In a twist so big it could have been inspired by: Animal Farm, the same President who has put class warfare and stoking resentment against the wealthy at the core of his political strategy has a: 1.4 billion dollar personal budget for his family. Taxpayers spent 1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining […]

I am the mom of a 12-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy. They have been huge fans of Nickelodeon TV programming throughout their childhoods. We even took them to the Nick Hotel in Florida, where we stayed in a SpongeBob SquarePants family suite. But enough is enough. Like disgusted parents across the country, I put […]

President Obama recently lamented: “You can’t change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.” I think this statement reveals more about Obama and his plans for a second term than meets the eye. Elaborating, Obama said, “I got elected and … big accomplishments like health care got done … because […]

During the same week when the American ambassador to Libya was murdered and his dead body dragged through the streets by celebrating mobs, the President of the United States found time to go on the David Letterman show to demonstrate his sense of humor and how cool he is. But Barack Obama did not have […]

The presidential debate season is upon us with President Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, scheduled to square off Wednesday night in the Political Class version of a cage match. Heading into the debates, the conventional wisdom suggests that Romney has fallen way behind and has to dramatically change the course of the race […]

We like tribalism for the same reason we like to eat fatty foods: We evolved that way. Homo sapiens didn’t survive long on the African savannas as rugged individualists. Alone, they couldn’t scare away the scarier animals and, for the most part, they couldn’t catch or kill the tastier ones. But in groups, humans rose […]

This story should send icy slivers of: fear for the future: shooting through the gut of all Americans who care about the future of this country. The latest round of extraordinary Federal Reserve stimulus is risky and leaves little room to maneuver should another crisis hit, economist Lawrence Lindsey told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Wednesday. Lindsey said […]

Are we getting to the point where whole cities going bankrupt is a ho-hum topic? Stockton, San Bernardino and Mammoth Lake have all gone down that road now and over the next few years, dozens and dozens of cities — and then eventually WHOLE STATES – are likely to follow them. Why? It’s: the same old […]

“We should have never gotten involved in Libya in the first place. It was a poorly-thought-out decision to back the losing side of a civil war that could go on for years. Even if Gaddafi were killed tomorrow, we have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA what kind of government could follow him. Could it be hostile to […]

Democrats spent the first century of this country’s existence refusing to treat black people like human beings, and the second refusing to treat them like adults. After fighting the Civil War to continue enslaving black people and then subjecting newly freed black Americans to vicious, humiliating Jim Crow laws and Ku Klux Klan violence, Democrats […]

There was only one presidential debate in 1980 between challenger Ronald Reagan and President Jimmy Carter. Just two days before the Oct. 28 debate, Carter was eight points ahead in the Gallup poll. A week after the debate, he lost to Reagan by nearly ten percentage points. Reagan’s debate quip, “There you go again,” reminded […]

Certain quotes take on a mythical quality. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell entered that pantheon when he said, “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” On “60 Minutes” Sunday, the president observed, “When I first came into office, the head of the Senate Republicans […]

NEW YORK — Prior to leaving Egypt for the United Nations General Assembly, Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi told The New York Times the United States needs to “fundamentally change” its approach to the Arab world. That includes, he said, showing greater respect for Arab values, as well as helping to build a Palestinian state. […]