she was aborting her baby that she announced she would "tweet" her chemical-cocktail abortion live, as it happened, on Twitter. The liberal media found this made-for-TV slaughter fascinating, and not at all a controversy worthy of discussing with two sides.

Is Health Care a Right? for 03/10/2010

→ Walter E. Williams from Creators Syndicate | 10 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

Most politicians, and probably most Americans, see health care as a right. Thus, whether a person has the means to pay for medical services or not, he is nonetheless entitled to them. Let's ask ourselves a few questions about this vision.

Say a person, let's call him Harry, suffers from diabetes and he has no means to pay a laboratory for blood work, a doctor for treatment and a pharmacy ...

Updated: Wed Mar 10, 2010

Desperate Dems Cling to Human Kiddie Shield for 03/10/2010

→ Michelle Malkin from Creators Syndicate | 10 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

Have you noticed something about the audiences that President Obama has cherry-picked to cheer his government health care takeover roadshow? They're getting younger and younger.

On Wednesday, Obama brings the traveling campaign to St. Charles High School in St. Louis, Mo., for a closed-door, invitation-only speech. If he doesn't end the endless "No More Time For Talk" talks soo ...

Updated: Wed Mar 10, 2010

Aftermath of the Iraqi Elections for 03/10/2010

→ Austin Bay from Creators Syndicate | 10 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

What kind of coalition government will emerge from Iraq's March 7 national elections? Initial reports indicate Prime Minister Noori al-Maliki's supporters won a plurality of the vote (perhaps a third), with former interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's "secular list" in second place. An Iraqi political analyst I spoke with said post-election political negotiations are underway, and the ...

Updated: Wed Mar 10, 2010

The Right to Work for 03/10/2010

→ John Stossel from Creators Syndicate | 10 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

The people of Louisiana must sleep soundly knowing that their state protects them from ... unlicensed florists.

That's right. In Louisiana, you can't sell flower arrangements unless you have permission from the government. How do you get permission? You must pass a test that is graded by a board of florists who already have licenses. To prepare for the test, you might have to spend $2,00 ...

Updated: Wed Mar 10, 2010

Beware of Democrats Bearing Gifts for 03/09/2010

→ Mona Charen from Creators Syndicate | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

The signs are all around us. Even as Barack Obama and the Democrats lower their heads and prepare to bulldoze a huge new entitlement through Congress, the results of profligate government spending are everywhere apparent. It requires a prodigious degree of ideological blindness to miss this.

In Greece, decades of lavish spending on public employees and social programs have led to nationa ...

Updated: Tue Mar 09, 2010

Stimulus or Sedative? for 03/09/2010

→ Thomas Sowell from Creators Syndicate | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has, if you called the tail a leg? When the audience said "five," Lincoln corrected them, saying that the answer was four. "The fact that you call a tail a leg does not make it a leg."

That same principle applies today. The fact that politicians call something a "stimulus" does not make it a stimulus ...

Updated: Tue Mar 09, 2010

Artificial Stupidity for 03/09/2010

→ Thomas Sowell from Creators Syndicate | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

A woman with a petition went among the crowds attending a state fair, asking people to sign her petition demanding the banning of dihydroxymonoxide. She said it was in our lakes and streams, and now it was in our sweat and urine and tears.

She collected hundreds of signatures to ban dihydroxymonoxide — a fancy chemical name for water. A couple of comedians were behind this ploy. Bu ...

Updated: Tue Mar 09, 2010

Low-Tax Texas Beats Big-Government California for 03/08/2010

→ Michael Barone from Creators Syndicate | 8 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

"Stop messing with Texas!" That was the message Gov. Rick Perry bellowed on election night as he celebrated his victory over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Republican primary for governor. In his reference to Texas' anti-littering slogan, Perry was making a point applicable to national as well as Texas politics and addressed to Democratic politicians as well as Republicans.

H ...

Updated: Mon Mar 08, 2010

It's not the staff: The president's problem is named Barack Obama

→ post-gazette.com - Jack Kelly | 6 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

Not One Major Poll Favors Obama's Health Proposal for 03/05/2010

→ Matt Towery from Creators Syndicate | 5 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

In my entire career, I have never been as confounded as I am over President Obama and the Democratic leadership's obsession with a piece of legislation that not one major national poll has shown to be popular. A quick glance at this week's surveys shows about a 10 percent spread between those who favor the latest health care legislation and those who oppose it.

In the world of politics, ...

Updated: Fri Mar 05, 2010

Alice in Medical Care: Part IV for 03/05/2010

→ Thomas Sowell from Creators Syndicate | 5 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

Some years ago, one of my favorite doctors retired. On my last visit to his office, he took some time to explain to me why he was retiring early and in good health.

Being a doctor was becoming more of a hassle as the years went by, he said, and also less fulfilling. It was becoming more of a hassle because of the increasing paperwork, and it was less fulfilling because of the way patient ...

Updated: Fri Mar 05, 2010

Not So Fast for 03/05/2010

→ Oliver North from Creators Syndicate | 5 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

WASHINGTON — He had to give them something. During his first year in office, Barack Obama made the rounds of his constituents and tried to appease them all. For the pacifists, there were promises to get out of Iraq. Self-loathing Americans were given a global kowtowing presidential apology tour. The Marxist-librarian constituency was assuaged when he accepted communist literature from Hug ...

Updated: Fri Mar 05, 2010

A Year of Anti-Religious Bigotry for 03/05/2010

→ L. Brent Bozell from Creators Syndicate | 5 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

It's quite striking to see the degree to which traditional Islam has come under ferocious attack from the anti-religious impulse in Hollywood and New York and other bohemian centers in America. It is clearly anti-Islamic religious bigotry. Take a look at just some examples over the past year alone.

January: The Source Weekly, a weekly arts publication in Bend, Ore., featured on its cover ...

Updated: Fri Mar 05, 2010

The Obama Way: Bluster, Bully, Bribe for 03/05/2010

→ Michelle Malkin from Creators Syndicate | 5 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

The White House took great offense this week when conservatives suggested President Obama might be trading a judicial appointment for a wavering Democrat's vote on his health care reform plan. "Absurd," a miffed administration official told Politico.com. Wherever could the American people get such an impression? Let us count the ways.

On Wednesday, the very day Obama hosted 10 ...

Updated: Fri Mar 05, 2010

Mostly Hope for 03/05/2010

→ Mona Charen from Creators Syndicate | 5 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

After more than a year in office, the Obama foreign policy based on hope has run its course.

Time after time, the administration has pursued a policy of pre-emptive concession rather than hard bargaining, with predictable results. In Europe, the U.S. simply walked away from a defensive missile shield in an effort to hit the "restart" button with Russia. Our allies, Poland and t ...

Updated: Fri Mar 05, 2010

Will Senate Say Aloha to Racial Discrimination? for 03/04/2010

→ Michael Barone from Creators Syndicate | 4 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

What's the worst piece of legislation before Congress associated with the letter H? Most conservatives and Republicans, many moderates and independents, and even some liberals and Democrats would answer: one of the health care bills.

But there's a robust competitor for this honor, passed by the House last week and currently before the Senate: the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization ...

Updated: Thu Mar 04, 2010

Not One Major Poll Favors Obama's Health Proposal for 03/04/2010

→ Matt Towery from Creators Syndicate | 4 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

In my entire career, I have never been as confounded as I am over President Obama and the Democratic leadership's obsession with a piece of legislation that not one major national poll has shown to be popular. A quick glance at this week's surveys shows about a 10 percent spread between those who favor the latest health care legislation and those who oppose it.

In the world of politics, ...

Updated: Thu Mar 04, 2010

Sen. Bunning: 'Paygo Means Paygo' for 03/04/2010

→ Larry Elder from Creators Syndicate | 4 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

What on earth did Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., do, and why did he do it?

An astonished ABC reporter followed the senator down the hall. The reporter confronted Bunning as the visibly irritated senator boarded an elevator and tried to leave. The reporter stopped the doors from closing and continued the questioning. Why, he repeatedly asked Bunning, why?

What did the senator do? Fail to ...

Updated: Thu Mar 04, 2010

The Struggle for Turkey's Soul for 03/03/2010

→ Austin Bay from Creators Syndicate | 3 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

Over the last two weeks, the Turkish police have detained and interrogated several dozen retired military officers allegedly involved in plotting an intricate coup d'etat.

The government, led by the "moderate Islamist" Justice and Development Party (AKP), has cause for concern. The Turkish military has toppled elected governments four times since 1960. The European Union has ma ...

Updated: Wed Mar 03, 2010

Our Deficit-Enabling Media for 03/03/2010

→ L. Brent Bozell from Creators Syndicate | 3 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

The deficit for last year was $1.4 trillion. The deficit rose as a share of the gross domestic product from 3.1 percent in 2008 to 9.9 percent in 2009, the highest deficit as a share of GDP since 1945. The projected deficit for the fiscal year that ends in September is another $1.3 trillion.

So much for all that fiscal sanity blather from Team Obama in '08. How dishonest. Even worse, the ...

Updated: Wed Mar 03, 2010

Who Poses the Greater Threat? for 03/03/2010

→ Walter E. Williams from Creators Syndicate | 3 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

Bill Gates is the world's richest person, but what kind of power does he have over you? Can he force your kid to go to a school you do not want him to attend? Can he deny you the right to braid hair in your home for a living? It turns out that a local politician, who might deny us the right to earn a living and dictates which school our kid attends, has far greater power over our lives than any ...

Updated: Wed Mar 03, 2010

Andy Stern and Barack Obama: Fiscal Responsibility Fraudsters for 03/03/2010

→ Michelle Malkin from Creators Syndicate | 3 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

Everything you need to know about President Obama's commitment to fiscal responsibility and cost containment can be summed up in two words: Andy Stern. The profligate, corruption-coddling head of the powerful Service Employees International Union was named to the White House debt commission last week. If Obama thinks Stern holds the cure for our government spending woes, you can be certain his ...

Updated: Wed Mar 03, 2010

Alice in Health Care: Part III for 03/03/2010

→ Thomas Sowell from Creators Syndicate | 3 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

With all the controversies, charges, counter-charges and buzzwords swirling around the issue of medical care in the United States, there is a lot to be said for going back to square one and asking just what is the fundamental problem.

The quality of the medical care itself is not the problem. Few— if any— countries can match American medical training, medical technology or th ...

Updated: Wed Mar 03, 2010

Keep Your Laws Off My Body for 03/03/2010

→ John Stossel from Creators Syndicate | 3 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

"It's a free country."

That's a popular saying — and true in many ways. But for a free country, America does ban a lot of things that are perfectly peaceful and consensual. Why is that?

Here are some things you can't do in most states of the union: rent your body to someone for sex, sell your kidney, take recreational drugs. The list goes on. I'll discuss American ...

Updated: Wed Mar 03, 2010

Alice in Health Care for 03/02/2010

→ Thomas Sowell from Creators Syndicate | 2 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

Most discussions of health care are like something out of Alice in Wonderland.

What is the biggest complaint about the current medical care situation? "It costs too much." Yet one looks in vain for anything in the pending legislation that will lower those costs.

One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an in ...

Updated: Tue Mar 02, 2010

Voyeurism Dressed As a Public Service for 03/02/2010

→ Mona Charen from Creators Syndicate | 2 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

It's none of my business what Barack Obama's LDL cholesterol level is. And I don't have to know that he is using nicotine therapy to attempt to kick his smoking habit. But all of this and more is dutifully passed along after the president's annual physical. Want to know his resting heart rate? It's available. And we're told that President Obama has been instructed by his physicians to "eat ...

Updated: Tue Mar 02, 2010

Dems' Health Strategy Doesn't Add Up to a Win for 03/01/2010

→ Michael Barone from Creators Syndicate | 1 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

"More talk, no deal" was The Wall Street Journal's headline on Thursday's Blair House health care summit. "After summit flop, Democrats prepare to go it alone on Obamacare," proclaimed the headline here at The Washington Examiner. These were appropriate verdicts if you viewed the summit as an attempt to reach bipartisan agreement or even a limited consensus.

But that ...

Updated: Mon Mar 01, 2010

Dems' Health Strategy Doesn't Add Up to a Win for 03/01/2010

→ Michael Barone from Creators Syndicate | 1 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am MST

"More talk, no deal" was The Wall Street Journal's headline on Thursday's Blair House health care summit. "After summit flop, Democrats prepare to go it alone on Obamacare," proclaimed the headline here at The Washington Examiner. These were appropriate verdicts if you viewed the summit as an attempt to reach bipartisan agreement or even a limited consensus.

But that ...

Updated: Mon Mar 01, 2010

Politics vs. progress: Scrap Obamacare; tackle health reform in bite-size chunks

→ post-gazette.com - Jack Kelly | 28 Feb 2010 | 10:44 am MST

Oba-Kabuki: A Box-Office Bomb for 02/26/2010

→ Michelle Malkin from Creators Syndicate | 26 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

The Oba-Kabuki health care show at Blair House kicked off with a big lie on Thursday morning — and it all went downhill from there. The taxpayer-funded infomercial backfired by exposing the president's thin skin, the Democrats' naked disingenuousness and the ruling majority's allergies to political and policy realities.

Responding to Sen. Lamar Alexander's opening call for Democrat ...

Updated: Fri Feb 26, 2010

Will 'American Idol' Sink? for 02/26/2010

→ L. Brent Bozell from Creators Syndicate | 26 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

Fox is having its usual smash with "American Idol," with this season's latest offering beating the Winter Olympics in the ratings. Paula Abdul walked off in a money dispute, Ellen DeGeneres is unexpectedly flat, and the show overall is starting to sag, but it's still just about the best thing on TV. Now there's a buzz about the best judge, Simon Cowell, leaving after this season.

The Anti-Obama? for 02/26/2010

→ Mona Charen from Creators Syndicate | 26 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

On the morning of Nov. 5, 2008, the world rocked to news that the United States had elected Barack Obama to the presidency. That same morning, Mitch Daniels, governor of Indiana, joined the list of those most often mentioned as potentially defeating President Obama in 2012.

In what may be a sign of unusual mental health and emotional balance, Daniels persistently declined to be considere ...

Updated: Fri Feb 26, 2010

The Other War for 02/26/2010

→ Oliver North from Creators Syndicate | 26 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

WASHINGTON — It's a war the so-called mainstream media apparently have decided to ignore. Though its death toll is higher than Iraq's and Afghanistan's combined, it evidently isn't worth covering; and unless you're reading this in the Southwest, you probably haven't even heard about it.

The conflict, a full-blown narco-insurgency, has claimed the lives of more than 17,000 combatant ...

Updated: Fri Feb 26, 2010

Farewell to a Hero, Al Haig for 02/25/2010

→ Matt Towery from Creators Syndicate | 25 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

My recent bouts of vertigo, and the fall and concussion that resulted from one of them, meant that I was unable to attend the funeral services for a great American, Al Haig.

So I'll eulogize him as best I can in this column space. Thank you, Gen. Haig. Had it not been for your decisive thinking and iron resolve in essentially acting briefly as our president during those grim days at the ...

Updated: Thu Feb 25, 2010

Olbermann's 'Federal Budget Debt' Blunder -- The Countdown for 02/25/2010

→ Larry Elder from Creators Syndicate | 25 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

MSNBC's "Countdown" show host, Keith Olbermann, recently claimed that today's "federal budget debt" is "far less than it was throughout the Reagan administration." He also said it is "about the same as it was in 1970." Is he right? Tonight's countdown:

10) What is a "federal budget debt"? No researcher, intern or night security guard told ...

Updated: Thu Feb 25, 2010

Obama Discovers Iran's Preconditions for 02/24/2010

→ Austin Bay from Creators Syndicate | 24 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

Iran's wicked conditions prior to Barack Obama's fanciful "no preconditions" now present themselves — with the mullahs' rogue nuclear program 13 months closer to producing a bomb.

Last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton focused attention on the Iranian regime's powerful and tentacled radical militia, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRG). "Iran is moving towar ...

Updated: Wed Feb 24, 2010

"Broken" Government: When Liberals Lose for 02/24/2010

→ L. Brent Bozell from Creators Syndicate | 24 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

When Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana announced last week he wasn't running for re-election, he didn't state what may have seemed obvious. He couldn't say he wanted to avoid the embarrassment of losing, or that he worried he'd never achieve national office if that happened. Instead, he launched into a lecture about what was wrong with everyone else. The government is "dysfunctional" with &qu ...

Updated: Wed Feb 24, 2010

Corruptocrat Eric Holder's National Security Cover-Up for 02/24/2010

→ Michelle Malkin from Creators Syndicate | 24 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

The White House wants to play Transparency Olympics with the Tea Party movement. President Obama's Chief Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin dared Tea Party activists and conservatives last week to "push the administration to make its policies more open" and make it a "political competition … to see who can be more radical in their openness," The Hill reported. So, let's st ...

Updated: Wed Feb 24, 2010

Global Warming Update for 02/24/2010

→ Walter E. Williams from Creators Syndicate | 24 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

Private industry and governments around the world have spent trillions of dollars in the name of saving our planet from manmade global warming. Academic institutions, think tanks and schools have altered their curricula and agenda to accommodate what was seen as the global warming "consensus."

Mounting evidence suggests that claims of manmade global warming might turn out to be ...

Updated: Wed Feb 24, 2010

Whose Body Is It? for 02/24/2010

→ John Stossel from Creators Syndicate | 24 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

People suffer and die because the government "protects" us. It should protect us less and respect our liberty more.

The most basic questions are: Who owns you, and who should control what you put into your body? In what sense are you free if you can't decide what medicines you will take?

This will be the subject of my Fox Business program tomorrow night.

We'll hea ...

Updated: Wed Feb 24, 2010

Whose Body Is It? for 02/24/2010

→ John Stossel from Creators Syndicate | 24 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

People suffer and die because the government "protects" us. It should protect us less and respect our liberty more.

The most basic questions are: Who owns you, and who should control what you put into your body? In what sense are you free if you can't decide what medicines you will take?

This will be the subject of my Fox Business program tomorrow night.

We'll hea ...

Updated: Wed Feb 24, 2010

Global Warming Update for 02/24/2010

→ Walter E. Williams from Creators Syndicate | 24 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

Private industry and governments around the world have spent trillions of dollars in the name of saving our planet from manmade global warming. Academic institutions, think tanks and schools have altered their curricula and agenda to accommodate what was seen as the global warming "consensus."

Mounting evidence suggests that claims of manmade global warming might turn out to be ...

Updated: Wed Feb 24, 2010

Amnesty International: Not Much of a Reputation To Lose for 02/23/2010

→ Mona Charen from Creators Syndicate | 23 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

Amnesty International has been a handmaiden of the left for as long as I can remember. Founded in 1961 to support prisoners of conscience, it has managed since then to ignore the most brutal regimes and to aim its fire at the West and particularly at the United States. This week, Amnesty has come in for some (much overdue) criticism — but not nearly so much as it deserves.

During t ...

Updated: Tue Feb 23, 2010

Presidential petulance

→ post-gazette.com - Jack Kelly | 20 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

Revisionist or Oblivious? for 02/19/2010

→ Oliver North from Creators Syndicate | 19 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. — Here in America's southwestern desert, young Americans are training to fly Reapers, Predators and other remotely piloted aircraft, or RPAs, capable of attacking our enemies half a world away. Our Fox News' "War Stories" team is here at Holloman Air Force Base documenting how these remarkable high-tech weapons are changing the face of battle in the long war aga ...

Updated: Fri Feb 19, 2010

Just Shoot Me: A Conservative Defends Alec Baldwin for 02/18/2010

→ Matt Towery from Creators Syndicate | 18 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

Go ahead and throw mud at me. Kick me. Call me a Republican In Name Only. I don't care. This time, I'm siding with Alec Baldwin.

The actor and liberal activist (and loud "vocalist") recently was rushed to a New York City hospital. It seems that his 14-year-old daughter, Ireland, phoned 911 and said Baldwin was in bad shape and may have suffered an overdose of some sort.

...

Updated: Thu Feb 18, 2010

Bayh's Good-Bye: Here's the Real Reason for 02/18/2010

→ Larry Elder from Creators Syndicate | 18 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., "shocked" President Barack Obama and his party by announcing his plan to retire from the Senate. Appearing on CBS' "The Early Show," Bayh explained: Washington suffers from acute partisanship. Washington doesn't work. It is broken.

How noble — a principled position against "divisiveness." Let us honor a good man standing tall ag ...

Updated: Thu Feb 18, 2010

Education: Too Important for a Government Monopoly for 02/17/2010

→ John Stossel from Creators Syndicate | 17 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

The government-school establishment has said the same thing for decades: Education is too important to leave to the competitive market. If we really want to help our kids, we must focus more resources on the government schools.

But despite this mantra, the focus is on something other than the kids. When The Washington Post asked George Parker, head of the Washington, D.C., teachers unio ...

Updated: Wed Feb 17, 2010

McChrystal's Afghan Offensive for 02/17/2010

→ Austin Bay from Creators Syndicate | 17 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

NATO's Afghan offensive began with an advertising blitz.

America's commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, made sure everyone in an eclectic, diverse audience knew the assault was coming. News of NATO's impending attack in Helmand province permeated regional and international mass media.

The sales pitch, however, was even more comprehensive and explicitly targeted. T- ...

Updated: Wed Feb 17, 2010

The Census and the Constitution for 02/17/2010

→ Walter E. Williams from Creators Syndicate | 17 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

The Census Bureau estimates that the life cycle cost of the 2010 Census will be from $13.7 billion to $14.5 billion, making it the costliest census in the nation's history. Suppose you suggest to a congressman that given our budget crisis, we could save some money by dispensing with the 2010 census. I guarantee you that he'll say something along the lines that the Constitution mandates a decenn ...

Updated: Wed Feb 17, 2010

Globull warming

→ post-gazette.com - Jack Kelly | 13 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

Truth and Terror for 02/12/2010

→ Oliver North from Creators Syndicate | 12 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has a nearly flawless record on the economy. When President Barack Obama or one of his senior minions, such as Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, launches a rhetorical offensive on protecting us from the perils of capitalism, we have learned to expect an instant stock market nose dive followed by higher unemployment rates and talk of greater government ...

Updated: Fri Feb 12, 2010

Krugman: Bush's Deficit Bad, Obama's Deficit Good for 02/11/2010

→ Larry Elder from Creators Syndicate | 11 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

Left-wing economist, Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman hates deficits in tough economic times — when the president of the United States is named George W. Bush.

Krugman, in a November 2004 interview, criticized the "enormous" Bush deficit. "We have a world-class budget deficit," he said, "not just as in absolute terms, of course &mdas ...

Updated: Thu Feb 11, 2010

We Are All Tumbling Down for 02/11/2010

→ Matt Towery from Creators Syndicate | 11 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

Readers of my column may recall that a month or so ago, I wrote that President Obama's approval rating would soon begin to drop, as would the stock market. I'm no psychic, but both proved true.

So now we're all tumbling down. I quite literally tumbled myself, some weeks back. The vertigo that I get from flying caused me to fall and crash my head, giving me a concussion.

Some of yo ...

Updated: Thu Feb 11, 2010

The Great Search Engine Collides With the Great Firewall for 02/10/2010

→ Austin Bay from Creators Syndicate | 10 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

Last month's clash between Google and China was definitely a 21st century tiff, as the Great Search Engine of America's Silicon Valley collided with China's Great Firewall, the still-communist software filter that surrounds the Middle Kingdom's digital terrain.

The Google versus China battle repeated elements of the classic struggle between an "open society" and a "closed ...

Updated: Wed Feb 10, 2010

Military Lab Rats for 02/05/2010

→ Oliver North from Creators Syndicate | 5 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am MST

WASHINGTON — No nation ever has had a better military than today's all-volunteer U.S. armed forces. Though I wouldn't trade anything for the young Americans I served with in Vietnam — or afterward — those presently wearing America's uniforms are the brightest, best-educated, best-trained and most combat-experienced military the world ever has seen. Now, in the midst of an unpr ...

Updated: Fri Feb 05, 2010