When the press wants to smear a conservative outfit, it embarks on a mission to find and highlight someone, no matter how peripheral their involvement or unreflective of that group’s beliefs, to portray as somehow typical of their mindset. But when som... »
On February 28, as reported at the Politico, Obama administration Energy Secretary Steven Chu told a House panel the following in response to a question he interrupted about his interest in having an “overall goal” of lowering gas prices: “No, the over... »
From a Weekly Standard email authored by Jonathan Last: The Virginia result might even be more eye-popping than Ohio. Romney was heads-up against Ron Paul in a purple, mid-Atlantic state. And he couldn’t even get to 60 percent of the vote. That Paul wa... »
In public accounting, there’s a concept known as “independence,” which has two aspects: independence in fact and independence in appearance. If you are auditing a company, you may in fact be the most independent person in the world, willing to follow t... »
From the Associated Press two days ago, with a little local Peoria flavor added (bolds are mine): Seven Americans on trial on charges their pro-democracy groups fomented unrest flew out of Egypt on Thursday after the U.S. posted nearly $5 million in ba... »
You might have missed this from the 2008 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton: You know, it’s very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments. We’ve seen throughout the campaign if you’re willing to say really outrageous things that are accus... »
I received the following email a short time ago, and, beyond noting that I agree, am publishing it without comment: COLUMBUS, OHIO – February 22, 2012 A statewide coalition of social and fiscal conservative leaders in Ohio announced today that they sup... »
