POLITICS

As expected, Republicans now have more control of the government than before. Their gains in the House of Representatives, at least, are substantial. The more important news is that some Republicans actually do appear to stand for something different from Democrats,...

Some people blame Obama's failures on being "too ideological." This is equivalent to saying: "Obama is failing because he has ideas." Ridiculous. Nobody in politics -- or anything else -- fails for having ideas. People fail for having BAD ideas. Obama, like Democrats...

Ron Radosh wrote in PJM an article entitled "The Disappearance of The Emerging Democratic Majority." Having outlined a number of facts that show the falseness of the view that America now constitutes a Democratic majority and that the GOP has been obliterated, Mr....

Reality: Unemployment has gone up 2 percent since Obama came to office. All of his economic proposals passed Congress. Democrats' response: It's all Bush's fault. The economy is so bad that even Obama cannot save it. Bush destroyed everything. Still, Obama should be...

Stephen Bailey is currently running for congress in the second district of Colorado as the Republican nominee. Stephen has served in the Air Force and was recognized Airman of the Year in 1983.  He also has a bachelors and masters degrees in Computer Science from...

The world is hardly becoming a safer place these days. Missile threats are proliferating at a disturbing rate in places such as North Korea the danger from the North’s nuclear program is now at an ‘alarming’ level,” The Washington Post recently...

Imagine being told that you use “mental gimmickry” and exhibit a “non-evidence-based mental process” when you’re expressing your political ideas. John J. Colby (“Robitaille doesn’t understand people,” Commentary, Sept....

While the US economy continues to weaken (see my recent commentary: Don't Doubt the Double-Dip), many foreign economies continue to experience solid -- even spectacular -- economic growth. When the global economic crisis began in 2008, many forecasters doubted that...

“The Muslim world is going through an unprecedented difficult and trying time,” said the Secretary General of the 56-state Organization of the Islamic Conference, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, on Friday. One might reasonably have thought that he was referring to...

Pirates at the Helm Reason must rule and appetite and emotion obey (Cicero) What a fisherman sees A successful life is a well run boat. Reason is the helm; it is the vantage point from where you have vision all around and where you can reach the controls. The motor,...

Here are some Tweets I posted this past week:Posted 9-27-10To establish capitalism, man's need to be free, & therefore prosperous, must be recognized. We should demand de-regulation of our economy. We should declare the new health care law unconstitutional.We...

How imperiled is the freedom of speech? Take this passage from Slate magazine: “In 2004, filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered after making anti-Muslim remarks, as was the anti-immigrant politician Pim Fortuyn in 2002. Why is there so much anti-Muslim rhetoric in...

When the financial crisis hit the U.S. in late 2008, individuals realized that their savings—especially their stocks and their homes—were not as valuable as these individuals had thought. These individuals then acted rationally: they cut back on spending....

Take a step back and look what's going on. Last year, Rick Santelli, a Chicago trader who does reports for CNBC did "The Rant Heard Round the World," in which he said, among many good things: "I'm thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in July....

With 15 million workers unemployed and another 11 million underemployed, President Obama recently decided that the answer was to hit the road and throw some anti-rich red meat to some friendly stadium audiences. At a Labor Day rally in Milwaukee, Mr. Obama declared...

A few weeks ago Nouriel Roubini, widely regarded as one of the more pessimistic figures on Wall Street, made headlines by raising his forecasted likelihood of a "double dip recession" to a terrifying 40%. The vast majority of "mainstream" economists (although I would...