At what point do you: go so far past diversity that you’re just being quirky? The Department of Justice is certainly testing those limits with its hiring practices. The PJ Tatler has obtained documents from the Justice Department detailing efforts to recruit attorneys and staff who are dwarfs or who have “psychiatric disabilities” or “severe intellectual […]

Is there anything, anything at all that Americans can do without having some government busybody sticking his nose into it? Apparently,: not even birthday parties are safe. Pitchfork-wielding Virginia farmers rallied to support a woman who claims local officials came down on her for, among other things, hosting a children’s birthday party on her spread. Martha […]

What does it say about our country that we semi-regularly see reports of phony “hate crimes”: like this one: in the media? The lesbian who claimed three masked men broke into her home last month, tied her up, carved anti-gay slurs into her body and tried to set her house on fire will be arrested, after police […]

Relying on Todd Akin’s sense of decency has not worked. Within hours of his idiotic comments about “legitimate rape,” Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS pulled out millions of dollars in funding for the Missouri Senate race. Akin didn’t get the hint. Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, withdrew all funding from the Missouri race. […]

As gas prices climb back toward $4 a gallon, the Obama administration — facing a tough re-election campaign and rising Middle East tensions — is once again considering tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. For years, administrations have bought and stored oil for emergencies, in fear of a cutoff of imported oil, as happened during the […]

The American system of democracy is under threat. It’s under threat from an Obama campaign that seeks to polarize Americans along race and class lines. It’s under threat from a Democratic Party that seeks to pit those who pay taxes against those who don’t. But most of all, it’s under attack from America’s public sector […]

Rep. Pete Stark, 80, has seven children; three are minors, the product of his third marriage. He once told the Los Angeles Times that he calls the three youngest his “second litter.” Lucky Stark. Thanks to a dated Social Security system, he enjoys a “second-litter” subsidy. As Carolyn Lochhead wrote in The Chronicle, Stark has […]

Readers with long memories may recall that Charles E. Wilson, president of General Motors and nominee for secretary of defense, got into trouble when he told a Senate committee, “What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and what’s good for General Motors is good for the country.” That was in 1953, […]

It’s trapping season. The targets are Republicans, whom the Democratic-friendly media (the trappers) hunt in order to smear — especially the Romney-Ryan ticket — forcing them off message. The bait in the latest case is the issue of abortion in cases of rape. The hunter’s target was Rep. Todd Akin, a Missouri Republican, who is […]

In the face of growing fears of a renewed global plunge into economic depression and a climate of low apparent price inflation, investors might expect commodities and precious metals to be falling in price. Instead, gold continues to hover around a relatively high $1,640 an ounce and silver at $29. At the same time, central […]

The Zionist Organization of America, one of the oldest and largest Pro-Israel organizations in the US is urging the: Democratic National Convention (DNC) to cancel Jimmy Carter’s scheduled address to the gathering.: The ZOA has pointed to President Carter’s decades-long hostility towards, and defaming of, Israel and advocacy of negotiations with Hamas, a terrorist organization that calls […]

Even if Keynesian stimulus worked – and the historical evidence overwhelmingly shows that it doesn’t –: this doesn’t seem very ah…stimulating. The Labor Department paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal stimulus funds to a public relations firm to run more than 100 commercials touting the Obama administration’s “green training” job efforts on two […]

Over at: The Root, it was asked: Does Paul Ryan’s Black Ex-Girlfriend Matter? As reported on Twitter by CNN’s Pete Hamby, Ryan said he has a black sister-in-law, but perhaps even more interesting, his “college sweetheart” was African American. So here is the million-dollar question: Is the fact that Ryan has dated interracially a noteworthy detail to […]

Of course, given the shape that Detroit is in, would it look all that different after a nuke? All right, all right, that’s hyperbole, but: this story: is not just ridiculous, it helps explain what’s gone wrong with Detroit, Michigan, and the American auto industry. Despite having no horses, the water and sewerage department for the city […]

Can we stop calling the hosts of the presidential debates “moderators”? They’re left-erators. It’s time for the old media godfathers to end the pretense that they’re fair and neutral observers of the American political scene. And it’s time for the GOP to stop perpetuating these rigged exercises in futility. Last week, the Commission on Presidential […]

I wanted to like Paul Ryan. Before he was nationally known, Rep. Ryan visited me at ABC, and we went to lunch. He was terrific. He was a rare politician, one who actually cared about America’s coming debt crisis and the unfairness of entitlements. He even talked about F.A. Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom”! If […]

If it hasn’t completely vanished down the memory hole, you might recall that last week a man walked into the headquarters of the conservative Family Research Council with a backpack full of Chick-fil-A sandwiches and bullets, said something like “I don’t like your politics” and then shot the building manager. The suspect, Floyd Lee Corkins […]

If I were a Klansman, wanting to sabotage black education, I couldn’t find better allies than education establishment liberals and officials in the Obama administration, especially Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who in March 2010 announced that his department was “going to reinvigorate civil rights enforcement.” For Duncan, the civil rights issue was that black […]