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Sony Leaks, CIA Report Highlight The ‘Snowden Privacy Paradox’

The ongoing leaks of confidential business data from Sony Pictures Entertainment and the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee report on the use of enhanced interrogation techniques by the Central Intelligence Agency have something in common. Call it the “Snowden Privacy Paradox.” The Sony leaks and the so-called torture report are being celebrated by transparency cheerleaders who […]

Run, Liz, Run!

When Sen. Elizabeth Warren rallied beleaguered House liberals to push back against a bank-coddling omnibus bill and the spineless White House that enabled it, she showed us some of her dynamic appeal. Passing trillion-dollar pieces of legislation should never be easy, and disrupting the current cozy, bipartisan environment surely can’t be a bad thing. As […]

Fix Medicaid’s Perverse Funding Formula

One of the most perverse consequences of the feverish backroom deals used to get Obamacare past the finish line was the funding formula for the law’s Medicaid expansion, which started with the infamous Cornhusker Kickback, a sweetheart deal for Nebraska alone to get 100 percent federal funding for Medicaid expansion that was used to get […]

It’s Just A Movie!

For a number of years, I have owned and operated movie theaters. Today, my partners and I have 25 screens in four Midwestern locations. We hope to have more soon. Why did I get into the theater business? Like millions of other people, I love the movies. I love the big marquee letters, the flashing […]

Is The Speedy Decline Of Oil Prices A Good Thing

By the middle of last week, the barrel price of oil on the global market was $64. Three months ago it was around $100 per barrel. It topped out, over the past year, at around $112 per barrel in late June. This is a precipitous drop in oil prices, and it is having a dramatic […]

Watch this DEVASTATING bike crash caused by a deer

Freak accidents happen all the time, but rarely are they caught on film. Cyclists know that they have to be extremely careful, because there is very little between them and the asphalt. What does it look like, then, when an accident can’t be avoided? You can see below. From IJReview: Any bicyclist knows that you’ve […]

President Obama must Visit Cuba

PRESIDENT OBAMA MUST STAND BY CUBA By: Derek Varsalona This week, was a historic week for President Obama and the United States as he opened relations with Cuba. But now is the time for President Obama to put the money where is mouth is and strongly support Cuba as an alley. The United States has […]

Fossil Fuels Plentiful, Yet Electricity Prices Rise

Being taken for morons by promoters of the global warming hoax has not been enough to decisively turn people against environmentalists. Maybe going broke and/or shivering in the dark will do the job, even in liberal New England: The New York Times ran an interesting article a few days ago discussing the skyrocketing electricity prices […]

#AskDrH Finally Answers A Few Questions

People, including myself, since I asked him lots and lots of questions on Twitter, were wondering if this would ever happen (White House) Last month, Dr. John Holdren — the President’s science advisor — invited the public to ask him anything about climate change on social media using the hashtag #AskDrH. Since then, he’s gotten […]

PC Loons Lose: FCC Refuses To Deem Redskins Obscene Nor Profane

The cause of doing away with the name “Washington Redskins”, primarily the “Redskins” part, became a Big Issue for liberals, a cause celebre, because someone told them that the Redskins name was mean and evil and racist and bigoted and stuff. So, for months and months they worked to do away with the name “Redskins”, […]

This Week In Quotes: Dec 12 – Dec 18

Marxist ideology, the political religion in which the regime is rooted, is a dead faith. The world communist revolution was a god that failed. It is over, finished. Outside of North Korea and Cuba, who preaches that Marxism-Leninism is the future toward which mankind is heading? Who still believes that? — Pat Buchan Chuck, you […]

Mrs. Obama’s Tall Tales of Racialized Victimhood

Oh, woe is she. In an “exclusive” interview with People magazine this week, first lady Michelle Obama lamented the “sting” of “racist experiences” that she and her husband allegedly still suffer. My message for America’s Marie Antoinette? Cry me a river. To show how she’s down with The Struggle of post-Ferguson agitators, Mrs. Obama cited […]

Cold War Replay: This Time We Lose

Has there ever been a president more eager to make concessions to vicious regimes than Barack Obama? The opening of diplomatic relations with Cuba is the latest and, one fears, not the last in a string of preemptive concessions. Obama, with his blend of hard-left prejudices and vaulting solipsism, has sought throughout his presidency to […]

No Superheroes In ‘The Interview’ Capitulation

The first issue of Captain America came out on December 20, 1940. It shows Cap slugging Adolph Hitler in the mouth. Good stuff, but note the date. America wouldn’t enter World War II for about another year. At the time, many Americans wanted to stay out of another European war. And here was an American […]