Less than two weeks ago political strategist Dick Morris conducted a poll of likely Wisconsin voters that produced some strange results. By a margin of 74-18, those polled want teachers and other government workers to contribute more toward their health insurance premiums, and by an even larger margin (79-16) they want public employees to pay … Read more The ugly truth about ‘collective’ bargaining
Move over, Chicago. You’ve got nothing on Baltimore. So you let dead people vote in your elections? That’s nothing. Baltimore lets dead police officers issue traffic citations. Under Maryland law, a traffic citation issued to the owner of a motor vehicle “caught” by a stoplight or speed camera must contain a sworn statement signed by … Read more Big Brother gets bolder
A couple of weeks ago I was watching Hardball on MSNBC, and Chris Matthews — you know, the guy who feels a thrill running up his leg when he hears Barack Obama speak — was waxing nostalgic about the warm, fuzzy friendship his boss, the late House Speaker Tip O’Neill had with Ronald Reagan. I … Read more Ronald Reagan: the Right’s Martin Luther King
If we’re lucky — if we’re very lucky — we’ll end up with something other than a radical Islamist government in Egypt, a government that does not make visceral hatred of the United States and a burning desire to destroy Israel the centerpiece of its foreign policy. And, yes, “luck” is the operative word here. … Read more Our son of a bitch
Aha! The lamestream media has caught Sarah Palin committing another Palinism! In his State of the Union address Tuesday, President Obama invoked the Sputnik, the artificial satellite the Soviet Union launched into orbit October 4, 1957, to justify new government spending programs (which he called “investments”): Half a century ago, when the Soviets beat us … Read more Obama, Palin and the ‘Sputnik moment’