Conservative Group: TV Violence Against Women Soars
LOS ANGELES – Incidents of violence against women on mainstream U.S. television has increased by 120 percent in the past five years, with the depiction of teen girls as victims rising by some 400 percent, the Parents Television Council said in a report on Wednesday.
The conservative media group said it was particularly disturbed by the [...]
The American Spectator : Yes, “The One” Should Fail
We will not be intimidated, we will not be bullied, we will not be silenced, and we will not lose. Barack Obama’s thugocracy is dishonest, dangerous, and malicious, but it cannot be stronger than the aroused might of a free people. His foreign policy deliberately debases U.S. interests rightly understood, in an effort to suborn [...]
Politics at play as Obama talks energy at MIT
President Barack Obama is doing more than promoting clean energy with a tour of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He’s pumping some energy of his own into the campaigns of New England allies facing tough re-election bids.
The president’s politicking on Friday begins in Cambridge, Mass., with a quick “official” event at MIT to challenge the [...]
Even the Poor Slammed by Obamacare
Whether or not you now have health insurance, Obama’s healthcare bill will cost you dearly.
If you don’t have insurance, you will be required to buy it. The legislation specifies how much you will have to pay for the coverage before any subsidy kicks in.
All during the campaign, Obama kept speaking about affordable coverage. Now it [...]
A Vain President, or a Weak One?
George Will suggested last week that President Obama’s self-referential speech on behalf of Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics may lead to his being known as the “vain” president. Maybe, but worse things have been said about a president and probably will be if Obama declines to send substantially more troops to Afghanistan and rejuvenate [...]
Dollar Hits 14-Month Lows
The dollar slumped to a 14-month low against the euro on Wednesday, pushing the price of gold to a record high and crude oil futures above 75 dollars for the first time in a year.
The euro struck 1.49 dollars — its highest point since August 2008 — on increased appetite for currencies seen as riskier [...]
Against the Totalitarian Tide
If you ask the people who know me their honest opinion of me, I suspect that the vast majority of them would tell you that I am often a pugilistic a**hole, always spoiling to start a big, drawn-out debate about something related to politics. They would probably tell you that they’ve witnessed me waste many [...]
From good, to bad, to worse
I got the idea for a Website that served to report on stories about gains and losses of freedom in America not long after 9/11. I was devastated by the terror attacks like most Americans were. At the same time, I recognized that the effects of those attacks were likely to go well beyond the [...]
Glenn Beck thinks non-citizens shouldn’t be counted in the Census
Glenn Beck devoted a long rant last night to his contention that the U.S. Census Bureau shouldn’t be counting what he blithely calls “illegal aliens” — i.e., undocumented immigrants.
But his argument — that we shouldn’t be counting people who can’t vote — doesn’t merely cut against the undocumented. It cuts against all immigrants — who, [...]
Half-Speed Ahead and Unsteady as She Goes
What do you think it’s like just now to be a GI somewhere at the end of the earth, say in mountainous Nuristan in eastern Afghanistan, and see the latest video of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid addressing the press outside the White House, just having left still another strategy session on this endless war?
Is [...]
