Chuck Schumer admits ObamaCare was a mistake - fails miserably to learn from it

Back in 2008, Democrats rode into office on a wave of deeply misplaced optimism in Barack Obama. They held the House, the Senate, and the White House. They could have done anything they wanted. More importantly, they could have done anything the American people wanted. So, of course, they chose to do the one thing that nobody wanted - ObamaCare.

TPM: Hagel had pretty much had it with Obama's national security team

The liberal site Talking Points Memo is often quite happy to carry Barack Obama's water, but sometimes they surprise you and do some pretty good reporting. They have done so today, explaining a lot of the back story that led to Chuck Hagel's departure as Secrtary of Defense.

Obama breaks the irony meter as he urges calm in Ferguson: 'we are a nation built on the rule of law'

If you watched President Obama's statement on the Ferguson decision last night, you were treated to a parade of irony. It began with an appeal for peace and calm, paired with the laughable assertion that “First and foremost, we are a nation built on the rule of law.”

Terrorism in the Jerusalem Synagogue: From National Struggle to Religious War?

The terrorist attack carried out on November 18, 2014 in a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem, which killed four men during their morning prayers and an Israeli policeman trying to stop the attack, was another step in an emerging trend whereby the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is liable to evolve from a national struggle into a religious war.

Ferguson Decision gets under Obama's Skin

Rethinking the Tasting Note

"This first wine is a fighter; he's loud. The second wine is pensive; she has a dark side." This past Saturday, as I led a seminar in Chevy Chase, Maryland, one of the participants offered these tasting notes while comparing two wines.

Follow The Sand To The Real Fracking Boom

When it takes up to four million pounds of sand to frack a single well, it’s no wonder that demand is outpacing supply and frack sand producers are becoming the biggest behind-the-scenes beneficiaries of the American oil and gas boom.

Harvard students: How stupid are they? (and the case of the Louisiana literacy test)

One of the great deceptions in American politics is that students at Ivy League schools such as Harvard know more about the great issues of the day than, say, students at a typical state university. In fact, a study conducted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute suggests that students at “elite” schools such as Harvard and Yale are less knowledgeable about economics, politics, and American history than students at other schools—and, incredibly, that seniors at Harvard and Yale and some other prestigious colleges and universities know less than freshmen at the same schools.

Obama on Ferguson Decision

Ferguson window on Life in America over next two years

When it comes to present day Ferguson, Missouri, here’s the thing: Ferguson is the window on the final two years of Community Organizer Barack Obama in the White House.

Ferguson in Flames

FrontPageMag Grand jurors in Ferguson, Mo., refused to indict local police officer Darren Wilson yesterday, heroically resisting pressure from President Obama on down to lynch an innocent police officer who fought off a violent attacker.

Turning Climate Into Cash

As this is being written, all fifty states have freezing weather and nearly a month before the winter solstice on December 21 some northeastern cities are buried in record-setting snowfalls.

Minnesota Muslims Demand Pork-Free Halal Food From Welfare Food Bank (Video)

Arbitrary & Capricious Justice?

"Arbitrary and Capricious" is a rather interesting phrase. Most people have never heard of it, so perhaps, it is time to understand what it is and what the legal significance is.

The Obama Club

The Obama Administration is a very tight club. Few outsiders are admitted.

Ferguson Burning! Little Caesars, Walgreens, Cars and Police Vehicles Are Torched!

Atty. Bob McCulloch: African Americans Testified That Brown Charged Darren Wilson (Video)

Media, Democrats Called Out Bush, Reagan on Abuse of Executive Power. Where Are Their Voices Now?

Republicans are rightly and predictably infuriated by Barack Obama’s immigration executive action power play. What has been remarkable has been the silence from the left to President Obama granting legal status to some 5 million illegal immigrants. Such Nixonian abuses of White House power once elicited howls of protest from Democrats and their lap dogs in the media.

Avocado, aka The Testicle Tree

The Aztecs were singularly free of some of the hang-ups that inflict more modern societies. They call a spade a spade. And if avocados dangling from the Persea americana tree in pairs looked like ahuacatl that is what they called them: ‘testicle.’ Such a worldly view hardly endeared them to the priests who followed the Conquistadors. Despite its additional attribute as a shade tree they forbade any to be planted at their monastery gardens.

Joy Behar: Say, isn't it racist to call it Black Friday?

I suppose my first mistake was paying attention to what they say on The View. That will get you nowhere good. Now I don't really know what makes Joy Behar an authority on anything, and I suspect there is no answer to that question, but if she's The View's expert on matter of commerce and/or racial sensitivity then they're in serious trouble.