A staff writer for the prominent progressive site Daily Kos has
repudiated her support for Kaitlyn
Ashley Hunt, the Florida teenager whose sex crime case became a
cause célèbre of the gay-rights movement in the past
week. The 18-year-old on Friday...
I am saddened to write that former Scottish Labour MP Jimmy Wray
passed away today after a lengthy illness. He was 75. Or perhaps
78. He was a lot like Satchel Paige in that respect.
Jimmy was elected to the British House of Commons in 1987 in the
constit...
1. Special
Report:
Obama and the IRS: The Smoking Gun by Jeffrey Lord
President met with anti-Tea Party IRS union
chief the day before agency targeted Tea Party.
2. The Right
Prescription: Time
to Go for the Kill by Peter
Ferrara
...
UPDATE: The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza
reports that the Obama DoJ wanted to be able to spy on Fox News
reporter James Rosen for an essentially unlimited period of time
and not disclose their activities to him. After two judges rejected
Holder’s...
Things just went from bad to worse for Attorney General Eric
Holder.
Last week, we noted that Holder was setting Deputy Attorney
General James Cole up as the
fall guy for the AP scandal. Obama said he had “complete
confidence” in Holder and i...
The Boy Scouts of America voted to lift the ban on openly gay
Scouts on Thursday afternoon. Their rule forbidding gay
scoutmasters and adult leaders is still in place.
The decision is not at all surprising. The Scouts faced extreme
pressure from groups li...
According to the BBC’s Annual Country Ratings World Survey,
Israel is
the fourth least popular country in the world. It ranks ahead
of only Iran, North Korea and Pakistan.
Germany ranks as the world’s most popular country with Canada in
second...
Even before the IRS scandal reminded Americans of the
unenjoyable prospect of that agency becoming involved in American’s
health care decisions, Obamacare was becoming an increasing
political problem for the president and for Democrats.
An Economist...
