POLITICS

Anwar al-Awlaki, a desperately evil man who was linked to the 9/11 attacks (he was “spiritual adviser” to a couple of the hijackers) as well as to the Fort Hood jihad murder, the Christmas underwear jihad bombing attempt on an airplane over Detroit, and...

Millions around the world believe that when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas submitted an application to the United Nations [last month] for admission of Palestine as an independent state, he was setting the stage for a new era of peace in the Middle...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie this year appointed a Muslim attorney, Sohail Mohammed, to a Superior Court judgeship in Passaic County.  Mohammed was the lawyer for Mohammed Qatanani, a Muslim Brotherhood? operative who pled guilty to membership in the jihad...

CNN online reports: "Occupy Wall Street protesters might say they represent 99% of the nation, but there's a growing number of Americans who are making it clear they are not part of the dissident crowd. They call themselves the 53%...as in the 53% of Americans who pay...

Paul Moreno, writing in the Wall Street Journal, recently said that Obama will follow Franklin D. Roosevelt's reelection strategy of 1936, during the Great Depression. "Roosevelt and his advisers blamed the recession on a 'capital strike,' trying to deflect public...

The hippies squatting on Wall Street have reportedly violated numerous laws, including property rights and traffic laws, and they’ve been committing various illegal and unsanitary acts, including defecation, in public. Besides disrupting traffic on the Brooklyn...

Steve Jobs reportedly warned President Barack Obama that he would not be back in the White House for a second term unless he adopted more business-friendly policies, according to a new biography of the Apple Computer co-founder. "You're headed for a one-term...

According to US government figures, the yield on the 10-Year US Treasury note reached a record low of 1.72% last month. Thus, despite the fact that government debt has exploded at a rate of more than $1 trillion per year, and the fact that S&P recently downgraded...

There are two types of dictatorship. One is rule by a dictator; the other is rule by one’s fellow man. The death of Libya’s Qaddafi is a reminder of the first. Qaddafi, like so many other one-man dictators, ruled his people with an iron fist. It’s...

The central demand of the "Occupy Wall Street" protest is, reportedly, that President Obama "ordain a Presidential Commission tasked with ending the influence money has over our representatives in Washington." Do they mean to imply that government and the economy...

Suddenly, Steve Jobs is gone. And only now is his exceptional ability being fully realized. Many of us felt a sense of personal loss at the news of his death. Good tributes to him have appeared in The Wall Street Journal (Walt Mossberg), The NY Times (David Pogue),...

According to a recent book by Morris M. Kleiner, an economist at the University of Minnesota, as many as 3 out of 10 workers in the United States must now be licensed to do their jobs. No longer limited to doctors, lawyers and the like; fortune tellers, massage...

Fox News online reports: "Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Sunday that the administration's approval of a loan guarantee for solar power company Solyndra -- which went belly up shortly after a...

An excerpt from the Introduction to Andrew Bernstein's forthcoming book  Capitalist Solutions: A Philosophy of American Moral Dilemmas. Reprinted in Capitalism Magazine by permission of the author.   To be blunt, the United States faces enormous challenges...

"The great thing about Occupy Wall Street is that they have brought the focus of the entire country on the middle class majority," said George Aldro, 62, a member of Local 2325 of the United Auto Workers, as he carried the union's blue flag over his shoulder through...

??You've heard the saying, "Actions speak louder than words." It's really true. People can talk a good game all they like. It's under the stress of having to decide, and take action, that their true selves are revealed. America is in a grave crisis, perhaps one...

?For a brief second in time, objective truth emerged from Joe Biden's lips the other day. He declared that the current faltering economy "belongs to us, not Bush." Does this make Joe Biden a terrorist? After all, it's the same thing the Tea Party claims. And according...

“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody! You built a factory out there? Good for you! But I want to be clear: You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You...