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Incumbents Always Win

I’m told that the public is “angry” at today’s politicians. Eighty-two percent disapprove of the job Congress is doing. So will Tuesday’s election bring a big shakeup? No. Congressional reelection rates never drop below 85 percent. The last big “wave” election was 1994, when Democrats lost control of both houses. The media called it a […]

Africa: A Tragic Continent

Here’s how my Aug. 11, 2003, column began: “Anyone who believes President Bush’s Africa initiative, including sending U.S. troops to Liberia, will amount to more than a hill of beans is whistling Dixie. Maybe it’s overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its people.” More than a decade has […]

The Science on Isolating Health Care Workers

On Monday, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention head Thomas Frieden announced a new policy on health care workers returning from Ebola-plagued West Africa. Parroting President Obama’s Saturday radio address, Frieden cautioned that Americans must be “guided by the science,” not fear. Sorry. The Obama administration’s halfway approach is based on political correctness, not science. […]

Turn Down for What?

On the way to the airport the other day, my Uber driver, an elderly Russian chap, turned on a Top 40 radio station. Not being one to complain, I actually sat and listened to the lyrics. The song blasting through the speakers of the late-model Honda Civic was titled “Habits.” The singer, a young, presumably […]

Canadian attack prompts absurd reactions

PARIS — Some warped minds believe that when a nation suffers a terrorist attack, it somehow deserved it and should set about doing some soul searching. Implicit in this argument is the notion that the attacker was somehow justified in his heinous actions — there was no other option but to lash out violently. Except […]

A D.C. cure: Take the hard votes

What day is it?” “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day,” said Pooh. As a proud member of the “don’t just do something, sit there” school of politics, I don’t fret much about partisanship and gridlock. Partisanship and gridlock aren’t bugs of our constitutional system, they’re features. And while everyone likes to see their preferred […]

[VIDEO]The former U.S. soldier, 28, who joined the Kurdish militia to keep ISIS away from America – and is now recruiting other Westerners to join the fight

Jordan Matson has chosen a path that many would not- he has joined the Kurdish Militia to keep ISIS away from America – and is now recruiting other Westerners to join the fight : From the article: When former U.S. soldier Jordan Matson learned about ISIS rampage across Iraq and Syria, he knew he couldn’t […]

Voter Fraud Looms Large in 2014 Election

Everything except power is a means to an end from the progressive point of view, and any means justifies that end. For the Founding Fathers, the purpose of elections was to restrain government and force it to abide by the Constitution. For progressives, elections have the opposite purpose, so it is not necessary that elections […]

A woman walked into her backyard to find a naked man sexually assaulting her pitbull

Gross and scary! Alice Woodruff reportedly entered her backyard in Waterbury, Connecticut, and discovered her neighbor, who was naked, sexually assaulting her rescue pit bull. Following the horrifying discovery, the situation grew even more scary and extremely bizarre. Woodruff told WTNH-TV that she first thought her dog “had killed somebody” because she saw a man […]

Just How Toxic Is Obama For The Midterms?

This toxic, via The Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis Things appear to be tightening in Maryland, where a poll leaked to The Daily Caller shows the gubernatorial race is “extremely close — only 2 points, 46 to 44, separate Democratic Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown and Republican small businessman Larry Hogan.” One should always be cognizant of […]