Year: 2012

Yesterday,: we had a CEO telling his employees that they might lose their jobs if Obama is reelected. Today,: we have a doctor talking about the consequences we’ll face if Obama is reelected: and his health care reform goes into effect. You see, there comes a point where we doctors can no longer afford to stay in practice. […]

Americans justifiably take great pride in the fact that we’re the only nation ever to walk on the moon. When we did that back in 1969, it wasn’t just one of the most incredible moments in our history, it was one of the most astonishing moments in human history. Now, fast forward four decades from […]

7) You’ve seen, as middle-income people in this country, incomes go down $4,300 a family, even as gasoline prices have gone up $2,000. Health insurance premiums, up $2,500. Food prices up. Utility prices up. The middle-income families in America have been crushed over the last four years. 6) We don’t have to settle for what […]

The Hollywood Women for Obama Club wants you to vote with your “lady parts.” I want the women of America to vote with their lady : smarts. The latest ad from a trio of Tinsel Town actresses spreads one of the stupidest lies about Mitt Romney this election cycle. Fantasyland needs a fact check. According to […]

We take free speech for granted in America, unlike elsewhere. The furor over that anti-Muslim video is the latest reminder of that. But freedom of speech is never safe, even here. Many colleges now impose “civility codes.” Civility is nice, but enforcing a “civility rule” against offensive speech would put an end to lots of […]

Apparently, Paul Ryan and Joe Biden are both theocrats willing, nay eager, to use state power to impose their religious views on the rest of us. In last week’s vice presidential debate, moderator Martha Raddatz asked the two Roman Catholic politicians “to tell me what role your religion has played in your own personal views […]

Here’s a recent statement frequently suggested by leftist academics, think tank researchers and policymakers: “People were not just struggling because of their personal deficiencies. There were structural factors at play. People weren’t poor because they made bad decisions. They were poor because our society creates poverty.” Who made that statement and where it was made […]

Originally, the Mitt Romney and Barack Obama campaigns chose which swing states to focus on by comparing election results from previous years and figuring out which were most or least likely to vote for each candidate. The result was a consensus that North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Ohio, New Hampshire, Nevada and Colorado were the most […]

The people of France have spoken on the subject of the U.S. presidential election. Naturally, you couldn’t care less about what anyone else (let alone the French) thinks about you or your electoral choices, right? The French aren’t particularly interested in appearing too keen on America, either. A Harris Interactive poll found that 66 percent […]

In recent decades politicians have increasingly followed the Keynesian prescription of economic growth through continued government borrowing and the creation of undreamt of amounts of fiat money by central banks. To facilitate this process, the larger commercial banks have acted as the central banks’ de facto distribution system, and as a result have grown ever […]

One of the key indicators that people refer to when they talk about the economy is the jobless rate. The problem with that metric is that the jobless rate is an extraordinarily imprecise measure because people who’ve stopped looking for jobs are no longer counted. So theoretically, the jobless rate could be zero if every […]

Random thoughts on the passing scene: Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic. Economist Edward Lazear has cut through all of Barack […]

Does voter fraud actually exist? If you ask members of the Obama administration, Democratic lawmakers or the left-leaning media, they often argue it’s a myth concocted by Republicans to suppress Democratic turnout. Even U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has called voter fraud “a problem that does not really exist.” But what you won’t see in […]

As he prepares for the second debate, Obama faces a major dilemma: how to be more aggressive without jeopardizing his alleged likability, the main thing he supposedly has going for him with voters. The Barack Obama the public usually sees is not the real Barack Obama. The former is a carefully manufactured media image designed […]