...for Jim Cramer: First, with your right hand firmly grip your left ear. Next, with your left hand get a good grip on your right ear. Now pull your head out of your ass. Recently Cramer experienced something of an......

A surprisingly inane editorial column appearing in last week's Nashua Telegraph warned that the demise of our free press would have dire consequences for survival of liberty in America. It's hard to imagine that anyone would dispute that, but the......

I think it was deliberate.  With friends in high media places Democrats have grown accustomed to creating a reality to fit their political ambitions.  To find examples we need only peruse comments of the Democratic leadership over the past several years regarding the war in Iraq.  The...

Charles Krauthammer points out what ought to be obvious.  There are times when the use of hard power is the only alternative. WASHINGTON -- On the day the Colombian military freed Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other long-held hostages, the Italian Parliament passed yet another resolution demanding h...

Here's a big surprise for you.  The New York Times is in the tank for Obama.  The first paragraph of a Times front page story implies that the dastardly McCain campaign is going after Obama on a personal level. WASHINGTON — The presidential campaign turned personal on Monday as John McCa...

In case you were wondering what became of Libertarian Leanings last week, I bought a new house and spent the week moving into it.  That left no time for posting, even if I had the ambition to do any.  I didn't.  I can't remember when I've worked that hard. Based on personal observatio...

For a hint on which way the U.S. economy is likely to head in the event that Barack Obama wins the White House in November, we would do well to look at the state of Mississippi.  Over the past 30 years, Mississippi has been one of the poorest states in the union, while at the same time being &q...

Yesterday the Seattle Times featured a book review by a former deputy Metro editor of theirs, John B. Saul, who also teaches journalism at the University of Montana. The book is "Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq" by Patrick Cockburn.  In his book C...

The mainstream press is reluctantly coming around to a new reality on Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's decision to disarm the Shiite militias.   A month ago operations against the Mahdi Army were said to be botched, succeeding only in boosting Iran's influence in the region.  A suppos...

Frederick Kagan thinks it odd that the Democrats oppose soft power initiatives just when the administration begins to employ them.  Their problem:  Bush is employing them in Iraq. It is particularly odd that the antiwar party that has been so loudly trumpeting the need to use soft power ra...