Year: 2015

In the sadistic era of fraudulent Hope and Change, inspectors general inside the federal government have been kicked, neutered and starved of the authority and information they need to do their jobs. It’s transparently clear: President Obama loathes and fears independent watchdogs. Accountability is an empty talking point without whistleblower protection and investigative autonomy. That […]

In a democracy, citizens must be able to criticize their leaders. It’s a reason America’s founders put free speech in the Bill of Rights. I assumed that right is safe in the United States. So I was shocked to learn what happened in Wisconsin. Before dawn, Deborah Jordahl was awakened by the sound of cops […]

Here’s my question to you: If an evil person is guaranteed that he can inflict physical pain upon others and guaranteed to never suffer pain himself, what happens to his willingness to inflict pain? You say, “What do you mean, Williams?” OK, I will make my question more concrete. Suppose a young punk knows that […]

Someday, the mysterious Individual A in the Dennis Hastert $3.5 million hush-money case may come forward and tell stories about Hastert, the former Republican House Speaker. I figure he’ll show up on some network TV morning show, wedged in between recipes and celebrity news. And then we’ll learn why the former speaker felt the need […]

Obamacare is heading toward a death spiral. The Obama administration is having trouble selling insurance plans to healthy people. That’s a big problem: When the young and healthy don’t enroll, premiums have to be hiked to cover the costs of older sicker people, discouraging even more young people from signing up. Last Thursday, the administration […]

PARIS — Going through some old emails recently, I came across a note dated May 29, 2001, from one Justin Trudeau, a 29-year-old schoolteacher at West Point Grey Academy in my hometown of Vancouver and the eldest son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. (This anecdote does nothing to dispel the myth that everyone in […]

Bring along lots of dry statistics — it’s the very best sauce a humorous book can have. Ingeniously used, they just make a reader smack their chops in gratitude. – Mark Twain   If you were betting on a hike in interest rates by the Fed this year, so far— as in years past —you’ve […]