California has a $26.6 billion budget deficit and a pension shortfall now estimated at $500 billion. So what do its legislators propose? Requiring an alcohol detector in every car in California – one you continuously must blow in while driving for the car to continue to operate. Plus, The Los Angeles Times reports, “the proposed bill would […]

President Obama claims to be “tightening the noose” around Moammar Gadhafi, but news reports suggest that the only nooses being prepared are for the necks of Libya’s brave dissidents. By the time an international no-fly zone gets implemented – if it ever does – the revolution may effectively be over. There are strong arguments for […]

Hanafi Hostages Friday marks the 34th anniversary of the end of Hanafi Siege in Washington, DC. in which 149 Americans were taken hostage by radical Black Muslims.  Two hostages were killed,  including a police officer.  Demands included the burning of the film Mohammad, Messenger of God. The siege is largely forgotten, but it shouldn’t be […]

The Associated Press reported today that Saudi Arabian police fired on unarmed demonstrators.  Oil prices, which had been selling off, dramatically spiked again. The larger, planned protests in Riyadh are scheduled to begin tomorrow, and the Saudi government has made it clear they will be dealt with harshly. What exactly does that mean in light […]

Years ago, I recommended to an elected official I was advising during the jittery heights of New York City’s crime wave that he ask his constituents to take part in a citizen anti-crime initiative being run out of local police precincts. He was aghast. Elected officials provide things to their constituents, he instructed, they don’t […]

In November 2010, voters in heavily Democratic Wisconsin elected a Republican governor, a Republican state assembly, and a Republican state senate.  They did it for a reason.  Tonight, those Republicans fulfilled a large part of their campaign promise to bring fiscal sustainability back to the Badger State. Despite weeks of protests, recall campaigns, and back-room arm-twisting […]

Nations need wise elders. Smart dispassionate citizens who look to the long-term when others, even intelligent others, rush to do what feels right at any given moment. George Will is one of our wise men. Will, who took considerable heat in conservative circles for opposing the Iraq War eight years ago, today cautions against American […]

John Foreman, the father of a five-year-boy murdered and cannibalized in 1975 is vowing to hunt down and kill his son’s murderer if the man is released from prison next month as scheduled. The heartbreaking story on the MSNBC website already has around 2,500 comments, 2,499 of them offers to help. As much as I’d like to […]

Fast Tube by Casper I actually thought this was a joke. I thought Jesse Jackson, Jr. was being spoofed. I’m still holding out hope.  Please someone tell me this is a Saturday Night Live skit. Someone…

I’m no legal scholar. In fact, I’m no scholar at all. But last week’s court ruling by a Washington, D.C. federal judge strikes me as a tad Orwellian. In her 64-page ruling on the constitutionality of Obamcare under the Constitution’s Commerce Clause — can the government force you to buy health insurance — Judge Gladys […]