Fear-mongering rules the day By Jonah Goldberg  |   Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Imagine a child falls down a well. Now imagine I offer to lend the parents my ladder to save her, but only if they promise to paint my house. Would you applaud me for not letting a crisis go to waste? O...

George W. Bush’s detractors routinely sneered at his alleged “incompetence�. (Many of the same people then credited him with enough cunning to fool all the world’s intelligence agencies in pursuit of deep-laid, sinister goals.) The quality of his performance is now an issue for future histor...

From NRO (National Review Online). the Campaign Spot, Jim Geraghty reporting: Sunday, March 08, 2009 BARACK OBAMA 'Obama is overwhelmed.' Perhaps it's just some Obama ally speaking out of school. But these are probably some of the most terrifying words to come from an unidentified source in some tim...

My friends, I predict that this is just the beginning of the anti-church legislation which we will be seeing over the weeks, months and years ahead.  And it is very clear to me that the anti-church movement will focus first on the Catholic Church, which regardless of the wishy-washiness of some...

Can you believe this? In case you were busy shopping sales and trying to feed your family on 40. this week, it might help you to know that Capitol Hill is living large. Yesterday Brad Pitt had a secret meeting with Obama before showing up to thrill the groupies on Capitol Hill.  Nancy may have ...

(with emphasis on "freak") “In the debates, Obama chastised Bush for ‘doubling the deficit’ over the 8 years he was President. What GALL for this man, what shameless crap when he has now just released a budget that would QUADRUPLE that deficit in just ONE year, including his succes...

While they didn't offer Gordon Brown and his wife a meal at the White House, and while he urges us all to show more financial responsibility, Obama continues to entertain lavishly: "This is a pretty big house so we get lonely," Obama joked to his guests, "It's hard for me to move around out there so...

March 31 is the day to mail your red envelopes. This symbolic protest is a good exercise to do with children - a concrete reminder that we need to "speak the truth to power" - a phrase The Left has loved to throw around, but now that we are the disenfranchised, is ours to use: Red Envelopes Represen...

Politico this morning reported that the recent torrent of Democratic demonization of Rush Limbaugh stems from a campaign coordinated by the President’s chief minder of staff Rahm Emanuel and other top Democratic strategists. Politico is no right-wing blog. It leans left of center and is unlikely t...

Greg Mankiw points out that while Barack Obama’s budget promises to increase the national debt by more than $9 trillion over the next ten years, even that figure relies on rosy growth projections that overstate tax revenues. I’ll refer you to Mankiw for the specific numbers. On the avera...