Year: 2014

Thanksgiving week, GOP House aide Elizabeth Lauten posted an admonishment of first daughters Sasha and Malia Obama on her Facebook page: “I get you’re both in those awful teen years, but you’re a part of the First Family, try showing a little class,” it began. And: “Dress like you deserve respect, not a spot at […]

The first fruit of the Republican victory in the midterm election is the failure of President Obama’s efforts to give away everything to Iran in the nuclear negotiations. If Democrats had kept the majority on Nov. 4, we would all be wincing, as Obama would have triumphantly announced a “peace” deal with Iran that would […]

Recent statements by Federal Reserve officials would lead just about anyone to believe that one of the bank’s central missions has always been to guard against the lurking threat of deflation. They warn that since official inflation has remained below the Fed’s 2 percent target for almost two years, the country is liable to fall into a stagnant morass unless […]

There is nothing like a little heat from a third political party to get the attention of career politicians who wish to stay in office. Nigel Farage, leader of the upstart UK Independent Party (UKIP), has been turning up the heat on British Prime Minister David Cameron over the issue of migrants who come to […]

Remember “The Ox-Bow Incident”? No? It’s positively ancient, and it’s easy to see why it’s been forgotten. For one thing, it’s in black-and-white. And it offers no eye candy: no explosions or moaning flesh, or fast cars or epic battles. But I’ve been thinking about it lately, especially now, with what’s going on in Missouri, […]