POLITICS

The downgrade in America's credit rating for the first time in history could be a good thing -- if the American people, and not just their politicians, learn from it. Actually, the politicians (the great majority of them, at least) will learn nothing from it. Each...

On TV crime and court shows, you sometimes see the attorney, during a trial, say something outrageous and indefensible. The opposing attorney immediately objects and the judge backs up the objection. The attorney who said the outrageous statement replies, "Withdrawn."...

Academy award-winning actor Matt Damon said he is "so disgusted" with what's happening in Washington over the debt limit, claiming that the Tea Party is "willing to drive it all off a cliff" and adding that it's "criminal" the wealthy are not paying higher taxes. "I'm...

Newsmax.com reports that more than half of all voters do not trust President Barack Obama to lead America back to economic prosperity. And the young who turned out in such great numbers for Obama in 2008 have even less confidence in him than those in any other age...

The liberal left and establishment right keep complaining that the Tea Party "doesn't understand compromise" or isn't "willing to compromise." This immediately raises the question: Compromise WHAT, exactly? A compromise, in or out of politics, refers to a deal between...

Whenever conventional career politicians such as Joe Biden declare, "It's a compromise," and claim that's a good thing -- hold onto your wallets and purses. In this compromise, Barack Obama got the most important thing he wanted:Extension of the debt limit into 2013,...

Obama’s moves to the right in the budget negotiations are creating dissension within the Democratic Party, according to The New York Times. Republicans have changed the terms of the debate over the size and role of the federal government, and the president has...

America’s financial situation is precarious. Over the past 8 years our national debt has doubled to $14.5 trillion and our total unfunded liabilities now exceed an astonishing $114 trillion. That’s $1,115,000 per federal income tax payer. Even the most unrepentant...

A fundamental difference between religion and science is that a scientific theory is testable, while a religion is not.  Religion ignores facts and believes in faith.  All environmental doomsday theories are religions, not science.  This is true no...

In his July 17 newsletter Steve Pearce, a New Mexico Congressman, mentioned his participation in the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity. He wrote: "On Thursday, I played in the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity, an annual tradition reaching back to 1909. We...

According to nearly everyone, the downgrading in American credit is the fault of the Tea Party Republicans. "If they weren't so partisan and ideological," the conventional "wisdom" spouted by academia and the media goes, "then we wouldn't be in this mess." Oh, really?...

There are essentially two parties in Congress today. One is the liberal-socialist Democrat-Republican party. These consist of all Democrats plus most of the Senate Republicans, leaving aside the Tea Party Republican Senators elected in 2010. The second party consists...

An excerpt from the Introduction to "I am John Galt" by Donald L. Luskin and Andrew Greta. ?Ayn Rand’s heroes are larger-than-life projections of her ideals. They lead lives of virtue based on consistent personal convictions with a coherent philosophical system...

??Liberal humorist Daniel Kurtzman considers the following 10 quotes by Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann to be "stupid." Let's see how stupid they really are. 1. "I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under...

Most people talk about raising the debt limit as if it's the self-evidently responsible thing to do. Obama and the Democrats, in particular, keep emphasizing that America must "honor its obligation." This would be like a long-term heroin addict lecturing his suppliers...